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MEMORANDUM FOR :
Comptroller
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FROM :
Office of Research and Development
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VIA:
Director of Research and Development
SUBJECT :
Update on ORD Response to Star Gate CDA
Since our last meeting about mid-June, a number of things have
happened relating to ORD's Star Gate technical review:
. ORD held the kickoff meeting of the blue ribbon panel with the
American Institutes for Research (AIR) and its commissioned reviewers
(Dr. Jessica Utts, Dr. Ray Hyman, and consultant Dr. Lincoln Moses) on
25 July at AIR's facility in Palo Alto.
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. ORD has now completed the current customer-base interviews according
to a uniform survey. The results of these, as they bear on the product
utility, are now in draft. The customers interviewed included the Joint
Interagency Task Force (JIATF) -East at Key West, FL, JIATF-West at
Alameda, CA, US Army Counterintelligence at Ft. Meade,
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. AIR has completed its personal interviews of the DIA remote viewers
and the former DIA program manager. There were some interesting
revelations.
. All classified documents requested by panel members and AIR have been
reviewed, declassified, and provided to the panel. At this point,
further declassification does not appear essential to the review.
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. ORD provided a response through
to
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lrequest for information that
could discuss relating to the
review with ABC's Barbara Walters during a recent on-camera interview,
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has prepared a brief draft from CIA/PAO in response to
a request from ABC which has been approved by
· AIR recently assured ORD that the technical review is on schedule and
that the panel members are making progress toward our scheduled
milestones. We are still aiming for completion of the review on 30
September.
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