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[Optional Form 10 memorandum sheet, handwritten; two hands: a cursive body and a heavy block-capital note diagonally in the upper right margin]

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        [circled: 1] Phone Jackie        9-4935  820427 [underlined by a long diagonal stroke]   [redaction box]
        [circled: 2] [struck through: Tell Dr. Cole (820427)]                          [short horizontal line at right edge]

[upper right margin, written diagonally in heavy block capitals, each line underlined:]
PSYCHIC
DISCOVERIES
BEHIND THE IRON   ["BEHIND" overwritten heavily]
CURTAIN
SHEILA
OSTRANDER   [overwritten in part]
LYNN
SCHROEDER
[double underline]
Paperback :   [cursive]

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  1.  There is a larger sample
      but it is not necessary
      for all those involved to
      know  who participated

  2. -

  3 .  This information while
         not comparted(?) is
         not necessary to be
         known by  those tested

  4.    This is not necessary
         to be known by those
         tested

  5 '        answer from 4

  6 ,           "

  7.             "

  8               "

            Answer to [interlinear above: last] paragraph - S112(?)
      is  the Threat Assessment branch
      and  as such  is  aware  of
      all  threat  to  comsec

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[printed, partly cut off:] ...y Buy(?) Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
                                                        OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
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(b)(3)
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
memorandum
DATE:
13 April 1982
REPLY TO
ATTN OF:
S144
SJ44
SUBJECT:
Project
TO: Dr. Cole, Ch/S1
On 7 April 1982, we attended a briefing on Project
for individuals
responding to an earlier request for volunteer participants. As a result of that
briefing and of our subsequent experiences, we discovered that we shared several
concerns and ideas about the project. The two of us appreciate the need for
strictly limited access to
s existence and results. We also recognize
that many of our questions and suggestions may already have been anticipated by
the project coordinators.
It is with this understanding that we submit these
points for your consideration.
1) Were the eight or so people who attended the briefing the only
ones tested?
Valid results would certainly require a larger sample and,
preferably, a more diverse one. In addition, the test environ-
ment was not conducive to the kind of mental processes one would
expect in the experiment.
2) Was the test designed properly?
The test itself seemed well implemented on the computer, but
not well understood by anyone present. In th's kind of experi-
ment it is important to understand and account for all factors
that might affect the results.
3) Is there now or has there recently been any period of research into
other such experiments, particularly within the government and the
intelligence community?
.
The CIA shares many of our security concerns and seems to have done
work along these lines. Was background research done before this
test, assuring efficient use of resources and the avoidance of any
unintentional duplication of effort?
4) Is this exercise part of a larger ongoing project?
If it is not, the results would seem to be of little value.
5) Are there any plans for parallel experiments using humans in place
of or in addition to the computer as 'sender' or 'target'?
If there could be a difference between animate and inanimate parti-
cipants, it should be investigated.
6) Have individuals with suspected or reputed psychic abilities parti-
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memorandum
DATE:
13 April 1982
REPLY TO
ATTN OF :
SUBJECT:
TO.
cipated in this or similar experiments?
A comparison of results could provide some basis for evaluation.
7) Have experts in the research and testing aspects of the field been
consulted, either directly or through the literature, about the
design and evaluation of this experiment or of a larger planned
project?
The nature of the subject matter demands rigorous testing procedures
that have been perfected over many years by researchers.
8) Are any follow-up experiment's planned to test whether the ability
can be developed or learned over time?
This experiment tested only current innate ability. Can an
individual improve his score with practice?
We hope that NSA shares our feeling that the possible consequences of this
kind of threat justify a serious and in-depth study of its validity. In addi-
tion, it is important to know not just how we regard the liklihood of such a
threat, but how our allies and adversaries view it as well. We would like to
see an element of S1, which is tasked with threat assessment, actively investi-
gating the possibility of a threat of this kind. At the very least, it seems
that someone should maintain a current file on the subject in the event of
future investigation. In any case, we would like to state for the record that
we are willing and eager to be involved in any current or future effort.
S144, 4935s
S144, 4935s
cc:
Ch/S112
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