(SANITIZED)FINAL RESPONSE
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
0001299750
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
U
Document Page Count:
3
Document Creation Date:
June 23, 2015
Document Release Date:
September 22, 2010
Sequence Number:
Case Number:
F-2010-00467
Publication Date:
March 16, 2006
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APPROVED FOR RELEASE^ DATE:
08-25-2010 wasntngton,
16 March 2006
Reference: F-2006-00488
This is further to our 2 February 2006 letter concerning your
25 December 2005 Freedom of Information Act request. You referred to an
announcement we made in November 2002 concerning documents relating to
the Star Gate/remote viewing program, and asked if the documents have since
been reviewed.
We announced in 2004 the availability of the Star Gate Collection on a
set of 14 compact disks. The Collection comprises 11,985 documents, totaling
89,901 pages. No additional documents have been released since then,
although we anticipate that some will be available in the future.
As you know, Project Star Gate was one specific, rather short-lived,
program that dealt with research into the parapsychological phenomenon
known as remote viewing. During recent years, however, we have come to use
"Star Gate" as a rubric for a series of CIA and US military remote viewing
research projects. The individual projects are now defunct, and today CIA
does not fund remote viewing research.
Pursuant to a 1995 Congressional mandate, CIA collected the CIA and
Department of Defense records concerned with parapsychological phenomena,
mainly "remote viewing," and began a program of review with the intention of
declassifying as many of these documents as possible. These records, now
referred to as the Star Gate Collection, include releasable information on the
related projects and terms STAR GATE, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE,
SUN STREAK, STUNT PILOT, PHOENIX and SCANATE.
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The public now has access to the documents in the Star Gate Collection
by two means. The first is the collection housed at the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA), using the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST)
system. For information on obtaining access to CREST, please contact NARA
at the following address:
Mr. David J. Mengel, Chief
Special Access/FOIA Staff
Room 6350
The National Archives at College Park
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
Secondly, if you would like to purchase your own copy of the Star Gate
Collection, you may order a set of the 14 compact disks from this office. You
may do this by sending your check or money order for US $140.00, made
payable to the Treasurer of the United States. The address is:
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Please cite reference number F-2006-00488 to ensure proper credit to your
account. A copy of our fee schedule is enclosed.
Sincerely,
Scott Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Enclosure