MEMORANDUM FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

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• Publication Date: February 5, 1979
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CI_EMEN7 J. ZAERLOCKI. WIS. ~ [phone]
131LL D. RURLISON, MO.
MORGAN P. MURPHY, ILL.
LESA5PIN.
CHARLES ROSE, N.C. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ROMANO L. 1.IAZZOLI. KY.
NORMAN Y. M
INETA,CALIF. PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE
WYCHE FOWLER, JR.. GA.
ROHM M. ASHBFOOK. OHIO WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
ROBERT MCCLORY. ILL.
J. KENNETH ROEIINSON. VA. ^
THOMAS K. LATIMER. STAFF DIRECTOR February 5, 1979 MICHAEL J. O'NEIL. CHIEF COUNSEL -
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MEMORANDUM FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Dear Colleague:
The Subcommittee on Evaluation has for almost a year
and a half been following the intelligence community's
activities in the field of parapsychology or remote view-
ing. It also can be described by other terms such as
mental imagery or ESP. Parapsychology denotes the ability
of certain individuals to access and describe, by means of
mental processes, information which is ordinarily blocked
from human perception by distance or shielding, and gener-
ally accepted as secure against such access. The aspect
which has been investigated: most has been to test the
ability of a subject to remote view geographical locations
even at intercontinental distances, given only geographical
coordinates or a known person on whom to focus.
The Subcommittee began its investigation in an attempt
to determine whether the community's activities in this
area were above board and not part of the "mind control"
activities of the Central Intelligence Agency where in some
cases the rights of individuals were violated.
While the Subcommittee has not made any determination to
endorse the. experimentation as valid or invalid, it does find
that continued activity in this field may offer promise, in
applications to intelligence problems.
Thus, I have asked that Doctors Harold Puthoff and
Russell Targ of SRI International, formerly Stanford Research
Institute, brief the full Committee next Tuesday, February 13,
at 10 a.m. The briefing will be classified. Doctors Puthoff
and Targ are both physicists who did early work in high-energy
laser physics. They have appeared before such scientific
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bodies as the institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers,- have published in the'IEEE'Journal, and most
recently gave a-presentation before the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science convention in Houston
last month.
Since there is considerable sensitivity to parapsych-
ology in the scientific community because of the inability
to attach to parapsychology the principles and/or laws of
physics, as well as with the uniformed who would label
such research more mind control experimentation, it would
be appreciated if their appearance before the Committee be
kept privileged.
I think you will find this presentation interesting
and exciting. I urge you to attend. If you would like
additional background prior to the briefing, Dick Giza
(225-5658) of the Subcommittee staff can give you a detailed
pre-brief and provide t ci lassified readinc-matierials.
Charlie Rose
Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation
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