CENTER LANE MEETING WITH MG RAPMUND 1 AUGUST 1984

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R001500100006-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 1, 1984
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: CENTER LANE Meeting with MG Rapmund 1 August 1984 (U)
SG1J
1. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) On 1 August 1984, CPT(P) Ray,
and the undersigned met with MG Garrison Rapmund, Commander,
USAMRDC, Ft. Detrick, MD, at his facility in Ft. Detrick. The
purpose of the meeting, which was an initiative action on the
part of the CENTER LANE (CL) project office, was to officially
inform MG Rapmund of the decision of CG, INSCOM to transfer all
CL psychoenergetic activities out of INSCOM; specifically, that
all operational activities be transferred to a national level
agency such as CIA, NSA, or DIA and that any R&D aspects be
transferred to USAMRDC.
2. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) MG Rapmund stated at the outset he had
spoken with BG Soyster, had visited SRI-International on 19
and 20 July 19 4, and had been considering the future role of
USAMRDC in psychoenergetics. MG Rapmund went on to say USAMRDC
and DIA were presently formulating a MOA concerning roles and
responsibilities of both the Office of the Surgeon General and
DIA. MG Rapmund related his perspective of the philosophy which
should drive his future psychoenergetic effort:
An intelligence short fall in foreign chemical warfare
technology (a responsibility of the Office of the
Surgeon General) has developed. It would appear that
this short fall can be overcome through the use of
remote viewing intelligence collection.
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MG Rapmund sees this philosophy as his justification for funding
and managing a psychoenergetic R&D effort. The initial steps
identified are as follows:
a. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) Establish a contractual R&D effort
designed to validate the remote viewing phenomena and identify
its physical, biological, and psychological characteristics.
b. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) Support the contractual R&D effort with
state-of-the-art physiological monitoring available within
USAMRDC. This would be something which has never been done in
US psychoenergetic research.
c. (U) Establish a scientific panel of qualified personnel
to review the findings of the contractual effort. These panel
members must be of sufficient reputation that their testimony
will satisfy the criticism of skeptics.
d. (U) Establish a "human use" review committee.
e. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) Encourage the continued momentum of
effort of CL personnel by expressing the need for trained
intelligence personnel to remain active in remote viewing so
they may participate as volunteer R&D subjects and satisfy the
driving requirement for intelligence on foreign chemical warfare
technology.
3. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) MG Rapmund envisions a 5 year, multimillion
dollar R&D effort in psychoenergetics with emphasis on external
contracts (most likely at SRI-I and subcontractors). He will be
appointing a COTR to monitor the contractual effort but for the
first 6 to 8 months he will maintain personal supervision to
ensure proper direction of the effort. MG Rapmund sees this
contractual effort being assisted and augmented by existing CL
resources, but he neither wants nor can support military
intelligence spaces within USAMRDC. He plans this contractual
assistance/augmentation by existing CL personnel to be performed
at the operational activity's location (DIA?). If existing CL
personal are not to be included in any future operational
activity, he feels that selected valuable, volunteer personnel
trained in remote viewing would be made available to USAMRDC on
a priority basis.
4. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) MG Rapmund plans to be in contact with CG
INSCOM, DIA (possibly 3 Aug), and NSA within the
next two weeks to talk about his concepts and plans for the
future. MG Rapmund was invited to contact the CL project office
for inclusion in all future planning and discussions and for any
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assistance or consultation he may require. The undersigned also
offered to share with his action officer our experience and
expertise in psychoenergetics and in dealing with SRI-I.
5. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) The undersigned informed MG Rapmund the CL
project office had been holding discussions with DIA. On 20
July 1984, as part of these discussions, the CL project office
recommended to DIA, in the interest of continuity, the entire
ongoing CL effort be transferred to DIA. DIA, however, had no
personnel spaces and suggested that Army (INSCOM) provisionally
detail CL personnel to DIA for FY85 while they SG1J
would ensure appropriate personnel spaces would be made
available in FY86. MG Rapmund ended the meeting by expressing
his appreciation and gratitude for the initiative action on the
part of the undersigned in setting up this meeting and in
opening dialogue between the CL project office and USAMRDC on
the future of the DoD psychoenergetic effort.
BRIAN BUZBY
LTC, MI
CENTER LANE Project Manager
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