SUBJECT: MG SOYSTER PRESENTATION 12 DECEMBER 1985

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R001700030006-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 12, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: G SOYSTER PRESENTATION 12 DECEMBER 1985
REASON FOR MEETING: TWO ITEMS:
1. OPSEC PROBLEM AND THE POSSIBLE PUBLICATION OF PROJECT
INFORMATION IN THE WASHINGTON POST NEXT WEEK.
2. THE PROJECT MOA BETWEEN INSCOM AND DIA.
ITEM 1. OPSEC PROBLEM:
A. SINCE 1977 THE WASHINGTON POST, AND OTHERS, HAVE BEEN
PUBLISHING ARTICLES ON PSI ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE US GOVT. THE
SUBJECT SEEMS TO MAKE GOOD PRESS. LAST YEAR JACK ANDERSON
PUBLISHED THE PROJECT NICKNAME GRILL FLAME AND ASSOCIATED PSI
WITH THE US ARMY.
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B. IT APPEARS THAT POSSIBLY AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK, THE
WASHINGTON POST WILL PUBLISH SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION; NEW
INFORMATION, WHICH, BY ITS VERY NATURE INDICATES AN OPSEC
PROBLEM. THE TO BE PUBLISHED INFORMATION INCLUDES, BUT MAY NOT
BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING FOUR AREAS:
(1) A PAST LINK BETWEEN INSCOM AND PSI ACTIVITY VIA THE
NAMES OF STUBBLEBINE, WATT, AND JACHIM,
(2) -PssI' TRAINING AT SRI INTERNATIONAL AND THE MONROE
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE (RAPT CONNECTION?)
(3) MENTION OF THE "PERRY MEMORANDUM."
(4) IDENTIFICATION OF FORT MEADE AS THE LOCATION OF THE
PROGRAM.
C. DIA HAS BEEN MADE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION AND HAS
INSTRUCTED THEIR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE TO ANSWER ANY INQUIRES
WITH THE PHRASE "No COMMENT." WE FELT IT APPROPRIATE TO INFORM
YOU OF THIS INFORMATION AS WELL. THE TO BE PUBLISHED
INFORMATION APPEARS TO BE OVER TWO YEARS OLD AND IS DILUTED BY
INACCURACIES AND DISTORTIONS.
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ITEM 2. THE MOA:
A. As YOU KNOW THE MOA PROVIDED FOR PROJECT CONTINUITY BY
ASSIGNING THE UNIT OPCON TO DIA WHILE THEY (DIA) SOUGHT
CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF NFIP FUNDING. THIS APPROVAL IS
INCLUDED IN THE FY 86 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL BUT A FULL
TRANSFER OF THE UNIT CANNOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL THE BILL IS SIGNED
BY THE PRESIDENT.
B. WHEN YOU AND LTG (RET) WILLIAMS ORIGINALLY SIGNED THE
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MOA IT WAS EXPECTED THAT THE BILL WOULD HAVE BEEN IN EFFECT BY
NOW. THIS, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS STILL PENDING. WITH YOUR
PERMISSION WE WILL ARRANGE FOR LIMITED FUNDING TO COVER CIVILIAN
SALARIES AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES BEYOND THE 1ST
QUARTER FY86 UNTIL THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL IS ENACTED.
THIS WOULD AMOUNT TO AT MOST APPROXIMATELY TWENTY TO TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE 2ND QUARTER OF FY 86.
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