REVISED DRAFT TASK STATEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00791R000100030017-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been tasked
by Congress to transfer a technical program currently managed
by another government agency to CIA by July 1, 1995.
Congress also has directed a twenty-year retrospective review
of this program including a technical analysis of all program
results. The CIA's Office of Research and Development (ORD)
believes that the National Research Council (NRC) is the
single best organization to perform the mandated review.
This is because of its Congressional charter to address
questions of Congressional interest, and its ready access to
a variety of world-class experts having expertise in the area
in question. Therefore, we would like the NRC perform the
following tasks:
? Assemble an objective, unbiased, "Blue Ribbon Panel"
of world-class experts in parapsychological phenomena or the
experiments designed to investigate such phenomena
? Review sponsor-selected contract research an
development studies relating to the technical program in
question (less than 50 journal-article length studies) for
which unclassified reports are available (most are currently
available)
? Interview and interact with the past principal
investigators (no more than five) to the extent possible in
order to develop a comprehensive understanding the program's
current approach including its successes and failures
? Interview past principal expert evaluators of the
technical data to the extent possible (no more than 10) since
external evaluation has been utilized in the past to
facilitate experimental design and validate results
? Attend unclassified presentations (no more than 5) in
the Metro area by the existing government program manager and
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his staff pending the anticipated approval of these
presentations
? Perform technical evaluation of all data and
information presented, including experimental designs,
results obtained, proposed future research, etc. This
evaluation should include recommendations about those
technical areas for which fruitful research potential exists,
identify areas not useful for further consideration, and
should consider the overall utility of the technical program,
i.e., whether it achieves its stated or intended purpose.
? Draft final report incorporating Blue Ribbon Panel
findings, and participate the extent appropriate in briefing
these findings to Congress
2. The NRC will be provided with a preliminary bibliography
of 45 short-term, contract studies. The following titles (not
an exhaustive list) illustrate by way of example the general
areas of investigation:
- Remote Viewing Evaluation Techniques
- The Effects of Remote Viewing
- Remote Viewing Reliability Enhancement and Evaluation
- Feasibility Study on the Use of RV Detection
Techniques to Determine Location of Targets
- Countermeasures: A Survey and Evaluation
- Review of the Research Conducted at SRI International
(1973-1988)
- Screening and Selection of Personnel: The Personality
Assessment System (PAS)
- The Effects of Hypnosis of Remote Viewing Quality
- Photon Production (Chinese Replication)
- Audiolinguistic Correlations with the Quality of
Remote Viewing Sessions
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3. The review and analysis of NRC's Blue Ribbon Panel will be
unclassified, but cannot not be released until Congress and
the sponsoring Agencies have been briefed on the results.
Therefore, during the review all work product shall be
treated as "For Official Use Only" anticipating eventual
release of all unclassified information reviewed or generated
by this study.
4. Since this study will be performed in response to
Congressional direction, the anticipated period of
performance of this study is schedule driven at three months.
The sponsor will endeavor to extend the deadline; however,
the sponsor believes that the probability this deadline will
be extended will increase if the study is actually initiated
and producing some results. The anticipated level of effort
is about 1/2 man year. The study manager will be the office
of Research and Development working in cooperation with the
US Army Research Institute.
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