REDRAFT OF PROPOSED REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00791R000100030034-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: April 4, 1995
• Content Type: FORM

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1. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been asked
by Congress to review a technical program currently managed
by another government agency. This program seeks to employ
"remote viewing," a paranormal phenomenon, for intelligence
applications. Congress has directed this to be a twenty-year
retrospective review 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.
Its charter to address questions of Congressional interest,
and its ready access to a variety of world-class experts with
expertise peculiar to the issues in question, make the NRC
the best candidate for this program review.
2. Therefore, we would like to contract with the NRC to
conduct and deliver a twenty-year retrospective review of
this program. This review should include a technical
analysis of all program results and an evaluation of the
utility of the program as it is currently structured and
executed. It should address whether the program achieves its
stated objectives, (i.e. does it facilitate the collection of
intelligence?) and whether any changes in the operational,
experimental, and assessment activities of the program might
bring about a better result. Recommendations should be made
as to appropriate strategies for this program in the future.
These recommendations should be based on the data and
information presented in the context of the program,
including experimental designs, results obtained, proposed
future research, etc. The recommendations should address
which technical areas have potential for future research and
identify areas not useful for further consideration.
3. To facilitate this retrospective review, we ask the
NRC perform the following tasks:
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? Assemble an objective, unbiased, "Blue Ribbon Panel"
of world-class experts to investigate the operational,
experimental, and assessment activities of this government
program during the last twenty years.
? Review selected contract research and development
studies relating to the technical program in for which
unclassified reports are available.
? Interview and interact with the past principal
investigators 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 since external
evaluation has been utilized in the past to facilitate
experimental design and validate results.
? Attend unclassified presentations in the Metro area by
the existing government program manager.
? Draft interim report incorporating mid-term Blue
Ribbon Panel findings.
? Draft final report incorporating all Blue Ribbon Panel
findings, and participate the extent appropriate in briefing
these findings to Congress.
4. The NRC will be provided with a preliminary annotated
bibliography of technical program studies. The panel will be
able to select reports for review from this bibliography and
gauge the appropriate scope of information necessary to
complete the review's objectives.
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5. The NRC's Blue Ribbon Panel review will be
unclassified, but cannot be released until Congress and the
sponsoring Agencies have been briefed on the results.
6. The anticipated level of effort for this review is
less than one man year. The study manager will be the office
of Research and Development working in cooperation with the
US Army Research Institute. The CIA is responsible for
providing to Congress on 1 July a report on the transfer of
this program. It is anticipated that the NRC will make every
possible effort to complete this study by mid February of
1996.
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