TALKING PAPER TO PROVIDE OVERVIEW OF CENTER LANE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R001600510001-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 4, 1984
• Content Type: REPORT

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L. (U) PURPOSE: To provide an overview of CENTER LANE.
2. (U) RECOMMENDED POSITION: That CENTER LANE operations, training, and development
continue within the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.
(U) POINTS SUPPORTING RECOMMENDED POSITION:
ta. (S/CL-3/NOFORN) Since October 1978, when ACSI (then MG Thompson) tasked INSCOM
to develop a parapsychology program (then GRILL FLAME), INSCOM has. through strictly
controlled, thoroughly documented, and carefully monitored training, operations, and
development established the feasibility and soundness of the remote viewing phenomenon
as an intelligence collection tool. Without continuation, this crucial momentum would
be :Lost.
b. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) Since May 1981., when I assumed command of INSCOM, the project
now CENTER LANE) has provided the U.S. Army and such agencies as DIA, CIA, NSA, FBI,
and the Secret Service critical intelligence unavailable from other sources. Without
continuation, the Intelligence Community would lose a valuable collection capability
which now allows penetration of intelligence targets inaccessible to any conventional
system.
c. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) Continuing work in the academic and R&D communities has refined
the methodology-, demonstrating far greater accuracy, control, and reliability than ever
before. Without continuation, CENTER LANE would be kept from realizing its true
potential.
d. (S-CL-2/NOFORN) A current collection project is focused on providing
information to the CIA in their efforts to locate William F. Buckley who was kidnapped
from Beirut on 16 March 1984. An SOI on that project is attached as Inc:losure. 1. At
Inc.losure 2 is an MFR from the CIA commenting on the value of CENTER LANE,
a. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) "The phenomenon is not real." This argument simply does not
stand up in the face of many valid. scientific replications conducted by reputable
institutions such as Princeton University, Maimonidies Medical Center, Bell
Laboratories, and McDonnell Douglas Corporation and SR.I-International, among others. In