SECURE FACSIMILE TRANSMITTAL FORM (STATUS OF STARGATE PROGRAM)

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 Status of STARGATR Program
 In response to Congressional direction that the Defense
 Intelligence Agency (DIA) transfer the STARGATE program to
 CIA, and that we perform a retrospective review of the
 program's activities, we have initiated a number of actions,
 including:
 ?  Trading data with DIA to conduct the requested
 review and program transfer, including several
 officially declassified documents.
 ?  Exchanging draft tasking statements with the
 National Research Council  (NRC) to establish a
 Blue Ribbon Panel to ensure a comprehensive and
 unbiased technical retrospective review of the
 program.
 ?  Beginning an effort to declassify information
 related to STARGATE.  We already have held
 informal discussions with the Agency's Center
 for the Study of Intelligence on developing
 strategies for declassifying information and are
 preparing a memorandum that specifies our
 declassification requirements for DIA.
 ?  Requesting the cooperation of the US Army
 Research Institute, which holds a contract
 related to behavioral sciences with the NRC.  We
 also are preparing to transfer resources to the
 Institute for the cost of managing and
 supporting the NRC during the technical review.
 ?             Contacting several organizations involved in the
 program to review STARGATE's operations.
 Following the completion of these declassification and
 review efforts, we will develop a comprehensive management
 strategy for the program,   (S)
 Declassification
 To comply with Congressional direction, we will
 declassify immediately certain aspects of our program,
 including the Agency's past sponsorship of activities
 related to the investigation of paranormal phenomena for
 intelligence purposes and the results of this research.   In
 order to determine what additional information related to
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 the STARGATE program can be declassified, we will convene a
 DCI classification review committee.   This committee will
 conduct a detailed review of all CIA and DIA program
 documents and other information--including actual targets
 against which operations were conducted and their nature,
 the customers for these operations, and resources allocated
 to this effort--to declassify further where appropriate.
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 To facilitate the declassification effort and the Blue
 Ribbon Panel review, we will request DIA to:
 ?  Declassify its sponsorship of STARGATE and to
 continue downgrading and declassifying the
 technical reports associated with the program.
 ?  Eliminate the program's compartmentation, and
 remove from a limited distribution status all
 other classified documentation related to
 STARGATE and consider declassifying these
 documents further.
 *  Transfer to CIA all DIA documents associated
 with STARGATE following declassification
 consideration for archival purposes and further
 review by the DCI declassification committee.
 ?  Assist the Agency in executing the Blue Ribbon
 Panel review by providing unclassified
 information relating to the program when
 requested by the Panel.   (S)
 Retrospective Review
 To perform the retrospective review of STARGATE's 20-
 year history and a technical analysis of the program's
 results, we will work closely with the NRC, which has ready
 access to a variety of experts in the scientific fields
 related to the program.  In addition to establishing the
 Blue Ribbon Panel of parapsychological phenomena, CIA will
 request the NRC to:
 ?     Review research and development studies related
 to this program--less than 50 studies--for which
 unclassified reports are available.
 *     Meet with former program officials to develop a
 comprehensive understanding of STARGATE's
 current direction.
 ?     Perform technical evaluation of all the data
 related to the program,  including experimental
 designs and their results, and proposed future
 research.  This evaluation will contain
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 recommendations on which technical areas have
 the potential for fruitful research and will
 identify areas that should not be pursued
 further.
 ?  Draft the final report, which will incorporate
 the findings of the Blue Ribbon Panel; the NRC
 also will participate, as appropriate,  in
 briefing these findings to the Congress.   (S)
 The review and analysis of the Blue Ribbon Panel will
 be unclassified, but we will not release its findings until
 the Congress and the involved agencies have been briefed.
 We are working with the NRC to determine the appropriate
 amount of time for the study, which could require up to six
 months.   (S)
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 Schedule of Events
 March 1995
 <  Status of transfer of program activities to CIA.
 ?  Preliminary declassification actions by CIA, request to
 DIA for further action.
 April 1995
 ?  Establish DCI declassification committee to review long-
 term issues.
 <  Form Blue Ribbon Panel to conduct retrospective review
 and technical data analysis.
 March-June 1995
 ?  Conduct technical review,  interview intelligence
 Community users, draft preliminary report and
 recommendations.
 July 1995
 ?  Develop CIA program management strategy that addresses
 proper scope,  resources, and management.
 ?  Brief Congress on results and recommendations of Blue
 Ribbon Panel.
 ?  Report program design and status to Congress and complete
 actual transfer.
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