CIA REMOTE VIEWING DECLASSIFICATION Q & A

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 12 June 95
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 SUBJECT:         CIA Remote Viewing Declassification
 As you know from our conversation yesterday, I will be
 meeting Wednesday (14 June) with the American Institutes for
 Research (AIR)   to begin CIA's panel review of past CIA and DIA
 programs where remote viewing was investigated for intelligence
 collection. This is not a public meeting and AIR is not planning
 to meet with the media during the review. Since there is an
 ongoing media inquiry by ABC News, however,  it is possible that
 ABC will learn of AIR's activities in support of CIA and will
 attempt to contact them or us. For-professional reasons, AIR seems
 predisposed not to comment until the panel has completed its
 review.   However, anticipating possible questions regarding the
 review,  I have prepared some preliminary responses for you:
 ? Why is CIA studying parapsychology?
 CIA is not currently developing or using parapsychology.
 CIA is conducting a panel review of past programs at CIA and
 DIA in response to a Congressionally Directed Action.
 ? What was the nature of these past programs?
 These programs involved the investigation of
 parapsychological phenomena, mainly remote viewing,  for
 intelligence collection.
 ? Did these programs produce positive results?
 Until the panel review has been completed, we cannot
 comment on how effective past programs were.   Parapsychology
 has always been an extremely controversial area.  The
 National Research council previously reviewed a US Army
 training program in 1988 and recommended that it be
 discontinued.   The NRC did not evaluate past CIA or DIA
 programs at that time.
 ? When was CIA involved, and with whom?
 CIA funded research and development activities at
 Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during about 1972 to about
 1977. This activity was discontinued about 18 years ago. Much
 of the work performed by the investigators at SRI, however,
 was later published in the open literature.
 ? When was DIA involved?
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 Since we have not completed the review, we can't provide
 the exact time frame but primarily during the last ten years.
 ? Who is conducting the review?
 The CIA's Office of Research and Development with the
 aid of a blue ribbon panel of experts in the behavioral
 sciences at the American Institutes for Research.
 ? Will the results of the review be made public?
 At this point, there is no reason why the results cannot
 be made public, when the review is complete, and when CIA has
 completed additional declassification of various program
 documents.
 ? How can we find out more about these programs?
 The CIA is in the process of reviewing and declassifying
 it's previous research and development activities.  The
 results of the panel will be available before the end of the
 calendar year.
 ? How much was spent on this activity, and how many people
 were involved?
 These were modest programs,  involving few personnel and
 dollars.
 ? How were the CIA program results used?
 The CIA program was never a major effort, nor as far as
 we know were its results used to influence any major
 intelligence assessments.   CIA discontinued this program
 activity before it could be institutionalized. At the time it
 was conducted the program was considered to be speculative.
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