MEMORANDUM FROM (Sanitized). SUBJECT: STARGATE

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This document is a memorandum from the Associate Deputy Director for Science and Technology regarding the STARGATE program. The author mentions a successful session with Dick D'Amato and the efforts made to discuss the program with him in advance. D'Amato is said to be complimentary of the professional effort by the CIA/ORD on the program and believes that the USG will receive a reasonable answer from this effort. The author states that the CIA will abide by the recommendations from the American Institute of Research (AIR) study. It is mentioned that D'Amato may put language in the SAC mark that will reference the program following the recommendations of its independent study. The author then discusses the situation of the DIA people (remote viewers) and expresses the CIA's preference for them to stay at DIA until the future of the program is determined. It is mentioned that D'Amato plans to propose that these three people be detailed to CIA to help do a foreign assessment of the Russian program. The author highlights the need for a manager of the assessment project, addresses the issue of the people's future outcomes, and mentions the lack of information on DIA actions on STARGATE. The author expresses concern about the detailing of people to CIA for the assessment causing additional problems for the

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 MEMORANDUM FOR:    Executive Director
 Deputy Director for Science and Technology
 Director of Congressional Affairs
 SG1 ~   FROM:
 Associate Deputy Director for Science and Technology
 SG1~        1.  The session with Dick D'Amato this morning on the STARGATE
 Program went better than expected.               tip last night to
 pre-stage the discussion on the peop e wit  t e                of
 11   the review of the program was very successful.              and
 11              had briefed Dick in March and up ate   im on a   that
 a  occurre  since then.  Dick was complimentary of the professional
 effort by CIA/ORD on this program.  Dick believes the USG will get a
 reasonable answer from this effort. I stated, as planned, that the
 CIA would abide by the recommendations from the American Institute of
 Research {AIR) study, to be completed by 30 September 1995.
 2.  Dick D'Amato, I believe, will put language in the SAC mark
 that will reference the program following the recommendations of its
 independent study.
 3.  I then turned the discussion to the DIA people (remote
 viewers).  I stated that we had considered what was best for the
 people, and the CIA preferred that they stay at DIA until
 30 September and the results of the future of the program is
 determined.  Dick was sorry to hear we did not have a better solution
 for the people, but he did appreciate our sincerity on working this
 issue.  He plans to call Nora Slatkin and propose that these three
 people be detailed to CIA by DIA to help do a foreign assessments
 piece.  A foreign assessment of the Russian program is an action from
 the Congressional language that DIA apparently has not done.  We
 commented on the problem of raising expectations of the people and
 possibly jerking around their lives more-than once.  Dick is still
 considering what should be done with the people.
 4.  Should the people be detailed to CIA from DIA for a foreign
 assessment, the following topics need to be addressed:
 a.  A manger of the assessment project needs to be
 identified, most likely in the DI.  Objectiveness of the
 assessment must be part of the report.
 b.  The people are detailed until 30 September 1995, not
 transferred.
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 c.  Will the people have an opportunity to look at vacancy
 notices in CIA -- I think they should.
 d.  The people will know up front the outcome of  the
 30 September 1995 report will affect their future.
 5.  We were asked about DIA actions on STARGATE.  We said we
 were not the authoritative answerer  for DIA.  Dick asked directly if
 DIA had done the foreign assessment on the Russian program.  We
 responded that we had not seen it.  We also said CIA had planned to
 work the foreign assessments piece after the AIR study was complete.
 Dick stated that the DIA people were placed in meaningless jobs.  We
 said we did not know what the people were doing now.
 6.  It seems to me that language in the upcoming 5AC mark that
 can be adjusted in the conference in September is clearly an
 acceptable position for us.  The detailing of people to CIA for an
 assessment of the Russian program, I still believe, will cause an
 additional problem for the individuals -- something we should keep in.
 mind and try to avoid.
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