REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ABOUT STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SRI) PARANORMAL RESEARCH PROJECT BY MR. WILHELM FORMER TIME REPORTER

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This document is a request for permission to interview Dr. H. Puthoff and Mr. R. Targ from the Stanford Institute on their paranormal research activities. Mr. Wilhelm, a former Time reporter, wants to write a positive story about their work to counter previous biased reports. The investigators at SRI have agreed to grant the interview but only discuss innocuous aspects of their studies.

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Body:  Approved For W ease 2003/06/24: CIA-RDP79-00999A0300100023-6
 ;i.?B-EDCT:   Request for Information about Stanford
 .ea.-ch. Institute  (SR:)  Paranormal Rese~aron
 by Mr. Wilhelm former Time Repor 4 ,,r
 helm,  a former T:_me reporter has wr:- ttc'n
 r          nderson, Ares idence of SRi  reauest ?_na
 :)prmission to interview Dr.  H- Puthoff and Mr.  R.  T ara
 _he investigators of paranormal abD_i..it.i_es.   Ostens-hiJ
 ^r_ Wilhelm desires to write a true positive story of the
 vities  at SRI to obviate the previous biased tDitbli_c?
 )r. Puthoff called and reported the above.   HE_
 also solicited our opinion on the  request.                        I r was nutuall~
 agreed that since publication of certain portions o:      the
 work is imminent, refusal to see dir. Whilhelm would only
 delay such interviews which will become more freaurnnt in
 the future.   The SRI invest iaators wi.7.1_ grant the i nterviet,
 and confined the discussions to they innocuous porf-inr+s
 of their studies.
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 Approved For Release 2003/06/24: CIA-RDP79-00999A000300100023-6