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This document from the CIA's Stargate program outlines a plan for the CIA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) to review a technical program related to "remote viewing" for intelligence purposes. The American Institutes of Research (AIR) will assemble a panel of outside experts to evaluate the program's utility, validity, and research and development. The panel will assess whether the program achieves its objectives and make recommendations for future strategies. The tasks include reviewing research studies, interviewing past investigators and evaluators, attending presentations, and preparing interim and final reports. The panel's review will be unclassified but can only be released after briefing the sponsoring agencies. The review is expected to be completed by the end of September 1995.

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 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been tasked to
 review a technical program which currently resides with
 another sponsor.   This program seeks to employ "remote
 viewing," a paranormal phenomenon, for intelligence
 applications. The CIA's Office of Research and Development
 (ORD) will contract with the American Institutes of Research
 (AIR) to assemble and manage a "blue ribbon panel" of outside
 experts to perform this review.  The panel will contain a
 variety of experts with expertise peculiar to the issues in
 question in order to achieve the objectives stated below.
 The issues to be addressed include program utility and
 validity of technical approach, and evaluation of the
 research and development in this area (within the program).
 The AIR panel must render a finding as to whether the program
 achieves its stated objectives,  (i.e. does it facilitate the
 collection of intelligence?) and whether any changes in the
 operational, experimental, and assessment activities of the
 program might bring about a better result.  Recommendations
 should be made as to appropriate strategies for this program
 in the future.  These recommendations should be based on the
 data and information presented in the context of the program,
 including experimental designs, results obtained, proposed
 future research, etc. The recommendations should address
 which technical areas have potential for future research and
 identify areas not useful for further consideration.
 To facilitate this retrospective review, we ask AIR to
 perform the following tasks:
 ? Assemble an objective, unbiased, panel of world-class
 experts to investigate the operational, experimental, and
 assessment activities of the program.
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 ? Review selected contract researc
 studies relating to the technical program in for which
 unclassified reports are available.
 ? Interview and interact with the past principal
 investigators to the extent possible in order to develop a
 comprehensive understanding the program's current approach
 including its successes and failures.
 ? Interview,  if necessary, past principal expert
 evaluators of the technical data since external evaluation
 has been utilized in the past to facilitate experimental
 design and validate results.
 ? Attend unclassified presentations in the Metro area by
 the existing program manager.
 ? Draft an interim report incorporating mid-term panel
 findings..
 ? Draft a final report incorporating all panel findings,
 and participate the extent appropriate in briefing these
 findings to various sponsor audiences.
 ? Provide 15 days of ad hoc consulting from senior AIR
 personnel on behavioral science related issues, including the
 preparation of a draft management strategy for any future
 program work in this area if warranted by the review.
 ? Support a final presentation of the findings of this
 review to appropriate members of Congress or their staff, if
 necessary.
 AIR will be provided with a preliminary annotated
 bibliography of technical program studies. The panel will be
 able to select reports for review from this bibliography and
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 gauge the appropriate scope of information necessary to
 complete the review's objectives.
 AIR's panel review will be unclassified, but it cannot
 be released until the sponsoring Agencies have been briefed
 on the final results.
 The anticipated level of effort for this review is less
 than one-half man year.  The anticipated schedule is to
 complete this study by end of September, 1995.
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