MORE GELLER BUSINESS

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The document discusses an upcoming article in TIME magazine that seeks to discredit the psychic abilities of Uri Geller and cast doubt on the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) for being deceived by him. The article claims that Dr. George Lawrence of ARPA is the source of the information, but Lawrence denies speaking to TIME. Lawrence believed that Geller was a charlatan, claiming that he manipulated a die without looking at it. The article also mentions that Geller was accused of cheating during a visit to a lab in New York. The document suggests that the article's publication could complicate the situation surrounding Geller and SRI. There is no mention of any CIA interest in the matter.

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 Approved For Relce 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-007
 28 February 1973
 NOTE FOR:   Carl
 SUBJECT:    More Geller Business
 .The science editor of TIME magazine, a Mr. Jareff,
 told the public information man at SRI that the TIME
 edition for Monday, 5 March, will,carry an article
 tending to discredit Geller and casting some aspersions
 at SRI for being taken in.
 Jareff says that the source of the article was
 Dr. George Lawrence of ARPA, and apparently the article.
 identifies Lawrence as the source of the information.
 Lawrence, on the other hand, denies having talked to
 TIME--Jaref_f says this is nonsense, Lawrence has talked
 to TIME lots of times.
 Lawrence is.the guy with ARPA who felt Geller was
 a charlatan based on the die-calling experiment.
 Lawrence's rationale was that Geller was not looking
 into the box as he-claimed to be, but instead was
 influencing the die so that it came up with the face
 that he wished!!!!  (This kind of logic I don't under
 stand) .
 The article also, apparently, says that TIME
 took Geller to a lab in New York, and that he was
 found to be cheating.   This judgment, I understand,
 stems from the fact that a magician watched what Geller.
 did, and said that Geller surely looked and acted like
 a magician.
 TIME's noble purpose in publishing this is to
 alert the community.
 The article does not give any indication of
 Agency interest.
 If the article appears, this can only complicate the
 already difficult situation involved in dealing with Geller,
 Swann--in fact,  this whole area.
 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070022-9