Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into Parapsychology
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That the Office of Research and Development and the Office of Technical Service sponsored several years of parapsychology research, stated by OTS in February 1976 about its own completed sponsorship.
That the Office of Technical Service assessed the SRI final report as establishing the evidence and as yielding almost nothing usable.
That in February 1976 the Office of Technical Service recommended an internal CIA parapsychology programme be re-instated and continued within OTS.
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“Attached is the final report describing several years of CIA (ORD & OTS) sponsored research in the area popularly referred to as parapsychology.”
This is the strongest sentence of the three documents on the funding question, because it is retrospective rather than proposed.
“The report establishes overwhelming scientific evidence for the existence of human perceptual capabilities which are as yet unexplained. The investigation, however, resulted in nothing which adds to the understanding of the mechanisms involved and little which increases the effectiveness of national security applications.”
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“It is my opinion that an internal CIA program directed towards the above mentioned and similar intelligence requirements should be re-instated and continued within OTS.”
The memorandum is a MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD and this sentence is written in the first person as an opinion. It is the author's recommendation, not an Agency decision.
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