Status of STARGATE Program
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That the transfer of STARGATE from DIA to CIA was made in response to congressional direction, and that CIA's stated plan in 1995 was a National Research Council Blue Ribbon Panel.
That the CIA undertook in 1995 to declassify its own past sponsorship of paranormal research for intelligence purposes, and to gather DIA's STARGATE records into a CIA archive.
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“Status of STARGATE Program. In response to Congressional direction, we are working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to transfer the STARGATE program to CIA. We also have initiated a number of actions to comply with the Congressional request that we perform a retrospective review and technical analysis of the program's activities, as well as survey the program for declassification purposes. ... To perform the retrospective review of STARGATE's 20-year history and a technical analysis of the program's results, we will work closely with the National Research Council (NRC), which has ready access to a number of experts in the scientific fields related to the program. We have exchanged draft tasking statements with the NRC to establish a Blue Ribbon Panel of experts on parapsychological phenomena to ensure a comprehensive and unbiased technical review of the program.”
THE EVALUATION THIS PROJECT HOLDS IS BY THE AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH, NOT THE NRC. Nothing held here says why they differ, and no causal link is drawn from it.
“We will declassify immediately certain aspects of the CIA program, including the Agency's past sponsorship of activities related to the investigation of paranormal phenomena for intelligence purposes and the results of this research. In order to determine what additional information related to the STARGATE program can be declassified, we will convene a DCI classification review committee. ... To facilitate the declassification effort and the Blue Ribbon Panel review, we will request that DIA: Declassify its sponsorship of STARGATE ... Eliminate the program's compartmentation ... Transfer to CIA all DIA documents associated with STARGATE for archival purposes and review by the DCI declassification committee.”
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