Letter to Senator Sam Nunn: interim response on a program plan for Project STARGATE
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That James R. Clapper, Jr. was Program Manager of Project STARGATE and reported on it to the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on 23 May 1994.
That Congress required the program's research to be peer-reviewed by neutral scientific experts, and that DIA's programme of work treated foreign work on Anomalous Mental Phenomena as a potential national-security threat requiring countermeasures.
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“GENERAL DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20340-1025. S-1058/GS. 23 MAY 1994. Honorable Sam Nunn, Chairman, Armed Services Committee, United States Senate. Dear Mr. Chairman: The enclosed information is an interim response to the FY 1994 Defense Authorization Conference Classified Annex Joint Explanatory Statement, which requests a program plan for Project STARGATE. The project plan and recommendations of the scientific panel will be provided to all intelligence oversight and appropriations committees prior to the Defense Authorization Conference. Sincerely, JAMES R. CLAPPER, JR., Lieutenant General, USAF, Program Manager. 1 Enclosure: STARGATE CDA (S/NOFORN/SG/LIMDIS) 1 Cy. cc: Honorable Strom Thurmond, Ranking Minority Member”
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“Congressionally Directed Action. STARGATE. REQUEST: (S) The Defense Authorization Conference Committee, in its Classified Annex Joint Explanatory Statement, Enclosure 13, requested the Director of DIA prepare a program plan and submit an appropriate budget request for a research effort, over several years, to determine whether the STARGATE program can show results that are cost-effective and satisfy reasonable performance criteria. This plan, and any research under this program, should be subject to peer review by neutral scientific experts. ... RESPONSE: (S/NOFORN/SG/LIMDIS) The Defense Intelligence Agency has prepared a draft multiyear research and peer review plan ... The plan focuses on: -- Identifying the underlying mechanisms of Anomalous Mental Phenomena (AMP). -- Establishing the limits of operational usefulness of AMP. -- Determining the degree to which foreign activities in AMP represent a threat to national security. -- Developing countermeasures to neutralize this threat. -- Using research findings to improve operational activities. -- Developing data fusion criteria to integrate AMP results with other intelligence sources.”
'Anomalous Mental Phenomena (AMP)' is the government's own term for the subject on this sheet. The peer-review requirement here is the earliest congressional demand in anything held for the outside scientific review that the 1995 evaluation became.
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