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Office of Research and Development

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Central Intelligence Agency office which, jointly with the Office of Technical Service, was recommended as funder and monitor of paranormal perception research at Stanford Research Institute, on a recommendation approved over the signature of W.E. Colby. A memorandum for the record of 4 February 1976 records the completed research as CIA (ORD & OTS) sponsored.

In the consciousness threadRecommended, jointly with OTS, as funder and monitor of paranormal perception research at Stanford Research Institute.

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named on a page we have read · p. 1
…nded that the effort be jointly funded and monitored by the Office of Research and Development and the Office of Technical Service.
named in the title
named as the issuing body
…, Office of Technical Service, and Sayre Stevens, Director, Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency
named on a page we have read · p. 3
…irector Office of Technical Service Sayre Stevens Director Office of Research and Development APPROVED: ________ Date Carl E. Duckett Deputy Director…
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development

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The date

Entered undated. The documents that put this entity on the map - the two states of the Office of Research and Development / Office of Technical Service paranormal perception memorandum - PRINT NO DATE ON THEIR FACE. The serial DD/S&T 3697-73 carries the year 73 and the stamp beside the approval signature is illegible at 600 dpi, so no date is derived. This is a gap, recorded as one.

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Checked against cia-rdp79-00999a000300100028-1,cia-rdp96-00787r000700020003-2 on 2026-08-25.

The document carries these 2

  • the executed memorandum recommends the effort be jointly funded and monitored by ORD and OTS
  • the 1976 memorandum attributes the sponsorship to CIA (ORD & OTS)