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Office of Technical Service

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Central Intelligence Agency office which, jointly with the Office of Research and Development, 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. In a memorandum for the record of 4 February 1976 it described several years of CIA sponsored research in that area as completed, assessed the SRI final report as establishing the evidence while yielding almost nothing usable, and recommended that an internal programme be re-instated and continued within OTS.

In the consciousness threadRecommended, jointly with ORD, as funder and monitor of paranormal perception research at Stanford Research Institute; its 1976 memorandum recommends an internal programme be re-instated within OTS.

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This entity's name appears in the 3 documents below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Projectalready cited above

named in the title

named on a page we have read · p. 1

…monitored by the Office of Research and Development and the Office of Technical Service.

Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Project (draft)already cited above

named in the title

named as the issuing body

John N. McMahon, Director, Office of Technical Service, and Sayre Stevens, Director, Office of Research and Develo…

named on a page we have read · p. 3

John N. McMahon Director Office of Technical Service Sayre Stevens Director Office of Research and Development…

Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into Parapsychologyalready cited above

named as the issuing body

Office of Technical Service, Central Intelligence Agency

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jointly funded and monitored its paranormal perception research project with the Office of Research and Development

Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Project Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into Parapsychology
PDF p. 1 checked against the page
→ Office of Research and Development

named together as the joint funders and monitors of the SRI paranormal perception research project

same document as the row above
PDF p. 1 checked against the page
← W.E. Colby

approved the recommendation that made it a joint funder of the SRI project

Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Project
printed p. 3 · PDF p. 3 checked against the page
← John N. McMahon

named as its Director in the signature block of the draft memorandum

Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Project (draft)
printed p. 3 · PDF p. 3 checked against the page
→ Central Intelligence Agency

an office of the Agency

Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Project Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into Parapsychology
PDF p. 1 checked against the page
← MK-ULTRA

supervised by

Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification
printed p. 8 checked against the page

Caveat TURNER IS DESCRIBING THE 1973 DESTRUCTION when he says this, and the supervision he names is supervision of the destruction as much as of the programme. The clause "that supervised Project MKULTRA" is his and is what this link rests on. Note also that the office is called the Technical Services Staff, the Technical Service Division and the Office of Technical Services at different points in this one hearing; this corpus files them as one entity and that is an editorial decision, not the record's.

Notes on this record

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 3

the executed memorandum recommends the effort be jointly funded and monitored by ORD and OTS
the 1976 memorandum states the attached final report describes several years of CIA (ORD & OTS) sponsored research
the 1976 memorandum recommends an internal CIA program be re-instated and continued within OTS

It does not support this

that this office had earlier run MK-ULTRA

NOTHING on any of the eleven pages read names MK-ULTRA, TSD or the Technical Services Division. Paragraph 3 of the executed memorandum refers to a previous OTS project and does not name it.