CIA Reading Room cia-rdp96-00787r000200020018-1: HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE, MINUTES OF THE TWELFTH MEETING, 20 SEPTEMBER 1976

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Approved For Rise 2003/09/10: CIA-RDP96-00 DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE Human Resources Committee RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE HRC-R&D-M-012 23 September 1976 Minutes of the Twelfth Meeting, 20 September 1976 SG1I SG1I SG1I Members or Representatives Present Chairman CIA DIA NSA Army Air Force FBI Others Present CIA/OTS CIA/OTS CIA/OTS Army Air Force HRD/HRC - Mr. George umner - Mr. Jean R. Henson - Mr. Joe V a is - Mr. L. J. Stracqualursi - Mr. John G. Kormann SG1I SG1I 1. The Chairman opened the twelfth meeting announcing that priorities had necessitated a change in the agenda and that the first item would be a discussion of a CIA R&D program followed by a review of the draft National Human Resource Plan (NHRP) and an R&D Subcommittee briefing that is scheduled for presentation to the CFI Intelligence R&D Council on 13 October 1976. The other listed agenda items would then be addressed in a subsequent meeting. The minutes of the tenth and eleventh meetings were approved. 2. The Chairman turned to the CIA representative, S G11 ef' In his prefatory 1 ff--~ and asked him to proceed with the scheduled re remarks regarding the briefing on parapsychology, noted that SG1I Classified by Exempt from Go , re, Derlissificatlon c~i..F,.?iu o of E.O. 11; :2 Exemption C t~'rory: t;3 (1,, ( . S) or (4) G:;Ecss iecE oni'~ C"; 'Ipproval f e Giraetor of ContraAp~larR,3 ai P'or Release 2003/.0N /I1DEN?IALRDP96-00787R000200020018-1 7R7Rnnn?n0090018-1 SG1I SG1I SG1I CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Re&se 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R( 00020018-1 CIA was attempting to determine whether any aspect of this esoteric discipline had an application in the intelligence field. He pointed out that these CIA efforts were embodied bDDS&T OT whom e then introduced. with a ten-minute videotape display of a TV r- T began a rie ing \of news item presented on NBC approximately two weeks ago. The news item outlined research on remote viewing conducted by H. E. Puthoff and R.. Targ of the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratorv at the Stanford Research Institute in California. After the showing, discussed in detail the results of six sets of experiments conducted by ese researchers and passed out several sets of the research material. One of the items was an article published in the IEEE Spectrum that evoked a flurry of letters. to the editor and rebuttals by the authors. The upshot of the exchange was that two scientists working with the same data can come to diametri- cally opposite conclusions. 3. Next a review was made of CIA parapsychology/paranormal research that began in 1972. The program was divided basically into two parts: basic research and applied research. The CIA was primarily inter ested in the applied aspects of such experimentation and in this regard obtained limited clearance for one such subject or sensitive. Both described the experimentation conducted with the s