STATUS OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010062-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2014
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: November 1, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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STATUS OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY
The Office of Technical Service has investigated the
field of parapsychology for the past three years. During
the past year a project jointly funded with the Office of
Research and Development was completed. The goal of these
investigations was to discovery and/or develop the operational
potential of parapsychological capabilities.
It has been decided by Agency management that research,
and_development activities in parapsychology will not be
continued. Operationally reliable and reproducible capabilites
were not discovered or developed within the duration of the
project. Because of the lack of clearly defined progress or
understanding of ?the phenomena, continuing research has been
judged to have too small a benefit versus cost ratio.
Even though reliable parapsychological functioning was
not discovered or developed, capabilities of operational
significant were. The major difficult remains reliability
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and reproducibility. However, under experimantal conditions
which would be operationally acceptable, several individuals
have produced information which could have been useful.
At this time no convincing explanation of how these individuals
produced this information exists. Some of these individuals
are unwitting subjects. One is a cleared subject under
contract for continuing use. Several staff members also
have been identified which may be of some value. This limited
pool of parapsychology functioning individual with continue
to be investigated and excercised on forzoperational exploitation
on an experimantal basis.
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