VISIT WITH DR. H. PUTHOFF AND MR. R. TARG, STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SRI, 12 AUGUST 1976),

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• Publication Date: August 19, 1976
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OTS/CB Memo #760150
19 August 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Visit with Dr. H. Puthoff and 'fir. R. Targ,
Stanford Research Institute (SRI), 12 August 1976
1. The above investigators were visited to review their
current R&D technical and administrative attus. Several
items of interest are recorded below. In brief, Targ and
Puthoff have changed divisions within SRI, have received rata
replicating several of their experiments, remain in financial
difficulties and believe they can more accurately and reliably
produce paranormal phenomena.
2. The latest reorganization of SRI has affected Taa'q
and Puthoff. The Bioengineering and Information Science
Division is now headed by Earl Jones who replaced Bart Co*.-,.
Cox was replaced because of his di*isions unsatisfactory
financial performance. Jones has decided because he has it
financially weak division, Targ and Puthoff would be better
off in a financially stronger division. Accordingly, they
moved to the Radio Physics Division (RPD) which is concerned
with various telemetry and communications problems. Within
the division are numerous intelligence and military projects.
An S$/TK conference room is part of the P2D facility hour d
in Building 44. It is my opinion that Terg and Puthoff will
be better off with this arrangement. After talking with their
new management, it became clear they will not be treated as
special cases. They will interact more strongly with otht:*.r
people in the division and will be given the benefit of the
division's marketing contacts. Their access to IR&D money' will
be the same as any group and their direct exposure to prei-
sures from Charles Anderson, President of SRI, and others will
be minimized by the RPD management. The only disadvantag' is
that Targ and Puth-off will be given a finite time to develop
a funded program and then will be forced into support of
other funded projects within RPO.
3. The financial situation of Targ and Puthoff is once
again percarious. They have 100K from the Air Force which is
being applied to remote viewing of AF intelligence problems.
They have spent almost all of the 50K from the Office of 'Naval
Research (ONR) as described below. They expected 80K now and
200K soon from the Navy. This Navy support has all disappeared
because a Dr. S. Kaslaf of the staff of the Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for R&D has decided the research is not worth the
potential adverse publicity. (SRI actually had 30K in hand
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when it was recalled by the Navy.) It seems inevitable that
when this R&D field is reviewed at high levels the politics
becomes overwhelming.
4. The Office of Naval Research funded a replication
of one aspect of our former program. The experiment was a
remote flashing light used to induce changes in the brain
wave activity of a sensitive Subject. This experiment pro-
duced positive results when done by an or institute under
conditions specified by QT/R. It recently even produced
results when the observer of the flashing light was removed.
In general, a very controlled replication of an objective
effect seems to have been accomplished. If true, this
effect has profound implications for science and intelligence.
It means that objective information can be passed and sensed
in an unconscious mode by an unidentifi 3. means.
5. Although they could not share the details with me,
SRI claimed the AF contract has already produced results.
Supposedly, operationally significant experiments as well as
analysis experiments have been successful. Dale Graff, the
A? project officer, will share these results with me after
he returns from a month's leave. It is noted that Ed Leeve-ett
provided some of the significant results. We shall see.
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