SUGGESTED PR RESPONSE IN EVENT DCI IS QUERIED ABOUT PARANORMAL RESEARCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100024-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Content Type: NOTES

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Suggested PR Response 1z Event PCI j. Queried about Paranormal Researchs
Throughout the ages there been curiousity, speculation and innumerable reported
instances of a wide variety of paranormal phenomena--phenomena which would seem to relate
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to either extraordinary acuHrof the known physical senses or to senses"which
manage to perceive our ordinary reality in other dimensions of space, time and causality.
Although there seems always to have been some interest in% such phenomena, there have been
waves or cycles of particularly heightened interest from time to time--often associated
social change
with periods of unusual stress or/%%%%%%g% in man's history. tt is no secret that we are
in the midst of such a cycle at the present time--not only in this country but in most
parts of the world. Under the circumstances, it would be highly unusual if well-intentioned
occasionally
people did not/bring to the attention of their government whatever evidence they might
possess about such phenomena. Such evidence, father naturally, is sometimes referred to
this Agency. When such evidence is presented persuasively by people of undoubted probity,
if we did not at least view it objectivelyr-just as we try to be objective about all phen-
omena which might affect the national interests. We are n? in the business of pursuing
paranormal phenomena^but we try not to be arrogant about it--which is what a lack of
objectivity on issue usually amounts to.
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