THE ABSENCES OF ESP RESEARCH IN NSA AND THE PK EFFECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): NSA-RDP96X00790R000100030057-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: October 1, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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LT COL was a aan of much experience in the SIGIPiT
.comtYUnity. When I started ~Y research into the field of Para
of a personal experience which had occurred many years ago. COL n and
to advocate looking into the subject. His interest was aroused because
subject.
He told me that, as far as he knew, he himself was one of the fir
he was oi~e of the first people I questioned about Agency interest in the
an-Agency colleague were on a TDY trip at the time and were sharing a
room for the night. It had been a busy day and they were still engaged
in an animated discussion, at a late hour. COL
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was giving his roommate
a seven digit nuiaerical sequence as an example, when the rooruaate sudden],y
exclaimed that it was a precise number he was just then thinking about,
a phone nuriber he had to czll. The roorrate being a man of mathematical
background was impressed with the odds that such a coincidence it should
be due~to chance aloae.#
COL 0 was still thinking about the incident when he returned to the
Agency. He felt stroroly ei:ough about the implicatior_s of the question to
pay a visit to I?ir. William ~-iedman. When he related the incident to
bs. F??iedna-~, he closed with a recoaaaer-dation that the Agency look into
research on Extrasensory Perception (ESP~'~and its relevance to the SIGIVT
comr~ur~ity.
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I~lot .I-a.cwi_~~g what i~:r . Fx?ied.+naz ~ s reaction to his suggestion had been,
COL was pleasantly surprised when he cht~?~ced upon t~s. Friedtaan in the
halls and was ir~vited?into his offices.
1:z? . ~4?ied~~.n happily displayed to COL ~ a list he had composed of
reco~unend research subjects for the Agency. Tha:?e amo~:g them was ESP.
Since these early days, research has slowly progressed into the
possible relationships betrreeii FarGpsychologjr and the Intelligence
community. Experirients have been designed to test the effects of the
Telepathic# and Clairvoyant# phenomer:a or: the cryptosccurity of the U.S.
codes and ciphers; Intelligence corsaunity irfoi?mation is periodically
scanned for developmer_ts in Free World or SIPIO/SOVIET Bloc research
which L~ignt constitute an i?~creased threat _to our Comrcunications Security.
The search for Agency Psychic talent is actively, if informally persued
whenever possibin. Ore of the difficulties ir~voived in testing for F,SP
within a laboratory er?vironr?ert is that the laboratory can rarely dupli-
cate the extreme, End often. tragic stiriulus found in spontaneous cases.
Lacking such strong motivation, FSI' raroly provides spectaculr.rly positive
results in the laboratory.
One apparent exception to this frustrating parapsychological testing
situation occurs ~rher. the so called ~~Pollergeist~~ phenomara is under study.
"This appears to be the case because the pheroaena is spparar_tly a psycho-
pathological cor:dition,? sor.:ewhat like ulcers a:.d seeps to be caused by
Poltergeist (PK The ability of the mind to irfluer.ce matter usually by
. motion..
~'!'elepathy: Afind to mir_d con.~ur.ication.
#Clairvoya-ice: Aware:ess of a physical object bzyord ro:~!al se:~.sory x?a^.oa.
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racy or lo~:g terra e~otior~al stress. llhen the person has stored up
enough to causo objects to :-,ove around a room the sto=~d up energy seeas
to t~~.e so:.~e time to dissi~_.ate; this ~torr,oe n .,
' ~ co ditio_~ occassiorally
per:~its the scientist to ??et the
o subjec~ i?.to ~. laboratory or into a
reaso:~4bly controlled si.tuati o.:, i n which he can subject the strange
efi?ects and their perp~tr?~tor to care~ul study.
Havi:7g finished with this u_nderiu.r~dec; introduction to the su'oject,
I would lil~:e to consider two excellent questions: .
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