Star Gate Program – Proposed Management Strategy
A September 1995 CIA management memorandum recommends ending intelligence-community remote-viewing operations and research, reviewing Star Gate files for declassification and archival transfer, and assigning no new resources to monitoring foreign parapsychology.
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- Source / agency
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Type
- FOIA
- Classification
- Partially Declassified
- Reference #
- CIA-RDP96-00791R000100150004-8
- Published
- 1995-01-01
- Content Type
- application/pdf
- Pages
- 4
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The September 1995 CIA memorandum says the Star Gate transfer plan called for an external 20-year technical review, declassification work, and a comprehensive management strategy.
The plan had three parts: ORD would form a blue-ribbon panel to conduct a twenty-year technical review, it would immediately declassify past CIA sponsorship
The proposed management strategy recommends terminating remote-viewing operations throughout the intelligence community.
Terminate remote viewing operations within the intelligence community.
The memorandum attributes to the American Institutes for Research the conclusion that remote-viewing information was too vague and ambiguous to provide actionable intelligence.
the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult if not impossible for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy for actionable intelligence
The strategy recommends terminating intelligence-community research and development related to remote viewing.
Terminate research and development relating to remote viewing within the intelligence community.
The memorandum says the AIR review found it unclear whether remote viewing had been demonstrated as a paranormal phenomenon and found that laboratory studies did not establish its source or origin.
it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated. The laboratory studies do not provide evidence regarding the sources or origins of the phenomenon
The strategy calls for a comprehensive declassification review of Defense Department and CIA program files before transfer to the National Archives.
Perform a comprehensive declassification review of all DOD and CIA program files to prepare them for official transfer to the National Archives.
The memorandum recommends assigning no additional resources to assessing foreign developments in parapsychology.
Apply no additional resources to the assessment of foreign developments in parapsychology.
The CIA Directorate of Intelligence characterized parapsychology as a relatively low threat and said it found no credible evidence that Russian research significantly increased the national-security threat.
In none of this Russian research do we see credible evidence of developments that could significantly add to the threat that Russia currently poses to national security.
Chronology extracted from the document text.
Star Gate final-response memorandum issued
The CIA director of research and development submitted the completed Star Gate management strategy to the executive director.
CIA ORD tasked with Star Gate transfer response
The memorandum says the CIA executive director asked the Office of Research and Development to respond to a congressionally directed action concerning transfer of Star Gate from DIA to CIA.
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