1995 CIA R&D Memo for Military Liaison Support on ‘new age’ training directed at enhancing human performance
This four-page CIA memorandum, numbered ORD-0143-95 and dated 26 January 1995, was sent by the Director of Research and Development in the Directorate of Science & Technology (DS&T) to the Office of Military Affairs. It states that Congress tasked CIA with taking over a sensitive program then underway at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) — the program historically associated with government remote-viewing/psychic research (STAR GATE) — and with conducting a retrospective evaluation of it. The memo seeks liaison support to contact the Army Research Institute (ARI), which five years earlier had tasked the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate an Army program involving 'new age' training techniques aimed at enhancing human performance. CIA wanted to learn the outcome of that NRC evaluation, whether ARI continued its training program, and to possibly involve ARI personnel in reviewing the DIA program. The original 1985 ARI study requester Edgar M. Johnson (ARI Technical Director) and George Lawrence (ARI liaison to the NRC Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance) are named as desired contacts. Handwritten annotations, partly illegible, appear on several pages and reference SRI, DIA, and related program details. The document was approved for release on 2 August 2004.
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A SECRET CIA memorandum (ORD-0143-95) from the Director of Research and Development, DS&T, to the Associate Deputy Director for Military Affairs, requesting liaison support to evaluate a sensitive DIA program being transferred to CIA by Congressional direction. The document references a 1985 Army Research Institute / National Research Council evaluation of 'new age' human-performance enhancement techniques and seeks contact with ARI personnel.
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Congress tasked CIA with transferring a sensitive DIA program to CIA and conducting a retrospective evaluation of it.
85%A 1985 Army Research Institute study, conducted via the National Research Council, evaluated 'new age' training techniques directed at enhancing human performance.
85%Edgar M. Johnson was Technical Director of ARI and George Lawrence served as ARI liaison to the NRC Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance.
85%The sensitive DIA program referenced is associated with government remote-viewing / psychic research.
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Jan 25, 1995
CIA memorandum requesting military liaison support
DS&T/ORD issues ORD-0143-95 requesting liaison support to contact ARI regarding evaluation of the DIA program.
Dec 31, 1984
ARI/NRC program evaluation
The Army Research Institute tasked the National Research Council to evaluate an Army 'new age' human-performance enhancement program.
Aug 1, 2004
Document approved for release
CIA declassified/released the document per the 'Approved For Release 2004/08/02' stamp.
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