Document · SRC-V99-057 · Declassified memorandum (detailed check pending)
Pat Price experimental memo (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020040-6)
CIA Reading Room · 1986
Pat Price experimental memo (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020040-6) · 2 pages · PDF 0.1 MB
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CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020040-6 SGII SGII SGIJ MEMORANDUM TO: FROM SUBJECT ORD-0733-86 16 July 1986 Director of Research and Development ACS/ORD SRI/DIA Request for parapsychological Data Attached is a request for copies of data derived from several exper iments sponsored by the Agency over a decade ago with the I have a copy of one of the requested alleged psychic, Pat price. documents a ne at ive analysis of pat's statements about the URDF-3 The other requested data Las Alamos, 1976). Soviet has been es roye or has receeded into the mists of OTS archives. After a brief discussion with providing SRI-International wi other data has been destroyed or your consideration) . Background I suggest we respond by review and note the Attached draft for (DIA) called to request a SGII SGII Approximately a month ago, meeting about an "Old Contract I nowxng imi s involvement with GRILLFLAME, DIA's unclassified designator for parapsychological research, I knew generally what he wanted to discuss. We arranged The meeting for a meeting which occurred on 12 June in my office. - International's principle included Ms. Beverly Humphey, SRI investigator on the DIA funded parapsychology research project. The main objective of the meeting was to inform me they have not made significant progress in understanding "remote viewing" and therefore, wanted to review the best subject from past experiments, Since Pat died in 1977, and I had personally worked Pat Price. with him, they wanted to debrief me on my recollections of him and his procedures as well as locate primary data records on orginal analysis which they could review and re-analyze. I discussed my personal recollections of various personal methods and idiosyncrasies of Pat's and noted I no longer had access to most of the primary data (transcripts, drawings, and audio tapes) I further suggested, that if they sent a request from Pat price. for the data, 1 would route it to the appropr i ate part of the CIA. SGII DECL OADR DERIVED FROM Approved For Release
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SUBJECT: CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020040-6 SRI/ DIA Request for parapsychological Data SGII SGII SGII to After receiving the attached letter, I c 1 led explain the situation and get his guidance. sax indifferent to the DIA research and would like o avoid the effort of searching for the old data files, which may or may not exist. 1 I would request your approval to send the single document told a and we would not bother him further with the matter. wh ich SGII Attachment: as stated Approved For Release
Record
- Author / institution
- CIA Reading Room
- Date
- 1986
- Source type
- Declassified memorandum (detailed check pending)
- Used for
- CASE-017: reported retrieval of original Price session transcripts, sketches and audio; contrary analysis of the Soviet target
- Limitations
- Contents summarized from secondary description and need direct recheck; reportedly gives an inconsistent year for Price's death
Link
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020040-6.pdf
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