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     CONFIDENTIAL
     6 August 1974
     MEMO FOR THE RECORD
     SUBJECT Telecon from Dr Puthoff of SRI
     1. Talked with Dr Puthoff from 1330 to 1350 hrs on this date. He gave me
     a run-down on some of the developments and data which he is putting into his
     next report (see below). He promised me that he would be through with the report
     this week and hoped that, after editing and art-work, etc, it would be on its
     way to us by the end of next week. Told him that, in addition to the regular
     channels, he should bring a couple of copies with him when he comes East. We'll
     be seeing him on 21 August and can discuss the report then if we already have a
     copy and, if not, can discuss it with him when he returns thru DC from Geneva on
     28 or 29 August. Some of the tidbits he passed on are:
     a. they've identified all nine subjects but are tending now to
     view them only in two categories: Super Stars and Controls (with, possibly,
     a sub-group of the latter being 'learners'--those who seem to progress);
          b. they've reduced the screening tests from five to three (learning
     machine, OOB, telepathic drawings) and have set firm million-to-one -
     criteria for super-star status; the other two tests (EEG strobe and t 0~~ion
     pendulum) are still being used in later stages but were not, he says,
     sufficiently discriminating for screening;
     c. they have 'mountains of data' for us which he is trying to
     analyze for this next report and he agrees that at least preliminary analysis
     at this point makes much more sense than waiting (as held planned) til
     near the end of the project;
          d. Pat Price has gone thru his entire medical and starts his psych-
     ological exams on 8 August; MC had just called Hal before he called me
     to say they'd found highly un--Usual amounts of fluid in his brain-scan
     (uhich SRI has decided to include on PAMC's statement that X-ray exposure
     ------ is minimal--so much for our guidance);
          e. all other subjects are now firmly scheduled for medical & psych
     exams and all should be completed by late September;'
          f. they've run some mid-test neurological correlates on Price, with
     some possibly interesting findings--and are now factor analyzing to see if
     there are correlates with respect to accurate and inaccurate OOB reporting.
                                                             2. All in all, he sounded rather positive, encouraged and encouraging--but
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     we'll know better when we see his report. Though I told him I'd deliberately
     refrained from calling h4 because I didn't want to seem harassing, I stressed to
     him the importance of this report and the need to ensure that it reflected
     accurately all that has gone on. I told him it makes no difference to us if there
     are 5 or 3 screening tests, or 2 or 3 groups of subjects, as long as the procedures
     and data are consistent and ineaningful.
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