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  SUGGESTED PR RELEASE IN THE EVENT THE DCI IS QUERIED ABOUT
  AGENCY INVOLVEMENT IN PARANORMAL RESEARCH
  Throughout the ages there has always been curiousity, speculation and
  innumerable reported instances of a wide variety of paranol7mal phenomena--
  phenomena which appear to stem from either extraordinary acuity of the
  known physical senses or from other 'senses' which perceive our ordinary
  reality in other dimensions of time, space and causality. There have also
  been cycles of particularly heightened interest from tirne to time, often
  associated with periods of unusual stress or social upheaval in man's
  history. It is no secret that we are in the midst of such a cycle at the present
  time, not only in this country but in most parts of the world. Under the
  circumstances, it wnuld be unusual if well-intentioned people did not occas-
  ionally bring to the attention of their government such evidence as they possess
  about these phenomena. Quite naturally, such evidence is sometimes referred
  to this Agency. When it is presented persuasively by people of undoubted
  probity, we would, it seems to me, be negligent if we did not at least view it
  objectively- -just as we try to be objective about all matters which affect the
  national interests. We are not in the business of pursuing paranormal phenomena
  per se but we try not to be arrogant about it- -which is what a lack of objectivity
  about any issue usually amount to. 11
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