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        28 Pebruary 1973
 NOTE POR: Carl
 SUBJECT: More Geller Business
 I understand (n t hhand) that:
             The science editor of TIME magazine, a Mr.. Jareff,
 told the public information man at SRI that the TIME
 edition for Monday, 5 March, will,carry an artic
 tending to discredit Geller and casting some aspersions
 at SRI for being taken in.
 Jareff says that the source o 'fthe article was
 .~Dr. George Lawrence of ARPA, and apparently the article.
 identifies Lawrence as the sour ce of the information.
 Lawrence, on the other hand, denies having talked to
 TIME--Jareff says this is nonsense, Lawrence has talked
 :Fo-TIME lots of times.
             Lawrence is.the guy with ARPA who felt Geller was
 a charlatan based on the die-calling experiment.
 Lawrence's rationale was that.Geller was not looking
 into the box as he-claimed to be, but instead was
 influencing the die so that it came up with the face
 that he wished!!!! (This kind of logic I don'tunder-
 stand).
             The article also, apparently,.says that TIME
 took Geller to a lab in New York, and that he was
 found to be cheating. This judgment, I understand,
 stems from the fact that a magician watched what Geller.
 did, and said that Geller surely looked and actedlike
 a magician.
             TIME's noble purpose in publishing this is to
 alert the community.
             The article does not give any indication of
 Agency interest.
      If the article appears, this can only complicate the
 already difficult situation involved in dealing with Geller,
 .Swann--in fact, this whole area.
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