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Statement of work
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been tasked to
review a technical program which currently resides with
another sponsor. This program seeks to employ "remote
viewing," a paranormal phenomenon, for intelligence
applications. The CIA's Office of Research and Development
(ORD) will contract with the American Institutes of Research
(AIR) to assemble and manage a "blue ribbon panel" of outside
experts to perform this review. The panel will contain a
variety of experts with expertise peculiar to the issues in
question in order to achieve the objectives stated below.
The issues to be addressed include program utility and
validity of technical approach, and evaluation of the
research and development in this area (within the program).
The AIR panel must render a finding as to whether the program
achieves its stated objectives, (i.e. does it facilitate the
collection of intelligence?) and whether any changes in the
operational, experimental, and assessment activities of the
program might bring about a better result. Recommendations
should be made as to appropriate strategies for this program
in the future. These recommendations should be based on the
data and information presented in the context of the program,
including experimental designs, results obtained, proposed
future research, etc. The recommendations should address
which technical areas have potential for future research and
identify areas not useful for further consideration.
To facilitate this retrospective review, we ask AIR to
perform the following tasks:
- Assemble an objective, unbiased, panel of world-class
experts to investigate the operational, experimental, and
assessment activities of the program.
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Review selected contract research and development
studies relating to the technical program in for which
unclassified reports are available.
- Interview and interact with the past principal
investigators to the extent possible in order to develop a
comprehensive understanding the program's current approach
including its successes and failures.
0 Interview, if necessary, past principal expert
evaluators of the technical data since external evaluation
has been utilized in the past to facilitate experimental
design and validate results.
- Attend unclassified presentations in the Metro area by
the existing program manager.
- Draft an interim report incorporating mid-term panel
findings.
- Draft a final report incorporating all panel findings,
and participate the extent appropriate in briefing these
findings to various sponsor audiences.
0 Provide 15 days of ad hoc consulting from senior AIR
personnel on behavioral science related issues, including the
preparation of a draft management strategy for any future
program work in this area if warranted by the review.
- Support a final presentation of the findings of this
review to appropriate members of Congress or their staff, if
necessary.
AIR will be provided with a preliminary annotated
bibliography of technical program studies. The panel will be
able to select reports for review from this bibliography and
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gauge the appropriate scope of information necessary to
complete the review's objectives.
AIR's panel review will be unclassified, but it cannot
be released until the sponsoring Agencies have been briefed
on the final results.
The anticipated level of effort for this review is less
than one-half man year. The anticipated schedule is to
complete this study by end of September, 1995.
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