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          Dear Dr. Puthoff.,
          21.February 1984
               Vve now read and thought about Your memo on documentation
          the whole picture. According to my memory as to how it came
          about that.we landed in this present Impasse leads me to make
          thelfollow'ing.statementso for whatever they are worth.
               At the time when we had culminated the prototype training
          patterns with the first three volunteers, I myself held forth
          on the fact that we then should not any further advertize to
          other clients that training was tentatively available until
          we had seen to at least basic forms of documentation. As it
          came about however, the project as a whole was then in one of
          its many funding cul de sacs,, and since another client was hot
          to begin trz~ining and had money, a joint decision was taken to
          go forward in that direction. This decision was mostly taken
          by the COTR at the time, but conditions suggested to all that
          there was not much choice otherwise. This then'. at the time,
          was not ali that erroneous a.decision.
          I., however,.in my position as consultant., advised that
          documentation was, under those conditions likely to catch up
          as a problem" and we would never thereafter be abie to
          conduct documentation procedures in an orderly manner; and further
          ,when that time did arrive., that the entire team would have to
          be mutual supportive of each other, and ensure the time and
          space to put in the documentations that otherwise had been
          set aside at the time., for the reasons above states.
               The lack of d8cumentation, therefore,,vas not exactly an
          oversight, as is currently being suggested; but rather the
          result of decisions taken at the time to keep the entire work
          alive. I further advised that the danger in commencing training
          with the other group was in that the training would be seen to
          be workable, and that when this was.understood that this
          special group would come forward with inereamed.funds arA
          1ASY-samot Ma-ftPow4p i(mc
          whisk would imply that'wo would have-to forfeit R&D and
          other Piliged work in order to provide the deliverables which
          would be expected under the working mandate.
               We arrived at this point a short time ago. The trouble is
          that no one wishes to decline funds whitm in order to commit
          themselves to other areas - ultimately necessary. On top of
          all this now exist the Pntpgonisms thnt have come to requit.
               If therefore., you wish to ho..d yourself solely to blame
          for Pll this, thAt is your businesq; but it would be my oninion
          that you need not and that indeed to do so is Just addino- one
          more incorrectnesslinto an already large haap of them.
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        In fact, considering the peripatatic course of the overall
        concept of the uroject as a whole, the many different difficu tie
        It has consistently encountered, It would be my be4ief that
        under bach of.the.changing situations., almost ail parties
        concerned did more than their share to keep the project afloat
        at all. The current situation is one that has come about from
        critics who seem to hold.that all the work should have been
        perfectly done all along. This in fact was never possible;
        and1to try to make haste, safe face where no face-saving is
        really needed, all with limited and very small resources for
        documentation - when indeed a rather large effort is required
        is, in my opinion, to continue to be dismal and umproductive.
        But, in whatever light various people interpret it all,
        the fact is that for several reasons each of which were valid
        in their time in the past, what went down at each of those
        times is what went down. I don't truly think we can change
        that history by trVing, amid increasing antagonisms,, to
        conduct uneconomic gestures,in the present.
                
                

                
                

                
                

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