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     L. (U) PURPOSE: To provide an overview of CENTER LANE.
     2 . (U) RECOMMENDED POSITION: That CENTER LANE operations, training, and developmiint
     cont.-iiiue within the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.
     3. (U) POINTS SUPPORTING RECOMMENDED PO(;IT-,['ON:
     ,I.
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     (S/CL-3/NOFORN) Since October 1978, when ACS1 (then MG Thomp'son) tasked INSCOM
     10 develop a parapsychology program (then GRILL FLAME), INSCOM has. through stric, ,1y
     collLrolled, monitored training, .Ind
     Lhoroughly documented, and carefully operations, I
     development established the feasibility and soundness of the remote viewing phenomenon
     as ari intelligence collection tool. Without continuation, this crucial momentum would
     be 'Lost.
          b. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) Since May 1981, when I assumed command of INSCOM, the project
     (now CENTER LANE) has provided the U.S. Army and such agencies as DIA, CIA, 'NSA, FBI,
     and the Secret Service critical intelligence unavailable from other sources. Without
     continuation, the Intelligence Community would lose a valuable collection capability
     which now allows penetration of intelligence targets inaccessible to any conventional
     syst,clil.
          C. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) Continuing work in the academic and R&D communit- 'ies has re:IL'ined
     the methodology-, demonstrating far greater accuracy, control, and reliability than ever
     before. Without continuation, CENTER LANEI would be kept from realizing its true
     potent-Jal.
          d. (S-CL-2/NOFORN:) A current collection project is focused on providing
     i-nformation to the CIA in their efforts to locate William F. Buckley who was kidnapped
     from Beirut on 16 March 1984. An SOI on that project is attached as Inc 'Losure 1. At
     Iticlosure 2 is an MFR from the CIA commenting on the value of CENTER LANE,
     (U) OTHER VIEWS:
          a. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) "The phenomenon is not real." This argument simply does not
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     s i-id tip in the face of 'many valid. scientific replications conducted by reputable
     institutions such as Princeton University, Maimonidies Medical Center, B el 1
     L-iboratories, and McDonnell Douglas Corporation and SR.I-International, a-mong others. In
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     .ddftion, a congressionally directed independent scientific review panol concluded in.
     October 1983, "The evidence shown to us is too impressive to dl-smiss as ME!re
     coirteidence.
          b. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) "The phenomenon is not well understood and therefore has no
     practical value." The users of intelligence produced by CENTER LANE feel that it does
     have value.
          C. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) "The phenomorion is the work of the devil and should not be
     cxplolted." This is an emotional statement that critics and skeptics of the CENTER LANE
     Ilro ject occasionally use because they do iiot accept an explanation ~Df the phenomenon.
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