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          SUBJECT: Bb SOYSTER PRESENTATION 12 DECEMBER 1985
          REASON FOR MEETING: -1WO ITEMS:
          1. OPSEC PROBLEM AND THE POSSIBLE PUBLICATION OF PROJECT
          INFORMATION IN THE WASHINGTON POST NEXT WEEK,
          ?, THE PROJECT MOA BETWEEN INSCOM AND DIA.
          iTFM 1, OPSEC PROBLEM:
          A. SINCE 19// THE WASHINGTON POST, AND OTHERS, HAVE BEEN
          PLIBI-ISIHING ARTICLES ON P81 ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE US kOVII'~ 1HE
          SUBJECT SEEMS TO MAKE GOOD PRESS. LAST YEAR JACK ANDERSON
          PUBLISHED THE PROJECT NICKNAME HILL FLAME AND AS~.,',OCIATED PSI
          WITH I'HE US ARMY.
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              B . 11' APPEARS THAT POSSIBLY AS -SO01N AS NLEIXT WEEK, THE
         WASHINGTON POST WILL PUBLISH SOME ADDITIONAL INFOIRMATIO,~-,,; NEW
         INFORMATION, WHICH, BY ITS VERY NATURE INDICATES AN 0PSFC
         PROBLEM. THE TO BE PUBLISHED INFORMATION INCLUDES, BUT MAY NOT
         BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING FOUR AREAS:
         (1) A PAST LINK BETWEEN INSCOM AND PSI ACTIVITY VIA THE
         NAMES OF KUBBLEBINE, WATL AND JACHIM.
         (2) PSI "TRA-11-N.1-N..G. AT SRI INTERNATIONAL AND THE MONROE
         INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE (RAP[ CONNECTION?)
         (3) MENTION OF THE "PERRY MEMORANDUM."
         (4) IDENTIFICATION OF FORT MEADE AS THE LOCATION OF THE
         PROGRAM.
              c, DIA HAS BEEN MADE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION AND HAS
         INSTRUCTED THEIR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE J-0 ANSWER ANY INcUIRES
         WITH THE PHRASE "No COMMENT." WE FELT IT APPROPRIATE TO INFORM
         YOU OF THIS INFORMATION AS WELL., IHE TO BE PUBLISHED
         INFORMATION APPEARS 'TO BE OVER TWO YEARS 01-D AND IS DILUTED BY
         INACCURACIES AND DISTORTIONS.
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         I TEm 2, THE MOA:
              A - As YOU KNOW THE MOA PROVIDED FOR PROJECT CONTINUITY BY
         ASSIGNING THE UNIT OPCON TO DIA WHILE THEY (DIA) SOUGHT
         CONGRE__SSIONAL APPROVAL OF NFIP F(JNDING. THIS APPROVAL, IS
         INCLUDED IN THE FY 86 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONs BILL PUT A FULL
         TRANSFER OF THE UNIT CANNOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL THE BILL IS SIGNED
         BY THE PRESIDE-NT.
         .
         11~
         D, WHEN YOU AND LTG' NET) WILLIAMS ORIGINALLY SJGNED THE
         ,`,10A IT WAS EXPECTED THAT THE BILL WOULD HAVE BEEN IN EFFECT BY
         NOW, 'THIS, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS STILL PENDING, WITH YOUR
         PERMISSION WE WILL ARRANGE FOR LIMITED FUNDING TO COVER CIVILIAN
         SALARIES AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES BEYOND THE IST
         QUARTFR FY86 UNTIL THE I)EFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, IS ENACTED.
         THis WOULD AMOUNT TO AT MOST APPROXIMATELY TWENTY TO TWENTY-FIVE
         THOLISAND DOLLARS FOR THE 2ND QUARTER OF FY 86,
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