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          SUBJECT: /46 SOYSTER PRESENTATION 12 DECEMBER 1985
          REASON FOR MEETING: TWO ITEMS:
          1. OPSEC PROBLEM AND THE POSSIBLE PUBLICATION OF PROJECT
          INFORMATION IN THE WASHINGTON POST NEXT WEEK.
          2. THE PROJECT MOA BETWEEN INSCOM AND DIA.
          ITEM 1. OPSEC PROBLEM:
          A. SINCE 1977 THE WASHINGTON POST, AND OTHERS, HAVE BEEN
          PUBLISHING ARTICLES ON PSI ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE US 6OV'T. THE
          SUBJECT SEEMS TO MAKE GOOD PRESS. LAST YEAR JACK ANDERSON
          PUBLISHED THE PROJECT NICKNAME HILL FLAME AND ASSOCIATED PSI
          WITH THE US ARMY.
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             B . IT APPEARS THAT POSSIBLY AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK, THE
        WASHINGTON POST WILL PUBLISH SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION; NEW
        INFORMATION, WHICH, BY ITS VERY NATURE INDICATES AN OPSEC
        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 STUBBLEBINE, WATT, AND JACHIM,
        (2) -P&f TRAINING AT SRI INTERNATIONAL AND THE MONROE
        INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE (RAPT 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 TO ANSWER ANY INQUIRES
        WITH THE PHRASE "No COMMENT." WE FELT IT APPROPRIATE TO INFORM
        YOU OF THIS INFORMATION AS WELL. THE TO BE PUBLISHED
        INFORMATION APPEARS TO BE OVER TWO YEARS OLD AND IS DILUTED BY
        INACCURACIES AND DISTORTIONS.
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         ITEM 2. THE MOA:
              A. As YOU KNOW THE MOA PROVIDED FOR PROJECT CONTINUITY BY
         ASSIGNING THE UNIT OPCON To DIA WHILE THEY (DIA) SOUGHT
         CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF NFIP FUNDING. THIS APPROVAL IS
         INCLUDED IN THE FY 86 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL BUT A FULL
         TRANSFER OF THE UNIT CANNOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL THE BILL IS SIGNED
         BY THE PRESIDENT.
         B. WHEN YOU ND LTG (RET) WILLIAMS ORIGINALLY SIGNED THE
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         MOA 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 1ST
         QUARTER FY86 UNTIL THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL IS ENACTED.
         THIS WOULD AMOUNT TO AT MOST APPROXIMATELY TWENTY TO TWENTY-FIVE
         THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE 2ND QUARTER OF FY 86.
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