1. Attached is the final report describing several years of CIA (ORD & OTS) sponsored research in the area popularly referred to as parapsychology. I believe the SRI report will be a major benchmark in the field. Even with its flaws the investigation is the most complete, serious and scientific investigation into parapsychology in general and its national security implications in particular. The report establishes overwhelming scientific evidence for the existence of human perceptual capabilities which are as yet unexplained. The investigation, however, resulted in nothing which adds to the understanding of the mechanisms involved and little which increases the effectiveness of national security applications. The SRI investigation and internal CIA experiments do, nevertheless, indicate potential applications of the phenomenon to intelligence problems. For example, empirically useful techniques can probably be developed for those intelligence problems where noisy, flawed information can be used to limit known alternatives which subsequently can be verified. It is my opinion that an internal CIA program directed towards the above mentioned and similar intelligence requirements should be re-instated and continued within OTS.