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Department of the Army · 9 June 1983
A memorandum written at Fort George G. Meade by a lieutenant colonel of Military Intelligence, assessing whether the Gateway Experience could do what it claimed and concluding that it was plausible in terms of its essential objectives.
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About this document
A memorandum written at Fort George G. Meade on 9 June 1983 by a lieutenant colonel of Military Intelligence for his commanding officer, assessing whether the Gateway Experience — the Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync tape programme — could do what it claimed. It runs to 29 pages in the released copy and reaches a conclusion on Department of the Army letterhead.
It concluded that the Gateway Experience is plausible in terms of its essential objectives, and recommended further work. That is an assessment written on Army letterhead by an officer tasked to make one — not a finding that anybody left their body. The memorandum's reasoning is on the page and can be read against its own sources.
It is absent from the government's own released copy, and printed pages 17 and 18 are bound in the wrong order in the same copy. Both defects belong to the release, not to our scan. The annotated edition repairs the order and prints page 25 from a separate scan, and says on the page where that copy came from.
It is on Department of the Army letterhead and was written by an Army officer. It reached the public through a CIA release — every page carries "Approved For Release 2003/09/10" and the document number CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 — because the CIA held the copy. The scan here is the Government Publishing Office's GovInfo copy, package GOVPUB-D101-PURL-gpo152943.
Yes, and it is the only one in the library so far. Archive 001 has the full treatment: a word-for-word transcription facing every leaf, with 85 annotations, in its own reader on this site. Everything else in the library is Level 1 — page images and metadata, with no text layer of ours behind the scans.
The printed edition
In 1983 the US Army asked one of its intelligence officers whether a person could leave their body. He came back with 29 pages, a conclusion — plausible — and a twelve-step programme to do it.
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