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Phenomenological Research and Analysis — Interim Technical Report (SAIC/STAR GATE, April 1993)

This document is a deliverable (data item A002) under contract MDA908-93-C-0004, an interim technical report by SAIC's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, covering Statement of Work tasks 6.1 Basic Research, 6.2 Applied Research, and 6.3 Research Methodology for the period 31 December 1992 to 30 April 1993. It is part of the U.S. government-funded parapsychology program (associated with STAR GATE) later released through the CIA Reading Room. The report describes the status of multiple experiments testing anomalous mental phenomena: an EEG experiment on CNS responses to anomalous cognition (AC) stimuli; a remote observation experiment replicating Braud, Shafer, and Andrews' work on autonomic detection of unseen gaze; a lucid-dream AC study led by Stephen LaBerge (one preliminary trial conducted 13 March 1993); a Q-Sort personality assessment study; and a Shannon-entropy target study, among others. It records Institutional Review Board (22 January 1993), Policy Oversight Committee (17 March 1993), and Scientific Oversight Committee (26 March 1993) meetings, with SOC minutes and presentations by researchers including Marilyn Schlitz, Ed May, Stephen LaBerge, Deborah Arthur, Wanda Luke, Professor Zimbardo, and Professor Turzian. Appendix B contains a translated paper by Yuri S. Dolin, Victor I. Dymov, and Nicolai N. Khatchenkov describing EEG experiments on 'distant influence' on human subjects conducted in the Former Soviet Union from 1 July to 25 November 1992, reporting statistically significant alpha-rhythm changes. Findings are presented as research-in-progress and remain scientifically disputed.

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Description

A CIA-released interim technical report prepared by Wanda L. W. Luke and Edwin C. May, Ph.D. of Science Applications International Corporation's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory under U.S. Government contract MDA908-93-C-0004. Dated 30 April 1993, it documents parapsychology ('anomalous cognition' and 'anomalous perturbation') research progress from 31 December 1992 to 30 April 1993, including EEG, remote observation, lucid dream, Q-Sort, and entropy experiments, and appends a translated Soviet EEG distant-influence paper by Yuri Dolin.

Claims

  • Trends indicate well-adjusted, extroverted believers might perform better in anomalous cognition tasks.

    40%
  • An attempt to replicate Dolin's experiment during his SAIC visit was unsuccessful.

    70%
  • A prior lucid-dream pilot study produced encouraging but inconclusive results due to difficulties collecting sufficient trials in unmonitored sleep.

    40%
  • A preliminary pilot study suggested anomalous cognition may occur in the REM lucid dream state, warranting laboratory replication.

    35%
  • Soviet EEG experiments (Dolin et al.) reported statistically significant changes in subjects' alpha rhythm when a distant 'sender' attempted activation or inhibition (e.g., right hemisphere activation p < 0.004).

    30%
  • Individuals may be able to gain access, by an as-yet-unknown process, to information not available to known sensory channels (anomalous cognition).

    30%
  • Soviet researchers reported statistically suggestive changes in subjects' alpha rhythm (activation p<0.019 left / p<0.004 right hemisphere) attributable to a distant 'sender's' influence.

    30%
  • The quality of anomalous cognition may be related to the total change of Shannon entropy of the target.

    30%
  • Some individuals may gain access to information not available through known sensory channels (anomalous cognition).

    20%
  • A lucid REM dream state may act to filter external noise and lower the threshold of perceived anomalous cognition information.

    15%

Events

  1. Mar 4, 1993

    Yuri Dolin visit to SAIC

    Mr. Yuri Dolin of the Former Soviet Union visited the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory from March 5 to March 16, 1993, presenting a paper and attempting to replicate his experiment.

  2. Mar 12, 1993

    Lucid dream preliminary trial

    One preliminary trial of the lucid dream anomalous cognition experiment was conducted.

  3. Jan 21, 1993

    IRB meeting

    Institutional Review Board met at SAIC's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Menlo Park, California.

  4. Mar 16, 1993

    POC meeting

    Policy Oversight Committee met at SAIC's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Menlo Park.

  5. Mar 25, 1993

    SOC meeting

    Scientific Oversight Committee met and reviewed proposed 1993 research projects; minutes in Appendix A.

  6. Apr 29, 1993

    Interim report authored

    Report covering 31 December 1992 to 30 April 1993 completed as deliverable A002.

  7. Jun 30, 1992

    Soviet distant-influence EEG tests

    EEG distant-influence experiments conducted in the FSU from 1 July to 25 November 1992.

  8. Aug 9, 2000

    CIA release

    Document approved for release by CIA.

  9. Jan 21, 1993

    Institutional Review Board meeting

    IRB met at SAIC's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Menlo Park, California.

  10. Mar 16, 1993

    Policy Oversight Committee meeting

    POC met at SAIC's Menlo Park laboratory.

  11. Mar 25, 1993

    Scientific Oversight Committee meeting

    SOC reviewed proposed 1993 projects; minutes included in Appendix A.

  12. Apr 29, 1993

    Interim technical report issued

    Deliverable A002 covering 31 December 1992 to 30 April 1993 completed.

Dates mentioned

1992-07-011992-11-251992-12-311993-01-221993-03-111993-03-131993-03-171993-03-261993-04-302000-08-101993-03-051993-03-16

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The object of this document is to provide an interim technical report on tasks 6.1 “Basic Research,” 6.2
“Applied Research,” and 6.3 “Research Methodology,” as listed in the 1993 Statement of Work. This
report covers the time period from 31 December 1992 to 30 April 1993, and includes all subtasks.”

* This report constitutes deliverable data item number A002 under contract number MDA908-93-C-0004.

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ll. INTRODUCTION

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Under Statement of Work items 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3, in contract MDA908—93—C0004, the Cognitive
Sciences Laboratory of Science Applications International Corporation is tasked to conduct pheno-
menological research and analysis. This document details the activity accomplished under these items
and constitutes the interim report covering the period from 31 December 1992 to 30 April 1993.

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lll. PROGRESS TO DATE

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This section describes the progress to date for each of the sub-tasks listed under item 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
(Basic Research, Applied Research, and Research Methodology, respectively). Statement of Work
(SOW) numbers are indicated for each section below. All existing human use and technical protocols,
as well as the Institutional Review Board Meeting Minutes may be found in their respective volumes
accompanying this paper.

1. Basic Research (SOW 6.1)
1.1 Blophysical Measurements (SOW 6.1.1) .

The following sections describe the activity to date for sub-tasks listed under Biophysical Measure-
ments.

4.1.1 EEG Experiment (SOW 6.1.1.1 — 6.1.1.6)
The objective of this experiment is to test the hypothesis that central nervous system (CNS) responses
to AC stimuli resemble those occurring in response to identical visual stimuli presented directly.

The human use protocol has been written for this experiment and has been approved by the Institution-
al Review Board (IRB). Details of the technical protocol are currently being developed.

1.1.2 Remote Observation Experiment (SOW 6.1.1.7)

The remote observation experiment is designed to test the hypothesis that individuals are able to detect
being observed by other individuals in cases where all conventional sensory mediation has been pre-
cluded. This study will serve as an independent replication and extension of previous research reported
by Braud, Shafer, and Andrews (1990, 1992).1;2

Both the human use and technical protocols have been written and approved for this experiment by the
IRB and SOG, respectively. Preliminary trials are currently scheduled to start within the third week in
April.

1.2 Data Patterns and Parameter Correlations (SOW 6.1.2)
The following sections describe the activity to date for sub-tasks listed under Data Patterns and Parame-
ter Correlations.

1.2.1 Virtual Reality Literature Search (SOW 6.1.2.1)
Action on this sub-task has not yet been initiated.

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1.2.2 Lucid Dream (6.1.2.2)

It may be possible to improve both the quantity and quality of information gained via anomalous cogni-
tion (AC) while using the REM lucid dream state to access such information. The lucid dream state may
act to filter out external noise, therefore lowering the threshold of perceived information. Last year, a
pilot study was performed to explore the potential for using the REM lucid dream state for anomalous
cognition. While the results of that effort were encouraging, the difficulties encountered in unmoni-
tored sleep made it difficult to collect a sufficient number of trials for conclusive results. The objective
of this study is to replicate in the laboratory the earlier finding that anomalous cognition may occur in
the lucid dream state.

Both the human use and technical protocols have been written and approved for this experiment by the
IRB and SOC, respectively. One preliminary trial was conducted on March 13, 1993.

1.2.3 Sender/no Sender Experiment (SOW 6.1.2.3)
This sub-task has not been initiated due to the contract not yet having been let.

1.2.4 Q-Sort (SOW 6.1.2.4)

Historically, a wide range of psychological tests have been used in an attempt to detect correlations be-
tween personality variables and AC performance. These tests have included standard clinical batteries
as well as the Personality Assessment System (PAS). Few of these have yielded statistical correlations;
however, trends indicate that well-adjusted, extroverted believers might perform better in AC tasks.
The objective of this study is to explore potential personality variables as they relate to AC ability
through the use of the Q-Sort method.

The Q-Sort differs from other methods of personality assessment in that it is not a psychological test,
but merely a system devised to permit individual personalities to be comprehensively described and
quantitatively compared. First conceived by William Stephensen, the Q-Sort method has become a use-
ful tool for comparing personality variables between a wide variety of different populations.

This systematic and quantitative technique for obtaining comprehensive psychodynamic descriptions of in-

dividual personalities will be used to attempt to answer the following questions:

@ What personality variables are common to those individuals that perform well on AC tasks? Is there
a typological uniformity?

® What would an ideal AC-profile look like?

© How do the personality descriptions of individuals who do not do well on AC tasks differ from those
who do?

Both the human use and technical protocols have been written for this experiment. Approval of the
human use protocol by the IRB is currently pending modifications of the human use protocol, while the
technical protocol has already been approved.

1.3 Theoretical (SOW 6.1.3)
The following sections describe the activity to date for sub-tasks listed under Theoretical Activities.

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4.3.1 Anomalous Perturbation Experiment (SOW 6.1.3.1 — 6.1.3.3)
A generic anomalous perturbation (AP) human use protocol has been written and approved by the
IRB. This human use protocol may be found in appendix A in this paper. Initiation of experiments

awaits laboratory assignment from the sponsor.

1.3.2 Theoretical Models (SOW 6.1.3.4)
This sub-task has not yet been initiated.

1.3.3 Identify New Experiments (SOW 6.1.3.5)
This sub-task has not yet been initiated.

1.3.4 Entropy Experiment (SOW 6.1 -3.6)
The objective of this study is to determine if the quality of AC is related to the total change of Shannon

Entropy of the target.

Both the human use and technical protocols have been written and approved for this experiment by the
IRB and SOC respectively.

The target pool for this experiment has been compiled and is currently in the process of being digitized.
Initial trials are projected to start on April 21, 1993.

2. Applied Research (SOW 6.2)
2.1 Tacking Database (SOW 6.2.1)

An existing database has been modified to record the outcome of AC experiments.

2.2 Quantitative Application Assessment (SOW 6.2.2)

Programs are under development for fractal decomposition of natural scenes.

2.3 Applications Test-Bed (SOW 6.2.3)

A generic anomalous cognition (AC) human use protocol has been written and approved by the IRB.
This human use protocol may be found in appendix A in this paper. Initiation of this sub-task awaits
action from the sponsor.

3. Methodology and Support (SOW 6.3)

3.1 IRB/POC/SOC (SOW 6.3.1)

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) met in SAIC’s Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Menlo Park,
California on January 22, 1993.

The Policy Oversight Committee (POC) met in SAIC’s Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Menlo Park,
California on March 17, 1993.

The Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) met in SAIC’s Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Menlo
Park, California on March 26, 1993. The minutes for this meeting may be found in appendix A of this

paper.

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3.2 Administration (GOW 6.3.2)

Project administration is an ongoing effort.

3.3 Attended Conferences (SOW 6.3.3)
This sub-task has not yet been initiated.

3.4 Sponsor International Conference (SOW 6.3.3)

Mr. Yuri Dolin of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) visited SAIC’s Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in
Menlo Park, California from March 5, 1993 to March 16, 1993. During this visit, he presented a paper to
the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory and there was one trial conducted in which an attempt was made to
replicate Dolin’s experiment. This trial was unsuccessful. A translated copy of his paper can be found in
appendix B at the end of this paper.

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IV. GLOSSARY

Not all the terms defined below are germane to all studies found within this report, however they are
included here for completeness. In a typical anomalous mental phenomena (AMP) task, we define:
e alous Cognition—A form of information transfer in which all known sensorial stimuli are ab-

sent. That is, some individuals are able to gain access, by as yet an unknown process, to information
that is not available to the known sensorial channels.

@ Receiver—An individual who attempts to perceive and report information about a target.
@ Agent—An individual who attempts to influence a target system.
© Target—An item that is the focus of an AMP task (e.g., person, place, thing, event).

° ignation—A method by which a specific target, against the backdrop of all other possible
targets, is identified to the receiver (e.g., geographical coordinates).

@ Sender/Beacon—An individual who, while receiving direct sensorial stimuli from an intended target,
acts as a putative transmitter to the receiver.

® Monitor—An individual who monitors an AC session to facilitate data collection.

® Session—A time period during which AC data is collected.

@ Protoco]l—A template for conducting a structured data collection session.

@ Response—Material that is produced during an AC session in response to the intended target.

@ Feedback—After a response has been secured, information about the intended target is displayed to
the receiver.

@ Analyst—An individual who provides a quantitative measure of AC.

© Speciality—A given receiver’s ability to be particularly successful with a given class of targets (e.g.,
people as opposed to buildings).

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V. REFERENCES

1. Braud, W, Shafer, D., and Andrews, S., Electrodermal correlates of remote attention: Autonomic
Reactions to an Unseen Gaze. Paper presented to the 33rd Annual Convention of the
Parapsychological Association, Chevy Chase, Maryland (1990).

2. Braud, W., Shafer, D., and Andrews, S., Further Studies of Autonomic Detection of Remote Staring:
Replications, New Control Procedures, and Personality Correlates. Paper presented to the 35th
Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, Los Vegas, Nevada (1992).

3. Block, J., The Q—Sort Method In Personality Assessment and Psychiatric Research. Consulting
Psychologists Press, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, (1978).

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APPENDIX A

This appendix contains a copy of the minutes of the. SOC meeting of March 26, 1993.

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March, 1993

Following an introduction by Ed May, the research team made presentations regarding the various projects
that have been proposed for 1993. The first presentation was made by Marilyn Schlitz, who provided an over-
view of the remote observation study. The discussion included suggestions for ways of developing a stronger
randomization procedure and a method of analysis making use of multiple measurements of autonomic nervous
system activity and multiple analysis of varience statistics to increase the effect size. In addition, some minor
modifications in the consent form were suggested. -

The second presentation was made by Ed May, who discussed the entropy experiment in which the free
response target pictures are coded according to change in Shannon entropy. A discussion of experimental com-
plexity insued, with suggestions for possible revisions in the method of evaluating free response materials.

The third presentation was made by Stephen LaBerge, who discussed the lucid dream experiment. While
the discussion offered some criticisms of the initial pilot research carried out last year, specifically related to the
lack of control over the free response target picture, the SOC were satisfied that the revised protocol would
address the previous limitations. In particular, the confirmation study is designed to increase experimental se-
curity, both by separating the target and the subject and by moving the experiment into a laboratory setting, and
to increase the yield by asking people to wake themselves up in order to report their experience. Again there was
a discussion about the evaluation procedure for free response studies.

The fourth presentation was made by Deborah Arthur, who discussed the EEG experiment. Based on pre-
vious experiments, in which the results were equivocal, the proposed project is meant to provide a more com-
plete test of the anomolous cogntion hypothesis. The main problem involved selection of target material that
had never been used before. In the current sutyd, the experimenters will make use of higher entropy targets
which are drawn from an already calibrated target pool. Again it was suggested that multiple measures be taken
and multiple analysis of varience be employed. In addition, the committee suggested that the researchers collect
straight physiology for five minutes (while pseudostimulus and target stimulus are being remotely presented
randomly). At the end of 5 minutes, the subject would be presented with a set of 5 National Geographic targets
and would be asked to pick a target. This would increase the amount of data that could be collected on a given

day

The fifth presentation was made by Wanda Luke, who discussed the Q-Sort procedure. The SOC felt that
more data needed to be collected in order to increase the meaningfulness of the measurements. In addition,
additional forms of psychological assessments were suggested.

Following the formal presentations, the group began a general discussion. Ed May offered some comments
about research now underway by researchers in the former Soviet Union and China. Differences in orientation
and methods of evaluation were discussed. Professor Turzian expressed his concern that results from AC experi-
ments are ambiguous and that we may not make much progress over the next three years. After overviewing the
major problems that had been discussed during the day, including theory, methods, and evaluation, Professor
Zimbardo offered some suggestions on research possiblities. In particular, he felt that it would be useful to work
with an already established effect, such as conditioning, and then to systematically separate the subject from the
stimuli. He raised a number of testable questions, including whether the monitor is necessary in remote viewing

and what specific role they play.

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APPENDIX B

This appendix contains a translated copy of the paper presented by Mr. Yuri Dolin of the Former Soviet
Union (FSU) during his visit to SAIC’s Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, on
March 11, 1993. ,

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EEG-Objectivization of Human Distant Influence on Human Subjects

Yuri S. Dolin, Victor I. Dymov, Nicolai N. Khatchenkov

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In the experiments, a subject was located in a dark, sound-proof,
electrically-shielded chamber, and his electroencephalogram (EEG)
was recorded. Two standard electrodes were placed in positions C3,
C,. The reference electrode was placed on the mastoid projection.
The upper limit of the EEG frequency range was 50 Hz, with a time
constant of 0.1 sec. The EEG signal was fed into a computer for
on-line processing.

Between 4 and 6 trials per day were conducted, some of them being
control trials and some "distant influence" trials. For each given
trial, casting lots determined whether it was a test or control.
The direction of influence (activation or inhibition of the
subject's alpha rhythm) was determined by the "sender" (the person
attempting the "distant influence"). The subject was blind as to
whether the given trial was a test or control. EEG of the subject
was recorded for 5 seconds which was followed by a 10 second
interval to allow for the computation of the Fourier trans-
formations of the signal. The results were shown graphically on
the display screen. During each trial, between 20 and 40 of these
time periods were recorded, the length of the trial being specified
in advance.

There were experiments conducted both at short distances (when the
tsender" was from 5 to 100 meters from the subject) and at longer
distances, from 1 to 10 kilometers. The tests were conducted from
July 1, 1992 to November 25, 1992. The tests at short distances
were carried out from July 30, 1992 to September 7, 1992. About
150 short-distance tests were conducted, with 6 subjects and 10
"senders." Two subjects with a stable alpha rhythm were selected.
The data obtained from the "senders," who worked only for one or
two days (performing 6 to 8 trials each), were excluded from the
analysis, since it required a longer time (usually from 2 to 6
days) for each "sender" to develop his "strategy" of "distant
influence." With 4 senders and two subjects ("receivers") 109
trials were conducted: 53 control trials and 56 test trials. From
these, 21 test trials had the sender attempting "activation" of the
subject (thereby intending to decrease the subject's alpha power)
and in test 21 trials attempting "inhibition" (thereby intending to
increase the subject's alpha power); in the rest of the test
trials, senders did not specify the direction of influence. Thus,
the main analysis was conducted with the trials in which the
direction of influence was specified, in the range of alpha (8-13
Hz). The data for beta and theta were also recorded; they later
turned out to be non-significant.

For each test (5 min. duration), the following dimensionsless
parameters were calculated:

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where I,, is the mean value of the EEG power spectrum during the
epoch of the sender's influence; I,, is the mean value of the EEG
power during the pre-stimulus epoch (baseline); A,,; characterizes
the magnitute of sender's influence, and A,; characterizes changes
in the EEG power spectra during control periods (everything is set-
up the same way as the test period but no sender attempts "distant
influence"). This approach to the analysis made it possible to
compare the results obtained during different days and to minimize
the error, making the error in the control no greater than 3%. Aa;
and A,,.were calculated signifying mean values for activation and
inhibition trials, respectively.

The data are presented below:

Short-distance tests, changes in alpha

control inhibition activation influence
Number of tests 53 21 21 56
Mean 0.869774 1.09624 0.734714 0.874214
Variance 0.0650086 0.0798939 0.0621056 0.102312
Mean square diviation 0.254968 0.282655 0.24921 0.319862
MSQ of the mean 0.0350225 0.0616804 0.0543821 0.0427433
Lower quartile 0.686 0.954 0.544 0.623
Upper quartile 0.979 1.331 0.913 1.1045
Interquartile range 0.293 0.377 0.369 0.4815

The level of significance for changes of alpha:

The left hemisphere The right hemisphere
Activation p < 0.019 p < 0.004
Inhibition p < 0.067 p < 0.012

The results are also presented in Figs. 6-10.

About 140 long-distance trial were performed from September
10, 1992 to November 25, 1992 with the same two subjects. The
duration of the trial was 2.5 minutes. The senders, working for
only one or two days, were excluded from the analysis; only the
trials with two longer-working senders were included. There were
105 trials subjected to analysis: 53 were control trials and 52
test trials. However, the senders did not specify which trials
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variance and interquartile ranges indicated the non-uniformity of
the samples (see Fig. 13).

There is a more detailed discussion of the analysis of the
results in the text, which will be included in a complete
translation of the paper.

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Puc. 3.

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CPYRGHT

NOCAE-
NEACT BUE

LJ
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a
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influence

baseline

in

exp51.bi

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CPYRGHT

control ("placebo")

NAAWEGO

in

expag .b
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baseline

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CPYRGHT

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CPYRGHT
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CPYRGHT
We - TOPHONEHHES
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B _
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Pp wt
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CPYRGHT
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‘oO - KOHTPONb..
t T | T T T t
B
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= 1-7

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CPYRGHT
@- - BOSLERCTRHE
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i
3 Fe ee
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Pp
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fi
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