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information which staggered many minds, and especially some within the intelligence community. And it is for this reason that I've dragged you through the paragraphs just above. I explained the following to Dr. Osis and Janet and also to Dr. Schmeidler. "I'm having trouble verbally expressing what I think I'm seeing. What I'd like to try to do is just sketch out what I think I'm seeing. Would that be all right?" Janet and Schmeidler immediately understood what I was getting at. Schmeidler was, after all, a perceptual psychologist among her other wonderful achievements. Janet specialized in brainwave functioning, and thus understood the differences between left-brain and rightbrain functioning. And Osis understood, too, although seeming somewhat more vaguely. As he explained: "Well, the reason we use tape recorders is that most subjects claim that they are not artists and can't draw. So no one has bothered with it." "Well," I said, "I AM an artist and can sketch and draw." So, at the next session I was equipped with a clipboard balanced on my knees, pages of white paper, and a pencil. When it was seen that the minimal motion required did not produce artifacts on the brainwave read-out, we were set to go.