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Papers relating to the 1st International Conference on 'Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence' (CETI), held at Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Erevan, USSR, 5-12 (?6-11) September, 1971.

The file includes correspondence, a preliminary programme (brief annotations), a complimentary notepad (hard cover) containing a few notes, a questionnaire ("Science and Society") and V L Ginzburg, "The astrophysics of cosmic rays," Scientific American, 220: 2 (February 1969), 51-63 (reprinted paper).

Crick travelled to the Conference with Leslie Orgel and Carl Sagan. On return, Crick wrote (23 September, 1971) to V A Ambartsumian, at Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory: "It was not only an interesting meeting for me, but also a profitable one, in that Leslie Orgel and I invented a new theory for the origin of life on Earth (we call it Directed Panspermia) which we plan to write up as soon as he returns from America."

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