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1. OPENING: THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO INFORM YOU
OF ARMY'S ROLE IN A SENSITIVE, CLOSE-HOLD DOD PROJECT TO
EXAMINE POTENTIAL MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS,
A TERM THAT COVERS A NUMBER OF UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA. FOR
NOW, ARMY IS PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN DETERMINING THE REALITY
AND EXISTENCE OF THE PHENOMENA. ARMY'S EFFORT IS A SMALL,
DISCREET MINIMALLY FUNDED PROGRAM CENTERING ON REPLICATING
ARMY
IN-HOUSE CLAIMED EXPERIMENTAL. SUCCESSES, BY USING PEOPLE
AND ORGANIZATIONS IN THE ARMY, CAREFULLY CONTROLLED, SCIENTIFIC
TESTS WILL LEND CREDIBILITY TO THE WORK BEING DONE. AS IT IS,
SUFFICIENT ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE EXISTS, REPORTED BY CREDIBLE RESPECTES
PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF DOD, THAT WARRANTS AT LEAST CLOSE SCRUTINY
OF THE SITUATION.
THREE SUBAREAS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS ARE THE
MOST INTERESTING:
REMOTE VIEWING, REMOTE PERTURBATION AND
REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS, WITH REMOTE VIEWING, AN INDIVIDUAL
SOMEHOW PERCEIVES IN HIS MIND'S EYE THINGS, PLACES OR EVENTS
DISTANT FROM HIM. WITH REMOTE PERTURBATION, ALSO CALLED
PSYCHOKINESIS, AN INDIVIDUAL IS ABLE TO CAUSE AN EFFECT ON
SOME PHYSICAL OBJECT DISTANT FROM HIM; AGAIN, BY SOME UNKNOWN
PROCESS. FINALLY, REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS, OR TELEPATHY IS
SELF DESCRIPTIVE.
ALSO SPURRING THE EFFORT ON IS THE SURE KNOWLEDGE THAT
FOR YEARS THE SOVIET UNION HAS HAD AN INTENSE EFFORT, BELIEVED
TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE KGB AND MILITARY, TO DEVELOP
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REASON:
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Potential
CAPABILITIES IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOENERGETICS.
THIS POSSIBLE
THREAT TO US SECURITY MEANS THAT PRIME CONSIDERATION WILL
BE GIVEN AT ALL TIMES TO POSSIBLE FRIENDLY COUNTERMEASURES,
2.
BACKGROUND:
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A.
MOST OF THE RECENT BELIEVABLE WORK HAS BEEN DONE
BY TWO LASER PHYSICISTS AT SRI INTERNATIONAL, MENLO PARK.
THEY ARE DR. HAL PUTHOF AND MR. RUSS TARG. IF THE EXPERI-
MENTS CONDUCTED AT SRI CAN BE VALIDATED, THEY MUST BE CONSIDERED
ASTOUNDING.
PRIMARILY, SRI HAS CONCENTRATED ON REMOTE VIEWING, als.
CABURALY CALLED CLAIRVOYANCE.
by ARMY in- house
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B.
BETWEEN 1972 AND 1975, THE CIA WAS INTERESTED IN
OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE VIEWING. TESTS WERE DONE
WITH SRI, AS WELL AS WITH IN-HOUSE CIA ENGINEERS.
TWO EXAMPLES
WELL DEMONSTRATE THE QUALITY AND INTERESTING CHARACTER OF THE
WORK:
THE
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CURIEAT
ACTUALLY ENTERED THE PLACE, CALLING OUT NAMES OF
PEOPLE WHO WERE WORKING THERE,
ADDITIONALLY, HE "READ" A
NUMBER OF CLASSIFIED CODEWORDS ON FILE FOLDERS, SOME LOCKED
INSIDE SECURITY CONTAINERS.
THE CIA LATER CONFIRMED WITH NSA
THE ACCURACY OF MUCH OF THE SUBJECT'S INFORMATION. , NOTE THAT
Please
THE
WAS DOING THIS WHILE LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA, SEVERAL
Viewer
THOUSAND MILES FROM THE TARGET.
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D. REGARDING REMOTE PERTURBATION, OF NOTE IS A 1972
TEST AT SRI, IN WHICH A PROVEN SUBJECT WAS ASKED TO REMOTELY
DESCRIBE A MAGNETOMETER SOME DISTANCE AWAY IN A STANFORD
UNIVERSITY LABORATORY.
THE MAGNETOMETER, A VERY SENSITIVE
MEASURING DEVICE, WAS COMPLETELY SHIELDED FROM KNOWN OUTSIDE
SIGNALS BY A YARD OF CONCRETE, AS THE SESSION TOOK PLACE,
SCIENTISTS OBSERVING THE
RECORDING INSTRUMENTS ATTACHED TO
THE MAGNETOMETER WERE ASTOUNDED WHEN TOTALLY ABNORMAL READINGS
OCCURRED, LASTING MINUTES AT A TIME.
THESE ABERRANT SIGNAL
VARIATIONS HAD NEVER BEFORE BEEN SEEN OR RECORDED, NOR HAVE
THEY HAPPENED SINCE.
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IN SUMMER 1978, THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Geographic Coordon
session
SPONSORED A
OF REMOTE VIEWING, IN WHICH FOUR
TARGETS WERE TO BE SEQUENTIALLY OBSERVED BY ANKNOWN SRI
ALL THESET data WAS CONToller bySRI.
SUBJECT. DATA FROM THREE OF THE TESTS WAS OF LOW CORRELATION
TO ACTUAL TARGETS. ONE, HOWEVER, WAS IMPRESSIVE, THE SUBJECT
DESCRIBED A STRATEGIC MISSILE COMPLEX EAST OF MOSCOW, TO THE
ENTering
POINT OF +ASSINE INTO A SILO, BOTH THE COMMAND AND CONTROL
ROOM, AND LINKING TUNNEL WERE PORTRAYED BY THE SUBJECT.
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DETAILS SUCH AS THE TUNNEL FLOORS BEING COVERED WITH "WHITE
TILES"
3.
DISCUSSION:
A. GIVEN THE
GROWING BODY OF SUPPORTIVE
EVIDENCE, IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE PHENOMENA COULD NOT SIMPLY
BE IGNORED,
ARMY CHOSE TO PROCEED WITH A SMALL
IN-House
PROGRAM
ATTEMPTING REPLICATION OF
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THE SRI WORK.
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THE IDEA WAS TO ATTEMPT VALIDATION OF THE CLAIMED SUCCESSFUL
EXPERIMENTS, AND TO VERIFY TO SOME REASONABLE DEGREE THE
EXISTENCE OF A PHENOMENA.
B.
WORK
TO BE ACCOMPLISHED STRICTLY WITHIN THE
FRAMEWORK OF THE EMERGING DOD GRILL FLAME PROGRAM, AND
INTERNALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THREE ARMY ORGANIZATIONS:
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(1) THE ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY, OR
AMSAA FOR SHORT, WAS GIVEN THE MISSION OF ACTING AS THE
REMOTE VIEWING "FREE LANCE." THAT IS, AMSAA WOULD TRY OUT
NEW REMOTE VIEWING TECHNIQUES.
'(2) THE MISSILE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND,
MIRADCOM FOR SHORT, HAS BEEN THE LEAD FOR A SMALL PILOT PRO-
GRAM TO TEST FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE REMOTE PERTURBATION
PHENOMENA,
WORKING WITH SRI, MIRADCOM WILL UTILIZE A SMALL
ON-HAND MINIPROCESSOR TO DETERMINE IF AN INDIVIDUAL CAN IN
FACT AFFECT RANDOMNESS, FROM A SCIENCE, ENGINEERING STANDPOINT
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THIS APPROACH IS BELIEVED TO BE GOOD SINCE THE RESULTS WILL BE
BOTH QUANTIFIABLE AND MEASUREABLE.
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(3) THE ARMY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND, INSCOM,
HAS THE MISSION OF REMOTE VIEWING APPLICATIONS, WORKING WITH
A SELECT CADRE OF REMOTE VIEWERS, INSCOM WILL ATTEMPT TO VERIFY
BY APPLICATION, WHAT IS LEARNED FROM OTHER AGENCIES' MORE-OR-
LESS RESEARCH EFFORTS.
(4) RECOGNIZING THAT THE EFFORT TO DATE HAS NOT BEEN
SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED, ARMY FEELS COMPELLED TO INSURE THAT
ALL REASONABLE STEPS ARE TAKEN TO MAKE ITS PROJECT AS CREDIBLE
AS POSSIBLE.
FIRST, ALL WORK WILL BE DONE WITHIN THE STRICT
which
LIMITS SET BY WRITTEN PROTOCOLS
THAT HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND
APPROVED BY THE SURGEON GENERAL'S AD HOC GRILL FLAME PANEL.
THIS PANEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED IN COMPLETE ACCORD WITH FEDERAL
LAW AND ARMY REGULATIONS GOVERNING HUMAN USE TESTING.
LEGAL
ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY THE ARMY AND
DOD GENERAL COUNSELS.
NEITHER POSED ANY OBJECTION TO THE WORK
AND PROVIDED GUIDANCE PERTAINING TO THE AFOREMENTIONED
SURGEON GENERAL'S PANEL. FINALLY, A SMALL TEAM OF THE MOST
COMPETENT SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS AND MEDICAL SPECIALISTS
POSSIBLE HAS BEEN FORMED INTO A SMALL TEAM THAT WILL REVIEW,
ON-THE-SPOT, WORK BEING DONE.
THE TEAM WILL ALSO INSURE THAT
EACH AGENCY IS FOLLOWING ITS WRITTEN, APPROVED PROTOCOL.
THE
TEAM CHIEF WILL PROVIDE COLLECTIVE OPINIONS ON THE SCIENTIFIC
MERIT AND VALIDITY OF THE WORK.
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4. OTHER AGENCIES: FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS THE US AIR FORCE,
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION, WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE,
HAS SUPPORTED SRI'S WORK, MAINLY ATTEMPTING TO REPLICATE KNOWN
OR CLAIMED SOVIET EXPERIMENTS. NAVY WAS INVOLVED FOR SEVERAL
YEARS, BUT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE DROPPED OUT AROUND 1975. CIA
HAD A SMALL, BUT SIGNIFICANT PROGRAM FROM 1972 TO 1975, BUT
ACCORDING TO SEVERAL OF THEIR PERSONNEL GAVE UP THE EFFORT
OUT OF FEAR OF ADVERSE PUBLICITY. THE AGENCY MAY
be
RE-ENTERING THE ARENA in THE Near FUTURE.
5. IN AUGUST 1977, MIRADCOM LET A SMALL EIGHTY-THOUSAND DOLLAR
KESOLECES CONTRACT WITH SRI TO SEE IF ANY OF THE SOVIET CLAIMS OF MAN-
MACHINE INTERFACE COULD BE VERIFIED OR DUPLICATED.
MIRADCOM
NOW HAS FOUR-HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AVAILABLE FOR THIS FISCAL
YEAR, BUT WILL PROBABLY ONLY SPEND SEVENTY-FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND ON ITS INITIAL REMOTE PERTUBATION PROGRAM.
INSCOM
HAS A SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR CONTRACT WITH SRI TO TRAIN
A LIMITED NUMBER OF INSCOM
NUNIECIS IN REMOTE VIEWING TECH-
Personnes
NIQUES. IT IS HOPED THAT BY THE END OF THE YEAR INSCOM CAN
CONDUCT A REASONABLE PROGRESS REVIEW.
AMSAA HAS FUNDED A
TOTAL OF TWO-HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS THIS FISCAL
YEAR TO CARRY OUT TACTICALLY-ORIENTED SRI EXPERIMENTS, TOTAL
NUMBER OF FULL TIME ARMY PERSONNEL INVOLVED ACROSS THE BOARD
IS FOUR; PART TIME APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN.
6. NOTHING FACTUAL IS KNOWN OF THE PHENOMENA'S PROCESS THOUGH
SOME SUBJECTIVE COMMENTS CAN BE MADE:
DISTANCE HAS NO EFFECT
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ON IT; THERE IS NO KNOWN SHIELDING OR COUNTERMEASURE; MANY
PEOPLE HAVE THE ABILITY NOT JUST A FEW AS WAS PREVIOUSLY
THOUGHT.
THE ONLY THING THAT CAN BE EVEN SUBJECTIVELY SAID
ABOUT THE PERSON DOING "IT" IS THAT HE IS ABOVE AVERAGE
INTELLIGENCE.
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8.
IN CONCLUSION, THERE IS SUFFICIENT JUSTIFICATION TO PURSUE
THE MATTER, AT LEAST TO THE POINT OF TRYING TO CONFIRM OR
DENY THE PHENOMENA'S EXISTENCE, GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF ANECDOTAL
EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO US WE WOULD BE FOOLHARDY TO IGNORE EVEN
THE REMOTEST POSSIBILITY OF AN ENEMY THREAT TO OUR SECURITY.
IF DURING THE EVALUATION PROCESS THE ARMY ALSO ACQUIRES A
NEW TECHNIQUE OF INFORMATION ACQUISITION, SO MUCH THE BETTER.
7. OUTSIDE INTEREST/ SUPPORT:
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A. ARMY's work is fully supported And
ENCOURAged by CongressMAN Charles ROSE (NC).
He, And MOST OF THE OTHER Members OF THE HOUSE
DerMANENT Select Committee ON Intelligence, have
been briefed by SRI and DIA ON work in progress.
B. NSC has taken An Interest in The Matter
And ARE Thought to be positive ON Tite Subject. TWO
OF THE More involved USC members have prepared
an A comprehensive bringing of Then own.
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