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BACKGROUND PAPER
ON
SGIJ SG1J REMOTE VIEWING BRIEFINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
9 APRIL 1980
- PRINCIPAL ATTENDEES
- - BIG Williams, Dep Army ACS/1
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Dr. Verona, Dir. DIA/DT
Dr. Babcock, ASD (C3I)
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COL. GREEN BLATT, AFLINY
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MR. PUTHOFF, SKI.
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MR. TARG,
SRI.
- BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS
SG1A®
-- ARmy INScom
· · TRAINED W-HOUSE PERSONNEL AT SEI
INSSOM PERSONNEL
· PERFORMED APPROXIMATELY 350 EXPERIMENTS, TASKED
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FROM ANALYTIC ELEMENTS OF INTELL COMMUNITY .
SINCE SRI TRAINING
. . WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS TASKED, GG, IRAN SHEE
NOVEMBER 1979
... 90 REPORTS SENT TO JCS, SPECIAL OPERATIONS
( SPECIFIC NAME REQUESTED BUT NOT PROVIDED YET )
- - MR. PUTHOFF
. . BRIEFED SRI WORK OVER PAST YEAR.
... TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
.... TEACHING ARMY INSCOM
REMOTE VIEWING RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT.
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.... DIA SPONSORED
, REDUCE CORRUPTING INFLUENCE OF NOISE SOURCES
CLAIM TO HAVE IDENTIFIED SIX CHARACTERISTICS
SECRET NOPORN

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PROCEED TO PRODUCE MORE FEL
RESULTS.
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--- SRI RELIABILITY STATISTICS, USING SIX STEPS,
SAME AS ACHIEVED
Y INSCOM NOT USING
SIX STEPS. ( BOTH CLAIM 80% TARGET CORRELATION)
- NEED TO LOOK HARDER AT WHAT SKI CLAIMS, SAMPLE
SIZE UPON WHICH SEI MAKES CLAIM IS 36
EXPERIMENTS.
- - DIA
. . BRIEFED AN ORGANIZATION AND FUNDING PROPOSAL
... DIA TO REPROGRAM $125K, FY SO, TO KEEP SKI WORKING
THROUGH OCTOBER 1980.
... Assumed $ 70K AIR FORCE FUNDING
AVAILABLE
Told # 70K NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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PROPOSED 3 YEAR PROGRAM
SERVICES CONTRIBUTE RESOURCES FOR SINGLE POINT CONTRACT
DIA PERFORM CENTRAL MANAGEMENT
WORK GROUP, CHAIRED BY DE. VORINA, USED FOR
TECHNICAL REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT
ATTEMPT TO ANSWER FAULTS FOUND BY SALE COMMITTEE.
DIA MENTIONED $750- 1000K NEEDED OVER THREE YEAR PROGRAM
FY 81 PROGRAMMED RESOURCES
ARmy
150K
DIA
150K
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AIR FORCE 150K
$450 ₭
.... PROPOSAL INCLUDES RETAINING SRI, GALE COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDED DOD END USE OF SRI.
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.... AT END OF THREE YEARS MAKE MAJOR DECISION
TO TERMINATE OF DEVELOP JOINT APPLICATIONS GROUP.
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B/G Williams
Tap. Army Ac5/1
Mi. Puthof + AL. THEG.
DA/GDIP STAFF
Dr. Babcock
ASD(C32)
Dr. Varma
PT
Col. Greenblatt
INY
DIA proposes to shift $125k to keep SRI. WORKING
UNTIL OCTOBER 1980.
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POINT OF SRI leading FUZZED Up BY USE OF "WE
I Think having Jang & Pitoff here was unfortunate . Tom seems
to be inflecaused by their presence
HC. SCOTTY WATI
: INSCOM
1. DRAWN PICTURE BY VIEWER LOOKS LIKE PICTURE FROM EUROLONG
WHY?
2. REPORTS BEING GIVEN TO JCS ON IRAN
PUTHOFF/TARG
. TECH TRANSFER.
· RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT (UNDER DIA AVEAUCES)
INSCOM RESULTS H= SKI FAST WORK.
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NOSE SOURCES
- ANALYTIC OVERLAY
ASSOCIATIONAL OVER-
ENVIRONMENTAL DEL-
MONITOR
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WS COM BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS
- Receiving tasking from analytic elements of intel community
- All sensor people are in -house Army mtell analysts
- Wide range of subjects tasked, e. g., tran som November 79
-- 90 reports sent to JCS
SG1A
- Briefing presented to Acsli
Putoff
- Briefed SRI work over past year.
- Technology Transfer
-- Teaching ARMY INSCOM people how to do remote having
At -- Remote viewing reliability improvement
· DIA funded sponsored
· Reduce noise sources.
popr from
analytic, associational , environmental and
monitor influences.
. New procedures claimed to raise reliability
to 80% against known targets.
Six stop & remite waving process
· Claim to have identified .
* stepin six chor.
4
steps through which
review. should proceed to
Salga
be numre rel
identified
claud to
.. Adherence to step by step process, raise tel.
· Reliability achieved
same as inscom
acking not using
six steps.
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PROGRAM
THE PROGRAM AS SUGGESTED WILL HAVE A BEGINING, A MIDDLE AND
MOST IMPORTANTLY AND END.
EMPIRKAL
A. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS THE PROGRAM WILL
CONDUCTING INVESTIGATIONS
OF REMOTE VIEWING ( RV )
BE INITIATED WITH A PRINCIPLE GOALSOF :
FOR PURPOSE OF BOUNDING
POSITIVE
IMPROVING ASSESSMENT
APPLYING THE CRY TECHNIQUE TO INTELLIGENCE OF FOREIGN POTENTIAL
USE, AND
TO USE RY AGAINST INTER
ESTS OF U.S .
B. AT THE END OF THREE YEARS ONE OF THE
AS A NATURAL CONSEQ -
VENCE RESULTERE
FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS WILL BE MADE
INVESTIGATIONS WILL
1. ALL FUNDING SHOULD BE TERMINATED.
BE TAILORED WHERE
POSSIBLE TO CONTRIBUTE
AND THATF
BECAUSE IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT IT: CAN TO U.S. POSITIVE
HAS IMPROVED ASSESSMENT OF FOREIGN POTENTIAL
INTELLIGENCE. NO
CAN EVER BE USED BY THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY OR
IT HAS MEASURABLY CONTRIBUTED TO U.S. POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE
2. THE PHEMONENA WILL ASSIST US IN UNDERSTANDING
FOREIGN WORK, ITO POTENTIAL APPLICATION AGAINST U.S. INTERESTS AND
GAINING INTELLIGENCE,AND WE SHOULD: EITHER
POSITIVE
ON FOREIGN ACTIVITIES
A)
WORK WITH THE CONTRACTORS
INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT AND/ OR
IN SETTING UP AN APPLICATIONS GROUP OR
B)
TAKE THE PROJECT INTO THE DOD
AND DEVELOP OUR OWN APPLICATIONS
GROUPS.
AT PRED
INTERVALS
GOVERNING THE REMOTE VIEWING.
COST WIL OK MADE TO DETERMINE THE UNDERLYING PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES
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CONCLUSIONS
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IN CONCLUSION,
1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING IS TO PROVIDE THE INTERESTED
PARTIES A CURRENT STATUS REPORT ON GRILL FLAME RESEARCH.
2. IT IS FURTHER HOPED THAT DECISIONS CAN BE MADE NOW WITH
REGARD TO THE FUTURE FUNDING OF GRILL FLAME ACTIVITIES
3. THE 150K PER PLAYER IS A MINUMUM PROGRAM.
AT LEAST
THIS MUCH MUST BE COMMITTED PER YEAR OVER THE NEXT 3 YEARS.
4.
IF THIS CANNOT, OR SHOULD NOT HAPPEN, THEN IT IS TRULY
TIME
TO OFFICALLY CLOSE THE PROGRAM AND STOP ALL R&D AND
FUNDING.
5. FINALLY, HOW DOES THE PROGRAM OFFERED HERE DIFFER
FROM WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
?
FIRST,
A.
THERE WILL BE A MANAGEMENT AND FUNDINGS
COMMITTMENT TO THE PROGRAM.
B. THE COMPOSITION OF THE G F STRUCTURE AND THE
MISSION OF EACH GROUP ARE SPECIFICALLY DEFINED.
C. THE PROGRAM WILL TRULY BECOME A JOINT DOD
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IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THIS BE
CONCURRENTLY
ACCOMPLISHED BY PROVIDING THE
RESEARCHERS A JOINT SERVICE CONTRACT
WHERE BY ALL THE AGENCIES MIPR FUNDS
TO ONE AGENCY AND ONE CONTRACT BE
ACTIVITIES
ISSUED FOR ALL GRILL FLAME RESEARCH
AND CONTINUING EXISTING DOD APPLICATIONS ACTIVITIES
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. EACH ORGANIZATION THEN SHOULD CONSIDER WHAT THEY
HAVE HEARD HERE TODAY AND DECIDE WHAT PART THEY
WISH TO PLAY IN FUNDING GRILL FLAME RESEARCH.
IF DIA IS ABLE TO REPROGRAM THE $125K THE PROGRAM
WILL ONLY BE SAFE TILL 1 OCT.
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