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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
SUBJECT: GRILL FLAME Program - ACTION MEMORANDUM (U)
(S) The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) proposes contracting for tests of a
procedure known as remote viewing.
This procedure is an intellectual endeavor
by which a person is asked to mentally perceive characteristics of a remote
location. For example, an individual would be provided with map coordinates
and asked to locate, identify or describe targets within the coordinates .. Re-
mote viewing does not involve any electronic sensing devices at or focused at
the target site nor interpretation of photographs obtained from overhead or
oblique means. No special equipment or environment is required for the testing,
and individuals tested will not be given drugs or other stimuli. While it is
arguable that this contract itself would not require approval under Procedure 18
of .DoD Directive 5240, IR, prudence would dictate that it be so treated, and it
is clear that the underlying Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and any further
development would require such approval.
(S) Enclosure I is a proposed MOU which would establish a joint service (DIA,
Army and Air Force) three year effort known as GRILL FLAME , to determine the
operational parameters and usefulness of the phenomenon of psychoenergetics.
This tenn, psychoenergetics, includes both the programs discussed below. The
total program would be jointly funded by DIA, Army and the Air Force. This
program will include contracting for tests to examine remote viewing (clair-
voyance) and psychokinetics (remote perturbation). As an example of the former,
an individual would be provided with map coordinates and asked to locate, iden-
tify or describe targets within those coordinates. Psychokinetics is the ability
to move inanimate objects from a distance; many examples can be hypothesized.
(S) Enclosure 2 contains the minutes of a meeting of the Army Surgeon General's
ad hoc subcommittee of the Human Subject's Research Review Board, While these
minutes state that there is no "known hazard to the persons involved," the possi-
bility of psychological or physical harm to an individual from the clairvoyance
or psychokinetics experience was not categorically ruled out. Moreover, while
the subcommittee addressed the existing protocol of the Stanford Research Insti-
tute ( the proposed contractor), and concluded that the present state of the
project is such that it does not envision research or clinical investigations
involving human subjects, they indicate that it is possible that follow on work
may be so categorized.
(S) Enclosure 3 is an Army paper for the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff on GRILL FLAME which, at page 2, discussed an ad hoc panel review
of this area of research. The most significant results of this panel review are
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that the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering ordered
curtailment of all program monies, but posed no objection to continuance of
nonresearch and development intelligence application efforts.
(S) Approval by the Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Defense of DIA participa-
tion in the foregoing proposal would be required by Procedure IS if the tests
undertaken as part of the contract or extensions of the contract or later con-
tracts pursuant to the MOU, "may expose an individual to the possibility of
injury ( including physical, psychological, or social injury) that increases the
ordinary risks of daily life for the subject. .. or that temporarily adversely
affects a person's mental or physical condition."
(S) The proposal merits your approval in order to assess the practicality in
applying paranormal functions to military and intelligence goals. Further, the
research would determine if functions can be utilized by intelligence analysts
to enhance their grasp, understanding and knowledge of arcas of military interest.
through application of psychoenergetic techniques to military targets.
Enclosures :
GRILL FLAME proposed Memorandum
of Understanding (S) 1 Cy
DoA Memorandum, 2 April 1979
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DoA OACSI Memorandum, 22 July
1980 (S) 1 Cy
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