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SUBJECT: SPECIAL ANALYSIS STUDIES
REFERENCE: DIRUSAMSAA MSG DTV011200Z MAY 78
1. (U) PASS TO COL DEPROSPERO (AMSAA/APG); MR. N. KELLY (ODROIAR
COM) ; LIC BRUNSON (ACSI) ; LTC DUNLAP (USAF/IVAKA); DR. VORONA (DIA/
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2. (C) THIS MESSAGE ADDRESSES ISSUES REQUESTED IN THE REFERENCEO
MESSAGE RELATING TO VALIDATION PROCEDURES FOR SPECIFIC EXPERIMENTS
INVOLVING PARAPHYSICS TOPICS. A FEW EXAMPLES ARE DISCUSSED, AND RE-
COMMENDATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATIONS ARE INCLUDED. THESE IS-
SUES RELATE TO EXPERIMENTS AND INVESTIGATIONS RESULTING FROM FTD' S
CONTRACTUAL EFFORT WITH THE STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SRI) ON
POSSIBLE PARANORMAL PERCEPTION CHANNELS.
3. (C) BACKGROUND:
A. (") ETO*S MAIN PURPOSE FOR BECOMING INVOLVED IN THIS PAR-
TICULAR AFSEARCH WAS TO AID IN EVALUATING WARSAW PACT COUNTRY
RESEARCH IN A BROAD AREA OF PARANORMAL TOPICS AND TO SEE IF
CERTAIN FOREIGN CLAIMS COULD BE DUPLICATED. OTHER OBJECTIVES HAVE
ALSO INCLUDED ATTEMPTED DUPLICATION OF SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS
CLAIMED TO JE USSR RESEARCH GOALS (COMMUNICATION POTENTIAL), AND TO
INVESTIGATE ACCURACY POTENTIAL OF GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DESCRIPTION
(REMOTE VIEWINGJ. ALTHOUGH SUFFICIENT FOREIGN RESEARCH DATA IS NOT
AVAILABLE FOR ABSOLUTE PROOF, BOTH OF THESE OBJECTIVES ARE BELIEVED
TO BE PURSUED BY USSR RESEARCHERS. DUE TO THEIR PREVIOUS WORK IN
"REMOTE VIEWING", SRI WAS SELECTED TO HELP INVESTIGATE THESE CLAIMS.
THEIR APPROACH IS BASICALLY SIMILAR TO SOME OF THE USSR RESEARCH.
SPECIFIC INVESTIGATIONS UNDER THIS CONTRACT COULD OF COURSE BE MEAN-
INGFUL TO OTHER AGENCIES WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR R/D OR
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APPLICATION. DEVELOPMENTS. HOWEVER, POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS, SUCH
AS INTELLIGENCE DATA COLLECTION, WERE NOT AN OBJECTIVE OF FTO'S
INVESTIGATIONS.
B. (C) SINCE FTC'S OBJECTIVES WERE NOT FOR RID OR
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT, AND SINCE THE FUNDING LEVEL WAS LIMITED,
VO PLANS WERE INTENDED FOR ANY EXTENSIVE VERIFICATION INVOLVING
TRADITIONAL PROCEDURES SUCH AS WERE USED AT DUKE UNIVERSITY.
HOWEVER, SOME BASIC GUIDELINES WERE ESTABLISHED AS AN AID IV
FORMING JUDGEMENTS AS TO APPARENT DEGREE (OR LACK OF) OF THE
WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIMENTS APPEMPTED. SOME EXPERIMENTS WERE
MORE AMENABLE
TO STATISTICAL VERIFICATION; OTHERS INVOLVED
SUBJECTIVE AS WELL AS SOME OBJECTIVE FACTORS. THERE IS A
LACK OF GENERAL AGREEMENT IN THE PARAPHYSICS COMMUNITY AS TO
WHAT CONSTITUTES A SUFFICIENT PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF A
PATICULAR PHENOMENA. THE SRI EFFORT DID NOT ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP
SPECIFIC TASKS TO PROVE A PARTICULAR PHENOMENA .
4. (S) PROCEDURES FOR VERIFICATION
A. (C) ONE CONCERN FOR ANY EXPERIMENT IS THE CREDIBILITY OF
THE RESEARCHERS. THIS ASPECT WAS CAREFULLY EVALUATED WITH THE PRE-
VIOUS SPONSOR(CIA), AND ALSO KEPT IN CONSIDERATION DURING SUBSEQUENT
CONTRACTUAL WORK WITH SRI. IT IS OUR ASSESSMENT :THAT THE SRI
RESEARCHERS ARE NOT INVOLVED IN ANY FORM OF FRAUD OR COLLUSION .
THIS CONFIDENCE LEVEL WAS ESTABLISHED EARLY IN THE PROGRAM, AND TO
DATE, THERE IS NO REASON TO ALTER THIS ASSESSMENT. THIS IS A
CRITICAL ISSUE SINCE MANY EXPERIMENTS COULD NOT BE MONITORED
DIRECTLY BY THE FTD PERSONNEL DUE TO TIME AND TRAVEL FUND LIMITATIONS
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SOME EXPERIMENTS WERE DESIGNED FOR CONFIDENCE BUILDING AND EASE OF
FEEDBACK TO THE SUBJECT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE ON KEY
EXPERIMENTS TO BE PERFORMED LATER.
B. (C) SOME EXPERIMENTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE ORIENTED TOWARD
EVALUATING SOVIET CLAIMS OF "COMMUNICATION POTENTIAL", INVOLVED
SEVERAL THOUSAND TRIALS WHERE SUBJECTS APPEMPTED TO DESCRIBE SIMPLE
TARGETS DISPLAYED RANDOMLY ON SLIDES (COLORS, ALPHABET .LETTERS,
NUMBERS !. SUCH EXPERIMENTS WERE EASY TO EVALUATE STATISTICALLY, AND
THE RANDOMNESS OF THE TARGET SELECTION DEVICE COULD BE EASILY CHECKED
SOME OF THESE EXPERIMENTS (USUALLY AFTER LONG PERIODS OF CONFIDENCE
EXPERIMENTS) SHOWED DEFINITE LEARNING IMPROVEMENT TRENDS. IN ONE
CASE, A SUBJECT'S RESULTS WOULD HAVE BEEN OBTAINED ONLY ONCE IN
100,000 TRIALS. SPECIFIC DETAILS WILL BE AVAILABLE ABOUT SEPTEMBER
1978 IN THE YEAR-END PROJECT REPORT .
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C. (U) FOR EXPERIMENIS INVOLVING REMOTE VIEWING OF NATURAL
( GEOGRAPHIC) TARGETS IN THE PALO ALTO AREA, PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION
HAVE VARIFO. IF THE PURPOSE OF THE EXPERIMENT WAS FOR CONFIDENCE
BUILDING OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH A COMMUNICATION PURPOSE (I.E.,
USING PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OR DICHOTOMIES NOTED IN NATURAL SITES TO
REPRESENT BINARY DIGITS) , EVALUATION PROCEDURES WERE VERY BASIC.
SOMETIMES THE TARGETS WERE OBTAINED FROM A LARGE PRESELECTED
TARGET POOL; OTHER TIMES A SMALL TARGET POOL WAS IDENTIFIED, EACH
OF WHICH HAD UNIQUE FEATURES. THE TYPE OF KEY FEATURES (I. E., WATER,
LARGE BUILDING, ETC., ) WERE CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED IN ALMOST EVERY
CASE. THIS TYPE OF EXPERIMENT HAS ONLY BEEN RECENTLY ATTEMPTED, AND
A LARGE SAMPLE OF TRIALS HAS NOT BEEN ACCUMULATED FOR MEANINGFUL
STATISTICAL EVALUATION.
D. (U) EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING LONG DISTANCE "REMOTE VIEWING"
INVOLVING EXPERIMENTERS VISITING A TARGET SITE ALSO HAVE HAD VARIABLE
EVALUATION PROCEDURES. A SMALL TARGET POOL (REPRESENTING DIVERSE
FEATURES) WAS USUALLY DEVELOPED BY THE FTD CONTRACT MONITOR OR HIS
DESIGNER. IN SOME CASES THE FTD PROJECT OFFICER WAS AWARE OF THE
TARGETS: IN OTHER HE WAS KEPT BLIND TO THEM. THEN THE SUBJECT
( IN THE SRI LAB) WOULD PRODUCE A TAPE RECORD OF IMPRESSIONS, AND THE
RESULTING SCRIPT (AND TYPE IF SO DESIRED ) WOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO
FTD FOR BASIC EVALUATION. AGAIN, A JUDGEMENT , BASED ON A GENERAL
REVIEW BY INTERESTED ANALYSTS (OR OTHER SELECTED AT RANDOMI
WOULD BE MADE AS TO DEGREE OF CORRELATION (OR NOT ) BETWEEN THE
SCRIPT AND KEY OR UNIQUE TARGETS FEATURES. THE EXPERIMENT WAS
JUDGED TO BE AT LEAST SUGGESTIVE GF A PARANORMAL CHANNEL IF AT
LEAST ONE OF THE TARGET ASPECTS WAS ACCURATELY DESCRIBED. THE
TARGETS WERE USUALLY CHOSEN ON THE BASIS OF THEIR UNIQUENESS; THE
EXTENT TO WHICH UNIQUE ASPECTS WERE DESCRIBED ADDED CONFIDENCE TO
ASSESSMENT OF APPARENT SUCCESS. THESE METHODS OF EVALUATION SHOULD
RE VIEWED AS VERY BASIC, MAINLY FOR GAINING INSIGHT, AND NOT AS A
METHOD TO CONCLUSIVELY PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF THE PHENOMENA.
F. (S) A SIMILAR APPROACH WAS USED TO PERFORM BASIC EVAL-
UATION OF "REMOTE VIEWING" WHERE ONLY ABSTRACT DESCRIPTIONS ARE
PROVIDED TO THE SUBJECT (EG., COORDINATES, PLACENAMES). IN THESE
EXPERIMENTS, EXPERIMENTERS ARE NOT PRESENT AT THE INTENDED TARGET.
EARTH COORDINATES HAVE BEEN ONE METHOD INVESTIGATED BOTH FOR THE
US AND FOREIGN LOCATIONS. IN MOST OF THESE EXPERIMENTS, THE
PROJECT OFFICER HAS BEEN BLIND TO THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA REPRESENTED
BY THE COORDINATES, USUALLY , THE PROJECT OFFICER PROVIDES THE
COORDINATES TO THE SKI RESEARCHERS WHO DO NOT MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO
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SECRET FINAL SECTION 2 OF 2
SUBJECT: SPECIAL ANALYSIS STUDIES
REFERENCE: DIRUSAMSAA MSG DIG 011200Z MAY 78. THE RESULTING
SCRIPT (AND TAPE) IS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PROJECT OFFICER WHO THEN
COMPARES THIS TO PHOTOGRAPHIC DATA. IN SOME CASES, FOR HIGHLY
UNIQUE TARGET TYPES, JUDGEMENTS CAN BE READILY MADE AS TO DEGREE OF
CORRELATION OR NOT . NOT MANY COORDINATE EXPERIMENTS HAVE BEEV PER-
FORMED; CERTAINLY NOT ENOUGH TO ESTABLISH A STATISTICAL BASE. HOW-
FVFR, SOME EXPERIMENTS (THOUGH NOT ALL) APPEAR TO HAVE A HIGH DEGREE
OF CORRELATION WITH KEY TARGET FEATURES. USUALLY SIX COORDINATES
ARE DEFINED AS THE TARGET POOL, AND COMPARISONS ARE MADE TO THAT PRE-
SELECTED POOL, RATHER THAN A LARGER SET , SOME EXPERIMENTS HAVE
INVOLVED COMPARISON TO ONLY ONE COORDINATE TARGET , THE INTENT OF
THE EXPERIMENT WAS MAINLY TO EXAMINE DEGREE OF DETAIL OR RESOLUTION
FOR A SPECIFIC UNIQUE TARGET ELEMENT. IN SUMMATION, THESE COORDIN-
ATE EXPERIMEN'S HAVE BEEN UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE PROJECT OFFICER
(OR HIS DESIGNEE), AND HAVE EMPHASIZED TARGETS WITH SPECIFICS THAT
CAN BE OBTAINED (AND VERIFIED) ONLY FROM PHOTOGRAPHY. IT APPEARS
THAT APPARENT DEGREE OF SUCCESS IS A FUNCTION OF SUBJECT MOOD,
DEGREE OF FY PERIENCE, CONFIDENCE LEVEL, AND OTHER FACTORS IN-
VOL VING THE SUBJECT AND EXPERIMENTAL SETTING. THE NATURE OF THE
INTENDED TARGET MAY ALSO INFLUENCE DEGREE OF APPARENT SUCCESS.
5. (S) EXAMPLES OF SPECIFIC EXPERIMENTS :
4. (S) SOME SPECIFIC EXAMPLES ARE AVAILABLE IN THE YEAR-END
REPORT (FY1977) WHICH HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY PROVIDED. HOWEVER, OTHER
EXAMPLES INVOLVING SI/SAO DATA FOR VERIFICATION CAN ALSO BE CITED.
A RECENT EXAMPLE IS THE EXPERIMENT PERFORMED JOINTLY WITH DIA/FTD
MONITORS (WHICH IS AVAILABLE IN DI-LA). ANOTHER EXAMPLE WAS AN
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FID CONDUCTED EXPERIMENT INVOLVING COORDINATES VEAR RAMENSKOYE, AIR-
FIELD. SW OF MOSCOW. THE COORDINATE WAS NOT THE AIRFIELD, BUT
OF A NEARBY TOWN. IN THIS CASE, THE COORDINATE WAS PROVIDED TO
THE SUBJECT AT THE TIME OF THE EXPERIMENT. THE PROJECT MONITOR ONLY
HAD A BASIC AWARENESS OF TARGET DETAILS , AND HAD NO DETAILED KNOW-
LEDGE OF SITE FEATURES. THE SUBJECT , UNDER STRICT OBSERVATION
OF THE SRI EXPERIMENTERS, PROVIDED SKETCHES WHICH INCLUDED HIGHWAY
SYSTEMS, AIRFIELD, AND GENERAL FEATURES (DAYS, FACTORY LOCATIONS,
RIVERS). ORIENTATION AND RELATIVE LOCATION OF THESE SKETCH ELEMENTS
WERE IN CORRELATION WITH ACTUAL TARGET FEATURES. THIS PARTICULAR
AIRFIELD IS NOT SHOWN ON ANY COMMERCIALLY AVAI ABLE MAP OF THE MOSCOW
AREA, AND SOME DETAILS COULD ONLY BE VERIFIED BY PHOTOGRAPHY (RUNWAY
ORIENTATION, RELATIVE HANGER LOCATION, AND A NEARBY DAM).
3. (S) ANOTHER COORDINATE EXPERIMENT EXAMPLE INCLUDES ONE
WHERE THE PROJECT MONITOR PRESELECTED A SITE AND WAS AWARE OF DETAILS
AT THE INTENDED TARGET. HOWEVER, DETAILS OF THE SUBJECT'S DESCRIP-
TION (RURAL AREA) IN NO WAY KESEMBLED THE INTENDED SITE AREA (A COM-
PLEX PROPULSION TEST FACILITY IN A DESERT AREA) . THIS WAS JUDGED AS
A FAILURE, UNTIL AN ERROR WAS NOTED IN COORDINATES PROVIDED TO THE
SUBJECT. PHOTOGRAPHY OF THIS COORDINATE AREA WAS SUBSEQUENTLY
OBTAINED. THE CORRECT COORDINATE WAS OF AV EXTENSIVE RURAL ARFA
WHICH GENERALLY CORRELATED TO THE SUBJECT'S SCRIPT. THIS SUGGESTS
THAT THE SUBJECT DOES NOT OBTAIN INFORMATION FROM THE KNOWLEDGE
OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE EXPERIMENT (I. E., VIA TELEPATHY) .
C. A SUMMARY OF OTHER COORDINATE EXPERIMENTS IS CURRENTLY IN
PREPARATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONTRACTOR'S YEAR-END REPORT.
THESE DETAILS WILL BE PROVIDED LATER, AND WILL ALSO BE OV FILE IN
DT-1A.
S. {C) BASIC RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES :
4. (C) INVOLVEMENT WITH SRI RESEARCH OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS,
AND ASSESSMENT OF WARSAW PACT COUNTRY RESEARCH ON PARAPHYSICS TOPICS
HAS LED TO AN AWARENESS OF POTENTIAL BASIC RESEARCH DIRECTIONS.
. SOME POTENTIAL "BLUE" RESEARCH ISSUES COULD INCLUDE:
(1) EVALUATE METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING PEOPLE WHO HAVE
POTENTIAL TO PERFORM PARANORMAL TASKS
(2) IDENTIFY METHODS OR PROCEDURES FOR TRAINING AND
DEVELOPING PEOPLE TO PERFORM SPECIFIC TYPES OF PARANORMAL TASKS:
(3) IDENTIFY THE ROLE OF VARIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL AND
PHYSCHOLOGICAL FACTORS THAT COULD IMPROVE PARANORMAL PERFORMANCE;
(4) IDENTIFY PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS THAT MAY INDICATE
OCCURRENCE OF PARANORMAL EVENTS;
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(5) EVALUATE IF CORRELATIONS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS
OCCUR BETWEEN VARIOUS PEOPLE INVOLVED IN A PARANORMAL TASK (I.E.,
SENDER-RECEIVER: RECEIVER-EXPERIMENTER) ;
(5) : EVALUATE DEGREE OF ACCURACY AND RESOLUTION ABILITY
OF PARANORMAL INFORMATION CHANNELS ;
(7) EVALUATE ROLE OF MEMORY, VISUALIZATION ABILITY, AND
OTHER MENTAL APTITUDES IN PERFORMANCE OF PARANORMAL TASKS;
( 8) IDENTIFY ROLE OF BASIC LEARNING THEORY IN DEVELOP-
MENT OF PARANORMAL PERCEPTION;
(9) EVALUATE EXTENT TO WHICH "ABSTRACT TARGETING" CAN
BE PERFECTED BY INEXPERIENCED SUBJECTS;
(10) RESOLVE THEORETICAL ISSUES THAT COULD EXPLAIN
PARANORMAL PROCESSES (EG., EM RADIATION, QUANTUM MECHANICS,
GRAVITATIONI ;
(11) PERFORM MEASUREMENT OF NEAR FIELD EFFECTS ( SUCH AS
LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FLUX , UV RADIATION, LOW LIGHT LEVEL
SOURCES ) WHICH MAY ACCOMPANY PARANORMAL TASKS;
(12) INVESTIGATE EFFECT OF TARGET TYPES , OR TARGET
CHARACTERISTICS, ON DEGREE OF SUCCESS IN PARANORMAL TASKS :
(13) EXPLORE THEORETICAL ISSUES THAT COULD LEAD TO AN
UNDERSTANDING OF HOW "TARGETS" ARE LOCATION ;
( 14) INVESTIGATE POSSIBILITY OF "MENTAL INTERACTIONS#
WITH SENSITIVE EQUIPMENT (PHOTOGRAPHIC, LOW NOISE DEVICES, RANDOM
NOISE DEVICES, ETC) ;
(15) ESTABLISH MEANINGFUL EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR
VARIOUS TYPES OF PARAORMAL EXPERIMENTS.
3. (I)} THE ABOVE ARE SOME POSSIBLE ISSUES THAT AN R/D PROGRAM
COULD ADDRESS.
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