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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
FROM
: Dr. J. Verona, Chairman, GRILLFLAME Working Group
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SUBJECT: Comments on "Report By: The GRILLFLAME Scientific Evaluation
Committee"
1. The GRILLFLAME Working Group (GFWG) has formulated the following
comments of note on the substance and tone of the above report. The
GRILUFLAME Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) report on PSI investiga-
tions contains serious factual errors, an inordinate number of ambiguities,
is incomplete and narrowly focused. Because of the aforementioned
difficulties, there is a genuine danger the report will provide no, or
worse, arbitrary guidance to policy makers and planners responsible for
these types of investigations and applications. (S)
2. Although the difficulties in the SEC report have been considered
in detail by the GFWG and are available upon request, it was felt the
first priority was to provide clear, consistent guidance to those not
well acquainted with these areas of investigation. Using the collective
experience and knowledge of the GFWG, a consistent restatement of the
most important conclusions and recommendations was developed and is
herem offered. We first emphasize those aspects of the SEC's report
which we strongly support. We support: (S)
CONCLUSIONS.
Unexplained, observations of human capabilities to generate data.
of potential utility to intelligence have been documented.
Scientific acceptance of the unexplained data generation capa-
bilities or other claimed "PSI" effects have not occurred
because of inadequate investigations, and their possible non-
existence.
NOTE: The GFWG adds the possibility that the unexplained capabilities
are intrinsically non-scientific, i.e., they could be
inherently statistical, monsemnat, have intrinsic observer
effects, etc.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
· Exploratory testing of the intelligence-related utility of-these-
unexplained capabilities is justified and should be expanded .
beyond current programs.
Because of our elementary state of knowledge, it is not possible-
to predict the likelihood of success of investigating the
existence, characteristics or utility of these capabilities.
However, simple prudence dictates some such investigations are
needed, perhaps, in proportion; to the apparent utility of the
unexplained capabilities. Obviously the order and priority of
these investigations is utility determination, then, if possible,
existence proofs, and finally characterization studies.
Efficiency demands a central authority to manage and
fund these exploratory investigations for the Intelligence
Community and perhaps the entire Government.
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Foreign intelligence analysis on claims of unexplained human
capabilities should continue.
The GFWG strongly disagrees with certain viewpoints expressed in
the SEC's report. There are:
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The recommendation ,to terminate the Army's Missile Intelligence
Command's PK and Material Systems Analysis Activitie's RV inves-
tigations, caciused on a misinterpretation of these programs>
"SRI applicare"
Since the most successful current exploitation investigations of
these unexplained human capabilities use a data generation
technique derived in close conjunction with SRI International
researchers, Puthoff and Targ, Wiqualified condemnation of the
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is not understood or acceptable without further
explanation.
The GFWG offers to provide more in-depth and detailed comments
on the SEC's report. Many of the difficulties in the report, especially
those of fact and incompleteness could have been avoided if the report
had been collectively reviewed in draft, rather than allowing only
individual inputs without review of the final record or analysis. We
regret not having had the proper opportunity to contribute to this first
attempt at a comprehensive evaluation of an area of high potential
importance to intelligence and other Government responsibilities, and
wish to assure this situation does not re-occur.
Dr. J. Verona
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