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Proposal for Research
SRI International No. ESU 83-134
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Part One -- Technical Proposal
Prepared for:
Client Private
Prepared by:
Edwin C. May
Senior Research Physicist
Harold E. Puthoff
Senior Research Engineer
Approved by:
Robert S. Leonard, Director
Radio Physics Laboratory
David D. Elliott, Vice President
Research and Analysis Division
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INTRODUCTION (U)
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
In response to correspondence from Army INSCOM dated
27 April 1983 and 2 August 1983, and to discussions with INSCOM personnel
on 7 and 8 September 1983, SRI International submits this proposal to
initiate the selection of personnel for Remote Viewing (RV) tasking.
(S/CL-1/NOFORN)
To accomplish the proposed program, SRI will provide
the facilities, materials, SRI staffing, and consultants to perform the
tasking outlined in the INSCOM Statement of Work dated 2 August 1983.
Details of the effort are specified in the following section.
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STATEMENT OF WORK (U)
1.
(U)
GENERAL
1.1
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) The objective of this effort is to investigate
a particular aspect of psychoenergetics relating to operational management
of personnel; that is, determine if a personality testing technique can be
created, which when applied to a general population will delineate specific
individuals who exhibit a higher degree of talent for remote viewing.
1.2
(U)
MAJOR GOALS
a.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Phase I:
Apply personality testing with
proven remote viewer personnel from SRI and Project CENTER LANE, and
determine testing profile(s) that can be used to identify personnel with
an aptitude for remote viewing.
b.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Phase II:
Test these same individuals
with "self-report" type tests, and compare the results of these tests with
the previously identified profile(s) to determine testing accuracy. Apply
the identified profile(s) against a general test population and segregate
persons who show a talent for remote viewing from those who do not.
c .
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Phase III:
Test the personnel who show
a talent for remote viewing against randomly selected targets; test the
personnel who did not show a talent against the same targets.
d.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Provide an overall evaluation of the above
three phases with conclusive recommendations. If the first two phases
produce negative results, an overall evaluation of those two phases will
be made, including a recommendation for further action.
2.
(U)
SPECIFIC TASKS
2.1
(U)
Phase I
a .
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Personality profile data from proven remote
viewers will be collected.
Data will be collected from proven personnel --
those identified by SRI as well as Project CENTER LANE participants.
Wechsler Test.
b .
(U)
The data will be collected by using an extended
c.
(U
It is planned that testing will be carried out under
laboratory conditions by two experienced testers: Dr. David Saunders,
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MARS Measurements Association (SRI Consultant), Lawrenceville, New Jersey;
and Dr. Michael Hecker (an SRI Staff Member).
d.
(U)
The data obtained will be analyzed in accordance with
the Personality Assessment System (PAS) concept.
e.
(U) The above analysis will provide the basis upon which
specific and appropriate personality profile(s) of interest will be
designated; those profiles will be extrapolated for use during Phase III.
f.
(U) An interim report of findings from Phase I will be
provided.
2.2
(U)
Phase II
(Will be run in parallel with Phase I. )
.
a.
(S/CL-2/NOFORN)
Self-report data will be collected from
the selected individuals within SRI and the CENTER LANE Project. These
will be the same individuals selected for testing under Phase I.
b.
(U)
The self-report data will be determined from tests
such as the Myers-Briggs and the 16-PF questionnaires. Testing will be
under laboratory conditions, and will be used to design a prescreening
questionnaire.
c.
(U) Analysis of the self-report data will be performed
using the Behavior Prediction System (BPS) concept to generate a scoring
key capable of extracting those individuals with profile(s) indicated within
Phase I, as being profile(s) of interest.
d.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
The self-report test criteria will be
applied against a general population. The general population will contain
the previously selected SRI and CENTER LANE remote viewer personnel.
e .
(U)
To test whether the prescreening (self-report) test
is effective in selecting individuals with the Phase I profiles, a second
group of individuals will be given both the prescreening and extended
Wechsler tests under like laboratory conditions, and the correlations
between these results and the previous results will be evaluated.
f.
(U) An interim report of findings from Phase II will be
provided .
2.3
Phase III
(Assuming success in Phases I and II, the following
will be accomplished.)
a.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) The appropriate profile(s) developed through
testing during Phases I and II will be used to delineate individuals into
two groups :
those with remote viewing potential as well as those who do not
show potential.
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b.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Personnel who show potential in remote
viewing will then be tested (under laboratory conditions) against a
randomly selected group of targets.
c.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Personnel not selected as having potential
will also be run (under laboratory conditions) against the same selected
group of targets.
d.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
A comparison of both groups of personnel
will then be made to determine the validity of selection criteria developed
and presented from Phases I and II.
e .
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Should it be proven by failure in Phases
I and II that a personality profile cannot be developed that will assist
in selecting appropriate remote viewer personnel, then Phase III will be
canceled with the concurrence of the sponsor, and all monies left transferred
to ongoing remote viewer training.
3.
(U)
SECURITY
(U)
Military security requirements in the performance of this contract
shall be maintained in accordance with the "CENTER LANE SECURITY PROCEDURES
GUIDE," dated 1 March 1983 (S/CL-1/NOFORN/ORCON).
The highest classifica-
tion involved in the performance of this contract is SECRET/CL-4/NO FOREIGN
DISSEMINATION/ORIGINATOR CONTROLLED.
4.
(U)
DELIVERABLES
(U)
SRI International will provide the following:
4.1
(S/CL-1/NOFORN)
State-of-the-art information on selection of
personnel with a talent for remote viewing.
4.2
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
A progress report (2 copies) -- a written
evaluation of findings (within 10 days of completion) of Phase I, develop-
ment of and use of psychological profile(s) testing.
4.3 (S/CL-3/NOFORN) A progress report (2 copies -- a written evaluation
of findings (within 10 days of completion) of Phase II, development of and
use of self-report testing; to include comparison for accuracy against
Phase I testing, and use of the newly designed prescreening questionnaire.
4.4 (S/CL-3/NOFORN)
A final report (3 copies) (within 30 days
following completion) of the overall evaluation of the developed selection
testing methodology. This report will include but is not limited to the
following:
a.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) A summary of tests performed in each
methodology area, an evaluation of those tests, and a written comparison of
one test methodology to another.
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b.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Findings that result from the application
of testing methodologies (against a general population) to select remote
viewers.
This will include an evaluation of remote viewing results as
produced by those personnel identified as talented, as well as results
from those who were not identified as talented.
c.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) A summary of recommended testing for
future selection of remote viewer personnel based upon the above.
5.
(U)
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
(U)
Requirements concerning the use of human subjects as outlined in
the INSCOM Statement of Work dated 2 August 1983 will be adhered to.
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ROBERT S. LEONARD
Director
Radio Physics Laboratory
Research & Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Radio-wave propagation: in normal environments; in naturally dis-
turbed environments (aurora); in manmade disturbances (nuclear
explosions)
REPRESENTATIVE RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS AT SRI (since 1961)
Project director of a program to remotely sense nuclear detonations
during the U.S. high altitude nuclear test program
Led a research effort to improve the U.S. capability to detect
foreign nuclear test by their effect on radio propagation
Technical director of a large multicontractor research program to
study the effects on radio propagation of an artificially produced
ionospheric plasma
Technical director on a program to develop special communications
techniques
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Instructor, researcher, and graduate student, Geophysical Institute,
University of Alaska: HF and low VHF radio-wave propagation studies
of auroral effects; designed, developed, and tested a prototype of
the 41-MHz auroral radar used in the U.S. IGY program; installed and
operated the six Alaskan IGY-auroral radars, and analyzed the data
collected during the IGY
Teaching assistant, Physics Department, University of Nevada
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.S. (1952) and M.S. (1953) in physics, University of Nevada; Ph.D.
in geophysics (1961), University of Alaska
PUBLICATIONS
"Observations of Ionospheric Disturbances Following the Alaska Earth-
quake," J. Geophys. Res. (March 1965); "Selection of a Model of the
Earth's Magnetic Field," J. Geophys. Res. (December 1962); "Evidence
of Low-Frequency Amplitude Fluctuations in Radar Auroral Echoes, " J.
Geophys. Res. (April 1962); "Distribution of Radar Auroras over Alaska, "
J. Geophys. Res. (March 1962); "A Low Power UHF Radar for Auroral
Research ," PIRE (February 1959); plus numerous scientific and technical
reports
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Geophysical Union
Union Radio Scientifique Internationale
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HAROLD E. PUTHOFF
Senior Research Engineer
Radio Physics Laboratory
Research and Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Research in "remote viewing" and other psi phenomena (1972-present)
Research in lasers, quantum electronics, nonlinear optics
Research and development of tunable solid-state lasers, electron beam
lasers, microwave tubes
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research associate, Hansen Laboratories of Physics, and lecturer, Depart-
ment of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; teaching, textbook
author, research supervisor of Ph. D. candidates in the area of lasers and
nonlinear optics
Lieutenant, USNR: in-house research and contract monitoring on DoD (NSA)
contracts concerned with the development of ultra high-speed (GHz)
computers, assessment of potential of fiber optics and lasers for use in
optical computers
Research engineer, Sperry Electronic Tube Division, and Sperry fellow,
University of Florida: design and testing of electron-beam focusing
systems for use in microwave tubes
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.E.E. (1958) and M.S.E. (1960), University of Florida; Ph.D. in electri-
cal engineering, Stanford University (1967)
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
Author or coauthor of more than twenty-five papers in professional journals
on electron beam and laser research, and, more recently, first major publi-
cations of research on psi phenomena in Nature ( "Information Transfer Un-
der Conditions of Sensory Shielding, " Oct. 1974), in the Proceedings of
the IEEE ("A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer
Distances, " March 1976) and in The Role of Consciousness in the Physical
World: AAAS Selected Symposium 57, Ed. R. Jahn, ( "Experimental
Psi Research: Implications for Physics", Westview Press, 1981
Coauthor of textbook, Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics (Wiley, New York,
1969) published in English, French, Russian;
Coauthor of Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability (Delacorte, New
York, 1977) ;
Coeditor of Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory
Perception (Praeger, New York, 1979) ;
Patent on high-power tunable infrared laser source (50-250 microns)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical
Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sigma Xi,
Department of Defense Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Perfor-
mance, IEEE Franklyn V. Taylor Memorial Award for paper "A Scientific
Look at ESP," listed in American Men and Women of Science and in Who's
Who in the West
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EDWIN C. MAY
Senior Research Physicist
Radio Physics Laboratory
Research and Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Charged particle and gamma-ray spectroscopy; analogue and high-speed
digital electronics; numerical analysis; real-time computer applications
for data acquisition and analysis; research in bio-feedback technology
and applications, and cardiac blood flow problems; field research in
India and laboratory research at Maimonides Medical Center on psycho-
energetic phenomena, aerodynamic analysis from fixed wing, powerless soaring
aircraft
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Theoretical calculations in radiation transport;, atmospheric physics,
and E & M wave scattering at the RAND Corporation
Experiments in nuclear reaction mechanism and nuclear structure at the
U. of California Crocker Nuclear Laboratory
Undergraduate physics teaching at the City College of San Francisco
Equipment engineer and clinical experience at the Bio-feedback Institute
of San Francisco
Research consultant on psychokinesis at the Maimonides Medical Center
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.S. in physics, University of Rochester (1962); Ph.D. in physics,
University of Pittsburgh (1968)
PUBLICATIONS
Author or coauthor of eleven scientific papers in experimental nuclear
physics research;
Author or coauthor of numerous scientific papers in psychoenergetic
research;
Author or coauthor of eleven research abstracts in nuclear physics
for professional meetings
Author or coauthor of ten abstracts in psychoenergetic research for
professional and meetings
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Parapsycho-
logy Association, The American Society for Psychical Research
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I
INTRODUCTION (U)
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
In response to correspondence from Army INSCOM dated
27 April 1983 and 2 August 1983, and to discussions with INSCOM personnel
on 7 and 8 September 1983, SRI International submits this proposal to
initiate the selection of personnel for Remote Viewing (RV) tasking.
(S/CL-1/NOFORN)
To accomplish the proposed program, SRI will provide
the facilities, materials, SRI staffing, and consultants to perform the
tasking outlined in the INSCOM Statement of Work dated 2 August 1983.
Details of the effort are specified in the following section.
1
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STATEMENT OF WORK (U)
1.
(U)
GENERAL
1.1
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) The objective of this effort is to investigate
a particular aspect of psychoenergetics relating to operational management
of personnel; that is, determine if a personality testing technique can be
created, which when applied to a general population will delineate specific
individuals who exhibit a higher degree of talent for remote viewing.
1.2
(U)
MAJOR GOALS
a.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Phase I:
Apply personality testing with
proven remote viewer personnel from SRI and Project CENTER LANE, and
determine testing profile(s) that can be used to identify personnel with
an aptitude for remote viewing.
b.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Phase II:
Test these same individuals
with "self-report" type tests, and compare the results of these tests with
the previously identified profile(s) to determine testing accuracy. Apply
the identified profile(s) against a general test population and segregate
persons who show a talent for remote viewing from those who do not.
c .
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Phase III:
Test the personnel who show
a talent for remote viewing against randomly selected targets; test the
personnel who did not show a talent against the same targets.
d.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Provide an overall evaluation of the above
three phases with conclusive recommendations. If the first two phases
produce negative results, an overall evaluation of those two phases will
be made, including a recommendation for further action.
2.
(U)
SPECIFIC TASKS
2.1
(U)
Phase I
a .
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Personality profile data from proven remote
viewers will be collected.
Data will be collected from proven personnel --
those identified by SRI as well as Project CENTER LANE participants.
Wechsler Test.
b .
(U)
The data will be collected by using an extended
c.
(U)
It is planned that testing will be carried out under
laboratory conditions by two experienced testers: Dr. David Saunders,
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(U)
MARS Measurements Association (SRI Consultant), Lawrenceville, New Jersey;
and Dr. Michael Hecker (an SRI Staff Member).
d.
(U)
The data obtained will be analyzed in accordance with
the Personality Assessment System (PAS) concept.
e.
(U) The above analysis will provide the basis upon which
specific and appropriate personality profile(s) of interest will be
designated; those profiles will be extrapolated for use during Phase III.
f.
(U) An interim report of findings from Phase I will be
provided.
2.2
(U)
Phase II
(Will be run in parallel with Phase I. )
.
a.
(S/CL-2/NOFORN)
Self-report data will be collected from
the selected individuals within SRI and the CENTER LANE Project. These
will be the same individuals selected for testing under Phase I.
b.
(U)
The self-report data will be determined from tests
such as the Myers-Briggs and the 16-PF questionnaires. Testing will be
under laboratory conditions, and will be used to design a prescreening
questionnaire.
c.
(U) Analysis of the self-report data will be performed
using the Behavior Prediction System (BPS) concept to generate a scoring
key capable of extracting those individuals with profile(s) indicated within
Phase I, as being profile(s) of interest.
d.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
The self-report test criteria will be
applied against a general population. The general population will contain
the previously selected SRI and CENTER LANE remote viewer personnel.
e .
(U)
To test whether the prescreening (self-report) test
is effective in selecting individuals with the Phase I profiles, a second
group of individuals will be given both the prescreening and extended
Wechsler tests under like laboratory conditions, and the correlations
between these results and the previous results will be evaluated.
f.
(U) An interim report of findings from Phase II will be
provided .
2.3
Phase III
(Assuming success in Phases I and II, the following
will be accomplished.)
a.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) The appropriate profile(s) developed through
testing during Phases I and II will be used to delineate individuals into
two groups :
those with remote viewing potential as well as those who do not
show potential.
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b.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Personnel who show potential in remote
viewing will then be tested (under laboratory conditions) against a
randomly selected group of targets.
c.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Personnel not selected as having potential
will also be run (under laboratory conditions) against the same selected
group of targets.
d.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
A comparison of both groups of personnel
will then be made to determine the validity of selection criteria developed
and presented from Phases I and II.
e .
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Should it be proven by failure in Phases
I and II that a personality profile cannot be developed that will assist
in selecting appropriate remote viewer personnel, then Phase III will be
canceled with the concurrence of the sponsor, and all monies left transferred
to ongoing remote viewer training.
3.
(U)
SECURITY
(U)
Military security requirements in the performance of this contract
shall be maintained in accordance with the "CENTER LANE SECURITY PROCEDURES
GUIDE," dated 1 March 1983 (S/CL-1/NOFORN/ORCON).
The highest classifica-
tion involved in the performance of this contract is SECRET/CL-4/NO FOREIGN
DISSEMINATION/ORIGINATOR CONTROLLED.
4.
(U)
DELIVERABLES
(U)
SRI International will provide the following:
4.1
(S/CL-1/NOFORN)
State-of-the-art information on selection of
personnel with a talent for remote viewing.
4.2
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
A progress report (2 copies) -- a written
evaluation of findings (within 10 days of completion) of Phase I, develop-
ment of and use of psychological profile(s) testing.
4.3 (S/CL-3/NOFORN) A progress report (2 copies -- a written evaluation
of findings (within 10 days of completion) of Phase II, development of and
use of self-report testing; to include comparison for accuracy against
Phase I testing, and use of the newly designed prescreening questionnaire.
4.4 (S/CL-3/NOFORN)
A final report (3 copies) (within 30 days
following completion) of the overall evaluation of the developed selection
testing methodology. This report will include but is not limited to the
following:
a.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) A summary of tests performed in each
methodology area, an evaluation of those tests, and a written comparison of
one test methodology to another.
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b.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN)
Findings that result from the application
of testing methodologies (against a general population) to select remote
viewers.
This will include an evaluation of remote viewing results as
produced by those personnel identified as talented, as well as results
from those who were not identified as talented.
c.
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) A summary of recommended testing for
future selection of remote viewer personnel based upon the above.
5.
(U)
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
(U)
Requirements concerning the use of human subjects as outlined in
the INSCOM Statement of Work dated 2 August 1983 will be adhered to.
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ROBERT S. LEONARD
Director
Radio Physics Laboratory
Research & Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Radio-wave propagation: in normal environments; in naturally dis-
turbed environments (aurora); in manmade disturbances (nuclear
explosions)
REPRESENTATIVE RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS AT SRI (since 1961)
Project director of a program to remotely sense nuclear detonations
during the U.S. high altitude nuclear test program
Led a research effort to improve the U.S. capability to detect
foreign nuclear test by their effect on radio propagation
Technical director of a large multicontractor research program to
study the effects on radio propagation of an artificially produced
ionospheric plasma
Technical director on a program to develop special communications
techniques
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Instructor, researcher, and graduate student, Geophysical Institute,
University of Alaska: HF and low VHF radio-wave propagation studies
of auroral effects; designed, developed, and tested a prototype of
the 41-MHz auroral radar used in the U.S. IGY program; installed and
operated the six Alaskan IGY-auroral radars, and analyzed the data
collected during the IGY
Teaching assistant, Physics Department, University of Nevada
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.S. (1952) and M.S. (1953) in physics, University of Nevada; Ph.D.
in geophysics (1961), University of Alaska
PUBLICATIONS
"Observations of Ionospheric Disturbances Following the Alaska Earth-
quake," J. Geophys. Res. (March 1965); "Selection of a Model of the
Earth's Magnetic Field," J. Geophys. Res. (December 1962); "Evidence
of Low-Frequency Amplitude Fluctuations in Radar Auroral Echoes, " J.
Geophys. Res. (April 1962); "Distribution of Radar Auroras over Alaska, "
J. Geophys. Res. (March 1962); "A Low Power UHF Radar for Auroral
Research ," PIRE (February 1959); plus numerous scientific and technical
reports
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Geophysical Union
Union Radio Scientifique Internationale
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HAROLD E. PUTHOFF
Senior Research Engineer
Radio Physics Laboratory
Research and Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Research in "remote viewing" and other psi phenomena (1972-present)
Research in lasers, quantum electronics, nonlinear optics
Research and development of tunable solid-state lasers, electron beam
lasers, microwave tubes
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research associate, Hansen Laboratories of Physics, and lecturer, Depart-
ment of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; teaching, textbook
author, research supervisor of Ph. D. candidates in the area of lasers and
nonlinear optics
Lieutenant, USNR: in-house research and contract monitoring on DoD (NSA)
contracts concerned with the development of ultra high-speed (GHz)
computers, assessment of potential of fiber optics and lasers for use in
optical computers
Research engineer, Sperry Electronic Tube Division, and Sperry fellow,
University of Florida: design and testing of electron-beam focusing
systems for use in microwave tubes
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.E.E. (1958) and M.S.E. (1960), University of Florida; Ph.D. in electri-
cal engineering, Stanford University (1967)
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
Author or coauthor of more than twenty-five papers in professional journals
on electron beam and laser research, and, more recently, first major publi-
cations of research on psi phenomena in Nature ( "Information Transfer Un-
der Conditions of Sensory Shielding, " Oct. 1974), in the Proceedings of
the IEEE ("A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer
Distances, " March 1976) and in The Role of Consciousness in the Physical
World: AAAS Selected Symposium 57, Ed. R. Jahn, ( "Experimental
Psi Research: Implications for Physics", Westview Press, 1981
Coauthor of textbook, Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics (Wiley, New York,
1969) published in English, French, Russian;
Coauthor of Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability (Delacorte, New
York, 1977) ;
Coeditor of Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory
Perception (Praeger, New York, 1979) ;
Patent on high-power tunable infrared laser source (50-250 microns)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical
Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sigma Xi,
Department of Defense Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Perfor-
mance, IEEE Franklyn V. Taylor Memorial Award for paper "A Scientific
Look at ESP," listed in American Men and Women of Science and in Who's
Who in the West
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Senior Research Physicist
Radio Physics Laboratory
Research and Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Charged particle and gamma-ray spectroscopy; analogue and high-speed
digital electronics; numerical analysis; real-time computer applications
for data acquisition and analysis; research in bio-feedback technology
and applications, and cardiac blood flow problems; field research in
India and laboratory research at Maimonides Medical Center on psycho-
energetic phenomena, aerodynamic analysis from fixed wing, powerless soaring
aircraft
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Theoretical calculations in radiation transport;, atmospheric physics,
and E & M wave scattering at the RAND Corporation
Experiments in nuclear reaction mechanism and nuclear structure at the
U. of California Crocker Nuclear Laboratory
Undergraduate physics teaching at the City College of San Francisco
Equipment engineer and clinical experience at the Bio-feedback Institute
of San Francisco
Research consultant on psychokinesis at the Maimonides Medical Center
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.S. in physics, University of Rochester (1962); Ph.D. in physics,
University of Pittsburgh (1968)
PUBLICATIONS
Author or coauthor of eleven scientific papers in experimental nuclear
physics research;
Author or coauthor of numerous scientific papers in psychoenergetic
research;
Author or coauthor of eleven research abstracts in nuclear physics
for professional meetings
Author or coauthor of ten abstracts in psychoenergetic research for
professional and meetings
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Parapsycho-
logy Association, The American Society for Psychical Research
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