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30 November 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Briefing of New ACSI, BG ODOM
1. Script prepared for this briefing was not used. BG Odom glanced at the
index to the targets book and asked specific questions before he looked at
information in the book. BG Odom likes to control the situation. His impatience
may make it difficult to use prepared scripts. BG Odom made some comments
during the brief which gave me the following impressions:
Anti-think tank (Rand, SRI) - Rand Mafia has infiltrated government
everywhere.
Down on CIA - CIA takes credit for Army work. We should make them pay
for anything we do for them.
GRILL FLAME will not be a high priority until the phenomenon can be proved
As long as it is cheap and doesn't take away from higher priorities it's OK.
J/2 DEC 81
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IN OCTOBER 1978, ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO ESTABLISH A
PROGRAM USING PSYCHOENERGENICS FOR INTELLIGENCE
TO
APPLICATIONS.
SPECIFICALLY UTILIZMO THAT FIELD OF
PARAPSYCHOLOGY KNOWN AS REMOTE VIEWING AS A METHOD
OF INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION.
IN RESPONSE TO THAT TASKING, INSCOM ESTABLISHED AN
AD HOC PROJECT WITHIN THE ASCSOPS-HUMINT TO DETERMINE:
1.
COULD REMOTE VIEWING TECHNOLOGY BE TAUGHT
TO INSCOM PERSONNEL .... AND IF SO TO SELECT
PERSONNEL AND ESTABLISH A TRAINING PROGRAM
SRI had demonstrated that RV could be done by known
psychics ... our objective was to utilize professional
intelligence personnel
2.
ESTABLISH PROCEDURES TO COLLECT INTELLIGENCE
UTILIZING REMOTE VIEWING
INSCOM is not engaged in an R&D effort ... but the
application of REMOTE VIEWING to collection of
intelligence
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. with reasonable accuracy ...
intelligence that would be accepted by intelligence
analysts
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ESTABLISH A MECHANISM TO RESPOND TO COLLECTION
REQUIREMENTS USING REMOTE VIEWING
Given the security requirements and the public
sensitivity to intelligence collection using
this technique ... make it responsive
PEOPLE
TO LOCATE PERSONNEL, 251 INSCOM PERSONNEL IN THE WASHINGTON/
BALTIMORE AREA WERE CONSIDERED.
THROUGH A PERIOD OF
INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS THE NUMBER WAS NARROWED TO 15 ...
AND FINALLY A JOINT DECISION BY SRI AND INSCOM SELECTED
6 PERSONNEL FOR TRAINING
(3 MILITARY & 3 CIVILIAN)
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IN ADDITION ..
5OTHERS
CONTINUED THE
IN-HOUSE TRAINING
OF THE
ORIGINAL GROUP OF 6
TRAINBED AT SRI,
2 REMAINED WITH THE PROJECT
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OF THE
5 SELECTED FOR IN-HOUSE TRAINING .. . 1 REMAINS
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The reasons
for leaving varied;
military career
requirements, civilian job progression, press of
work on current job made it tough to be available
for part timers,
. and since it is a voluntary
program ...
. some
just opted out for no given
reason.
WE HAVE
CURRENTLY 2 NEW PERSONNEL ON BOARD
WHO ARE
JUST BEGINNING THE IN-HOUSE PORTION OF THE TRAINING ...
THEY WILL BE GOING
TO SRI IN
THE SPRING FOR ADDITIONAL
TRAINING.
In all training ... we first provide initial
orientation training in-house ... to
familiarize
the personnel with the protocols that are being
used ... and secondly ... if they decide to opt out
out of the program we won't have spent TDY funds
and contract dollars unnecessarily
JAN
WHEN THE
PROJECT WAS TRANSFERRED TO INSCOM CONTROL
IN
MARCH 1981
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INSCOM PUT A CEILING OF ... 9 ... FULL TIME PARTICIPANTS, AND
AS MANY PART TIME PARTICIPANTS AS AVAILABLE.
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OPERATIONS
THE TRAINING BY SRI AND IN-HOUSE WAS FORCAST TO COVER
AN 18-24 MONTH PERIOD
This was the best estimate ... . training psychics
had never been tried before
HOWEVER IN SEPTEMBER 1979, THE FIRST OPERATIONAL
TASKING WAS RECEIVED.
... AND BY DECEMBER 1979 TRAINING
PER SE WAS TERMINATED
RAPHICS
TO DATE WE HAVE UNDERTAKEN 71 PROJECTS .. . THESE 2 GRAPHICS
SUMMARIZE THE RESULTS AND
IDENTIFY THE REQUESTORS
GT'S
BOOK
ADDITIONALLY ....
WE HAVE COLLECTED IN THIS BOOK"
EXAMPLES
OF TARGETS
. INTELLIGENCE COLLECTED .... AND THE
10
REQUESTORS ANALYSTS COMMENTS AND EVALUATION OF THAT
INFORMATION
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