CHIROLOGY PROGRAM POLICY STATEMENT

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Animal Partners
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06636808
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: September 6, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2019
• Publication Date: April 22, 1968

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CHIROLOGY PROGRAM POLICY STATEMENT
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The prime mission of the Chirology program has been defined as
the underwater interdiction (emplacement and/or retrieval of payloads)
of ships in motion or at rest at sea or in certain harbor situations. �
The ships referred to here can be considered as merchant ships as
well as naval ships. Payloads for attachment or retireval are not
connected with a destructive attack on the ship. The fundamental
series of technological problems which this program is designed to
investigate and demonstrate feasibility of are:
a. ',Long_ range remote electr_onic_navigation-and_guidanoe of the
ppLpoise. This includes the type of guidance system that best matches
the man-animal interface.
b. The terminal_guidance involving the animals' ability to be trained
to target recognition of specific ship components or surfaces in an
open loop fashion..
c. The specific elements involved with the pp, 1.c_2�1:__1 Rackage_..ply_sis_41
characteristics such as volume, weight, configuration,. etc., and the
attachment techniques required so that the animal can accomplish
emplacement or �retrieval.
d. Return of the animal to the launch or recovery point and support
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required in an open sea environment.
Methods of attachment and detachment,' and specific parts of the ship
to which the payloads are to be delivered should be considered in detail
making -use of an in depth study of the local properties and attributes of �
ship structure and configuration. It is understood that payloads to be
retrieved should include items which are not necessarily emplaced by the
porpoise.
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The above statements of policy and guidance have been discussed
and agreed to by the members of the Chirology Steering Panel on
22 April 1968 in Room 3E 189, The Pentagon. Agreement is signified
by the following signatures of the panel members:
For CIA
Stephrldricht,
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Richard S. Cesaro
Everett Grienke
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Harris B. Stone
for ARPA
for DDR&E
for Navy
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