PROGRAM CHARTER: REMOTE SENSING

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00999A000300060001-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 11, 1976
• Content Type: REPORT

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S NFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Menlo Park, California. R04, SECRET- TENTATIVE
Il August 1976
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Recent work in both US and Soviet laboratories indicates mounting
evidence for the existence of so-called "parapsychological" or "para-
physical" processes, sometimes called psychoenergetic processes. In
the US, recent publications (both classified and unclassified) by
Stanford Research Institute (SRI) detail the ability of certain individuals
to view, by innate mental processes, remote geographical or technical
targets including buildings, roads and laboratory apparatus. In the
Soviet Bloc countries, similar research efforts are described in two
classified reports, one a DIA document prepared by the US Army Medical
Intelligence and Information Agency, the other prepared by Garrett
Airesearch as an independent contracted study of Soviet literature.
On the basis of the SRI data and the Garrett and DIA documentation
studies, an interdisciplinary R&D program with multiple contractors is
proposed. The goal of the program is to establish the necessary data
base to evaluate the significance of so-called paranormal processes for
intelligence applications, both from the standpoint of feasibility for
operational use and from the standpoint of threat analysis.
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Introduction
Recent publications in both the open and classified literatur> indi-
cate mounting evidence for the existence of so-called "parapsychological"
or "paraphysical" processes. These are sometimes referred to as p3ycho-
energetic or NBIT (novel biophysical information transfer) channel:;, an
acronym coined as a neutral descriptive term free of occult assumptions
or biases as to mechanisms.
NBIT processes include:
1. The acquisition and description, by mental means, of remote
information blocked from ordinary perception and thought to be
secure against such access;
2. The production of physical effects such as the perturbation of
instrumentation or equipment which would appear to be well
shielded against such interactions.
The literature also indicates mounting evidence for the acceleration
of research in both the Western and Soviet Bloc countries in an effort to
precipitate a breakthrough. In the West, a large-scale exploratory research
effort on NBIT channels has been carried out in the Electronics and Bio-
engineering Laboratory of Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Their results
have been reported in two major documents, one classified,) one unclassi-
fied.2 Their work dealt primarily with a capability that they call "remote
viewing," the ability to view remote geographical locations up to several
thousand kilometers. In more than 50 experiments with roughly a dozen
subjects, including government scientists sent to examine the experimental
protocols, significant results were obtained on the viewing of buildings,
laboratory apparatus, and the like. From their work they concluded that
(a) The phenomenon is not a sensitive function of distance over a
range of several km and is still operative over a range of
several thousand km (U);
(b) Faraday cage electrical shielding does not appear to degrade
the quality or accuracy of perception (U);
(c) Most of the correct information pertains to shape, form, color,
and material, rather than to function or name, indicating that
the function may be mediated primarily by the brain's right
hemisphere (U);
(d) The principal difference between experienced subjects and inex-
perienced volunteers is not that the latter do not exhibit the
faculty but rather that their results are simply less reliable,
1 H. Puthoff and R. Targ, Percep ual Augmentation Techniques, Final Report
on SRI Project 3183, December 1, 1975. (Secret)
2H. Puthoff and R. Targ, "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer
Over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research,"
Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 329-354, March 1976.
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