GRILL FLAME PROTOCOL, AMSAA APPLIED REMOTE VIEWING PROTOCOL

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• Publication Date: July 7, 1978
• Content Type: REGULATION

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(S) GRILL FLAME PROTOCOL (U)
(S-ORCON} At~iSAA APPLIED REMOTE VIEWING PROTOCOL (S-ORCON)
1. (S-ORCON) General
This protocol contains the procedure for AMSAA sponsored remote
viewing. It is in effect for the period required to accomplish the
scope of work. Remote viewing (RV) is an intellectual process by which
a person perceives characteristics of a location remote from that
person. RV does not involve any electronic sensing devices at or
focused at.the target site, nor does it involve classical photo inter-
pretation of photographs obtained from overhead or oblique means. The
individual performing RU (the remote viewer) is provided with a unique
identifier such as stationary map coordinates, a specific structure, an
identifiable vehicle (aircraft tail number) or a specific individual
(name, place of birth, age, and/or photograph). The task of the remote
viewer is to locate, identify and/or describe the target. The task is
achievable1,2,3,4,5. No drugs, hypnosis, special sensory (visual,
auditory or olfactory) or proprioceptive stimuli, liminal or subliminal,
electrical or electromagnetic stimulus will be used in this RV protocol.
2. (S-ORCON) MILITARY OBJECTIVE
It is the objective of this protocol to standardize the process of
RV so that it may become an established task in the spectrum of intel-
ligence and information gathering functions and for target acquisition
applications.
3. (S-ORCON) MILITARY APPLICATIONS
RV provides a capability to target field mobile weapons which are
currently difficult or impossible to de-tact prior to launch, such as
tactical missiles and rockets and attack helicopters. RV can be used
to: target on key enemy military individuals from covert agents to key
battle commanders; detect the change in state of military units, to
rapidly determine the damage resulting from non-nuclear weapon attack; ..
to determine the. access code to computers and other electronic devices;.
and to determine the general content of documents and. other informational
items found in military organizations. US Army Personnel, units, materiel
and operations are vulnerable to RV. Countermeasures must be devised to
reduce this vulnerability.
4. (U) APPROVAL HISTORY (U)
The Commander, US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command
(DARCOM) approved in principle the US Army Materiel Systems Analysis
Activity (AMSAA) involvement in what is now known as project GRILL FLAME
in April 197$. In 1~1ay 1978, the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intel-
ligence (ACSI) accepted lead responsibility for GRILL FLAME applica-
tior7s. Overall DoD responsibility resides with the Defense Intelligence
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5. (S-ORCON) DEFINITIONS
a. Remote Viewing (RV): an intellectual process by which a
person perceives characteristics of a location remote from that person;
it does not involve any electronic sensing devices at or focused at the
target nor does it involve classical photo interpretation of photographs
obtained from overhead or oblique means.
b. Remote Viewer: the person who locates,, identifies and/or
describes the target.
c. Interviewer: the person who interacts with the remote viewer
before, during and after the RV session.
d. Remote Viewing Session: a single attempt by the remote viewer
to locate, identify and/or describe a target.
e. Project Officer: the overall, responsible individual for all
aspects of the protect: John W. Kramar (For curriculum vitae, see Tab
A).
6. (5-ORCON) Procedure
To provide a framework for standardizing the task of RV, a series
of RV sessions will be conducted. The elements of an RV session are
(1) target selection; (2) remote viewer session preliminaries; (3)
remote viewing session; and (4) post-session analysis. The procedure
will be described using geographic coordinates as the remote target
identifier.
(1) TARGET SELECTION
From a target pool of 50 - 100 geographical coordinates
previously seiected by an individual, called the target pool selector
(TPS}, the TP5 will select a target for the session. This person does
not communicate at any time with the remote viewer or the interviewer.
The 50 - 100 individual targets are randomized, numbered and stored in a
secure container accessible only to the TPS. A target is presented only
once to the remote viewer.
(2) REMOTE VIEWER SESSION PRELIMINARIES
Before a first RV session is scheduled, the remote viewer
is oriented to the procedure to be followed by the interviewer. The
remote viewer needs to understand that he or she should state raw
perceptions; experience has shownl that specific interpretations are
quite often wrong while the initial raw perception tends to be correct.
Remote viewers are always encouraged to express their feelings and ideas
for enhancing all aspects of the RV process.
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(3) REMOTE VIEWING SESSION
During the 30 - 60 minutes prior to the agreed-upon start
time of a session, the interviewer offers some encouragement to the
remote viewer in the manner of a coach giving a pep talk to his team,
During the 15 minutes immediately before the session, the
remote viewer and interviewer are generally silent. Experience has
shown (unpublished data) that this "quiet time" enhances the RU process.
During the 15 minute. viewing period, the remote viewer and
the interviewer function as a team. The interviewer provides encourage-
ment with words of reassurance that the task is in fact possible. At no
time is the session conducted by the remote viewer in the absence of all
other persons.
If the remote viewer does not have any immediate sensory
images, the interviewer applies no pressure; rather, the interviewer
reassures the remote viewer that they have all the time in the world.
When the remote viewer has an image of the remote target site, the
interviewer, in conversation with the remote viewer, may then suggest
that the remote viewer intellectually move around at the site and
describe the site more fully (e.g., buildings, terrain features, people,
activities, machinery, etc).
If it appears to the interviewer that the images are in
some way contradictory or inconsistent, the interviewer may then attempt
clarification by asking questions in order to verify what the remote
viewer first described.
The RV session is tape recorded and pen and paper are
available for the remote viewer to sketch his perceptions. Experience
has shownl that some remote viewers prefer to combine written and oral
descriptions, while some prefer to work sequentially,
The average RV session is approximately 30 minutes and
never exceeds 60 minutes.
(4) POST-SESSION ANALYSIS
After the RV session is over, the remote viewer and
interviewer obtain from the TPS specific information about the target
information package and compare their session results with these data.
The remote viewer and the interviewer discuss the session results. The
purpose of this post-session analysis is to provide the remote viewer
with the satisfaction of knowing how well he or she did.
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7. (S-ORCON) VARIATIONS IN PROCEDURE FOR RV
a. GENERAL REMOTE VIEWING
The foregoing has focused on the use of coordinates to
obtain from a remote viewer the description of that site. Another
approach to the same goal is to access the target site on the basis of a
person in place of a coordinate. For example, the remote viewer is
provided some personal information and then. proceeds to describe the
location of the individual. Thus, the individual serves as a beacon to
locate the target by RV. To standardize this approach, the procedure
described in paragraph 6 is modified. The elements of this procedure
consist of (1) target selection; (2) remote viewer session preliminaries;
(3) activity of person who serves as beacon; (G) remote viewing session;
and (5) post-session analysis.
(1) TARGET SELECTION
A target pool of 50 - 100 targets will be selected
by a TPS. The targets chosen will be distinctive, but to include more
than one example of each type. This precludes the remote viewer from
eliminating a perception of a target because one of that type was used
before. The remote viewer is informed that the target pool consists of
similar as well as different types of targets. All other.aspects of the
target selection element of the procedure remain the same.
(2) REMOTE VIEWER SESSION PRELIMINARIES
This element is identical to that of the basic RV
procedure.
(3) ACTIVITY OF PERSON WHO SERVES AS BEACON
At the beginning of the RV session, the remote viewer
and interviewer are given one or more items of biographical information
or may even meet briefly, for 3-5 minutes, the individual serving as the
beacon. If the latter is the case, the beacon individual departs the
meeting and obtains the target from the TPS. This procedure eliminates
the possibility of the beacon individual divulging any hint of the
target. The beacon individual travels to the target, arriving there at
the previously specified time. He or she then interacts with the site
for the predetermined length of time of the RV session.
(4)
REMOTE VIEWING SESSION
procedure.
(5)
This element is identical to that of the basic RU
POST-SESSION ANALYSIS
procedure.
This element is identical to that of the basic RU
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b. TACTICAL REMOTE VIEWING
Currently envisioned military RV applications will draw on
general RV techniques utilized in coordinate and beacon RV. To standard-
ize this approach the procedure described in paragraph 6 and 7a is
modified.
(7) TARGET S_E_LECTION
Tactical targets wi 11 be selected from U . S . mi 1 i t,a ~~~;~
units involved in military exercises; they will range from field test
units with military vehicles such as tanks and helicopters which are
instrumented to determine their spatial location throughout a field
trial, operational units involved in routine field exercises and small
units likely to undertake no-notice exercises.
(2) REMOTE VIEWING SESSION PRELIMINARIES
This element consists of the basic RV procedure
augmented by a briefing on some known aspects of the target.
(3) ACTIVITY AT TARGET
Target activity will be as prescribed by the cor~ttnanders
and umpires and will be totally independent of the RV session.
(4} REMOTE VIEWING SESSION
This element is identical to that of the basic RV
procedure.
(5) POST-SESSION ANALYSIS
After the RV session is over, the remote viewer and
interviewer discuss the session results and formulate specific questions
about the target activity, location, and state during the period of RV.
When information on the military exercise is available the interviewer
and the remote viewer compare it with the session results. The purpose
of this post-session analysis is to provide the remote viewer with the
satisfactrian of knowing how well the remote viewer performed.
8. (S-ORCON) SCOPE OF TARGETS FOR REMOTE VIEWING
AMSAA sponsored RV will exclude non-program associated US
civilian and military, allied, or neutral nation's citizens as targets.
g. {S-ORCON) PERFORMING ORGANIZATION
AMSAA is the performing organization.
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10. (S-ORCON) PROJECTED MAXIMUM NUMBER OF REMOTE VIEWERS AND INTERVIEWERS
2 active duty military, assigned to AMSAA (officers)
8 DA civilians (GS 12 and above) assigned to AMSAA
3 AMSAA civilian consultants (retired general officer)
Persons involved will be principally either remote viewers or
interviewers, but there may be some exchange of roles.
11. (S-ORCON) SELECTION OF REMOTE VIEWERS AND INTERVIEWERS
A number of AMSAA personnel were introduced to the RV phenomena
by a guest speaker presentation on the subject. Following this initial
introduction, others became familiar with the phenomena through the
circulation of open literature publications on RV. Discussions about
the military applications of RU phenomena by interested analysts re-
sulted in a decision by AMSAA management to seek establishment of a
program to define the military utility of the process, Individuals who
had previously shown an interest in the potential application of the RV
process were invited to participate as a remote viewer or interviewer.
Individuals desiring to participate in these tasks were accepted. Other
individuals selected after the initial participants were identified were
given an orientation on the phenomena and asked to read published
materials on RV. After a familiarization with the RV process and
procedures, individuals were asked if they would be willing to partici-
pate as a remote viewer or interviewer. Only those individuals who
indicated a positive desire to participate were accepted.
12. (S-ORCON) REPLICATION OF THE RV PROCESS
It is proposed to conduct up to 25 RV sessions per month.
Three principal RV procedures have been described: one uses map co-
ordinates, one uses a beacon individual (introduced to the remote
viewer) and a third uses a beacon individual (not introduced to the
remote reviewer). It is our goal to have each person participating as a
remote viewer (about 8 persons) perform each of the 3 RV procedures at
least 5 times in the course of this protocol (8 x 3 x 5 = 120 RV Total).
The minimum time required to achieve this goal at the rate of about 25
RV sessions a month is 6 months. Realistically, participants will not
be available from other duties on such an intensive basis. Therefore,
we project at least 70 months to accomplish this number of RV sessions.
Far each participant, the maximum number of RV sessions will be
2 per day and no more than 3 per week,
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13. (S-ORCON) EVALUATION
The recorded RV images are independently evaluated by one or
more individuals in the following manner to semi-quantitatively determine
the correspondence of the RV results to the intended remote targets.
1. Determine the principle concepts (PC) stated in the images
recorded in each RV session transcript.
2. At each target site judge the correspondence on a scale of
0 to 10, of each PC of each transcript. .
3. Calculate the appropriate statistics including the mean and
variance of all the judged PCs of each RV session for each target.
4. Rank the correspondence of each RV session for each target
using the calculated mean values.
5, Review the correspondence ranking utilizing any drawings or
sketches to fine-tune the rankings to establish a final rank ordering of
each RU session with each target.
14. (S-ORCON) CONFIDENTIALITY
Individuals performing as remote viewers and interviewers under
the AMSAA GRILL FLAME programs will not be identified outside of their
parent organization without their prior consent and they will be refer-
red to in project records only by an alpha-numeric designator. Products
of remote viewers and interviews such as tapes, drawings, transcripts,
rosters, or other materials which might reveal the identity of the
remote viewer will be coded to assure the protection of their identity.
15. (S-ORCON) PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
RU sessions will be conducted in an ordinary room at ambient
temperature and humdity during the normal waking hours of the partici-
pants. The only limitations on these parameters will be security from
electronic eavesdropping and elimination of ordinary distracting noises
such as a radio and office machinery.
16. (S-ORCON) Based on the preliminary results of the 26 March
1979 meeting of the Ad Hoc Assembly of the Surgeon General Human Use
Zeview Board, this remote viewing protocol is approved far AMSAA use.
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Project Officer
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