PROPOSAL FOR RESEARCH SRI INTERNATIONAL NO. ESU 84-157

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Proposal for Research
SRI International No. ESU 84-157
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SPECIAL ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES (-S-V--S-V-I) (U)
Part One--Technical Proposal
Prepared for: Prepared by:
Approved by:
Robert S. Leonard, Director
Radio Physics Laboratory
David D. Elliott, Vice President
Research and Analysis Division
Harold E. Puthoff
Senior Research Engineer
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SECRET/CENTER LANE-3/NOFORN
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) SRI International submits this unsolicited proposal
to Army INSCOM to initiate activity with regard to Special Orientation
Technique (SI-SIV) remote viewing (RV) training.
(U) To accomplish the proposed program, SRI will provide the facilities,
materials, SRI staffing, and consultants to perform the tasking outlined
in the following section.
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II 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 the psychoenergetic phenomena known as remote vieiwng
(RV) that has a potential military intelligence application.
1.2 (S/CL-3/NOFORN) The major goal is to orient INSCOM personnel
to state-of-the-art RV technology to determine whether such technology can
be successfully transferred to INSCOM personnel with a corresponding
increase in the reliability of a remote viewer.
2.1 (S/CL-3/NOFORN) Train two army personnel concurrently in RV
Stages I through IV, as outlined in SRI Final Report "Special Orientation
Techniques: S-IV (U)," SRI International, Menlo Park, California, SECRET/
CENTER LANE-3/NOFORN (June 1984).
2.1.1 (U) Initiate training in September 1984.
2.1.2 (S/CL-3/NOFORN) Training for each RV stage will normally
be divided into working sessions in accordance with the following schedule:
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Stage I
-10 weeks
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Stage II
- 6 weeks
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Stage 111
-12 weeks
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Stage IV
- 6 weeks
Total
-34 weeks
The session dates will be mutually agreed to by SRI and INSCOM.
2.1.3 (S/CL-3/NOFORN) After successful completion of each RV
stage, the trainee will be scheduled to begin the next RV stage.
2.2 (U) Determine the potential of the trainee for further training.
(U) Broken up into 1- to 2-week sessions each.
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(U) Military security requirements in the performance of this con-
tract shall be maintained in accordance with the "CENTER LANE SECURITY
PROCEDURES GUIDE," dated 1 March 1983 (S/CL-1/NOFORN/ORCON). The highest
classification 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-3/NOFORN) State-of-the-art RV training.
4.2 (U) A progress report (2 copies)--written evaluation of the
trainees' progress (within 10 days after the completion of each training
block).
4.3 (U) A final report.
4.3.1 (U) A final report (three copies) will be furnished
within 30 days after completion of each training stage.
4.3.2 (U) The report will include a summary of the training
presented, an evaluation of the trainees' ability to understand the training,
and a summary of the trainees' accomplishments during the training period.
4.3.3 (S/CL-3/NOFORN) The report should also include an
evaluation of the trainees' future remote viewing capabilities, and a
recommendation concerning further training.
5. (U) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
(U) Requirements concerning the use of human subjects as outlined
below will be adhered to.
5.1 (U) Use of human subjects.
(a) (U) The following definitions are used:
(1) (U) At risk means that the human subject may be
exposed to the possibility of harm--physical, biological, psychological,
sociological, or other as a consequence of an act or omission that goes
beyond the application of those established and accepted methods or pro-
cedures which are in his best interests, or that increases ordinary risks
of daily life, including the recognized risks inherent in his chosen
occupation or field of service.
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(2) (U) Human subject means any human being who,
knowingly or unknowingly, is subjected to an act or omission, whether at
risk or not, the object of which is to contribute to knowledge to be gained
as a part of work to be performed under the scope of this contract.
(b) (U) The contractor, before undertaking to perform any
study involving human subjects, whether at risk or not, whall insure that
the following minimum conditions are complied with:
(1) (U) The proposed study has been reviewed and
approved by a committee meeting the requirements set forth in Chapter 46
of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(2) (U) The number of human subjects used will be kept
to the minimum number that will reasonably achieve the required results.
(3) (U) The study must be such as to; contribute sig-
nificantly to scientific knowledge and have reasonable prospects of yielding
important results essential to an Army research program.
(4) (U) The study will be conducted only by persons
possessing the requisite scientific qualifications. The highest degree
of skill and care will be required during all stages of study of persons
who conduct or assist in the study.
(5) (U) The subject will be informed that at any time
during the course of his participation he has the right to revoke his
consent and withdraw from participation without prejudice to himself.
(6) (U) Participation by subjects will be immediately
terminated if it subsequently appears that the risk to the subjects is
significantly greater than anticipated at the time review and approval
was granted.
(7) (U) There shall be no greater intrusion into the
privacy of the human subject than is absolutely necessary for the conduct
of the study involved. Except for the submission of reports and other data
required by this contract, any information obtained about human subjects
as a result of participation shall be held as confidential as the law allows.
(8) (U) The study will be conducted so as to avoid all
unnecessary physical or mental suffering or injury.
(9) (U) No study will be conducted if there is any
inherent reason to believe that death or disabling injury is likely to
occur. Sufficient animal or laboratory experiments, or other evaluations,
must have been completed to give assurance or acceptable risks prior to the
use of human subjects.
(10) (U) The degree of risk to be taken will never exceed
that which is justified by the benefit to the subject and/or the humanitarian
importance of the knowledge to be gained.
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(11) (U) A physician will be responsible for the
medical care of subjects. Even if not the project leader, the
physician will have authority to terminate the study at any
time that he believes death, injury or harm is likely to result.
(12) (U) Proper preparations will be made, and
adequate facilities provided to protect the subject against all
foreseeable possibilities of injury, disability or death. This
includes, but is not limited to, hospitalization and medical
treatment as may be required. In addition, all apparatus and
instruments necessary to deal with likely emergency situations
will be available.
(13) (U) Human subjects will have no physical or
mental conditions which will make participation more hazardous
for them than it would be for normal healthy persons, unless
such condition is a necessary prerequisite for the particular
study involved. In any such case, the use of human subjects
with such pre-existing conditions must have been specifically
described and justified in the scope of the work to be
performed under this contract.
(14) (U) The scientifically qualified person
conducting the study, and each member of his research team,
will be prepared to terminate the subject's participation at
any stage if he has reason to believe, in the exercise of the
good faith, superior skill, and careful judgment required of
him, that continuation is likely to result in injury,
disability, or death to the human subject.
(c) (U) The contractor, before permitting any person
to participate as a human subject, whether at risk or not,
shall insure that the following minimum conditions are complied
with:
(1) (U) Legally effective informed consent will be
obtained by adequate and appropriate methods in accordance with
the provisions of this clause.
(2) (U) All consent must be voluntary. It must be
the knowing consent of the individual or his legally authorized
representative, so situated as to be able to exercise free
power of choice without there having been any use of force,
fraud, deceit, duress, constraint, coercion, or lawful or
improper inducement. The elements of information necessary to
such consent include:
(i) (U) A fair explanation of the procedures to be
followed, and their purposes, including identification of any
procedures which are experimental.
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(ii) (U) A description of any attendant discomforts
or risks reasonably to be anticipated.
(iii) (U) A description of any benefits reasonably to
be anticipated.
(iv) (U) A disclosure of any appropriate alternative
procedures that might be advantageous to the subject.
(v) (U) An offer to answer any questions concerning
the procedure.
(vi) (U) An instruction that the subject is free to
revoke his consent and to discontinue participation at any time
without prejudice to himself.
(d) (U) Exculpatory language through which the
subject is made to waive, or appear to waive, any of his legal
rights, including any release from liability for negligence, is
prohibited.
(e) (U) Prior consent by a subject or his legally
authorized representative shall be obtained in all cases. Such
consent shall be in writing whenever it is reasonably possible
to do so. The consent form may be read to the subject or his
legally authorized representative, but in any event he or his
legally authorized representative must be given adequate
opportunity to read it and to ask questions they might have.
This consent form should then be signed by the subject or his
legally authorized representative and by a witness not directly
involved in the study. Oral consent may be used only when it
has been specifically described and justified in the scope of
the work to be performed under this contract or approved in
writing by the contracting officer. When so authorized and
used, oral consent is subject to all the same standards as
apply to written consent, except that the signature of the
subject or his legally authorized representative is not
required.
(f) (U) Prior to conduct of the study, the contractor
shall submit for approval to the contracting officer's
representative a detailed description of the means by which
informed consent will be obtained, to include any forms to be
used. Upon completion of the study, the contractor will submit
to the contracting officer's representative a detailed report
demonstrating compliance with paragraph (c), to include copies
of the written consent if such was obtained.
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(g) (U) The contractor shall not undertake to conduct either
the clinical pharmacology or clinical trails of an investigational drug
unless this contract contains the clause entitled "Clinical Study of
Investigational Drugs."
(h) (U) Prisoners of war will not be used under any
circumstances.
5.2 (U) DoD Directive 5240.1-R governing experimentation on human
subjects will be followed by the contractor. Informed consent of all
subjects will be obtained in writing in accordance with the guidelines issued
by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. All persons partici-
pating as human subjects, as defined in paragraph 6.1 above shall be known
to possess the abilities and qualities which will be observed and analyzed
during the conduct of this contract.
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Director
Radio Physics Laboratory
Research and 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 tests 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," Journal of Geophysical Research (March 1965); "Selection
of a Model of the Earth's Magnetic Field," Journal of Geophysical
Research (December 1962); "Evidence of Low-Frequency Amplitude
Fluctuations in Radar Auroral Echoes," Journal of Geophysical Research
(April 1962); "Distribution of Radar Auroras over Alaska," Journal of
Geophysical Research (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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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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