ADDITIONAL TASKS

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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: May 13, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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To: LTC R. Jachim
From:
Subject: Additional Tasks
1. Enclosed are the materials you requested during my visit. If these are
not suitable or if you require additional information, please let me know.
In looking at the work schedule, it will not be possible to begin these
tasks until late in this fiscal year. The work will not be completed until
the end of FY'84.
2. If you are pleased with the enclosed drafts, let me know what your next
step will be. We stand ready to prepare and forward an official proposal.
3. In addition to the projects in which you have indicated an interest, I am
including a sheet on another topic that we here at SRI believe will be of
value to you.
4. Please let me know if I can assist you in anyway.
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Subject: Selection/Training Task for LTC RJ {::U
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With regard to Selection/Training. SRI Inter'nati.onatl will provide the
appropriate egL.,:ipment, facilities and personnel to accomplish the following
three-phase Selection/Training Task:
Phase 1: (a) Personality profile data will be collected from calibrated
remote viewers, both SRI and client:> using an extended Wechsler
test. These data will come from two sources:
1. Data in hand already obtained from certain SRI viewers;
2. Administration o?P the extended Wechsler to those remote
viewers that can be made available for testing,. both
from the SRI and client communities. The testing will
be carried out by two experienced testers, one a
consultant to SRI (L)r. David Saunders, LIARS
Measurements Assoc.. Lawrenceville. NJ). and one an
SRI staff member (L)r. Michael Hecker).
(b) The data obtained in (a) will he analyzed in accordance with
the P.A.. S. (Personality Assessment System) concept (see "An
Introduction to the Personality Assessment SystemTm, by J. Winne
and J. Gittinger, Monograph Supplement No. 3E3, Clinical
Psychology Publishing Co. Inc:. Brandon. Vermont).
(c) From the above analysis will be extracted indications as to the
appropriat;e personality profile(s) of interest?
Phase 2: (a) In parallel with the above +f`for?t, self-report data (from such
tests as the Myer~s- riggs and 16 PF questionnaire) collected
from the same sources will be examined for the purpose of
designing a pro-screening questionnaire. Analysis of this data
will be carried out using the B.P.S. (Behavior Prediction
System) concept to generate a scoring key capable of extracting
from self-report pre-screening data those individuals with the
profile(s) indicated in Phase 1(c) as being the profile(s) of
interest.
(b) To test whether the pre-screening test is effective in
selecting individuals w:i.th the Phase :1(c) profiles. a second
group of individuals will be given both the pre-screening
and ext;ended Wechsler tests and the correlations examined.
Phase 3: Assuming success in Phases 1 and 2 in delineating individuals
with the appropriate profile(s) of interest. a series of remote
viewing trials will be carried out with time and resources
SGFOIA2 remaining to verify that appropriately-profiled individuals
do exhibit a talent for remote viewing.
Estimated cost:
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Subject: Target Search Task
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With regard to Target Search, SRI International will provide the appropriate
equipment, facilities and personnel to accomplish the following three-phase
Target Search Task directed at determining the location of objects,
individuals and facilities. on scales covering. e.g., rooImI'?si .e to global.
dimensions.,
Phase 1 (Discrete Search Technique)
In the Discrete Search Technique, the target area of interest (e.g.,
room, globe) is divided up into a series of "zones" or "grid
squares," one of which is assumed to contain the target of interest.
A statistical procedure (e,. gf. , error-correcting coding, sequential
sampling) is then used to statistically average a series of
"guesses" to determine in itch:ic:h of the "zones" or "grid squares''
the target of interest; is contained. It has been shown in previous
work that such a procedure can in principle yield high-reliability
res:;u:l.ts with operators of relatively modest expertise, and a pilot
series of trials involving the location of an individual and the
:iac.at;;Lon of ammunition was successful. Several forms of the Discrete
Search Technique, including the use of real-time computer and
programmable calculator statistical averaging procedures,. will
be employed to determine the efficacy of the discrete approach
applied to problems of interest; to the client.
Phase 2 (Continuum Search Technique)
As in the Discrete Search Technique, a number of so-called "dowsing''
approaches have been identified in the psychoener?ge?t;:i.css literature
as having some validity in determining the location of targets of
interest. In the "dowsing approach, the area of interest containing
the target is "examined" by psychoenergei;ic means an a continuum
basis to determine the location of the specific target. In the
"map-dowsing" version of these approaches, direct access to the
area of interest is not required, and therefore the approach
lends itself to the types of applications of interest'; to the client?
A number of these approaches will be evaluated under laboratory-
controlled conditions to determine their applicability to client
needs..
Phase 3 (Test)
I-c:}:t.lowing an SRI evaluation of the various techniques that show
promise in Phases 1 and 2, a subset will be chosen for demonstration
of feasibility to the client, with targets under control of the
client. Appropriate statistical analyses will be performed to
finalize the overall evaluation..
Estimated cost:
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Subject: Audio Ana:Ly::ii.a Task for L.TC: RJ c::C:: Puthoff
With rregar?d to Audio f naly i.?i, SRI International will provide the
apprc:opri,ate eclc.ui.pment facilities, and pc? r?saonnel to ac:c'oinp:I.i.s:>h the fool1owAwi.ng
The procedures developed in two prrev:i.ou twiks
Carvelat;ions 4J:i.th RV &ualI?(:y, and RV Evaluat;:i.on), ut:i.:11 be
used to del-;ermine the degree to which audio correlations
with RV re+:ipcarlsie{; exist within the current training
environment?
The data callected from within the current tr-aini.nq progratri
?rr'c,ni ssspons:icar'.? i~. pp:I.led personnel Will be used to search for
audio corr?e:lat;inns. As in the previous audio proyram, the
initial sic.?:;isic)n:s will be 1.1?iiie to formulate cor'r'elation
I,ypc:atllc:.,s:,e,~> that can be tested with new data from within
program,.
In the search .f is r correlations, the RV re