MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT

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• Publication Date: August 17, 1984
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MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
PURPOSE: (S/NF) The purpose of this memorandum is to document operating
rationale and terms of agreement for the Intellignece Community and R&D
participants in psychoenergetics activities.
DEFINITION: (U) Psychoenergetics refers to classes of human capabilities
that are parapsychological in nature. There are two main categories, infor-
mation and energetic, that are sometimes called PSI phenomena and can be
defined as:
1. Remote viewing (RV)/Extrasensory Perception (ESP) -- ability of an
individual to access and describe remote geographic areas or to
access and describe concealed data via undefined transmission
mechanisms.
2. Psychokinesis (PK) -- mental ability to influence physical or bio-
logical systems via undefined physical mechanisms.
SCOPE: (S/NF) This new psychoenergetics effort will pursue investigations
into remote viewing (RV), and will also begin in-depth investigations into
psychokinesis (PK). This effort will address external assistance and in-
house investigations, and will include both operational and basic research
aspects. Effort for FY 84 is a continuation of previous work; however,
follow-on efforts will reflect a broader range of investigations and will
involve other government facilities and contractors.
PARTICIPANTS: (S/NF) The terms in this memorandum are applicable to the
current participants, DIA and HQ DA/SGRD, and are for FY 1984 and anticipated
follow-on efforts. It is expected that additional participants will join
this effort in the future. Appendices will be added to this memorandum to
reflect specific agreement terms for new members and/or for changing
requirements regarding current participants.
BACKGROUND: (S/NF) Activities described herein are basically a follow-on
from an earlier DoD effort (the GRILL FLAME project). GRILL FLAME was
officially terminated after a 3-year evaluation period at the close of FY
1983. Key findings and recommendations were submitted to congressional
committees and to key intelligence and R/D community personnel via the GRILL
FLAME PROJECT REPORT, dated 19 October 1983.
(S/NF) Key findings of the GRILL FLAME project were:
o Remote viewing is a real phenomenon, and is not degraded by
distance or shielding.
o Remote viewing ability can be improved by appropriate
training procedures.
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o Remote viewing has potential for US intelligence applications.
However, at this stage of development, descriptive content (e.g.,
sketches, configurations) is more reliable than analytic content
(e.g., function, complex technical data).
o A potential threat to US national security exists from foreign
achievements in psychoenergetics. In the USSR and in China, this
research is well funded and receives high-level government
backing.
(S/NF) There were several key recommendations that resulted from the 3-
year GRILL FLAME effort:
o Applied intelligence-oriented research in remote viewing should be
continued.
o Basic research in both remote viewing and psychokinesis phenomena
should be initiated.
(S/NF/ORCON) It was further recommended that the application-oriented effort
be centralized, with overall management provided by DIA, and that a
close interaction with basic research be maintained. Should the
quality of remote viewing continue to improve, it was recommended
that a joint service remote viewing unit be established to respond to
DoD requirements.
(S/NF) An independent science panel also reviewed the GRILL FLAME project
and concluded that the external assistance work (at SRI) warrants
cautious continued support, and that research should be conducted
as much as possible in an open unclassified mode so that its repro-
ducibility and accuracy can be independently verified by others.
(S/NF) Consequently, the above findings and recommendations provide
major guidelines and objectives for new efforts in this area.
BASIC OBJECTIVES: (S/NF) Basic objectives of this integrated effort will be
to evaluate application potential and to improve utility of remote viewing
(RV) so that reliable applications can be pursued in the Intelligence
Community, and to evaluate application potential of energetics (PK) effects.
A strong applied and basic research effort will be established so that
-underlying parameters and explanatory mechanisms can be identified for the
various phenomena. Threat-related aspects (e.g., replication of foreign
psychoenergetics results) will also be examined when possible to assist in
evaluating threat potential of foreign use of psychoenergetics, and to
identify possible countermeasures.
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OPERATING CONCEPT: (S/NF) To optimize project effectiveness, there will be:
? Central management.
? An executive review board.
? Project teams.
1. (U) Central Management:
(C) In order to achieve a unified, integrated and coordinated effort over
the wide variety of research and operational activities required for this
project, central management must be implemented and maintained. Since the
main thrust of this work is directed toward potential intelligence
applications, central management will be accomplished by the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) through the office of the Assistant Deputy Director
for S&T Intelligence. This individual will have full responsibility for all
aspects of the program, including final review and approval of all operational
efforts and all research tasks. As Central Manager, he will be responsible
for task scheduling and time phasing, for chairing frequent data review and
evaluation sessions, for insuring that the total effort is fully integrated,
and for a variety of other program management issues. The Central Manager
will also insure that contract issues are clearly defined and appropriately
monitored, and will provide central control for administrating and/or
monitoring financial aspects of the program.
(C) The Central Manager will also assemble a special scientific advisory
group to provide expert advice on various program technical issues.
2. (U) Executive Review Board:
(C) This board will consist of executive-level representatives from the
principals (R/D and intelligence) involved in this program. Observers from
other DoD elements may be included on a strict need-to-know basis if they
could be potential users of the techniques developed in this program, or if
they might otherwise contribute in later phases of the effort. This board
would be primarily responsible for management - related issues, such as human
use, legal, release-of-information, and program security guidelines. Other
responsibilities would involve resolving priority conflicts and assisting in
resource procurement. This board would also provide executive review of
project activities and findings on a periodic basis to assist in overall
evaluation. Close coordination between this board and the Central Manager
will be maintained.
3. (U) Project Teams:
(C) There will be two teams: the (1) Operational and Applications Team,
and (2) the Basic Research Team. These Project Teams will be the working arm
of the Central Manager. Team members will be composed of representatives from
all the principal R/D and intelligence elements involved in this project.
They will identify details of specific tasks, recommend task priority and time
phasing, prepare research requests and evaluate contractor proposals,
recommend facilities for conducting the investigations, and will in general
attend to all the technical aspects of the program. These teams will also be
responsible for insuring that appropriate data evaluation method, investiga-
tion protocols, and scientific methodology are applied to all aspects of the
operational and research efforts.
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RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS: (S/NF) There will ultimately be several research
and application efforts at external and in-house facilities that examine
different aspects of psychoenergetics. Specific tasks would depend on project
priorities and funding levels available, and will be subject to approval by
the Central Manager. Specifics of their activities will be defined by the
Chairmen of the Applications and the Research teams, and will be based on
guidance provided by the Human Use Committee.
1. (U) Operational Investigations:
(S/NF/ORCON) This will be primarily composed of contractor personnel and
in-house personnel at one or more government facilities who are mainly
concerned with evaluating how well psychoenergetics can be applied to
operational problems. Initial effort will address operational intelligence
potential of remote viewing phenomenon; however later phases may address other
aspects of remote viewing; e.g., communications.
(S/NF/ORCON) The application effort will integrate training methodologies
and research findings from the research efforts into their operational
protocols as these results become available. Some direct applications work
may also be performed at contractor facilities for skill development and
training, and for projects where joint effort is required.
(S/NF/ORCON) The main focus of the direct application efforts is to assess
utility of the most promising psychoenergetics area in an operational
environment and to identify methods for enhancing operational utility.
Results from this work will pave the way for implementation of this potential
capability into the DoD for a variety of users.
(S/NF/ORCON) The operational investigations will examine real-time
operational problems. These tasks will be levied on a priority basis by the
Central Manager, with their execution compatible with established
protocols. Operational resources may be from in-house groups, contractor
personnel, or individual consultants. These personnel will also provide a
talent pool for assisting in various applied or basic research tasks.
Research tasks will also be levied in accordance with over-all project
priorities and objectives, and will be approved by the Central Manager.
2. (U) Applications Research:
(S/NF) The main purpose of the applications research is to examine all the
variables that may have direct or indirect impact on improving utility of
remote viewing phenomena, and to explore application potential of energetics
(PK) phenomena.
(S/NF) This would include, for example, determining if certain psysiolo-
gical parameters, psychological traits, or states of consciousness could
correlate with successful psychoenergetics functioning. Such possible
correlations would be useful for predicting data validity and improving
application reliability. Quantifying the effects of possible physical
variables, such as distance, shielding, target location, target character-
istics, or environmental factors, would help in identifying operational
constraints.
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(S/NF) Applications research includes development of all data evaluation
methodologies so that statistical significance and confidence levels can be
determined for each type of application. Central to this effort would be the
continuing investigations into psychoenergetics skill identification, develop-
ment, and enhancement for the various classes of phenomena and types of
applications considered. Techniques for improving data interpretation or for
isolating valid data from the spurious would be pursued, as well as other
applications research issues.
(S/NF) The application research effort would investigate and attempt to
simulate appropriate foreign research in order to assess its significance for
threat assessment work. They would also investigate potential countermeasure
to possible foreign use of psychoenergetics phenomena.
(S/NF) Since this research examines both informational (RV, ESP) and
energetic aspects (PK) of psychoenergetics, a broad range of research tasks
would be levied on various university laboratories, contractor facilities, and
government research facilities where appropriate scientific instruments,
shielded rooms, or other resources are located.
3. (U) Basic Research:
(C/NF) This research would require assistance from basic research
laboratories at universities, contractor facilities, or appropriate government
laboratories. Main focus would be on investigations that define theoretical
models and fundamental physical (and mental) mechanisms that help explain the
various types of psychoenergetics effects. Physical and psychological
scientists and those from other disciplines (such as medical, biology, neuro-
physiology) would be involved in this exploratory work. Some of this effort
would complement investigation of the empirically based applied research.
(S/NF) Basic research could include, for example, long distance remote
viewing experiments to deep submarines or orbital platforms for evaluating
possible electromagnetic transmission models. A variety of experiments would
be developed for electromagnetic, quantum mechanical, or other physical
theories that have been advanced as possible explanatory models for the
phenomena. Issues involving brain/mind, consciousness/subconsciousness or
cognitive research would be examained for clues that might suggest how PSI
information may be received, processed, and presented to consciousness, or how
energetic PSI phenomena (PK) are mediated. PK effects, for example, may
involve a complex interaction between mental and physical states. Some form
of electromagnetic frequency may be generated by the central nervous system
that interacts with surrounding material for some types of PK phenomenon.
Issues such as these, and many others, would be explored by the basic research
effort.
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SPECIFIC TERMS:
1. (S/NF/ORCON) DIA:
a. DIA/DT will provide central management.
b. DIA/DT will provide the Chairman for the operational and appli-
cations research team, and will also provide the Deputy Chairman for
the basic research team.
c. DIA/DT will provide an on-site contract monitor at the major
psychoenergetics research facility (SRI International).
2. (S/NF/ORCON) HQ DA/SGRD:
a. SGRD will provide the Chairman for the basic research team, and will
also provide the Deputy Chairman for the operational and applications
research team.
b. SGRD will provide direct assistance in various executive committee
activities (e.g., human use, science review, security guidelines,
other).
3. (S/NF/ORCON) Both DIA and HQ DA/SGRD will:
a. Jointly develop detailed operating plans according to guidelines in
the operational concept of this memorandum of agreement.
b. Jointly develop and adhere to a strict set of security guidelines and
requirements, and be responsive to other critical project require-
ments (e.g., human use).
c. Jointly review all proposed new work (operational and research), and
jointly approve new participants in this effort.
d. Pursue various funding sources as appropriate and according to mutual
agreement.
e. Jointly develop external assistance funding requirements and alloca-
tions. Although various contractors will probably be involved, pri-
ority will be on retaining the SRI team for research continuity and
for keeping their unique capabilities intact.
f. Manage and control their respective external contracts; however,
close coordination will be required to assure that duplication
of effort does not exist, and to assure that contract objectives are
compatible with over-all project goals.
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g. Respond jointly to all key project issues, such as congressional
queries, briefings, or QRT's.
h. Jointly develop appendices to this memorandum of agreement for up-
dating project needs or for unforseen contingencies as they may
arise.
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(C/NF) The undersigned concur with the operating concepts and terms stated in
this memorandum of agreement.
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
US ARMY MEDICAL AND
DEVELOPMENT COMMAND (SGRD)
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