FY'83 END-OF-YEAR DOD GRILL FLAME REPORT

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DOD GRILL FLAME PROGRESS REPORT
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I PROGRAM STATUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
B. FY 1983 Grill Flame Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- CRV Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Intelligence Assessment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- Operational RV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
- Data Base Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- Search RV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
II GRILL FLAME FINANCIAL STATEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
III OPERATIONAL REMOTE VIEWING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
IV FY 1984 GRILL FLAME PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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The major event in FY 1983 was the removal of Army participation in
the Grill Flame project. All of the additional slots and funds for external
assistance were removed from the FY 1983 budget by the U.S. Congress. This
placed the entire project in jeopardy as Army INSCOM was to provide over
507. of the funds needed for the contract work at SRI. Therefore, during
much of the fiscal year, the project had to operate on the assumption that
funds may not be available for the entire fiscal year. SRI was, however,
able to complete all the work scheduled for FY 1983 when additional funds
were provided by DDR&E.
Also in FY 1983, the Grill Flame project was reviewed by a science
panel. The members of the panel were all distinguished scientists in
their fields. Essentially, they looked at the scientific aspects of the
program from experimental design to analysis of the data. In general, the
panel was impressed by the work and found no major scientific flaws in the
project.
This report is the final one of a series of three End-of-Year reports
(FY 1.981, FY 1982, and FY 1983). The three-year Grill Flame Program as
pursued by Army INSCOM and DIA, by Congressional dictate, is terminated at
the end of FY 1983. The Congress specified that no NFIB funds were to be
spent in FY 1984 and beyond. It does appear, however, that both the research
and applications phases of psychoenergetics will be pursued using Army and
DDR&E research funds.
B. FY 1983 Grill Flame Program
(See the following task sheets.)
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Attachment #1
Verbal Description of Project
At the beginning of the DIA/Army Joint Services Program (FY 1981)
SRI, in conjunction with its sponsors, made a decision to develop and
codify the most promising RV enhancement procedure that had emerged from
earlier work--a six stage coordinate remote viewing training procedure
developed by SRI Consultant. Mr. Ingo Swann. The procedure focuses on
improving the reliability of remote viewing by.cont.rolling those factors
that tend to introduce noise into the RV product. A broad overview of
the procedure, which has been derived empirically on the basis of a decade?
of investigation into the RV process, is presented in the documents below.
The basic components of this procedure consist of:
(1) Repeated target-address (coordinate) presentation,
with quick-reaction response by the remote viewer
(to minimize imaginative overlays).
(2) The use of a specially-designed, acoustic-tiled,
featureless homogeneously-colored viewing chamber
(to minimize environmental overlays).
(3) The adoption of a strictly-prescribed, limited
interviewer patter (to minimize interviewer overlay).
At this stage of near completion of the development., the RV training
procedure proceeds through a series of six stages of proficiency, hypothe-
sized to correspond to six stages of increased contact with the target
site. The stages are outlined in the table below. In a given remote
viewing session, an experienced remote viewer tends to recapitulate the
six stages in order.
During FY 1983, the final development of the procedure is focused
specifically on aspects applicable to differentiation and identification
of technological facilities. Orientation/application/testing of the
procedure continues with community- and SRI-provided trainees. Videotaping
of sessions has been added for additional documentation/learning purposes.
* H. E. Puthoff, "RV Reliability, Enhancement, and Evaluation (U),"
Final REport, SRI Project 3279-1, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
(February 1982), SECRET/NOFORN.
H. E. puthoff, "RV Reliability, Enhancement, and Evaluation (U),"
Final Report, SRI Project 4028-1, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
(December 1982), SECRET/NOFORN.
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SITE IS ACQUIRED IN STAGES OF INCREASING CONTACT
STAGES
1. Major gestalt (mountain, city, land/water interface)
2. Sensory contact (cold/dry)
3. Dimension, motion, mobility (large mountain, panoramic view)
4. Qualitative and quantitative aspects (technological
cultural, two buildings)
5. Specific analytical aspects--by interrogating signal line
(radar tracking function, ABM defense)
6. Three-dimensional contact (modeling, layouts, further
analytical contact)
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1. Sponsor's Expectation
Improve accuracy of remote
viewing.
Transfer technology to
client community.
Experiments
Research on Stages IV-VI was
performed, with RVer #002
acting as viewer.
Continued training of 3 SRI-
selected viewers (two through
SII, one through SIII) was
carried out, to provide addi-
tional data to evaluate the
training procedure.
Two client personnel pro-
gressed through training, one
through mid-SI, one through
SIII.
New techniques (e.g., 3-dimensional
modeling) were developed which led
to increasingly high-quality results.
An overall analysis of blind-testing
(Class B) results indicates a sus-
tained hit rate of 66% in providing
results in the 2 (good) and 3
(excellent) categories.
Progress of trainees, both SRI-
and client-selected, continues to
provide evidence that CRV tech-
nology can be transferred to
selected individuals by means n
of a structured procedure.
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2. In addition the following discoveries were made:
(a) Newer trainees without previous experience appear to progress more rapidly through the new
procedures, as compared with earlier viewers involved in "relearning."
(b) The use of modeling materials (e.g., clay, pasteups) appears to contribute to RV product
quality.
3. Based upon the sponsor's stated needs and our discoveries during the fiscal year a program for FY184
was developed.
Research, SIV-SVI
Progress in increasing
utility of RV data
acquisition.
Training/technology transfer) Trainees' progress/technology
transfer tracked.
Complete SV R&D to stabilize procedure for
technology transfer; gather more data on
SVI modeling techniques to optimize utility.
Continue technology transfer, training evalu-
ation, through higher-stage processes.
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Verbal Description of the Project
To meet program objectives, one of SRI's tasks is to investigate U.S.
capabilities in applied RV, both to determine the potential for application
in U.S. efforts, and to provide data that is useful in assessing the threat
potential of corresponding Soviet applications. In response to this re-
quirement, SRI has pursued application tasks that were of interest to the
intelligence community, and have responded to-quick-reaction requirements
set by representatives monitoring the progress of the work.
The format for carrying out these tasks is as follows. A request
for information concerning a target site is transmitted by the client to
the DIA representative the Joint Service Program COTR
in residence at SRI. He then provides targeting information (e.g.,
coordinates) to an SRI RV session monitor at the start of a session. This
monitor then works with a remote viewer to obtain data. In this format,
SRI personnel are kept blind to the source of the request, and to the
type of site or event of interest. In some cases, the COTR is present
during the RV session, or he may even conduct the session himself.
In an effort to determine whether a remote viewer is "on line"
before attempting an operational task, a presession calibration trial is
carried out on a site for which feedback materials (e.g., National
Geographic magazines, travel brochures) are available to the session
monitor. If the results indicate a useful level of RV functioning, the
operational task is engaged; if not, the task is aborted. In like
fashion, a postsession calibration trial is carried out to provide a check
on whether the viewer remained "on line" during the operational task.
Evaluation protocols were developed for use by analysts to provide
numerical estimates of various aspects of the RV product generated in
operational RV tasks. The returned protocols constitute the basis for
contractor evaluation, feedback to the remote viewer, and as an input
for the computerized data-base management (DBM). The evaluation protocols
submitted to the analysts for their completion are provided in Appendix D
of the below footnoted document.
The contractor has completed development of a computerized data-base
management system to handle this material. This system, programmed on a
stand-alone LSI 11/23 system, provides a library/catalog function of data-
base readout by date, site, viewer, and so forth, along with the capability
of yielding trend analysis functions.
H. E. Puthoff, "RV Reliability, Enhancement, and Evaluation (U)," Final
Report, SRI Project 3279-1, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (February
1982), SECRET/NOFORN/GF.
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Operational RV
1. Sponsor's Expectation
Respond to operational re-
quirements as needed.
SOW Reference
Experiments
SRI's remote viewers provided
RV data on sites J.S. #35
through J.S. #42 in response to
operational requirements.
Increasingly high quality results
were obtained, especially after
completion of SIV development,
leading to DIA evaluation scores
on the last four sites of 2+, 3,
3, and 2+ on a -03 point scale.
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2. In addition the following discoveries were made:
The injection of intermediate quick-response feedback appears to increase viewer confidence;
therefore, a carefully-monitored Class C protocol (as opposed to Class R) may be more productive
for operational tasking.
Class C: Intermediate confirmatory feedback supplied to viewer at selected points during
operational scan.
Class B: No feedback given until operational scan complete.
3. Based upon the sponsor's stated needs and our discoveries during the fiscal year a program for FY'84
was developed.
Operational RV products
provided to client.
Client evaluation shows in
increasing quality.
Continued operational tasking.
Explore Class B/Class C protocols with regard
to optimization of operational RV product.
Continue development of operational RV
evaluation techniques.
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8. Sponsor Expectation:
To have a system that will both store and allow manipulation of the
data acquired via CRV. To have a system that can store and manipulate
intelligence data.
13. Verbal Description of Project:
We developed and made operational a database management system using
an LSI-11/73 microcomputer and UNIX v7 software. Five data bases
were implemented:
(1) Project viewgraphs
(2) Operational remote viewing
(3) RV training
(4) Intelligence
(5) Free world study
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PROGRAM: Data Base Management System
1. Sponsor's Expectation
To have a system that will
both store and allow man-
ipulation of the data
acquired via CRV.
To have a system that can
store and manipulate
intelligence data.
2.2.1.
2.2.3
Experiments
Informix, a C-based relational
database management utility was
installed.
Informix v.3.0 was installed.
Informix v.3.0 was installed.
Some basic DBMS was possible, but
full implimentation could not be
achieved.
Full implimentation of the RV DBMS
was realized.
User-friendly input screen were
implimented.
Standardized reports were
generated.
Schema was designed and checked T
for possible update/append n
anomalies.
Test data was used to confirm
schema design.
Full user-friendly input pro-
grams await further DBMS
hardware/software upgrades.
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2. In addition the following discoveries were made:
For the intelligence DBMS, we found that we were .3t state-of-the-art in database design.
Consequently, our desk-top micro-computer could only be used to demonstrate "proof-of-principle."
3. Based upon the sponsor's stated needs and our discoveries during the fiscal year a program for FY'84
was developed.
Intelligence DBMS
requirement
To Fulfill the requirement we
have exceeded the capability
of the microcomputer ')'3MS
faci.Iit-.
We recommend a work station concept with net-
wor?ring capability be implemented in hardware
using Bu'k',iev 4-213SD UNIX and Ing;res relational
dstab.se 1s soFtware.'
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Verbal Description of Project
A continuing requirement in operational RV is the determination of
the location of tactical and strategic targets of interest whose positions
are not known a priori. Examples range from the location of people or
equipment in a building complex to the position of a facility or weapons
delivery system in a strategic context. The search task is therefore
directed at determining the location of objects, individuals, systems and
facilities on scales covering, e.g., room-size to global dimensions.
This task lends itself to two standard psychoenergetics approaches;
they are:
(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.g., error-
correcting coding, sequential sampling) is then used
to statistically average a series of "guesses" to
determine in which 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 results with operators of
relatively modest expertise, and a pilot series of
trials involving the location of an individual and the
location of ammunition was successful. Several forms
of the Discrete Search Technique, including the use of
real-time computer and programmable calculator statistical
averaging procedures, are to be considered to determine
the efficacy of the discrete approach applied to problems
of interest to the client.
(2) Continuum Search Technique. As in the Discrete Search
Technique, a number of so-called "dowsing" approaches have
been identified in the psychoenergetics 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 psycho-
energetic means on 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 are to be considered
to determine their applicability to client needs.
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1. Sponsor's Expectation
Begin to develop protocols
for search RV.
Following a literature search
on protocols used in search
RV applications, three initial
pilot studies were carried out.
Effort was just begun at a low
level, so definitive results are
not yet available. The pilot
results included failures: attempts
to locate, by statistical averaging
(sequential sampling) of multi-
guess responses, location of an
object in one of three safe drawers;
and successes: statistical
averaging (majority vote of 5) of
multi-guess responses on
location of object in binary
location task.
Considerable effort remains to
be done before this aspect of
RV approaches that of des-
criptive RV.
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2. In addition the following discoveries were made:
Statistical modeling of various multi-guess search strategies as required for application
tasking brought to completion.
3. Based upon the sponsor's stated needs and our discoveries during the fiscal year a program for FY'84
was developed.
FY'83 Program
Pilot studies, search
protocol development.
Beginning efforts show success
and failure modes.
Greatly expanded search effort required.
Explore both discrete (grid-square or zone
method) and continuous (dowsing) methods
of location/tracking.
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III OPERATIONAL REMOTE VIEWING
Throughout the year SRI was asked by DIA to contribute RV-derived data
in response to operational or simulated operational requirements. These
are summarized in the following table. Three examples (J.S. 39 through 41)
showing the level of reliability and accuracy. achieved are also included.
Complete documentation is available and can be obtained through proper
security channels on a need-to-know basis.
The accuracy of the operational RV products was assessed by DIA
analysts in accordance with the following accuracy scale:
DEFINITIONS FOR THE ACCURACY SCALE
0 - Little correspondence Self explanatory
1 - Site contact with Mixture of correct and incorrect
mixed results elements, but enough of the former to
indicate source has probably accessed
the target site.
2 - Good Good correspondence with several elements
matching, but some incorrect information.
3 - Excellent Good correspondence with unambiguous
unique matchable elements and relatively
little incorrect information.
The accuracy assessments for each site are included in the following table.
As a final assessment tool, five sites remote viewed by RVer #002
under similar operational conditions O.S. 36, 37, and 40 through 42) were
evaluated on the basis of rank ordering of transcripts against sites by an
analyst blind as to which transcript was generated in response to which
operational target. In this way, each of the five responses was assessed
against each of the five targets, to determine whether the RV products were
simply chance descriptions. The result was that all five were correctly
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rratched, transcript to site, a result whose probability of occurring by chance
in a 5 X 5 forced choice match is only p = 8.3'X 10 3 or odds of 1/120.
The subjective impressions of high quality viewing is thus substantiated
by objective blind assessment procedures.
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IV FY 1984 GRILL FLAME PROGRAM
In FY 1983 the Congress placed a prohibition on spending NFIB funds
to finance the Grill Flame Project. The DIA will then only be allowed to
spend $70K, and that money can only be used to evaluate and report on
foreign research efforts in psychoenergetics. The Army was not allowed
to spend NFIB funds during FY 1983 and this restriction will be maintained
in FY 1984. Therefore, funding for Grill Flame in FY 1984 will come from
the R&D community. Specifically, DDR&E is expected to make $600K available
to support the pursuit of Grill Flame goals.
Again, in FY 1984, coordinate remote viewing will be the focus of the
program. During the year, Stages IV and above will be researched and
trained. In addition, a search for both an alternate training program and
an alternate targeting program will be made, and those that appear promising
will be evaluated. Further development of the search methodology will also
be part of the FY 1984 program. This will be the focus of the early part
of the program as this particular kind of remote viewing seems to be in
much demand. In addition, finalizing a remote viewing evaluation procedure
will be completed in the early part of FY 1984. At this time a data base
management system is in operation for both intelligence data and for remote
viewing.
As new data becomes available it will be entered into the system.
As a new element in the program an investigation and evaluation of PK
research will be carried out. Should any of the areas of PK research
appear promising, PK would receive much attention in future years. Finally,
countermeasures will again be investigated in FY 1984. Only very limited
amounts of funds have been spent on this crucial area. In FY 1984 a major
effort should produce significant results. Other areas that may receive
some attention in FY 1984 include developing a method of selecting people
with good remote viewing potential, and looking at the effects of ELF on
remote viewing performance.
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