PROPOSED GRILL FLAME PROTOCOL

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• Publication Date: March 15, 1979
• Content Type: REGULATION

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(S) PROPOSED GRILL FLAME PROTOCOL (U)
(S-ORLON) PROPOSED AMSAA
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 phbto inter-
pretation of photographs obtained from overhead or oblique means. The
individual performing RV (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
achievable 1 2,3 4,5 No drugs, hypnosis, visual, auditory or olfactory
stimuli, liminal or subliminal, 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 detect 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 and to
rapidly determine the damage resulting from non-nuclear weapon attack;
and to determine the access code to computers and other electronic
devices. US Army Personnel, units, materiel and operations are vul-
nerable to RV. Countermeasures must be devised to reduce this vulnera-
bility.
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 1978. In May 1978, the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intel-
ligence (ACSI) accepted lead responsibility for GRILL FLAME applica-
tions. Overall DoD responsibility resides with the Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA).
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5. (S-ORLON) 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. 4
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 an /or describe a target.
e. Project Officer: the overall, responsible individual for all
aspects o the project.
6. (S-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 selected by an individual, called the target pool selector
(TPS), the TPS 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 definitions 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 RV process.
During the 15 minutes the remote viewer and the inter-
viewer function as a team. The interviewer provides encouragement 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, experience suggests (unpublished
data) that the remote viewer often intellectually transports himself or
herself to the remote target site. The interviewer, in conversation
with the remote viewer, may then suggest that the remote viewer intel-
lectually 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 shown/ 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. (SORCON) VARIATIONS IN PROCEDURE FOR RV
a. 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 use 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 standard-
ize this approach, the procedure described in paragraph 6 is modified.
b. The elements of this procedure consist of (1) target
selection; (2) remote viewer session preliminaries; (3) activity of
person who serves as beacon; (4) 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, to include more than one
example of each. This precludes the remote viewer from eliminating a
target because one example was used before. The remote viewer is in-
formed 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
procedure.
(3)
This element is identical to that of the basic RV
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 RV
POST-SESSION'ANALYSIS
procedure.
This element is identical to that of the basic RV
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8. (S-ORLON) SCOPE OF TARGETS FOR REMOTE VIEWING
?AMSAA sponsored RV will exclude US, allied, or neutral na-
tion's citizens as targets.
9. (S-ORLON) PERFORMING ORGANIZATION
AMSAA is the performing organization.
10. (S-ORLON) 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 officerl
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 RV 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
coordinates, 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
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remote viewer (about 8 personsl 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 10 months to accomplish this number of RV
sessions.
For each participant, the maximum number of RV sessions will
be 2 per day and no more than 3 per week.
13. (S-ORCON) JUDGING
The recorded RV images are independently evaluated by one or
more judges in the following manner to semi-quantitatively determine the
appropriateness of the RV results to the intended remote targets.
1. Determine the principle form concepts (PC) stated in the
images recorded in each RV session transcript.
2. At each target site judge the appropriateness, on a scale
of 0 to 10, of each PC of each transcript.
3. Calculate the mean and variance of all the judged PCs of
each RV session for each target.
4. Rank the appropriateness of each RV session for each
target using the calculated mean values.
5. Review the appropriateness of each ranking utilizing any
drawings or sketches to determine a final judged rank ordering of each
RV 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
referred 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.
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15. (S-ORCON) PHYSICAL ENVIRON11ENT
'RV sessions will be conducted in an ordinary room at ambient
temperature and humdi;ty 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.
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