SPECIAL REPORT, SUN STREAK EVALUATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R002100260043-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1997
• Sequence Number: 43
• Content Type: REPORT

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SPE[; IAL ACCE S S PROUkAM
SUN STREAK EVALUATION
WARNING NOTICE: THIS MATERIAL IS
RESTRICTED TO THOSE WITH VERIFIED
ACCESS TO SUN STREAK LEVEL 3 (SS-3).
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SECRET/NOFORN
SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAM
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CONTENTS
PURPOSE
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I BACKGROUND
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II EVALUATION
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1. data base
2. evaluation techniques
3. Evaluation results
APPENDIX
I. PROJECT RECORD DETAILS
II. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS TO ANALYSTS/DATA REVIEWERS
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LIST OF FIGURES
FIGURE 1.
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FIGURE 7.
Number of projects as a function of type
Data Categories
evaluation scales
summary data evaluation SHEET---Example
Overall data correlations
Overall averages for all project types
Expected results for approximately 70% data
accuracy---selected personnel
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SUN STREAK EVALUATION
PURPOSE: (S/NF/SS-2) Purpose of this report is to provide an
Ervaluation of the SUN STREAK operational projects conducted
_=since 1986.
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I: BACKGROUND (U)
CS/SF/SS-2) SUN STREAK is an in-house DIA project far developing
a~n operational psychoenergetics (i.e., remote viewing) capability
f'or the Intelligence Community. Twelve GDIP billets were
authorized for DIA in 1986 for this activity. Personnel from the
army INSCOM CENTER LANE Project also had been examining similar
phenomenon were transferred to DIA to form the SUN STREAK core
F;roup. DIA had earlier (1985) received operational control from
t;he DA for this b person army unit.
(S/NF/SS--2) In 1985, the DIA SUN STREAK program manager prepared
pan action plan that: (1) detailed the steps necessary to
transition the CENTER LANE unit to DIA; (2) identified SUN STREAK
staffing and support needs; and (3) set forth key programmatic
:requirements for the SUN STREAK activity. The action plan
anticipated that time required for achieving a prototype
operational capability would be approximately 3 years.
Key aspects of this action plan along with additional
procedural information, were sent to congressional committees in
1986. The IC staff was also briefed at this time on the action
plan and an anticipated SUN STREAK operational development and
data evaluation procedures.
tS/NF/SS-2) Programmatic and operational requirements identified
in the action plan were to: (1) fain special access program (SAP)
status (accomplished in March 1985); (2) gain human use approval
(granted in March 1985); (3) set up a senior oversight and a task
coordinating committee (accomplished -- though not currently
activated); (4) establish tight project controls along with an
automated data base management and records system (accomplished);
and (5) to establish an R/D link for supporting operational
capability development (accomplished via HQ SGRD funding and a
DARPA MIPR) .
(S/NF/SS-2) The R/D link, via SRI International, has yielded
improved data evaluation procedures, has identified potential
personnel selection techniques, and has contributed to
training;/development methods that are currently in project use.
The activity at SRI has undergone extensive review by a 9-member
peer review panel to insure that scientific rigor is maintained.
(S/NF/SS-2) Basic approach employed by SUN STREAK toward
developing a prototype operational remote viewing (RV> capability
is to located personnel with potential RV capability and to
develop these abilities via appropriate training/development
procedui^es. Once satisfactory progress is noted on single-to-
verify training tasks, those individuals are presented advanced
training and operational simulation targets. Operational
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:~imulatian targets are usually US military or scientific targets
where ground truth is totally known or can be readily determined.
:satisfactory performance on these tasks would qualify an
:individual for operational projects of interest to the
:intelligence community. In way of the operational projects,
however, ground truth is usually not known (or is only partially
known). Consequently, complete evaluation of the viewer's data
cannot be made until a later time when ground truth does become
available. In the interim, reasonable estimates of the overall
validity of the viewer's data can be made for many of the
operational projects worked, based on what is generally known or
:suspected about the target. These interim evaluation results
would be updated whenever new ground truth is received.
(S/NF/SS--2) The operational projects pursued by SUN STREAK are
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