PROPOSED PHASE II IN-HOUSE FY79 GRILL FLAME PROJECT (U)

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PROPOSED PHASE II
IN-HOUSE FY 79
GRILL FLAME PROJECT (U)
CLASSIFIED BY: HQDA (DAMI-ISH)
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CAUTION
(S-ORCON) This document was prepared by the Assistant Director
for Systems Effectiveness and Joint Service Activities of the US Army
Materiel Systems Analysis Activity. It represents the planned in-house
AMSAA second phase effort in the "Remote Viewing" (RV) area of para-
psychology for FY 79 which will be accomplished within the "AMSAA Re-
mote Viewing Protocol" of 26 March 1979. It does not represent any
position of AMSAA, DARCOM, Department of the Army or the Department of
Defense.
(S-ORCON) ACSI Message 0516302 Jul 78 directs all Army involved with
RV to be classified SECRET-NOFORN and that the unclassified code word
"GRILL FLAME" be used for such efforts. The 24 August 1978 meeting of
the DOD Committee on RV Activities resulted in direction that papers and
reports associated with the program be identified as SECRET, ORCON.
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PROPOSED PHASE II OF IN-HOUSE FY 79 GRILL FLAME PROJECT (U)
INTRODUCTION (U)
(S-ORCON) We propose a three stage remote viewing (RV) exercise
using map coordinates as the only specific target descriptors provided
to the AMSAA RV team until after they complete the development of target
description (TD) portion of the exercise as the photographs of the targets
will be used to independently evaluate the correspondence of the RV pro-
duced TDs to the actual targets. In this exercise we will also explore
some techniques for producing TDs thru multiple remote viewing (MRV) of
targets via map coordinates. All RV efforts will be performed within the
constraints of the "AMSAA Remote Viewing Protocol" of 26 March 1979.*
OBJECTIVE (U)
(S-ORCON) The primary objective of phase II is to perform RV, using
map coordinates as the only information on the target provided to the
AMSAA RV team, for the purpose of generally challenging/validating the SRI
documented coordinate RV. Secondary objectives are as follows:
1. Subject coordinate RV to description-target matching
with more targets than descriptions.
2. Obtain some first hand experience with MRV from the
standpoint of producing and refining TDs as well as to compare the
correspondence of MRV produced TDs to actual targets to that of single
RV produced TDs to actual targets.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION (U)
(S-ORCON) Phase II began with informal familiarization sessions
utilizing sketches in sealed envelopes and map coordinates of nine
various general types of terrain features, these sessions will progress
thru rigidly controlled efforts utilizing AMSAA's Security Office as the
target pool controller. This latter set of targets will be composed of
a set of distinctive landmarks with little or no clutter** in the immediate
surroundings; these are intended to provide highly unique TDs which, if
they have say only 50 percent specific detailed correspondence to the
actual target, will be easily reconizable as corresponding to that one
target. Given that such results are produced we believe that a much
more uncontestable coordinate RV experiment should be attempted with
reasonably open prior notification of objectives, measures of effec-
tiveness (MOE) and target coordinates. In performing the exercise, we
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Approved by TSG Ad Hoc Human Use Review Board on 26 March 1979.
**
Clutter is considered to be objects common to many landmarks such as
roads, telephone poles, etc.
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plan to maximize within practical limits the credibility of RV thru
addressing the following four critical issues(l) on RV targeting:
1. Prior knowledge
2. Blocking information
3. Secure targeting
4. Specifiness and uniqueness of RV descriptions.
PLANNED STEPS (U)
(U) The twenty some steps planned for phase II are listed
in Table 1 and are enumerated below.
1. (S-ORCON) FAMILIARIZATION SESSIONS. These sessions are intended to
accomplish the following:
a. Familiarization of three or more AMSAA remote viewers
with coordinate remote viewing.
b. Testing the adequacy of target control techniques to
adequately block target information from the RV team until RV descriptions
are developed and transferred from the RV team.
c. Provide a basis for developing a coordinate RV protocol
(step 3) for the trial and final runs (steps 14 and 19).
d. Provide a readily produceable set of RV TDs of very
unique landmarks which are easily matched to the appropriate targets or
rejected by casual inspection.
2. (S-ORCON) DEVELOP MOEs. This step is an interaction one between
evaluators and the RV team to define before the trial and final RV ses-
sions the measures of effectiveness which will be used in the evaluation
of RV produced TDs. This has not been done in the previous RV efforts,
the TD production and the evaluations have been basically independent
free play with the RV team not knowing specifically what the evaluators
would deem important and what would be evaluated as noise. These will
be documented before the trial sessions start.
3. (S-ORCON) DEVELOP TARGET SELECTION CRITERIA. Utilizing the MOEs a
set of target selection criteria are to be developed which will provide
a full spectrum of target possibilities within the MOEs. These criteria
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Discussion Paper, December 1978. Kramer, Phillips, and Taylor.
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TABLE 1. PHASE II STEPS (U)
PROPOSED PHASE II IN-HOUSE FY 79 GRILL FLAME PROJECT (U)
1. Familiarization Sessions
2. Develop and Document MOEs
3. Develop Target Selection Criteria and Document
4. Develop Precise Coordinate RV Protocol and Document
5. Develop TD Evaluation Procedure
6. Determine Quantities of Targets for Runs
7. Select Targets and Determine Coordinates (STDC) for Sample
8. Produce Photos for Sample
9. Transmit Coord and Photos of Sample
10. Review Sample for Appropriateness
11. Reaffirm, Refine or Redefine (R3) Step # 3
12. STDC for Trial and Final Run (4 Target Packages)
13. Transmit First Target Package and Coordinates Second Package
14. Run Trial and Feedback RV Sessions
15. Transmit Photos of Second Package
16. Evaluate TD's of Trial Run From Second Package
17. R3 Steps # 1 Thru #6
18. Transmit Third Target Package and Coordinates of Fourth Package
19. Run Final and Feedback RV Sessions
20. Transmit Photos of Fourth Package
21. Evaluate TD's of Final Run From Fourth Package
22. Document Phase II
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can then be employed by a fourth set of people who are to independently
select targets for the runs. Documentation of these criteria are
necessary to insure separated groups of individuals have the same basis
for executing their various responsibilities.
4. (S-ORCON) DEVELOP COORDINATE RV PROTOCOL. Within the AMSAA RV Pro-
tocol of 26 March 1979 develop the specific protocol for the coordinate
RV sessions employing single and multiple RV produced TDs of individual
targets. This protocol will be developed and documented by the AMSAA
RV team.
5. (S-NOFORN) DEVELOP TARGET DESCRIPTION EVALUATION CRITERIA. The
evaluators will develop in conjunction with the RV team and document the
criteria which they intend to use in the evaluation of the RV TDs prior
to coordinate RV runs.
6. (S-NOFORN) DETERMINE QUANTITIES FOR RUNS. This evaluators will
determine an acceptable minimum number of targets and of RV TDs. (ex-
perience has shown that previous TD tended to confuse evaluators when
more than 8 or 9 TDs were evaluated at once using a forced matching of
n TDs to n targets.. It is hoped that in this phase more targets will be
available than TDs to provide a less forced matching. Table 2 delinates
the spectrum of and type of sessions envisioned for the trial and final
runs, it was developed with the following objectives in mind.
b. Allow no more than two RV sessions without feedback
before a session with feedback for any one viewer.
c. Obtain a minimum of three TDs each for single, double and
triple RV without feedback during the run in the final run.
7. (U) SELECT TARGETS AND DETERMINE COORDINATES (STDC). Utilizing the
target selection criteria the photo interpreteors will select about 5
targets across the spectrum allowed by the criteria. They will determine
target coordinates of those targets.
8. (U) PREPARE PHOTOS. The photo interpretors will prepare photographs
of the targets selected in step 7. These photographs will be of specified
size even about the target and will all be to the same scale if possible.
9. (U) TRANSMIT COORDINATES AND PHOTOS. The target data will be
assembled into individual packages and transmitted to the other three
groups.
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TABLE 2 (U) PHASE II SESSION SPECTRUM
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- TRIAL RUN -
Target Description
Viewer 1 2 3 4
- FINAL RUN -
Target Description
Viewer
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1
x
x
x
x
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x
x
2
X
X
X
x
x
{~X
x
x
3
x
X
X
x
X
X
x
x
- Summary -
Trial
Final
X:
Single Blind Target for Feedback
3 3
X:
Double Blind Target No Feedback in Run
1 9
Single RV TD?X,
X
Double RV T
Triple RV TDp
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10. (S-ORCON) REVIEW SAMPLE FOR APPROPRIATENESS. Each group will
independently and the collectively review the sample target information
and its packaging.
11. (U) REAFIRM, REFINE'OR REDEFINE (R3) STEP #3. Based on results of
Step # 10 reafirm, refine or redefine the target selection and packaging
criteria.
12. (S-ORCON) STDC FOR RUNS. Utilizing the results of Step #11 and the
quantities determined in Step #6 the photo interpreters will prepare for
target packages two of which will be complete (First and third) and two
(second fourth) for which the photo interpretors will transmit the
coordinates and hold the photos until the run is over and all RV TDs are
in the hands of the target controllers.
13. (U) TRANSMIT 1ST AND 2ND TARGET PACKAGE. Send the packages to the
target controllers.
14. (S-ORCON) RUN TRIAL AND FEEDBACK RV SESSIONS. Execute protocol
developed in Step #4 for packages 1 and 2.
15. (U) TRANSMIT PHOTOS OF 2ND PACKAGE. Upon notification by the tar-
get controllers that they have obtained all the TDs the photo interpreters
will transmit the photos of the second package.
16. (S-ORCON) EVALUATE TDs OF TRIAL RUN FROM 2ND PACKAGE. Utilizing the
photos of the 2nd package evaluate the correspondence of the trial run TDs
to the targets.
17. (S-ORCON) R3 STEPS #1 THRU #6. All groups will review the results
of the RV sessions and the evaluations to determine the need for reafirm,
refine or redefine any of the elements of Steps #1 thru # 6, document these
findings and implement any necessary changes.
18-21. (U) PERFORM FINAL RUN AND EVALUATE.
22. (U) DOCUMENT PHASE II.
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