ARMY PSYCHOENERGETIC EFFORT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R001100130001-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 1, 1979
• Content Type: BRIEF

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ARMY PSYCHOENERGETICEEFORT
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO INFORM YOU OF ARMY'S
ROLE IN A SENSITIVE, CLOSE HOLD DOD PROJECT TO EXAMINE
POTENTIAL MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOE'IERGET I CS, A TERM
THAT COVERS A NUMBER OF UNEXPLAINED PSYCHIC PHENOMENA.
ARMY'S PURPOSE IN THIS EFFORT IS TO ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE
REALITY AND EXISTENCE OF SUCH PHENOMENA. ARMY`S EFFORT
IS A SMALL, DISCREET, MINIMALLY FUNDED PROJECT CENTERED ON
RE ICATING, IN-HOUSE, CLAIMED EXPERIMENTAL SUCCESSES BY
OR .IIZATIONS SUCH AS SRI INTERNATIONAL, BY USING ARMY
PE LE AND ACTIVITIES, CAREFULLY CONTROLLED REPLICATIONS
OF PREVIOUS TEST PROCEDURES CAN BE CONDUCTED. AS IT IS
MUCH ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT WARRANTS CLOSE SCRUTINY
REPORTED BY CREDIBLE, RESPECTED PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF DOD.
THREE SUB-AREAS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS ARE THE MOST RELEVANT,
PPOVIDED THE PHENOMENA'S EXISTENCE IS VERIFIED: REMOTE
EWING, REMOTE PERTURBATION AND REMOTE COrMiUNICATIONS
MOTE VIEWING IS THE PERCEPTION BY AN INDIVIDUAL OF'THINGS,?
,ICES OR EVENTS DISTANT FROM HIM--ALSO KNOWN AS CLAIRVOYANCE.
MOTE PERTURBATION, OR PSYCHOKINESIS, IS THE ABILITY OF A
FL_RSON TO CAUSE A CHANGE I N STATE I N SOME PHYSICAL OBJECT,
REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS IS TELEPATHY. THE ARMY IS;PRESENTLY
INVOLVED I NPROGRAMS OF INVESTIGATION CONCERN I i4G REMOTE VIEWING
AND REMOTE PERTURBATIONS. PROJECTS RELATED TO REMOTE COMMU.-
NICATIONS ARE PLANNED IN THE FUTURE.
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GIVEN THE GROWING BODY OF SUPPORTIVE EVIDENCE, IT WAS
DECIDED THAT THE PHENOMENA OF PSYCHOENERGETICS COULD NOT BE
IGNORED, ARMY CHOSE TO PROCEED WITH A SMALL,. IN-HOUSE
PROGRAM ATTEMPTING REPLICATION OF THE SRI WORK, THE IDEA
IS TO VALIDATE, IF POSSIBLE, THE CLAIMED SUCCESSES, AND TO
VERIFY THE EXISTENCE OF THE PHENOMENA,
WORK IS ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EMERGING,
DOD GRILL FLAME PROGRAM AND IS INTERNALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN
THREE ARMY ELEMENTS:
THE ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY (AMSAA) HAS THE
MISSION OF ACTING AS THE REMOTE VIEWING "FREE LANCE." THAT IS, AM,'
WILL TRY NEW REMOTE VIEWING TECHNIQUES AND EXPERIMENTAL
PROCEDURES, USING A SMALL IN-HOUSE TEAM OF FOUR OR FIVE VIEWERS
AND PROJECT MANAGERS, THE SOURCE FOR NEW TECHNIQUES WILL
PRIMARILY BE ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS SRI INTERNATIONAL, ONCE
AMSAA IS SATISFIED THAT THE:NEW PROCEDURE HAS MERIT, IT WILL
BE PASSED ON FOR FURTHER APPLIED TESTING TO THE ARMY INTELLI-
GENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND (INSCOM), AMSAA'S ENTRY. INTO
REMOTE VIEWING CAME IN SPRING 1978 WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED
THAT PSYCHOENERGETICS MAY OFFER SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL FOR
TACTICAL APPLICATION, AMSAA IS CONCERNED FIRST WITH VALIDATING
THE SRI WORK, THEN SEEING HOW REMOTE VIEWIIG MAY BE TACTICALLY
EMPLOYED, -SIMPLY PUT, AMSAA IS INTERESTED IN BATTLEFIELD
SURVEILLANCE AND TARGET ACQUISITION, .1F AV IEWER CAN "SF-E"
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IF A VIEWER CAN "SEE"
CHANGES IN SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS SUCH AS ENEMY
ASSEMBLY AREAS; OR, IF HE CAN DETECT CHANGES IN AN ENEMY
UNIT'S STATUS, FOR EXAMPLE MOVING TO CONTACT;, OR, IF.,HE
CAN CONDUCT A REAL TIME, COMPREHENSIVE BATTLEFIELD:DAMAGE'.
SURVEY, THEN ARMY HAS GAINED A NEW SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION,
ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SINCE SEPTEMBER 1978, AMSAA HAS
COMMITTED A TOTAL OF $220,000 IN CONTRACTS WITH SRI FOR A
PROGRAM TO CONDUCT TACTICALLY ORIENTED EXPERIMENTS.THI'
PROGRAM WILL C014TINUE UNTIL APRIL 1980, UNITS ASSIGNED TO
THE COMBAT DEVELOPMENT EXPERIMENTATION CENTER (CDEC) FORT ORD,
CALIFORNIA, WILL ACT AS THE TARGETS FOR THIS SERIES; CDEC
IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT BECAUSE ITS UNITS ARE "WIRED" WITH
ELECTRONIC POSITION DETERMINING SYSTEMS SO THAT THEY CAN BE
SPATIALLY LOCATED WITH PRECISION AT ANY GIVEN.MOMENT. THESE
DATA ARE PERMANENTLY RECORDED, PROVIDING A MEANS OF QUICKLY
CROSS CHECKING THE ACCURACY OF A REMOTE VIEWER'S DETERMINATIONS.
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THE MISSILE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND (MIRADCOM),
REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALABAMA, IS DEVELOPING THE PILOT REMOTE
PERTURBATION (PSYCHOKINESIS) PROGRAM, VALIDATION OF PRIOR
"PK" WORK I S THE GOAL, I N ORDER TO DETERMII4E I F THIS
PHENOMENON EXISTS, IN THE FUTURE, MIRADC 1 HOPES TO DEVELOP
A PURELY THOUGHT-ACTIVATED SWITCH, I N COUNCT I ON WITH SRI
MIRADCOM IS RELYING PRIMARILY ON INFLUENCING THE RANDOMNESS
OF THREE NOISE GENERATING DEVICES PUT THRD E'H AN LSI-11--A
SMALL 1-1I CROP ROCESSOR. THE RANDOM -NO-1-SE _ GERFRATORS ARE: AN
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AN ELECTRONIC NOISE DIODE AND A RADIOACTIVE BETA PARTICLE;
DECAY SOURCE, AS A CONTROL, A PSEUDO-RANDOM SHIFT REGISTER
WILL ALSO BE WIRED THROUGH THE LSI-11. ALTHOUGH PRESENTLY
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MISSILE INTELLIGENCE AGEI'CY, A
PART OF MIRADCOM, IN THE NEAR FUTURE THE PROJECT WILL SHIFT
TO ANOTHER MIRADCOM ELEMMENT, THE R&D LABORATORIES, A PROJECT
MANAGER HAS BEEN CHOSEN, THE TOTAL "PK" PROGRAM WILL FALL
INTO TWO PHASES, THE FIRST, FOR WHICH A $118,000 CONTRACT
HAS BEEN LET TO SRI, INVOLVES DEVELOPMENT OF THE HARDWARE
AND SOFTWARE PACKAGE. NO HUMAN SUBJECTS WILL BE INVOLVED
DURING THIS PHASE, DURING PHASE TWO, SRI AND MIRADCOM WILL
ATTEMPT TO HAVE PEOPLE AFFECT THE NOISE SOURCES' RANDOMNESS,
AN INDIVIDUAL WILL SIT AT A C.R.T. CONSOLE AND ATTEMPT TO
INFLUENCE A SMALL DOT MOVING IN A RANDOM PATTERN., USING ONLY
THE ELUSIVE "THOUGHT PROCESS," THIS EFFORT IS OF ESPECIAL
INTEREST IN THAT THE EFFECTS, IF ANY, WILL BE BOTH QUANTI-
FIABLE AND MEASURABLE, DUE TO THE NATURE.QF RANDOM NUMBER
EXPERIMENTS, INITIAL EXPEDNTURES FOR PHASE II ARE EXPECTED
TO BE $90,000 WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDING (UP TO $190,000)
AVAILABLE IF NEEDED,
THE INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND DEVOTES ITS
EFFORT TO REMOTE VIEWING APPLICATION, WORKING WITH A SMALL
TEAM OF APPROXIMATELY SIX VIEWERS, INSCOM WILL ATTEMPT TO
BOTH VALIDATE THE RV PROCESS, AND DETERMINE MILITARY USES
OF THE PHENOMEI10N, IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT THE INSCOM TEAM
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WAS SELECTED BY A LENGTHY, COMPREHENSIVE INTERVIEW PROCESS,
A FIRST BY ANY ORGANIZATION, MILITARY OR CIVILIAN, SOME
230 POTENTIAL CANDIDATES WERE SCRUTINIZED TO CHOOSE THOSE
WITH THE MOST LIKELY CHANCE TO SUCCEED, 'IN APRIL 1979,,A
$75,000 CONTRACT WITH SRI WAS LET, WHICH CALLS FOR TRAINING.
AND FAMILIARIZATION OF THE INSCOM REMOTE VIEWER CADRE.
INITIAL FEEDBACK FROM SRI SCIENTISTS IS THAT THE INSCOM
VIEWERS ARE DOING EXTRAORDINARILY WELL, IT IS HOPED. THAT
A REASONABLE IN-PROGRESS REVIEW OF THEMINSC1 RV APPL.IGATIPI~I
EFFORT CAN BE MADE AROUND THE END OF THE YEAR,
3 RECOGNIZING THAT THE EFFORT TO DATE HAS NOT BEEN
SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED., ARMY FEELS COMPELLED TO INSURE
THAT ALL REASONABLE STEPS ARE TAKEN TO MAKE ITS PROJECTS
AS CONTROLLED AND CREDIBLE AS POSSIBLE, FIRST, ALL WORK.WILL
BE-DONE WITHIN PARAMETERS ESTABLISHED BY WRITTEN PROTOCOLS
WHICH HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY'A SURGEON GENERAL
HUMAN USE AND TESTING REVIEW PANEL, THIS PANEL HAS BEEN
ESTABLISHED IN ACCORD WITH FEDERAL LAW AND ARMY REGULATIONS,
LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY THE ARMY
AND DOD GENERAL COUNSELS. NEITHER POSED OBJECTION TO THE WORK
AND PROVIDED FURTHER GUIDANCE PERTAINING TO THE AFOREMENTIONED
SURGEON GENERAL'S PANEL, FINALLY, A NUMBER OF QUALIFIED
SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS AND MEDICAL AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN FORMED
INTO A SMALL TEAM THAT WILLREVIEW THIS WORK BEING DONE BY
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ARMY. THIS MONITORING TEAVWILL INSURE THAT EACH AGENCY I$
FOLLOWING ITS WRITTEN APPROVED PROTOCOL. THE-TEAM CHIEF
WILL PROVIDE THE COLLECTIVE OPINION OF THE SCIENTIFIC MERIT
AND VALIDITY OF THE WORK,
IN CONCLUSION, THERE IS SUFFICIENT JUSTIFICATIQN TO
PURSUE THE EFFORT, AT LEAST TO THE POINT OF CONFIRMING QR.
DENYING THE PHENOMENA'S EXISTENCE. GIVEN THE AMOUNT QF.
ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE A AILABLE WE WOULD BE REMISS TQ GNQRE
THE POSSIBILITY OF NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONSf.'
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ARMY PSYCHOENERGETIC'EFFORT
? PURPOSE: DETERMINE EXISTENCE OF PSYCHOENERGETIC PHENOMENA
? EXTENT OF ENEMY THREAT
? POTENTIAL MILITARY APPLICATIONS
? SCOPE OF EFFORT: SMALL, DISCREET, MINIMALLY FUNDED PROJECT
? FOCUS ON THREE ASPECTS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS
? REMOTE VIEWING
? REMOTE PERTURBATION
? REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS
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Nr'IRAN
ARMY ELEMENTS INVOLVED IN GRILL FLAME
? ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY
$220,000 COMMITTED SINCE SEPTEMBER 1978
? DETERMINE EXISTENCE AND UTILITY OF REMOTE VIEWING
? MISSILE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND
? VALIDATION OF REMOTE PERTURBATION (PSYCHOKINESIS) EXPERIMENTS
? TWO PHASE PROGRAM
? DEVELOPMENT OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE,($118,000 COMMITTED)
TESTING OF HUMAN CAPABILITIES ($90,000 PROJECTED) :-
? INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND
REMOTE VIEWING APPLICATIONS
$75,000 COMMITTED
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CONTROL OF ARMY PSYCHOENERGETIC EFFORT
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? ARMY SURGEON GENERAL REVIEW PANEL
? ASSESS HUMAN RISK
? COMfMENT ON PROPRIETY OF- EXPERIEMENTS
? PROJECT REVIEW BY ARMY AND DOD GENERAL COUNSELS
? MONITORING -TEAM OF SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS AND MEDICAL AUTHORITIES
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