RESEARCH PROGRAM PROPOSAL

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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
CNO EXECUTIVE PANEL
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20350
1 April 1982
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MEMORANDUM FOR DR. RICHARD DE LAUER, UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
FOR RESEARCH & ENGINEERING
Subj: Research Program Proposal (U)
Encl: (1) Subject proposal
1. (S) As you suggested in our meeting on 25 March 1982, I have
outlined a draft program proposal for Exceptional Human
Functioning research within the Department of Defense.
2. (C) Such a program should be comprehensive, meticulous in
experimental protocols, multidisciplinary, and closely protected.
Estimated costs for a four year, FY 83-86, effort would approach
$8M and probably entail the creation of a small management cell
(2-3 people) within OUSDRE.
Very. respectfully,
W. STEWART
tain, U.S. Navy
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The following outline presupposes that several concepts and
definitions are implicitly understood.
The term Exceptional Human Functioning (EHF) implies the
directed use of human consciousness for the enhancement of a range
of human capabilities. A subset of EHF, often termed "psychic,
paranormal, or PSI phenomena" is used in a broad sense to include
the effects that both domestic and foreign laboratories have
observed with human subjects interacting in an undetermined way
with observables ... usually physical objects, places, or elec-
tronic processes and occasionally with electromagnetic devices.
Specifically included are what is commonly called remote viewing,
extended sensory capabilities, random process clairvoyance, pre-
cognition, telepathy, and healing.
Although it seems virtually certain that some sort of psychic
phenomena do exist, it is less certain that PSI phenomenon can be
controlled sufficiently to permit its development into a cost-
effective, operational system. I do not prejudge the cause or
etiology of PSI effects.
I. A coordinated national Exceptional Human. Functioning research
program should have four initial objectives encompassing multiple
specific project areas:
A. The four main objectives, in order of their importance,
should be:
1. To provide to potential customers sufficient
evidence for the existence of each phenomenon to permit credible
use.
2. To develop effective, repeatable, or statistically
useful applications for psychic capabilities.
3. To provide both correllative and non-confirmatory
data to help evaluate foreign programs.
4. To study and if possible elucidate the putative
scientific mechanisms underlying and governing each paranormal
capability selected for study.
B. The specific project areas should include:
1. Remote viewing (including precognitive aspects)
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a. To gather information from target locations
that cannot be accessed via normal means.
b. To assist in determining target priorities for
judicious employment of the more expensive, less readily
available, COMINT, SIGINT, PHOTINT, or HUMINT collection systems.
c. To receive coded agent messages.
2. Psychokinesis (PK)
a. To examine the vulnerability of
electronic/electromechanical systems of known reliability.
b. To disrupt foreign electronic information
processing systems, and to protect US systems from unauthorized
penetration.
C. To provide data for evaluating foreign reports
that a person's physiology or behavior can be altered remotely via
psychic means.
3. Telepathy
a. To establish a covert communication channel.
b. To provide data for evaluating foreign reports
that psychically induced "mind control" is feasible.
II. To be fully effective the research program should be:
A. Operationally focused
1. Research should first concentrate on:
a. Utility.
b. Repeatability.
c. Control.
2. Additional,basic research should attempt to:
a. Discover the mechanisms which may provide an
understanding of the conditions under which the phenomena can be
used most effectively.
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B. Multidisciplinary
1. Physiologists, psychologists, and physicians should
study and monitor the subjects.
2. Physicists, neuro-physiologists, anthropologists,
and biophysicists should study the phenomena.
3. Engineers should design equipment to facilitate
experimental measurements and to attempt to enhance psychic capa-
bilities through technical augmentation.
4. Statisticians and information theorists -- in con-
sultation with primary researchers -- should design and review
experimental methods and judging procedures.
1. Several independent groups or laboratories, includ-
ing ones from academe, should demonstrate the capability to ex-
ploit each phenomenon selected for study.
2. Experimental results should be evaluated by both ex-
perimenters within the program and later by an independent multi-
disciplinary panel not otherwise involved with the contractor.
3. Within the limits of security, both "in-house" and
contract groups should participate as researchers.
D. Tightly coordinated
1. A single, unified DOD/Intelligence Community Over-
sight Board (chaired by DEPSECDEF) should provide security, cover,
general guidance, full coordination, and should oversee and origi-
nate tasking of all research groups under DOD/Intelligence Commun-
ity contract.
2. The Oversight Board will concern itself as necessary
with issues relating to the applicability of existing federal
guidelines (e.g., Executive Order 12333, Section 2.10, 4 Dec 1981)
and statutes on human experimentation in bio/psychological
testing. Issues relating to individual rights-of-privacy will
also be referred to the Board.
3. The operational research program element should be
compartmented while the basic research area should proceed in an
unclassified but restricted setting.
E. Integrated
1. Whenever possible each scientific discipline repre-
sented in the research program should work jointly with members
from other disciplines.
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2. Informal cross-fertilization of ideas should be
encouraged among scientists, subjects, customers, and operators.
3. Multidisciplinary critiques and post-audits of
project activities should be conducted as appropriate by a Review
Panel and by a separate group familiar with the field, but not
otherwise involved in the research.
F. Stable financially
1. Research budgets should be stable, and overlapping
from fiscal year to fiscal year to permit:
a. Managers to be included in the budget
allocation to each contract team.
b. Researchers the time to do research and not
spend excessive time marketing for end-of-year and follow-on
support.
c. Improved security control of the projects:
including goals, communication, and progress.
III. The ultimate success of the program depends on:
. Consumer acceptance.
1. Sufficient "ground truth" data must be available or
generated to. document the reliability and useability of each
operational system to give an objective consumer confidence in the
system's use.
2. Sufficient training must be provided to select PSI
intelligence consumers and producers to enable them to use and to
interpret psychic data appropriately.
B. Scientific understanding
1. Biophysical/human consciousness studies to elucidate
the mechanisms underlying each psychic phenomenon must be
undertaken to assess:
or defeated.
a.
b.
c.
d.
How the system can be operationally optimized.
How, when, or if the system can be compromised
A system's full potential.
Threats existing from foreign research.
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I. The program consists of essentially two parts: (1) classified
compartmented research on the operational uses of RV, PK, and
telepathy, and (2) basic research directed toward the better
understanding and description of Exceptional Human Functioning
(EHF). An abundance of information exists on EHF, particularly as
it relates to the PSI phenomena. As a first step, a study team
should be established to survey the appropriate literature and
other extant data bases (Library of Congress, Washington Research
Center/San Francisco, etc.) to create an archives to support the
two principal research program elements. Work on RV, PK, and
telepathy would focus initially on PSI skill development and
assessment, thence on applications, and eventually PSI utility
assessment. Basic research would concentrate on fundamental
physics and brain/consciousness research through the formation of
pyramid research teams.
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
Study team-------4 Form pyramid -1
constructs research teams
PSI archive I I
Evaluate
contractor
proposals
PSI skill-
development &
skill assess-
ment
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II. Candidate research centerslor activities for operational
efforts include:
RV: US Army Intelligence and Support Command, Ft Meade, MD
Defense Program Office, DIA
McDonald Douglas Aerospace, Huntington Beach, CA
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
FBI Science Laboratory, Quantico, VA
Missile Intelligence Command, Huntsville, AL
PK: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore, CA
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
Mind Science Foundation, San Antonio, TX
University of Delaware, Lewes, DE
Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI),
Bethesda, MD
McDonald Douglas Aircraft, St. Louis, MO
Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, Seatt
Applications
YEAR 3
PSI Utility,
Assessment
YEAR 4
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National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD
Eyring Research Institute, Provo, UT
Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak, MD
The following illustrative catalog of tasks would be allocated
among the centers that demonstrate the requisite capability for
such research.
Task
1. RV Training
2. Feedback Requirements
3. Interviewer/Analyst Training
4. Audio and Semantic Analysis
Techniques
Operational Utility
Provides more data with
higher reliability
Determines mix of classified
and unclassified feedback
Extracts more RV data
pertinent to target
Identifies correct and
incorrect RV data
5. Spatial Resolution
6. Training Requirements
7. Spatial Acuracy (CEP)
8. RV Evaluation Techniques
9. Remote Perturbation of
Electronics
10. Remote Perturbation of
Mechanical System
11. Multidisciplinary Conferences
12. RV Application Assessment
13. RV Countermeasure Analysis
14. Multiple Asset Targeting
Ascribes reliability factor
to targets of various sizes
Provides for use of alterna-
tive targeting procedures
Improves reliability of
identifying target
Extracts and assess "hidden"
data from RV session
Manipulates foreign elec-
tronic systems (computers)
Manipulates foreign mechani-
cal systems (gyros)
Exchanges technical informa-
tional on how to better use
RV/PK
Identifies potential applica-
tions for intelligence
Explores CM techniques that
deny access or misinform
Provides more diverse data
on target, increases signal
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15. RV Pictorial Response
Correlations
Operational Utility
Improves data interpretation
17. Accuracy Dependence on
Target Type
18. Associational RV Targeting
19. Alphanumeric RV
20. Psychoenergetic Intrusion
Detection
21. Computer Assisted RV
22. Temporal Resolution
23. Error Correcting RV
Communication
24. Intelligence Analysis and
Assessment
25. Environmental Effects
Assessment
26. Distance-Dependent
Reliability
27. Additional Remote Perceptual
Modalities
28. Locating/Tracking RV
29. Temporal Accuracy
30. RV Channel Capacity
Evaluates psychological con-
ditions of operational RV
Indexes targets that can be
RVed with greater success
Increases targeting
opportunities
Permits remote analytical
functioning; e.g., reading
Provides for security access
control and detection
Uses alternative RV technique
for locating targets
Ascribes reliability factor
to event timings
Provides a secure communica-
tion link
Evaluates use and analyzes
utility with regards to
reliability
.Delineates impact of environ-
mental factors on noise RV
Estimates reliability factor
for targets at various
distances
Opens up RV to provide infor-
mation on all physical
aspects of target
Establishes reliable spatial
tracking technique
Evaluates the timing accuracy
for isolating target events
Establishes data rate in
secure communications link
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The attachment illustrates an example time phasing of the tasks
Listed above.
III. Candidate basic research centers include:
Brain Functioning: Armed Forces Radiobiological Research
Institute, Bethesda, MD
Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Neurosciences Research Foundation (MIT/
Rockefeller University), New York
Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, PA
Johns Hopkins University/APL, Baltimore, MD
Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS
Duke University, Durham, NC
Archival Data: Mobius Group, Los Angeles, CA
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Esalen Institute, Mill Valley, CA
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA
Fundamental Institute for Advance Studies, Princeton, NJ
Physics: Lawrence Berkeley Labs, UC/Berkeley
Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore, CA
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
University of North Carolina
Ballistic Missile Defense Command,
Aberdeen, MD
Lincoln Labs, Cambridge, MA
Mission Research Corp., Santa Barbara, CA
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
IV. The program management structure within the Department of Defense
should consist of an Oversight Board, the program manager, and possi-
bly two or three project directors for RV, PK, and Data Base/Basic
Research. The 3versight Board might include: DEPSECDEF, USDRE, DDCI,
ATCJCS, PDUSDPC I, and the Program Manager. Advisors to the Board
would be DOD General Counsel, ASD (Health Affairs), the Assistant
Director FBI/Counter Intelligence, Deputy Director USSS/Presidential
Protection & Task Force on Terrorism. A working group subordinate to
the Oversight Board would review as appropriate issues for Oversight
Board's consideration.
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V. Four year EHF program costs ($ million) are estimated as shown:
FY 83
FY 84
FY 85
FY 86
83-86
Applied ResearchO.9M
l.1M
1.3M
1.5M
4.8M
Basic Research
0.35M
0.65M
0.6M
1.0M
2.6M
Data Base
0.25M
0.25M
0.1M
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0.6M
TOTAL
1.5M
2.OM
2.OM
2.5M
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Task
First Year
Second Year
Third Year
Fourth Year
1
RV Training
RV Training
2
RV Training
Feedback Requirements
RV Training
3
Interviewer/Analyst Trainin
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Feedback Requirements
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Interviewer/Analyst Trainin
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Interviewer/Analyst Training
5
Techniques
6
7
Targeting Requirements
Spatial Resolution
Targeting Requirements
Spatial Resolution
8
Spatial Accuracy (CEP)
RV Evaluation Techniques
Spatial Accuracy (CEP)
9
RV Evaluation Techniques
RV Evaluation Techni
ues
10
RP of Mechanical Systems
RP of Electronics
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RP of Electronics
RV Evaluation Techniques
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RP of Mechanical Systems
Multidisciplinary Conferences
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RP of Mechanical Systems
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disciplinary Conferences
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RP of Mechanical Systems
RV A
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ultidisciplinary Conferences
13
pp
cation Assessment
RV A
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Multidisciplinary Conferences
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cation Assessment
14
V Countermeasure Analysis
RV Application Assessment
15
RV Countermeasure Analysis
RV Countermeasur
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16
Multiple Asset Targeting
RV Pictorial Response Correlations
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ysis
Multiple Asset Targeting
17
Crisis RV Evaluation
18
Accuracy Dependence on Target Type
19
Associational RV Targeting
20
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Alphanumeric RV
Alphanumeric RV
21
Psychoenergetic Intrusion
Detection
Psychoenergetic Instrusion
22
Detection
Computer Assisted RV
23
Temporal Resolution
Temporal Resolution
24
Error Correcting RV
Communication
Intelligence Analysis &
Assessment
26
27
28
29
30
Environmental Effects
Assessment
Distance-Dependent Reliability
Additional Remote Perceptual
Modalities
Tracking/Locating RV
Temporal Accuracy
RV Channel Capacity
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