BRIEFING ON BACKGROUND INFORMATION, INSCOM S INVOLVEMENT IN PROJECT GRILL FLAME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R001100290003-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 23, 1982
• Content Type: BRIEF

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I AM LTC JACHIM, PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE INSCOM PORTION OF
DOD PROJECT GRILL FLAB,
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH BACKGROUND
INFORMATION CONCERNING INSCOM'S INVOLVEMENT IN PROJECT
GRILL FLAME. THIS BRIEFING IS DIVIDED INTO THREE VAJOR. PORTIONS$
? FIRST, THE HISTORY OF INSCOM'S INVOLVEMENT AND THE ROLES
OF DIA AND I NSCOM IN THE PROJECT.
? NEXT, A DISCUSSION OF REMOTE VIEWING AND EY91PLES OF COMPLETED
PROJECTS FOR WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED THE REQUESTOR'S EVALUATION,
? AND, FINALLY, A REVIEW OF THOSE PROJECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
BUT NOT EVALUATED,
FIRST THE HISTORY OF INSCOM'S INVOLVEMENT, IN THE FALL OF 1978,
ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO DETERMINE IF PARAPSYCHOLOGY COULD BE USED
TO COLLECT INTELLIGENCE. FOR OUR PURPOSES PARAPSYCHOLOGY IS
DEFINED IN TWO MAJOR CATEGORIES:
9~, ? -~-- FIRST. PHYSICAL ACTIONS PERFORMED BY MENTAL PO'ERS THAT
T BE EXPLAINED BY KNOWN PHYSICAL MEANS) THIS
IS KNOWN AS TELEKENESIS OR PHYCHOKENISIS, AND
IS IEFINED,AS THE ABILITY OF AN INDIVIWPL,TO ACCESS INFORMATION
PREVIOUSLY UN1(NO N,WI OUT REGARD TO TIME, LOTION, OR ANY
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= T TO HIDE THE TARGET FROM A COLLECTOR, - _ Sap Q
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TO MEET ACSI'S TASKING INSCOM ESTABLISHED A PROJECT TEAM UNDER c(:~,AmWD
THE ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.
THE CRITERIA DEVELOPED TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING WOULD
BE A VIABLE COLLECTION METHOD WAS AS FOLLOWS:
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JVIEWING COILD BE USED AS. A COLLECTION METHOD, REMOTE VIEWING
' SECOND, PERCEPTIONS WHICH CST EXPLAINED THROUGH
KNOWN SENSORY MEANS.) THIS IS KN4V AS E. TELEPATHY
AND REMOTE VIEWING,
SPECIFICALLY, INSCCOM'S TASKING WAS TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE
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FIRST, COULD REMOTE VIEWING BE.-LEARNED? NEXT COULD REMOTE S-
VIEWING T. APPLIED AS A COLLECTION METHOD? AND, FINALLY,
COULD REMOTE VIEWING R TO COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS IN
TIK MANNER:
FIRST, COULD REMOTE VIEWING BE LEARNED:) SRI INTERNATIONAL,
AN ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER IN THE FIELD OF PARANORMAL RESEARCH.
W IICH. IS! LOCATED IN MEN LO PARK, CALIFORNIAELIED UPON
ESTABLISHED PHYCHICS, WHO USED THEIR INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES
TO REMOTE VIEW, INSCOM, USING THE P RTY TRAITS AND
CHARACTERISTICS COMPILED BY SRI DURING THEIR WORK WITH
TFESE PHYCHICS, SCREENED APPROXIMATELY 250 INTELLIGENCE
PERSONNEL WITHIN THE BALTIM REAINGTON AREA, LOOKING FOR
PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS. (BASED ON SRI OBSERVATIONS,
SUCCESSFUL REMOTE VIEWERS TEND TO BE C( lNT, O NG,
ADVENTUROUS, BROADLY SUCCESSFUL INDIVIDUALS WITH SOME ARTISTIC
BENT,) WE GLEANED MACH OF THIS INFORMATION FROM COT IDERS
AND SUPERVISORS, WE THEN CONDUCTED OVER 100 INDIVIDUAL
INTERVIEWS. AFTER A"SERIES . OF- SCREENINGS AND INTERVIEWS,
NINE PEOPLE WERE SELECTED. THEY WERE A MIXTURE OF MILITARY
AND CIVILIAN, OFFICERS AND ENLISTED, MEN AND WC EN, AFTER
ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS WITH THE SRI SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN
PHYCHIC RESEARCH, SIX WERE SELECTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA FOR
TWO WEEKS OF ACTUAL TRAINING. UPON THEIR RETURN TO FORT MEADS
THEY CONTINUED IN AN IN-HOUSE TRAINING PROGRAM MKI_DE1ED AFTER
THE SRI TRAINING PHASE, TO DETERMINE HOW LONG THIS TRAINING
SHOULD LAST, SINCE NO ONE HAD ATTEIPTED TO TRAIN PHYCHICS,
GUIDANCE WAS AGAIN SOUGHT FROM SRI. BASED UPON THEIR
JUDG ENCT AN 18 TO 24 MONTH TRAINING CYCLE WAS ESTABLISHED,
MILESTONES DURING THIS FIRST PERIOD WERE: THE FALL OF 1978
THROUGH FEBRUARY 1979 - PERSONNEL WERE LOCATED: FROM FEBRUARY
1979 THROUGH DECEMBER 1979 - INITIAL TRAINING AT SRI IN CALIFORNIA
AND FORT MEADS WAS UNDERTAKEN. INSCOM'S FIRST TRAINING SESSION
WAS CONDUCTED ON 28 FEBRUARY 1979.
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AFTER THE PERSONNEL WERE LOCATED AND TRAINING HAD BEGUN,
THE NEXT QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED APPLIED TO THE SECOND AND
THIRD CRITERIA CONCERNING OPERATIONS. THAT IS, COULD REMOTE
VIEWING BE APPLIED AS A COLLECTION METHOD? IF SO, WOULD
THE INFORMATION BE OF f ASONABLE ACCURACY AND ACCEPTED AND
USED BY THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST WHO RECEIVE THE PRODUCT,
FINALLY, COULD REMOTE VIEWING RESPOND TO COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS
IN A TIMELY MANNER?
WORK TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS WAS OVERCOME BY EVENTS, IN
SEPTEMBER 1979, ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO LOCATE A MISSING NAVY
AIRCRAFT, THE ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED WAS A PICTURE OF
THE TYPE AIRCRAFT MISSING AND THE OF THE CREW. WHERE
THE AIRCRAFT WAS OPERATING WAS NOT DISCLOSED. ON 4 SEPTE[13ER
1, 979, THE FIRST OPERATIC REMOTE VIEWING SESSION TOOK PLACE,
IN THIS INITIAL SESSION, THE REMOTE VIEWER PLACED THE AIRCRAFT
TO WITHIN 15 MILES OF WHERE IT WAS ACTUALLY LOCATED. BASED
ON THESE RESULTS, INSCOM WAS TASKED TO WORK AGAINST ADDITIONAL
OPERATIONAL TARGETS. THESE TASKINGS FORCED A PREMATURE HALT
TO THE INITIAL TRAINING PHASE# rINCEER_1979, THE PROJECT
WAS COMMITTED TO OPERATIONS,
ACT" Z' D L . _TO- - U _ 0 ti TOE
DIFFERENT ROLES OF DIA
AND INSCOM, SINCE THERE APPEARS TO RAVE BEEN SOME BLURRING OF
THESE DISTINCTIONS IN THE PAST.
DIA IS CONCERNED WITH:
ASSESSING THE THREAT, PRINCIPALLY FROM THE SOVIET
UNION AND CHINA,
? DETERMINING COUNTERMEASURES TO ANY U.S. VULNERABILITIES. AND, DETERMINING THE POTENTIAL OF REMOTE VIEWING
USING ESTABLISHED PSYCHICS.
DIA PERFORMS THIS FUNCTION PRIMARILY THROUGH CONTRACTS AT SRI
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INSCOM IS -kRYIRG REMOTE VIEWING TO ASSIST IN ITS EVALUATION
AS A COLLECTION METHODS ? AND TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING
AA -LEARNED BY PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL WHO ARE
f LT ESTABLISHED PSYCHICS.
OUR REMOTE VIEWING COLLECTION IS DONE WITH ASSIGNED-PERSONVNEL?
WE ACT ONLY FOR SPECIFIC ITEPI,S WHICH jEN-HMffE OUR
COLEOTION. FOR EXAP'LE:
e WHICH TARGETING METHODS HAVE THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY
OF SUCCESS,
? CAN THE ACCURACY OF A REMOTE VIEWER BE DETERMINED
FROM AN ANALYSIS OF HIS STATEMENTS?
? CAN THE SRI NEW TRAINING TECHNIQUE INCREASE THE
QUALITY AND R,ABI~LI1Y OF COLLECTION:
THIS CM UM THE BACK PORTION OF THE BRIEFING.
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THIS BRIEFING HAS COVERED OF INSCOM AND TEE GRILL
FLAME PROGRAM.. ~` I N TIC PROGRNI, AND SOME OF
THE ACTIONS WE HAVE BEGUN TO T'4-. O1JR
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T' E I T E FUG RN:
a E WE ARE' WOK I TO* MOP A
METHOD OF IT', AND .IN COORDINATION
WITH TIE STAFF PSYCHOLOGIST, W
WTI-E INITIAL
SCREENING CRITEREA USED. NEXT,
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ARE
STUDYING IOW TO THE SRI REPORT ON AUDIO
ANALYSIS. TEE 3W. 4PHYC %-5 IS ASSISTING US
B*H4ORKING ON REMOTE VIEWER
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AND LOCATING PLA S E IIDVIII:. TI,INI.
COULD BE RECEIVED. AND, WE ALSO WISH TO
THE PROGRAM, SIDE TFEY INDICATE
IT WILL SE -MlES OF A REMOTE VIEWER
T rt. _ M RATHER THAN JUST REPOT, I&M THE
W. I " AND :IABILITY OF REMOTE VIEWING AND
PROVIDE SOME, sdaur
AOBUT TIE REMOTE VIEWING
PRODUCT,
IN SUMMARY:
THE COLLECTION OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH REMOTE VIEWING HAS DEMONSTRATED
ITS VALUE. REMOTE VIEWING IS AK- . - T, IT IS A
-T QR I THE PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS WHO ASSIGN
US PROJECTS, EVALUATE US BY THE INTELLIGENCE WE PRODUCE. REMOTE
VIEWING SHOULD ft&-7-~TM,&CUE~ BUT SHOULD BE USED IN CONJUNCTION
WITH INFORMATION FROM OTHER INTELLIGENCE SOURCES.
ARMY REMOTE VIEWING IS NOT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, IT IS jWT11
t-EC'Ift REMOTE VIEWING IS . IVE, I SI, THEW-,,-10,
ESE AND THERE IS ;,. CTI ROMISE,
THIS CONCLUDES THE BRIEFING, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?
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