GONDOLA WISH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R002000160007-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 18, 1978
• Content Type: MF

Approved For CIA-RDaa~~cO -7
18 MAY 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, OPSEC Support Division
SUBJECT: GONDOLA WISH (U)
1. (S) On 17 May 78, initial interviews were conducted by the Monroe
Institute of Applied Science (MIAS), Afton, VA, with selected
trainee volunteers for project Gondola Wish (GW).. These interviews
were monitored by the GW project officer.
2. (S) As a result of these initial interviews MIAS favorably recommended
the selected trainee volunteers for the GW project pending results
of pretraining psychological testing.
3. (S) MIAS and the GW project officer coordinated plans to administer
pretraining psychological tests prior to 1 Jul 78.
4. (S) MIAS and the GW project officer discussed security relating to
GW and MIAS involvement. There were no problems reported.
5. (C) Training costs and the training program were discussed. MIAS
wants $2000 training fee. This fee will include four consecutive
three day intense training sessions which are to be conducted at
one week intervals. Between sessions trainees are to work on rein-
forcement techniques. To do this MIAS will provide them with brain
hemisphere synchronization tapes, a tape recorder, earphones, and a
workbook of practical applications. A typical training session day
at MIAS will consist of four to six training periods per day. Each
training period requires an entrance briefing (entrance into an
altered state of consciousness) in which goals to be obtained are
discussed. After this entrance briefing a training period lasts
about 45 minutes. During the training period the individual works
on obtaining an altered state of consciousness and later in the
program on performing parapsychological phenomena. After the training
period an exit briefing (exit from an altered state of consciousness)
is conducted to determine if all goals have been met and what the next
goals should be. Rest periods between training periods are scheduled
to allow trainees "to get their feet back on the ground" so to speak,
or stated another way, to allow trainees to integrate newly acquired
perceptual channel data into their cognitive structures.
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FREDERICK H. ATWATER
2LT, MI
CI Studies Section
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