DRAFT BRIEFING: THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO INFORM YOU OF ARMY'S ROLE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020023-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: June 4, 1979
• Content Type: BRIEF

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1. OPENING: 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 PSYCHOENERGETICS,
A TERM THAT COVERS A NUMBER OF UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA, FOR
NOW1 ARMY IS PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN DETERMINING THE REALITY
AND EXISTENCE OF THE PHENOMENA. ARMY'S EFFORT IS A SMALL,
DISCREET MINIMALLY FUNDED PROGRAMk.CENTERING ON REPLICATING
IN-HOUSE,.CLAIMED EXPERIMENTAL.S.UCCESSES. BY USING^PEOPLE
AND ORGANIZATIONS CAREFULLY CONTROLLED, SCIENTIFIC
TESTS WILL LEND CREDIBILITY TO THE WORK BEING DONE. As IT IS,
SUFFICIENT ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE EXISTS, REPORTED BY RE*41 LL IRCEspicIE4
PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF DOD, THAT WARRANTS AT LEAST CLOSE SCRUTINY
OF THE SITUATION. THREE SUBAREAS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS ARE THE
MOST INTERESTING: REMOTE VIEWING, REMOTE PERTURBATION AND
REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS. WITH REMOTE VIEWING, AN INDIVIDUAL
SOMEHOW PERCEIVES IN HIS MIND'S EYE THINGS, PLACES OR EVENTS
DISTANT FROM HIM. WITH REMOTE PERTURBATION, ALSO CALLED
PSYCHOKINESIS, AN INDIVIDUAL IS ABLE TO CAUSE AN EFFECT ON
SOME PHYSICAL OBJECT DISTANT FROM HIM; AGAIN, BY SOME UNKNOWN
PROCESS. FINALLY, REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS, OR TELEPATHY IS
SELF DESCRIPTIVE.
ALSO SPURRING THE EFFORT ON IS THE SURE KNOWLEDGE THAT
FOR YEARS THE SOVIET UNION HAS HAD AN INTENSE EFFORT, BELIEVED
TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE KGB AND MILITARY, TO DEVELOP
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CAPABILITIES IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOENERGETICS, THIS -FABLE
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THREAT TO US SECURITY MEANS THAT PRIME CONSIDERATION WILL
BE GIVEN AT ALL TIMES TO POSSIBLE FRIENDLY COUNTERMEASURES,
2. BACKCROIU :
A. MOST OF THE RECENT BEL'IEVABLE WORK HAS BEEN DONE
BY TWO LASER PHYSICISTS AT SRI INTERNATIONAL, MENLO PARK.
THEY ARE BR. HAL PUTHOF AND MR. RUSS.TARG. IF THE EXPERI-
MENTS CONDUCTED AT SRI CAN BE VALI'DATEk, THEY MUST BE CONSIDERED
ASTOUNDING. PRIMARILY, SRI HAS CONCENTRATED ON REMOTE VIEWING, Alto
14E.?. CALLED CLAIRVOYANCE.
B. BETWEEN 1972 AND 1975, THE CIA WAS INTERESTED IN
OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE VIEWING. TESTS WERE DONE
WITH SRI, AS WELL AS WITH IN-HOUSE CIA ENGINEERS. TWO EXAMPLES
WELL DEMONSTRATE THE QUALITY AND INTERESTING CHARACTER OF THE
WORK:
THE -....`.:w? ACTUALLY ENTERED THE PLACE, CALLING OUT NAMES OF
PEOPLE WHO WERE WORKING THERE. ADDITIONALLY, HE "READ" A
NUMBER OF CLASSIFIED CODEWORDS ON FILE FOLDERS, SOME LOCKED
INSIDE SECURITY CONTAINERS. THE CIA LATER CONFIRMED WITH NSA
THE A CURACY OF MUCH OF THE SUBJECT'S INFORMATION. NOTE THAT
THE WAS DOING THIS WHILE LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA, SEVERAL
THOUSAND MILES FROM THE TARGET.
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D. REGARDING REMOTE PERTURBATION, OF NOTE IS A 1972
TEST AT SRI, IN WHICH A PROVEN SUBJECT WAS ASKED TO REMOTELY
DESCRIBE A MAGNETOMETER SOME .DISTANCE AWAY INA STANFORD
UNIVERSITY LABORATORY. THE MAGNETOMETER, A VERY SENSITIVE
MEASURING DEVICE, WAS COMPLETELY SHIELDED FROM KNOWN OUTSIDE
SIGNALS BY A YARD OF CONCRETE. AS THE SESSION TOOK PLACE,
SCIENTISTS OBSERVING RECORDING INSTRUMENTS ATTACHED TO
THE MAGNETOMETER WERE ASTOUNDED WHEN TOTALLY ABNORMAL READINGS
OCCURRED, LASTING MINUTES AT A TIME. THESE ABERRANT SIGNAL
VARIATIONS HAD NEVER BEFORE BEEN SEEN OR RECORDED, NOR HAVE
THEY HAPPENED SINCE.
E. _._.IN SUMMER 1978, THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SPONSORED A F REMOTE VIEWING, IN WHICH FOUR
TARGETS WERE TO BE SEQUENTIALLY OBSERVED BY PAl4were- SRI
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SUBJECT 'A DATA FROM THREE OF THE TESTS WAS OF LOW CORRELATION
TO ACTUAL TARGETS. ONE, HOWEVER, WAS IMPRESSIVE. THE SUBJECT
DESCRIBED A STRATEGIC MISSILE COMPLEX EAST OF MOSCOW, TO THE
POINT OF*4991-441- NTO A SILO. BOTH THE COMMAND AND CONTROL
ROOM, AND LINKING TUNNEL WERE PORTRAYED BY THE SUBJECT.
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DISCUSSION:
A. GIVEN THE mummomc-GROWING BODY OF SUPPORTIVE
EVIDENCE, IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE PHENOMENA COULD NOT SIMPLY
BE IGNORED. ARMY CHOSE TO PROCEED WITH A SMALL fm-k%use
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PROGRAM THE SRI WORK.
THE IDEA 4 TO ATTEMPT VALIDATION OF THE CLAIMED SUCCESSFUL
EXPERIMENTS, AND TO VERIFY TO SOME REASONABLE DEGREE THE
EXISTENCE OF A PHENOMENA.
B. WORK TO BE ACCOMPLISHED STRICTLY WITHIN THE
FRAMEWORK OF THE EMERGING DOD GRILL FLAME PROGRAM, AND OeIt
INTERNALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THREE ARMY ORGANIZATIONS:
(1) THE ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY, OR
AMSAA FOR SHORT, WAS GIVEN THE MISSION OF ACTING AS THE
REMOTE VIEWING "FREE LANCE." THAT -is.- AMSAA WOULD-TRY OUT
NEW REMOTE VIEWING TECHNIQUES.
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`(2) THE MISSILE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND,
MIRADCOM FOR SHORT, HAS BEEN THE LEAD FOR A SMALL PILOT PRO-
GRAM TO TEST FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE REMOTE PERTURBATION
PHENOMENA, WORKING WITH SRI, MIRADCO1 WILL UTILIZE A SMALL
ON-HAND MINIPROCESSOR TO DETERMINE IF AN INDIVIDUAL CAN IN
FACT AFFECT RANDOMNESS. FROM A SCIENCE, ENGINEERING STANDPOINT
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THIS APPROACH IS BELIEVED TO BE GOOD SINCE THE RESULTS WILL BE
BOTH QUANTIFIABLE AND MEASUREABLE. ?
(3) THE ARMY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND, INSCOM.;
HAS THE:MISSION OF REMOTE VIEWING APPLICATIONS. WORKING WITH
A SELECT CADRE OF REMOTE VIEWERS, INSCOM WILL ATTEMPT TO VERIFY
BY APPLICATION, WHAT IS LEARNED FROM OTHER AGENCIES' MORE-OR-
LESS RESEARCH EFFORTS.
1,RECOGNIZING THAT THE;EF;FORT TO DATE HAS NOT BEEN
SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED, ARMY FEELS COMPELLED TO INSURE THAT
ALL REASONABLE STEPS ARE TAKEN TO MAKE ITS PROJECT AS CREDIBLE
AS POSSIBLE, FIRST, ALL WORK WIL~BE DONE WITHIN THE STRICT
LIMITS SET BY WRITTEN PROTOCOLS *40K HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND
APPROVED BY THE SURGEON GENERAL'S AD HOC GRILL FLAME PANEL.
THIS PANEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED IN COMPLETE ACCORD WITH FEDERAL
LAW AND ARMY REGULATIONS GOVERNING HUMAN USE TESTING. LEGAL
ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY THE ARMY AND
DOD GENERAL COUNSELS. NEITHER POSED ANY OBJECTION TO THE WORK
AND PROVIDED GUIDANCE PERTAINING TO THE AFOREMENTIONED
SURGEON GENERAL'S PANEL. FINALLY, A SMALL TEAM OF THE MOST
COMPETENT SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS AND MEDICAL SPECIALISTS
POSSIBLE HAS BEEN FORMED INTO A SMALL TEAM THAT WILL REVIEW,
ON-THE?SPOT, WORK BEING DONE. THE TEAM WILL ALSO INSURE THAT
EACH AGENCY IS FOLLOWING ITS WRITTEN, APPROVED PROTOCOL. THE
TEAM CHIEF WILL PROVIDE COLLECTIVE OPINIONS ON THE SCIENTIFIC
MERIT AND VALIDITY OF THE WORK.
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44. TH AGENCIES: FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS THE US AIR FORCE,
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION, WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE,
HAS SUPPORTED SRI'S WORK, MAINLY ATTEMPTING TO REPLICATE KNOWN
OR CLAIMED SOVIET EXPERIMENTS. NAVY WAS INVOLVED FOR SEVERAL
YEARS, BUT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE DROPPED OUT AROUND 1975. CIA
HAD A SMALL, BUT SIGNIFICANT PROGRAM FROM 1972 TO 1975, BUT
ACCORDING TO SEVERAL OF THEIR PERSONNEL GAVE UP THE EFFORT
OUT OF FEAR OF ADVERSE PUB1.I CI TY
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5 IN AUGUST 1977, MIRADCOM LET A SMALL EIGHTY-THOUSAND DOLLAR
CONTRACT WITH SRI TO SEE IF ANY OF THE SOVIET CLAIMS OF MAN-
MACHINE INTERFACE COULD BE VERIFIED OR DUPLICATED. MIRADCOM
NOW HAS FOUR-HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AVAILABLE FOR THIS FISCAL
YEAR, BUT WILL PROBABLY ONLY SPEND SEVENTY-FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND ON ITS INITIAL REMOTE PERTUBATION PROGRAM. INSCO1
HAS A SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR CONTRACT WITH SRI TO TRAIN
A LIMITED NUMBER OF INSCOM 4ua &c15 IN REMOTE VIEWING TECH-
NI?UES. IT IS HOPED THAT BY THE END OF THE YEAR INSCOM CAN
CONDUCT A REASONABLE PROGRESS REVIEW, AMSAA HAS FUNDED A
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TOTAL'OF TWO-HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS THIS FISCAL
YEAR TO CARRY OUT TACTICALLY-ORIENTED SRI EXPERIMENTS. TOTAL
NUMBER OF FULL TIME ARMY PERSONNEL INVOLVED ACROSS THE BOARD
IS FOUR; PART TIME APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN.
6. NOTHING FACTUAL IS KNOWN OF THE PHENOMENA'S PROCESS THOUGH
SOME SUBJECTIVE COMMENTS CAN BE MADE:, DISTANCE HAS NO EFFECT
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ON IT;;THERE IS NO KNOWN SHIELDING OR COUNTERMEASURE; MANY
PEOPLE HAVE THE ABILITY NOT JUST A FEW AS WAS PREVIOUSLY
THOUGHT. THE ONLY THING THAT CAN BE EVEN SUBJECTIVELY SAID
ABOUT THE PERSON DOING "IT" IS THAT HE IS ABOVE AVERAGE
INTELLIGENCE.
,$. IN CONCLUSION, THERE IS SUFFICIENT JUSTIFICATION TO PURSUE
THE MATTER, AT LEAST TO THE POINT OF TRYING TO CONFIRM OR
DENY THE PHENOMENA'S EXISTENCE, LIVEN THE AMOUNT OF ANECDOTAL
EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO US WE WOULD BE FOOLHARDY TO IGNORE EVEN
THE REMOTEST POSSIBILITY OF AN ENEMY THREAT TO OUR SECURITY.
IF DURING THE EVALUATION PROCESS THE ARMY ALSO ACQUIRES A
NEW TECHNIQUE OF INFORMATION ACQUISITION, SO MUCH THE BETTER.
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