PROGRAM CHARTER: REMOTE SENSING

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CIA-RDP79-00999A000300060001-5
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June 11, 2003
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August 11, 1976
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Approved For Release 2003/06/24: CIA-RDP79-00999A000300060001-5 S NFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE. Menlo Park, California. R04, SECRET- TENTATIVE Il August 1976 PROGRAM CHARTER: CONTROL NO. _SRI -6-4451 Classification Determination Pending: Protect as though classified SECRET. Copy No. of 10. Approved For Release 200 -C DP79-00999A000300060001-5 / S e ~ TENTATIVE Approved For Release 2003/06/24: CIA-RDP79-00999A000300060001-5 SECRET - TENTATIVE Recent work in both US and Soviet laboratories indicates mounting evidence for the existence of so-called "parapsychological" or "para- physical" processes, sometimes called psychoenergetic processes. In the US, recent publications (both classified and unclassified) by Stanford Research Institute (SRI) detail the ability of certain individuals to view, by innate mental processes, remote geographical or technical targets including buildings, roads and laboratory apparatus. In the Soviet Bloc countries, similar research efforts are described in two classified reports, one a DIA document prepared by the US Army Medical Intelligence and Information Agency, the other prepared by Garrett Airesearch as an independent contracted study of Soviet literature. On the basis of the SRI data and the Garrett and DIA documentation studies, an interdisciplinary R&D program with multiple contractors is proposed. The goal of the program is to establish the necessary data base to evaluate the significance of so-called paranormal processes for intelligence applications, both from the standpoint of feasibility for operational use and from the standpoint of threat analysis. Approved For Release 2003~O! RlMP79 00999A000300060001-5 J G C TENTATIVE Approved For Release 2003/06/24: CIA-RDP79-00999A000300060001-5 SECRET - TENTATIVE Introduction Recent publications in both the open and classified literatur> indi- cate mounting evidence for the existence of so-called "parapsychological" or "paraphysical" processes. These are sometimes referred to as p3ycho- energetic or NBIT (novel biophysical information transfer) channel:;, an acronym coined as a neutral descriptive term free of occult assumptions or biases as to mechanisms. NBIT processes include: 1. The acquisition and description, by mental means, of remote information blocked from ordinary perception and thought to be secure against such access; 2. The production of physical effects such as the perturbation of instrumentation or equipment which would appear to be well shielded against such interactions. The literature also indicates mounting evidence for the acceleration of research in both the Western and Soviet Bloc countries in an effort to precipitate a breakthrough. In the West, a large-scale exploratory research effort on NBIT channels has been carried out in the Electronics and Bio- engineering Laboratory of Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Their results have been reported in two major documents, one classified,) one unclassi- fied.2 Their work dealt primarily with a capability that they call "remote viewing," the ability to view remote geographical locations up to several thousand kilometers. In more than 50 experiments with roughly a dozen subjects, including government scientists sent to examine the experimental protocols, significant results were obtained on the viewing of buildings, laboratory apparatus, and the like. From their work they concluded that (a) The phenomenon is not a sensitive function of distance over a range of several km and is still operative over a range of several thousand km (U); (b) Faraday cage electrical shielding does not appear to degrade the quality or accuracy of perception (U); (c) Most of the correct information pertains to shape, form, color, and material, rather than to function or name, indicating that the function may be mediated primarily by the brain's right hemisphere (U); (d) The principal difference between experienced subjects and inex- perienced volunteers is not that the latter do not exhibit the faculty but rather that their results are simply less reliable, 1 H. Puthoff and R. Targ, Percep ual Augmentation Techniques, Final Report on SRI Project 3183, December 1, 1975. (Secret) 2H. Puthoff and R. Targ, "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 329-354, March 1976. Approved For Release 200 /(E P