LETTER FROM H.E. PUTHOFF TO (Sanitized)

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• Document Release Date: March 29, 2000
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• Publication Date: March 10, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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Since you will be keeping track of program, I thought I
would send you copies of a series of memos on my ideas about
the program. Enclosed is the first batch.
With best regards,
H. E. Puthoff, Ph.
Senior Research Engineer
Radio Physics Laboratory
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SUBJECT: R&D Aspects of Psychoenergetics Program (U)
DATE: 10 March 1978
LOCATION: 44
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With regard to the mix of R&D versus operational or semi-operational
efforts, I wish to enter the following comments on the record.
The temptation, having seen good remote viewing, is to blitz through
a series of targets and assess the ability on that basis. However, I
would opt against such a procedure in favor of an alternative approach
for the following reason. Basically, we are in the position analogous
to an individual who might naively pack uranium ores into bomb shapes
and find that some percentage of them achieve criticality and detonate,
while others do not. For him the temptation might be to make a lot
of them to determine the success rate and then assume that he can
count on that percentage. However, a better approach for the long
run is to step back, carry out R&D on the various factors involved so
that understanding and control can be achieved, and then proceed with
manufacture of a high-reliability product.
Similarly for our field, I think it is better to pull back from
applications and place the emphasis on R&D at this point, if we truly
wish to develop a program to determine the exploitation potential of
this field.
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SUBJECT: Psychoenerg.etics Program Policy CO)
DATE: 7 March 1978
LOCATION: 44 SG1J
Since we have established in our research that good feedback to
the data source (subject) is necessary for maintaining a high quality
product, it is important that we provide as much feedback as possible;
this is what provides continuing correction to the subject to aid in
improvement of the remote viewing skills.
With regard to our recent effort, since the visual feedback is
classified beyond the subject's clearance level (which is only SECRET),
I would like to request that we make an effort to obtain something at,
the SECRET level for feedback to the subject (U-2? artist's rendering
as we did for-earlier Price work?).
For the long haul, I think we should consider SI/SAO for the
subjects working on the more sensitive projects if we are serious about
obtaining good results. In the absence of good feedback, subjects'
abilities extinguish (the Decline Effect, one of the best-validated
characteristics of psychoenergetic functioning). We don't yet know
whether this is due to psychological factors only, or whether it pre-
vents stabilization of some mechanism in a substantive way (like
learning to ride a bicycle without kinesthetic feedback). In any
case, lack of visual feedback to a subject doing remote viewing is
.'definitely established to be a known handicap.
Presumably with proper control we can still assure ourselves that
a cleared subject has not had access to data on a given site before
remote viewing takes place.
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