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Mission

1. The Division of established in June l965 and tasked with the responsibility of carrying out research and development in support of intelligence requirements in the behavioral activities area. Behavioral Activities vss subsequertly established as an Agency R&D subelement. Under this subelemert three Agency R&D projects were established: Stress Measurement end Interpretation, Behavioral Control, and llunan Factors. In 1970 these R&D projects were revised and increased in number to accommodate the enlarged scope of Divisional activities. These new Agency R&D projects were: Performance Measurement, Assessment and Selection, Human Factors, and Materials Analysis. In l972 an additional H&D project entitled Narcotics Abuse was added.

2. The term Behavioral Activities is defined as those activities concerned with human performance, reliability, and control. In Agency terms Behavioral Activities addresses problems concerned with personnel security, assessment, health, performance, protection, and control. These problems apply to individuals, groups, and organizations or instituticns.

3.is addressing these problem areas as follows:

Personnel Security

Research iProgram

Personnel Assessment -- Speech Research Monotony/Isolation Research Ass?ssment Validation Program Program Personality & Behavioral Scales

Personnel Health

Program

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Persornel Performance - Trsining Research Analytic Models Predictive Models Software Programs

Personnel Protectio? -- Materials Analysis Drug Abuse

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Foreign Cultures

4. Although is "addressing" the problem areas listed above, there are distinct gaps and amissions in the program. These are:

a. The recently initiated Program cannot be funded beyond FY 72 without sericus revisions and cutbacks in other Behavioral Activities programs.

b. The exnloration end development of new personality
scales bas remained essentially stationary because of lack of
funds and staff personnel. Partial exceptions have been the and monotonyscales.

c. In the past, training research has yielded positive results. 'has approached with new requirements. It is expected that these will be formalized and forwarded to The current Behavioral Activities budget does not have funds available for this work.

d. effectiveness in foreign cultures have been on the books for many yeers. No work has been done in these areas because of lack of funds and personnel. One small effort in Iis planned for this year. Follow-on funding and personnel are still inadequate.

5. In addition to the above, believes that considerably
more work needs to be done in the areas of decision theory, predictive
modeling, and operations research. The same is true. in the areas
of prisoner exploitation, agent assessment and recruitment dymamics,
and psychological evaluation of certain foreign groups such as the 11

6. jbelieves that the Behavioral Activities area needs to be re-evaluated and upgraded in staff and doliars. There are no serious day-to-day problems confronting the Division. Past policy on requirements has been an impediment et times. Hopefully, present policy will correct this barrier to needed research whenever it appears to be arbitrarily applied.

; 7. Achievements.

a. Established performance levels of the current system.

b. Determined thc human factors aspect of e

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c. Developed a prototype

d. Developed an experimental ell-electronic instrument.

e. Developed al channel without additional sensor.

f. Developed a prototype imonitor capable of detecting signals at distances of 12 to 15 feet.

g. Developed an experimental monitor capable of detectirg Isignals

space distances of l00 feet plus.

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h. A multiple assembly was designed for group interrogation.

i. Conducted a training system survey resulting in an in-house capability to produce program aided (PaI) courses of instruction. Funded a PAI course in Vietnamese language.

.j. Delivered the original and many updated versions of the computer package for the medical and social sciences.

k. Funded with a computer model for predicting epidemics of meningitis.

l. Adapted Bayesien enalysis strategy to the intelligence analyst's problem of forecasting.

m. Developed a health hazard radiometer for measuring ricrowave fields.

n. Acquired and developed a large data base on potentially cangerous psychopharmacological agents.

o. Developed a conceptual design for a predictive system.

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