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5.
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IN-HOUSE RESEARCH
A.
THERE COULD
BE SEVERAL ADVANTAGES TO PURSUING IN-HOUSE
RESEARCH,
DEPENDING ON
ITS
SPECIFIC OR'^NTAH ON .
IT MAY BE
POSSIBLE SOME GOVERNMENT
FACILITIES HAVE EQUIPMENT
QUICK
IS
APPROPRIATE FOR EVALUATING AND
IDENTIFYING PHYSIOLOGICAL
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OR THAT SOME FACILITIES HAVE EQUIPMENT SUITABLE
FOR RESOLVING
(IN PART)
CERTAIN THEORETICAL ISSUES.
LABORATORIES
WITH EEG EQUIPMENT
(OR OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS)
AND.
ELECTROMAGNETICALLY SHIELDED ROOMS,
COULD POTENTIALLY ASSIST
IN RESEARCH ON SOME
ISSUES.
IN ADDITION,
LABORATORIES
WITH
SIMILAR EQUIPMENT MIGHT EXIST
IN THE VARIOUS
SERVICES, WHICH
COULD FACILITATE EXPERIMENTS WHERE INFLUENCE OF DISTANCE
IS TO
BE
EXAMINED.
THERE ARE NUMEROUS POSSIBILITIES; THESE ARE BUT A
FEW EXAMPLES.
B.
ANOTHER ADVANTAGE OF IN-HOUSE RESEARCH WOULD BE
IN
PURSUIT OF PARTICULAR APPLICATIONS AND
IN SELECTION OF SUBJECTS,
IT MAY BE THAT PEOPLE WHO CAN PERFORM WELL
IN CERTAIN PSYCHOENERGETIC
TASKS
(SUBJECTS) ARE ALREADY EMPLOYED WITHIN GOVERNMENT FACILITIES.
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DRAWING ON SUCH AVAILABLE RESOURCES COULD SIMPLIFY SUBJECT
RECRUITMENT AND ALSO ENHANCE SECURITY ASPECTS,
ESPECIALLY IF THE
SUBJECTS HAVE SOME LEVEL OF CLEARANCE.
C.
IN ADDITION,
PURSUIT OF CERTAIN TYPES OF APPLICATIONS MIOFT
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BE PERFORMED IN-HOUSE BY A GOVERNMENT AGENCY.
COMMUNICATE
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MODES,
FOR EXAMPLE, MAY REQUIRE A COMMITTMENT WHERE THE SAME
SUBJECTS WORK TOGETHER FOR A LONG TIME PERIOD.
ALSO,
CERTAIN
APPLICATIONS,
INVOLVING INFORMATION ACCESS APPLICATIONS,
ALSO APPEAR TO REQUIRE A LONG-TERM COMMITTMENT.
THIS MAY
BE DIFFICULT TO AQIEVE
(AND CONTROL)
VIA EXTERNAL SOURCES.
D.
HOWEVER,
DUE TO THE SENSATIONAL NATURE OF THIS AREA
OF RESEARCH THERE ARE A&0 SOME DISADVANTAGES. CONSIDERABLE EFFORT
WOULD
BE REQUIRED
IN KEEPING EVEN THE* KNOWLEDGE ABOUT POTENTIAL
IN-HOUSE ACTIVITY UNDER TIGHT CONTROL.
THIS WOULD ALSO BE
TRUE FOR ANY EXTENSIVE EXTERNAL RESEARCH.
ONE APPROACH MIGHT BE
TO OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOME
OF THIS RESEARCH
IS BEING
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PURSUED.
THIS RESEARCH COULD CERTAINLY BE QUALIFIED AND PRESENTED
IN THE CONTEXT^EXPLOTATORY OR BASIC
RESEARCH'S’ AND IN TIME ITS
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SENSATIONAL TREATMENT WOULD VERY LIKELY LESSEN
E.
IN SUMMATION,
IT APPEARS ASPECTS OF THIS RESEARCH MIGHT BE
AMEANABLE FOR IN-HOUSE INVESTIGATIONS.
IT ALSO APPEARS THAT A
JOINT-SERVICE OR DOD-WIDE EFFORT COULD BE ULTIMATELY INVOLVED.
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PROPOSED RESEARCH APPROACH
A.
PARTICULAR RESEARCH APPROCHES
IN PSYCHOENERGETICS WOULD
DEPEND UPON THE MAIN OBJECTIVES.
THERE ARE AT LEAST THREE BASIC
RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; THAT WHICH PURSUES APPLICATIONS;
THAT DIRECTED
TOWARD UNDERSTANDING OF TH& PHYSICAL BASIS FOR THE PHENOMENA; AND
THAT ORIENTED TOWARD PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES.
ALL
THESE OVERLAP,
HOWEVER, AND CANNOT
BE READILY SEPARATED.
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OF THEORETICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES COULD
ENHANCE APPLICATION
4,
(I.E.,
IMPROVE RELIABILITY,
REPEATABILITY);
PURSUIT
OF SPECIFIC
APPLICATIONS COULD ALSO ADD INSIGHT ON SOME
THEORETICAL ISSUES,
IT MAY
BE^ A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIMENTS NEED TO BE
CONDUCTED
IN ORDER TO EXAMINE AS MANY VARIABLES AS POSSIBLE.
IT
ALSO APPEARS
BOTH THE INFORMATIONAL ASPECTS AND THE ENERGETIC
ASPECTS
BE PURSUED,
SINCE THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES MAY BE
THE SAME FOR BOTH TYPES OF PHENOMENA.
B.
REGARDLESS OF
RESEARCH DIRECTIONS,
SPECIFIC
RESEARCH SHOULD
BE BASED ON SOUND SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGIES.
- APPROPRIATE EVALAUTION METHODS ARE ALSO REQUIRED SO
THAT RESULTS OF THIS RESEARCH CAN BE EVALUATED
PROPERLY,
C.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT REQUIREMENT OF THIS RESEARCH
IS TO
ESTABLISH A POOL OF SUBJECTS THAT ARE CONSISTANT HIGH PERFORMERS AT
A VARIETY OF PARANORMAL TASKS, OTHERWISE, MOST EXPERIMENTS WOULD
YIELD RESULTS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER THAN CHANCE, AND UNDERLYING
PRINCIPLES COULD NOT
BE IDENTIFIED.
WITH HIGH PERFORMING SUBJECTS,
EFFECTS
OF
MANY TEST VARIABLES
(PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL,
ETC)
COULD
BE
STUDIE^i IN A CONSISTANT MANNER.
METHODS FOR TRAINING AND
ENHANCING PERFORMANCE SHOULD ALSO BE INVEST IAGTED SINCE THIS SWA**
LEAD TO BETTER UHDERSTAMDIMG OF TUB PSYCHOLOGICAL AUI'KCTS,
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D.
THERE ARE MANY THEORETICAL ISSUES THAT COULD BE EXAMINED,
AND NUMEROUS
EXPERIMENTS COULD
BE CONDUCTED THAT MIGHT INDICATE
THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF THIS PHENOMENA .
EXPERIMENTS FOR RESOLVING 4
THE PHENOMENA
IS ELECTORMAGNETIC
IN NATURE COULD INVOLVE
SUBMARINE OR SPACE PLATFORMS,
OR EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED
IN PRESENCE
OF APPROPRIATE NOISE.
EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE HOW SMALL
TARGETS CAN BE ALSO IMPACJ? ON THE ELECTROMAGNETICS
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ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCE SENSITIVE EQUIPMENT
(FILM,
LIQUID CRYSTALS, MAGNETOMETERS,
OTHER)
COULD ALSO HELP
IDENTIFY BASIC MECHANISMS
(DIRECT OR INDIRECT).
EXPERIMENTS TO
TEST GRAVITATIONAL MODELS, NEUTRI&f MODELS
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A.
MECHANICAL MODELS COULD ALSO BE
CteaW
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E.
OTHER FACTORS OF IMPORTANCE ARE EFFECT OF TARGET SIZE
AND DISTANCE FROM THE SUBJECT.
SUCH EXPERIMENTS COULD INDICATE
ACCURACY LIMITS,
IF ANY.
ANOTHER ISSUE TO RESOLVE
IS THE ROLE OF
OTHER PEOPLE
IN AN^EXPERIMENTAL SETTING, MSf PARTICULARLY^
WHEN^INTENDED TARGET MATERIAL IS NOT KNOWN BY ANYONE.
THIS LATTER CASE APPLIES TO HIDDEN TARGETS OR POSSIBLY TO TARGETS
OUT OF
PROI-ER TIME SEQUENCE
(63?; PRECOGNITION).
F.
OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR RESEARCH HAVE ALREADY BEEN PROVIDED T
YOUR OFFICE
(FTD MSG DTD
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.
ADDITIONAL VIEWS CAN BE
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PROVIDED
IF DESIRED.
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DEMONSTRATION FOR DR LABE RGE
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IT
IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
xHAT DR LABERGE OBSERVE A DEMONSTRATION OF A REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT.
THIS WILL ACQUAINT HIM WITH EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL AND PROVIDE AN
APPRECIATION FOR HOW THIS MODE
IS
PRECEIVED
BY THE SUBJECTS.
*
SUGGEST SEVERAL EXPERIMENTS
INVOLVING THOSE THE SUBJECT
IS
fDMFORTABLE WITH, AS WELL AS SOME DEFINED AND CONTROLLED
BY
DR LABERGE.
THESE COULD INVOLVE EXPERIMENTS WITH DR LABERgT IN
THE WASHINGTON AREA AND SUBJECTS ELSEWHERE
.
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EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OR MISSILES
IN SILOS.
A.
THIS TYPE OF EXPERIMENT
IS SIMPLER IN PRINCIPLE THAN
EXPERIMENTS WHERE EXTENSIVE. DETAIL A® RELATIVE SPATIAL RELATION-
A
SHIPS ARE DESIRED.
IDENTIFYING PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OR TARGET AREA
ELEMENTS HAS-BEEN EXAMINED IN THE FTD PROGRAM.
IN THESE EXPERIMENTS^
THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO EVALUTE FEASIBILITY OF USING REMOTE VIEWING
IN A BASIC COMMUNICATION MODE, WITH BASIC MESSAGES PRE-RESABLISHED
FOR EACH TAR (JET AREA CATAGORY
(OR DICHOTOMY)
.
RESULTS WERE EN-
COURAGING AND SUGGESTED THIS COLD BE A VIABLE APPLICATION.
ANOTHER SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS EXAMINED FEASIBILITY OF DETERMINING
PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF
"EVENTS
.
A MINUTEMAN STAGE
I STATIC-TEST
EVENT WAS
THE* DESIRED TARGET.
RESULTS WERE ALSO ENCOURAGING IN
THAT AN EVENT WAS SENSED AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, ALTHOUGH THE SPECIFIC
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nature of the event could not
be determined. by the subject.
B.
IF THEREFORE APPEARS THAT EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE PRESENCE
OR ABSENCE OF MISSILES
IN A SILO,
FOR EXAMPLE, COULD BE
however,
the method used for locating the
intended target area
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MIGHT PSOE SOME DIFFICULTY.
PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS,
USING SIMILAR
ACCEJlSABLE TARGETS
(EMPTY
or. FULL FUEL CONTAINERS,
ETC)
SHOULD
BE PURSUED TO EVALUATE BASIC POTENTIAL OF THIS APPLICATION OBJECTIVE
SUBSEQUENT EXPERIMENTS TO RESOLVE THE LOCATOR PROBLEM FOR ACTUAL
TARGETS COULD THEN
BE ATTEMPTED,
PERHAPS USING -iWWKb US SILOS AS
TARGETS.
THE USE OF AERIAL PHOTOS,
OR COORDINATES, MIGHT BE
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METHODS EMPLOYED FOR TARGETING ON REMOTE SILOS
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10 JULY
1978
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