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RV group.
Targeting,
audio analysis,
and training members
of
their
—
in-house group,
all
fit well within their mission.
The DIA,
however,
had
three missions:
—
•
Prepare
for developing an in-house capability
•
Identify countermeasures
to psychoenergetic phenomena
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Evaluate
and
report
psychoenergetics
research
in
foreign
countries
.
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Figures
21a and
22 depict
these missions and
the program's
development
over
the entire three years.
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(U) Funding problems again reduced the amount of work that was done.
The amount
of money was not the only problem,
it was the
late date at which
it arrived.
The DIA FY
1982 money arrived on
10 February
1982, and the Army funds on 6 August 1982.
This
meant that for nearly
five months the project was paid for on SRI overhead.
The point
should not be belabored, but
its effect on the amount (and sometimes the quality)
of the
work should be noted.
(S/NF) The FY 1982 research projects were,
for
the most part,
follow-on efforts
to the FY 1981 research.
In the RV enhancement program,
research on training procedures was continued and the task of transferring
the technology was
begun.
Instead
of training experienced remote viewers,
SG1B
as
in FY
1981,
SRI
trained novice
viewers.
Several
of
them were Army
^1
personnel who were
to be members
of
the
INSCOM
in-house RV
team.
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During FY
1982,
one
of
the most difficult problems
in the
field
of psychoenergetics was probed:
how do you evaluate
the results
of
a remote viewing session?
Nothing else can proceed
in
a normal way until
researchers can measure their results.
Only then can they detect
the
effect
of altering the variables.
In FY 1982,
a procedure having three
distinct phases was developed:
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Reduction
of remote viewing response data.
•
Target/task related assessment.
•
Analysis
procedure.
Instructions
for
using
the
evaluation
system can be
found
in Remote Viewing Evaluation Techniques,
December
1986.
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(U) FY 1983
(S/NF) While the funding picture
for FY 1981 and FY 1982 was bleak,
it became much worse
in FY 1983,
when Congress removed all
the Army
INSCOM
funds
for psychoenergetics research from the FY 1983 budget.
As
INSCOM
funds were being counted upon to support half of the research
for
that
year,
this action threatened
the existence
of the project.
However,
other
funding was
found and the work continued.
The Grill Flame program was
to
last only three years
and,
at
the close
of FY 1983
it was ended by
Congressional
dictate.
Congress
further specified that no NFIB funds were
to be
spent
for psychoenergetics research
in FY 1984
or beyond.
Thus,
funding outside the NFIB had
to be found to continue the research.
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Also
in FY 1983,
the Grill Flame Project was reviewed by
a
panel of distinguished
scientists.
Over
a period
of
several
days,
they
took
a hard
look at the scientific aspects
of
the program,
including
experimental design and analysis of data.
In general,
they were
impressed
by the work and found no major flaws
in
it.
A summary and discussion
of
their report can be found
in
Psychoenergetic Research,
7 August
1984.
(S/NF)
The
tasks pursued
in FY 1983
are
shown
in Table
6.
All except
one,
search methodology,
are follow-on efforts
to work begun
in
or before
FY
1982.
This
search methodology task
is essentially the
inverse
of
the
kind of remote viewing that had received the greatest amount
of attention
at
SRI.
Whereas,
SRI had always asked
"tell me what
is
at
location X,"
now the question was
"where
is what
I want,
where can
I
find
it?"
Over
the next
several years this task was
to receive
a great amount
of
attention.
For DoD applications,
searching has
the potential
for being
the most valuable form of remote viewing.
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FY 1983 TASKS
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Data Base Management
Intelligence Assessment
Search Methodology
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