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1979,
the first operational remote viewing session took place.
In this initial session,
the remote viewer placed the
y
aircraft to within
15 miles of where
it was actually located.
Based on these results,
INSC0M was tasked to work against
additional operational targets.
These taskings forced a
premature halt to the initial training
phase.
In December
1979,
the project was committed to operations.
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The:.background of
INSC0M and the GRILL FLAME project would be
incomplete without examining the different
roles of DIA and
INSC0M;
since there appears to have been some blurring
of
these distinctions
in the past.
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DIA
is concerned with:
•
Assessing the threat,
principally from the Soviet Union
and China.
•
Determining countermeasures to any
U.
S.
vulnerabilities,
a
And,
determining the pofcedital of^remote viewing using
established psychics.
DIA performs this function primarily through contracts at
SRI.
INSC0M is applying remote viewing to assist
in its evaluation
as a collection method,
and to determine if remote viewing
can be learned by professional intelligence personnel who are
not established psychics.
Our remote viewing collection
is done with assigned personnel.
We contract only
for specific items which enhance our collection.
For example:
•
Which targeting methods have the highest probability
of success.
«
Can
the accuracy
of
a remote viewer be determined from
an analysis of his statemnets?
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Can the SRI new training technique increase the
quality and reliability
of collection:
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of the briefing.
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The next portion covers the anatomy
of a collection project
and presents examples of results from completed projects.
Typically
a project begins with
a request
for information
on
a target,
which
is not sus^ptible to normal collection systems,
or cuing data to target
other intelligence systems.
Based upon
personnel available,
priority of the target,
and the potential
for providing requested information,
the INSC0M project manager
makes
a decision whether to accept
or 'decline the project.
Many
times even though the likelihood of obtaining the information
is not high,
the project
is accepted
The first task is the
construction
of a remote veiwing collection plan.
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This collection plan lists the essential elements of information
(EEI) and the intelligence indicators which will address these
EEI.
Also listed are the target time windows for which these
indicators will be relevant.
The collection plan indicates
which remote viewer will be used.
They are selected on the
basis
of their past performance and the types of indicators which
are needed.
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Once a specific remote viewer has been selected, we contact
him and set up
a specific date and time for the remote viewing
session.
This
is done to allow him time to prepare mentally
for the task,
as well as allowing us time to arrange support.
At this time,
the remote viewer
is.not told what the
target^ will
be.
He only knows he will be doing an operational remote
viewing session.
There may be more than one session for a particular project.
Several sessions may have to be done
to address all the indicators
needed to answer the
EEI..
A remote viewing session
is
a team
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effort.
There are two members of this team.
One is the
interviewer,
the other
is the remote viewer.
The interviewer
controls the session.
His
job is to keep the remote viewer
on track,
to direct the focus of the remote viewer and to
question him about
the target.
The remote viewer
is responsible
only for reporting.
The goal
of the session is to collect
intelligence.
To do
this,
great care is taken to try
and force
the. remote viewer
to produce only information of intelligence value.
.This
is
done by denying him other sources of information about the
target.
We always keep the remote viewer
"blind".
Most times
the interviewer
is also kept
"blind",
so he will not
inadvertently lead the remote viewer.
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Let's now look at the conduct of an actual remote viewing session.
The remote viewer arrives st the operation section at the specified
date and time.
He and
the; interviewer then discuss what
is
going to be expected.
They are still not talking about the
target.
.This time is generally used to establish enthusiasm
and motivation on the part of both the interviewer and the
remote viewer.
At the designated time, they
go. into a room,
which had been designed especially for remote
viewing.,
It
is
a comfortable room with tape recording and monitoring equipment.
It's acoustically treated pnd carpeted.
The only thing done
in this room
is remote viewing.
During the remote viewing session the lights are dimmed reducing
after images
on the retina of the
eye,
and producing
a quiet,
stable environment.
At the start of the session,
the interviewer
provides the remote viewer with the target cuing
data.
The
remote viewer has not seen this information before.
He receives
it
only at
the start of the remote viewing session.
Target
cuing data may fall into several categories.
It may be
geographic
or UTM coordinates,
an overhead photograph of
the area,
or
a photograph
of an individual or object.
Perhaps,
there
is some reason not to give target information to
a remote
viewer.
The way to overcome this
is simply to place the target
information
in
a sealed envelope.
The remote viewer
is
given this sealed envelope and he
is told that the target for
today
is in the envelope.
He
is then simply asked to describe
the target.
Once the remote viewer has this cuing
data,
the
tape recorder
is turned on 'and the session begins.
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The remote viewer
is asked to focus his attention, physically
relax and concentrate
on the target which has been designated.
Once this
is accomplished,
he
is then asked to describe his
perceptions of the
target*
During the course
of the session,
the interviewer questions the remote viewer about his perceptions,
and directs
the remote viewer
in the
target
area.
At times
an outside analyst may monitor the session from a control room.
The remote viewer and interviewer are both aware of the
monitoring.
The analyst may wish certain areas of the remote
viewer towards the goal of the analyst.
At no time are the
analyst's questions heard by the remote viewer.
After the session, which usually lasts about
30 minutes,
the
remote viewer
is asked to draw the perceptions he had during
session.
This is very important.
The.drawings may be more
accurate or
show, a different perspective than
the verbal
descriptions about the target.
After the drawing
is done
and the remote viewer talks about
them,
the remote viewing
session
is completed.
The tape
is then
. transcribed and
a
transcript furnished to the project requestor.
After the
project
is completed the requestor provides an evaluation.
As
in any other
task,
feedback is essential.
The remote viewer
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wishes to know
if he did well in his efforts.
He needs to
know that his descriptions were accurate.
This helps him
in
future projects,
as well as establishing
a sense of worth
in
his efforts to remote view.
The project manager requires
feedback to evaluate the collection method.
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The following graphics are summaries
of our operation.
From
September
1979 thru May
1982.
Note the comparison of sessions to projects.
The specific
number
of collection sessions,
necessary to meet
a project's
requirements,
is based upon the requestor's tasking.
As an
example,
the support provided during the Iranian hostage
crisis covered an extended period of time and resulted
in
an excess of 200 sessions.
There also have been projects
where the task was successfully accomplished with just
a
single session.
Of the 65 projects completed
. and fully evaluated,
The results
of evaluated projects are depicted on this slide.
It should be noted that while ACSI
is listed as the official
requester on
8 projects,
two. projects were conducted
in support
of Army MAC0MS,
two were combination ACSI/INSC0M and another
was the missing navy AGE.
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I would now like to cover our project book.
The project
'
book accompanying this briefing presents examples of intelligence
collected through remote viewing.
Prior to its review
I wish
to emphasize the following points:
Remote viewing
is not a magic lamp and is not
a substitute for
current intelligence work.
Remote viewing
is
a highly controlled
and formally established,
unique intelligence collection
capability which has the following characteristics:
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It is PASSIVE
To the extent of our
knowledge,
collection by remote viewing
is totally passive.
Only one claim of detection
of remote
viewing. is known.
Chinese scientists claim to have detected
remote viewing
during their experiments. with children.
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