ry | International ea Ne =.) For REE. proved FérRelease 200Se/@ Ruin Rop96-00792H000100140050-7 23 March 1981 ce UIB acquis © Proposal for Research Q a) 10 ppt SRI International No. ESU 81-60 NIC TECHNIQUES (U) Part One--Technical Proposal Prepared for: Defense Supply Service-Washington Room 1D-245, The Pentagon Washington, D.C, 20310 Prepared by: Harold E. Puthoff, Ph.D. Senior Research Engineer Radio Physics Laboratory CLASSIFIED BY: DIA (DT~-1A) REVIEW ON: 23 March 2001 SRI 1-8082 This document contains ai pages. Copy No. ol 333 Ravenswood Ave. » Menlo Park, California 94025 Sake OIG Re Ap se Ub7o 2000 b0'f40050-7 — NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS +
Approved Foy Release 200Q4/Q0 PPAROP96-00792F3000100140050-7 I INTRODUCTION This document is a proposal to pursue activity in support of DIA(DT) Statement of Work, Novel Intelligence Collection Techniques (Psychoenergetics-— Threat to U.S. and Potential Applications), SECRET, To accomplish the proposed program, SRI will provide approximately three man-years of effort with the necessary personnel (see attached biographies), facilities, and materials to perform the work as outlined in the DIA Statement of Work. Details of the effort are specified in the following section. SECRET Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140050-7
Approved For Release 200%qBI (0 Poff e0P96-00792R00100140050-7 I STATEMENT OF WORK: NOVEL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION TECHNIQUES (PSYCHOENERGETICS-THREAT TO U,S, AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS ) 1. General The objective of this effort is to investigate in detail certain psychoenergetic phenomena that have potential military applications, Emphasis will be on evaluating application potential and limitations of such phenomena, and to provide such knowledge as gained under this contract to appropriate DoD agencies who will evaluate the significance of foreign work, particularly as it may pose a threat to the United States. Major emphasis will be on evaluating remote viewing phenomena and in particular, targeting aspects, via coordinate or other methods. Related to this are training methods, methods of enhancing reliability and repeat- ability of the phenomena. 2. Specific Tasks (FY'81) 2,1 Develop audio/semantic analysis techniques to separate correct from incorrect data available from taped viewer descriptions of remote viewing sites and to provide selective editing under operational conditions, 2.2 Determine what is required for target acquisition (names, maps, coordinates, pictures, arbitrary labelings, simply the word "target," etc.) 2.3 Evaluate threat potential of foreign remote viewing--type investigations: 2.3.1 Simulate experimental results for which there is data to assess validity of the foreign research. 2.3.2 Assess military applications potential of the foreign research (or claims), particularly where a threat to U.S, security is possible. 2.3.3 Assess feasibility of the most significant applications and evaluate limitations. 2.3.4 Evaluate the use of remote viewing to locate target objects or people, 2 SECRET Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140050-7
Approved FokRelease 200 EUG? PRIROP 96-007925000100140050-7 4.3 A Final Report based on the Draft Final Report and the comments made by the COTR, 4,4 Program progress briefing shall be of an informal nature and shall be held at the end of each quarter, The contractor shall furnish copies of informal charts, viewgraphs and other aids as may be needed, The informal briefings shall consist of a contractor presentation and informal discussion among contractor, funding agencies and other government personnel as appropriate. 4.5 Quick reaction reports as required by the COTR. They will be of limited scope and deal with subjects of especially high interest and/or critical timeliness, 4,6 All supporting material, i.e., notes, maps, tapes for this contract will be made available by the contractor to the COTR and no such material will be destroyed without written permission, 5. Delivery Schedule The COTR will insure members of the Grill Flame Committee receive copies of all deliverables. 5.1 Quarterly Reports: Five copies to the COTR. The first report is due 100 days after the contract award date and will cover the first 90 days of the contract, Subsequent reports will be due each 90 days thereafter, i.e., 190 days after contract award, 280 days, 370 days, etc. 5.2 Draft Final Report: Five copies to the COTR within 30 days of completion of the contract, Comments will be returned to the contractor within 45 days of receipt of the draft. 5.3 Final Report: Ten copies and a camera ready master to the COTR within 45 days of receipt of the comments made on the Draft Final Report. 5,4 Programm Progress Briefings: Approximately 4 per year are anticipated. Specific times and places will be established by the COTR. Some briefings will occur in the Washington, D.C. area and may involve more than one presentation by the contractors, 5.5 Quick Reaction Reports: Number of copies, place and time of delivery to be determined by the COTR, 4 SECRET Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140050-7
Approved Fér, Release 200) (TOP FAFROPIE-00792F000100140050-7 5.6 Supporting Materials: Provided to the COTR when requested during the period of contract performance. All such material will be finally delivered to the COTR at the same time as Final Report. (5.3 above), MILESTONE CHART: NOVEL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUE FY'81 ($270K) 2.0 Tasks for FY'81 2.1 24% 2,2 20% 2.3 46% 2.4 10% 5 SECRET Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140050-7
1 ‘ Approved Fer, Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96- 00792F}000100140050- 7 UNCLASSIFIED ROBERT S. LEONARD Director Radio Physics Laboratory Systems Research & Analysis Division SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE Radio-wave propagation: in normal enviroments; in naturally dis- turbed enviroments (aurora); in manmade disturbances (nuclear explosions) REPRESENTATIVE RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS AT SRI (since 1961) Project director of a program to remotely sense nuclear detonations during the U.S. high altitude nuclear test program Led a research effort to improve the U.S. capability to detect foreign nuclear test by their effect on radio propagation Technical director of a large multicontractor research program to study the effects on radio propagation of an artificially produced ionospheric plasma Technical director on a program to develop special communications techniques OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Instructor, researcher, and graduate student, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska: HF and low VHF radio-wave propagation studies of auroral effects; designed, developed, and tested a prototype of the 41-MHz auroral radar used in the U.S. IGY program; installed and operated the six Alaskan IGY-auroral radars, and analyzed the data collected during the IGY Teaching assistant, Physics Department, University of Nevada “ACADEMIC BACKGROUND B.S. (1952) and M.S. (1953) in physics, University of Nevada; Ph.D. in geophysics (1961), University of Alaska , PUBLICATIONS "Observations of Ionospheric Disturbances Following the Alaska Earth- quake," J. Geophys. Res. (March 1965); "Selection of a Model of the Earth's Magnetic Field," J. Geophys. Res. (December 1962); "Evidence of Low-Frequency Amplitude Fluctuations in Radar Auroral Echoes," J. Geophys. Res. (April 1962); "Distribution of Radar Auroras over Alaska," J. Geophys. Res. (March 1962); °A Low Power UHF Radar for Auroral Research ," PIRE (February 1959); “Distribution of Radar Auroras over Alaska," Ph. dD. ¢ thesis; "Photoelectric Recording of a Complex Light Source of Rapidly Varying Intensity," Master's thesis PROFESSIONAL ‘ASSOCIATIONS American Geophysical Union Union Radio Scientifique Internationale Approved For RANG LARS TELE DO. 107022000100140080-7
Approved Fok Reledsp ib C/pofloS G4 Fa f p0792F§00100140050-7 HAROLD E. PUTHOFF Senior Research Engineer Radio Physics Laboratory Systems Research and Analysis Division SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE Research in "remote viewing" and other psi phenomena (1972-present) Research in lasers, quantum electronics, nonlinear optics Research and development of tunable sclid-state lasers, electron beam lasers, microwave tubes OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research associate, Hansen Laboratories of Physics, and lecturer, Depart- ment of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; teaching, textbook author, research supervisor of Ph.D. candidates in the area of lasers and nonlinear optics Lieutenant, USNR: in-house research and contract monitoring on DoD (NSA) contracts concerned with the development of ultra high-speed (GHz) computers, assessment of potential of fiber optics and lasers for use in optical computers Research engineer, Sperry Electronic Tube Division, and Sperry fellow, University of Florida: design and testing of electron-beam focusing systems for use in microwave tubes ACADEMIC BACKGROUND B.E.E. (1958) and M.S.E. (1960), University of Florida; Ph.D. in electri- cal engineering, Stanford University (1967) PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS Author or coauthor of more than twenty-five papers in professional journals on electron beam and laser research, and, more recently, first major publi- cations of research on psi phenomena in Nature ("Information Transfer Un- der Conditions of Sensory Shielding," Oct. 1974), in the Proceedings of the IEEE ("A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances," March 1976) and in the AAAS book The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World ("Experimental Psi Research: Implications for Physics," 1980) Coauthor of textbook, Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics (Wiley, New York, 1969) published in English, French, Russian; Coauthor of Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability (Delacorte, New York, 1977); Coeditor of Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (Praeger, New York, 1979); Patent on high-power tunable infrared laser source (50-250 microns) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sigma Xi, Department of Defense Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Perfor- mance, IEEE Franklyn V. Taylor Memorial Award for paper "A Scientific Look at ESP," listed in American Men and Women of Science UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140050-7
Approved Foi Relea} ING COB JAS G-HE FE Pp 792R000100140050-7 EDWIN C. MAY Senior Research Physicist Radio Physics Laboratory Systems Research and Analysis Division SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE Charged particle and gamma-ray spectroscopy; analogue and high-speed digital electronics; numerical analysis; real-time computer applications for data acquisition and analysis; research in bio-feedback technology and applications, and cardiac blood flow problems; field research in India and laboratory research at Maimonides Medical Center on psycho- energetic phenomena OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Theoretical calculations in radiation transport;, atmospheric physics, and E & M wave scattering at the RAND Corporation Experiments in nuclear reaction mechanism and nuclear structure at the U. of California Crocker Nuclear Laboratory Undergraduate physics teaching at the City College of San Francisco Equipment engineer and clinical experience at the Bio-feedback Institute of San Francisco Research consultant on psychokinesis at the Maimonides Medical Center ACADEMIC BACKGROUND B.S. in physics, University of Rochester (1962); Ph.D. in physics, University of Pittsburgh (1968) PUBLICATIONS Author or coauthor of eleven scientific papers in experimental nuclear physics research; Author or coauthor of numerous scientific papers in psychoenergetic research; Author or coauthor of eleven research abstracts in nuclear physics for professional meetings Author or coauthor of three abstracts in psychoenergetic research for professional and meetings PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Parapsycho- logy Association, The American Society for Psychical Research 8 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140050-7
‘Approved For Relepgaenpepay tg Gig EPpy e29000 100140050: RUSSELL TARG Senior Research Physicist Radio Physics Laboratory Systems Research and Analysis Division SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE Research in remote sensing and other psychoenergetic phenomena (1972-present) Development of high-power gas lasers, FM laser, and supermode laser techniques , Optical modulation and demodulation at microwave frequencies Microwave generation from plasmas PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE Sylvania Corporation; investigation of techniques for development of new gas lasers, making use of research with compact, self-contained multikilowatt CO lasers Technical Research Group; experiments in new gaseous laser media Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; assisted in the establishment of electron beam laboratory Sperry Gyroscope Company, Electron Tube Division; experimental work in microwave generation from plasmas; early work in the technology of ultrahigh-vacuum and ion pump design ACADEMIC BACKGROUND B.S. in physics (1954), Queens College, New York; graduate work in physics (1954-56), Columbia University PUBLICATIONS AND INVENTIONS Author or coauthor of more than thirty articles on lasers and plasma research, and more recently, the first major publication of research on psychoenergetic phenomena in Nature and in The Proceedings of the IEEE: “Information Transfer Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," Nature (October 18, 1974) and "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances," Proc. IEEE (March 1976) Coauthor of Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Physical Research (Delacorte Press, New York, 1976); Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (Praeger, New York, 1979) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Senior member IEEE; American Physical Society; President and cofounder of Parapsychology Research Group, a tax exempt California corporation since 1963, with research and educational objectives in the area of psychic functioning UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140050-7
‘Approved For RelebJ ELAS §iMRbEd)007927000100140050-7 BEVERLY S. HUMPHREY Research Analyst Radio Physics Laboratory Systems Research and Analysis Division SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE Historical and theoretical linguistics, languages (modern and ancient), cognitive anthropology, archeological field techniques REPRESENTATIVE RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS AT SRI (since 1978) Blind evaluation of free-response psychoenergetic data and development of evaluation techniques Development of psychokinesis experimental protocols and responsibility for PK experimentation Investigation of target demarcation and target selection Participation in RV experiments as both experiment monitor and beacon OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Historical linguistics researcher in ancient Greek at Stanford University Psychoenergetics research consultant for The Mobius Group (archeological Egyptian project) Researcher in correlations between botanical anomalies and archeological site locations, Florence, Italy ACADEMIC BACKGROUND B.A. in anthropology (Stanford University, 1977) Language study (The Goethe-Institut, Freiberg, Germany, 1975) Archeological research (Stanford in Italy, 1975) PUBLICATIONS Coauthor of "Investigations in Target Acquisition," Research in Para- psychology (1979); coauthor of several SRI reports on psychoenergetic research PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Distinction in Anthropology, the Henry Fairclough Award for Excellence in Classics (Stanford University) 10 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140050-7