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ticular task.
This would depend upon the type of targeting (requirement controlled) and
the remote viewers success with that form of targeting.
Raw data should never be given
to a customer.
An analyst, with the help of an RVer, should prepare a report from the
raw data and this report would be provided to the source of the requirement.
To
monitor the success of an operational unit the requestor must evaluate the report and this
evaluation and report would be stored in an automated data storage system.
This infor-
mation would allow us to monitor the success of the unit and to decide which RVer
would be used on a specific task.
Kinds of Problems
This
is an area that has received
little or no research.
It has been assumed that the
only problem was that we know the coordinates of a particular site and we want a
description of what
is there.
There are, however, many more kinds of problems.
It
could be,
for instance, that remote viewing can be used to reduce a search area by some
percentage.
It may be that an event of a certain and quantifiable magnitude can be
detected but nothing below that limit. We certainly need to know which problems we
should attempt before a unit is considered operational.
If all requirements are attempted
and a low level of accuracy achieved the unit would be placed in undeserving jeopardy.
Training
An operational remote viewer should have received two kinds of training.
First, he
must have been trained to do several kinds of remote viewing.
This has been discussed
in a number of publications.
However,
little consideration has been given to intelligence
training for remote viewers.
The viewer receives a task that requires him to respond with
new information about a
site etc.
But he
is unaware of what features he should describe
or look for.
Therefore, several lectures by a P.I. would improve the quality of the data
as the RVer would now know the kind of features that are important to the P.I.
Lec-
tures on foreign technology and what things are important to an S&T analyst could im-
prove the quality of the remote viewing output.
Simply knowing the goals and missions
of the intelligence community and what our major problems are could also generate an
improved output.
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Additional training for intelligence analysts may also be needed.
How and when to
use RV data requires some knowledge of psi
abilities.
Without some basic knowledge of
how the data are acquired incorrect inferences may be drawn.
These same trained
analysts would be mobilized to
assist in preparing the reports which are based on RV
derived information.
They would also assist customers in preparing their requirement in a
manner that can be addressed by psi abilities.
Research
Any operational RV unit must have a research budget.
This to be independent of
R&D being undertaken to understand the phenomena and
its physical basis.
In addition
to exploring the many interesting facets of the phenomena, there are additional topics
which must be investigated that are critical to applying remote viewing to gathering in-
telligence information.
These same topics may or may not be of interest to those con-
ducting basic research on the various psi phenomena.
Training people to do remote
viewing, how to search remote viewing and converting psi derived data into a coherent
report to a customer are examples.
While application needs should drive
all R&D,
a
suc-
cessful operational unit must have a research budget to insure that
its needs are met on
an immediate basis.
Organization
There are several ways to organize an operational unit.
Each has advantages and
disadvantages.
First, an operational unit lilke the existing one should be considered.
Its
principle advantage
is that
it exists.
Some potential disadvantages are that
it
is composed
of mostly military personnel, who have time limited assignments, and that there
is
little to
do during periods when there are no operational requirements.
Also,
as currently staffed
there
is no one with a background in parapsychology, science or statistics and
it
is impor-
tant to have
all these capabilities in a group responding to a variety of tasks.
A second possibility would be to rely on a consultant team to gathers real opera-
tional information.
This would have the obvious advantage of relieving DIA of the
responsibility for forming and supporting an in-house unit.
Its disadvantages include the
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