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Approved For Release 2005 PRR ET 262272270 os20007- TRAINING REPORT second Quarter 1987 1. (S/SK/WNINTEL) The following charts reflect the distribution of the 28 remote viewing training sessions conducted during the second quarter of 1987. An explanation of terms may be found in the training outlines, attached as Appendices 1-5. CRV Training Sessions (TOTAL = 19) iStage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Object Advanced Source #14Class: A/B A/B A/B A/B. A/B- A/B A/B seen ernie nessun nucecons fst ar sn tm Nl i ee ri tc i ap nn ne 003 i i 0/4 011 O/1 0/76 018 i 1 0/2 021 {i 0/4 ERV Training Sessions (TOTAL = 6) iType: Visualization Beaconing Object Site Advanced Source #{Class: A/B A/B 079 i 1 0/4 101 i O/1 ARDBA (TOTAL = 3) Source # [Sessions Fr 003 i 1 021 i 4 , 079 i 4 HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY SPECIAL ACCESS REQUIRED NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS CLASSIFIED BY: DIA-DT WARNING NOTICE: SENSITIVE INTELLI_- DECLASSIFY BY: OADR GENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED Approved For Release 200.8 B RRs fprse-co7eer001000390007- al :
Approved For Release ER ET eoosreoreoessnner 2. (S/SK/WNINTEL) Second Quarter Training Highlights (U) a. (S/SK/WNINTEL) Source #011, while already operational, is undergoing concurrent Stage 5/6 training. All other sources have completed “basic training”. Detailed individual session results and accompanying evaluations are maintained in unit training files and are available to those who require access. b. (S/SK/WNINTEL) SUN STREAK has identified two new trainee candidates as replacements for sources #101 and #021; one to he trained in CRV, the other in ERV. It is anticipated that both individuals will be assigned during the third quarter of 1987. SG1J Training Officer Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001000390007-3 COORET)
_ Approved For Release SECRET rr’ ‘ i TRAINING OUTLINE for COORDINATE REMOTE VIEWING The Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) training procedure was developed by an SRI-International (SRI-I) subcontractor in the early 1980s to satisfy R&D demands on SRI-I to enhance the reliability (scientific replicahbility) of remote viewing (RV). The subcontractor’s approach to improving the reliability of RV was to focus on the control of those factors that in his view tend to introduce "noise” into the RV product (imaginative, environmental, and interviewer overlays). The basic components of this training procedure consist of: (1) Repeated site-address (coordinate) presentation, with quick-reaction response by the remote viewer; coupled with a restrictive format for reporting perceived information (to minimize imaginative overlays). (2) The use of a specially-designed, acoustic-tiled, relatively featureless, homogeneously-colored “viewing chamber” (to minimize environmental overlays). a (3) The adoption of a strictly-prescribed, limited interviewer patter (to minimize interviewer overlays). The applied CRV training procedure requires that the trainee learn a progressive multi-stage acquisition process postulated to correspond to increased contact with the site. Initially the trainee is presented with RV sites requiring minimal detection and decoding skills ("stage one” sites). When the trainee demonstrates an ability to control the “signal line” and reliably “objectifies” accurate descriptions, the next "stage" of training is engaged. This procedure continues through "stage six” and usually takes a number of months to master. The CRV Stages are identified as follows: d Stage One - islands, mountains, deserts, etc. Stage Two - Sites of quality sensory value; sites which are uniquely describable through touch, taste, sound, color, or odor such as glaciers, volcanoes, industrial plants, etc. Stage Three - sites possessing significant dimensional characteristics such as buildings, bridges, airfields, etc. Appendix 1 Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001000390007-3
Approved For Release zon FRE 077220 1007280007-9 Etage Four — sites requiring qualitative mental percepts such as technical area, military feeling, research, etc. Stage Five - sites requiring the interrogation of qualitative mental percepts to produce refined information such as aircraft tracking radar, biomedical research facility, tank production plant, etc. Stage Six - sites requiring direct, three-dimensional assessment of site elements to one another such as airplanes inside one of three camouflaged hangars or a military compound with a command building, barracks, motor pool, and underground weapons storage area. As Stage Six is engaged, an assessment of relative temporal and spatial dimensional elements along with further qualitative elements evolve into the consciousness of the trainee. There are three classes of CRV training. These classes deal with feedback requirements during the CRV session, control of interviewer patter, trainee skill development, and motivation. These three cldsses (A, B, and C) are discussed below but differ somewhat from the definition applied and published by SRI-I for Class A, B, and C CRV training. CLASS C: When a trainee begins a “stage” of training the sessions are of the Class C type. During this phase, the trainee must learn to differentiate between emerging site relevant perceptions and imaginative overlay. To assist the trainee in this learning, immediate feedback is provided during the session. The interviewer (monitor) is provided with a feedback package which may contain a map, photographs, and/or narrative description of the site. During Class C sessions the interviewer provides the trainee with immediate feedback for each element of data he provides, with the exception that negative feedback is not given. Should the trainee state an element of information that appears incorrect, the interviewer remains silent. Feedback, in order to prevent inadvertent cuing (interviewer overlay), is in the form of very specific statements made by the interviewer. These statements and their definitions are as follows: Correct (C) - This indicates that the information is correct in context with the site location, but is not sufficient to end the session. 2 Approved For Release MERE # le & }
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001000390007-3 SECRET, Skill 7 - Ability/desire to focus intent (conscious and unconscious) on remote viewing (RV) task. Training in organizational management, counseling, personal reinforcement, motivation, etc. Skill 8 - Ability to communicate RV perceptions. Training in right hemispheric verbalization techniques, sketching techniques, practice in non- analytic reporting, etc. Each one of these skills is trained over a period of several weeks. When the trainee demonstrates independent mastery of each skill, he then learns to combine the skills. His goal is to simultaneously exhibit all of the learned skills thereby achieving a specified discrete state of consciousness in which the trainee is able to RV. The behavioral psychologist would call this state dependent repertoire of behaviors a subpersonality, label it as "remote viewer” and include it along with other subpersonalities (parent, spouse, athlete, office supervisor, etc.) in the individuals overall identity. From this perspective, the trained ERVer is able to RV by simply internally identifying with the "remote viewer” as easily as one becomes a parent, spouse, or athlete. This feat is accomplished hy willfully identifying with a role (a learned set of state dependent behaviors) in an appropriate (socially accepted»: environment. Once the trainee is able to “become a remote viewer” by engaging learned skills, he/she is challenged to perform under controlled conditions. This is done by presenting the trainee with progressively complex RV tasks coupled with a reinforcement strategy designed to develop self confidence and to internalize ego state stabilizing factors. Assessment of individual RV capabilities can begin during this phase of training. For just as there are parents, spouses, athletes, and teachers with different abilities, so too are there remote viewers possessing a wide range of abilities. The general target or site categories for these progressively complex RV tasks are outlined below: Local Targets - The ERV team (interviewer and trainee) > are secluded within the RV room. An outbound “beacon” individual proceeds to a selected site unknown to the ERV team. The ERV team attempts to describe the *bheacon’s” location. After the training session the “beacon” takes the ERV team to the site to assess the accuracy of the training session. ny 2 Approved For Release 20088 PEPores-cn7seroeso0s2000-3
Approved For Release zoos0e EBA fofos-oo7eer00t000380007- . Global Targets -— The training session is conducted in a similar manner with the exception that the selected target is not limited to the local area and is usually designated by geographic coordinate, photograph, or other identifying data. The trainee, of course, is not provided any information about the site and must by the very nature of the problem remote view it. Application Targets —- At this point the trainee is introduced to RV problems which mimic actual operational potential. Training is conducted the same as with Global Targets but general descriptive data provided by the trainee is insufficient to satisfy training objectives. Specific, significant qualitative data which would be of exploitable value must be reported. Feedback requirements during ERV training are similar to those outlined for CRV training as "Classes” of CRV training. The interviewer is able’’to vary the level of feedback depending on the trainee’s ability and needs. The level of feedback is always based on the development of a reliable, qualified remote viewer and an effective ERV team. At times this may require that the interviewer know about the selected training site whereas during other training sessions the interviewer may know nothing about the site. 3 Approved For Release aN tT
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001000390007-3 SECRET TRAINING OUTLINE for ABSTRACT REFERENTS DISCRIMINATION OF BINARY ALTERNATIVES Remote Viewers have demonstrated little ability to discriminate alphanumeric information. Remote perception and description of geographic locations, buildings, and objects appears to be different than the remote perception of man generated symbolic data (letters and numbers). Abstract Referents Discrimination of Binary Alternatives (ARDBA) training has two objectives. The first is to identify trainees who possess an innate ability to psychically discriminate between different alphanumerics and second to determine the feasibility of training this ability. The training/testing program has been designed so that training progresses through five training phases from simplistic exercises to the eventual use of abstract referents (i.e. geographic coordinates) to direct the trainees’attention to the discrimination between binary alternatives at remote locations. Each one of these phases requires a different behavior on the part of the trainee and is conducted for different purposes with an overall goal in mind. Following is an overview of these ARDBA Training Phases: PHASE 1 During Phase 1 the trainee is directed to use whatever psychic ability available to discriminate between binary alternatives by active selection within a closed target pool. The trainer then provides positive oral feedback when appropriate to reinforce the trainee’s own visual field. Negative oral feedback is never provided. The purpose of this phase of training/testing is threefold. The first purpose is to determine if a particular individual has any ability. The second purpose is to establish a data base on which to base further training/testing and the third purpose is to build self confidence on the part of the trainee through immediate positive feedback. PHASE 2 If a trainee is able to complete Phase 1 (successfully discriminate between binary alternatives to a statistically significant level), Phase 2 is initiated. During Phase 2 the training environment is similar with the exception that feedback is reduced. The trainee in no longer provided with visual feedback from the target pool. The only feedback provided is given orally by the trainer. a Appendix 3 Approved For Release 2003/09/1 ES Fi A 9f p07eeR001000380007-5
Approved For Release ak \3\\ 4 Raa } i The overall purpose here is to develop an internalized feeling of confidence within the trainee of psychic impressions through the use of feedback withdrawal tactics. A data base of trainee performance is also expanded during this period. PHASE 3 During this phase of training the emphasis sheers away somewhat from discrimination of binary alternatives and begins to focus on the trainees ability to respond to abstract referents. In ARDBA Phase 3 the trainer selects a target from within the closed target pool and then directs the trainee to state what the selected target is (choose between binary alternatives). Positive oral feedback is provided when appropriate by the trainer. The overall purpose of this phase is to begin to transfer a trainee’s demonstrated ability outside the immediate environment and to prepare the trainee for the next phase. PHASE 4 This phase establishes abstract referent cuing as the prime directive. The trainee is presentec with a grid matrix consisting of six positions. Each position will has a “coordinate.” The task for the trainee is to discriminate between binary alternatives at a given coordinate (abstract referent cue) provided by the trainer. The trainer records the results but does not provide feedback to the trainee. This phase serves to extinct the trainees dependence on the previous target pool as well as external feedback. PHASE 5 Given that a trainee can demonstrate reliable performance through Phase 4, Phase 5 attempts to chain together six matrix "coordinates” into one six digit binary number. The trainer provides the trainee with “coordinates” as cuing and the trainee attempts to discriminate between binary alternatives for each of six different abstract referents. Feedback is given only after the completion of six "coordinates. ” This phase completes the training concept and demands the trainee accurately respond to a series of requirements prior to receiving feedback. Approved For Release 2003/09/1 6 rat 5, #9-00788R001000390007-3 ‘hy ‘4
Approved For Release 2003/08/49 : Aik DP96-00788R001000390007-3 ene. : Once these stages have been completed and in-house assessment project is conducted. This involves the use of a six digit binary code which is sealed in a envelope. The trained source then attempts to identify this code given appropriate abstract referents. To be effective, a source must he able to accurately discriminate between binary alternatives ina sequential chain given a complex abstract referent cuing system. The ultimate goal of this program might be to detect and describe cryptographic code at remote locations. This newly trained source ability will have to be integrated into conventional remote viewing techniques. A source will have to locate cryptographic systems through remote viewing and then apply his/her ability to discriminate binary alternatives in specific codes at the location. 3 Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : | 9 (errr j