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PROPOSED GRILL FLAME PROTOCOL
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PROPOSED AMSAA
APPLIED REMOTE VIEWING PROTOCOL
(S-ORCON)
1.
(S-ORCON)
GENERAL
This
protocol
contains
the procedure for AMSAA sponsored remote
viewing.
It
is
in effect for the period required
to accomplish
the
scope of work.
Remote viewing
(RV)
is
an
intellectual
process
by whi
a person perceives characteristics
of
a
location remote from that
person.
RV does
not involve any electronic sensing
d ?v1
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es
at or
focused at the target
site,
nor does
it involve classical
phdto
inter
pretation of photographs obtained from overhead or obi ique means.
The
individual
performing
RV
(the remote viewer)
is Ponded with
a un^q ue
identifier such
as
stationary map coordinates,
a specific structure,
an
identifiable vehicle
(aircraft
tail
number)
or
a specific individual
(name,
place of birth,
age,
and/or photograph).
The task of
the remote
viewer
is
to locate,
identify and/or describe
the
target.
The
task
is
achievable
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.
No
drugs,
hypnosis,
visual
,
auditory or olfactory
stimuli,
liminal
or subliminal, will
be
used
in
this
RV protocol.
2.
(S-ORCON)
MILITARY OBJECTIVE
It
is the objective of this
protocol
to standardize the process of
RV
so
that
it may become an established task
in the spectrum of intel-
ligence and information gathering functions and for target acquisition
appl ications.
3.
(S-ORCON)
MILITARY APPLICATIONS
RV provides
a capability
to
target field mobile weapons which are
currently difficult or impossible
to detect prior
to
launch,
such
as
tactical
missiles and rockets
and attack helicopters.
RV
can
be used
tn-
taraet on
key enemy military individuals
from covert agents
to
key
battle commanders! detect the change
in state of military units
and
to
rapidly determine
the damage resulting from non-nuclear weapon attack,
and
to determine the access
code
to computers
and other electronic
devices
UsTmy Personnel,
units, materiel
and operations are vul-
nerable
to
RV.
Countermeasures must
be devised
to reduce
this
vuln
bility.
4.
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APPROVAL HISTORY
(U)
The Commander,
US Army Materiel
Development and
Readiness
Command
( DARCOM ) approved
i n principle
the US Army Materiel
Systems Analysis
Activity
(AMSAA)
involvement
in what
is
now
known J%P^ect GRILL FLAM
in Anri!
1978.
In May 1978,
the Assistant Chief of Staff for
Intel
liaence
(ACSI) accepted
lead responsibility for GRILL FLAME applica-
tions.
Overall
DoD responsibility resides with
the Defense
Intelligence
Agency
(DIA).
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5.
(S-ORCON)
DEFINITIONS
a.
Remote Viewing
(RV)
:
an
intellectual
process
by which
a
person perceives characteristics of
a
location
remote from that person;
it does not involve any electronic
sensing devices
at or focused at the
target nor does
it involve classical
photo interpretation of photographs
obtained
from overhead
or oblique means.
b.
Remote Viewer
:
the person who
locates,
identifies and/or
describes
the
target.
c.
Interviewer :
the person who
interacts with
the remote viewer
before,
during and after
the
RV
session.
d.
Remote Viewing Session :
a
single attempt by
the remote viewer
to
locate,
identify and/or describe
a
target.
e.
Project Officer
:
the overall,
responsible individual
for all
aspects of
the
project.
6.
(S-ORCON)
Procedure
To
provide
a framework for standardizing
the task of
RV,
a series
of RV sessions will
be conducted.
The elements of an
RV
session are
(1)
target selection;
(2)
remote viewer session
prel iminaries;
(3)
remote viewing session;
and
(4)
post-session analysis.
The procedure
will
be described using geographic coordinates
as
the remote target
identifier.
(1
)
TARGET SELECTION
From
a
target
pool
of
-
100 geographical
coordinates
previously selected
by
an
individual,
called
the target pool
selector
(TPS),
the TPS will
select
a target for the session.
This person does
not communicate at any
time with
the remote viewer or the
interviewer.
The
- 100
individual
targets are randomized,
numbered and stored
in
a
secure container accessible only
to
the TPS.
A target
is presented only
once
to
the remote viewer.
(2)
REMOTE VIEWER SESSION PRELIMINARIES
Before
a first
RV
session
is
scheduled,
the remote viewer
is oriented
to
the procedure
to
be followed by
the
interviewer.
The
remote viewer needs
to understand that
he or she should
state
raw
perceptions;
experience
has
shown
that specific definitions are quite
often wrong while
the initial
raw perception
tends
to
be correct.
Remote viewers are always encouraged
to
express
their feelings
and
ideas
for enhancing all
aspects of the RV
process.
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(3)
REMOTE VIEWING SESSION
During the 30
-
60 minutes
prior
to
the agreed-upon start
-
time of a session,
the
interviewer offers some encouragement
to
the
remote viewer
in
the manner of
a coach giving
a
pep talk
to
his
team.
During
the
15 minutes
immediately before the session,
the
remote viewer and interviewer are generally
silent.
Experience
has
shown
(unpublished data)
that this
"quiet
time"
enhances
the
RV
process.
During
the
15 minutes
the
remote viewer and the
inter-
viewer function
as
a team.
The
interviewer provides
encouragement with
words of reassurance that
the
task
is
in fact possible.
At no
time
is
the session conducted
by
the remote viewer
in
the absence of all
other
persons.
If the remote viewer does
not have any
immediate sensory
images,
the interviewer applies
no
pressure;
rather,
the interviewer
reassures
the remote viewer that they have
all
the time
in
the world.
When the remote viewer
has
an
image,
experience suggests
(unpublished
data)
that the remote viewer often intellectually transports
himself or
herself
to
the remote target
site.
The
interviewer,
in conversation
with the remote viewer, may
then suggest
that the remote viewer intel-
lectually move around at
the
site and describe
the site more fully
(e.g.,
buildings,
terrain features,
people,
activities, machinery,
etc).
If
it appears
to
the interviewer
that
the
images are
in
some way contradictory or inconsistent,
the interviewer may then attempt
clarification by asking questions
in order
to verify what the remote
viewer first described.
The RV session
is
tape recorded and
pen and paper are
available for the remote viewer
to
sketch
his
perceptions.
Experience
has shown ^
that some remote viewers prefer
to combine written and oral
descriptions,
while some prefer
to work sequentially.
The average RV
session
is approximately
30 minutes and
never exceeds
60 minutes.
(4)
POST-SESSION ANALYSIS
After the RV session
is
over,
the remote viewer and
interviewer obtain from the TPS specific
information about
the target
information package and compare their session results with
these data.
The remote viewer and
the interviewer discuss
the session results.
The
purpose of this post-session analysis
is
to
provide
the remote viewer
with
the satisfaction of knowing
how well
he or she did.
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7.
(S0RC0N)
VARIATIONS
IN PROCEDURE FOR
RV
a.
The foregoing
has
focused
on
the use of coordinates
to
obtain from
a remote viewer
the description of that site.
Another
approach
to
the same goal
is
to use
a person
in
place of
a coordinate,
tor example,
the remote viewer
is
provided
some personal
information and
then proceeds
to describe
the
location of the individual.
Thus,
the
individual
serves
as
a beacon
to
locate
the
target by
RV.
To
standard-
ize this approach,
the procedure described
in paragraph
is modified.
b.
The elements of
this procedure consist of
(1)
target
selection;
(2)
remote viewer session preliminaries;
(3)
activity of
person who serves
as
beacon;
(4)
remote viewing
session;
anci
(5)
post-
session analysis.
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TARGET SELECTION
Tnc
A target
pool
of 50
-
100 targets
will
be selected
by
a
TPS.
The targets chosen will
be distinctive,
to
include more
than one
example of each.
This
precludes
the
remote viewer from eliminating
a
target because one example was
used
before.
The remote viewer
is
in-
formed that the target
pool
consists
of similar as well
as different
types of targets.
All
other aspects
of
the target selection element of
the procedure remain
the
same.
(2)
REMOTE VIEWER SESSION PRELIMINARIES
This element
is
identical
to
that of the basic
RV
procedure.
(3)
ACTIVITY OF PERSON WHO SERVES AS
BEACON
At
the
beginning of the RV session,
the remote viewer
and interviewer are given one or more items
of biographical
information
or may even meet briefly,
for 3-5 minutes,
the
individual
serving as
the
beacon.
If the latter
is
the
case,
the beacon
individual
departs
the
meeting and obtains
the target from the TPS.
This
procedure eliminates
the possibility of the beacon
individual
divulging any hint of the
target.
The beacon
individual
travels
to
the
target,
arriving
there at
the previously specified
time.
He or she
then
interacts with
the
site
for the predetermined length of time of the
RV
session.
(4)
REMOTE VIEWING SESSION
This element
is
identical
to that of the basic
RV
procedure.
(5)
POST-SESSION ANALYSIS
This element
is
identical
to
that of the basic
RV
procedure.
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8.
(S-0RC0N)
SCOPE OF TARGETS
FOR REMOTE VIEWING
AMSAA sponsored
RV will
exclude US,
allied,
or neutral
na-
tion's citizens
as
targets.
9.
(S-ORCON)
PERFORMING ORGANIZATION
AMSAA
is
the performing organization.
10.
(S-ORCON)
PROJECTED MAXIMUM NUMBER
OF REMOTE VIEWERS AND
INTERVIEWERS
2 active duty military,
assigned
to AMSAA
(officers)
8 DA civilians
(GS
12 and above)
assigned
to AMSAA
3 AMSAA civilian consultants
(retired general
officer)
Persons
involved will
be principally either remote viewers
or
interviewers,
but there may
be
some exchange of roles.
11.
(S-ORCON)
SELECTION OF REMOTE VIEWERS AND INTERVIEWERS
A number of AMSAA personnel
were introduced to the RV phenomena
by
a guest speaker presentation on the
subject.
Following
this
initial
introduction,
others became familiar with
the phenomena
through
the
circulation of open
literature publications
on
RV.
Discussions about
the military applications of
RV phenomena
by
interested analysts
re-
sulted
in
a decision
by AMSAA management
to
seek establishment of
a
program to define
the military utility of the process.
Individuals who
had previously shown an interest
in
the potential
application of the
RV
process were invited
to participate
as
a remote viewer or interviewer.
Individuals desiring
to participate
in these
tasks were accepted.
Other
individuals
selected after
the
initial
participants were identified were
given an orientation on
the phenomena and asked
to
read published
materials
on
RV.
After
a familiarization with
the
RV
process
and
procedures,
individuals were asked
if they would
be willing
to
partici-
pate as
a remote viewer or interviewer.
Only those
individuals who
indicated
a positive desire
to participate were accepted.
12.
(S-ORCON)
REPLICATION OF THE
RV PROCESS
It
is proposed
to conduct
up
to
RV
sessions
per month.
Three principal
RV procedures
have been described:
one uses map
coordinates,
one uses
a
beacon individual
(introduced
to
the remote
viewer)
and
a third uses
a
beacon
individual
(not introduced
to
the
remote reviewer).
It
is our goal
to
have each person participating
as
a
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remote viewer (about 8 persons! perform each of
the
3 Ry procedures
at least
5, times
in
the
course, of this
protocol
(8 x 3 x
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120 RV
Total).
The minimum time required
to achieve
this
goal
at the
rate of
about 25 RV sessions
a month
is
6 months.
Realistically,
participants
will
not be available from other duties
on
such
an
intensive basis.
Therefore,
we project at least
10 months
to accomplish
this
number of RV
sessions.
,
„
?or each
participant,
the maximum number of RV
sessions
will
be
per day and
no more
than
3 per week.
13.
(S-ORCON)
JUDGING
The recorded
RV. images are independently evaluated
by one or
more judges
in
the following manner
to
semi-quanti tatively determine
the
appropriateness
of the RV results
to
the
intended remote
targets.
1*
Determine
the principle form concepts
(PC)
stated
in
the
images
recorded
in
each
RV session
transcript.
2.
At each
target site judge
the appropriateness,
on
a
scale
of 0
to
10,
of each
PC of each transcript.
3.
Calculate
the mean and variance of all
the judged
PCs of
each
RV session for each
target.
.4.
Rank
the appropriateness of each
RV
session for each
target using
the calculated mean
values.
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Review
the appropriateness
of each
ranking utilizing any
drawings or sketches
to determine
a
final
judged
rank ordering of each
RV session with each
target.
14.
(S-ORCON)
CONFIDENTIALITY
Individuals performing
as
remote viewers
and interviewers
under the AMSAA GRILL FLAME programs will
not
be
identified outside of
their parent. organization without their prior consent and they will
be
referred
to
in project records only
by an alpha-numeric designator.
Products of remote viewers
and
interviews
such
as
tapes,
drawings,
transcripts,
rosters,
or other materials which might
reveal
the
identity
of the remote viewer will
be coded
to assure
the protection of their
identity.
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