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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
US ARMY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755
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10 August
1979
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT:
Summary of West Coast Trip
(6-8 Aug
\
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1.
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Purpose:
This MFR highlights significant items
covered during the visit that COL Hamel and
I made
to
SRI
International and
to Hunter Liggett Army Base,
California
from 6-8 August 1979.
Schedule of events
is contained in Incl
1.
2.
(S)
The primary reasons
for
the visit were
to:
a.
Receive evaluation of first phase of training and then
select individuals
for additional training at SRI.
b.
Coordinate requirements/tasking with CDR,
Experimentation
Support Command,
Hunter Liggett Army Base.
3.
(S)
Although all the sessions of
the
six trainees have not
been judged,
SRI personnel were able
to give
us
the following
preliminary evaluation.
(Note;
A formal written evaluation will
be submitted by
SRI in the near future.):
a.
*#155
- Has
to learn to
say
less.
Must learn to
restrict viewpoint.
Too much overlay.
Of six sessions,
individ-
ual gave good descriptions concerning four of
them.
However,
even then,
three of the sessions had too much other data con-
tained therein.
Embellish too much.
Use on targets that you
already have knowledge about.
b.
#292
-
"On
is on
- off
is off." Demonstrated some
precognitive ability.
Had three very good sessions.
Overall,
did well — has definite potential.
c.
#372
- The best!
Good individual
for detail.
Did not
try precognitive session.
Had four sessions that were judged
"l's"
and two sessions
that were rank ordered
"2".
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d.
#468
- Very nervous and up tight at beginning of week.
Started poorly but improved constantly throughout the week.
Drawings better
than verbalization.
Sorry to see individual
go because progress being made every session.
e.
#518
- Nervous,
not relaxed.
To some degree stayed
that way throughout the week.
Didn't do
as well
as expected.
SRI personnel
(Russell Targ)
concerned about individual's
"deep
concentration" ability and expressed worry that he
(RT)
did not
know how to handle situation.
Hal Puthoff,
on the other hand,
was very anxious
to do further training with the individual.
f.
#690
- Always gave short,
concise responses.
Usually
very little
"noise"
in answers.
Does not try
to be analytical.
Shows great potential.
Demonstrated ability to pick
up emotion!
*Names withheld for security reasons;
#'s are the ones assigned
by
SRI.
4.
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Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ agreed that
a decision
to drop any of the above personnel
(from the program)
would
probably be
a mistake.
Therefore,
we agreed that all
six
individuals would receive an additional two weeks of training
but that the training cycle would be expanded to finish up
in
December 1979 vice October 1979
as originally agreed upon.
We
also agreed that the two weeks'
training cycle would be tailored
to meet the apparent abilities of the respective individuals
and that flexibility
in
the training program was very desirable.
However,
we agreed that some of the following types of sessions
should be given
to all trainees:
a.
Work with coordinates.
b.
Local
"beacon"
sessions.
However,
we insisted that once
a target was used it would not be repeated for any other individ-
ual.
Further,
SRI personnel agreed to put
30 new targets
into
the target pool.
c.
Slide training —
include retest wherein
the Remote
Viewer will be given
some feedback
as
to accuracy of initial
response.
d.
Precognitive
sessions.
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e.
Repeating target sessions
for given individual.
Attempting to see
if images and derails can get better as the
day progresses.
f.
Tracking exercises.
5.
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Hal Puthoff discussed recent visit by DOD Evaluation
Team headed by Mr.
Manfred Gale.
PUthoff and Targ were very
upset as
they felt they had not been given
the opportunity to
adequately present their side of the
issue.
They have prepared
a memorandum for the committee and we were given
a copy
(see
Inclosure
2)
.
6.
(S)
SRI suggested that it might be beneficial
if we
provided them some copies of our reports
so that they could
judge them using their own particular methodology.
We agreed
to send them any six copies of reports already completed and
"graded” by our personnel
(of course,
we would not send them
results
of our grading)
and that we would also
send them copies
of
the last six reports generated by
#372.
7.
(S)
We asked SRI
^o give some thought to developing a
program using some sort of biophysical monitoring techniques.
Such a program might give evidence of when data being provided
by
a Remote Viewer
is
apt
to be more accurate than at other
times.
This request was
in no way a formal requirement or
commitment
for further contracting from INSCOM.
8.
(S)
On Tuesday,
7 August,
COL Hamel and
I drove
to Hunter
Liggett Army Base
for
a meeting with COL Moses,
CDR,
Experimenta-
tion Support Command.
COL Moses
is already monitoring
a program
for SRI
in conjunction with a work contract from AMSAA.
Since
this work
is already being done,
MAJ Stoner,
OACSI,
had suggested
INSCOM might
like
to satellite themselves onto
the program.
We
felt that
the- program offered another unique method of improving
our training program and the meeting with COL Moses was arranged
after
I coordinated with John Kramar's office
(AMSAA)
to insure
that they posed no objections.
COL Moses agreed to send us
the necessary Test Event
Data using the format previously developed by AMSAA.
After
the session
is over,
COL Moses will then mail
us the necessary
feedback information.
We will
do our own judging and do not
have
to forward data to COL Moses'
office unless we desire
to.
An example of an "Expected Test Event Information Sheet"
is
attached as
Inclosure
3.
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Overall,
the trip was very successful and we
are
anxious
to get on with the training- -not only at SRI but to
see
what develops
from the very realistic challenges that will be
provided by the Hunter Liggett training program.
Dr.
Puthoff
had no objections
to INSCOM GRILL FLAME project management
personnel being present during the upcoming training cycle
and we will probably have someone visit the West Coast once
or twice over
the next five months.
Incl
as
MURRAY B . vWATT
Major (P)
,
MI
INSCOM GRILL FLAME
Project Manager
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WEST COAST TRIP
(6-8 August
1979)
Schedule of Events
Monday,
6 August 1979
0900-0930
Introductory Remarks
(Hal Puthoff, MAJ Watt)
0930-1200
Evaluation presentation concerning trainees
1200-1300
Lunch
1300-1500
Evaluation presentation concerning trainees
1500-1730
Objectives
for new training cycle
1730-1800
Presentation concerning Gale Committee
Tuesday,
7 August 1979
0630-1030
Enroute
to Hunter Liggett Army Base
(Rental
Car)
1030-1200
Meeting with COL Moses,
CDR,
Experimentation Support
Command
1200-1300
Lunch
1300-1530
Tour facilities and base exercise area
1530-1600
Requirements meeting with COL Moses
1600-1900
Enroute
to Menlo Park
(Rental
Car)
Wednesday,
8 August
1979
0800-1015
General Discussions
Concerning:
a.
Time schedule
for future training
b.
Biophysical monitoring techniques
c.
Report requirements
d.
Transposing data into computer format
e.
SRI evaluating some INSCOM reports
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