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PROJECT GRILL FLAME HISTORY
Project Grill Flame is
a DoD/Intelligence program set up for the
following purposes:
•
To assess the potential for U.S.
applications
of
developments in parapsychology
("ESP,"
Psi
,
Psychoenergetics)
.
•
To determine the threat potential
of corresponding
Soviet/East Bloc efforts.
Major Decision Points
•
1972
- Startup
of
a continuous effort,
still ongoing,
involving SRI
International
as major contractor,
and
a number of agencies as
sponsors
(CIA,
FTD,
MIA,
DIA,
etc.).*
•
1978 - Effort compartmentalized under codeword GRILL FLAME.
•
1979
-
In-house applications program set up by Army's
Intelligence and Security Command
(INSCOM).
•
1980
- Joint Services
Integrated Program set up under
single-agency
(DIA)
management
to handle external
contracts
.
*
See funding chart,
next page.
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DOD/ INTELLIGENCE PSYCHOENERGETICS
PROGRAM FUNDING
(SRI)
Date
Organization
Budget
Thousands of
$
m
1971-75
CIA
$195
1975-76
NAVELEX
1976-79
FTD, WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB
300
1977-80
MIA, REDSTONE ARSENAL
281
m
1978-80
AMSAA
, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND
230
:
.
1978-80
DIA
228
1979-80
ARMY INSCOM
A,
JOINT PROGRAM
FY 1981
DIA
)
300
ARMY TNSCOM
)
130
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m
FY 1982
DIA
/
330
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ARMY INSCOM
)
185
m
FY 1983
DIA
340
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GRILL FLAME REMOTE VIEWING
(RV)
PROGRAM
A.
RV Phenomenon—Definition
Remote viewing
(RV)
is the ability of certain individuals
to access
and describe,
by means
of mental processes,
information blocked from
ordinary perception by distance or shielding.
Targets for remote viewing
have ranged from small objects in nearby light-tight
cannisters
to remote
technical facilities
at
intercontinental distances,
from numbers generated
at
random in a computer,
B .
RV Application to Intelligence Requirements
Since the early 1970s,
SRI
International has been tasked by the DoD/
Intelligence communities to assess the potential
of remote viewing for
intelligence applications,
both to enhance the potential for U.S.
appli-
cations,
and to provide data that would be useful
in assessing the threat
potential
of
corresponding Soviet/East Bloc applications.
To carry out
this task,
SRI has responded to operational
requirements
set by intelligence
community representatives monitoring the progress of the work.
The investigations have shown that remote viewing,
both by SRI and
Army INSCOM personnel,
has in many cases provided meaningful descriptions
°f »
East-bloc targets
of interest
to the intelligence community.
Evaluation by appropriate intelligence community specialists indicates
that
a remote viewer is able by this process to generate useful
data
corroborated by other intelligence data.
As
is generally true with other
human sources,
the information is fragmentary and imperfect,
and therefore
should not be relied on alone but
is best utilized
in conjunction with
other resources.
Although efforts
to establish the precise degree of
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accuracy and reliability are
not
yet
complete,
the data generated by the
RV process appears
to exceed any reasonable bounds
of
chance correlation
or acquisition by ordinary means and therefore constitutes an exploitable
information source
.
Successful operational viewings
carried out by the SRI
team for the
DoD/Intelligence communities include:
•
A secret NSA facility,
including
codeword retrieval.
•
Soviet R&D facility at Semipalatinsk
(PNUTS)
.
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