Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIAQD YR PoTssR001800100001-2 PRE-STAGE 4 STAGE 4 DIA Eval Site # Date DIA Eval _ Site ¢ Date 1 3.8. #1 12 Feb 80 24 3.8. #39 6 Feb 83 1, J.8. #3 13 Feb 60 3 3.8. #40 10 Feb 83 3.8. 65 3 Mar 80 3 3.8. 41 1l Feb 83 3.8. 48 1 Jul 80 2+ 3.8. 042 il Feb 83 J.8. 2 apr 81 2.75 Average J.8. 3 Apr 81 J.8. 7 Apr 81 3.8. 8 Apr 81 3.8. 8 Apr 61 3.8. 61 9 apr 81 3.8. 8 Jun 81 J.8. 6 Aug 81 3.8. #29 14 Dec 81 3.8. #30 14 Dec 81 3.8. #31 14 Dec 81 3.8. 933 7 Jen 62 3.8. 634 1 Mar 82 3.8. 435 & Mov 82 3.8. €36 5 Mov 82 3.8. 937 15 Nov 82 3.8. #38 21 Jan 83 1.21 Average FIGURE 3 PRE- AND POST-STAGE 4 ACHIEVEMENTS AVERAGED SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : USECRET Poroo moot oooot2 Cc. An R&D Potential for "SEARCH" Has Come Into View In terms of future work, the problem of "SEARCH" should achieve a platform of understanding that has not hitherto been available under standard parapsychological approaches. These breakthroughs are expected to arrive through the context of Stage 5 (interrogation of the signal line). Although Stage 5 is still in R&D as concerns the packaging and delivery of it, there are sufficient indicators already present to indicate that the problem of search will be addressed, at least in some important under~ standings, through continued mapping of it. It must be noted carefully, and based upon our ten year's of experience now, that any resolution to the "SEARCH" problem probably will only be achieved if we arrive at some understanding of how it is that the signal line might be profitably interrogated. The danger will be to proceed with ad hoc experiments which, even if marginally successful, might not yield any basic understandings leading ultimately to controlled interrogation procedures. The achievement of finding a significant apperture through which the signal line can be interrogated without also arousing volumes of 'moise" is therefore an important prerequisite for the "SEARCH" problem. D. The Electromagnetic Connection During the overall course of the R&D and training, sufficient phenomena have surfaced that indicate a direct connection of viewer performance with certain geomagnetic conditions. The daily parameters of basic earth electromagnetic conditions therefore achieved some interest on our part. An "eye-ball" scan of these interrelationships clearly indicates an important, but hitherto unsuspected, interaction between viewing and success in correctly interpreting the signal line and electromagnetic conditions. We expect that this unsuspected relationship will bear itself out, and if so, establish in some form the first verifiable psi- electromagnetic relationships. This in turn portends the arrival of understandings that concern countermeasures. a0) Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : oun OR FG eoote00100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CHOP I788R001800100001-2 In the estimation of this consultant, bearing in mind the significances of the several steps forward that have come into view during the last work epoch, the biomagnetic/psi perceptual problem should probably be given highest and first priority. The fact that earth's geomagnetic field and human physiology and psychology are both influenced by and interact. with EMF has been established quite some time ago (See Presman, A.S., Electromagnetic Fields and Life, Plenum Press, New York (Prof. Pressman, Department of Biophysics, Moscow University, Moscow).) Based upon experience, if the work should proceed under the "spontaneous result’ philosophy or attitude, there will be a tendency to replicate more familiar approaches. The EMF/consciousness/psi area is unfamiliar to most of us; yet, based upon our observations, there is an astonishing degree of correlation. It is strongly recommended that an organized interest in this special phenomena be given priority. 11 ECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CRORE P788R001800100001-2 VII DISCUSSION A. Background In considering this report on Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) work, several important distinguishing features may be borne in mind. An in-depth review of the history of formal psychical or paranormal research--covering some 100 years--clearly reveals that no successful training methodologies have been located or evolved prior to the work undertaken at SRI, specifically in CRV. While certain epochs of psychical work in the past have extraordinary merit, these for the most part have had as their goal the establishing of credibility that the several psychical manifestations do exist. These manifestations have been contacted in a spontaneous form, and displays of their arrays always have been dependent upon the innate “Neiftedness" of subjects if they emerged or could be located. The spon- taneous forms have not in a continuing form lent themselves very well to the scientific parameters designed to "capture" them. Because of this, the "field" or "state-of-the-art,'' as a whole, was forced to view the spontaneous arrays through, usually, statistical methods of evaluation and averaging. The statistical approaches have sufficed to establish credibility for the existence of spontaneous paranormal aptitudes in given individuals or groups; by itself, however, it has not been sufficient or capable of extrapolating on the exact nature of aptitude-characteristics in any given and continuable psychical manifestation. Furthermore, seeking to utilize statistical approaches to the problems before them, psychical researchers ultimately came to seek experiments that might better increase the statistical averages they sought. This overall approach led to a drastic proliferation of random experimentations that had as their goals more experimental design but often affiliated them SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : cAGEGRET728R001800100001-2 less with actual psychical aptitudes. Throughout this history, the actual problem of psychical manifestations has been addressed only tangentally, if at all, prior to the present CRV work. This problem consists of two equally important factors: (1) What makes superior data, when it emerges, superior? (2) What makes inferior data, when it emerges, inferior? This dual problem is a problem for research (rather than random experimentation) into the different factors that govern the perceptual modes that underlay this extraordinary duality. In approaching this duality, the statistical averaging or evaluation of experiments of the superior into the inferior data is and has been of little avail in that it does not lead into intimate contact with the perceptual attributes involved. The hallmark of the CRV R&D work--leading to training capabilities-~-has been to concentrate upon the exact nature of both superior and inferior arrays of data and to plumb into the exact nature of the perceptual attributes involved in each of them. It was assumed, at the outset, and correctly so, that superior data contained less or least false data among its overall contents, and that inferior data were data sets in which most of the content was false. Superior data, therefore, were data relatively free of false data, and it became easy to think of the overall problem as one of signal versus noise. The characteristics both of signal and noise had to be discovered and isolated, and it is the cumulative breakthroughs in this history that have led to constant progress in CRV R&D and, ultimately, to a training program based upon those breakthroughs so far discovered. B. The Definition of Training Prior to a training program being established, no specific set of methods or practices had been brought into existence that elevated psychical aptitudes or attributes above just merely attempting to encourage the emergence of spontaneous displays. It had been in the recent past, possible to give general orientation to individuals about the nature of psychical SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2