LTC Robert
J.
Jachim
from
H.
E.
Puthoff, Ph.D.
subject
RV TRAINING, FY'83
SGI J
1.
This memo is in response to your letter of 23 November 1982,
as regards SRI
International providing further RV training during FY'83
to
INSCOM personnel.
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•
Description of Training Procedure
a .
Tasking
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16 December 1982
LOCATION:
G-219
CC:
&
I . Swann
SRI
International has been tasked during the FY'81-
r 83 period to work
toward the development of RV enhancement procedures that accommodate DoD needs.
Of particular interest are the development of procedures that
can be transmitted
to others in a structured fashion
(i.e.,
"training" procedures),
and that can
be used in targeting on distant
sites of military or intelligence significance.
b •
Six-Stage RV Enhancement Procedure
At the beginning of the DIA/Army Joint Services Program
(FY'81)
SRI
in
conjunction with its
sponsors,
made a decision to go forward with developing
an
codifying the most promising RV enhancement procedure that had emerged from
earlier work,
a six-stage training procedure developed by SRI consultant
I.
Swann.
The procedure focuses on improving reliability of remote viewing by
controlling those factors that tend to introduce noise into the RV product.
The basic components of this procedure consists of
(1)
repeated target-address
(e.g.,
coordinate)
presentation, with quick-reaction response by the remote
viewer
to minimize developing imaginative overlays,
(2)
the use of
a specially-
designed,
acoustic-tiled,
featureless,
homogeneously-colored viewing chamber
to minimize environmental overlays, and
(3)
the adoption of a strictly-
prescribed,
limited interviewer patter to minimize interviewer overlay.
A
broad overview of the procedure,
derived empirically on the basis of a decade
of investigation into the RV process,
is presented in Ref.
1.*
Ref.
1:
H.
E. Puthoff,
RV Reliability,
Enhancement, and Evaluation
(U)
Final
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At this
stage of near-completion of the development,
the RV
training procedure proceeds through a series of six stages of
proficiency hypothesized to correspond to six stages of increased
contact with the target
site.
These are outlined in Table
1.
In a
given remote viewing session an experienced remote viewer tends to
recapitulate the six stages in order.
Table
STAGES
IN REMOTE VIEWING
(1)
Major gestalt
Land surrounded by water,
an island
(2)
Sensory contact
Cold sensation, wind-swept feeling
(3)
Dimension,
motion, mobility
Rising up,
panoramic view,
island
outline
(4)
Qualitative aspects
Scientific research,
live organisms
(5)
Significant analytical
aspects
BW preparation site
(6)
Specific quantitative aspects
Name of
island,
personnel associated
with site
c «
po^ents of Training Program
(Stages I-IV )
The characteristics of the various
stages can be presented in an
educational form to a trainee of proper calibre through a method that
includes tutelage and coaching.
This system of orientation and
training enables the trainee to identify,
practice,
take command of and
utilize the signals in a meaningful and predictable manner.
The
course contents of Stage I-IV training are given below.
The procedures
outlined are carefully presented and overseen by the training monitor.
Trainees are required to keep full notes,
and numerous essays on each
feature are requested from the trainees to ensure competency of
understanding.
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Contents of Stage One Training
•
General orientation
•
Major Stage One signals,
lectures and practical exercises
•
Major sources of noise,
lectures
•
Stage One signal identification,
lectures and practical
exercises.
•
Specific components
of Stage One signals,
lectures
•
Specific components
of noise interference,
lectures
•
Types of major Stage One signals,
lectures and practical
exercises.
•
Simultaneous handling of
signals and noise,
practical
exercises.
Objectification procedures,
lectures and practical exercises
Analysis of signals,
lectures and practical exercises
•
Anomalies encountered in signal identification
Self-correcting mechanisms inherent in signal/analysis,
lectures
Methods of recording,
preparing and presenting work materials
lectures and practical exercises.
Culmluati,* features of Stage One
signals,
leading to emergence
of Stage Two signals,
lectures.
Final
checking to ensure that competency has been gained
concerning Stage One phenomena.
Contents of Stage Two Training
•
General orientation
•
Major Stage TWo signals,
lectures and practical exercises
Separating Stage Two signals from Stage One signals
•
Specific characteristics
of Stage Two signals,
lectures
•
Types of major Stage TVo signals,
lectures and practical
exercises
•
Simultaneous handling of signals and noise,
practical exercises
•
Stage Two objectification procedures
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Analysis
of Stage Two signals,
lectures and practical
exercises
•
Culminating characteristics of Stage Two signals,
leading to
acquisition of Stage Three types of
signals.
•
Final checking to ensure that competency has been gained
concerning the ability to identify,
decode and handle Stage
Two phenomena.
Contents of Stage Three Training
•
General orientation
•
The three major Stage Three signal
lines,
leading into increased
flexibility concerning
discriminating
site characteristics,
lectures
and practical exercises.
Reduction of noise:
general orientation,
lectures and precise
monitoring of
signal lines,
leading to flawless signal/noise
identification.
Why Stage Three competency indicates threshold operational
status,
lectures.
•
Exhaustive practical exercises on all three types of Stage
Three signals.
Contents of Stage Four Training
•
General orientation
•
Major Stage Four signals,
appearing as a result
of Stage Two
and Stage Three competency,
lectures and practical exercises.
•
Specific identification
of refined Stage Four signals,
lectures and practical exercises.
Why Stage Four signals are of operational importance,
lectures
and study.
Objectification of Stage Four signals,
lectures and practical
exercises
.
•
Anomalies encountered in Stage Four signal identification
lectures.
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Self-correcting mechanisms as a result of competency gained in
Stages One through Four.
•
The operational poise and analysis techniques,
lectures and practical
exercises, utilizing operational
sites as qualifying training sites.
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3.
With regard to scheduling additional training,
a recommended pace
for advancing through Stages
II and III
consists of
a six-week
effort for each trainee, broken up into working sessions of two-
weeks duration each,
interspersed by two or three weeks
leave.
The cost breakdown based on the six-week scheduling is as follows:
(a)
$18K for the first trainee,
$7K for the second,
if
training of two individuals carried out
in parallel
,
i.e.,
at the same time.
(b)
$18K for the first trainee,
$12K for the second,
if
training of
two individuals carried out
in series,
i.e.,
at separate times.
(c)
Training of
individuals on different
stages each would
preferably be handled in series
in accordance with the
provisions of
(b)
above.
4.
The point
at which completion of one stage has occurred and commencement
of another is begun is determined on the basis of a complex of factors
which constitutes an art and a craft,
as much as the science which
involves
double-blind testing and evaluation.
The transition is,
however,
driven by the natural dynamics of the process in such a way
that higher-stage characteristics begin to emerge spontaneously once
lower-stage characteristics are integrated into the trainee’s RV
process.
Rather than permit haphazard development of such character-
istics on their own,
tutelege of such is initiated.
Therefore,
should
a trainee complete Stages
II and
III before the end of the six-week time
frame
set aside, advancement to Stage
IV would be undertaken.
Similarly,
if for some reason a trainee has exceptional difficulty integrating the
characteristics of
a given stage, care will be taken not to advance him
prematurely,
as the proficiency of handling the elements of any given
stage depends on the thorough integration of the elements of previous
stages.
In this case,
the cost breakdown based on an estimated six-week
committment would need
to be augmented for stage completion as per
(a)
and
(b)
above.
5.
We recommend that the above-described training of client personnel at
SRI
be closely monitored by COTR
in residence
at SRI, who is
SG1J
best equipped to track the interests of the client community and
insure viability of the client-contractor relationship.
6.
I hope the above outline provides the information you need to plan
for your potential FY'83 participation in the SRI training program.
If any of the points need clarification, or if special circumstances
require other solutions, please contact either
or me for
SG1J
further discussion.
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