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Ten civilian billets were dedicated solely
to this project in FY90 and currently, Project STAR GATE has seven
project
personnel.
This
consists
of
a
Unit
Manager,
a
Senior
Intelligence Officer,
3 Operational Remote Viewers, an Intelligence
Technician and a secretary.
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Remote Viewing
is
a highly controlled and
formally
established,
unique
information
and
intelligence
collection capability which has the following characteristics:
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It
is
passive.
To
the
extent
of
our
knowledge, collection by remote viewing is totally passive, that is
to
say,
it cannot be detected when used.
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It
is
inexpensive.
The principal
cost
of
remote viewing collection is the people involved.
There is little
expensive hardware.
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There is no known defense.
Time,
distance,
target,
size or degree of difficulty all have no apparent effect on
collection by remote viewing.
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In
1979,
when
Army
INSCOM
managed
this
program,
it integrated the SRI contracted technology into
its
in-
house
program
where
it
is
still
being
utilized
by
STAR
GATE
personnel
for
training,
in-house
Proficiency
Enhancement
and
Operational projects.
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An eclectic approach was taken, using those
methods
which
had
applications
potential
for
operational
requirements.
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The purpose of this briefing is to identify
terms,
methodologies,
target
selection
and protocols
for
remote
viewing research and development projects
as well
as
operational
projects conducted by DIA STAR GATE personnel.
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Since the early
1970's,
the Department
of
Defense
has
been
involved
in
examining
the
potential
uses
of
psychoenergetics
.
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Psvchoeneraetics is defined as a mental process by which
an
individual
perceives,
communicates
with
and/or
perturbs
characteristics of
a designated target,
person or event remote
in
space and/or time from that individual.
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Psychokinesis
are physical
actions performed by mental
powers that cannot be explained by known physical means.
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ESP
and
Telepathy
are
perceptions
which
cannot
be
explained by known sensory means.
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Remote
Viewing
is
the
name
of
a
method
of
psychoenergetic
perception.
This
term
was
coined
by
Stanford
Research
Institute
(SRI)
in
the
early
1970's
by
two
laser
physicists,
Hal Puthoff and Russel Targ when they were conducting
CIA-sponsored experiments using several gifted psychics.
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Remote
Viewincf
can
be
defined
as
the
acquisition
and
description,
by mental means,
of information blocked from ordinary
perception by distance,
shield or time.
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A remote viewer
is
a person who perceives,
communicates
with and/or perturbs characteristics of a designated target, person
or event
.
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Three
primary
methodologies
that
are
utilized by STAR GATE personnel will now be discussed.
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Extended Remote Viewing
(ERV)
draws on the
expertise
of
over
two
decades
of
research
by
independent
investigators and recognized academic institutions to include the
University of Virginia Medical Center, the Mind Science Foundation,
the University of California at Davis and Syracuse University.
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The
ERV
approach
has
as
its
goal
the
subjective
temporal extension of subliminally brief psychic impressions.
The
trained
ERV
percipient
is
able
to
control,
observe
and
report
perceptions which would otherwise be ignored or neglected fleeting
imagery.
This extension of the perceptual window
is accomplished
through
the
achievement
of
a
discrete
state
of
consciousness
defined by identified state dependent behaviors.
These behaviors
are regarded as skills.
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The
basic
components
of
the
ERV
procedure
involve
learning the following skills:
1.
The ability to physically relax.
Training
in progressive relaxation techniques and yoga.
2.
The ability to reduce level
of physical arousal.
Training
in biofeedback techniques and self-control
exercises.
3.
The
ability to
increase awareness
of
internal
feelings
images
Training
in dream recall,
guided visual imagery
exercises, subliminal recognition drills and Hemispheric
Synchronization.
4.
The
ability
to
engage
in
"receptive
mode/right
hemispheric functioning.
Training in hemispheric synchronization, mode recognition
and drawing classes.
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The ability to achieve an altered view of reality.
Reading assignments,
intellectual study, meditation
and contemplation exercise.
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Each one of these skills can be trained over a period
of
several
weeks.
When
the
trainee
demonstrates
independent
mastery
of each skill,
he then
learns to combine the skills.
The
goal is to simultaneously exhibit all of the learned skills thereby
achieving a specified discrete state of consciousness
in which an
individual
is able to remote view.
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Coordinate Remote Viewing
(CRV). was developed by an
SRI contractor in the early 1980 's.
This methodology was developed
to
satisfy
R&D
demands
on
SRI
to
enhance
the
reliability
(scientific replicability)
of remote viewing.
The subcontractor's
approach
to
improving
the
reliability
of
remote
viewing
was
to
focus
on the
control
of
those
factors
that
in
his
view
tend
to
introduce "noise"
into the remote viewing product.
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The
basic
components
of
this
training
procedure
consists
of:
1.
Repeated site-address
(coordinate)
presentation with
quick—reaction response by the remote viewer;
coupled
with a restrictive format for reporting perceived
information which minimizes "imaginative"
overlay.
2.
The use of
a specially-designed,
acoustic-tiled,
"viewing chamber" which minimizes "environmental"
overlays.
3.
The
adoption
of
a
strictly-prescribed,
limited monitor
patter which minimizes
"monitor" overlays.
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The
CRV
process
usually
begins
by
presenting
the
remote viewer with an encrypted geographical coordinate, hence the
name CRV.
Encrypted geographical coordinates is a series of twelve
numbers or less which are selected from a random program generator
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a set of geographical coordinates.
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CRV subdivides the detection and decoding of psychic
impressions into discrete achievable skills known as Stages 1 to
6.
These stages will now be discussed.
Stage One
Stage Two
Stage Three
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Stage Four
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Stage Five
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Stage Six
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Islands,
mountains,
deserts.
Sites of quality sensory value;
sites
which are uniquely describable through
touch,
taste,
sound color or odor such
as glaciers,
volcanoes and industrial
plants
.
Sites possessing significant dimensional
characteristics such as buildings,
bridges
and airfields.
Sites requiring qualitative mental
perceptions such as technical area,
military feeling and research.
Sites requiring the interrogation of
qualitative mental perceptions to
produce refined information such as
aircraft tracking radar,
biomedical
research facility and tank production
plant.
Sites requiring direct,
three-dimensional
assessment of site element to one another
such as airplanes inside on of three
camouflaged hangers
or
a military compound
with
a command building,
barracks,
motor
pool and underground storage area.
As
this stage
is engaged,
an assessment
. of
relative temporal and spatial dimensional
elements along with further qualitative
elements evolve into the consciousness of
the individual.
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Written Remote Viewing
(WRV)
is the ability to receive
direct,
detailed
information.
The
WRV
process
consists
of
utilizing
a
pen
or
pencil
and
writing
on
paper
information
received.
The writing is a rapid and flowing movement initiated by
impulses to the autonomic nervous
system.
WRV was
initiated
in-
house during the 1986 time frame.
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WRV is phonetically and verbally orientated and can be
used
in both the predictive and search modes.
WRV
is an evolving
process with development over time.
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Additional methodologies that can be utilized include:
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Dowsing which
is the search for underground supplies of
water,
metal
or
a person by the use
of
a forked stick known as
a
divining rod.
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Psychometrv
is
the
faculty
of
receiving
information
concerning an object or person associated with it,
by contact with
or proximity to the object.
Psychometry
is also known as Object
Remote Viewing.
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clairvoyance is the faculty of seeing objects or actions
removed from natural viewing.
It is the quick, intuitive knowledge
of things and people.
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Remote viewing has been successfully used
against several
categories
of
tasking.
These categories
include
penetration
of
inaccessible
targets,
science
and
technology
information,
cuing
of
intelligence
collection
systems,
imminent
hostilities,
determination
of
nuclear
from
non-nuclear
targets,
human source assessment and personality profiles.
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There
are generally three areas
of target
selection that are utilized for operational projects.
They are:
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Geographical
areas
or
fixed
sites
can
be
anywhere
and
can be
of
anything.
The
target
site
can
emphasize
natural
or man-made
features,
or
contain
a mix
of
these.
These
targets are usually military facilities or technical sites.
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The actual tasking itself, should be minimal
without elaborating on information that could lead the viewer.
It
is important that the Unit Manager or the customer be careful not
to
task
leading
or
suggestive
questions.
Ideally,
the
tasking
should only state,
"Describe target."
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It has been proven in R&D laboratories time
and
time
again
that
the
less
information
given
to
the
remote
viewer,
the more accurate the
information.
The more information
given to a remote viewer, the less accurate the information and the
viewer will have
a tendency to theorize.
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Once the viewers receive their tasking, they
can begin to conduct their sessions.
The remote viewing session
activity will involve two basic approaches.
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Solo
is where only the remote viewer works
the task.
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Viewer /Monitor
is
a team effort whereby
a
monitor
transcribes
the
information
the
viewer
is
receiving.
A
monitor
is optional and
is requested by the viewer.
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Considerable experience has shown that there
are a number of considerations, precautions and potential problems
for
which
the
monitor
or
customer
and
Unit
Manager
should
be
prepared.
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First,
when
a
monitor
is
present,
it
is
especially
important
to
ensure
that
this
individual
has
no
knowledge whatsoever of target possibilities.
This
is known as
a
double-blind.
This precludes the monitor leading the viewer.
If
the customer
is present as an observer, he should be quiet so that
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he does not give the remote viewer subtle clues
as to the nature
and
circumstances
of
the
operation.
Such
clues
as
nods
of
approval,
voice
inflection
and suggestive questioning happen all
too often.
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Second,
there
is
a strong tendency to pick
and
choose
information
according
to
the
Unit
Manager’s
and
monitor's
mental
set
and
preconceptions.
It
is
in
the
act
of
interpretation
that
lies
the
ever
present
possibility
of
misinterpretation.
It
is extremely
important
for the monitor to
record the information exactly as it is given so when it is passed
on to the customer, the information is received in its purest form.
The
customer
can
become
frustrated
because
experience
has
shown
that some of the information provided
is of such a nature that
it
cannot be either verified or rejected through follow-up analysis or
investigation.
Until the operation is completed or solved,
some of
the information remains plausible and possibly true,
but until an
operation
is completely over,
it cannot be evaluated fairly.
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Third,
often times a monitor and a customer
can become
quite
frustrated with
a
remote viewer because
of
the
nature
of
the
psychic
information.
It
can
seem
incomplete,
sporadic and sometimes symbolic or even irrelevant.
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When
a
remote
viewer
has
completed
the
necessary
sessions
needed
to
collect
the
information,
he
or
she
will then write a report of his or her findings.
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This
report
will
indicate
the
project
number, the viewer identification or source number, the date of the
report an will also list the dates of the remote viewing sessions.
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This report will
also
include drawings
or sketches
of the target
site.
When
the
viewer's
report
is
completed,
it
will
then
be
provided to the customer.
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It should be noted that there
is
a strong
tendency
for the Unit Manager or the customer to have the remote
viewers work on a major ongoing or unsolved operation over and over
again.
This
is
generally
not
recommended
because
research
and
experience has shown that
a remote viewer's first impressions are
the best.
Hence,
the longer they work on
a case,
the more likely
they are to become inaccurate.
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Also,
experience
throughout
the world
in
remote
viewing
laboratories
has
shown
clearly
that
the
remote
viewing
ability
and receptivity
is
also directly
related
to
the
novelty and interest factor of the test.
So it is important not to
have the remote viewers conduct the
same operation over
and over
again because they will become bored and not perform well.
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When the operation is completed,
the remote
viewers receive their feedback from the customer and the customer
provides
a
written
evaluation
of
the
information
received.
Feedback is important because it helps the remote viewers evaluate
their own performance.
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In conclusion,
whether proponents or critics like
it or
not,
certain basic facts exist and must be dealt with.
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First,
unsolved
crimes,
missing
persons,
hostage
situations and terrorism continue to occur.
Information for their
purely rational and scientific solution is often simply inadequate,
yet
great
social
and
psychological
pressures
exist
for
their
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Many
intriguing
and
scientifically
unexplainable
results
have
been
achieved
under
controlled
experimental
conditions
as well
as spontaneous
field
situations.
As with any potential
advance
in technology
or technique,
remote
viewing needs to be sufficiently field tested.
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Intelligence agencies are encouraged not to
ignore
this
potential
resource
but
rather
place
it
among
their
arsenal
of
operational
tools.
Remote
viewers
can
be
used
as
collectors
in
conjunction
with
other
intelligence
sources
throughout the DoD and intelligence community because our service
is
to
be
of
"help.”
Once
this understanding can
occur,
perhaps
then can the "role"
of the remote viewer be more clearly defined.
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