: 11). Approved. For,Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 aa be The operational utility of the phenomena and of the SRI data-has not been addressed in this assessment of their results, since that was, not the purpose of this current contract. Any further effort in support of OTS-imust, however, address that point. . -| would suggest that a follow-on be in two parts: 1) Identification of ~ methods for increasing the signal-to-noise of RV data, and for estimating attainable SNR. This implies a need for meaningful definition of SNR. 2) Design and running of tightly constrained experiments to demonstrate the use of redundant coding techniques to telepathically transmit coded messages, with a pre-determined degree of reliability. In the first section, the effects of calibration, training, repetition, multiple outbounders, groupings of subjects, and combination or de- composition of targets should be considered. An analysis of the phenomena should be performed similar to that done on an unknown machine in order to draw its state diagram. In the second section, the basic utility of paranormal communication can be quickly and directly assessed in an operationally useful context. The possibility that the utility does exist has already been demonstrated on a number of occassions. ’ [tis important to indicate the alternatives available at this point; although that is not my task. | do want to emphasize one alternative which is not available. Given we do not continue to fund SRI research in this field without interruption, we will probably not have a later chance. Both Puthoff and Targ are sufficiently cledicated to this work that they will publish everything they have generated if they are forced to seek funding. At present, they are counting on our continued support, and so have not -actively pursued other sources. If they do dump their data on the open market, this may include publishing their association with unreliable subjects, as well as the pre- sentation of unanalyzed data. Already there are many people contacting SRI from the outside, and the number of newsmen and radicals soliciting SRI for time and information would definitely get out of hand - to the point where / the agency could not risk involvement. At present, SRI represents the most (//¥ advanced center for paranormal research, with an cee ee eRe for la credibility. Although the directors of the Institute would certain y not allow its reputation to suffer due to Puthoff and Targ's publication; the future interests of this agency may suffer, and so should be considered in the current decision. | — ween See on Es Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
m November, L974 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 INTRODUCTION The following pages include a schedule of my activities at SRI, a report on each of those seven activities, and an extensive analysis of the second remote viewing. Each of those sections stands alone, and a summary assessment is best obtained by reading each of the critiques, since they indicate not only my criticisms but the steps taken to counter them. By way of additional comment, my impressions were favorable with regard to the SRI effort, the existence and hardiness of the phenomena involved, Hella's credibility and capability, and my own performance. Although this is a subjective assessment of my own performance, | have tried to restrain my amazement and excitement over the results. In particular, since this is written weeks after the events, | have attempted to not give myself benefit of the doubt when relying on memory. Very likely the SRI report of my activities will be less restrained. Also,. the results need be viewed in the context of a number of isolated events occurring over a short period of time, without precedent in my experiences. An additional subjective assessement of operational utility for these phenomena is being completed, but is not part of this historical report. bee aa ae
" Approved For Release 2000/08/02 ~ ClASRDP'96-00787R000700090008-0 Wednesday 1:30 A.M. arrive motel 9:30 A.M. arrive SRI, tour and meetings 10:00 RV #1 and its debriefing 12:00 [lunch and review of Nature paper critiques 1:00 met Hella Hammid, observed her performance at Stanford chapel. 3:00 witnessed critique of Hella's performance 4:30 discussions with Targ and Puthoff regarding schedule for the next days, obtained further _ background reading on Remote Viewing and Ryzl's paper on redundant coding a 7:30 dinner meeting including Puthoff and SG1I off-site. Followed by discussion with SG1I regarding handling of Hella's data and my further activities. Thursday 10:00 RV #2 and its debriefing 1:00 select target, Hella's RV and its critique 3:00 Hella leaves, further discussion of her results 4:00 Obtain tape of Hella performing an RV on scientific apparatus, to try repeating the drill press experiment, 4:15 make several runs on the ESP teaching machine,. using vartous techniques 6:30 listen to Hella's RV tape, identify keywords; read coding theory papers. Friday ' 9:30 obtain Hella's drawings from the RV and ° again listen to tape 10:00 debriefing on my performance . 11:00 RV #3 and debriefing bot 2:00 abacus experiment . 2:20 teaching machine experiment 4:00 correct RV #2 transcript, obtain copies of drawings and photos ; 6:00 total debriefing: my results, my criticisms, i expected follow-on, alternative funding sources, what my trip accomplished, outlook for : operational utility bole 10: 00 flight out eo Oe Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
« ' Approved For Release 2000/08/07 !G{A-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 Mood The first experiment utilizing me as subject was run immediately upon my arrival at the SRI lab. The standard mood adjective assessment was not done in this case or on the subsequent days for lack of time and because | was already noting my experiences in detail. At this time | was very tired and suffering from a bac head cold, and so was certain no one could expect a good performance from me. As aresult, | was completed relaxed. Puthoff and Targ seemed anxious to run such an experiment at once as a way of calibrating me, and defining our schedule for the three days. Protocol Hal Puthoff obtained a standard target site from the office safe, under their usual protocol, and proceeded to the place. |! remained in the experiment room with Russell Targ, discussing a variety of topics. At the agreed time, | turned on the tape recorder and described the images that came to mind. At various points, Russell encouraged me to talk in further detail. 1 drew no pictures. Another tape was made when Hal returned and I was debriefed. Data Transcripts of these tapes were not completed before | left and so are not contained here. They will be included in SRI's report on my visit. From my notes, key points in my description were: Hal is shuffling about an area that is 50 feet from parked cars. The area has a geometrical shape (not round) which he has de- cided to stay inside, although it is not a physical constraint in the sense that he can get out of the area if he wants. There is a railing more than waist high. He is looking both out and down. There is movement, in the sense of a breeze, past him. He walks back to our room. When Hal returned and asked how it went, | began to confess that | had avoided describing my initial impressions. At that point he turned on a second tape recorder, and I continued with a description of Hal standing on a wooden dock with rippling water going past him. There were two reasons why | had not described these feelings: first, the image seemed too much like my own apartment dock and | thought | was just remembering it. Second, I had driven around SRI's periphery in locating the lab, and was certain there was no water around. Since ! wanted to do well, | had not mentioned those impressions, although | later realized that | wanted them on tape for completeness of the documentation. tT yee Viagte ot . any Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 ~ Mood The first experiment utilizing me as subject was run immediately upon my arrival at the SRI lab. The standard mood adjective assessment was not done in this case or on the subsequent days for lack of time and because | was already noting my experiences in detail. At this time | was very tired and suffering from a bad head cold, and so was certain no one could expect a good performance from me. Asa result, | was completed relaxed. Puthoff and Targ seemed anxious to run such an experiment at once as a way of calibrating me, and defining our schedule for the three days. Protocol Hal Puthoff obtained a standard target site from the office safe, under their usual protocol, and proceeded to the place. I remained in the experiment room with Russell Targ, discussing a variety of topics. At the agreed time, | turned on the tape recorder and described the images that came to mind. At various points, Russel! encouraged me to talk in further detail. [| drew no pictures. Another tape was made when Hal returned and | was debriefed. Data Transcripts of these tapes were not completed before | left and so are not contained here. They will be included in SRI's report on my visit. From my notes, key points in my description were: Hal is shuffling about an area that is 50 feet from parked cars. The area has a geometrical shape (not round) which he has de- cided to stay inside, although it is not a physical constraint in the sense that he can get out of the area if he wants. There is a railing more than waist high. He is looking both out and down. There ts movement, in the sense of a breeze, past him. He walks back to our room. When Hal returned and asked how it went, | began to confess that | had avoided describing my initial impressions. At that point he turned on a second tape recorder, and I continued with a description of Hal standing on a wooclen dock with rippling water going past him. There were two reasons why I had not described these feelings: first, the image seemed too much like my own apartment dock and | thought | was just remembering it. Second, | had driven around SRI's periphery in locating the lab, and was certain there was no water around. Since | wanted to do well, | had not mentioned those impressions, although | later realized that | wanted them on tape for completeness of the documentation.
ry SubArnproved Fos Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 The impressions came easily to mind. It was like daydreaming except | had Russ as director, and the impressions had to be translated into words and pictures with conscious effort. As a result, | was reluctant to talk. | did not expect that | had done well. | was, however, surprised that | had been able to really clear my mind, and had then gotten a consistent set of impressions for 15-20 minutes. Also in the past experiments | had reviewed, there seemed to be no impressions of time or motion (as well as no sounds) and sol had not expected to receive such impressions when following that protocol. Analysis of Results Hal became obviously either pleased or amused at listening to my tape during debriefing. | was too impatient to make any drawings and so we proceeded to revisit the target site. My initially surpressed description was very accurate, as were my other statements. From my impressions | could have identified the actual target location, which was a bridge across a man- made brook on the SRI grounds. | was extremely surprised by that, and later analyzed the proceedings for possible explanation. Critique It was frustrating to attempt a 15-20 minute session, as my mind started to wander. The questioning sometimes was distracting. The process !| was performing seemed to involve getting an impression, then searching for a word or image to match - sometimes an entire experience would result from the search. The process was analogous to smelling something, which may recalf the name of a fragrance, or may recall an entire event complete with sounds and emotional memories. Sometimes the questions would get me off on such a side track. | questioned how | could be certain the site was not manufactured after- the-fact either by monitoring my description as | made it or during debriefing. Either Hal's cleverness or computer assistance could then select a site similar to my description. There were three retorts to this: 1) Originally, the outbound experimenter did tape his movements and destination. This procedure was later dropped since it did not seem to add to the analysis, but merely generated more tapes to be catalogued. ae ca ener) Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 2) The high strangeness of the sites would make it difficult to manufacture such places within the required range, if any specific description were given. Due to my unfamiliarity with the area, | could not effectively counter their challenge to match my total description to any other site within 15 minutes from SRI. However, | did attempt to construct such a site near my D.C. office and could not. -If some of the details were ignored it became possible. 3) We decided that we would tape a complete record of the outbound experimenter's journey and activities at the site, both to eliminate such a possibility of manufacture after the fact; and to provide time calibration data for my impressions of body move- ment, posture, and intent. Unfortunately, this was not done until the third experiment. Much discussion has been made concerning the "symbolism" used by RV subjects. This term carries incorrect connotations, referring to a pur- poseful obscurring of details. Rather, the process which occurs is a pure translation from experience to words, which may necessitate analogy but not symbolism. By a discussion of symbolic content in the RV data, experimenters imply that the deep psychological make-up of a subject must be probed before his data can be assessed. That is not true. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
- Approved For Release 2000/08/07 CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 Vith Hella at the _fbur ch As described in the objective report, | accompanied Hella to the church primarily to observe her, although | did have a number of questions in mind regarding my own performance potential and possible interaction with her, She did extremely well, as described elsewhere in this report and as attested to by a letter from the officer in charge. ! will add here only a few of my own observations. Hella's performance indicates the durability of the phenomenon involved. The environment was totally uncontrolled and the task was completely new to her, since it involved perception of past events, with no assistance from a "transmitting" experimenter. The attending officer knew full details of the case, so that Hella could theoretically have gotten all the verifiable results from him via telepathy. She did add information regarding the suspect's description and identity which have yet to be verified. The possibility that the entire event was staged for me is not worth consideration. Since | viewed official reports and video tapes at the Menlo Park police barracks, the staging would have required police co-operation. Hella's results support the frequent assertion that subjects perform better on more difficult and important tasks, rather than when playing games. In attempting to establish rapport with Hella, | directed some questioning of her. She in turn began asking me for my impressions | and confirmation of hers. Since the entire proceedings were being taped, | backed off and said 1 wanted to walk around. However, we did briefly work together on the description of the victim, and | believe that was at least a psychological boost to her performance, (She directed the officer at one point to question me further since | seemed to be on to something, but | was able to avoid his further interest by describing aspects of the case that were completely wrong. He paid me no more attention, and | receive no notice in his further correspondence with SRI.) Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
Abpraved Fer Ralenss 200N08/RY « GIA RDP 96-00787R000700090008-0 myself as | walked about the church, although they were not as specific as Hella's. | do believe thal a group discussion following independent observations would effectively integrate out some of the noise involved in such a process, Hella is very much concerned with her performance. After ~ the visit to the church, she several times cited statements she had made and the fact that no one had told her the data before hand. She was somewhat surprised at how well she hac done, and joked about how much further she should go. Sheis attempting further efforts on the case, and it will be interesting to follow them. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
_Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : GlA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 Mood Of my three RV experiments, I talked most freely during this one, and a mood indicator would probably have shown me to be still excited over the events of the previous day. As a result, !| talked more in this experiment, giving elaborate detail, and drew a set of pictures. Protocol The desire was to duplicate the standard protocol as performed the previous day. [| made a number of mental adjustments: | would dictate every- thing that came to mind, | would concentrate on body movements, | would work on detail rather than overall impressions Data A completely checked and verified transcript of my tape is included in a later section, along with a detailed attempt at objective analysis, The RV occurred in three parts: 1) First, | attempted to predict the site at a time when | expected Hal was on his way there. 2) Second, at the agreed time | get an initial impression of shielding and then perception of geometrical forms. 3) Third, | then get an impression of a building interior, and continue to be involved with the building for the remainder of the experiment. Subjective Assessment 1) At the time of my first attempt, Hal was in fact stil! waiting in Bart Cox's office for a site to be selected from the safe, He was leaning against a more than waist high counter which has a light wood top. My impression of him leaning against a light wood workbench of similar height, and my later statement that this is not a prediction but a viewing at the time, are both essentially correct. In addition, | correctly describe “papers and small items, no large equipment" on the counter top. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
The second perception, at the actual start of t " AppreweshEnr Release 209009/07.: GlaROReS-OAraTaaonzagpa0008- 0 feedback of the entire trip. Initially, | describe a positive feeling of an absence of emissions, and guess that Hal is in the shielded room which | have not seein but know to exist. Soon after that statement, | get a sensation of moving triangles mn which | describe as looking through a prism or shooting a movie - co through a Kallidescope. In addition, | see Hal grinning and chuckling to himself. The scene then shifts inside a building. At the time of this description, Hal was reportedly standing inside the left tower shown in Figure RV #2-1. Upon re- membering that Pat Price had gotten a shielded sensation under the same conditions, he decided to move out, but first wanted to give me a good target in case | was getting an impression. Therefore, he looked up through the tower, and spun around. The weather was too wet for me to get any good pictures but, as SRI's photos should show, and as | verified for myself, my description gives a very good picture of the actual scenes. 3) For the remainder of the experiment | describe the interior of a building which is a museum and art gallery where movies are shown, a tourist type place for walking around which is not a business place. The architecture is busy, with the main room about 40 x 40, It is not really amuseum. Also, just before he leaves, Hal turns a complete circle and scans the whole place. Those facts are all correct. The details of the description are _ a little better than 50% correct as later discussed. | felt frustrated at my inability to achieve the precise overview | had expected remote viewing to entail. | was beginning to suspect that what | must really be doing was picking up unprocessed sensory data from Hal, along with his intentions and bocly posturing. However, in the third portion of the experiment, | am concerned with the interior of the building, while he remains outside. Either | am getting impressions from his unconscious memories of the interior, or | am merely using him as a beacon, in the true y RV sense. Unfortunately, I do not have the ability to raise up and clearly see coe the entire site, but am restricted to more myopic views. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
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An ays Rélease 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 During debriefing, Hal was delighted with my Kallidescope description, as well as with the general content of the building description. | was particularly surprised by my impressions (correct) of absolute compass directions since | am characteristically Poor at directions, and could not even figure out the heading of my own house. Critique Although it would seem impossible to manufacture a site having both the Kallidescope and MUSEUM aspects, it is very unfortunate that no record was made of Hal's movements. At the time, we wished to duplicate the preceeding day's Protocol, and so did not wish to introduce the need for Hal to dictate all his moves and intentions into a recorder. (In retrospect, there was no sufficient reason for this decision. The Shortness of my stay made us continually choose between replication of results and trials of new experiments. ) There were particularly bad effects in this instance from the interrogation Procedure. In certain cases, the questions served to distract me by either drawing my attention to something else in my perception or to Hal's Perceptions. In other cases, the questions were completely misleading, either in making wrong Suppositions ("describe the room Hal is in" when he is outside) , Or asking for further detail on an incorrect point of description ("What color is the floor?" When what I have described is the outside area) , | was not consciously able to distinguish between the perceptions that Hal was getting, and the remaining ones | got. Therefore, any question which directed me to go and get a specific piece of information might lead me to give conflicting descriptions, - Due to the effects stated above, itis additionally difficult to analyze information received under the interrogation process, My next RV would use no interrogator, The question of personality dependance is now raised, since | wonder whether | can perform with Russell on the outbound end. {n addition, the effect of multiple outbounders should be Studied. Due to the lack of time, all of these changes are made in RV #3, ve ee, ee re a 090008-0 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700
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