Approved For Release 2000/08/02-RAALRIIESS -00788R001100130001-6 ~ ARMY PSYCHOENERGETIC EFFORT 1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO INFORM YOU OF ARNY'S © ROLE IN A SENSITIVE, CLOSE HOLD DOD PROJECT TO EXAMINE = POTENTIAL MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS, A TERN ° THAT COVERS A NUMBER OF UNEXPLAINED PSYCHIC PHENOMENA, we ARMY'S PURPOSE IN THIS EFFORT IS TO ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE 7 REALITY AND EXISTENCE OF SUCH PHENOMENA, ARMY’S EFFORT IS A SMALL, DISCREET, MINIMALLY FUNDED PROJECT CENTERED.ON : RE ICATING, IN-HOUSE, CLAIMED EXPERIMENTAL SUCCESSES BY ! OR AIZATIONS SUCH AS SRI INTERNATIONAL. BY USING ARMY | 7 PE LE AND ACTIVITIES, CAREFULLY CONTROLLED REPLICATIONS OF PREVIOUS TEST PROCEDURES CAN BE CONDUCTED. AS IT IS, MUCH ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT WARRANTS CLOSE SCRUTINY, REPORTED BY CREDIBLE, RESPECTED PEOPLE IN AND QUT OF DOD. | THREE SUB-AREAS OF PSYCKOENERGETICS” ARE THE MOST RELEVANT, | PROVIDED THE PHENOMENA’S EXISTENCE IS VERIFIED: REMOTE | | EWING, REMOTE PERTURBATION AND REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS, -_ MOTE VIEWING 1S THE PERCEPTION BY AN INDIVIDUAL OF THINGS, - _ \CES OR EVENTS DISTANT FROM HIM--ALSO KNOWN AS CLAIRVOYANCE. iL MOTE PERTURBATION, OR PSYCHOKINESIS, IS THE ABILITY OF A | PuRSON TO CAUSE A CHANGE IN STATE IN SOME PHYSICAL OBJECT. REMCTE COMMUNICATIONS 1S TELEPATHY, THE ARMY IS PRESENTLY — INVOLVED I} PROGRAMS OF INVESTIGATION CONCERNING REMOTE VIEWING AND REMOTE PERTURBATIONS, PROJECTS RELATED TO REMOTE CONNU- NICATIONS ARE PLANNED IN THE FUTURE. | _ Se A eel ete te GRILL FLAME. (w) oe Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIN REPOS-00700RDD 0049 Pe seaats
__ponperocrtes 2000/08/07 sor “REST, corsenoo1 100130001. . 2 GIVEN THE GROWING BODY OF SUPPORTIVE EVIDENCE, IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE PHENOMENA OF PSYCHOENERGETICS COULD NOT BE. IGNORED, ARMY CHOSE TO PROCEED WITH A SMALL,. IN-HOUSE PROGRAN ATTEMPTING REPLICATION OF THE SRI WORK, THE IDEA IS TO VALIDATE, IF POSSIBLE, THE CLAINED SUCCESSES AND TO VERIFY THE EXISTENCE OF THE PHENOMENA. WORK IS ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ENERGING DOD GRILL FLAME PROGRAM AND IS INTERNALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN | THREE ARMY ELEMENTS: oe THE ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY (AMSA) HAS THE MISSION OF ACTING AS THE REMOTE VIEWING “FREE LANCE.” THAT 1S, Alt WILL TRY NEW REMOTE VIEWING TECHNIQUES ANB EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES, USING A SMALL IN-HOUSE TEAM OF FOUR OR FIVE VIEWERS AND PROJECT MANAGERS, THE SOURCE FOR NEW TECHNIQUES WILL PRIMARILY BE ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS SRI INTERNATIONAL, ONCE” AMSAR IS SATISFIED THAT THE°NEW PROCEDURE HAS MERIT, IT WILL BE PASSED ON FOR FURTHER APPLIED TESTING TO THE ARMY INTELLI- GENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND CINSCOM). AMSAA’S ENTRY INTO REMOTE VIEWING CAME IN SPRING 1978 WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED THAT PSYCHOENERGETICS MAY OFFER SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL FOR | TACTICAL APPLICATION, AMSAA IS CONCERNED FIRST WITH VALIDATING THE SRI WORK, THEN SEEING HOW REMOTE VIEWING MAY BE TACTICALLY : EMPLOYED. .SINPLY PUT, AMSAA IS INTERESTED IN BATTLEFIELD : | SURVEILLANCE AND TARGET ACQUISITION, AE AVIEHER CAN “SEEN
ene ened pe ee ca a A A EH tl NRRL Rg NNER man AO Ee ‘ Approved For Release 2000/00 mgbenenres- “oo78R0011 00130001-6, 6 ; A VIEWER CAN “SEE” Approved For Release 2000108107: 7ElA-ROPSBAB07BBROOL0DS30001 6 | CHANGES IN SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS SUCH AS ENEMY = ASSENBLY AREAS; OR, IF HE CAN DETECT CHANGES IN AN ENEMY =~. UNIT'S STATUS, FOR EXAMPLE MOVING TO CONTACT: OR, IF HE CAN CONDUCT A REAL TIME, COMPREHENSIVE BATTLEFIELD DAMAGE. =. SURVEY, THEN ARMY HAS GAINED A NEW SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SINCE SEPTEMBER 1978, ANSAA HAS: "COMMITTED A TOTAL OF $220,000 IN CONTRACTS WITH SRI. FOR A ee PROGRAM TO CONDUCT TACTICALLY ORIENTED EXPERIMENTS, THIS» PROGRAM WILL CONTINUE UNTIL APRIL 1980, UNITS ASSIGNED TO THE COMBAT DEVELOPMENT EXPERIMENTATION CENTER (CDEC), FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA, WILL ACT AS THE TARGETS FOR THIS SERIES, CDEC IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT BECAUSE ITS UNITS ARE "WIRED" WITH. - ELECTRONIC POSITION DETERMINING SYSTEMS SO THAT THEY CAN BE SPATIALLY LOCATED WITH PRECISION AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, THESE DATA ARE PERMANENTLY RECORDED, PROVIDING A MEANS OF QUICKLY CROSS CHECKING THE ACCURACY OF A REMOTE VIEWER‘S DETERMINATIONS. “THE MISSILE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND (MIRADCOM) , REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALABAMA, IS DEVELOPING THE PILOT REMOTE PERTURBATION (PSYCHOKINESIS) PROGRAM, VALIDATION OF PRIOR “PK” WORK IS THE GOAL, IN ORDER TO DETERMINE IF THIS PHENOMENON EXISTS. IN THE FUTURE, MIRADCOM HOPES TO DEVELOP A PURELY THOUGHT-ACTIVATED SWITCH. IN CONJUNCTION WITH SRI, MIRADCOM 1S RELYING PRIMARILY ON INFLUENCING THE RANDOMNESS “OF THREE NOISE GENERATING DEVICES PUT THROUGH AN LSI-11--A | ~ SMALL MICROPROCESSOR, THE RANDOM NOISE GEXERATORS-AREs—AN oo “GRILL FLAME “Ww uel
‘ Jane RA ea i a | ‘ ‘ . Approved For Release 2000/0810 Pa GIASR ee Approved For Release 2000/08/07 ;-ClA,RBR96-00788R001100130001-6 “GENERATORS ARE: AN AN ELECTRONIC NOISE DIODE AND A RADIOACTIVE BETA PARTICLE DECAY SOURCE. AS A CONTROL, A PSEUDO-RANDOM SHIFT REGISTER WILL ALSO BE WIRED THROUGH THE LSI-11, ALTHOUGH PRESENTLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MISSILE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, A PART OF MIRADCON, IN THE NEAR FUTURE THE PROJECT WILL SHIFT TO ANOTHER MIRADCOM ELEMENT, THE R&D LABORATORIES, A PROJECT MANAGER HAS BEEN CHOSEN, THE TOTAL "PK" PROGRAM WILL FALL INTO TWO PHASES. THE FIRST, FOR WHICH A $118,000 CONTRACT HAS BEEN LET TO SRI, INVOLVES DEVELOPMENT OF THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PACKAGE, NO HUMAN SUBJECTS WILL BE INVOLVED DURING THIS PHASE. DURING PHASE TWO, SRI AND MIRADCOM WILL. . ATTEMPT TO HAVE PEOPLE AFFECT THE NOISE SOURCES’ RANDOMNESS, AN INDIVIDUAL WILL SIT AT A C.R.T. CONSOLE AND ATTEMPT TO: INFLUENCE A SMALL DOT MOVING IN A RANDOM PATTERN, USING ONLY THE ELUSIVE "THOUGHT PROCESS,” THIS EFFORT IS OF ESPECIAL INTEREST IN THAT THE EFFECTS, IF ANY, WILL BE BOTH QUANTI- FIABLE AND MEASURABLE, DUE TO THE NATURE .OF RANDOM NUMBER EXPERIMENTS, INITIAL EXPEDNTURES FOR PHASE II ARE EXPECTED TO BE $90,000 WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDING (UP TO $190,000) AVAILABLE IF NEEDED, os THE INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND DEVOTES ITS EFFORT TO REMOTE VIEWING APPLICATION. WORKING WITH A SMALL TEAM OF APPROXIMATELY SIX VIEWERS, INSCON WELL ATTEMPT TO BOTH VALIDATE THE RV PROCESS, AND DETERMINE MILITARY USES OF THE PHENOMEMON, IT IS SIGNIFICANT JHAT THE INSCOM TEAM Srtner pe SFOS GRILL FLAME (U)
Ee i ey ee Ree A A ee tet: RE Selle sere rn nes . ‘ Approved lease 2000/08/07 aSeebHSt0788R001100130001-6 a 2 PRTHAT sae auld meee _ AND FAMILIARIZATION OF THE INSCOM REMOTE VIEWER CADRE. Ae am pa a A aA dr 8 ts aed ee ‘ 7 ° ely a yy ete oLOM TEAM WAS SELECTED BY A LENGTHY, COMPREHENSIVE INTERVIEW PROCESS; A FIRST bY ANY ORGANIZATION, MILITARY OR CIVILIAN, SOME Con. 230 POTENTIAL CANDIDATES WERE SCRUTINIZED TO CHOOSE THOSE WITH THE MOST LIKELY CHANCE TO SUCCEED. IN APRIL 1979, A 0 $75,000 CONTRACT WITH SRI WAS LET, WHICH CALLS FOR TRAINING NITIAL FEEDBACK FROM SRI SCIENTISTS IS THAT THE INSCON. VIEWERS ARE DOING EXTRAORDINARILY WELL, 17 1 HOPED THAT : A REASONABLE IN-PROGRESS REVIEW OF THE JNSCOM RV APPLICATI EFFORT CAN BE MADE AROUND THE END OF THE YEAR, _ RECOGNIZING THAT THE EFFORT TO DATE HAS NOT BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED, ARMY FEELS COMPELLED TO INSURE THAT ALL REASONABLE STEPS ARE TAKEN TO MAKE ITS PROJECTS — AS CONTROLLED AND CREDIBLE AS POSSIBLE, “FIRST, ALL WORK WILL BE DONE WITHIN PARAMETERS ESTABLISHED BY WRETTEN PROTOCOLS — WHICH HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY’A SURGEON GENERAL HUMAN USE AND TESTING REVIEW PANEL, THIS PANEL HAS BEEN | ESTABLISHED IN ACCORD WITH FEDERAL LAW AND ARMY REGULATIONS, LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY THE ARMY AND DOD GENERAL COUNSELS. NEITHER POSED OBJECTION TO THE WORK AND PROVIDED FURTHER GUIDANCE PERTAINING TO THE AFOREMENT I ONED SURGEON GENERAL'S PANEL, FINALLY, A NUMBER OF QUALIFIED SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS AND MEDICAL AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN FORMED INTO A SMALL TEAN THAT WILLREVIEW | THIS WORK BEING DONE BY SEeRe BRILL FLAME Ww a | Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA RDPSED 7RERODH
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