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Verbal
Description
of Project
At
the beginning
of
the DIA/Army Joint
Services Program
(FY
1981)
SRI
in conjunction with
its
sponsors, made
a decision
to develop
an
codify
the most promising RV enhancement procedure
that had emerged from
earlier work--a six stage
coordinate remote viewing training procedure
developed by
SRI Consultant Mr.
Ingo
Swann.
The procedure
focuses on
improving
the reliability
of remote viewing
by. controlling
those factors
that
tend
to
introduce noise
into
the RV product.
A broad overview of
the procedure, which has
been derived empirically on
the basis
of
a dec
,
of
investigation
into
the RV process,
is presented
in
the documents
below.
The
basic components
of
this procedure consist
of.
(1)
Repeated
target-address
(coordinate)
presentation,
with quick-reaction response by
the remote viewer
(to minimize
imaginative overlays).
(2)
The use
of
a specially-designed,
acoustic-tiled,
featureless homogeneously-colored viewing chamber
(to minimize environmental overlays).
(3)
The adoption
of
a strictly-prescribed,
limited
interviewer patter
(to minimize
interviewer overlay).
At
this
stage
of
near completion
of
the development,
the
RV training
procedure proceeds
through
a
series
of
six
stages
of proficiency
hypothe-
sized
to correspond
to
six stages
of
increased contact with
the
target
'site
The
stages
are outlined
in
the
table below.
In
a given remote
viewing session,
an experienced
remote viewer
tends
to recapitulate
the
six
stages
in order.
During FY
1983,
the
final development
of
the procedure
is
focused
specifically
on
aspects applicable
to differentiation
and
identification
of
technological
facilities.
Orientation/application/testing
of
the
procedure continues with community-
and
SRI-provided
trainees.
Videotaping
of
sessions has been
added
for additional
documentation/ learning purposes.
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Puthoff
"RV Reliability,
Enhancement,
and Evaluation
(U),"
Final
REpor t
,
' SRI Project
3279-1,
SRI
International,
Menlo Park,
CA
(February
1982),
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"RV Reliability,
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and Evaluation
(U),"
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Report,
SRI Project 4028-1,
SRI International,
Menlo Park,
CA
(December
1982),
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RV SITE CONTACT
SITE
IS ACQUIRED
IN STAGES
OF INCREASING CONTACT
STAGES
1.
Major gestalt
(mountain,
city,
land/water
interface)
2.
Sensory contact
(cold/dry)
3.
Dimension, motion, mobility
(large mountain,
panoramic view)
4.
Qualitative
and quantitative
aspects
(technological
cultural,
two buildings)
5.
Specific
analytical
aspects--by interrogating
signal
line
(radar
tracking function,
ABM defense)
6.
Three-dimensional
contact
(modeling,
layouts,
further
analytical contact)
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Sponsor’s Expectation
Improve accuracy of remote
viewing
.
Transfer technology
to
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Stages
IV-VI was
performed
, with RVer #002
acting
as viewer.
Continued
training of
SRI-
selected viewers
(two
through
SII,
one
through Sill) was
carried
out,
to provide addi-
tional
data
to evaluate
the
training procedure.
Two client
personnel pro-
gressed
through
training,
one
through mid* SI,
one
through
Sill.
New techniques
(e.g.,
3-dimensional
modeling) were developed which
led
to increasingly high-quality results,
An overall analysis
of blind-testing
(Class
B)
results
indicates
a sus-
tained hit rate
of
66T0
in providing
results
in the
(good)
and
(excellent)
categories.
Progress
of
trainees
,
both SRI-
and client-selected,
continues
to
provide evidence
that CRV tech-
nology can be transferred
to
selected
individuals
by means
of
a structured procedure.
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In addition the following discoveries were made
(a)
(b)
Newer
trainees without previous experience appear
to
procedures,
as
compared with earlier viewers
involved
The use of modeling materials
(e.g.,
clay,
pasteups)
quality
progress more rapidly through
the new
in "relearning."
appears
to contribute
to RV product
3.
Based upon the sponsor’s
was developed.
stated needs
and our discoveries during the fiscal year
a program for FY'84
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Verbal Description of
the Project
To meet program objectives,
one of
SRI’s
tasks
is
to investigate U.S.
capabilities
in applied
RV,
both
to determine
the potential
for application
in U.S.
efforts,
and
to provide data that
is useful
in assessing the threat
potential
of
corresponding Soviet applications.
In response
to
this
re-
quirement,
SRI has pursued application tasks
that were
of
interest
to
the
intelligence community,
and have responded
to -quick-reaction requirements
set by representatives monitoring
the progress
of
the work.
The format
for carrying out
these
tasks
is
as
follows.
A request
for
information concerning
a target
site
is
transmitted
by
the client
to
the DIA representative^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^l the
Joint
Service Program COTR
in residence
at
SRI.
He then provides
targeting information
(e.g.
,
coordinates)
to
an SRI RV session monitor
at
the start of
a session.
This
monitor
then works with
a remote viewer
to obtain data.
In
this
format,
SRI personnel
are kept blind
to
the source of
the request,
and
to
the
type
of
site
or event
of
interest.
In some cases,
the COTR
is present
during
the RV session,
or he may even conduct
the
session himself.
In
an effort
to determine whether
a remote viewer
is
"on line"
before attempting
an operational
task,
a presession calibration trial
is
carried out
on
a site
for which feedback materials
(e.g.,
National
Geographic magazines,
travel brochures)
are available
to the session
monitor.
If
the results
indicate
a useful
level
of
RV functioning,
the
operational
task
is
engaged;
if not,
the task
is aborted.
In
like
fashion,
a postsession calibration trial
is carried out
to provide
a check
on whether
the viewer remained
"on
line" during the operational
task.
Evaluation protocols were developed for use by analysts
to provide
numerical
estimates
of various aspects
of
the RV product generated
in
operational
RV tasks.
The returned protocols constitute
the basis
for
contractor evaluation,
feedback
to
the remote viewer,
and
as
an
input
for
the computerized data-base management
(DBM).
The evaluation protocols
submitted
to
the analysts
for
thgir completion are provided
in Appendix
D
of
the below footnoted document.
The contractor has completed development of
a computerized data-base
management
system
to handle
this material.
This
system,
programmed on
a
stand-alone
LSI
11/23
system,
provides
a
library/catalog function
of data-
base readout by date,
site,
viewer,
and
so forth,
along with
the capability
of
yielding
trend analysis
functions.
E.
Puthoff,
"RV Reliability,
Enhancement,
and Evaluation
(U)," Final
Report,
SRI Project 3279-1,
SRI
International, Menlo Park,
CA
(February
1982)
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In addition the following discoveries were made
The
injection of
intermediate quick-response
feedback appears
to
increase
therefore,
a carefully-monitored Class
C protocol
(as opposed
to Class
for operational
tasking.
viewer confidence;
may be more productive
Class
C:
Intermediate confirmatory feedback supplied
to viewer
operational
scan.
Class
B:
No feedback given until operational
scan complete.
at
selected points during
3.
Based upon the sponsor's
was developed.
stated needs and our discoveries
during the fiscal year
a program for FY'84
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