— - Approved For Release toys FQ TP crrseRnozto01s0002-8 I AM LTC BUZBY, PROJECT MANAGER FOR INSCOM PRoJecT CENTER LANE. I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY OPERATIONS OFFICER, FRED ATWATER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO ORIENT YOU TO A UNIQUE INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION PROJECT THAT USES THE CENTER LANE TECHNIQUE® PRIOR TO SUBMITTING OUR TRAINING AND APPLICATIONS PROCEDURES FOR YOUR REVIEW AND ACTION.! WILL DISCUSS THE HISTORY OF THE PROGRAM, TRAINING, OPERATIONS, AND OUR PLANS FOR THE EUTURE. THE OVERALL CLASSIFICATION OF THE BRIEFING IS SECRET. CENTER LANE Lever 4. CENTER LANE IS A REGISTERED DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAM, THAT STATUS AND THE SENSITIVITY OF THE CENTER (ANE MISSION REQUIRE US TO ADHERE TO STRICT SECURITY’ — PROCEDURES. AS PART OF THOSE PROCEDURES. WE ASK ALL PERSONNEL WHO RECEIVE A CENTER LANE BRIEFING TO COMPLETE A SECURITY BRIEFING CERTIFICATE THAT ACKNOWLEDGES AN ACCEPTANCE OF THE SENSITIVITY OF CENTER LANE INFORMATION, (CHART 1) SIR. THE INSCOM CENTER LANE PROJECT INVOLVES THE USE OF PSYCHOENERGETICS FOR INTELLIGENCE PURPOSES. PSYCHOENERGETICS ARE THE PROCESSES BY WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL MAY PSYCHICALLY INTERACT WITH OBJECTS, LOCATIONS, ORGANISMS OR EVENTS. THIS INCLUDES SUCH DISCIPLINES AS PSYCHOKINESIS, REMOTE VIEWING, AND REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS. ARMY review(s) completed. . T(USCOM oun Techies eg Shak. ne pate 20 i LIAS Beurcw Posen Aiprexee PerFelepse, RHP96-00789R002100180002-8 (~ Tow + 19 Jou BY We
Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 Ogi BY, a ca OUR @SREEEET MISSION IS A S DEPICTED ON THIS CHART: CONDUCT INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS UTILIZING ALL PSYCHOENERGETIC PROCESSES APPLICABLE. TRAIN SELECTED PERSONNEL IN STATE-OF-THE-ART PSYCHOENERGETIC INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES. EXPAND OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES AND TRAINING BEYOND THE ~ CONFINES OF INFORMATION COLLECTION INTO THE FIELDS OF PSYCHOENERGETIC COMMUNICATION AND PSYCHOKINESIS. IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE CENTER LANE ACTIVITIES, IT IS NECESSARY TO DISCUSS OUR HISTORY. SINCE 1972, THE US GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN EXAMINING POTENTIAL USES OF PSYCHOENERGETICS. IN THE EARLY 1970'S SERIOUS CONSIDERATION FOR PSYCHOENERGETICS, PRIMARILY IN THE FORM OF REMOTE VIEWING AS AN INTELLIGENCE GATHERING TOOL, RECEIVED GREAT IMPETUS FROM WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS ASTOUNDING SUCCESSES IN REMOTE VIEWING RESEARCH BY TWO LASER PHYSICISTS AT SRI INTERNATIONAL. REMOTE VIEWING IS AN SRI INTERNATIONAL COINED TERM WHICH IS DEFINED AS THE ACQUISITION AND DESCRIPTION BY MENTAL MEANS, OF INFORMATION Approved For Release 2004/08/16. CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 2
Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 fT, FE ORE Ty a . +d BLOCKED FROM ORDINARY PERCEPTION BY DISTANCE, SHIELDING OR TIME, USING SEVERAL APPARENTLY GIFTED PSYCHIC SUBJECTS. THE SCIENTISTS CONDUCTED A REVIEW OF CIA-SPONSORED TESTS. MUCH DETAILED, ACCURATE INFORMATION, SOME OF IT PREVIOUSLY UNREPORTED, WAS PROVIDED ABOUT A SECRET NSA FACILITY, THE SOVIET R&D FACILITY IN SEMIPALITINSK (SEMI-POLY-TINSK), GUERRILLA SG1 TRAINING BASES IN LIBYA, SG1A BECAUSE OF THESE ORIGINAL TESTS. THE LAST DECADE OF WORK CENTERED ON REMOTE VIEWING. SINCE THOSE ORIGINAL TESTS, THE CIA SUSPENDED THEIR ACTIVE ROLE IN PSYCHOENERGETIC ACTIVITIES FOR "POLITICAL' REASONS, BUT HAVE CONTINUED TO MAINTAIN A HIGH STATE OF INTEREST IN ALL ON-GOING WORK BECAUSE OF OBVIOUS DEFENSE APPLICATIONS. DURING THE SAME TIME FRAME, THE MILITARY SERVICES AND DIA HAVE, AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER, BEEN INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS PSYCHOENERGETICS TESTS, MOST OF THEM APPLICATIONS ORIENTED. THE US ARMY'S INTEREST IN PSYCHOENERGETICS GOES BACK TO 19/72, WHEN THE SURGEON GENERAL THROUGH THE MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION AGENCY (MIIA), TOGETHER WITH DIA, PUBLISHED STUDIES oF SovIeT BLOCK work. IN 1976. THE MISSILE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (MIA) INFORMALLY EXPRESSED INTEREST IN US REPLICATION OF CLAIMED SOVIET EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHOKINESIS. SRI DEVELOPED A SMALL PROGRAM FOR THEM AND IN AUGUST 1977, MIA AWARDED SRI AN S80K Approved For Release 2004/08/16: CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 ° 3
Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 em goer ee, BN ge eda Niledl ONE-YEAR R&D CONTRACT. DURING THE SAME TIME, ANOTHER DARCOM AGENCY, THE ARMY MATERIAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AGENCY WAS INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION OF REMOTE VIEWING CONCEPTS WITH SRI. THESE EFFORTS CONTINUED THROUGH FY 1980. IN MARCH 1980, WILLIAM J. PERRY, THEN UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING, ORDERED CURTAILMENT OF AIL P6& MONIES SUPPORTING THE PROGRAM, BUT POSED NO OBJECTION TO CONTINUANCE OF NON-R&D INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS EFFORTS. THIS ACTION EVENTUALLY CAUSED DARCOM To CEASE ALL ACTIVITY. (CHART CHANGE) THE US ARMY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND'S INVOLVEMENT WITH PSYCHOENERGETICS BEGAN IN SEPTEMBER 1977. AT THAT TIME, AN INSCOM ELEMENT IMPLEMENTED THE GONDOLA WISH PROGRAM WHICH WAS DESIGNED TO INTEGRATE THE SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN PSYCHOENERGETIC INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION THREAT INTO THE ALL-SOURCE OPERATIONS SECURITY COPSEC) SUPPORT SCENARIO. By SPRING OF 1978. THE ARMY ACSI] CONCLUDED THERE WAS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO WARRANT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM TO EXPLORE MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS. HE CANCELLED THE GONDOLA WISH EFFORT, PLACED A COMPLETE SECURITY ENVELOPE OVER ARMY'S INTEREST IN PSYCHOENERGETICS, AND IMPLEMENTED A NEW PROGRAM DIRECTED TOWARDS INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION USING REMOTE VIEWING. THE NEW EFFORT WAS GIVEN THE UNCLASSIFIED NICKNAME GRILL FLAME. IN OCTOBER 1978, ACSI TASKED Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 il t '
Approved For Release aaa 6.2 ClA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 INSCOM TO ESTABLISH A PROGRAM USING PSYCHOENERGETICS FOR INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS UTILIZING REMOTE VIEWING. BY SPRING 1979, PROJECT PERSONNEL HAD BEEN SELECTED AND TRAINING INITIATED. THE MARCH 1980 PERRY MEMORANDUM WITHDREW THE PROGRAM 6 MONIES SUPPORTING PSYCHOENERGETIC R&I) EFFORTS, BUT IT DID NOT PUT US OUT OF BUSINESS. IN 1981, THE ACSI TRANSFERRED TOTAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PROJECT TO INSCOM. ALSO IN 1981, A JOINT SERVICES GRILL FLAME COMMITTEE, CONSISTING OF DIA, THE AIR FORCE AND ARMY WAS FORMED. THE NAVY EXPRESSED NO INTEREST IN PARTICIPATING IN ANY DISCUSSIONS, AND LATER THE AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF DIRECTED THAT THE AIR FORCE WITHDRAW FROM THE COMMITTEE AND ALL PSYCHOENERGETIC PROGRAMS, THIS JOINT SERVICES EFFORT WAS FORMED TO IMPLEMENT A 3-YEAR COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS AND USEFULNESS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS, AND ASSESS THE THREAT THESE PHENOMENA POSED TO NATIONAL SECURITY. WITHIN THIS JOINT SERVICES PROGRAM, THE ROLES OF DIA AND ARMY WERE DISTINCT. DIA WAS R&D ORIENTED AND INSCOM'S GRILL FLAME PROJECT WAS TO USE REMOTE VIEWING AS AN OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUE TO COLLECT INTELLIGENCE AND TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING COULD BE LEARNED BY PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL WHO WERE NOT “ESTABLISHED PSYCHICS.” JNSCOM PARTICIPATED IN THIS JOINT SERVICES EFFORT UNTIL THE END OF FY 82 WHEN THE BUDGET SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE (SENATOR WALLOP) CURTAILED ALL PSYCHOENERGETIC OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8
Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 & a _ BY THE ARMY IN THE NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM (NFIP), THE CONGRESSIONAL CONFEREES AGREED, HOWEVER, TO LET DIA COMPLETE THE THIRD YEAR OF THEIR EFFORT AND DIRECTED THAT FUTURE FUNDING -- IF ANY -- OF THIS PSYCHOENERGETIC ACTIVITY BE BUDGETED OUTSIDE THE NFIP. SO IN THE FALL OF 1982, IN KEEPING WITH THESE CONGRESSIONAL DESIRES AND WISHING TO MAINTAIN THE MOMENTUM OF EFFORT ALREADY ESTABLISHED, THE CG. INSCOM DECIDED TO CONTINUE INSCOM'S PROJECT AND PROVIDE FUNDING WITH SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES (S&IA) MONTES. INSCOM TERMINATED FORMAL INVOLVEMENT WITH GRILL FLAME AT THE END OF FY 82, AND CONTINUED ITS EFFORTS UNDER A PROVISIONAL SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAM NICKNAMED CENTER LANE, —— THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT'S HISTORY, THE SUBJECT OF WHETHER OR NOT PSYCHOENERGETICS CONSTITUTES HUMAN USE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ISSUE. FOIAB5 CHART CHANGE IN MARCH 1979. THE SURGEON GENERAL'S HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH REVIEW BOARD REVIEWED THE GRILL FLAME PROTOCOL AND CONCLUDED THAT IT REPRESENTED TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND VALIDATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. RATHER THAN RESEARCH OR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION, AND AS SUCH, GRILL FLAME ACTIVITIES G Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 a
Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 a DID NOT REQUIRE APPROVAL FOR HUMAN USE. HOWEVER, THE BOARD EXPRESSED CONCERNS THAT FUTURE ARMY FOLLOW-ON WORK MIGHT BE CLASSIFIED AS RESEARCH, AND AS SUCH, PLANS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO ESTABLISH CREDIBLE HUMAN USE REVIEW PROCEDURES TO OVERSEE GRILL FLAME ACTIVITIES, FOIAB5 IN NOVEMBER 1979, AFTER REVIEW OF REVISED PROTOCOLS, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT GRILL FLAME ACTIVITIES DID CONSTITUTE HUMAN USE. SUBSEQUENTLY, IN APRIL 1980, THE UNDER SECRETARY OF THE ARMY APPROVED THE CONTINUATION OF GRILL FLAME FOIABS = acTIVITIES. ACSI, DA CONCURRENTLY INITIATED ACTION TO OBTAIN SECRETARY OF THE ARMY APPROVAL TO CONDUCT GRILL FLAME ACTIVITIES. SINCE THEN SECRETARY OR UNDER SECRETARY OF THE ARMY APPROVAL FOR GRILL FLAME/ICLP ACTIVITIES HAS BEEN GRANTED ON 14 JANUARY 1981, 1 FEBRUARY 1982 AND 1 SEPTEMBER 1983, APPROVALS ARE GENERALLY VALID FOR ONE YEAR. NEXT I WANT TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN OVER VIEW OF INSCOM'S OPERATIONAL EFFORTS OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS. CCHART ON) DuRING 1979, WE CONDUCTED 79 OPERATIONAL MISSIONS, 43 OF WHICH WERE 7 Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8
Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 DEDICATED TO ASSISTING THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY DURING THE IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS. DURING 1980, AFTER WE ACQUIRED OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE, OUR OWN SEPARATE FACILITIES. AND INCREASED MANPOWER, WE WERE ABLE TO INCREASE OUR PRODUCTION TO 386 OPERATIONAL MISSIONS. 154 OF WHICH WERE STILL DEDICATED TO IRAN. PERSONNEL LOSSES SUBSEQUENTLY RESULTED IN A SHARP DECLINE OF OPERATIONAL MISSIONS. OVERALL. IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS WE HAVE CONDUCTED OVER 750 OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION MISSION. BECAUSE OF THE TURMOIL THAT HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECT. WE HAVE NOT HAD A STABLE PERSONNEL SITUATION. (CHART CHANGE) In 1979, CG INSCOM FORMED A TASK FORCE CONSISTING OF 5 PERSONNEL: A PROJECT MANAGER, AN OPERATIONS/TRAINING OFFICER, A SECRETARY, AND TWO SOURCES CRVERS). IN 1980, TWO ADDITIONAL OPERATIONAL PERSONNEL WERE ASSIGNED. BY 1981, WE WERE READY TO EXPAND AND RECRUITED 2 NEW PERSONNEL FOR TRAINING IN THE PROJECT. BUT BY THE END OF 1981, PCS MOVES SEVERELY HAMPERED OUR OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY. HAVING BEEN DENIED NFIP FUNDING AND, THEREFORE, A TDA UNDER THE GDIP By CONGRESSIONAL ACTION, CG. INSCOM HAS PROVIDED OUT-OF-HIDE PERSONNEL SPACES IN SUPPORT OF CENTER LANE SINCE THE LOSS OF THIS FUNDING AT THE END OF FY82, OUR PERSONNEL STRENGTH AT THE END OF FY 8&4 WILL BE 9 OPERATIONAL PERSONNEL AND TWO SUPPORT PERSONNEL. — PHAST Mts CENTER EAE —Htit—-CONFENHE FEB PER ATE 3 Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8
Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8 REP EPO Sa RESO EES Sth, (CHART CHANGE) OUR MISSION STATEMENT REQUIRES US TO TRAIN PERSONNEL TO PERFORM REMOTE VIEWING. TRAINING ACTUALLY BEGAN IN 1979, WITH OUR IN-HOUSE EFFORT TO INTRODUCE SELECTED INSCOM PERSONNEL TO THE REMOTE VIEWING PROCESS. DURING 1979, WE INTEGRATED THE SRI CONTRACTED ORIENTATION TRAINING TECHNOLOGY INTO OUR IN-HOUSE TRAINING PROGRAM WHERE IT IS STILL IN USE TODAY FOR NEW PERSONNEL. OUR IN-HOUSE TRAINING DEVELOPED FROM THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF STATE-OF-THE-ART PSYCHOENERGETIC TECHNOLOGY DRAWN FROM ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS, SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES, AND RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENTS AROUND THE WORLD. WE TOOK AN ECLECTIC APPROACH; USING THOSE METHODS WHICH HAD APPLICATIONS POTENTIAL TO OUR OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS. IN-HOUSE TRAINING IS COMPOSED OF PRACTICAL EXERCISES, LECTURES. LITERATURE REVIEW, AND OBSERVATION OF OTHERS. BY THE END OF 1980, WE BEGAN AN ADVANCED TRAINING PROGRAM USING THE HEMISPHERIC SYNCHRONIZATION CHEMI-SYNC) PROCESS DEVELOPED BY ROBERT A. MONROE AND USED AT THE MONROE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE IN VIRGINIA. THIS TRAINING ENABLES SOURCE PERSONNEL (RVERS) TO ACHIEVE STATES CONDUCIVE TO PSYCHOENERGETIC AWARENESS. THIS ADVANCED TRAINING IS BEING FURTHER REFINED AND CONTINUES TO BE USED TODAY. IN MID 1982, WE BEGAN A NEW TRAINING PROGRAM IN COORDINATE REMOTE VIEWING WITH SRI. THIS 4 Approved For Release 2004/08/16 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8