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IC STAFF BRIEFING
10 January 1985
In
fall 1977/
the
U.S.
Army
Intelligence
and
Security
Command
(INSCOM)
SAW
THE
NEED
TO
EXPLORE
THE
POTENTIAL
OF
INTELLIGENCE
COLLECTION
USING THE
THEN
NEWLY
EMERGING PSYCHOENERGETICS
TECHNOLOGY
OF
REMOTE
VIEWING.
THE
ORIGINAL
CONCEPT
WAS
TO
DETERMINE
THE
OPERATIONAL
SECURITY
(OPSEC)
THREAT
TO
U.S.
DEFENSE
INTERESTS
BY
MIMICKING
POSSIBLE
HOSTILE
INTELLIGENCE
CAPABILITIES/
DIRECTING
THESE
AGAINST
SENSITIVE
U.S.
MILITARY
TARGETS/
AND
EVALUATING
THE
RESULTS.
IT SOON
BECAME APPARENT
THAT
PSYCHOENERGETICS
PROMISED
FAR
WIDER APPLICATIONS THAN
JUST
IN THE REALM OF
OPSEC.
IN
FALL
1978 THE
PROGRAM
EMERGED
FROM
AN
OPSEC
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
PROGRAM
TO
A
H UN I NT
COLLECTION
ACTIVITY
UNDER
THE
SUPERVISION
OF
THE
ASSISTANT
Deputy
Chief
of
Staff
for
Operations--HUMINT
(ADCSOPS-HUMINT)
at
I NSCON
and
the
HUMINT
Staff
of
the
Assistant
Chief
of
Staff
for
INTELLIGENCE/
DEPARTMENT OF
THE
ARMY
(ACSI
DA)
HUMINT
STAFF.
THERE
IT
MOVED
THROUGH
AN
EVALUATION
PHASE
INTO
AN
"OPERATIONS
AND
TRAINING"
MODE,
WITH
THE
OBJECTIVE
OF
TRAINING
PROFESSIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
PERSONNEL
TO
CONDUCT
PSYCHOENERGET IC
INTELLIGENCE
COLLECTION
OPERATIONS.
FOLLOWING
IS
AN
EXAMPLE
OF
THE
TYPE
AND
QUALITY
OF MATERIAL THAT WAS
PRODUCED DURING THE
EVALUATION
PHASE
OF
THE
PROGRAM.
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In
July 1979
an
interviewer
and
a
source
closed
themselves
in
A QUIET
ROOM
TO
CONDUCT
A
REMOTE
VIEWING
SESSION.
A
THIRD
INDIVIDUAL/
REFERED
TO
AS
A
BEACON/
LEFT THE
AREA
AND WENT
TO
A
SITE
UNKNOWN
TO
EITHER
THE
INTERVIEWER
OR
THE
SOURCE.
Thirty
minutes
later,
the
interviewer
asked
the
source
to
DESCRIBE WHAT HE PERCEIVED ABOUT THE BEACON'S LOCATION.
(SLIDE ON)
The
TRAINEE
BEGAN
BY
SAYING,
"THE
FIRST
IMPRESSION
I
GET
IS
A
REVOLVING
LIGHT
PATTERN.
ITS
MOVING
IN
A
CLOCKWISE
DIRECTION.
I
DON'T
KNOW
IF
I'M WATCHING
SOMETHING
MOVE,
BUT
PERHAPS,
PERHAPS,
I'M MOVING OR
(THE
BEACON)
IS
MOVING."
THE
SOURCE WENT
ON
TO
SAY,
"I
HAVE
A
FEELING THAT
THERE
ARE TREES
AROUND
HIM."
.
.
.
"ITS
SOME
TYPE
OF
PARK,
OR
RECREATION
AREA;
I
FEEL
IT'S
OUT DOORS."
After
the
source
finished
his
verbal
description
of
the
DESIGNATED
TARGET
AREA
AND
SKETCHED
HIS
PERCEPTIONS,
HE
AND
THE
INTERVIEWER AWAITED THE RETURN OF
THE
"BEACON".
(SLIDE OFF)
On
THIS
DAY THE
"BEACON"
HAD CHOSEN
TO
JOG
AROUND
A
TRACK
AT
THE TIME OF THE
SESSION.
(SLIDE ON)
.
.
. PAUSE ....
(SLIDE OFF)
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Because
of
the
quality
and
replicability
of
these
results,
OPERATIONAL
TRAINING
WAS
EXPANDED,
AND
IN
1979,
SEVEN
SEPARATE
COLLECTION
PROJECTS
WERE
CONDUCTED,
IN
SUPPORT
OF
THE
NATIONAL
Security
Council,
the
Joint
Chiefs
of
Staff,
and
Army
intelligence
COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS.
AS
OUR
EXPERIENCE
FACTOR
INCREASED,
AND
THE
REMOTE
VIEWING
TECHNIQUE
EVOLVED
FURTHER,
IT
BECAME
POSSIBLE
FOR
US
NOT
ONLY
TO
EXPLORE
MORE
DIVERSE
AND WIDER
APPLICATIONS
FOR
THE
TECHNOLOGY,
BUT
TO
EXPAND
OUR
COLLECTION
CAPABILITIES.
IN
1980,
THE
CIA
BECAME
A'
REGULAR
CUSTOMER,
AND
IN
SUPPORTING
THAT
AGENCY
AS
WELL
AS
OUR
0S
PREVIOUS
S UBSCRIBERS,
SEPARATE
COLLECTION
PROJECTS
WERE
A
CONDUCTED.
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In
1982/
the
National
Security
Agency
began
to
see
the
value
of
REMOTE
VIEWING
TO
OBTAIN
INTELLIGENCE
INFORMATION
IN
ASSESSING
THE
FOREIGN
THREAT
TO
U.S.
COMMUNICATIONS
SECURITY/
AND
TASKED
THE
INSCOM
PSYCHOENERGETIC
PROGRAM
TO
COLLECT
INTELLIGENCE
INFORMATION.
During
the
year,
eleven
separate
collection
projects
were
UNDERTAKEN.
AS 1982 ENDED,
PROGRAM DIRECTION CHANGED.
After
several
years
of
experience
conducting
hundreds
of
PSYCHOENERGETIC COLLECTION
OPERATIONS,
IT WAS
NOW
POSSIBLE
TO
DEFINE
BOTH
THE
CAPABILITIES
AND
LIMITATIONS
OF
THE
TECHNOLOGY
AND
THE
FUTURE
ROLE
REMOTE
VIEWING
SHOULD
PLAY
IN
SERVING
THE
REQUIREMENTS
OF
THE
U.S.
INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.
BASED
ON
THE
KNOWLEDGE
GAINED
THROUGH
YEARS
OF
OPERATIONAL
EXPERIENCE,
A
REVOLUTIONARY,
EVOLVING,
STATE
OF
THE
ART
PSYCHOENERGETIC
TRAINING
PROGRAM
KNOWN
AS
COORDINATE
REMOTE
VIEWING
(CRV)
WAS
INITIATED
TO
INSURE
THE
RESPONSIVENESS
OF
SOURCE
CAPABILITIES
TO
IDENTIFIED
NEEDS
OF
THE
INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.
BECAUSE
OF
THE
SENSITIVITY
OF
THE
EMERGING
TECHNOLOGY
AND
ITS
INTELLIGENCE
APPLICATIONS,
THE
SECRETARY
OF
THE
Army designated the
INSCOM
psychoenergetics
program
a
Special
Access
Program
(SAP)
and we became
known as
CENTER
LANE.
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During
1983/
we
conducted
15 collection
projects.
As
we
began
to
RECOGNIZE THAT COLLECTION CAPABILITIES
HAD
EVOLVED TO
THE
POINT
THAT
REMOTE VIEWING COULD
BE USED
TO EXPLOIT
EVEN MORE
TECHNICAL
TARGETS,
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Throughout
the
entire
life
of
the
program,
DIA
and
INSCOM
have
ENJOYED
A
SYMBIOTIC
RELATIONSHIP.
FOR
YEARS
A
FORMAL
CONNECTION
EXISTED
UNDER
PROJECT
GRILL
FLAME.
AFTER
POCIX-ICAL CONS IP E-R-ArF-I-ONS
FORCED
A
SEPARATION
OF
THE
TWO
EFFORTS
IN
FALL
1982,
INSCOM
CONTINUED TRAINING AND OPERATIONS,
WHILE
DIA PURSUED RESEARCH AND
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DEVELOPMENT.
STRONG
RECIPROCAL
BENEFITS
RESULTED,
WITH
DIA
SPONSORED
R&D
PRODUCING
DRAMATIC
REFINEMENTS
IN
TECHNOLOGY
AND
SCIENTIFIC
THEORY,
WHILE
ARMY
INTELLIGENCE
OPERATIONS
IN
TURN
VALIDATED
R&D
RESULTS
AND
IDENTIFIED
FURTHER
AVENUES
AND
POSSIBILITIES
FOR
DEVELOPMENT.
THE
FOLLOWING
EXAMPLES
ILLUSTRATE
SOURCE
CAPABILITIES
RECENTLY
DEVELOPED
AS
A
RESULT
OF
THE
NEW
TRAINING
PROGRAM.
From
a geographic coordinate
alone,
one
of our
source
trainees
CORRECTLY
IDENTIFIED THE
ST
.
LOUIS
ARCH
.
FOR
HIM,
SUCH
A
TASK
HAD BECOME RELATIVELY ROUTINE
.
AT THIS
POINT,
HOWEVER,
HE WAS
DIRECTED
TO
DESCRIBE
WHAT
WAS
LOCATED
14.8
KILOMETERS
SOUTHWEST
OF
THE
ARCH
.
HE
IDENTIFIED
A
BUILDING
AT
THIS
LOCATION
AND
PRODUCED
THE
FOLLOWING
SUMMARY
OF
SITE
INFORMATION
WITHOUT
BEING
PROVIDED
ANY
FURTHER
DATA
BY
THE
INTERVIEWER.
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"The
building
14.8
km
SW
of
the
St.
Louis
Arch
has
a
SOMBER,
QUIET,
OFFICIAL
FEEL.
PEOPLE
GO
TO
THIS
PLACE
WITH
A
COMMON
PURPOSE;
TO
SEEK
KNOWLEDGE.
THEY
ARE
INTERESTED
AND
CURIOUS
ABOUT
THE
BUILDING
AND
ITS
HISTORY.
THE
HISTORY
OF
THIS
BUILDING
DEALS
WITH
OLD
(SLJO g)
colonial
America.
The
building
is
located
on
flat
land,
LIKE
A
FARM AND
HAS
SOMETHING
TO
DO WITH
A MAN.
THIS
MAN
(DEAD NOW) WORE
A UNIFORM AND WAS
A HISTORICAL MILITARY