Approved For Release 2000/QB PE FEPAIRDPI6-00789R002200440001-9 Table 8 (S/NF) FY 1984 TASKS AND SPENDING SPENDING (in $K) RV Enhancement $ 85K Alternative Training $ 85K Targeting $ 25K Psychokinesis $150K Data Base Management $ 25K RV Evaluation Methodology $ 5OK Operational RV $ 10K Training (Advanced) $126K Selection and Screening $115K ELF Search RV SECRET/NF B. (U) FY 1985 (S/NF) During FY 1985, research on tasks initiated in FY 1984 was continued and many of the final FY 1984 reports were completed. The major item for FY 1985 was to develop a contract and statement of work fora major and well—-financed five-year program to begin in FY 1986. The funding is from the R&D community and, therefore not restricted by the U.S. Congress prohibition on NFIB funds. The level of funding and the multi-year commitment has the potential to accomplish what previous under funded one-year efforts could not. One important facet of the program begun in FY 1985 was that some of the fundamental aspects of the RV and PK phenomena could be investigated without regard to a specific application. However, the sponsor also assured the intelligence community that those aspects of the phenomena that are important to the intelligence applications would continue, as would elements begun earlier but not completed. So, for the first time since 1972 it appeared that a program had been developed that was secure and would produce major advances in psychoenergetics research. 53 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200440001-9
Approved For Release 2000/@P PE FO FRDPI6-00789R002200440001-9 SECTION 7. THE FIVE YEAR PROGRAM (U) (S/NF) In FY 1986, a five-year psychoenergetics research program was launched at SRI using Army Medical Department R&D funds, Although the Army currently provides all the funds, the effort, from the outset, included the needs of the intelligence community. In addition, research and development on medical and biological aspects of psychoenergetics was initiated. The Five-Year Program has three major objectives: e Document that psychoenergetic phenomena are real and reproducible. e Determine the mechanism underlying psychoenergetic phenomena. e Bring psychoenergetics into the mainstream of human performance research. (U) The categories of research interest form a hierarchy ranging from basic research on fundamental mechanisms to methodologies for applications. These include: e Identify explanatory mechanisms (e.g., electromagnetic _—_ effects, neurophysiological mechanisms). e Specify phenomenological properties (e.g., effects of distance and shielding). e@ Determining physical, physiological and psychological correlates (e.g., geophysical environment, EEG and GSE measures). © Develop optimal strategies for use in applications (e.g., statistical averaging). A. (U) The First Year--FY 1986 (S/NF) Technical reports for each of the research areas investigated are available. Advances in several technical areas were made during this fiscal year. Much of the work was follow-on efforts to research begun in past fiscal years. In addition some new topics were also investigated. 54 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200440001-9