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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
SUBJECT:
GRILL FLAME Program
- ACTION MEMORANDUM
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(S)
The Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA)
proposes contracting for tests of
a
procedure known
as
remote viewing.
This procedure
is
an
intellectual
endeavor
by which
a person
is asked
to mentally perceive characteristics of
a remote
location.
For example,
an
individual
would
be provided with map coordinates and
asked to locate,
identify or describe targets within the coordinates.
Remote
viewing does not involve any electronic sensing devices at or focused at the
target site nor interpretation of photographs obtained from overhead or oblique
means.
No special
equipment or environment
is required for the testing and
individuals tested will
not be given drugs or other stimuli.
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(S)
Approval
by the Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Defense of DIA participa-
tion
in the foregoing proposal would
be required by Procedure
if the tests
undertaken as part of the contract or extensions of the contract or later con-
tracts pursuant to the MOU,
"may expose an
individual
to
the possibility of
<
injury
(including physical,
psychological, or social
injury)
that increases
the
ordinary risks of daily life for the subject... or that temporarily adversely
affects
a person's mental
or physical
condition."
The DoD General
Counsel
has
agreed that Procedure
18 of DoD Directive 5240. 1R will
be applicable
to this
contract
(see enclosures)
so that approval
of the Secretary or Deputy Secretary
of Defense
is required.
(S)
This contract
is
a joint service
(DIA and Army)
effort known as GRILL FLAME
to determine the operational
parameters and usefulness of the phenomenon of
psychoenergetics.
This
term,
psychoenergetics,
includes
both
the programs discussed
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below.
The total
program would be jointly funded by DIA and Army.
This program
will
include contracting for tests
to examine remote viewing
(clairvoyance)
and
psychokinetics
(remote perturbation).
Psychokinetics
is the ability to move
inanimate objects from
a distance; many examples can
be hypothesized.
(S)
The proposal merits your approval
in order to assess the practicality
in
applying paranormal
functions
to military and intelligence goals.
Further*
the
research would determine
if functions
can
be utilized by intelligence analysts
to enhance their grasp,
understanding and knowledge of areas of military interest
through application of psychoenergetic techniques
to military targets.
Most
importantly,
it would permit the Intelligence Community to assess
the threat
such phenomena might pose
to the national
security and means
by which non-friendly
applications could be sensed and negated.
Enclosures:
DoD GC Memorandum for
GC DIA,
17 Nov 81,
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(S)
DoA Memorandum for GC
DoD,
28 Oct
,
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"DoD Intelligence components may not engage
in or contract for
experimentation on human subjects without approval
of the
Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Defense,
or the Secretary or
Under Secretary of the Military Department."
Experimentation
is defined under this Procedure
to
include the following:
" Experimentation
in
this context means
a research,
development,
or
related activity that may expose an individual
to
the possibility
or injury
(including physical,
psychological, or social
injury)
that increases the ordinary risks of daily life for the subject
(including
the
recogni-zed risks
inherent
in
a chosen occupation
or field of service),
or that temporarily adversely affects
a
person's mental
or physical
condition."
The above procedure
is
an
implementation of Section 2-302 of
E.O.
12036.
It
is
the collective view of the lawyers from
DIA,
DoD,
and Army that approval
should
be sought prior to conducting this
investigative review by contract.
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RECOMMENDATION :
Recommend you sign
the facing memorandum.
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