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Since you will be keeping track of
program,
I thought
I
would
send you copies
of a series of memos
on my ideas about
the program.
Enclosed
is
the
first batch.
With best regards,
r
H.
E.
Puthoff,
Ph.T).
Senior Research Engineer
Radio Physics Laboratory
HEP: dlt
Enc.
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FROM:
H #
E.
Puthoff
SUBJECT:
R&D Aspects
of Psychoenergetics Program
(U)
date:
10 March 197#
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CC:
With regard
to the mix of R&D versus operational
or semi-operational
efforts,
I wish
to enter
the following comments on the record.
The temptation,
having seen good remote viewing,
is
to blitz through
a series
of targets and assess
the ability on that basis.
However,
I
would
opt against
such a procedure
in favor of an alternative approach
for
the
following reason.
Basically,
we are
in the position analogous
to an individual who might naively pack uranium ores
into bomb
shapes
and
find
that
some percentage of them achieve criticality and detonate,
while others
do not.
For him the temptation might be
to make a
lot
of them to determine the success rate and then assume that he can
count on that percentage.
However,
a better approach
for
the
long
run
is
to step back,
carry out R&D on the various
factors
involved
so
that understanding and control can be achieved,
and then proceed with
manufacture of a high-reliability product.
Similarly
for
our
field,
I think
it
is better
to pull back from
applications and place
the emphasis
on R&D at
this point,
if we truly
wish to develop
a program to determine the exploitation potential of
this
field.
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TO:
FROM:
H.
E.
Puthoff
faff
subject:
Psychoenergetics Program Policy &)
'MEMO
date:
7 March 1978
LOCATION: 44
SG1J
Hi
Since we have established
in our research
that good
feedback to
the data source
(subject)
is necessary
for maintaining
a high quality
product,
it
is
important
that we provide as much
feedback as
possible;
this
is what provides continuing correction to the subject
to aid
in
improvement of the remote viewing skills.
With regard
to our recent
effort,
since
the visual
feedback
is
classified beyond
the subject's clearance
level
(which
is only SECRET),
I would
like
to request
that we make an effort
to obtain something
at,
the SECRET level
for
feedback to
the subject
(U-2? artist's rendering
as we did
for earlier Price work?).
For
the
long haul,
I think we should consider SI/SAO
for
the
subjects working on the more sensitive projects
if we are serious about
obtaining good results.
In the absence
of good
feedback,
subjects'
abilities extinguish
(the Decline Effect,
one of the best-validated
characteristics of psychoenergetic
functioning).
We don't yet know
whether
this
is due
to psychological
factors
only,
or whether
it pre-
vents stabilization of some mechanism
in a substantive way
(like
learning
to ride a bicycle without kinesthetic
feedback).
In any
case,
lack of visual
feedback to a subject doing remote viewing
is
definitely established
to be a known handicap.
Presumably with proper control we can still assure ourselves
that
a cleared subject has not had access
to data on a given site before
remote viewing takes
place.
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