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The
US
Army's
interest
in
psychoenergetics
goes
back
to
1972,
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
psychokenesis
.
SRI
developed
a
small
program
for
them
and
in
August
1977,
MIA
awarded
SRI
an
$80K
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
all
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.
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
(OPSEC)
support scenario.
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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
INSCOM
to
establish
a
program
using
psychoenergetics
for
intelligence
applications
utilising
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£D 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
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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."
INSCOM
participated
in
this
joint
services
effort
until
the
end
of
FY
when
the
budget
subcommittee
of
the
Senate
Select
Committee
on
Intelligence
(Senator
Wallop)
curtailed
all
psychoenergetic
operational
activities
conducted
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)
monies.
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.
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