Approved For Release ONSECRET Table 2, Continued (S/NF) KNOWN ELEMENTS IN REMOTE VIEWING ® Accuracy and reliability--Analysis of remote viewing transcripts generated by experienced subjects indicates that on a given target site roughly two-thirds of the subject’s generated material constitutes an accurate description of the site while about one-third is ambiguous, general, or incorrect. ® Repeatability of phenomena--Continuing demonstrations in this program, and replications in other laboratories, indicate that the capability known as “remote viewing" is a repeatable human perceptual ability. © Distribution of psychoenergetic capacity in the population--Abilities appear widespread although latent; volunteers with no previous history of psychoenergetic functioning exhibit ability in screening experiments, indicating that reliance on the availability of special subjects may not be necessary. Unknown, however, are the percentage of population trainable or with natural talent, the optimum screening procedures, and the medical or psychological profiles of good subjects. ® Threat potential--Remote viewing, through the use of geographical coordinates as designators, has in many cases provided meaningful descriptions of East-Bloc military facilities designated as targets by the sponsor. Evaluation by appropriate intelligence community specialists indicates that a subject is able by this process to generate useful data corroborated by other intelligence data. As is generally true with human sources, the information is fragmentary and imperfect, and is therefore best utilized in conjunction with these other resources; nonetheless, the data generated by this process appear to exceed any reasonable bounds of chance correlation or acquisition by ordinary means, and therefore constitute a potentially exploitable information source. 22 Approved For Release roo0108te GREET -26-00789R002200440001-9
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 _: CJIA-RDP96-00789R002200440001-9 SECRET (C) As a beginning to researching the many variables that could affect the quality of data obtained by remote viewing, the role of feedback was examined. Its role ina learning task is well known, so it is a natural element to test. There is an added complication, however ,when the role of feedback in remote viewing is examined. That is, some researchers claim that a remote viewing subject obtains all his information precognitively from the feedback. Table 3 (U) REWARDING RV APPLICATIONS SEARCH ® Finding lost objects @ Tracking REMOTE VIEWING @ Description of geographical feature e Access to targets obscured to other intelligence collection techniques e Descriptions of buildings, weapons, etc. ® Descriptions of the inside of buildings, laboratories, weapons storage, or housing ® Information that indicates the function of a site UNCLASSIFIED (C) In these feedback experiments two subjects were initially tested in 13 trials. All those with feedback were successful and those where no feedback was provided were not successful. To eliminate the psychological difficulties of the "no feedback mode" a series of experiments were performed where feedback was provided on a random basis. From the results of these experiments, the SRI researchers conclude that, SGI1A "while it appears that feedback may be an extremely important psychological factor and may have some substantive role, it is not absolutely essential for successful remote viewing." 23 Approved For Release 2ooo/she Ch Rbbpe6-00789R002200440001-9
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