| REI JUN 25 WJZ we Approved For Release 200 : =-RDP96-00788R001100290003-7 De T AM LTC JACHIM, PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE INSCOM PORTION OF DOD PROJECT GRILL FLAVE, | THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH BACKGROUND INFORMATION CONCERNING INSCOM’S INVOLVEMENT IN PROJECT GRILL FLAME. THIS BRIEFING IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR PORTIONS, FIRST, THE HISTORY OF INSCOM’S INVOLVEMENT AND THE ROLES OF DIA AND INSCOM IN THE PROJECT, NEXT. A DISCUSSION OF REMOTE VIEWING AND EXAYPLES OF COMPLETED PROJECTS FOR WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED THE REQUESTOR’S EVALUATION. AND, FINALLY, A REVIEW OF THOSE PROJECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BUT NOT EVALUATED, FIRST THE HISTORY OF INSCOM’S INVOLVEMENT, IN THE FALL OF 1978, ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO DETERMINE IF PARAPSYCHOLOGY COULD BE USED TO COLLECT INTELLIGENCE. FOR OUR PURPOSES PARAPSYCHOLOGY IS DEFINED IN TWO MAJOR CATEGORIES: tin. * FIRST, PHYSICAL ACTIONS PERFORMED BY MENTAL POWERS THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY KNOWN PHYSICAL MEANS, ) THIS IS KNOWN AS TELEKENESIS OR PHYCHOKENISIS, AND “f SECOND, PERCEPTIONS WHICH CANNOT BE EXPLAINED THROUGH KNOWN SENSORY MEANS.) THIS IS KNOWN AS ESP, TELEPATHY AND REMOTE VIEWING, SPECIFICALLY, INSCOM’S TASKING WAS TO DETERMINE ‘IE REMOTE WVIEWING COULD BE USED AS A COLLECTION METHOD, REMOTE VIEWING 1S DEFINED,AS THE ABILITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL,TO ACCESS INFORMATION PREVIOUSLY _UNKNOMN, WITHOUT REGARD TO TIME. LOCATION, OR ANY ATTEPT TO HIDE THE TARGET FROM A COLLECTOR, = = % EXADIN | : CRAIN, OF TO MEET ACSI’S TASKING INSCOM ESTABLISHED A PROJECT TEAM UNDER COMMAND THE ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. THE CRITERIA DEVELOPED TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING WOULD BE A VIABLE COLLECTION METHOD WAS AS FOLLOWS: WORKING PAPER Ny cl 2. GRILL FLAME... sooo dhe AE donc. corsoro 100290003-7
wae Approved For Release 500 OU! - p9s-co7ssr001 1002900039" N 2 3 i FIRST, COULD REMOTE VIEWING BE LEARNED? NEXT COULD REMOTE BHDE VIEWING BE APPLIED AS A COLLECTION METHOD? AND, FINALLY, COULD REMOTE VIEWING RESPOND TO COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS IN FIRSTA COULD REMOTE VIEWING BE LEARNED:) SRI_INTERNATIONAL, AN ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER IN THE FIELD OF PARANORMAL RESEARCH, —.\ eess-:) \WHICH.IS' LOCATED IN MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIARELIED UPON > ESTABLISHED PHYCHICS, WHO USED THEIR INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES TO REMOTE VIEW. — INSCOM, USING THE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS COMPILED BY SRI DURING THEIR WORK WITH THESE PHYCHICS, SCREENED APPROXIMATELY 250 INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL WITHIN THE BALTIMORE/WEHINGTON AREA, LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS, (BASED ON SRI OBSERVATIONS. SUCCESSFUL REMOTE VIEWERS TEND TO BE CONFIDENT. OUTGOING. ADVENTUROUS, BROADLY SUCCESSFUL INDIVIDUALS WITH SOME ARTISTIC BENT. ) WE GLEANED MUCH OF THIS INFORMATION FROM COMMANDERS AND SUPERVISORS, WE THEN CONDUCTED OVER 100 INDIVIDUAL | INTERVIENS. AFTER A’ SERIES OF- SCREENINGS AND INTERVIENS, NINE PEOPLE WERE SELECTED, THEY WERE A MIXTURE OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN, OFFICERS AND ENLISTED. MEN AND WOMEN, AFTER ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS WITH THE SRI SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN PHYCHIC RESEARCH, SIX WERE SELECTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA FOR TWO WEEKS OF ACTUAL TRAINING, UPON THEIR RETURN TO FORT MEADE THEY CONTINUED IN AN IN-HOUSE TRAINING PROGRAM MODELED AFTER THE SRI TRAINING PHASE. TO DETERMINE HOW LONG THIS TRAINING SHOULD LAST, SINCE NO ONE HAD ATTEYPTED TO TRAIN PHYCHICS, GUIDANCE WAS AGAIN SOUGHT FROM SRI, BASED UPON THEIR JUDGENT AN 18 TO 24 MONTH TRAINING CYCLE WAS ESTABLISHED, MILESTONES DURING THIS FIRST PERIOD WERE: THE FALL OF 1978 THROUGH FEBRUARY 1979 - PERSONNEL WERE LOCATED: FROM FEBRUARY 1979 THROUGH DECEMBER 1979 - INITIAL TRAINING AT SRI IN CALIFORNIA AND FORT MEADE WAS UNDERTAKEN, INSCOM’S EJRST TRAINING SESSION WAS CONDUCTED ON 28 FEBRUARY 1979, GRILL FLAME SECREI.. WORKING PAPER Approved For Release 2003/0 96-00788R001100290003-7
. | WUN 23 1982 Approved For Release 2003/09/79 6-00788R001100290003- AFTER THE PERSONNEL WERE LOCATED AND TRAINING HAD BEGUN, THE NEXT QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED APPLIED TO THE SECOND AND THIRD CRITERIA CONCERNING OPERATIONS. THAT IS, COULD REMOTE VIEWING BE APPLIED AS A COLLECTION METHOD? IF SO, WOULD THE INFORMATION BE OF REASONABLE ACCURACY AND ACCEPTED AND USED BY THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST WHO RECEIVE THE PRODUCT, FINALLY. COULD REMOTE VIEWING RESPOND TO COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS INA TIMELY MANNER? WORK TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS WAS OVERCOME BY EVENTS, IN SEPTEMBER 1979, ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO LOCATE A MISSING NAW AIRCRAFT, THE ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED WAS A PICTURE OF THE TYPE AIRCRAFT MISSING AND THE ARES OF THE CREW, WHERE THE AIRCRAFT WAS OPERATING WAS NOT DISCLOSED, . ON 4 SEPTEMBER ) 1979, THE FIRST OPERATIONAL REMOTE VIEWING SESSION TOOK PLACE, IN THIS INITIAL SESSION, THE REMOTE VIEWER PLACED THE AIRCRAFT TO WITHIN 15 MILES OF WHERE IT WAS ACTUALLY LOCATED. — BASED ON THESE RESULTS, INSCOM WAS TASKED TO WORK AGAINST ADDITIONAL ‘OPERATIONAL TARGETS, THESE TASKINGS FORCED A PREMATURE HALT TO THE INITIAL TRAINING PHASE, PIN DECEMBER 197% EGER 1979, THE PROJECT WAS COMMITTED TO OPERATIONS, PAL Le | NEXT LD Live TS TOUCH OW THe _ ces oes. 7 7 DIFFERENT ROLES OF DIA AND INSCO! SINCE THERE. APPEARS TO HAVE. BEEN SOFE BLURRING OF THESE DISTINCTIONS IN THE PAST. DIA IS CONCERNED WITH; e _ ASSESSING THE THREAT, PRINCIPALLY FROM THE SOVIET UNION AND CHINA, @ ‘DETERMINING COUNTERMEASURES TO ANY U.S. VLIERIBILITIES, @ AND, DETERMINING THE POTENTIAL OF REMOTE VIEWING USING ESTABLISHED PSYCHICS, DIA PERFORMS THIS FUNCTION PRIMARILY THROUGH CONTRACTS AT SRI. suUude GRILL FLAME SECRET WORKING PAPER Approved For Release 2088: RDP96- 00788R001100290003-7
SECRET. JUN 23 1982 Approved For Release 200 we DP96-00788R001100290003- 4s 7 INSCOM IS APPLYING REIUTE VIEWING 1 TQ ASSIST IN TTS EVALUATION AS A COLLECTION METHOD, ° AND*TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING CAN BE LEARNED BY PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL WHO ARE NOT_ESTABLISHED PSYCHICS, QUR REMOTE VIEWING COLLECTION IS DONE WITH ASSIGNED PERSONNEL» AND WE CONTRACT ONLY FOR SPECIFIC ITEMS WHICH ENHANCE OUR COLECTION. FOR EXAMPLE: —@ WHICH TARGETING METHODS HAVE THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS, | @ CAN THE ACCURACY OF A REMOTE VIEWER BE DETERMINED FROM AN ANALYSIS OF HIS STATEMENTS? @ CAN THE SRI NEW TRAINING TECHNIQUE INCREASE THE QUALITY AND RELIABILITY OF COLLECTION: [ Pause | THIS COMPLETES THE BACKGROUND PORTION OF THE BRIEFING, GRILLFLAME | SECRET. WORKING PAPER Approved For Release 20 Saectileneaeiineatinnssaee = RDP96- 00788R001100290003-7 Bla AABO Nt te sande oat ela Orbe aaa ectatte +2
SLIDE SLIDE INCL © Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001100290003-7 Jl N y) 3 i THE ACTIONS WE HAVE BEGUN 10. ie aROVE.QUR PROD Roan NG. RECRULTNENT, AND IN covowTi COULD BE CEE. "A, HE me) HIS 108 SALUATE PRODUCT, IN SUMMARY: THE COLLECTION OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH REMOTE VIEWING HAS DEMONSTRATED ITS VALUE, REMOTE VIEWING TS WORcAR EXPERIMENT, IT IS A @G6GESSFRR BRL ECTION- METHOD, © THE PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS WHO ASSIGN US PROLECTS, EVALUATE US BY THE INTELLIGENCE We PRODUCE, REMOTE VIEWING SHOULD NEM STAND ALONE, BUT SHOULD BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH INFORMATION FROM OTHER INTELLIGENCE SOURCES, ARMY REMOTE VIEWING 1S NOT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPVENT, IT 1S wiRATZONA: @PRLECTION® REMOTE VIEWING IS RASSIVE. INEXPENSIVE, THERG#SS-NO BerENSs AND THERE TS SORES OF COLLECTION COMPROMISE, THIS CONCLUDES THE BRIEFING, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001100290003-7