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LIST OF ATTENDEES
0900-0945
Briefing
MG Roly a,
CG, INSCOM
BG Freeze,
DCG-I,
INSCOM
COL Wilmot
,
DCSOPS
,
INSCOM
COL Hamel,
ADCSOPS-HUMINT,
INSCOM
MAJ Watt,
GRILL FLAME Project Manager,
INSCOM
1245-1400
Briefing
Honorable Walter
B.
LaBerge
,
Under Secretary
of the Army
MG Thompson,
ACSI
MG Rolya,
CG,
INSCOM
COL Hamel,
ADCSOPS-HUMINT,
INSCOM
COL Gibson,
XO,
Under Secretary of the Army
MAJ Watt,
GRILL FLAME Project Manager,
INSCOM
MAJ Stoner,
Project Officer,
OAC-SI
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DR.
LA BERGE UPDATE
1.
INTRODUCTION:
Two working assumptions
(1)
Everyone has psychic ability
(2)
INSCOM not involved
in R&D/ experimental research
HA
ft
2.
PROJECT OFFICER'S TRAINING/ ORIENTATI ON
Two trips
to
SRI
(1)
Initial orientation
(15-17 Nov)
(a)
Meet
SRI personnel
(b)
Establish training outline
(c)
Initial planning on selection procedures
(d)
One RV session
(2)
Training
- Project Manager
(week of
12 Dec)
(a)
Review of
SRI material
(b)
Review of
SRI
tapes
(c)
Screening procedures,
including questionnaire
(d)
Judging procedures
(e)
Interpersonal relationships
3.
MEETINGS WITH AMSAA PERSONNEL:
a.
Monthly meetings
scheduled.
b.
Cover progress— areas being explored,
new techniques.
c.
Exchange of literature.
d.
Development
of Protocol.
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4.
SELECTION PROCESS:
Considered
251
Interviewed
117
(1 refused to discuss
topic;
3 opposed
- religious
grounds)
Favorable
94%
Possessed potential
30-35
Narrowed to
SRI
interview
SRI
request
to
''revise"
contract.
So what we have
is
of
to
SRI
3 will
then be selected for additional training.
5.
INITIAL IN-HOUSE TRAINING:
Two sessions
Evaluation
.
Something happened
.
Need to continue training
.
Helps overcome anxieties
.
Concept has been accepted
.
All anxious
to have program started
6.
FUTURE GOALS:
Continue in-house training
Send selected individuals
to SRI
Apply REMOTE VIEWING techniques
to
"live problems"
Determine tasking procedures
Align resources properly
These
last
two phases will be entirely dependent on the
results of the
first three listed goals.
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
:
We have been tasked by the DCSOPS
,
INSCOM to conduct
a survey of
INSCOM personnel concerning the subject
of parapsychology.
.
. .whether personnel
feel
it
is
real,
fake,
or just
a phenomena that
is not
clearly
understood.
I
I would like
to keep
this very
informal.
Do you have
any objections?
Because of
knowtf Soviet
involvement
in psychical research
and the fact
that
any
U.S.
involvement
in this area
would,
of necessity,
be classified,
I
have been
instruct-
ed to inform you that our discussion must be considered
to be classified
at
the SECRET NOFORN level.
You are
not
to discuss
the subject matter of this interview with
anyone.
Before getting into the discussion,
I would like you to
read the following article(s): ....
Now,
1.
What
do you think of the story?
2.
What
do you think about psychic phenomena and
people associated with
it?
3.
Do you know anyone,
including yourself,
that might
have had an ESP experience?
Can you tell me about
it?
Optional)
4.
Do you feel
this
is
an aspect of society that
is
not
clearly defined and that research should continue
to clear up associated mysteries?
General
5.
If used,
should psychic power be
limited to
Public)
humanitarian needs or ...
.
should the military be
involved?
Religious overtones.
NOTE:
Recommend very informal
close.
Use the above
questions
as guidelines
to direct
interview/
'feurvey."
Each interview should take approximately
30 minutes.
Remind individual
of SECRET NOFORN
classification
Atwater)
Watt
)
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« Approved For Release 2 788R002000240040-1 (3) REMOTE VIEWING SESSION During the 30 - 60 minutes prior to the agreed-upon start: time of a session, the interviewer offers some encouragement to the remote viewer in the manner of a coach giving a pep talk to his team. During the 15 minutes immediately before the session, the remote viewer and interviewer are generally silent. Experience has shown (unpublished data) that this "quiet time" enhances the RV process. During the 15 minutes the remote viewer and the inter- viewer function as a team. The interviewer provides encouragement with words of reassurance that the task is in fact possible. At no time is the session conducted by the remote viewer in the absence of all other persons. If the remote viewer does not have any immediate sensory images, the interviewer applies no pressure; rather, the interviewer reassures the remote viewer that they have all the time in the world. When the remote viewer has an image, experience suggests (unpublished data) that the remote viewer often intellectually transports himself or herself to the remote target site. The interviewer, in conversation with the remote viewer, may then suggest that the remote viewer intel- lectually move around at the site and describe the site more fully (e.9., buildings, terrain features, people, activities, machinery, etc). If it appears to the interviewer that the images are in some way contradictory or inconsistent, the interviewer may then attempt clarification by asking questions in order to verify what the remote viewer first described. The RV session is tape recorded and pen and paper are available for the remote viewer to sketch his perceptions. Experience has shown! that some remote viewers prefer to combine written and oral descriptions, while some prefer to work sequentially. The average RV session is approximately 30 minutes and never exceeds 60 minutes. (4) POST-SESSION ANALYSIS After the RV session is over, the remote viewer and interviewer obtain from the TPS specific information about the target information package and compare their session results with these data. The remote viewer and the interviewer discuss the session results. The purpose of this post-session analysis is to provide the remote viewer with the satisfaction of knowing how well he or she did. 3 ann of Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CiA- amp tt RDP962 00788R002000240040-1
Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240040-1 7. (SORCON) VARIATIONS IN PROCEDURE FOR RV a. The foregoing has focused on the use of coordinates to obtain from a remote viewer the description of that site. Another approach to the same goal jis to use a person in place of a coordinate. For example, the remote viewer is provided some personal information and then proceeds to describe the location of the individual. Thus, the individual serves as a beacon to locate the target by RV. To standard- ize this approach, the procedure described in paragraph 6 is modified. b. The elements of this procedure consist of (1) target selection; (2) remote viewer session preliminaries; (3) activity of person who serves as beacon; (4) remote viewing session; and (5) post- session analysis. (1) TARGET SELECTION A target pool of 50 - 100 targets will be selected by a TPS. The targets chosen will be distinctive, to include more than one example of each. This precludes the remote viewer from eliminating a target because one example was used before. The remote viewer is in- formed that the target pool consists of similar as well as different types of targets. All other aspects of the target selection element of the procedure remain the same. (2) REMOTE VIEWER SESSION PRELIMINARIES This element is identical to that of the basic RV procedure. (3) ACTIVITY OF PERSON WHO SERVES AS BEACON At the beginning of the RY session, the remote viewer and interviewer are given one or more items of biographical information or may even meet briefly, for 3-5 minutes, the individual serving as the beacon. If the latter is the case, the beacon individual departs the meeting and obtains the target from the TPS. This procedure eliminates the possibility of the beacon individual divulging any hint of the target. The beacon individual travels to the target, arriving there at the previously specified time. He or she then interacts with the site for the predetermined length of time of the RV session. (4) REMOTE VIEWING SESSION This element is identical to that of the basic RY procedure, (5) POST-SESSION ANALYSIS This element is identical to that of the basic RY procedure, Approved For Release 2001 OSPR erieRaaeeOL88R002000240040-1
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Thursday, November 23, 1978 THE WASHINGTON POST
I'
PSYCHIC, From G3
.
> murder—and believe me, he was cor-
.
<
prints on the right door jamb, exactly
rcc^ a^
wa5' down the line—I got
Inches up from the
floor.
white
as a
sheet,” the
officer
said.
"I
:
“Well,”
said
the
detective,
“my
mean, there was just no way this man
' Sergeant and I figured what the heck.
could have known what we found
at
The guy was pretty insistent and, any-
the murder scene unless he was truly
j
way, by that time we hadn’t any really
psychic.
’
solid leads in the case.”
'
The officer, who through his associ-
So the next day the detective
re-
ation
. with Steers came to be humor-
>
turned to the theater, where he found
ously known by his fellow investiga-
,
a set of prints overlooked in the ori-
*ors as “detective of the kook squad”
’
ginal
investigation
and
where
the
(someone even put a miniature crystal
’
psyhcic
said
they’d
be.
bal1 on
bis desk one
day),
said
also
Well,
almost.
They
weren’t
4%
that
Psychic’s
predictions
about
;
- 1 Welles up from the floor, Gross said.
the killer a11 checked out down to the
'.“They were 4 3A
inches.” The
finger-
-32cal
pisto1
hidden
in
his
blood-
sprints later matched those of a ,sus-
stained boots the day of his eventual
-pect.
arrest.
,
‘-‘When
the
psychic
volunteered
to
The
case
never
went
to
trial,
Come
to
the
station to share
his
in-
though
because
the
suspect
hanged
.formation,
Gross
thought,
“By
this
himself in the Torrance jail,
time
I figured that when the guy ar-
.
“I
don’t
think
you
can
say
that
i’iyed I was going to throw him in the
psychics
are
a
panacea
in
solving
clink because he knew as much about
crimes,” the Torrance detective
says,
the murder as I did.” As it happened,
“But they can be an invaluable inves-
however, the psychic had an unshak-
tigating tool. I mean, you get the right
able
alibi. And more.
investigator working in tune with the
“When
Steers
began
to
tell
the
right psychic and a department could
sergeant and
myself about how
the
settle
a
lot more
of
their unsolved
.
victims were laid out the night of the
cases.”
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Approved For Release 95-00788R002000240038-4 TAFM-OPS-HU 22 February 1979 SUBJECT: GRILL FLAME "Viewer" Selection 3. (S/ORCON) The 16 selectees were further evaluated by IGFP personnel to determine which would best adapt to the concept of being able to use psychic phenomena in the intelligence field. Based on this criteria, eleven were chosen to be "read on" to the initial phases of the IGFP. On 8 February 1979, these eleven personnel were briefed on the training concept of the IGFP and asked whether or not they would like to partici- pate in the program. They were also questioned about their availability for the IGFP, how they felt about possessing psychic powers, and personal problems which would have an impact on their ability to participate in the IGFP. One individual stated that he had prior commitments which would make him unavailable for the initial phases of the IGFP. The remaining ten selectees volunteered for training and participation in the IGFP. 4. (S/ORCON) On 14 February 1979, Dr. Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ of Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Menlo Park, California, the contracting organization #@ for training personnel in the IGFP, inter- viewed the volunteers to select three for training at SRI. After inter- viewing the volunteers, Puthoff and Targ recommended that six of the ten volunteers be selected for further screening at SRI. This screening would consist of a one-week testing/evaluation period for each of the six final volunteers. From this screening process they would then select three individuals for further training. IGFP personnel are evaluating this proposal at this time. * Major, MI INSCOM GRILL FLAME Project Officer Approved For Release 200 mee) 02000240038-4
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SUBJECT:
GRILL FLAME "Viewer"
Selection
3.
(S/ORCON)
The
16 selectees were further evaluated by IGFP personnel
to determine which would best adapt
to the concept of being able
to use
psychic phenomena in the intelligence
field.
Based on this
criteria,
eleven were chosen
to be "read on"
to the initial phases of
the
IGFP.
On
8 February 1979,
these eleven personnel were briefed on the training
concept
of
the IGFP and asked whether or not they would like
to partici-
pate
in the program.
They were also questioned about their availability
for the
IGFP,
how they felt about possessing psychic powers,
and personal
problems which would have an impact on their ability to participate in
the IGFP.
One individual stated that he had prior commitments which would
make him unavailable for the initial phases of the IGFP.
The remaining
ten selectees volunteered for training and participation in the IGFP.
4.
(S/ORCON)
On
14 February 1979,
Dr.
Harold
E.
Puthoff and Russell
Targ of Stanford Research Institute
(SRI),
Menlo Park,
California,
the
contracting organization
for training personnel
in the IGFP,
inter-
viewed the volunteers
to select three
for training at
SRI.
After inter-
viewing the volunteers,
Puthoff and Targ recommended that six of
the ten
volunteers be selected for further screening at SRI.
This screening would
consist of
a one-week testing/ evaluation period for each of
the six final
volunteers.
From this screening process they would then select three
individuals for further training.
IGFP personnel are evaluating this
proposal
at this
time.
MURRAY
Bj WATT
Major,
MI
INSCOM GRILL FLAME
Project Officer
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394, 007s8R002000240041 -0 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD TAFM-OPS-HU 22 February 1979 SUBJECT: Phonecon - MAJ Watt and MAJ Stoner (OACST), 15 Feb 79 1. (U) This MFR serves as a record of phonecon between MAJ Stoner, OACSI, and myself which took place at 0815 hours, 15 February 1979. 2. (S/ORCON) I requested that MAJ Stoner brief me on the status of two issues that BG Freeze was concerned about -- that is, (1) The status of INSCOM's contract with SRI and, (2) Where was the Press Release that OACSI was preparing for release concerning Project GRILL . FLAME. 3. (S/ORCON) MAJ Stoner gave the following information: a. Status of Contract: The contract is all prepared and ready for signing. However, AMSAA legal office had question concerning issue of - whether or not a doctor had to be present during the sessions and if work could be considered "Human Experimentation." The office of the Army General Counsel has been contacted and OACSI is now awaiting a decision. b. Press Release: A recommended press release has been prepared (by MAJ Stoner) and forwarded for approval. Ms Ruth Davis, Under- Secretary, DOD, Research and Advance Technology, has the statement and OACSI is now awaiting a decision. 4. (U) Concerning both issues, MAJ Stoner assured me that he would press for an answer and keep us posted. Venn GS MURRAY WATT Major, MI INSCOM GRILL FLAME ARMY review(s) completed. Project Officer CLASSIFIED BY: Director, DIA DECLASSIFY ON: 22 Feb 99 EXTENDED BY: Director, DIA REASON: 2-301-C (3) (6) Approved For Release 2004/ 8R002000240041-0
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
22 February 1979
- MAJ Watt and MAJ Stoner
(OACSI)
,
15 Feb
(U)
This MFR serves
as
a record of phonecon between MAJ Stoner,
OACSI,
and myself which took place at 0815 hours,
15 February
2.
(S/ORCON)
I requested that MAJ Stoner brief me on the status of
two issues
that BG Freeze was concerned about —
that
is,
(1)
The
status of INSCOM’s contract with SRI and,
(2) Where was
the Press
Release that OACSI was preparing for release concerning Project GRILL
. FLAME
.
3.
(S/ORCON)
MAJ Stoner gave the following information:
a.
Status of Contract:
The contract
is all prepared and ready for
signing.
However, AMSAA legal office had question concerning issue of
SethS or not a doctor had to be present during the sessions and if work
could be considered "Human Experimentation."
The office of the Army
.
General Counsel has been contacted and OACSI
is now awaiting a decision.
b.
Press Release:
A recommended press release has been prepared
(by MAJ Stoner)
and forwarded for approval.
Ms Ruth Davis,
Under-
Secretary,
DOD,
Research and Advance Technology,
has
the statement and
OACSI
is now awaiting
a decision.
4.
(U)
Concerning both issues,
MAJ Stoner assured me that he would
press
for an answer and keep us posted.
MURRAY
B.
WATT
Major, MI
INS COM GRILL FLAME
ARMY review(s) completed.
Project Officer
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Approved For Release 2001/04/02. CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240042-9 16 January 1979 MEMO FOR THE RECORD SUBJ: Summary of Visit to AMSAA - 12 Jan 79 (U) (S/ORCON) PURPOSE: On 12 Jan 79, Lt Fred Atwater and Maj Murray Watt visited AMSAA at Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG) for the following purposes: a. To receive an updating on the status of their GRILL FLAME Profgect. b. To Listen/review some of their "session" tapes in order to obtain ideas and suggestions for our program. ec. To review film that AMSAA had pertaining to remote viewing. (S/ORDON) Lynne Taylor, AMSAA GRILL FLAME Project Officer, and Scott Phillips spent the morning providing us with an update of their project. They reported success in the following: a. Target selection b. Precognition exercises. (S/ORDON) Word terminology continues to play increased importance in the execution of AMSAA's exercises...for example, viewer vice subject facilitator vice interviewer session vice experiment » although the above only refleets word changes, AMSAA personnel feel that the changes tend to give a more relaxed atmosphere to the program. (U) Time was not available for us to review the news film that AMSAA had, so we accepted the kind offer to borrow the film and review it at our leisure. 5. (S/ORCON) Other topics discussed during the visit are as follows: a. Our program status, including the technique(s) being used to interview potential candidates for our program. b. Problems that we (INSCOM) might face in the early stages of our progran. ec. Need for project to be free from interference from various levels of management. Class by DIR DIA Declass 16 Jan 99 Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96- 96-007 8BROGAGG AHO G1 FF 3) (6),
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MEMO FOR THE RECORD
SUBJ
:
Summary of Visit to AMSAA
- 12 Jan 79
(U)
1.
(S/ORCON)
PURPOSE:
On 12 Jan 79 *
Lt Fred Atwater and Maj Murray Watt
visited AMSAA at Aberdeen Proving Grounds
(APG)
for the following purposes:
a.
To receive an updating on the status
of their GRILL FLAME Project.
b.
To listen/review some of their "session" tapes
in order to obtain
ideas and suggestions
for our program.
c.
To review film that AMSAA had pertaining to remote viewing.
2.
(S/ORDON) Lynne Taylor, AMSAA GRILL FLAME Project Officer,
and Scott
Phillips
spent the morning providing us with an update of their project.
They reported success
in the following:
a.
Target selection
b.
Precognition exercises.
3.
(S/ORDON) Word terminology continues to play increased importance in the
execution of AMSAA's exercises ... for example,
viewer vice
subject
facilitator vice interviewer
session vice experiment
..although the above only reflects word changes, AMSAA personnel feel that
the changes tend to give
a more relaxed atmosphere to the program.
h.
(u)
Time was not available
for us to review the news film that AMSAA
had,
so we accepted the kind offer to borrow the film and review it
at our
leisure.
5.
(S/ORCON)
Other topics discussed during the visit
are
as
follows:
a.
Our program status,
including the techniques ) being used to
interview potential candidates
for our program.
b.
Problems that we
(INSCOM) might
face
in the early stages of our
program.
c.
Weed for project to be free
from interference from various levels
of management
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SUBJ
:
Summary of Visit to AMSAA - 12 Jan 79
(u)
d.
Exchange of old/current/new literature that would he beneficial
to all.
6.
(U) All agreed that the day was well spent and we agreed to get
together in the near future to keep everyone informed.
MURRAY B.
MAJ, MI
INSCOM GRILL FLAME
PROJECT OFFICER
WATT
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Approved For Release 2001/04/02}j0UN 58R002000240044-7 at ORCON/NOFORN DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY US ARMY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755 TAFM-OPS-HUP 19 June 1979 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Summary of Visit to SRI International (13-16 June 1979) (U) 1. (S) Purpose: This MPR highlights significant items covered during my visit to SRI. The primary reason for the visit was to review the progress being made in the training of selected INSCOM personnel in Remote Viewing (RV) techniques and to establish para- meters for the second phase of the training program. 2. (S) At the time of this visit, three INSCOM members had already completed the initial phase of the training program which lasts for one week. A fourth member was undergoing training while I was there. Final evaluation/judging of the results of the first three individuals has not been done and, because of the backlog of other requirements, it does not appear that the reports will be ready in the near future. Hopefully, the reports will be available for review during our scheduled visit in August (Note: COL Hamel and MAJ Watt will visit SRI the week of 6 Aug 79.) 3. (8S) A cautious preliminary assessment of the work done so far would probably state that the results were above average, with one individual producing outstanding data. However, SRI personnel do not want to make any binding decisions until all the data has been evaluated. Discussions with INSCOM personnel who have attended the training previously revealed that the week was worthwhile and that the training sessions have helped them grasp more fully the RV techniques and to better understand this area of psychic behavior. 4. (S) Topics covered during general discussion periods throughout the visit that are important are as listed: a. (8S) Security situation involving INSCOM personnel needs to be “ironed out". Current contract requires SRI to report CLASSIFIED BY: Director, DIA DECLASSIFY ON: 19 Jun 99 EXTENDED BY: Director, DIA REASON: 2-301-c (3) (6) Approved For Release 2001/04/02, 6-007 4qp44- a ee IPE PEAME