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Comments Concerning "GRILL FLAME SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION
COMMITTEE REPORT,"
dated December 1979
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l.
Ref:
FONECON between
and LTC Watt,
5 Feb
80,
SAB.
2.
Following comments represent,
by the very nature
of your request,
my
personal assessment
of the Gale Report.
It is my understanding that the
tone
of Dr Vorona's letter to LTG Tighe will
be rather general and that
specific points will be consolidated
for use
if necessary.
3.
OVERVIEW :
In
general,
I
felt that
the report was very shallow in
nature and added nothing constructive
to what
is already known.
The
committee report,
with few exceptions,
made vague recommendations and
avoided providing concrete constructive means of improving the overall
DOD program
unless doing away with the program can be considered
as
a constructive suggestion.
4.
ANNEX
5 :
Comments pertaining
to IN5C0M investigations.
What can
I
say?
After
all,
we provided the committee with most of the data contained
in
the Annex.
I was surprised
to see our input
in print without any con-
structive comments.
5.
I
felt that the biggest shortcoming
of the report was the negative
(and,
often misleading)
style that the authors selected to use.
The
following items are
a few of the statements that
led me to that conclusion:
a.
PI,
para
2:
Committee members were carefully screened
with preconceived notions
Comment:
Private conversations with individual committee members
give quite the opposite
view.
While there
is nothing wrong with having
both sides
of
an issue represented one should not try and pass off the
situation
as being something other than
it
is.
b.
Pll,
para
3c:
If useful data should not be attributed
to the
reality
of RV phenomena then
I suggest that
the committee owes us
a possible
solution.
Luck??
Fraud??
Or whatever.
c.
Plla,
para
3:
It appears that the committee
(minority)
is more
concerned about
the possible los® of their credibility
if they endorse
the use
of operational activities exploiting
RV phenomena rather than
whether
or not
such data might be useful.
Granted,
extreme caution must
be used when attempting
to exploit such data but said danger should not
preclude us from trying
to see
if operational uses can be
found.
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d.
P5,
para
2:
Indequate documentation
This statement is
contained
in
the Executive Summary yet
later
in the report
(p59,
para 4d)
they state that
"data on each session is impeccably maintained."
I
suggest that the Executive Summary must at least
be consistent with
the
core
of
the report.
The summary
is quite general
and,
at least
in this case,
the committee specifically states the opposite.
e.
P37,
para
2d:
They
do everything but call
Targ
a "cheat."
Did
they,
in
fact,
question Targ
on
this handwriting issue?
The implication
here
is too strong
to
be passed over
lightly.
f.
P38,
para
3b ( 2 )
:
Same as item "b."
If
it works
it must be
luck
or
faulty experimental design.
Very
nice,
neat,
clever way
of side-
stepping
a very emotional issue.
g.
P4,
para 4c:
To
me,
this paragraph
is
the key
to the whole issue.
Everyone appears to agree that
"things" have occurred that no one can
readily explain.
Yet,
some
of these
"things"
seem to have provided some
useful intelligence data.
Therefore,
it seems logical that
we should
continue
to pursue
this program to insure ourselves
(D0D)
that there
is
or
is not
a useful application that can be made
of the
RV phenomena.
Whether
or not we'll ever be able to put this into
a nice neat "scientific"
package
is quite another
thing and really not important
to the issue at hand l
Let's
not limit ourselves because the Gale Committee states that experimental
procedures have not yet developed sufficiently
to be applicable
to studying
this phenomena.
6.
We have not been provided
a copy
of the proposed Dr Vorona draft message
so we are not sure
if the above input is what you need.
If not please advise
and we'll provide more data although
at the working meeting held 30-31 Jan
I
outlined most
of
our major objections.
MURRAY B.
,b-)\
WATT
LTC ,
MI
Project Manager
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