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November
1981
F Y
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DOD
GRILL
FLAME
PROGRESS
REPORT
SGI J
Prepared
by:
Presented
at:
End-of -Year GRILL FLAME Meeting
Defense
Intelligence Agency
25 November
1981
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DoD GRILL FLAME PROGRESS REPORT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I
PROGRAM STATUS
II
PROJECT TASK
III
CONDENSED PROJECT RESULTS REPORT
...
IV
OPERATIONAL REMOTE VIEWING TASKS
(FY'81)
V
INTELL I TENCE SUMMARY
VI
GRILL FLAME FINANCIAL STATEMENT
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PROGRAM STATUS
End-of-Year
(FY
T 81)
Grill Flame
Progress
Report
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Introduction
We have now completed FY
f 81 and are ready and anxious
to begin work
on the FY
f 82 projects.
In fact efforts have already begun on some
of
the
tasks.
Before we proceed,
however, we should reflect
on the FY’81 work.
It
is
not
necessary to review all
the problems
but
we should take
note that
the problems
did take their toll.
As
a result we are not
as
far along
in
the program as we had hoped.
This program was
initially perceived
as having the following
characteristics
(see Figure
1):
•
A three-year
contract
•
Adequate fundi ng
•
Timely funding
•
On-site monitor
The
idea was
to give
the researchers time enough, money enough and the
security needed to accomplish the task we proposed.
We succeeded with
adequate funding and an on-site monitor but failed to provide the other
two.
By
far,
the most damaging was
the
lateness
of FY'81 funds.
There
is
no need to recount the ups and downs
of
the FY
r 81 budget
as many of
you
were instrumental
in helping solve the problems.
So much for what we
did not accomplish.
A more pleasant activity is
to look at what
has been accomplished,
•
Training
(Figure
2)
•
Intelligence
(Figure
3)
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PROGRAM
AS
INITIALLY
PERCEIVED
1.
THREE
YEAR
CONTRACT
2.
ADEQUATE
FUNDING
3.
TIMELY
FUNDING
4.
ON-SITE
MONITOR
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RV
ENHANCEMENT
PROGRAM
(PROGRESS,
F
1 8
)
•
CRV
ENHANCEMENT
PROCEDURE
DEVELOPED
BY
- RESEARCHED
ALL
STAGES
- OVER
200
CRV
PRACTICE
TRIALS
- GOOD
RELIABILITY
THRU
STAGE
3,
INTO
STAGES
4 &
•
PROCEDURE
TRANSMITTED
BY
SWANN
TO
EXPERIENCED
REMOTE
VIEWERS
- OVER
CRV
PRACTICE
TRIALS
EACH
-
GOOD
RELIABILITY
THRU
STAGE
•
PROCEDURE
TRANSMITTED
TO
NOVICE
REMOTE
VIEWER
(END
FY'81)
-
OVER
CRV
PRACTICE
TRIALS
-
GOOD
RELIABILITY
THRU
STAGE
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•
Audio Analysis
(Figure
4)
•
Targeting
(Figure
5)
•
DBM System
(Figure
6)
•
Countermeasures
(Figure
7)
In terms
of
the three-year plan,
the
first
year
(FY’81) was
to look
at several of the variables.
Enhancing remote viewing through training
was
one
of the more important
tasks.
This will
be necessary
if
the tech-
nology is transferred
to the DoD and used on
a
large scale.
During the
year,
three people received the training and indications
are that they indeed
improved their reliability.
In the targeting program,
coordinate,
beacon
and associational methods were
investigated.
This work has
only just
been
completed and the results will
be available
in the year-end technical
report.
In the audio analysis
task a method of
discriminating between
good and bad data was sought.
The results
of this work will also appear
in the
final technical report.
Preliminary evidence suggest
that
it
is
a person specific response.
To conclude,
you
should have
copies
of
both my adminstrative report
and
a technical report
on each of
the
tasks,
FY
1 82 Program
.
Introduction
It
is
still
the goal of
the FY'82 program to establish a highly
reliable operational
capability.
Thus
far,
the funding has
been
better than
last
year and funds are currently available for FY
f 82 work.
The FY
j 82
SOW calls
for at
least three remote viewers
to be trained to
a
level that
is acceptable for operational tasks.
To do this work on the
development
of RV enhancement will
continue.
Concurrently Army will
be
sending training candidates
for Stages
I through
III
to
SRI
to be trained.
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AUDIO
ANALYSIS
HIGHLIGHTS
•
EXISTING
DATA
BASE
WAS
REANALYZED
• A
TARGET-INDEPENDENT
AUDIO/LINGUISTIC
MEASURE
CORRELATES
WITH
RV
ACCURACY
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TARGETING
TASK:
TO
INVESTIGATE
TARGET
ACQUISITION
STRATEGIES,
INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCES
RELATED
THERETO
TARGETING
MODES
UNDER
INVESTIGATION:
•
BEACON/PHOTOGRAPH
•
COORDINATES
•
ABSTRACT
STATUS:
TASK
NOT
YET
COMPLETED
(AUGUST
START
DATE)
DATA
COLLECTION
COMPLETED
(48
TRIALS
FROM
RVers)
PRELIMINARY
SCAN
OF
DATA
INDICATES
THAT:
•
OF
RVers
APPEARED
TO
EXHIBIT
RV
FUNCTIONING
•
POSITIVE
RESULTS
WERE
OBTAINED
TO
SOME
DEGREE
IN
ALL
CONDITIONS
CONCLUSIONS
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DBMS
FEAS I BILITY---HIGH LIGHTS
1.
OFF-THE-SHELF
SYSTEMS
INADEQUATE
FOR
COMPLETE
RV
ASSESSMENT
2.
DBMS
DEVELOPMENT
LANGUAGE
IDENTIFIED
(FORTH)
3.
TURN-KEY
DBMS
IDENTIFIED
FOR
A
SPECIFIC
TASK
IN
CRV
RELIABILITY
PROGRAM
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COUNTERMEASURES
HIGHLIGHTS
(1)
LITERATURE
SEARCH
(1970-1980)
FOR
EVIDENCE
OF
MENTAL
INTRUSION
(2)
SUGGESTED
POSSIBLE
COUNTERMEASURES
•
RV—INTRUSION
DETECTION
- RANDOM
NUMBER
GENERATORS
- TEMPERATURE
MEASURING
DEVICES
•
RP—DISTANCE
EFFECTS
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However,
before we get
too far into plans
for FY’82 work we should
again
look
at
the historical factors
that drive our FY’82 program and take
a
look at
the missions
of the sponsors.
Both the FY'82 and the FY
f 83
programs are firmly based upon these missions,
FY'82 Grill Flame Program
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History
In April
1980 it was
determined that
there should be
a
joint DoD
program in the Grill Flame area.
In FY'81
the participants were DIA and
INSCOM.
The two organizations had different
goals and these two sets
of
goals
made for a very rocky year.
The
two
sets
of goals were:
(1)
DIA— Increase
the reliability of remote viewing and
explore training people
to do remote viewing.
(2)
INSCOM—As they already had an in-house
capability they
wanted to examine several variables
that would lead to
improving
their operational
data.
These two goals
led
to separate tasks
during FY'81.
DIA placed most
of
its
resources
in the RV enhancement task and Army supported work on
targeting and audio analysis.
.
Mission
(DIA)
At this
time
it would be appropriate
to look at how the missions
of
DIA and Army relate
to the Grill Flame objectives.
The DIA essentially
has,
in this
regard,
three objectives
(Figure
8).
(a)
Prepare for developing in-house
capability
(b)
Countering the application of
psi phenomena
against
the United States
.
(c)
Follow development
of
psi
in foreign countries
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INTELLIGENCE
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USSR
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ACQUIRE DATA
OPERATIONAL SITES
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FY'82 Program as
it Applies
to these Missions
(a)
In-house operational unit
(1)
Devise
a training method
•
Part
of DIA FY'81 program
•
Part of Army FY'82 program
(2)
Develop data handling system
•
Part
of DIA FY'82 program
(3)
Develop evaluation methodology
•
Part
of DIA FY'82 program
•
Needed to answer,
should we?
•
Needed to provide a
constant
check on how the
program is
functioning.
(b)
Guard against phenomena being used against
the United States
(countermeasures )
.
•
Explored
in FY'81 program
•
Will
be further explored in FY'82
if funds
are available
(c)
Intelligence
(1)
Intelligence production
•
USSR study prepared in FY'81
•
China
plus
others will
be produced in FY'82
(2)
Automated intelligence file
•
Quantitative examination of foreign work in
the psi area.
Mission
(INSCOM)
(Figure
9)
Improve RV of operational targets.
(a)
FY'81
•
Targeting
•
Audio Analysis
(b)
FY'82
- Training
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PROJECT TASK
The tasks
completed in FY’81 were:
•
RV Reliability and Enhancement Evaluation
•
Intelligence Assessment—USSR
•
Database Management Feasibility
•
Countermeasures
•
Audio Analysis
•
Targeting
Project task sheets
describing these projects are included in this
report.
Personnel,
financing,
project description and results are included in the
task sheets
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Attachment
#1
Statement
of
Sponsor
f s Expectation
1,
Improve,
through practice,
the reliability of remote viewing,
2,
Work with selected individuals
to gain better and more reliable
data from remote viewing sessions,
3,
Continue research on any facet
of remote viewing
that offers promise
of being improved by training,
4,
Work toward the development
of
a training program that will accommodate
future DoD needs
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#2
Verbal Description of
Project
SRI
International
is tasked with working toward the development
of
training procedures
that will accommodate
future DoD needs.
Under investi-
gation is
a training procedure developed by an SRI remote viewer
consultant,
The procedure
focuses
on improving reliability of remote viewing
by controlling those factors
that
tend to introduce noise
into the RV
product
.
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procedure
is
based on the observation that, with
the appli-
cation of
a
"stimulus"
(e,g,
,
the reading of
a
coordinate)
there appears
to be
a momentary burst
of
"signal"
that enters
into awareness
for
a
few
seconds
and then fades
away.
It
is
at this point
that
imagination appears
to be triggered
to fill
in the void,
producing noise
due
to associational
and analytical
overlays,
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The techniques
designed to handle
the above
noise problem involve
(a)
repeated coordinate presentation and quick-reaction response
on the
part
of
the remote viewer to minimize imaginative overlays,
(b)
the use
of
a
specially-designed acoustic-tiled featureless
room with homogeneous
coloring
to minimize environmental overlay,
and
(c)
the adoption of
a
limited monitor
role behavior
to minimize monitor overlay.
The
training proceeds through
a series
of
six stages
of proficiency,
hypothesized to correspond
to
six stages
of increasing contact with the
target
site.
These are outlined in the following table.
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Stage
(1)
Major gestalt
(2)
Sensory contact
(3)
Dimension,
motion,
mobility
(4)
Quantitative aspects
(5)
Special qualitative aspects
(6)
Significant analytical aspects
Example
Land surrounded by water,
an island
Cold sensation, wind-swept feeling
Rising up,
a panoramic view
Three
large
buildings,
clustered
together
as
a facility
Scientific research,
live organisms
Scientific research,
live organisms
BW preparation site
During FY'81 these procedures under development
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transmitted
in theory classes
to three other experienced project
remote
viewers,
Nos.
009,
131
and 504.
In addition,
all four remote viewers
participate in practice sessions
consisting
of extensive targeting on
sites around the world by coordinate remote viewing
(CRV), with feedback
being given
on the basis
of material available from National Geographic
magazines, world aeronautical charts,
etc.
Both the program leader
and DIA COTR
observe
the theory class
and act
as
monitors
for
several
of
the
RV sessions
in order to monitor the progress
of the training
program.
"Exams”
on the progress
of
the training program are then provided
by operational RV tasks
(see Section III).
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Attachment #3
Project Diary
(major developments)
1.
Continued improved results
are forthcoming from the training
sessions
,
2.
Three viewers
trained through Stage
III.
3.
First novice trained produced exceptional results,
4.
Deeper insight
into the RV phenomena
is being accomplished in the
training/research
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