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CAUTION
(S-ORCON)
This document was
prepared
by the Assistant Director
for Systems Effectiveness
and Joint Service Activities
of
the
US Army
Materiel
Systems Analysis Activity.
It represents
the planned
in-house
AMSAA second phase effort
in
the
"Remote Viewing"
(RV)
area of
para-
psychology for FY
79 which will
be accomplished within the
"AMSAA
Re-
mote Viewing Protocol"
of
26 March
1979.
It does
not represent any
position of AMSAA,
DARCOM,
Department of the Army or
the Department
of
Defense.
(S-ORCON)
ACSI Message 0516302
Jul
78 directs
all
Army involved with
RV
to
be classified SECRET-NOFORN and that the unclassified code word
"GRILL FLAME"
be
used for such
efforts.
The
24 August
1978 meeting of
the DOD Committee
on
RV Activities
resulted
in direction that papers
and
reports associated with
the program
be
identified
as
SECRET,
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PROPOSED PHASE
II
OF
IN-HOUSE
FY
79 GRILL
FLAME PROJECT
(U)
INTRODUCTION
(U)
(S-ORCON)
We propose
a three stage remote viewing
(RV)
exercise
using map coordinates
as
the only specific target descriptors
provided
to the AMSAA RV
team
until
after they complete the development of target
description
(TD)
portion of
the exercise
as
the photographs
of
the targets
will
be used
to independently evaluate the correspondence of the
RV
pro-
duced TDs
to
the actual
targets.
In
this exercise we will
also explore
some techniques for producing TDs
thru multiple remote viewing
(MRV)
of
targets
via map coordinates.
All
RV efforts will
be performed within
the
constraints of the
"AMSAA Remote Viewing Protocol"
of
26 March
1979.*
OBJECTIVE
(U)
(S-ORCON)
The primary objective of phase
II
is
to perform
RV,
using
map coordinates
as
the only information
on
the
target provided
to
the
AMSAA
RV
team,
for
the purpose of generally challenging/val idating
the
SRI
documented coordinate
RV.
Secondary objectives
are
as
follows:
1.
Subject coordinate
RV
to description-target matching
with more targets
than descriptions.
2.
Obtain
some first
hand experience with MRV from the
standpoint of producing and refining TDs
as
well
as
to compare
the
correspondence of MRV produced TDs
to actual
targets
to
that of single
RV produced TDs
to actual
targets.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
(U)
(S-ORCON)
Phase
II
began with
informal
familiarization
sessions
utilizing sketches
in
sealed envelopes and map coordinates of nine
various general
types
of terrain
features,
these
sessions will
progress
thru rigidly controlled efforts
utilizing AMSAA's Security Office
as
the
target
pool
controller.
This
latter
set
of targets will
be composed of
a set of distinctive
landmarks with
little or
no clutter**
in
the
immediate
surroundings;
these
are intended
to provide highly unique TDs which,
if
they have say only 50 percent specific detailed correspondence to the
actual
target,
will
be easily reconi zable
as corresponding
to that one
target.
Given that such results
are produced we believe that
a much
more uncontestable coordinate
RV experiment should
be attempted with
reasonably open prior notification of objectives, measures
of effec-
tiveness
(MOE)
and
target coordinates.
In performing
the exercise, we
Approved
by TSG Ad
Hoc Human Use Review Board
on
26 March
1979.
Clutter
is considered
to
be objects
common
to many landmarks
such
as
roads,
telephone poles,
etc.
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plan
to maximize within practical
limits
the credibility of
RV
thru
addressing the following four critical
issues^ '
on
RV
targeting:
1.
Prior knowledge
2.
Blocking
information
3.
Secure targeting
4.
Specifiness and uniqueness of RV descriptions.
PLANNED STEPS
(U)
(U)
The
twenty some
steps planned for phase
II
are listed
in Table
and are enumerated
below.
1.
(S-ORCON)
FAMILIARIZATION SESSIONS
.
These sessions
are
intended
to
accomplish
the following:
a.
Familiarization
of three or more AMSAA remote viewers
with coordinate remote viewing.
b.
Testing
the adequacy of target control
techniques
to
adequately block target information from
the
RV team until
RV descriptions
are developed and transferred from the
RV
team.
c.
Provide
a
basis for developing
a coordinate
RV protocol
(step
3)
for
the
trial
and
final
runs
(steps
14 and
19).
d.
Provide
a readily produceable
set of
RV TDs of very
unique landmarks which are easily matched
to
the appropriate targets or
rejected
by casual
inspection.
2.
(S-ORCON)
DEVELOP MOEs .
This
step
is
an
interaction one between
evaluators and
the
RV
team
to define
before the
trial
and
final
RV
ses-
sions
the measures of effectiveness which will
be used
in
the evaluation
of RV produced TDs.
This
has not been done
in
the previous
RV efforts,
the TD production and
the evaluations
have been basically independent
free play with
the
RV
team not knowing specifically what
the evaluators
would deem important and what would
be evaluated
as
noise.
These will
be documented before the
trial
sessions
start.
3.
(S-ORCON)
DEVELOP TARGET SELECTION CRITERIA
.
Utilizing
the MOEs
a
set of target selection criteria are
to
be developed which will
provide
a
full
spectrum of target possibilities within
the MOEs.
These criteria
m Some Critical
Issues
on Credibility of
a Long Term Procedure."
Discussion Paper,
December
1978.
Kramer,
Phillips,
and Taylor.
AMSAA
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TABLE
1.
PHASE
II
STEPS
(U)
PROPOSED PHASE
II
IN-HOUSE
FY
79 GRILL
FLAME PROJECT
(U)
1.
Familiarization Sessions
2.
Develop and Document MOEs
3.
Develop Target Selection Criteria and Document
4.
Develop Precise Coordinate
RV Protocol
and Document
5.
Develop TD Evaluation Procedure
6.
Determine Quantities
of Targets
for Runs
7.
Select Targets
and Determine Coordinates
(STDC)
for Sample
8.
Produce Photos
for Sample
9.
Transmit Coord and Photos
of Sample
10.
Review Sample for Appropriateness
11.
Reaffirm,
Refine or Redefine
(R 3
)
Step
#
12.
STDC for Trial
and
Final
Run
(4 Target Packages)
13.
Transmit First Target Package and Coordinates Second Package
14.
Run Trial
and Feedback RV Sessions
15.
Transmit Photos of Second Package
16.
Evaluate TD
1 s of Trial
Run
From Second Package
17.
R 3 Steps
#
Thru
#6
18.
Transmit Third Target Package and Coordinates
of Fourth Package
19.
Run
Final
and Feedback RV Sessions
20.
Transmit Photos of Fourth Package
21.
Evaluate TD's
of Final
Run From Fourth
Package
22.
Document Phase
II
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can then
be employed
by
a fourth
set of people who are
to independently
select targets for the
runs.
Documentation of these criteria are
necessary
to
insure separated groups of individuals
have the
same basis
for executing their various responsibilities.
4.
(S-ORCON)
DEVELOP COORDINATE
RV PROTOCOL
.
Within
the AMSAA
RV
Pro-
tocol
of 26 March
1979 develop
the specific
protocol
for
the coordinate
RV sessions employing single and multiple
RV produced TDs
of individual
targets.
This
protocol
will
be developed and documented
by
the AMSAA
RV
team.
5.
(S-NOFORN)
DEVELOP TARGET DESCRIPTION EVALUATION CRITERIA .
The
evaluators will
develop
in
conjunction with
the
RV
team and document
the
criteria which they intend
to
use
in
the evaluation of
the
RV TDs
prior
to coordinate
RV
runs.
6.
(S-NOFORN)
DETERMINE QUANTITIES FOR RUNS .
This evaluators will
determine
an acceptable minimum number of targets
and of RV TDs.
(ex-
perience
has
shown
that previous TD
tended
to confuse evaluators when
more than
8 or
9 TDs were evaluated
at once using
a
forced matching of
n TDs
to
n
targets.-
It
is
hoped that
in
this phase more targets will
be
available
than TDs
to provide
a
less
forced matching.
Table
2 delinates
the spectrum of and type of sessions envisioned for
the
trial
and final
runs,
it was developed with
the following objectives
in mind.
a.
Minimize Sessions
b.
Allow no more than
two
RV
sessions without feedback
before
a session with feedback for any one viewer.
c.
Obtain
a minimum of three TDs each for single,
double and
triple
RV without feedback during
the
run
in
the
final
run.
7.
(U)
SELECT TARGETS AND DETERMINE COORDINATES
(STDC)
.
Utilizing the
target selection criteria
the photo interpreteors will
select about
targets across
the spectrum allowed
by
the
criteria.
They will
determine
target coordinates
of those
targets.
8.
(U)
PREPARE PHOTOS
.
The
photo
interpreters will
prepare photographs
of the targets selected
in
step
7.
These photographs will
be of specified
size even about the target and will
all
be
to
the
same
scale
if possible.
9.
(U)
TRANSMIT COORDINATES AND PHOTOS
.
The target data will
be
assembled into
individual
packages and transmitted
to
the other three
groups.
6CGRCT
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