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Attachment #1
Verbal Description
of
the Project
To meet program objectives,
one of
SRI’s
tasks
is
to
investigate U.S.
capabilities
in applied
RV
,
both
to determine
the potential
for application
in
U.S.
efforts,
and
to provide data that
is useful
in assessing
the
threat
potential
of
corresponding Soviet applications.
In response
to this
re-
quirement,
SRI has pursued application tasks
that were of
interest
to
the
intelligence
community,
and have responded
to -quick-reaction requirements
set
by representatives monitoring
the progress
of
the work.
SGI J
The format
for carrying out these tasks
is
as
follows.
A request
for
information concernin^^arce^ite
is
transmitted
by
the
clien t
to
the
DIA representative
the^J^int
Service Program COTj^^
in residence
at
SRI.
He
then provides
targeting
inf ormat ion'Xe .g .
,
coordinates)
to
an
SRI
RV session monitor
at
the
start
of
a
session.
This
'monitor
then works with
a remote viewer
to obtain data.
In
this
format,
SRI personnel
are
kept
blind
to
the
source
of
the request,
and
to
the
type
of
site
or event
of
interest.
In
some
cases,
the COTR
is present
during
the
RV session,
or he may even conduct
the
session himself.
In
an effort
to determine whether
a remote viewer
is
"on
line"
before attempting
an operational
task,
a presession
calibration
trial
is
carried
out
on
a
site
for which feedback materials
(e.g.,
National
Geographic magazines,
travel
brochures)
are available
to
the
sessi on
monitor.
If
the results
indicate
a useful
level
of
RV functioning,
the
operational
task
is
engaged;
if not,
the task
is
aborted.
In
like
fashion,
a postsession calibration
trial
is carried
out
to provide
a check
on whether
the viewer remained
"on
line" during
the operational
task.
Evaluation protocols were developed
for use
by analysts
to provide
numerical
estimates
of various
aspects
of
the
RV product generated
in
operational
RV
tasks.
The returned protocols constitute
the basis
for
contractor
evaluation,
feedback
to
the remote viewer,
and
as
an
input
for
the computerized data-base management
(DBM).
The
evaluation protocols
submitted
to
the
analysts
for
thgir completion are provided
in Appendix
D
of
the below footnoted document.
The contractor has
completed development
of
a computerized data-base
management
system
to handle
this material.
This
system,
programmed
on
a
stand-alone
LSI
11/23
system,
provides
a
1 ibrary /catalog function
of
data-
base readout
by date,
site,
viewer,
and
so
forth,
along with
the
capability
of yielding
trend
analysis
functions.
H.
E.
Puthoff
,
"RV Reliability,
Enhancement,
and
Evaluation
(U)," Final
Report,
SRI Project 3279-1,
SRI
International, Menlo Park,
CA
(February
1982),
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Verbal
Description of Project
A continuing requirement
in operational
RV
is
the determination
of
the
location
of
tactical
and
strategic
targets
of
interest whose positions
are not known
a priori .
Examples
range from
the
location
of people
or
equipment
in
a building complex
to
the position
of
a facility or weapons
delivery
system
in
a strategic
context.
The search
task
is
therefore
directed
at determining
the
location
of objects,
individuals,
systems
and
facilities
on
scales
covering,
e.g.,
room-size
to global
dimensions.
This
task
lends
itself
to
two
standard psychoenergetics
approaches;
they
are
:
(1)
Discrete
Search Technique
.
In
the
Discrete
Search
Technique,
the
target
area
of
interest
(e.g.,
room,
globe)
is divided
up
into
a
series
of
"zones"
or
"grid
squares,”
one
of which
is
assumed
to contain
the
target
of
interest.
A
statistical
procedure
(e.g.,
error-
correcting
coding,
sequential
sampling)
is
then used
to
statistically average
a
series
of
"guesses”
to
determine
in which
of
the
"zones"
or
"grid
squares"
the
target
of
interest
is
contained.
It
has
been
shown
in previous work
that
such
a procedure
can
in principle
yield high-reliability results with operators
of
relatively modest
expertise,
and
a pilot
series
of
trials
involving
the
location
of
an
individual
and
the
location
of
ammunition was
successful.
Several
forms
of
the Discrete
Search Technique,
including
the
use
of
real-time computer
and programmable
calculator
statistical
averaging procedures,
are
to
be considered
to determine
the
efficacy
of
the discrete approach applied
to problems
of
interest
to
the client.
(2)
Continuum
Search Technique .
As
in
the
Discrete
Search
Technique,
a number
of
so-called
"dowsing" approaches have
been
identified
in
the psychoenergetics
literature
as
having
some validity
in determining
the
location
of
targets
of
interest.
In
the
"dowsing" approach,
the
area
of
interest
containing
the
target
is
"examined"
by psycho-
energetic means
on
a continuum basis
to determine
the
location
of
the
specific
target.
In
the
"map-dowsing"
version
of
these approaches,
direct
access
to
the area
of
interest
is not required,
and
therefore
the approach
lends
itself
to
the
types
of applications
of
interest
to
the
client.
A number
of
these approaches
are
to
be considered
to determine
their applicability
to client needs.
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