Approved For Release 2000/08/0% PARP PE 00789R0021 00230001-3 DoD Psychoenergetics Program Preface I Background II Program Scope III Program Objectives IV Resources Required V Program Management VI Research and Applications VII Support Centers VIII Timing and Funding Levels IX Investigations APPENDIX I Terminology II Details of Some Candidate Research Tasks | SECRET. Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : A kDF96-00789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release OORPCRET 4 Preface (S) This report presents an integrated and systematic approach for investigating psychoenergetics phenomena within the DoD. Psychoenergetics includes classes of human capabilities generally referred to as parapsychological, or PSI, phenomena. There are two main categories, informational and energetic, that can be further defined as!: 1. Remote viewing (RV)/Extrasensory Perception (ESP) --- ability to describe remote geographical areas or to describe concealed data via undefined transmission mechanisms. 2. Psychokinesis (PK) -- mental ability to influence physical or bio- logical systems without use of Known physical mechanisms. (S/NF) Investigations in this program build from the most promising work identified in previous psychoenergetics efforts (e.g., the GRILL FLAME project). Phenomena with sufficent evidence for supporting their reality (e.g., remote viewing) receive application emphasis from program on-set. Phenomena that are uncertain or have not been sufficiently researched receive validation emphasis until the particular effects can be statistically demonstrated (e.g., PK influence on sensors). Even if valid, some of those effects may not be strong enough or sufficiently repeatable for applications; however, they may be significant for phenomena understanding in general and could assist in other PSI applications. TL 1 Other aspects, and more detailed descriptions of various terms common to this research area are listed in Appendix I. SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 ER RR ROO B9R002100280001-3 (S/NF) Emphasis is placed on developing and adhering to strict scientific evaluation methods and experimental protocols throughout this program, and various reviews will occur frequently. SECRET | Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : SEARS  bo7ssR002100230001-3 I. (U) BACKGROUND 1. (U) US Investigations: (S/NF) Investigations of some aspects of PSI phenomena have been sponsored by various U.S. Government agencies since 1971, when CIA initiated work on remote viewing (RV) with SRI International. Since then, seven DoD elements, most of them from the Intelligence Community, have been involved at various times. (S/NF) Starting in 1981, a three-year integrated intelligence effort began (the GRILL FLAME Project), with funds mainly from DIA and Army INSCOM, and with DIA providing central management. Main thrust of this project was to evaluate the threat that foreign psychoenergetics achievements might pose. to U.S. national security, and to explore the potential of psychoenergetics for use in U.S. intelligence collection or in U.S. military operations. Key findings of this joint project were: (a) (S/NF) Remote viewing (RV) is a real phenomenon and ‘is reproducible. Remote viewing data do not appear to be degraded by long distances or by shielding. Significant foreign psychoenergetics research activity exists in the Soviet Union and in China, which is well funded and has high-level government backing. Consequently, a potential threat to U.S. national security exists from foreign use of remote viewing, and possibly from other aspects of psychoenergetics phenomena. (b) (S/NF) Methodologies for training personnel in the use of remote viewing, and in improving remote viewing performance, can be developed. (c) (S/NF) Remote viewing has potential as an intelligence data collection tool, although at this stage of development descriptive content (e.g., configurations) is more reliable than analytical content (e.g., function, purpose). Consequently, remote viewing could become a highly Approved For Release 2000/08/08C FIK-RPP96-00789R002100230001-3
SG1B Approved For Release 2000/08/63 ORIRDP96-00789R002100230001-3 valuable adjunct to existent intelligence collection methods for some types of applications, and would be especially significant for cases where no other intelligence collection method is possible. However, remote viewing must be developed further to expand on application options and to improve reliability, especially for complex intelligence or operational problems. Remote viewing training techniques in later stages of development show promise for enhancing reliability and performance for tasks requiring analytical data. (S/NF) Key findings from the GRILL FLAME Project have been factored into the considerations of this report. Significant psychoenergetics research in open laboratories, institutes, or academic facilities in the U.S. and worldwide, was also reviewed. If this research showed positive results and potential for improving phenomena utility or for phenomena understanding, similar research was also considered for this program. (C) Research in biophysical | neurophysiological, psychological, and -other areas iM] also be examined in this program if there is some potential for helping in phenomena understanding or for assisting in identifying new psychoenergetics research approaches. Approved For Release oooosi0® COA! kbP96-00789R002100230001-2
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Approved For Release 2000/08/08 GAR PFE 4 00789R002100230001-3 II Program Scope (S/NF) This is a multi-year (5 year) research and development program that investigates operational usefulness of various aspects of psychoenergetics for the DoD. | (S/NF) Thus, direct application investigations and application-oriented research that assists in improving utility are pursued. Potential intelligence applications are emphasized, although other military applications may be possible and are also considered. (C) Research that examines possible theoretical issues and that may lead to phenomena understanding is also performed. Although some of this work may be basic research with uncertain application potential, the identification of explanatory mechanisms for the phenomena may assist in determining phenomena characteristics and could help in the applications arena. | (S/NF) Evaluation of the threat potential of psychoenergetics phenomena from Communist countries is also central to this program. Part of this effort would include duplication where appropriate, of the most significant of the known foreign work to evaluate their potential achievements. (S/NF) Both information (RV, ESP) and energetic (PK) aspects of psychoenergetics phenomena are investigated, although emphasis will be on RV for the initial phases, especially for applications work. (U) The applications and phenomena understanding research span many fields, making this program highly diverse and interdisciplinary. SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3 SECRET III Program Objectives (S/NF) There are several program objectives: 1. To improve utility of the most promising remote viewing (RV) applications | identified during the GRILL FLAME project, and to incorporate them into real time operational usage within DoD. 2. To identify and evaluate feasibility of other RV applications, including complex intelligence and operational tasks. 3. To examine a wide variety of possible energetic (PK) effects so that validity of the phenomena can be evaluated and to identify their potential for military applications. 4. To evaluate (via replication), where appropriate, known or suspected foreign psychoenergetics research to determine credibility of the work and its possible threat significance to US national security or to military systems. ' 5. To examine those aspects of psychoenergetics that show promise for developing countermeasures against possible use of psychoenergetics by foreign countries. 6. To pursue in-depth research that can assist in improving utility, and research that might help in phenomena understanding from both a theoretical modeling or a transmission mechanism viewpoint. It is likely that PK effects offer the best chance for phenomena understanding, since a wide variety of scientific instrumentation and sensors can be applied to this problem. (S/NF) Activities that help achieve these objectives include: Approved For Release 2000/08/08: SGiA-RBP9$-00789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release samanaies «=i 61°) = Mahaanee aeiaaaiaaan 1. Further development of RV training methodologies for a variety of applications, to include those suitable for enhancing analytical content of the data. Methodologies for selection and identification of people who have psychoenergetics talent and for skill development, in both RV and PK phenomena, will also be developed. 2. Development of suitable experimental and operational data bases to permit adequate statistical evaluations so that phenomena repeatability, and application reliability, can be quantified. 3. Further development of the most promising evaluation methodologies identified during the GRILL FLAME project, and expanded to include PK phenomena. | 4. Thorough identification of all aspects of investigation protocols and safeguards required for the wide variety of research and application projects that are pursued. ’ 5. Evaluation of a wide variety of factors and techniques that impact on psychoenergetics performance and utility. Methods for minimizing their effects if they decrease reliability, or methods for utilizing these effects if they improve reliability will be identified. Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : QE-RYP96H0789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3 SECRET IV Resources Required (S/NF) To achieve these objectives, the program will have both external and in-house expertise spanning a wide range of diciplines. Some of this will come from people who have a demonstrated track-record in this research area; others may have only indirect association (or none at all), but may contribute to this program if their research has potential for phenomena understanding. Others may be involved as consultants so that the widest interdisciplinary viewpoints can be applied to this program. This resource mix will insure that the peer group review and scientific interactions are maximized. (S/NF) The facilities involved range from academic laboratories to contractor and government facilities. Some of this work will be unclassified and can be released to the public according to guidelines developed in the program. Classified aspects, such as direct operational investigations, would be subject to close-hold compartmental security control. (S/NF) Since this program builds upon the observations and conclusions developed from the previous intelligence-sponsored GRILL FLAME project, some of its most promising applications and research investigations will continue so that program continuity can be maintained. (S/NF) Other facilities, including academic institutes and a variety of contractor and government research centers, will be brought into the program as soon as practical in this multi-year effort. Specific facilities involved and their time phasing would depend, among other things, on funding sources available, proposal evaluation and contract negotiation time, security considerations, various operational issues and research problems and their priorities. (C) Financial resources for this program should be as stable as possible, especially for long-term applications and basic research projects. This is Approved Far, Release 2000/08/081 GUA RRRP¢ONZEORAOMOGAZHOAtBeved. Ft et nS eS ee
Approved For Release 2001081 ECR EP oo reoRo0e 00230001-3 V Program Management (S/NF) To optimize program effectiveness, there should be: - Central management. . An executive review board. . A tasking review team. 1. (U) Central Management: (C) In order to achieve a unified, integrated and coordinated effort over the wide variety of research and operational activities in this program, central management must be implemented and maintained. Central management | will be accomplished for USDRE by the Assistant Vice Directorate for S&T Intelligence. This individual will have full responsibility for all aspects of the program, including final review and approval of all operational efforts and all research tasks. As Central Manager, he will be responsible for task scheduling and time phasing, for chairing frequent data review and evaluation sessions, for insuring that the total effort is fully integrated, and for a variety of other program management issues. The Central Manager will also insure that contract issues are clearly defined and appropriately monitored, and will provide central control for administrating financial aspects of the program. (C) The Central Manager will also assemble a special scientific advisory group to provide expert advice on various program technical issues. 2. (U) Executive Review Board: (C) This board would consist of executive-level representatives from the principal DoD elements (R/D and intelligence) involved in this program. Observers from other DoD elements may be included on a strict need-to-know basis if they could be potential users of the techniques developed in this program, or if they might otherwise contribute in later phases of the effort. Approved For Release 2000/08/085€)A,RUP96-00789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release 20001088 cCRET This board would be primarily responsible for management - related issues, such as human-use, legal, release-of-information, and program security guidelines. Other responsibiliszties would involve resolving priority conflicts, and assisting in resource procurement. This board would also provide executive review of project. activities and findings on a periodic basis to assist in overall evaluation. Close coordination between this board and the central manager would be maintained. 3. (U) Task Review Team: (C) The task Review Team will be the working arm of the Central Manager. Team members will be composed of representatives from all the principal R/D and intelligence elements involved in this project. They will identify details of specific tasks, recommend task priority and time phasing, prepare research requests and evaluate contractor proposals, recommend facilities for conducting the investigations, and will in general attend to all the technical aspects of the program. This team will also be responsible for insuring that appropriate data evaluation method, investigation protocols, and scientific methodology is applied to all aspects of the operational and research efforts. (U) Findings and recommendations from frequent reviews would be provided to the central manager as inputs for possible task revision or priority changes, or for other program actions. (C) Additional review of project findings and investigation protocols would be made by the Central Manager's scientific group. Their findings and recommendations would be made available to the Task Review Teams, the Executive Review Board, and the Central Manager on an annual basis. ved For Release 'CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3 Approved For Releas poooioside FCA: Mork
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 Gla 9 PHF-00789R00210023000" -3 (S/NF) This would include, for example, determining if certain physiological parameters, psychological traits, or states of consciousness could correlate with successful psychoenergetics ‘functioning. Such possible correlations. would be useful for predicting data validity and improving application reliability. Quantifying the effects of possible physical variables, such as _ distance, shielding, target location, target characteristics, or environmental factors, would help in identifying operational constraints. (S/NF) Applications research includes development of all data evaluation methodologies so that statistical significance and confidence levels can be determined for each type of application. Central to this effort would be the continuing investigations into psychoenergetics skill identification, development, and enhancement for the various classes of phenomena and types of applications considered. Techniques for improving data interpretation: or for isolating valid data from the spurious would be pursued, as well as other applications research issues. - (S/NF) The application research effort would investigate and attempt to simulate appropriate foreign research in order to assess its significance for threat assessment work. They would also investigate potential countermeasure to possible foreign use of psychoenergetics phenomena. (S/NF) Since this research examines both informational (RV, ESP) and energetic aspects (PK) of psychoenergetics, a broad range of research tasks would be levied on various university laboratories, contractor facilities, and government research facilities where appropriate scientific instruments, shielded rooms, or other resources are located. Approved For Release 2000/08/68|; GIA*#RDP96-00789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3 SECRET 3. (U) Basic Research: (C/NE) This research would require assistance from basic research laboratories at universities and contractor facilities. Main focus would be on investigations that define theoretical models and fundamental physical (and mental) mechanisms that help explain the various types of psychoenergetics effects. Physical and psychological scientists and those from other disciplines (such as medical, biology, neuro-physiology) would be involved in this exploratory work. Some of this effort would complement investigation of the empirically based applied research. (S/NF) This basic research could include, for example, long distance remote viewing experiments to deep submarines or orbital platforms for evaluating possible electromagnetic transmission models. A variety of experiments would be developed for electromagnetic, quantum mechanical, or other physical theories that have been advanced as possible explanatory models for the phenomena. Issues involving brain/mind, consciousness/subconsciousness or cognitive research would be examained for clues that might suggest how PSI information may be received, processed, and presented to consciousness, or how energetic PSI phenomena (PK) are mediated. PK effects, for example, may involve a complex interaction between mental and physical states. Some form of electromagnetic frequency may be generated by the central nervous system that interacts with surrounding material for some types of PK phenomenon. Issues such as these, and many others, would be explored by the basic research effort. Approved For Release 2000/08/08 /¢f4-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3
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Approved For Release 2000/08/08 = CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3. SECRET. VIII Timing and Funding Levels (S/NF) The overall time period for this program will be about five years. The initial year would be mainly for data base collection and review so that detailed tasks can be prepared for the various application and research objectives, and for preparing proposal requests. | Other project activities during this first year would include identification, contact and eventual selection of the appropriate support centers, and the preparation and administration of the initial external contracts. Tasks and potential contractors would be time phased according to the nature of the topic investigated, on how this work relates to other program research priorities, on the availability of appropriate support personnel, and possibly on security issued such as clearance processing time. (S/NF) In addition to detailed program planning, some research and applications work would occur during this first year. The most promising research and applications in remote viewing identified during the former GRILL FLAME project would be continued. Otherwise, technical expertise and psychoenergetics skills developed during the GRILL FLAME program would not be available for the new integrated DoD psychoenergetics program. (S/NF) The final year would concentrate on evaluating in detail the operational utility and reliability of the most significant psychoenergetics applications, on detailed assessment of foreign threat potential from psychoenergetics, and on developing possible countermeasures. (S/NF) The bulk of the applied and basic research would occur during the third and fourth year. A greater portion of the financial resources required during this period would be for investigating energetics (PK) phenomena. PK research requires a variety of scientific equipment for detecting a broad range of possible signals and for data reduction and analysis. Approved For Release 2000/08M= CIF-ROP96-00789R002100230001-3
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002100230001-3 (C) Estimated costs, in ($) millions, are shown in table I. FY-84 Applied Investigations 0.2M Applied Research 0.7M Basic Research 0.1M Data Base Collec- tion and data base Management 0.2M TOTALS 1.2M SECRET TABLE I ESTIMATED PROGRAM COSTS FY-85 FY-86 FY-87 FY-88 FY 84-88 2.7M Approved For Release 2000/08/08, -CIN-RIDA96-00789R002100230001-3