Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : GER RE Pere teootoonot2 abilities, and thereafter leave it to themselves to attempt to evoke spontaneous psychical displays. It is the definition of "training" that gives the CRV project a con- siderable difference from orientation and spontaneous displays of psychical aptitudes. "Training" implies a prefigured regime that will, if correctly applied, lead to predictable performance which, in turn, will yield superior results. Such a training program should be considered viable if, together with increasing discoveries, it continues to develop along lines of increasingly refined results and precision. The R&D training project has well established that predictable per- formance can be trained; and its results correctly extrapolated into use- oriented functions. Furthermore, the overall approach utilized in R&D continues to reveal increasingly refined capabilities which in turn, as of the close of the three-year project, imply pending entrance into some truly interesting areas of tactical concern. C. Epochs of CRV R&D and Training Exploration and development of Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) has gone through many phases: from random experimenting in 1974, ultimately to its substantive contents now isolated into a primary, but standardized, training course. Based strictly upon the increasing success of trainees, it is antici- pated that the CRV procedures will continue to increase in value as a practical applications tool. See Figure 4 below. It is nearly impossible to talk in detail of the complexity of the tasks of precision and perceptual-control which: which the viewer~-trainee is faced as he or she begins to try to achieve command over the signal line. The reality of the multiple tasks involved only become apparent to the trainees during the course of their training through each subsequent stage. 14 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : cB RORE-Jo7eeR001800100001-2 EXPLORATORY TO 1975 INTERVENING AREA TO 1976 PROBLEM OF SIGNAL vs NOISE TO 1078 FUNDAMENTAL PERCEPTUAL STUDIES TO 1979 AND CONTINUING ISOLATION OF THE IDEOGRAM TRAINING/LE ARNING — PRESENT AND CONTINUING INTENSIVE ENHANCEMENT AND CONTINUING PROJECTION OF OPERATIONAL READINESS AND CONTINUING FIGURE 4 EPOCHS OF COORDINATE REMOTE VIEWING (CRF), R&D D. The Precision of CRV R&D, aligned with training, have shown that "psychic" signals offer themselves up to interpretative consciousness through a predictable series of "signal impulses." This series starts with ''greatest'! meaning, and evolves into "specific" components. This predictable process has easily yielding "stages" each of which, in training, can be specifically tutored. SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CHROREP788R001800100001-2 It is important to establish, in the context of this first overall report on CRV training, that these tasks are of extraordinary delicacy and require precision control, as will be exhibited by the trainees upon completion of each stage of training. The psychological perspective that necessarily is required to surround this operation, should be seen as a new contribution to overall perceptual psi requirements. This psychologi- cal perspective should not be assumed to resemble any other forgoing idea of requirements in the area of general spontaneous psi displays. E. The CRV Training Course is Carefully Designed The most important task in creating the CRV training course was to come to grips with the subtle factors involved in accepting the fact that the self-generating creative faculties of the trainee would achieve prime importance. The second task was to design an approach that might incorporate psychic functions on a strict and repetitive basis, and yet not drive these emerging functions into extinction. The result has been the devising of a course of training that has produced satisfactory results in these very important areas. Analysis of learning patterns, display patterns that are recognizable in other disciplines of training in which a new performance-skill is gained through precision tutoring or coaching. See Figure 5 below. WHAT ARE WE ASKING THE TRAINEE TO DO? ® TO CONTACT A DISTANT SITE BY MEANS OTHER THAN NORMAL SENSORY EXPERIENCE TO ACHIEVE A COMPREHENSION THAT INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH NONSENSORY CHANNELS TO ACTIVATE PARTICIPATION IN THESE INFORMATION CHANNELS TO ACTIVATE AND FORM NEW SKILLS TO DO SO TO PUT THESE NEW SKILLS ON A CONTROLLABLE AND PREDICTABLE BASIS FIGURE 5 THE CRV TRAINING TASK 16 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : cS RGRE06788R001800100001-2 F. How is Progress Judged? It has transpired that the learning patterns of the CRV training do exhibit great similarities to other learning-patterned tasks in which a new skill involving consciousness interpretation vis a vis neuro-motor functioning is gained: (i.e., sports, musical performance, machinery driving, flying, navagating, etc.). We therefore interpret that the psychical component of CRV is not solely one of intellectual mentation, but one in which mental-physical performance is achieved. As with a number of fields, the elements of the performance of which respond to careful tutoring, we find, during the course of ORV training first a "spontaneous" performance closely related to the "first time! phenomenology. After that, as the trainee attempts to take over both on a cognitive level and on an unconscious habit-forming control of both physical and mental responses, we see a high elevation of "noise." Shortly thereafter, as the varied elements of the tasks become organized within the intellectual-mental attributes of the trainee, we see a quick "con- solidation" of the task aptitudes involved. At the end of this consoli- dating experience, the new skill or "plateau'’ emerges. See fig. 6 below. @ JUDGMENT OF PROGRESS TRIALS ——> epg pp renenpenrsipetesenvemrnet | rons INCREASE OF CONSOLIDATION CESS NOISE AND CONFUSION PLATEAU (NEW SKILL GAINED) FIGURE 6 CONSOLIDATION/PLATEAU PATTERN SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CR RORET788R001800100001-2 During the course of training on each element, within the "stages," the viewer-trainee will predictably progress through this progress pattern. Therefore, the results of each trainee both can be monitored while the training progresses, and his overall pattern of response can be displayed through the graph plan found in Figure 6 above. Actual graphs of selected viewers will be found in Annex A. The selected graphs are few to achieve optimum understanding; it should be borne in mind that all the viewers trained have responded with near similarity to each other. G. CRV Training Course Methods and Protocols The general elements of the CRV training course are presented below in Figures 7 through 9. (a) The design and establishment of the CRV training course neces- sitated a great deal of research into methodologies of other fields. The most effective instructional procedures ultimately utilized are found in Figure 8 below. (b) The CRV training course is comprised of a general design, whose elements are followed in each stage of the training. While each element is of importance in its place, the element pertaining to "reactive inhibition" achieves predominant placement. This has to do with under- standing the phenomena associated with "overtraining" the result of which causes the trainee to exhibit negative effects of disinterest, etc., the ultimate result of which is a type of inhibition in producing the desired elements of the training. In other psi research experiments, this inhibition achieved notoriety under the terminology of ‘psi-missing." It is a simple psychological effect that can be guarded against. See Figure 9 below. (c) The training course also includes several special features which are applicable to the psi task at hand in each stage. The feed- back protocol was designed to reinforce the trainee's contact with the SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
arr en Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : ODEGRE Fo788R001800100001-2 signal line but not to assist him with random cuing. The use of essays will exhibit the trainee's current understanding of each phenomena, and can be used to uncover areas of misunderstanding that the training monitor can not spot in advance. See Figure 9 below. @ EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES - ACTIVE PARTICIPATION: THE LEARNER (S ACTIVELY INTERACTING WITH THE CURRICULUM MATERIALS BY RESPONDING, PRACTICING, ANO TESTING EACH STEP OF THE MATERIAL TO BE MASTERED. INFORMATION FEEDBACK: THE LEARNER FINOS OUT WITH MINIMAL DELAY WHETHER THE RESPONSE IS CORRECT. IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK HAS SEEN SHOWN TO BE IMPORTANT IN A RANGE OF TASKS. INDIVIDUALIZATION OF INSTRUCTION: THE LEARNER MOVES AHEAD AT HIS OR HEA OWN ARATE. FIGURE 7 INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES @ GENERAL DESIGN OF CURRICULUM MATERIALS THEORY PRACTICAL EXERCISES ANDO DRILLS INFORMATION FEEDBACK © SIGNAL LINE *¢ COACHING ON CONTAOL OF STRUCTURE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF INSTRUCTION REACTIVE INHIBITION ENDING OF PRACTICAL SESSIONS DAILY REPORTS FINAL SURVEY FIGURE 8 GENERAL DESIGN SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CUSELP RPY788R001800100001-2 @ SPECIAL FEATURES - FEEDBACK PROTOCOL SILENCE, IF SOME STATEMENT IS WRONG © PROBABLY CORRECT (PC) ® NEAR (N) e CAN'T FEEDBACK (CFB) ® CORRECT (C) * SITE (S) USE OF ESSAYS CONSTANT OBSERVATION OF TRAINEES’ ATTITUDES CONSTANT SUPERVISION FOR POSSIBLE MISCOMPREHENSIONS OR MISUNDERSTANDINGS FIGURE 9 SPECIAL FEATURES - 20 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : cia oR Fedeeroots00100001.2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CUE RPTs8R001800100001-2 HH. Summary of Increase in Yields While there is, of course, yet a significant amount of work to be done, especially relative to training in the upper complex stages, the following generalized graph illustrates general increase of yields (1980-1983) in several categories of importance. See figure 10 below, CRV (acsocr vienna) POTENTIAL ADVANCE INCREASING ACCURACY mason Tim ORBAED DATA 1900 STATE FIGURE 10 FIVE-YEAR INCREASE IN YIELDS (1978-1983) 21 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800100001-2
et ee Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : ci} &PRFoF788R001800100001-2 = a ANNEX an Examples of Stage 1 progress in graph form - With reference to the consolidation/plateau pattern as shown _ in figure 6, each trainee proceeds to learn through four recognizable patterns of learning: spontaneous success, increase of noise as _ separate elements are dealt with separately, consolidation of the elements, and, finally, a new plateau of skill, In the following oi figure 11 and 12, the elements of two sponsor selected trainees J & K are shown, and these are compared with first group trainees B&C,. = It can be seen that the learning patterns are approximately the same, the end product being conscious control of the signal and —_ a generating of an accurate and noiseles signal line. Following figure 12 are four consecutive examples of sponsor _ selected trainee K at the culmination of the new plateau achieved as a result of stage 2. Stage 2 involves signal-line perception ar of delicate site features that must be handled and achieved ina manner totally different from Stage 1 techniques, Stage 2 techniques, mi however, often can generate a total site-comprehension, as the four samples indicate. -_ As of the writing of this report, two trainees (I & K) are nearing completion of stage 3, An additional report will be tendered -_ concerning stage 3 upon their completion. Stage 4 has been confirmed, packaged, and is awaiting delivery imal to training candidates who have successfully completed stage 3. ma _ 22 = Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : cn SORE dencotsoot00001 2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : \Y 2617/2 eeeeeanananaaaa TRAINING PERFORMANCE tay O43 (P17 10-7) PISLOPE) < 2.6 x 10°? NUMBER SESSION ELEMENTS TRIAL NUMBEA ISI, PHI) (VIEWER J) ty 7 O58 IP 1.9 109) PISLOPE) 8 x 10°3 NUMBER SESSION ELEMENTS : 5 g z : TRIAL NUMBER (SI. Pett) (VIEWER K) FIGURE 11 TRAINEES J & K PROGRESS GRAPHS, STAGE 1,pl. 23 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : cutee R Ed; ssr001800100001-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : "SECRET ee? TRAINING PERFORMANCE tyy 2-058 (P= 40105) PISLOPE) < 6 x 10-9 NUMBER SESSION ELEMENTS SPONTANEOUS RESPONSE TRIAL NUMBER (SI, PHI) (VIEWER B) ,, 7 O58 (Pe itn 107) PISLOPE!- 2.5% 102 NUMBER SESSION ELEMENTS s id Zu a2 55 om TRIAL NUMBER (SI, PH.1) (VIEWER C) FIGURE 12 TRAINEES B & C PROGRESS GRAPHS, STAGE 1,pl. 24 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : cin Mee Fs Ioare00 2001000012
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