Approved For Release 200 2MalejeetaiA Se TP 96-00788R001800060001-7 Cc. Other Countries A "Free World" study, which would focus primarily on psychoenergetic research in the United States, Britain, and possibly Japan, among other countries, has been recommended as a possible intelligence project for FY '83, Such a study is warranted by the increased activity in psychoen- ergetics research taking place worldwide as evidenced by the expanded effort at SRI International (Menlo Park, CA) and by new research programs at Princeton University, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company (Huntington Beach, CA), Bell Laboratories (Columbus, Ohio) and elsewhere, SRI is currently awaiting instructions from DIA as to the scope and format of such analysis and the time-frame for its commencement and completion — Other institutions in the United States include: * American Society for Psychical Research, New York, NY e Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD * City College of New York (Department of Psychology), NY * Duke University (Electrical Engineering Dept.), Durham, NC e Eastern Michigan University (Dept. of Sociology), Ypsilanti, MI e Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man (FRNM), Durham, NC ° Institute of Noetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA * Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS * Midwest Psi Research Institute, Chicago, IL * Mind Science Foundation, San Antonio, TX * Parapsychology Foundation, New York, NY e Psychical Research Foundation, Durham, NC Psychophysical Research Laboratories, Princeton, NJ * Sctence Unlimited Research Foundation, San Antonio, TX * Stanford University (Psychology Department), Stanford, CA * St. John's University (Psychology Department), Jamaica, NY « St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, PA * Syracuse University (Communications Studies Lab), Syracuse, NY * University of California, Davis (Dept. of Psychology), Davis, CA * University of Virginia (School of Medicine Dept. of Psychiatry), Charlottesville, VA * Washington University (Physics Dept.), St, Louis, MO e é 7 SECRET Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7
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Approved For Release 2002) kia ehapeenpmas 6 -00788R001800060001-7 E. Plans The principal aim of the FY '83 DoD/SRI intelligence program is to bring to completion the archival effort for all intelligence data and materials that have been collected to date, This objective will be accomplished primarily through the completion of a simple intelligence database management system. In order to achieve this end, SRI intends to implement new, updated software, to write the necessary applications programs for easy data retrieval, and to provide a readily understandable manual for the end-user, This system will enable us to inventory, in the most effective manner possible, the intelligence gains acquired during the SG1B three-year DoD/SRI program, . Cie “pEMapAc aim" ABOVE uisrory |! 10 SECREI— Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7
Approved For Release 2002/05/87 P96-00788R001800060001-7 IV GRILL FLAME REMOTE VIEWING (RV) PROGRAM A. RV Phenomenon--Definition Remote viewing (RV) is the ability of certain individuals to access and describe, my means of mental processes, information blocked from ordinary perception by distance or shielding. Targets for remote viewing have ranged from small objects in nearby light-tight cannisters to remote technical facilities at intercontinental distances, from numbers generated at random in a computer, to nuclear tests ina foreign country, Successful viewings for the DoD/intelligence communities include: * A secret NSA facility, including codeword retrieval. ¢ Soviet R&D facility at Semipalatinsk (PNUTS). « Static tests of Minuteman and Poseidon solid-propellant missile firings in the Western United States. SG1B * ‘Circumstances surrounding release of Iranian hostage, Queen (obtained prior to release), a Pe il —SEEREr— Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7
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Approved For Release 2002S PNSHuiELDP96-00788R001800060001-7 Cc. RV_Phenomenon--Scientific Support PU RPPOTE High-quality anecdotal reports of such phenomena can be traced back through millenia of history by scholarly research. Such reports are not confined to history, however, but have continued to persist into the modern age, even when brought under scientific scrutiny with the founding of the British Society for Psychical Research in 1882, a date that in a certain sense marks the beginning of formal investigation of psychoenergetic phenomena by the scientific/academic communities .* Beginning with a seminal paper on remote viewing published by SRI researchers in 1976 in the Proc, IEEE ,° well over a dozen major similar studies have been carried out and reported in the literature, the bulk of which have been successes, (For a summary, see recent review article by R. Jahn, Dean of the School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University.*). As a result of this work, carried out over a number of laboratories, a scientific data base has been established from which certain conclusions can be drawn: (1) Descriptive material about remote locations can be obtained which exceeds chance correlation,.°7* (2) The quality of description appears to be relatively insensitive to distance,°"* (3) Detailed analysis of the patterns of correct/incorrect response elements indicates that the laws governing remote viewing are not askew to, but correlate with those laws governing (a) Cerebral (brain) functioning, specialization, and cognitive processes in general .® (b) Subliminal perception in particular.® (4) Although the mechanism of transmission is as yet ~ undetermined, the observed results are not necessarily incompatible with electromagnetic’ or quantum models ,° and thus a rapprochement with physical theory cannot be ruled out. 1B, Inglis, Natural and Supernatural: A History of the Paranormal, ee a ranorma t Abacus Press (1979), “J. Arthur Thomson, The Outline of Science (in 4 Vols,), G. P, Putnam's Sons (1922), 15 SECRET Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7
Approved For Release{ PAY Et! A St FE Py78s8R001 800060001-7 4, Puthoff and R. Targ, "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances," Proc, IEEE, Vol. 64, pp. 329-354 (March 1976). “rR, Jahn, "The Persistent Paradox of Psychic Phenomena: An Engineering Perspective," Proc, IEEE, Vol, 70, pp. 136-170 (February 1982). ® 3, Ehrenwald, "Cerebral Localization and the Psi Syndrome," J. of Nervous and Méntal Disease, Vol. 161, No. 6, pp. 393-398 (1975). °nN, F, Dixon, "Subliminal Perception and Parapsychology: Points of Contact ," Proc, 27th Annual International Conference of the Parapsychology Foundation, New York, NY (1978), 71, M, Kogan, "Is Telepathy Possible?” Radio Eng,, Vol. 21, p. 75 January 1966); F. Blau, Telepathy, private publ. (April 1981). Sr. OH. Walker, "Foundations of Paraphysical and Parapsychological Phenomena," in Proc, Conf, Quantum Physics and Parapsychology, Parapsychology Foundation, New York, NY (1975). 16 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7
Approved For Release 20 I—-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7 D, RV Process To carry out a remote viewing (RV) session, a "remote viewer" and an "interviewer" begin by seating themselves at the opposite ends of a table in a special remote viewing room equipped with paper and pens, a tape recorder, and an overhead TV camera to permit recording for documen- tation, or monitoring by individuals outside the room. The room is homogeneously-colored, acoustic-tiled, and featureless, with light con- trolled by a dimmer, so that environmental distractions can be minimized. The session is begun by the interviewer providing to the remote viewer whatever targeting information is appropriate to the task at hand, such as the coordinates of a military site, or a picture of an individual. Under normal testing or operational conditions, the interviewer is typically kept blind as to the Site, etc,, so as to prevent inadvertent cueing or leading. The session then proceeds with the interviewer repeating the targeting information at intervals, posing questions, etc., and the remote viewer providing quick-reaction responses, both verbally and by means of notes and sketches, until a coherent response to the overall task requirement emerges, (The use of the quick-reaction-response procedure has been found useful in minimizing imaginative embellishment of basic raw-data Signals.) There is no use of drugs or technology to produce an "altered state of consciousness," session time at a single setting rarely exceeds an hour, and thé ambience of the session is kept as natural and stress~free as possible, 17 SEGREL. Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7
Approved For Release 200m REE ADP 96-00788R001800060001-7 E. Personnel Historically, the search for medi cal /psychological/personality measures that might provide a quantitative "psychic profile" has been unsuccessful, Several years of observation by workers in the field has, however, led to an informal guide based on subjective evaluation of the personality traits of successful viewers, This rule-of-thumb guide is based on the observation that successful remote viewers tend to be confident, outgoing, adventurous, broadly successful individuals with some artistic bent, and ’ possessing "middle-of-the-road" views about psychoenergetic functioning, Neither "total skeptics" nor "true believers" tend to do well on psycho- energetic tasks, Rather, good remote viewers seem to come from the ranks of generally successful photographers, engineers, mathematicians, artists and businessmen who have a relaxed interest in the phenomena and are challenged by it, Recently, SRI researchers cooperated with a private group (Mobius Group, Los Angeles, CA) to conduct a mass RV screening test, with psycho- logical profiling, through a major magazine publication.» The data base of several thousand entries is sufficiently large that profiling infor- mation may be forthcoming from this test, teers * S. A. Schwartz and R. DeMattei, "Psi-Q Test II," OMNI, p. 136 (October 1982), 18 SEGRSL.. Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7
Approved For Release 200 RE Per 26-00788R001800060001-7 F, Product of RV Technology et BY The steps in producing a product from remote viewing (RV) sessions is as follows: (1) (2) (3) (4) The individual designated a "remote viewer," in conjunction with an interviewer, generates raw data in the form of a tape-recorded transcript of verbal comments, along with notes, sketches and drawings, On occasion a videorecording of the session may also be made. The raw data is summarized in a one or two-page cover sheet(s), and affixed to the typed transcript and associated notes, sketches and drawings, and the data package turned over to the consumer for analysis, Following preliminary analysis, the above procedure may be iterated a number of times to produce additional data in response to analyst questions, Finally, the analyst fills out an evaluation sheet covering the usefulness of the RV product (see following pages), and the data is integrated into the overall intelligence mix in whatever way is appropriate, 19 —“SFERET Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800060001-7