Eee Approved For Release 2000 EERE TEE RD Poe -00792R000500350002-3 CENTER LANE-3/NOFORN 3. (U) CAS Against Real Targets (Application). . 2... 2 2 2. 23 G. (S/NF/CL-3) Client—Controlled Long-Distance Test of Agent Building Search, Facility Level (Continuum). . . coe es eee 24 1. (U) Long-Distance “Agent” Search . . 2... 2... eee 24 2. (U) Long-Distance “Building” Search . . 2... 26 V (U) Summary. . 2... 2. et tele 28 A. (U) Overview... 2... eet eee 28 B. (U) Focus of Investigation . . 2... 2... soe 28 C. (U) Recommendations for Follow-On Actions. . . . oe ee ee 29 - iii - SECRET Approved For Releasé 2000708418 =5C1AFRDP96-00792R000500350002-3
P96-00792R000500350002-3 D ED Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : SIFI UNCLASS ILLUSTRATIONS Search Matrix. 2 2 2... ee eee; 5 Binary Approach to Target Location eee ee ee ke kk kw ke 14 Probability of Error, FR, with and without Use of a Simple 5-Bit Majority-Vote Code, | |, kl; tee te ek 16 Random Binary Task Performance, Percipient #642. ce ee ee ke ek 19 Random Binary Task Performance, Percipient #730, 0 tt 20 Choice Histogram for Percipients 531 and 859 . eee ee ee ew ew 27 TABLES Table of Mean Distances. . 2... 1. ee ete eee . 6 HP 41-C Program: Cumulative Binomial Distribution . ee ee ew tw ew ew 8 HP 41-C Calculator Program for 5~Bit Majority Vote Code . oe ew ew ek 17 Binary Data Summary . cee ee ee 18 Results of Basic Investigation se ee ee ee ke ttt 23 Long-Distance “Agent” Search: Client-Determined Target Sites, . . . |. 25 -iv- Approved For ReleaswAbGidsAS SIF Hrd96-00792R000500350002-3
se 2000/ : 6-00792R000500350002-3 Approved For Relea CENTER LANE-3/NOFORN I OBJECTIVE (U) (S/NF/CL-3) The objective of this effort at SRI International is to investigate a particular aspect of psychoenergetic phenomena called Target Search. This search technique is designed to determine the location of objects, individuals, and facilities where the potential target area can range from room— to global-sized dimensions. -1- SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/18; GIASRDP96-00792R000500350002-3
OO ee RR Re Ota eee NN es, Approved For Release 2000TSSEIGTURATRRD P96-00792R000500350002-3 CENTER LANE-3/NOFORN II INTRODUCTION (U) A. (U) General (S/NF/CL-3) A continuing requirement in military operations is determining the location of tactical and strategic military targets of interest, whose positions are not known or are known only approximately. Examples range from the location of (1) a “bug” in a secure facility, (2) a command post in a tactical situation or (3) a submarine in a strategic problem. (S/NF/CL-3) A potential match to the above requirement is a claimed ability in the broad field of psychoenergetic functioning; namely, the ability to search for and locate water, oil, minerals, objects, individuals, sites of archaeological significance, and so forth. This ability can be contrasted to the related psychoenergetic ability “remote viewing,” in the following manner. In remote viewing, the RVer is given location information (coordinates, “beacon” agent, picture), and (RV) asked to provide data on target content (e.g., BW R&D facility); in “search,” the RVer is given information on target content, then asked to provide location data (e.g., position on a map). The two functions are thus complimentary to each other. (U) The ability to locate targets is most often referred to as “dowsing” in the Western literature, and “biophysical effect (BPE)” in the Soviet/East Bloc literature. In this report, we Shall refer to such techniques simply as “search.” Although much of the literature is anecdotal," attempts to quantify the ability and to determine its mechanisms have been pursued. t *“(U) For the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the claims for dowsing, see Christopher Bird, The Divining Hand, E. P. Dutton, New York, NY (1979). T(U) See, for example, papers published by Z. V. Harvalik, beginning 1970, in The American Dowser, the journal of the American Society of Dowsers, (Harvalik is the ex—director of the basic research group of the U.S. Army Engineering Laboratories, Fort Belvoir, VA.) -~-2- “SPERET— Approved For Releasec20@88Aitc- ChMORBRI6-00792R000500350002-3
a a Approved For Release 20004 4GRUE R DP96-00792R000500350002-3 CENTER LANE-3/NOFORN (S/NF/CL-3) The goal of the present effort is to research the literature, then perform laboratory experimentation to determine whether, and to what degree, such functioning is a viable candidate for application to intelligence—collection tasks. This includes determining the best methods and efficiencies of various search techniques, and the appropriate statistical analyses for evaluating results. B, (U) Search Categories (S/NF/CL-3) Search tasks fall into two broad categories of effort——-continuum and discrete. In the “continuum” search category, a target of interest is typically to be located on a continuum area map, such as a topographical map or navigational chart (e.g., for a tank or submarine, respectively). For this category, the target/response distances and circular error probabilities (CEPs) constitute the statistics of interest in evaluation. (S/NF/CL-3) In the “discrete” search Category, a target of interest is associated with a discrete number of possibilities (for example, the location of a missile in one of K silos, or the location of an agent in one of K cities). For this category, the appropriate statistic of interest in the evaluation of a series of location attempts is a comparison against the simple binomial statistic of the probability of obtaining an observed R hits in N trials, by chance. -3- Approved For Release 20PQ08/15: GI6rB RP 9I6-00792R000500350002-3