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Approved For Release 2 ER BR oo 88roo ts00sao001-1 Attachment #1 Description of Training Procedure a. Tasking SRI International has been tasked during the FY'81-'83 period to work toward the development of RV enhancement procedures that accommodate DoD needs, Of particular interest are the development of procedures that can be transmitted to others in a structured fashion (i.e., "training" procedures), and that can be used in targeting on distant sites of military or intelligence significance, b. Six-Stage RV Enhancement Procedure At the beginning of the DIA/Army Joint Services Program (FY'81), SRI, in “conjunction with its sponsors, made a decision to go forward with developing and codifying the most promising RV enhancement procedure that had emerged from earlier work, a six-stage training procedure developed by SRI consultant I, Swann. The procedure focuses on improving reliability of remote viewing by controlling those factors that tend to introduce noise into the RV Product. The basic components of this procedure consists of (1) repeated target-address (e.g., Coordinate) presentation, with quick-reaction response by the remote viewer to minimize developing imaginative overlays, (2) the use of a specially- designed, acoustic-tiled, featureless, homogeneously-colored viewing chamber, to minimize environmental overlays, and (3) the adoption of a strictly- prescribed, limited interviewer patter to minimize interviewer overlay. <A broad overview of the procedure, derived empirically on the basis of a decade of investigation into the RV process, is presented in Ref. 1. At this stage of near-completion of the development, the RV training procedure proceeds through a series of six stages of proficiency hypothesized to correspond to six stages of increased contact with the target site, These are outlined in Table 1. Ina given remote viewing session an experienced remote viewer tends to recapitulate the six stages in order. * Ref, 1: H. E, Puthoff, RV Reliability, Enhancement, and Evaluation (U), Final Report, SRI Project 3279-1, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (February 1982), SECRET/NOFORN, 15 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1
Approved For Release 2000/0 G7 @ Bf RDP 96 -00788r001300340001-1 Contents of Stage One Training * General orientation * Major Stage One signals, lectures and practical exercises e Major sources of noise, lectures e Stage One signal identification, lectures and practical exercises, e Specific components of Stage One signals, lectures ¢ Specific components of noise interference, lectures e Types of major Stage One signals, lectures and practical exercises, e Simultaneous handling of signals and noise, practical exercises, * Objectification procedures, lectures and practical exercises * Analysis of signals, lectures and practical exercises e Anomalies encountered in signal identification e Self-correcting mechanisms inherent in signal/analysis, lectures e Methods of recording, preparing and presenting work materials, lectures and practical exercises, * Culminating features of Stage One signals, leading to emergence of Stage Two signals, lectures. e Final checking to ensure that competency has been gained concerning Stage One phenomena, Contents of Stage Two Training ¢ General orientation * Major Stage Two signals, lectures and practical exercises e Separating Stage Two signals from Stage One signals « Specific characteristics of Stage Two signals, lectures ¢ Types of major Stage Two Signals, lectures and practical exercises ¢ Simultaneous handling of signals and noise, Practical exercises e Stage Two objectification procedures 16 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1 SECRET Analysis of Stage Two signals, lectures and practical exercises Culminating characteristics of Stage Two signals, leading to acquisition of Stage Three types of signals. Final checking to ensure that competency has been gained concerning the ability to identify, decode and handle Stage Two phenomena, Contents of Stage Three Training General orientation The three major Stage Three signal lines, leading into increased flexibility concerning discriminating site characteristics, lectures and practical exercises. Reduction of noise: general orientation, lectures and precise monitoring of signal lines, leading to flawless signal/noise identification. Why Stage Three competency indicates threshold operational status, lectures. Exhaustive practical exercises on all three types of Stage Three signals. 17 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1
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Approved For Release 2000/08 R/C pp poPs6-00788r001 300340001 -1 Attachment #1 Verbal Description of the Project The purpose of the FY 1984 Evaluation project is threefold: to refine further the RV Evaluation procedures developed in FYs 1981 through 1983, to develop additional RV procedures to assist in quantifying the RV product, and to evaluate additional raw data as it is generated. The foundation procedures upon which further development will proceed are two: a O - 3 point Accuracy Rating Scale (attached), which can be used to provide a "bottom-line!" assessment of the accuracy/quality of individual elements in a transcript, or of the transcript as a whole; and a concept-by-concept evaluation procedure, which leads to a weighted average overall score. 0 TO 3 POINT ACCURACY RATING SCALE FOR TARGET/TRANSCRIPT CORRESPONDENCE LEVEL OF CORRESPONDENCE ~ DEFINITION 0 LITTLE OR NO CORRESPONDENCE SELF-EXPLANATORY. “A MISS.” 1 SOME CORRESPONDENCE MIXTURE OF CORRECT AND INCORRECT ELEMENTS. ENOUGH OF THE FORMER TO INDICATE POSSIBLE “ACCESS” TO THE SITE, ALTHOUGH CHANCE CANNOT BE RULED OUT “AMBIGUOUS.” 2 GOOD CORRESPONDENCE GOOD DESCRIPTION WITH SEVERAL ELEMENTS MATCHING, BUT SOME INCORRECT INFORMATION. “A HIT.” 3. EXCELLENT CORRESPONDENCE EXCELLENT DESCRIPTION. UNAMBIGUOUS UNIQUE MATCHABLE ELEMENTS, WITH RELATIVELY LITTLE INCORRECT INFORMATION. “EXCELLENT HIT." 23 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1
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a a iJ oa, EE SG1J Approved For Release 2000/08 HE fe f-FOP96-00788r001300340001-1 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. The format for carrying out these tasks is as follows. A request for information concerning a target site is transmitted by the client to the DIA ——_ theCloint Service Program corr_/ in residence at SRI. He then provides targeting information (e.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 linet! 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 session 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 their 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 library/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), SECRET/NOFORN/GF. 26 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1
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Approved For Release 2000/08/R/C RIA pOP96-00788r001 300340001 -1 Attachment #1 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. 29 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1
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Approved For Release 2000/08/07: ClIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1 SECRET Attachment #1 Verbal Description of Project With regard to RV Jamming/Ambient ELF, SRI International will provide the appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to accomplish the following tasks: (1) (2) (3) Search and summarize the literature that indicates that geomagnetic storm activity and other factors that produce fluctuations in the ambient ELF bands (<300 Hz) can degrade psychoenergetic performance. Construct an ELF detector that can monitor ambient ELF fluctuations in the local RV chamber. Examine the statistical correlation between RV per- formance (on an appropriate series of trials carried out in the RV chamber) and the ambient ELF fluctuations to determine whether measurement of ambient ELF can be used as an indicator of expected performance, and whether optimum performance windows can be identified. 32 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1
| a are | | ia a bial Approved For Release 2000/0 REY 6 Fe fe FOP96-00788r001300340001-1 II PROGRAM FINANCIAL STATEMENT A. Budget In FY 1984 all funding for psychoenergetics research comes from non-GDIP sources. This was done to stay within the U.S. Congress guidelines that prohibited GDIP funds being spent on psychoenergetics projects. The arrival of money at SRI to fund the research and training comes, very often, late in the fiscal year. This past fiscal year was typical in that a portion of the money arrived comparably early and part did not “arrive until the fiscal year had been completed. The problems this creates have been presented many times in the past. Table 1 PROPOSED FY 1984 BUDGET (a) CONTRACTS (1) DIA (via DRE via ASG) $600K (2) DIA (Intelligence) 79K (3) Army 486K why pie (b) TASKS' BUDGETS pone he 1. RV Enhancement S 85K \ 2. Alternate Training 85K 3. Targeting 25K 4. PK 150K 5. Data Base Management 25K 6. RV Evaluation Methodology 50K 7. Operational RV 10K 8. Training (Begin & Adv) 126K - Pred 9. Selection & Screening 115K - Ares 10. ELF 65K- Aven 11. Search RV 165K~ Avy 12. Administration & Communication 15K 39 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788r001300340001-1