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am LTC
Buzby*
Project Manager
for
1NSC0M Project
CENTER
LANE.
I
WOULD
LIKE
TO
INTRODUCE
YOU
TO
MY
DEPUTY/
BILL
RAY
/
AND
MY
Operations
Officer/
Fred
Atwater.
The
purpose
of
this
briefing
is
to
orient
you
to
a
unique
intelligence
collection
project
that
uses
the CENTER
LANE TECHNIQUE.
'
I
will
discuss
the
history
OF
THE
PROGRAM/
TRAINING/’
OPERATIONS/
AND
OUR
PLANS
FOR
THE
future’.'
Following the briefing*
I
would
like
to
give
you
a
tour
OF
OUR
OPERATIONAL
BUILDING/
THE
OVERALL
CLASSIFICATION
OF
THE
briefing
is
SECRET/, CENTER
LANE Level
A.
SiR/' CENTER
LANE
is
a
registered
Department
of
the
Army
Special
Access
Program.
That
status
and
the
sensitivity
of
the
CEN1ER
LANE
mission
require
us
to
adhere
to
strict
security
PROCEDURES.;
As
PART
OF
THOSE
PROCEDURES/
we
ask
all
personnel
who
receive
a
CENTER
LANE
briefing
to
complete
a
Security
Briefing
Certificate
that
acknowledges
an
acceptance
of
the
sensitivity
of
CENTER
LANE
information.-
Gentlemen/
I
have
a
record that
you completed
the
certificates
when
you
reviewed
the
CENTER LANE project with
LTC
FOX
in
late
January
1984.
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1 )
Sir,/
1 the
INSCOM
CENTER
LANE
Project
involves
the
use
of
psychoenergetics
for
intelligence
purposes.
Psychoenergetics
ARE
THE
PROCESSES
BY
WHICH
AN
INDIVIDUAL
MAY
PSYCHICALLY
INTERACT
WITH
OBJECTS'/
LOCATIONS/
ORGANISMS
OR
EVENTS.
THIS
INCLUDES
SUCH
DISCIPLINES
AS
PSYCHOKENES I
S
*
REMOTE
VIEWING,
AND
REMOTE
COMMUNICATIONS,
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The
CENTER
LANE
mission
is
to
use
pscho
energetics
to
ENHANCE
OTHER
INTELLIGENCE
COLLECTION
SYSTEMS;.
THAT
IS
SIGINT-,
in INI/
and
HUM INI.
Our mission
is
as
shown
on the
next chart.
CONDUCT
INTELLIGENCE
COLLECTION
AND
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
OPERATIONS
utilizing all
PSYCHOENERGETIC
processes applicable.
Train
selected
personnel
in
state-of-the-art
PSYCHOENERGETIC
INTELLIGENCE
COLLECTION
AND
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
TECHNIQUES ,
Expand
operational
capabilities
and training
beyond
the
CONFINES
OF
INFORMATION
COLLECTION
INTO
THE
FIELDS
OF
PSYCHOENERGETIC COMMUNICATION AND PSYCHOKENES 1 S
.
'[HE
US
ARMY.VS
INTEREST
IN
PSYCHOENERGETICS
GOES
BACK
TO
1872/
when
the
Surgeon
General
through
the
Medical
Intelligence
INFORMATION AGENCY
(MIA),
TOGETHER
WITH
DIA,
PUBLISHED
STUDIES
of
Soviet
Block
work.'
In
1976/' the
Missile
Intelligence
Agency
(MIA)
informally expressed
interest
in
US
replication
of
claimed
Soviet
experiments
in
psychokenesiS.i
’
SRI
developed
a
small
program
for
them
and
in
August
1977/
MIA
awarded
SRI
an
$80 1<
ONE-YEAR
R8.D
CONTRACT..’
DURING
THE
SAME
TIME,’ ANOTHER
DARCOM
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Agency;' the
Army
Material
Systems
Analysis
Agency
was
involved
IN
THE
INVESTIGATION
OF
REMOTE VIEWING CONCEPTS
WITH
SRI.
IhESE
EFFORTS
CONTINUED
THROUGH
FY
1980.'
IN
MARCH
1980/
WILLIAM
J.
Perry/
then
Under
Secretary
of
Defense
for
Research
and
Engineering; ordered curtailment
of
all
P6 monies
supporting
the
PROGRAM/ ’BUT
POSED
no
objection
to
continuance
of
non-R&D
intelligence
applications
efforts’.'
This
action
eventually
CAUSED DARCOM
TO CEASE
ALL
ACTIVITY..
( CHART CHANGE )
The
US Army
Intelligence
and
Security
Command's
INVOLVEMENT
WITH
PSYCHOENERGETICS
BEGAN
IN
SEPTEMBER
1977.
AT
THAT
TIME/'
AN
I NSCOM
ELEMENT
IMPLEMENTED
THE
GONDOLA
WISH
Program
which
was
designed
to
integrate
the
Soviet
and
East
European
psychoenergetic
intelligence
collection
threat
into
the
all-source
Operations Security
(OPSEC)
support
scenario.
By
Spring
of
1978 ; the
Army
ACSI
concluded there
was
sufficient
evidence
to
warrant
the
development
of
a
comprehensive
program
to
explore
military
applications
of
psychoenergetics.
He
cancelled
the
GONDOLA WISH
EFFORT;
placed
a
complete
security
ENVELOPE
OVER
ARMIES
INTEREST
IN
PSYCHOENERGETICS/
AND
IMPLEMENTED
a
NEW
PROGRAM
DIRECTED
TOWARDS
INTELLIGENCE
COLLECTION
USING
REMOTE
VIEWING'. ” THE
NEW
EFFORT
WAS
GIVEN
THE
UNCLASSIFIED NICKNAME GRILL
FLAME.
IN
OCTOBER
1978/ ACSI
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to
establish
a
program
using
psychoenergetics
for
INTELLIGENCE
APPLICATIONS
UTILIZING
REMOTE
VIEWING.
BY
SPRING
1979/
PROJECT
PERSONNEL
HAD
BEEN
SELECTED
AND
TRAINING
INITIATED.
1 HE MARCH
1980
PERRY MEMORANDUM WITHDREW
THE
PROGRAM
MONIES
SUPPORTING
PSYCHOENERGET IC
R&D EFFORTS,
BUT
IT
DID
NOT
PUT
US
OUT
OF
BUSINESS.-
IN
1981/
THE
ACSI
TRANSFERRED
TOTAL
MANAGEMENT
RESPONSIBILITY
FOR
THE
PROJECT
TO
INSCOM.
ALSO
IN
1981,’ a Joint Services GRILL
FLAME Committee,
consisting
of
DIA,
the
Air
Force
and
Army
was
formed'.
The
Navy
expressed
no
interest
in
participating
in
any
discussions,
and
later
the
Air
Force
Chief
of
Staff
directed
that
the
Air
Force
withdraw
from
THE
COMMITTEE
AND
ALL
PSYCHOENERGET IC
PROGRAMS.-
THIS
JOINT
SERVICES
EFFORT
WAS
FORMED
TO
IMPLEMENT
A
3-YEAR
COMPREHENSIVE
PROGRAM
DESIGNED
TO
DETERMINE
THE
OPERATIONAL
PARAMETERS
AND
USEFULNESS
OF
PSYCHOENERGETICS,
AND
ASSESS
THE
THREAT
THESE.
PHENOMENA
POSED
TO
NATIONAL
SECURITY.
WITHIN
THIS
JOINT
SERVICES
PROGRAM,
THE
ROLES
OF
DIA AND
ARMY
WERE
DISTINCT.
DIA
was
R&D
oriented
and
INSCOM's
GRILL
FLAME
Project
was
to
use
Remote
Viewing
as
an
operational
technique
to
collect
intelligence
and
to determine
if
Remote Viewing
could
be
learned
BY
PROFESSIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
PERSONNEL
WHO
WERE
NOT
"ESTABLISHED
PSYCHICS."
INSCOM
PARTICIPATED
IN
THIS
JOINT
SERVICES
EFFORT
UNTIL
THE
END
OF
FY
WHEN
THE
BUDGET
SUBCOMMITTEE
OF
THE
Senate
Select
Committee
on
Intelligence
(Senator
Wallop)
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ALL
PSYCHOENERGET IC
OPERATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
CONDUCTED
by
the
Army
in
the
(national
Foreign
Intelligence
Program
CNF IP)
.
1 The congressional conferees
agreed,
however,
to
let
DIA
complete
the third year
of
their
effort
and
directed
that
future
funding —
if
any
--
of
this
psychoenergetic
activity
be
budgeted
outside
the
NFIP.
So
in
the
Fall
of
1982„
in
keeping
WITH
THESE
CONGRESSIONAL
DESIRES
AND
WISHING
TO
MAINTAIN
THE
MOMENTUM
OF
EFFORT
ALREADY
ESTABLISHED,
THE
CG„
INSCOM
DECIDED
TO
CONTINUE
INSCOM' S
PROJECT
AND
PROVIDE
FUNDING
WITH
SECURITY
AND
INVESTIGATIVE
ACTIVITIES
(S&IA)
MONIES,
INSCOM
TERMINATED
FORMAL
INVOLVEMENT
WITH
GRILL
FLAME
AT
THE
END
OF
FY
82,
' AND
CONTINUED
ITS
EFFORTS
UNDER
A
PROVISIONAL
SPECIAL
ACCESS
PROGRAM
nicknamed CENTER
LANE.
Next
want
to
provide
you
with
an
overview
of
INSCOM
,
s
OPERATIONAL
EFFORTS OVER
TH
PAST
FIVE YEARS.
( CHART
,,, ON)
During
1979,
we
conducted
operational
missions,
A3
of
which
WERE
DEDICATED
TO
ASSISTING
THE
INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY
DURING
the
Iranian
Hostage
Crisis.
During
1980,
after
we
acquired
OPERATIONAL
EXPERIENCE,
'
OUR
OWN
SEPARATED
FACILITIES,
AND
INCREASED
MANPOWER,' WE
WERE
ABLE
TO
INCREASE
OUR
PRODUCTION
TO
386
OPERATIONAL
MISSIONS,' 154
OF
WHICH
WERE
STILL
DEDICATED
TO
Iran.’
Personnel losses
subsequently
resulted
in
a
sharp decline
OF
OERAT I0NAL
MISSIONS',
A
SITUATION
THAT
CURRENTLY
EXISTS.
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Overall,
in
the
past
five
years
we
have
conducted
more
than
700
OPERATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
COLLECTION
MISSIONS.
A
CONSIDERABLE
PORTION
OF
THESE
(OVER
200)
WERE
IN
SUPPORT
OF
THE
IRAN
SITUATION,
WHICH
THE
JOINT
CHIEFS
OF
STAFF
RATED
AS
BEING
QUALITATIVELY
EQUAL
TO
THOSE
OF
OTHER
INTELLIGENCE
SOURCES
AVAILABLE
TO
THEM.
Because
of
the
turmoil
that
historically
has
been
associated
WITH
THE
PROJECT,'
WE
HAVE
NOT
HAD
A
STABLE
PERSONNEL
SITUATION.
( CHART
CHANGE )
In
1979,
CG
INSCOFI
FORMED
A
task
force
CONSISTING
OF
PERSONNEL;
A
PROJECT
MANAGER,
AN
OPERATIONS/TRAINING
OFFICER,
A
SECRETARY/
AND
TWO
SOURCES
(RVers )',/
In
1980/
two
additional
operational
personnel
were
ASSIGNED.
BY
1980,,’ TWO
ADDITIONAL
OPERATIONAL
PERSONNEL
WERE
ASSIGNED
.
BY
1981,
WE
WERE
READY
TO
EXPAND
AND
RECRUITED
NEW
PERSONNEL
FOR
TRAINING
IN
THE
PROJECT.
BUT
BY
THE
END
OF
1981,
PCS MOVES
SEVERELY
HAMPERED
OUR
OPERATIONAL
CAPABILITY,
HAVING
BEEN DENIED
NF I P FUNDING AND ," THEREFORE /
A
TDA UNDER
THE GDIP
BY
CONGRESSIONAL
ACTION;
CG ,
INSCOFI
HAS
PROVIDED
OUT-OF-HIDE
PERSONNEL
SPACES
IN
SUPPORT
OF
CENTER
LANE
SINCE
THE
LOSS
OF
THIS
FUNDING
AT
THE
END
OF
FY 827
THE
FY
GDIP
INITIATIVE
WAS
POSTPONED
IN
LATE
AUGUST
(29
AUG
83),„
THAT
MEANS
CENTER
LANE
WILL CONTINUE
TO OPERATE WITHIN
I NSC0F1
AS
A
TASK
FORCE
WITHOUT
A
TDA.
We
have
submitted
an
FY
86-90
POFi
submission
that
will
PROVIDE
FOR
A
PERSON
ORGANIZATION,
CURRENTLY
WE
HAVE
PEOPLE
ASSIGNED
TO THE ACTIVITY.
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CHANGE )
Our
mission
statement
requires
us
to
train
personnel
to perform
Remote
Viewing,
Training
actually
began
in
1979/ -WITH
our
in-house
effort
to
introduce
selected
INSCOM
PERSONNEL
TO
THE
REMOTE
VIEWING
PROCESS.
DURING
1979/
WE
integrated
the
SRI
contracted
Orientation
Training
technology
INTO
OUR
IN-hOUSE
TRAINING
PROGRAM
WHERE
IT
IS
STILL
IN
USE
TODAY
FOR
NEW
PERSONNEL.
OUR
IN-HOUSE
TRAINING
DEVELOPED
FROM
THE
PRACTICAL
APPLICATION
OF
STATE-OF-THE-ART
PSYCHOENERGET I
C
TECHNOLOGY
DRAWN
FROM
ACADEMIC
INSTITUTIONS/
' SCIENTIFIC
LABORATORIES/
AND
RESEARCH
ESTABLISHMENTS
AROUND
THE
WORLD.
WE
TOOK
AN
ECLECTIC
APPROACH;
USING
THOSE
METHODS
WHICH
HAD
APPLICATIONS
POTENTIAL
TO
OUR
OPERATIONAL
REQUIREMENTS.
IN-HOUSE TRAINING
IS
COMPOSED
OF
PRACTICAL
EXERCISES/
LECTURES/
LITERATURE
REVIEW,
AND
OBSERVATION
OF
OTHERS.-
BY
THE
END
OF
1980,/’
WE
BEGAN
AN
ADVANCED
TRAINING
PROGRAM
USING
THE
HEMISPHERIC
SYNCHRONIZATION
( HEM I “SYNC )
PROCESS
DEVELOPED
BY
Robert
A.
Monroe
and
used
at
the
Monroe
Institute
of
Applied
Science
in
Virginia.
This
training
enables
source
personnel
(RVERS)
TO
ACHIEVE
STATES
CONDUCIVE
TO
PSYCHOENERGET IC
AWARENESS.
THIS
ADVANCED TRAINING
IS
BEING
FURTHER
REFINED
AND
CONTINUES
TO
BE
USED
TODAY.
IN
MID
1982,’
WE
BEGAN
A
NEW
TRAINING
PROGRAM
IN
COORDINATE
REMOTE
VIEWING
WITH
SRI.
THIS
NEW COORDINATE
REMOTE
VIEWING
OR
CRV TRAINING
PROCESS
SUBDIVIDES
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THE DETECTION
AND
DECODING
OF
PSYCHIC
IMPRESSIONS
INTO DISCRETE/
ACHIEVABLE
SKILL
LEVE.LS.
1 H I S
PROCESS
HOLDS
GREAT
PROMISE
FOR
REFINING
RV
AND
GIVES
US
A
METHOD
BY
WHICH
WE
CAN
BRING
NEW
SOURCE
PERSONNEL
UP
TO
AN
OPERATIONAL
PERFORMANCE
LEVEL
WITH
MINIMAL
DRAIN
ON OUR
LIMITED
IN-HOUSE
RESOURCES.
VIE
CONTINUE
TO
LOOK
FOR
ADDITIONAL
CONTRACTORS
TO
ASSIST
US
IN
MAINTAINING
STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNICAL
EXPERTISE.
(CHART
CHANGE )
1 HE
NEXT
PART
OF
MY
BRIEFING
WILL
COVER
INTELLIGENCE
COLLECTION
PROJECTS/’' THEIR
SPONSORS/
AND
OUR
SUCCESS
RATIOS.
IT
IS
IMPORTANT
TO
NOTE
THAT
ONE
COLLECTION
PROJECT
MAY
REQUIRE
ONE
OR
MANY
OPERATIONAL
MISSIONS
TO
SATISFY
ESSENTIAL
ELEMENTS
OF
INFORMATION
( EE 1 ) /
.
THE
IRAN
PROJECT/
FOR
EXAMPLE/
REQUIRED
OVER
200 OPERATIONAL MISSIONS.
In
1979 >
we
conducted
collection
projects
for
A
separate
SPONSOR
AGENCIES..'
IN
1980/
WE
CONDUCTED
A1
PROJECTS
FOR
SPONSOR
AGENCIES.
IN
1981/
'AS
MANPOWER
CONSTRAINTS
BEGAN
TO
LIMIT
OUR
CAPABILITY/
WE
CONDUCTED
ONLY
PROJECTS
FOR
SPONSORS.
IN
1982./
OUR
production
FELL
again
TO
JUST
PROJECTS
AS
WE
ONLY
HAD
ONE
OPERATIONAL
SOURCE
ASSIGNED.
IN
19837
WE
RECEIVED
1A
PROJECTS
FROM
SEVEN
DIFFERENT
"CUSTOMERS"
(USAINSCOM,
CIA/
NSA/ ACSL
ISA,
FBI/SS.
So
FAR
in
198A
we
have
RECEIVED
6 PROJECTS
FROM
3 DIFFERENT CUSTOMERS.
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In
summary/
over
the
past
years
INSCOM
has
conducted
100
COLLECTION
PROJECTS
FOR
A
NUMBER
OF
DIFFERENT
US
GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES'
OUR
SUCCESSES MUST
BE
EXAMINED FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES.
(CHART
CHANGE)
Over
83%
of
our
operational
missions
have
PRODUCED
ACCURATE
TARGET
INFORMATION’.
EVEN
MORE
SIGNIFICANT/
APPROXIMATELY
30%
OF
the
700
MISSIONS
produced
usable
INTELLIGENCE.
( CHARI
O FF)
Last year/ the
current
Under
Secretary
of
Defense
for
Research
and
Engineering
suspended
the
prohibition
against
utilizing
Program
funds
and
the
ACSI
made
arrangements
to
use
these
funds
to
support the
INSCQRi
CENTER
LANE
Project.
These
P6
funds
ENABLED
US
TO
EXPAND
OUR
EFFORTS
INTO
AREAS
WHICH
HAVE
BEEN
NEGLECTED
OVER
THE
YEARS
DUE
TO
LACK
OF
A
SUFFICIENT
FUNDING
BASE
.
We
HAVE
CONTRACTED
FOR
THE
FOLLOWING
EXPENDITURES
IN
FY
84:
(CHART ON).
Purchase
of
biomonitoring
equipment
to
be
used
to
DETERMINE
PHYSIOLOGICAL
CHANGES
DURING
THE
CONDUCT
OF
PSYCHOENERGETIC
TASKS.
Development
of
a
state-of-the-art
psychological
SCREEN 1NG/ SELECT ION
PROFILE
FOR
USE
IN
IDENTIFYING
POTENTIAL
SOURCES.;'
Such
a
profile
would
identify
personnel
who
may
have
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OR WHO COULD
BE
TRAINED.
WE
PLAN
TO
USE
THIS
STUDY
TO
ASSIST
US
IN
RECRUITING
NEW
SOURCES.
FUNDS
NOTED ARE
FOR
BOTH
SRI
AND
SRI
SUBCONTRACTS.
Determine
the
countermeasures
potential
of
extremely
low
FREQUENCY
(ELF)
ELECTROMAGNETIC
RADIATION./
THIS
EFFORT
WILL
EXAMINE
THE
POSSIBILITY
THAT
CERTAIN
AS
YET
UNIDENTIFIED
ELF
RADIATIONS
HAVE
A
DETRIMENTAL
EFFECT
ON
MENTAL
STATES
CRITICAL
TO
PSYCHOENERGETIC
PERFORMANCE
,
THIS
STUDY
MAY
ALSO
PROVIDE
INFORMATION
ON
ELF
ENVIRONMENTS
CONDUCIVE
TO
OPTIMUM
PSYCHOENERGETIC
PERFORMAN.CE
.
THE
LOGICAL
FOLLOW-ON
TO
THIS
EFFORT WOULD
BE
THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF
LOCAL
COUNTER-COUNTERMEASURES
environments
for
CENTER
LANE
SOURCES:'
Funds
noted
are
for
SRI
AND
A
SRI
SUBCONTRACT.
Development
of
a
new
psychoenergetic
technique
for
use
in
"search
problems.."
Over
the
years
sponsor
agencies
have
asked
us
to
assist
in
locating
lost
or
missing
equipment
or
PERSONNEL.-
BECAUSE
THIS
IS
NOT
A
CONVENTIONAL
REMOTE
VIEWING
TASK
WE
HAVE
HAD
LITTLE
SUCCESS
AT
PROVIDING
TIMELY
USABLE
INTELLIGENCE
IN
THESE CASES.
THAT-' S
NOT
TO
SAY
THAT
INFORMATION
WE PROVIDED WAS
INACCURATE,
JUST
THAT
IT WAS
NOT DIRECTLY
USABLE
TO
RESOLVE
THE
INTELLIGENCE
PROBLEM
AT
HAND.
IF
IN
FACT
A
NEW
PSYCHOENERGETIC
"SEARCH
PROBLEM"
TECHNIQUE
IS
DEVELOPED,
WE
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«
I
_
WOULD
ANTICIPATE
TRAINING
SOURCE
PERSONNEL
IN
THIS
TECHNIQUE
BECAUSE
"SEARCH PROBLEMS"
CONTINUE
TO
BE
PRIORITY
TASKS
RECEIVED
BY THIS
OFFICE.:
FUNDS NOTED ARE
FOR
SRI.
Continuation
of
Coordinate
Remote
Viewing
training
at
ENHANCED
LEVELS
FOR
ONE
SOURCE:
FUNDS
NOTED
ARE
FOR
SRI
AND
A
SRI
SUBCONTRACT.
Initiation
of
CRV
training
for
four
new
source
PERSONNEL:'
FUNDS
NOTED
ARE
FOR
SRI
AND
A
SRI
SUBCONTRACT.
I HIS
P6
MONEY
WILL
BE
SUPPLEMENTED
BY
S2.35K
I NSCOM
S&IA
FUNDS
WHICH
WILL
BE
USED
FOR TRAVEL
AND SUPPORT
FUNCTIONS
.
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