Approved For Release 2000/0 - CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The principle observations deriving from our experience thus far with client remote viewers is that, first, there is considerable evidence for successful remote viewing, there is less variability in overall performance among the viewers as a group, than there is from trial to trial with a given viewer, These observations are exemplified by viewer 518, Some of the highest quality remote vicwing we have seen came from the series with Viewer 518 describing remote slides; whereas, this particular viewer was the least successful, four weeks carlier, in a serics involving the description of remote geographical locations. Our findings that a viewer may be able to describe and identify alphabet letters is a most encouraging development. Previously we have obtained only very nonanalytic descriptions of letters, with the viewer failing when he was asked to identify the letter. We consider this new result deserving of further work, and we plan to pursue it during the remaining months of this program, Extension of the RV process to include reading would constitute a significant breakthrough for operational applications, The data indicating that a viewer can describe an individual slide as it is shown on a screen answers an important question; namely, whether the viewer is able to focus his attention on a particular slide of interest, or whether his viewing would become generalized to the actual location associated with the slide, This observed degree of specificity indicates that contamination of specific targets may not be as great a problem as one might hypothesize. 52 SECRE Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000 DGB faidhelapDP96-00788R001300100001-7 Further, in the trials with extended remote viewing (ERV), it appears that the viewer was able to identify significant elements of a hidden object in cach of the trials, These trials were carried out under con- ditions of tight security, and the results indicate a level of reliability that suggests that the more lcisurely pace of these trials might be beneficial to a viewer in his efforts to avoid premature analysis or labeling, and to rid his mind of material from the day's activities which might otherwise overlay his perceptions of tho target. Further work is required, however, before a definitive comparison of RV and ERV can be made, The procedures developed for yielding success on coordinate remote viewing (CRV) also appear to be fruitful, and will be employed with the remaining client personnel during their second orientation period at SRI. In the coming months we will complete the judging of all trials and work with the remaining four viewers whom we expect for two-weck periods of work at SRI, With regard to further work, it appears extremely desirable to establish and determine some measures, physiological and/or psychological, to determine when a viewer is providing accurate as opposed to inaccurate data, One approach involves training the viewer to develop the ability to discriminate, himself; that is, to label each of his data bits as correct, analytical overlay, and so forth, As this report goes to press, we have evidence that a procedure we have developed to do this is producing success in this area, As a complementary approach, several reports in the literature during the past decade indicate that galvanic skin response (GSR), clectromyo- graph (EMG), and measurements of blood volume with a plcthysmograph may 53 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
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