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Jul
PURPOSE:
To inform the Chairman,
JCS and Secretary
of Defense,
of
a sensitive
intelligence project
(unclassified nickname GRILL FLAME)
that has received
close attention
from Congress and
the White House
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1.
(S/N0F0RN/0RC0N)
Since 1972,
the US Government,
including DOD,
has been
involved
in examining on a close hold basis,
potential uses
of Psychoener-
getics
(Parapsychology
-- PSI)
.
Three specific aspects
of psychic phenomena
are
of
interest:
Remote Viewing
(clairvoyance),
Remote Perturbation
(psycho
kinesis)
and Remote Communications
(telepathy).
Primarily, work has centere
on Remote Viewing.
(Note:
Remote Viewing
is the apparent ability by
some
to
"see" places,
events and persons
far beyond
their own physical location,
in the present,
past,
or
a future time.)
Support
for Project GRILL FLAM
has blown hot and cold due
to
a number of factors,
among them:
its uniqueness,
potential
for political mischief and fear
of public exposure
in the aftermath
of Watergate*
(S/N0F0RN/0RC0N)
In the early 1970s serious consideration
for PSI as an
intelligence gathering tool received great
impetus from what can only be des-
cribed as astounding successes
in Remote Viewing research by two laser physicists
at
Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park,
CA.
Using several apparent y gi
e
psychic
subjects,
the two scientists conducted a series of
CIA-sponsored
tests.
Much detailed,
accurate information,
some of
it previously unreported, was pro
vided on
a secret NSA facility,
the Soviet
R&D facility
in Semipalitmsk
(se e_
•nr 1
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cmerilla training bases
in Libya,!
It
is not reasonable to
assume that the
SRI researchers
haa or tried
to
nave
access
to closely held intelligence data.
Their honesty has not been validly
questioned.
(S/N0F0RN/0RC0N)
Since those original tests the CIA
for what they
admit were political reasons ~ dropped out
of
the picture
They continue
however,
to maintain a high state of
interest
in all on-going work.
Extensive
defense applications are apparent.
Within this framework the Services and
DIA have at one time
or another been involved
in numerous PSI
tests, mos
o
them applications oriented.
Army has been particularly active
in this regard,
and
for the past
18 months has developed a significant in-house capability to
examine the use of Remote Viewing
in intelligence collection.
A pudding pro
gram to explore Remote Perturbation has been ordered cancelled.
The Army
s
Remote Viewing project
is conducted by the USA Intelligence end Security Command.
ARMY review(s) completed.
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Recognizing the need for cautious,
prudent assessments at this point,
it
is
still fair
to
say that INSCOM’s preliminary efforts are impressive and call
for continued support.
As part of their analysis process
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ponding
to a select number of cleared consumers,
including the CIA and the
DOD Iran Task Force.
Work
is done on
a request basis.
Army
s goals are
to
determine the veracity of PSI claims and
if
found
to be Plausible, establish
parameters of operational accuracy,
reliability and repeatab ility.—The_U
Air Force has also developed good results
in
several cases.
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in the US
interest
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i-o assess
Soviet work in the area,
biHeved
to be many times grea t er
than our own.
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(S/NOFORN/ORCON)
DIA,
Army and Air Force intelligence are working
to
establish
a coherent program of
sufficient duration
to settle to our own
satisfaction pertinent PSI
issues.
Such a program should take from three
t
five years and
is low cost;
e.g..
Army budgeted
$150K for FY
81.
DIA h
agreed
to act
as the focal point
for
the interested organizations,
and
con
tracts will be joint.
This approach will serve
to
insure close coordination
and information sharing, while allowing each element
to maintain needed con
trol of
its scarce resources.
5.
(S/NOFORN/ORCON)
Army's program has been reviewed by the Surgeon General
for compliance with appropriate regulations and statutes,
as well as by the
Army General Counsel for legal ramifications.
No serious problems surface
^d their guidance
is being strictly followed.
In mid-1979,
the Under
Secre-
tary of
th1 Army and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research “d
ing ordered
a special ad hoc panel
to review and analyze past PSI work.
The
panel was composed of
scientists,
engineers and doctors,
and deliberate y
eluded several who were avowed "non-believers".
The result,
in the view of DIA
and Army,
is
a report
of negative tone which is somewhat flawed.
There are
a number
of unresolved questions and unfortunately the report re^
e*
side analysis or comment.
To compound
the problem,
the review panel
itself
was split" into distinct pro and con camps.
The most
significant result
is
that
the USDRE ordered curtailment
of all Program VI monies,
bu
po ®
objection to continuance of non-R&D intelligence applications efforts.
(S/NOFORN/ORCON)
US Government involvement
in this
field
is very sensitive
and
is closely monitored by Congress
(House Select
Committee on Intelligence
tins favorably disposed) /the Director,
CIA
(Deputy Director for Operations
and
IC Staff — also favorably
inclined);
and the National Security Council
(evidently favors).
(U)
A great deal
of
interest and work
is going on outside government,
in
*at appearf to be an upsurge of serious research.
Increasingly,
top quality
talent
is turning to what they consider a new frontier of science.
In
States ,
Dr.
Robert Jahn,
Dean of Princeton’s
School of Engineering,
is a good
example of
the caliber becoming involved.
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THE "PNUTS" EXAMPLE
One of
the earliest applications
of remote viewing
(RV)
to intelligence problems
was done
in 1974 when CIA, via SRI researchers, asked for
a description
of
the
site known
to the Intelligence Community as
"PNUTS".
The psychic was provided
the latitude and longitude and was
told
it was an R&D site.
*Two
of the more striking correlations are:
- The huge rail mounted crane.
- The presence of metallic gores which comprise a sphere
(or spheres)
buried underground.
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PSYCHIC TASK:
o Locate US Navy Aircraft
(A6E)
and crew,
missing somewhere
in the world.
INFORMATION PROVIDED TO PROJECT OFFICER :
o
Type aircraft.
o Names
of
two
crewman and duty station
(Oceana NAS,
VA)
.
o
Fact
that aircraft disappeared
several days previously on
a flight
from
Lynchburg,
VA,
to
the Pennsylvania border.
INFORMATION PROJECT OFFICER GAVE TO PSYCHIC:
o Xerox picture
of A6E copied from Jane
T s
.
o Names
of crewmen.
o
Stated mission
of
located
crew and aircraft
"somewhere
in the world."
RESULTS
:
o
I feel
like
I
f m on home turf
and... its not
big
and jagged
stuff,
its low
stuff.
I feel like I’m
in the Appalachians."
o
"Its
like
I
T m in
a small valley ... formed
by ridges.
And
the ridge on
the
right has
the... big knob and
the little knob."
o
"The name Lynchburg out
of nowhere, while
I was looking
for terrain."
Question:
"Which direction from Lynchburg?
Answer:
"I want
to
say northwest."
SUBSEQUENT KNOWNS
:
o Aircraft had crashed just northwest
of
Lynchburg
(see map)
.
o
As psychic
said,
both crewmen were killed.
o Psychic’s map analysis after
the
session pointed
to
a place about
15 miles
from actual crash site.
o Site was almost directly on
the Appalachian Trail,
at
a place called Bald
Knob
(the only
"Knob"
to be
found on
a map
sheet which covered thousands
of
square miles.
Proper map analsis would probably have
led
searchers
to Bald
Knob,
rather
that
15 miles off,
but
this
is rational
speculation.
NOTES:
o
A second psychic arrived
too
late
to participate
fully,
and without
formal
protocol,
was asked
to psychically
"dowse"
the map
sheet.
He arrived
at
a point
six miles from the
site.
o
Participants were asked
if
they had had any previous
information whatsoever
about
the missing aircraft.
None had,
although
it had been reported missing
in
a short Washington Post newspaper article some days prior.
o
Psychic provided
a mass of detail describing
the crash site,
terrain,
state
of crew and aircraft,
etc,
and as with all
sessions,
was tape recorded and later
put
into
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PSYCHIC TASK :
o Describe what
is located
at geographic coordinates contained
in sealed
envelope.
Coordinates were unknown
to
the psychic as well
as
session monitor,
and were not
read
or
shown during the
test.
TARGET
:
o Bridge
in mainland
China,
selected by the project officer from a "Series
200" map
sheet.
Target was one
of
a large pool
of mixed targets, which in-
cluded civilian, military and
"nothing"
(e.g.,
a point
in the middle of
the
Yellow
Sea)
variety.
RESULTS
:
o
"...A rather high bridge type structure .. .base of
it being high arch
shape things."
o
"More like an ordinary type railway suspension trestle bridge."
o
"I feel
a bank.
The edge
of
one side of
the bank
is
too regular.
I want
to
say
it
is
too regular,
that
its
got
a levee or polder along
it."
NOTE
:
o Psychic correctly named
the type target.
o Subsequent look at
the map revealed
that
the bridge
did span
a "levee" with
that
being the word used on the map
sheet.
o Given scarce personnel resources
and available intelligence
it was not
feas-
ible
to confirm/deny
the type
of bridge.
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PSYCHIC TASK :
o Describe what
is located at
the geographic coordinates given.
TARGET :
o
Soviet Air Defense Missile
Site.
RESPONSE:
o
Its
interesting,
I.
. .when
I turned around and looked,
I saw what appeared
to be some type of rocket blasting off.
It reminded me
of,
you know how an
SA
takes off
in
the desert,
a big blast around
it and
then you
see a streak
going up.
The target may be related
to
some type of
SAM site.
Some type of
rocket
.
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was selected from
'Series 200" map
sheet.
It was
in
fact labeled
as
a SAM
site.
o As usual,
target was one of
a large pool that had been preselected and
sealed
in envelopes.
The protocol calls
for random selection
(throw of dice)
of
a envelope just before
a test,
by someone not directly connected with that
particular
trial.
o
This particular
test was downgraded for accuracy by the project officer
because the psychic named
the place as
China rather than the Soviet Union.
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