SG1 I
   Approved For Release 2000/08&ECRENPAQM787ROO0500250023-7
   March 10,, 1978
   SG1 I
   Dear SG1J
   Since you will be keeping track of = program,
   would send you copies of a series of memos on my
   the program. Enclosed is the first batch.
   With best regards,
   H. E. Puthoff., Ph.
   Senior Research Engineer
   Radio Physics Laboratory
   HEP:dlt
   Enc.
   I thought I
   ideas about
   U CI-A"'
                                          I A
   SRI International
   333 Ravenswood Ave. e Menlo Park, California 94025 (415) 326-6200 Cable: STANRES, Menlo Park TWX: 910-373-1246
                             Approved For Release 2000/08/ CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0500250023-7
   O~F'CRET TENTATIVE

   
      ved For Release 2000/08/9-(969Vdff87R000 AMCM
  "it
  SG1J TO: DATE: 10 March 1979
  FROM: H. E. Puthoff LOCATION: 44 SG1J
  SUBJECT: R&D Aspects of Psychoenergetics Program (U) CC:
  With regard to the mix of R&D versus operational or semi-operational
  efforts, I wish to enter the following comments on the record.
  The temptation, having seen good remote viewing, is to blitz through
  a series of targets and assess the ability on that basis. However, I
  would opt against such a procedure in favor of an alternative approach
  for the following reason. Basically, we are in the position analogous
  to an individual who might naively pack uranium ores into bomb shapes
  and find that some percentage of them achieve criticality and detonate,
  while others do not. For him the temptation might be to make a lot
  of them to determine the success rate and then assume that he can
  count on that percentage. However, a better approach for the long
  run is to step back, carry out R&D on the various factors involved so
  that understanding and control can be achieved, and then proceed with
  manufacture of a high-reliability product.
       . Similarly for our field, I think it is better to pull back from
  applications and place the emphasis on R&D at this point, if we truly
  wish to develop a program to determine the exploitation potential of
  this field.
  Classification Determination Pending. Copy No. 3
                                   Protect as though Classified SECRET This document consists of 1 page
  SRI 8-4121
  Approved For Release 2000/08/07SEM~PB&M-fS7ROO0500250023-7
  SRI 2903 R2

   d For Release 2000/08/&ECcR(-WMMSTON87ROO05MEnMo
   oioo -
       SG1J TO: DATE: 7 March 1978
   FROM: H. E. Puthoff LOCATION: 44 SG1J
   SUBJECT: Psychoenergetics Program Policy CO) CC:
        Since we have established in our research that good feedback to
   the data source (subject) is necessary for maintaining a high quality
   product, it is important that we provide As much feedback as possible;
   this is what provides continuing correction to the subject to aid in
   improvement of the remote viewing skills. '
        With regard to our recent effort, since the visual feedback is
   classified beyond the subject's clearance level (which is only SECRET),
   I would like to request that we make an effort to obtain something at,
   the SECRET level for feedback to the subject (U-2? artist's rendering
   as we did for-earlier Price work?).
        For the long haul, I think we should consider SI/SAO for the
   subjects working on the more sensitive projects if we are serious about
   obtaining good results. In the absence of good feedback, subjects'
   abilities extinguish (the Decline Effect, one of the best-validated
   characteristics of psychoenergetic functioning). We don't yet know
   whether this is due to psychological factors only, or whether it pre-
   vents stabilization of some mechanism in a substantive way (like
   learning to ride a bicycle without kinesthetic feedback). In any
   case, lack of visual feedback to a subject doing remote viewing is
   definitely established to be a known handicap.
        Presumably with proper control we can still assure ourselves that
   a cleared subject has not had access to data on a given site before
   remote viewing takes place.
   Classification Determination Pending. Copy No.
                                     Protect as though Classified SECRET This document consists of I page
   SRI 8-4122
   Approved For Release 2000/08/08EOR16-MFItrngff&7ROO0500250023-7
   vr
   SRI 2903 R2

         SG1J
         Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0500250023-7
         Next 1 Page(s) In Document Exempt
         Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0500250023-7