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I AM LTC JACHIM, PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE INSCOM PORTION OF
DOD PROJECT GRILL FLAME,
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH BACKGROUND
INFORMATION CONCERNING INSCOM'S INVOLVEMENT IN PROJECT
GRILL FLAME. THIS BRIEFING IS DIVIDED INTO THREE ME. PORTIONS$
9 FIRST, THE HISTORY OF INSCOM'S INVOLVEMENT AND THE RIES
OF DIA AND INSCOM IN TIE PROJECT.
e NEXT, A DISCUSSION OF REMOTE VIEWING AND EY91PLES OF COMPLETED
PROJECTS FOR WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED THE REQUESTOR'S EVALUATION,
* A14D, FINALLY, A REVIEW OF THOSE PROJECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
BUT NOT EVALUATED,
FIRST TIE HISTORY OF INSCOM'S INVOLVE11ENT. IN TIE FALL OF 1978,
ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO DMIINE IF PARAPSYCHOLOGY COULD BE USED
TO COLLECT INTELLIGENCE. FOR OUR PURPOSES PARAPSYCHOLOGY IS
DEFINED IN TWO MR CATEGORIES:
FIRST* PHYSICAL ACTIONS PERFORMED BY MENTAL POVERS THAT
BE EXPLAINED BY KNOWN PHYSICAL MEANS. ) THIS
IS KNOWN AS TELE10ESIS OR PHYCHOKENISIS, AND
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SECOND, PERCEPTIONS WHICH CakLX_WINED THROUGH
(KNOWN SENSORY MEANS.) THIS IS KNO14N AS ESP, TELEPATHY
AND REMOTE VIEWING.
SPECIFICA-LY, IfUOM'S TASKING WAS TO DETERMINE ,IF RE110TE
VIEWING COULD BE USED AS. A COLLECTION METHOD@ REMOTE VIEWI NG
IS DKEFLINEDiAS THE ABILITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL.,TO ACCESS INF- WTION
PREVIOUSLY UNKN@NYWIPOUT REGARD TO TIME, LOCATION, OR ANY
=T TO H@. IDE THE TARGET FR%1 A COLLECTOR,
TO MEET ACSI'S TASKING INSCOM ESTABLISHED A PROJECT TEAM UNDER
THE ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR HUf1AN INTELLIGENCE.
THE CRITERIA DEVELOPED TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING WOULD
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BE A VIABLE COLLECTION METHOD WAS AS FOLLOWS:
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FIRST COULD REMOTE VIEWING BE.-LEARNEIP. NEXT COULD REMOTE -5-L I DIE
VIEWING T. APPLIED AS A COLL CTION MERUD? AND, FINALLY,
COULD REMOTE VIEWING TO COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS IN
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FIRST@CUD REMOTE VIEWING BE LEARNED:) SRI INTERMTIONAL,
AN ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER IN THE FIELD OF PARANORMAL RESEARCH,
WHICH,JS! LOCATED IN MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIALED UPON "k
ESTABLISHED PHYCHICS, WHO USED THEIR INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES
TO REMOTE VIEW. INSCOM, USING THE P22NALITY TRAITS MD
CHARACTERISTICS COMPILED BY SRI DURING THEIR WORK WITH
THESE PHYCHICS, SCREENED APPROXIMATELY 250 INTELLIGENCE
PERSONNEL WITHIN THE BALTIMOREAINGTON AU, LOOKING FOR
PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS. (BASED ON SRI OBSERVATIONS,
SUCCESSFM REMOTE VIEWERS TEND TO BE CONFUNT, affLMNG,
ADVENTUROUS, BROADLY SUCCESSFUL INDIVIDUALS WITH SOME ARTISTIC
BENT, ) WE MED MUCH OF THIS INFORMTION FROM COffNDERS
AND SUPERVISORS, WE THEN CONDUCTED OVER 100 INDIVIDUAL
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INTERVID!,,S. AFTER A- SERIES OF- SCREENINGS AND INTERVIEWS,
NINE PEOPLE WERE SELECTED. REY WERE A MIXTURE OF MILITARY
AND CIVILIAN, OFFICERS AND ENLISTED, MEN AND WNN, AFTER
ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS WITH THE SRI SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN
PHYCH IC RESEARCH, SIX WERE SELECTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA FOR
TWO WEEKS OF ACTUAL TRAINING. UPON THEIR RETURN TO FORT MEA1
THEY CONTINUED IN AN IN40JSE TRAINING PROGRAM MOIDEB AFTER
THE SRI TRAINING PRU. TO DETERMINE 01 LONG THIS TRAINING
SHOULD LAST, SINCE NO ONE HAD ATTEMPTED TO TRAIN PHYCHICS,
GUIDANCE WAS AGAIN SOUGHT FROM SRI. BASED M THEIR
JUMIENT AN 18 To 24 MONTH TRAINING CYCLE WAS ESTABLISHED,
MILESTONES DURiNG THIS FIRST PERIOD WERE: RE FALL OF 1978
THROUGH FEBRUARY 1979 - PERSONNEL WERE LOCATED; FROM FEBRUARY
1979 THROUGH DECEMBER 1979 - INITIAL TRAINING AT SRI IN CALIFORNIA
AND FORT ME/ff- WAS UNDERTAKEN. INSCOM'S FIRST TRAINING SESSION
WAS CONDUCTED ON 28 FEBRUARY 19791
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AFTER THE PERSONNEI WERE LOCATED AND TRAINING HAD BEGUN,
THE NEXT QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED APPLIED TO THE SECOND AND
THIRD CRITERIA CONCERNING OPERATIONS. THAT IS, COULD REMOTE
VIEWING BE APPLIED AS A COLLECTION METHOD? IF SO, WOULD
THE INFORMATION BE OF R-UMNABLE ACCURACY AND ACCEPTED AND
USED BY THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST WHO RECEIVE THE PRODUCT,
FINALLY, COULD REMOTE VIEWING RESPOND TO COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS
IN A TIMELY MANNER?
WORK TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS WAS OVERCOME BY EVENTS, IN
SEPTEMBER 1979, ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO LOCATE A MISSING NAVY
.AIRCRAFT. THE ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED WAS A PICTURE OF
AM S
THE TYPE AIRCRAFT MISSING AND THEN OF THE CREW, WHERE
THE AIRCRAFT WAS OPERATING WAS NOT DISCLOSED. O@ 4 SEPTFJ13ER
THE FIRST OPERATION& REMOTE VIEWING SESSION TOOK PLACE,
IN THIS INITIAL SESSION, THE REMOTE VIEWER PLACED THE AIRCRAFT
TO WITHIN.15 MILES OF WHERE IT WAS ACTUALLY LOCATED. BUD
ON THESE RESULTS, INSCOM WAS TASKED TO WORK AGAINST ADDITIONAL
OPERATIONAL TARGETS. THESE TASKINGS FORCED A PREMATURE HALT
TO THE INITIAL TRAINING PHASE. @IN-IECEMBER 1979, THE PROJECT
WAS COMMITTED TO OPERATIONS$,
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DIFFERENT ROLES OF DIA
AND INSCOM* SINCE THERE APPEARS TO RAVE BEEN SOME BLURRING OF
THESE DISTINCTIONS IN THE PAST.
DIA IS CONCERNED WITH:
* ASSESSING THE THREAT, PRINCIPALLY FROM THE SOVIET
UNION AND CHINA,
0 'DETERMINING COUNTERMEASURES TO ANY U.S. VULNERABILITIES.
* AND, DETERMINING THE POTENTIAL OF REMOTE VIEWING
USING ESTABLISHED PSYCHICS.
DIA PERFORMS THIS FUNCTION PRIMARILY THROUGH CONTRACTS AT SRI,
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INSCOM IS -kPP--LY1,RG REMOTE VIEWING TO ASSIST IN ITS EVALUATION
AS A ULECTION MPD,
AND4TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING
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MJIL-LDW By PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL WHO ARE
@LT ESTABLISHED PSYCH.1CS6
OUR REMOTE VIEWING COLLECTION IS DONE WITH ASSIGNED-PERSONNEL*
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AND WE C-MM Y FOR SPECIFIC 11EIS WHICH jEN OUR
COLECTION. FOR EMIPLE:
@ WHICH TARGETING METHODS HAVE THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY
OF SUCCESS,
e CAN THE ACCURACY OF A REMOTE VIEWER BE DETERMINED
FROM AN ANALYSIS OF HIS STATEMENTS?
e CAN THE SRI NEW TRAINING TECHNIM INCREASE THE
9AITY AND MIABILITY OF COLLECTION:
THIS CMUM THE BACK9= PORTION OF THE BRIEFING,
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THIS BRIEFING HAS COVERED OF INSCOM AND THE GRILL
FLAME PROGRAM,, PROGRAM, AND sorf oF
AND LOCATING PLAjS, MA J.. -11mr.
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COULD BE RECEIVED. ANDWE ALSO WISH
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'IES OF A REMOTE VIEWER
UAWLZ RATHER THAN JUST REPORT, Ilffa THE
WITY,ANHUIABILITY OF REMOTE VIEWING AND
PROVI DE SOME,=C
AOBUT THE REMOTE VIEWING
PRODUCT,
I N SUMMARY:
SLIDE THE COLLECTION OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH REMOTE VIEWING HAS DEMONSTRATED
ITS VALUE. REMOTE VIEWING IS M.'@AK-ERRM T, IT IS A AM95a.,
*ii-&-TjW,,eMEJR0, THE PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS WHO ASSIGN
US PROJECTS, EVALUATE US BY THE INTELLIGENCE WE PRODUCE, REMOTE
VIEWING SHOULD BUT SHOULD BE USED IN CONJUNCTION
WITH INFORMATION FROM OTHER INTELLIGENCE SOURCES,
SLIDE ARMY REMOTE VIEWING IS NOT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, IT IS *WT110A,
Ot-ECTIft REMOTE VIEWING IS W. IVE, It MiSIC THEW-,-10,
V ENSE AND THERE I S fV@V XPF W.UCT 104 -Wf ROM I SE
THIS CONCLUDES THE BRIEFING, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?
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