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(U) The following is an i.ssessment of how well the
contractor f ill-ed the contract stipulations as provided for in
Statement of Woric ESU 83-1.34. Numbering corresponds directly to
the format of the orifyin@il statement of work. PaF
C, ,e numbers in
parentheses refer to pages in the draft final. report.
Section 1.2, MAJOIZ GOALS
a. (S/Cl.-2/.NOFORN) PHAS1, I Mot only partially. C EN TU 1@
LANE personnel. were not considered in determining the testings
profiles finally concluded upon as ideTItifying personnel with 1U
aptitude. Testing profiles arrived at are of debatable worth in
scree.ning for l-)rospective RV personnel.
1) (S/CL-2/NOUORN) PHASE 11: IMet only partially. Only
one "solf-rof)ort" test was used (MBTI-J), wbich was contrasted
against the "still -under -development" (p. 7) PAS personality
profiling system. Results were inconclusive, but indicated
little direct correlation. The secbnd part, applying identified
profiles against a general. test population (Omni psi test
respondants) appears not to 'have been clone.
C. (U) PHASF, T T 1: Apparently not met. At the very least,
INSCOM personnel were not tested against randomly selected
targets. Only sliglit indications exist in the report (see
paragraph 4.4b below) -that any other personnel were ever tested
in this fliannor; no indications exist that personnel showing "no
talent" were -tested against -these same targots as control.
d. (U) Evaloation: Delivered in draft final report.
Evaluation was equivalent in quality to First 2 pftases.
lZecommendat ions we r e brief , a n J one--selecting all new
psychoenergetic pa r t i c i pa n t son the basis of t, h e, PAS
guidelines--is questionable, based on the incompleteness of the
research performeci.
2'. 00 Specific J'asks
2.1 (U) PHASE I
a., b., c., d., and e. (IT) Accompl. i shed Personality
profile was collected from identified personnel, and the
extended Wechsler was administered as stated by individuals
listed. Data was analyzed using the PAS concept, results were
employed to designate certain "profiles of interest," ano these
were then used in extrapolation.
f. (IT) A satisfactory interim report was not pro'vided.
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2 . 2 (11) PHASE -I T
a . ( U) Accomplished. Sclf-rcport data was collected
as stated.
h. 0J) Partially accomplished. Only the MBTf form J
was used in obtaining self-report information.
C. ( 11) Unknown . No detailed summary of analysis
procedures or results was provided in report.
d . ( U) Accomplished, but relevance was doubtful.
e. (U) Accomplished, but methodology, 'Cind the results
and their implications, if any, were riot clearly reported.
f. 0J) No satisfactory interim report received.
2.3 PHASE ITT
a. (S/CL-3/NOFORN) Not satisfactorily accomplished.
Possible profiles were suggested as indicating likely psi.
ability, but negative profiles were not specifically indicated.
Rather, it was left to assumption that profiles -riot designated
as positive indicators were by default indicators of negative
ability. This despite the fact that 69 of the thus-far
established 80 PAS reference groups were not represented, and.
thercfore riot tested for presence or absence of psi ability.
b. ( (J) At best only partially completed. I NSCOM
personnel were not so tested, and little data is presented in
the final. report indicating that anyone else was so tested,
either (see paragraph 4.4h below).
C. (S/CL-3/NOFORN) Probably riot accompli shed. No
indications exist: in the final report that either q) criteria
were dcvel.oped to determine personnel. lacking RV potential, or
b) that such personnel were run against the set of targets as
specified in 2.3, b., above.
d. U) Not accomplished. No comparison of this nature
is ref erenced in -the f inal report , nor arc result s f roin such a
comparison presented or discussed.
0. M) Indications are that no reliable determination
for personality testing-based selection of potential RV
personnel was arrived at in Phases I and TI. According to the
stipulations outlined in this paragraph, the contract should
have been terminated before Phase III.
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3. (U) Security (N/A)
4. 00 Deliverables:
4.1 (S/CL- 3/NOFORN) Delivered. What was presented in the
draft final report probably does represent state of the art for
RV personnel selection. However, it would have been reasonable
to expect a much more thorough and professional package than was
actually delivered.
4.2 0J) Not delivered. A letter d-ated 21. December 1983,
and signed by Dr. Ed May, may have been. intended as -the Phase I
progress report. If so, it was not only not laheled as such,
but did not in any way meet the requirement as delineated in. the
statement of work,
4.3 (0) Not delivered.
4.4 OJ) Not delivered. None of the specified three copies
of the final. report had been received as of 4 February 1985.
a. (U) Partially delivered. Test evaluations and
comparisons were brief and inconclusive.
h . (S/CL-3/NOFO1ZN) Not delivered. The only remote
viewing results provided were listed in Table 3 (p. 21.), for a
total of seven trainee personnel. These "results" consisted. of
numerical factors representing '11@V Learning" and "RV Figure of
Merit" categories, but included little useable information as to
how these figures were arrived at. No results whatsoever were
provided for those "not identified as talented," who were to
have been run. against the selected ran.dom targets.
C. ( 10 Unsatisfactorily met . The s umma. r yand
recommendations provided were sketchy and easily arrived at
through common sense and an elementary knowledge of
psychological screening vehicles. Some recommendations wcre
questionable basod on a thorough analysis of the research
performed (See 1.2d, above), and some were actions that should
have been accomplished in the course of the study in question.
(See pp. 28-29)
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