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        The US Army's interest in psychoenergetics goes back to 1972,
        when the Surgeon General through the Medical Intelligence
        Information Agency (MIIA), together with DIA, published studies
        of Soviet Block work. In 1976, the Missile Intelligence Agency
        (MIA) informally expressed interest in US replication of claimed
        Soviet experiments in psychokenesis. SRI developed a small
        program for them and in August 1977, MIA awarded SRI an $80K
        one-year R&D contract. During the same time, another DARCOM
        Agency, the Army Material Systems Analysis Agency was involved
        in the investigation of Remote Viewing concepts with SRI. These
        efforts continued through FY 1980. In March 1980, William J.
        Perry, then Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
        Engineering, ordered curtalilment of all P6 monies supporting the
        program, but posed no objection to continuance of non-R&D
        intelligence applications efforts. This action eventually
        caused DARCOM to cease all activity.
        The US Army Intelligence and Security Command's involvement with
        psychoenergetics began in September 1977. At that time, an
        INSCOM element implemented the GONDOLA WISH Program which was
        designed to integrate the Soviet and East European
        psychoenergetic intelligence collection threat into the
        all-source Operations Security (OPSEC) support scenario.
        By Spring of 1978, the Army ACSI concluded there was sufficient
        evidence to warrant the development of a comprehensive program
        to explore military applications of psychoenergetics. He
        cancelled the GONDOLA WISH effort, placed a complete security
        envelope over Army's interest in psychoenergetics, and
        implemented a new program directed towards intelligence
        collection using Remote Viewing. The new effort was given the
        unclassified nickname GRILL FLAME. In October 1978, ACSI tasked
        INSCOM to establish a program using psychoenergetics for
        intelligence applications utili-zing Remote Viewing. By Spring
        1979, project personnel had been selected and training
        initiated. The March 1980 Perry Memorandum withdrew the Program
        6 monies supporting psychoenergetic R&D efforts, but it did not
        put us out of business. In 1981, the ACSI transferred total
        management responsibility for the project to INSCOM. Also in
        1981, a Joint Services GRILL FLAME Committee, consisting of DIA,
        the Air Force and Army was formed. The Navy expressed no
        interest in participating in any discussions, and later the Air
        Force Chief of Staff directed that the Air Force withdraw from
        the committee and all psychoenergetic programs. This joint
        services effort was formed to implement a 3-year comprehensive
        program designed to determine the operational parameters and
        usefulness of psychoenergetics, and assess the threat these
        phenomena posed to national security. Within this joint
        services program, the roles of DIA and Army were distinct. DIA
        was R&D oriented and INSCOM's GRILL FLAME Project was to use
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      Remote Viewing as an operational technique to collect
      intelligence and to determine if Remote Viewing could be learned
      by professional intelligence personnel who were not "established
      psychics." INSCOM participated in this joint services effort
      until the end of FY 82 when the budget subcommittee of the
      Senate Select Committee on intelligence (Senator Wallop)
      curtailed all psychoenergetic operational activities conducted
      by the Army in the National Foreign Intelligence Program '
      (NFIP). The congressional conferees agreed, however, to let DIA
      complete the third year of their effort and directed that future
      funding -- if any -- of this psychoenergetic activity be
      budgeted outside the NFIP. So in the Fall of 1982, in keeping
      with these congressional desires and wishing to maintain the
      momentum of effort already established, the CG, INSCOM decided
      to continue INSCOM's project and provide funding with Security
      and Investigative Activities (S&IA) monies. INSCOM terminated
      formal involvement with GRILL FLAME at the end of FY 82, and
      continued its efforts under a provisional special access program
      nicknamed CENTER LANE.
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