GRILL FLAME NOFORN 0788RO01 100470001-9
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Reference: USDRE Memo of 5 Mar 80 on the subject.
(S/NF) The reference limited OUSDRE sponsorship of GRILL FLAME research
activities, but interposed no objection to low-level support to
intelligence-related efforts.
(S/NF) Since 1980, jointly sponsored research by DIA and Army INSCOM
has shoivn GRILL FLAME to have potential for military applications.. In
the classified annex.to the FY 1983 Authorization Conference Report,
however. the Intelligence Committee conferees agreed that if research
werb to continue, it should be outside the National Foreign Intelligence
Program. Although DIA should have sufficient funding in FY 1983 to
complete its GRILL FLAME evaluation, the conferees did not provide
resources for Amy intelligence participation in the project.
(S/NF) A scientifit revi6w of GRILL FLAME evidence accumulated in the
course of a three-year National Foreiqn Intelliqence Proaram study is to
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cc: Director, Defense Intelli-
gence Agency
Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence, USA.
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