Nmtwl~ "I Approved For Release 2000/08/0&_Q gfA =qp-00788 ROO 1100 130001 -6 ARMY PSYCHOENERGETIC EFEORT THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO INFORM YOU OFARMY1 S ROLE 114 A SENSITIVE, CLOSE HOLD DOD PROJECT TO EXAMINE POTENTIAL MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOEINERGETICS, AJERM THAT COVERS A NUMBER OF UNEXPLAINED PSYCHIC PHENOMENA, ARMY'S PURPOSE IN THIS EFFORT IS TO ATTEMPT TO DIETERMINE REALITY AND EXISTENCE OF SUCH NENOMENA. ARMY1.5 'EFF ORIT IS A SMALL, DISCREET, MINIMALLY FUNDED PROJECT CENTERED.ON RE ICATING, IN-HOUSE, CLAIMED EXPERIMENTAL SUCCESSES BY. OR .11 ZATIONS SUCH AS SRI INTERNATIONAL, BY USING ARHIY PE LE AND ACTIVITIES, CAREFULLY CONTROLLED REPLICATIONS OF PREVIOUS TEST PROCEDURES CAN BE CONDUCTED. AS IT IS., MUCH ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT WARRANTS CLOSE SCRUTINY1,A REPORTED BY CREDIBLE, RESPECTED PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF DOD. THREE SUB-AREAS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS ARE THE MOST RELEVANL PPOVIDED THE PHENOMENA'S EXISTENCE IS VERIFIED: REMOTE EWING, REMOTE PERTURBATION AND REMOTE COrKNICATIONSI IOTE VIEWING IS THE PERCEPTION BY AN INDIVIDUAL OF'THINGS, "ICESOREVENTS DISTANT FROM 11IM--ALSO KNOWN AS CLAIRVOYANCE. MOTE PERTURBATION, OR PSYCHOKINESIS., IS THE ABILI.TY OF, A FL_RSON TO CAUSE A CHANGE IN STATE IN SOME PHYSICAL OBJECT, REMOTE COMMUNICAT IONS IS TELEPATHY. THE ARMY ISIFUSENTLY INVOLVEDINPROGRAMS OF INVESTIGATION CON CERN114G REMOTE VIEWING AND REMOTE PERTURBATIONS. PROJECTS REI-ATED TO RUIOTE NICATIONS ARE PLANNED IN THE FUTURE. r-~ GRML FL 'Me~ (U) A UTTL Approved For Release 2000/08/07 CIAIRDP"MRO~, Ap e 2000/08/07: GOtM7-00788RO01100130001-61 V I 2 GIVEN THE GROWING BODY OF SUPPORTIVE EVIDENCE.. IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE PHENOMENA OF PSYCHOENERGETIC~ COULD NOT BE IGNORED. ARMY CHOSE TO PROCEED WITH A SMALL.,. IINI-HOUSE PROGRAM ATTEMPTING REPLICATION OF THE SRI WORK, THE IDEA IS TO VALIDATE, IF POSSIBLE, THE CLAIMED SUCCESSES, AND TO VERIFY THE EXISTENCE OF THE PHENOMENA, WORK IS ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EM~ ING'. DOD GRILL FLAME PROGRAM AND IS INTERNALLY DIVIDED UTWEEN THREE ARMY ELENEINTS: THE ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY (AMSAA) HASJHE MISSION OF ACTING AS THE REMOTE VIEWING "FREE LANCE," THAT IS, AM! WILL TRY NEW REMOTE VIEWING TECHNIQUES AND EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES, USING A SMALL IN-HOUSE TEAM OF FOUR OR FIVE VIEWERS AND.PROJECT MANAGERS, THE SOURCE FOR NEW TECHNIQUES WILL PRIMARILY BE ORGANIZATIOINS SUCH AS SRI INTERNATIONAL, ONCE AMSAA IS SATISFIED THAT THE:NEW PROCEDURE HAS MERIT, IT WILL BE PASSED Oil FOR FURTHER APPLIED TESTING TO THE -ARMY INTELLI- GENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND (INSCOM), AMSAA'S ENTRY. INTO REMOTE VIEWING CAf~E IN SPRING 1978 WHEN IT WAS DETUMIRED THAT PSYCHOENERGETICS MAY OFFER SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL FOR TACTICAL APPLICATION, AMSAA IS CONCERNED. FIRST WITH VALIDATING THE SRI WORK, THEN SEEING HOW REMOTE VIEWIRG MAY BE TACTICALLY EMPLOYED, --s-IMPLY PUT, AMSAA IS INTERESTED IN -BATTLEFIELD r I SURVEILLANCE AND TARGET ACQUISITION, 1E A VIELIER CAN "SEE 2 6 L~MF_~ R 1 k4.'' Approved For Release 2000/08/07 DP-- R Approved For Release 2000/08/071 I tjy-11u-11T1w" 116-00788 ROO 1100 130001 -6 IF A VIEWER C N "SEE" CHANGES IN SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS SUCH AS ENEMY ASSEMBLY AREAS; OR, IF HE CAN DETECT CHANGES IN AN ENER UNIT'S STATUS, FOR EXAMPLE MOVING TO CONTACT;. OR, IF~IHE. CAN CONDUCT A REAL TIME, COMPREHENSIVE BATTLEFIELD,DAMAQE.,'. THEN ARMY HAS GAINED A NEW SIGNIFICANT I N F ORMAAT ION. SURVEY ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SINCE SEPTEMBER 1978, AMSAA HAS,~. COMMITTED A TOTAL OF $220,000 IN CONTRACTS WITH SRI FOR, 4,-.;.~ PROGRAM TO CONDUCT TACTICALLY ORIENTED EXPERIMENTS1. THIS'', PROGRAM WILL CONTINUE UNTIL APRIL 1980, UNITS ASSIGNIED TG THE COMBAT DEVELOPMENT EXPERIMENTATION CENTER (CDEC), FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA., WILL ACT AS THE TARGETS FOR THiS. SERIESJ~ CDEC IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT BECAUSE ITS UNITS ARE "WIREJ)" WITH ELECTRONIC POSITION DETERMINING SYSTEMS SO THAT THEY CAN BE SPATIALLY LOCATED WITH PRECISION AT ANY GIVEN.MOMENT. THESE DATA ARE PERMANENTLY RECORDED, PROVIDING A MEANS OF QUICKLY CROS.S CHECKING THE ACCURACY-OF A REMOTE VIEWER'S DETERMINATIONS. THE MISSILE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND (MIRADCOM), REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALABAMA, IS DEVELOPING THE PILOT REMOTE PERTURBATION (PSYCHOKINESIS) PROGRAM, VALIDATION OF PRI OR "PK" WORK IS THE GOAL., IN ORDER TO DETERMIKE IF THIS PHENOMENON EXISTS, IN THE FUTURE, MIRADCOMtHOPES TO DEVELOP A PURELY THOUGHT-ACTIVATED SWITCH, IN CONjUNCTION WITH SRI, `G THE RANDOMNESS MIRADCOM IS RELYING PRIMARILY ON INFLUENCIR OF THREE NOISE GENERATING DEVICES PUT THROWH AN LSI-11--A SMALL MICROPROCESSOR. THE RANDOM NOISE GFERERAIDES. ARE-,. 'AN FLAM GR Approved For Release 20OM8t(k7r-P.C,#A-T.~Rt!Wgz-078-BRoott,(Mlloo0l-6 4"~ Tr*, f5 Approved For Release 2000108/07 ~~6-00788RO01 100130001-6 -.GENERATORS ARL, AN AN ELECTRONIC NOISE DIODE AND A RADIOACTIVE BETA PARTICLE. DECAY SOURCE. AS A CONTROL, A PSEUDO-RANDOM SHIFT RUISTER WILL ALSO BE WIRED THROUGH THE LSI-11, ALTHOUGH PRESENTLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MISSILE INTELLIGENCE AGEKY4 A, PART OF MIRADCON, IN THE NEAR FUTURE THE PROJECT WILL S.H 1, FT TO ANOTHER MIRADCOM ELEMENLTHE R&D LABORATORIES, A PROJECT MANAGER HAS BEEN CHOSEN, THE TOTAL "PK" PROGRAM WILL FALL INTO TWO PHASES, THE FIRST, FOR WHLCH A $118,000 CONTRACT HAS BEEN LET TO SRI, INVOLVES DEVELOPMENT OF THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PACKAGE. NO HUMAN SUBJECTS WILL BE, INVOLVED DURING THIS PHASE, DURING PHASE TWO, SRI AND MIRADCOM WILL ATTEMPT TO HAVE PEOPLE AFFECT THE NOISE SOURCES' RANDOMNESS, AN INDIVIDUAL WILL SIT AT A C.R.T. C014SOLE AND ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE A SMALL DOT MOVING IN A RANDOM.PATTERN., USING ONLY THE ELUSIVE "THOUGHT PROCESS..' THIS EFFORT IS OF ESPECIAL INTEREST IN THAT THE EFFECTS, IF ANY., WILL BE BOTH QUANTI_ FIABLE AND MEASURABLE, DUE TO THE NATURE.GF RANDOM NUMBER EXPERIMENTS. INITIAL EXPEDNTURES FOR PHASE 11 ARE EXPECTED TO BE $90,000 WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDING (UP TO $190.,-000) AVAILABLE IF NEEDED, THE INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND DEVOTES ITS EFFORT TO REMOTE VIEWING APPLICATION. WORKING WITH A SMALL TEAM OF APPROXIMATELY SIX VIEWERSj INSCOM WILL ATTEMPT To BOTH VALIDATE THE RV PROCESS, AND DETERMINE MILITARY USES OF THE PHENOMEMON. IT IS SIGNIFICANT IHAT THE INSCQMTEAM UL-VI X GRILL FLAME (0. Approved For Release 2000109/07~,=F799 ~UL aU - w, ~kpprovecl e se ~000/08/07 1tM -Mlw-vva-tou188ROO1100130,001-6, SIC I WAS SELECTED BY A LENGTHY, COMPREHENSIVE INTERVIEW PROCESS A FIRST n_'Y ANY ORGANIZATION., MILITARY OR CIVI'LIAN, SOME 230 POTENTIAL CANDIDATES WERE SCRUTINIZED TO CHOOSEJHOSE~ WITH THE MOST LIKELY CHANCE TO SUCCEED4 IN APRIL 1979, A $75,000 CONTRACT WITH SRI WAS LEL WHICH CALLS FOR TRAINING'~ AND FAMILIARIZATION OF THE INSCOM REMOTE VIEWER CADRE. INITIAL FEEDBACK FROM SRI SCIENTISTS IS THAT THE INKW VIEWERS ARE DOING EXTRAORDINARILY W~LL, IT I$ HOPED TH A REASONABLE IN-PROGRESS REVIEW OF THE'INSCOM RV APPLICAT 19 EFFORT CAN BE MADE AROUND THE END OF THE YEAR, 3 RECOGNIZING THAT THE EFFORT TO DATE HAS NOT BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED., ARMY FEELS COMPELLED TO INSURE THAT ALL REASONABLE STEPS ARE TAKEN TO MAKE ITS PROJECTS AS C.ONTROLLED AND CREDIBLE AS POSSIBLE, 'FIRSTj ALL WORK.WILL BE-DONE *WITHIN PARAMETERS ESTABLISHED BY WRITTEN PROTOCOLS WHICH HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY'A SURGEON GENERAL HUMAN USE AND TESTING REVIEW PANEL, TH18 PANEL HAS BEEN I ESTABLISHED IN ACCORD WITH FEDERAL LAW AND ARMY REGULATIQNSI LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY THE ARMY AND DOD GENERAL COUNSELS. NEITHER POSED 09,JECTI.ON TO THE WORK AND PROVIDED FURTHER GUIDANCE PERTAINING TID THE AFOREMENTIONED SURGEON GENERAL'S PANEL, FINALLY, A NUMBER OF QUALIFIED SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS AND MEDICAL AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN FORIMED INTO A SMALL TEAM THAT WILLREVIEW THIS WORK BE,ING DONE BY GR I LL FLAME ~,(U) Approved For Release 2666169161 -Ci -b#K.;'- AR. I .f I I I Approved For Release 2000108107 : CIA-RDP96-00788RO01 100130001-6 -0 ARMY PSYCHDENERGETIC'EFFORT PURPOSE: DETERMINE EXISTENCE OF PSYCHOENERGETIC PHENOMENA EXTENT OF ENEMY THREAT POTENTIAL MILITARY APPLICATIONS SCOPE OF EFFORT: SMALL, DISCREET., MINIMALLY FUNDED PROJECT FOCUS ON THREE ASPECTS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS REMOTE VIEWING REMOTE PERTURBATION REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788RO01 100130001-6 ARMY ELEMENTS INVOLVED IN GRILL FLAME ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY * DETERMINE EXISTENCE AND UTILITY OF REMOTE VIEWING * $220,000 COMMITTED SINCE SEPTEMBER 1978 MISSILE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMANB Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788RO01 100130001-6 n r CONTROL OF ARMY PSYCHOENERGETIC EFFORT e ARMY SURGEON GENERAL REVIEW PANEL ASSESS HUMAN RISK COMfIENT ON PROPRIETY OF-EXPERIEMENTS 0 PROJECT REVIEW BY ARMY AND DOD GENERAL COUNSELS e MONITORING TEAM OF SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS AND MEDICAL AUTHORITIES