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    8 MAY 1978
    MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, OPSEC Support Division
    SUBJECT: GONDOLA WISH (U)
    1. (S) On 17 May 78, initial interviews were conducted by the Monroe
    Institute of Applied Science (MIAS), Afton, VA, with selected
    trainee volunteers for project Gondola Wish (-GW).. These interviews
    were monitored by the GW project officer.
    2. (S) As a result of these initial interviews MIAS favorably recommended
    the selected trainee volunteers for the GW project pending results
    of pretraining psychological testing.
    3. (S) MIAS and the GW project officer coordinated plans to administer
    pretraining psychological tests prior to 1 Jul 78.
    4. (S) MIAS and the GW project officer discussed security relating to
    GW and MIAS involvement. There were no problems reported.
    5. (C) Training costs and the training program were discussed. MIAS
    wants $2000 training fee. This fee will include four consecutive
    three day intense training sessions which are to be conducted at
    one week intervals. Between sessions trainees are to work on rein-
    forcement techniques. To do this MIAS will provide them with brain
    hemisphere synchronization tapes, a tape recorder, earphones', and a
    workbook of practical applications. A typical training session day
    at MIAS will consist of four to six training periods per day. Each
    training period requires an entrance briefing (entrance into an
    altered state of consciousness) in which goals to be obtained are
    discussed. After this entrance briefing a training period lasts
    about 45 minutes. During the training period the individual works
    on obtaining an altered state of consciousness and later in the '
    program on performing parapsychological phenomena. After the training
    period an exit briefing (exit from an altered state of consciousness)
    is conducted to determine if all goals have been met and what the next
    goals should be. Rest periods between training periods are scheduled
    to allow trainees "to get their feet back on the ground" so to speak,
    or stated another way, to allow trainees to integrate newly acquired
    perceptual channel data into their cognitive structures.
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    FREDERICK H. ATWATER
    2LT, MI
    CI Studies Section
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