SPECIAL REPORT, SUN STREAK EVALUATION

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 SPE[; IAL  ACCE S S  PROUkAM
 SUN STREAK EVALUATION
 WARNING NOTICE:  THIS MATERIAL IS
 RESTRICTED TO THOSE WITH VERIFIED
 ACCESS TO SUN STREAK LEVEL 3 (SS-3).
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 SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAM
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 CONTENTS
 PURPOSE
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 I BACKGROUND
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 II EVALUATION
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 1. data base
 2. evaluation techniques
 3. Evaluation results
 APPENDIX
 I.  PROJECT RECORD DETAILS
 II.  DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS TO ANALYSTS/DATA REVIEWERS
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 LIST OF FIGURES
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 Number of projects as a function of type
 Data Categories
 evaluation scales
 summary data evaluation SHEET---Example
 Overall data correlations
 Overall averages for all project types
 Expected results for approximately 70% data
 accuracy---selected personnel
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 SUN STREAK EVALUATION
 PURPOSE:  (S/NF/SS-2)  Purpose of this report is to provide an
 Ervaluation of the SUN  STREAK operational projects conducted
 _=since  1986.
 ]:  BACKGROUND:  (U>
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 I: BACKGROUND  (U)
 CS/SF/SS-2)  SUN STREAK is an in-house DIA project far developing
 a~n operational psychoenergetics (i.e., remote viewing) capability
 f'or the Intelligence Community.  Twelve GDIP billets were
 authorized for DIA in 1986 for this activity.  Personnel from the
 army INSCOM CENTER LANE Project also had been examining similar
 phenomenon were transferred to DIA to form the SUN STREAK core
 F;roup.  DIA had earlier (1985) received operational control from
 t;he DA for this b person army unit.
 (S/NF/SS--2)  In 1985, the DIA SUN STREAK program manager prepared
 pan action plan that: (1) detailed the steps necessary to
 transition the CENTER LANE unit to DIA; (2) identified SUN STREAK
 staffing and support needs; and (3) set forth key programmatic
 :requirements for the SUN STREAK activity.  The action plan
 anticipated that time required for achieving a prototype
 operational capability would be approximately 3 years.
 Key aspects of this action plan along with additional
 procedural information, were sent to congressional committees in
 1986.  The IC staff was also briefed at this time on the action
 plan and an anticipated SUN STREAK operational development and
 data evaluation procedures.
 tS/NF/SS-2)  Programmatic and operational requirements identified
 in the action plan were to: (1) fain special access program (SAP)
 status (accomplished in March 1985); (2) gain human use approval
 (granted in March 1985); (3) set up a senior oversight and a task
 coordinating committee (accomplished -- though not currently
 activated); (4) establish tight project controls along with an
 automated data base management and records system (accomplished);
 and (5) to establish an R/D link for supporting operational
 capability development (accomplished via HQ SGRD funding and a
 DARPA MIPR) .
 (S/NF/SS-2)  The R/D link, via SRI International, has yielded
 improved data evaluation procedures, has identified potential
 personnel selection techniques, and has contributed to
 training;/development methods that are currently in project use.
 The activity at SRI has undergone extensive review by a 9-member
 peer review panel to insure that scientific rigor is maintained.
 (S/NF/SS-2)  Basic approach employed by SUN STREAK toward
 developing a prototype operational remote viewing (RV> capability
 is to located personnel with potential RV capability and to
 develop these abilities via appropriate training/development
 procedui^es.  Once satisfactory progress is noted on single-to-
 verify training tasks, those individuals are presented advanced
 training and operational simulation targets.  Operational
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 :~imulatian targets are usually US military or scientific targets
 where ground truth is totally known or can be readily determined.
 :satisfactory performance on these tasks would qualify an
 :individual for operational projects of interest to the
 :intelligence community.  In way of the operational projects,
 however, ground truth is usually not known (or is only partially
 known).  Consequently, complete evaluation of the viewer's data
 cannot be made until a later time when ground truth does become
 available.  In the interim, reasonable estimates of the overall
 validity of the viewer's data can be made for many of the
 operational projects worked, based on what is generally known or
 :suspected about the target.  These interim evaluation results
 would be updated whenever new ground truth is received.
 (S/NF/SS--2)  The operational projects pursued by SUN STREAK are
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