GRILL FLAME STATUS REPORT

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This document is a status report on Project GRILL FLAME, a program involving Army participation in remote viewing. The report highlights the issue of human use approval, with the Army needing separate approval from other governmental and private elements for their participation. The Army General Counsel determined that their initial approval only applied to internal Army activities, and separate approval was obtained from the Secretary of the Army. The report also mentions changes in personnel, with a new Program Manager being assigned and vacancies being filled by officers attending an advanced course. A briefing on the program was given to a senior Army officer, and a meeting is being planned to discuss funding for the next fiscal year. The document also includes a memo from a previous briefing.

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 GRILL FLAME Status Report (U)
 ACTION REQUIRED
 Inform ZA
 OFFICE SYMBOL
 DAMI-ISH
 DATE
 6 July 1981
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 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD.    (Describe briefly the requirement, background and action taken or recommended. Must be sufficiently detailed to identify
 the action without recourse to other sources.
 1.   (U)  Purpose.   To give ZA a status report on Project GRILL FLAME.
 2.   (U)  Discussion:   Following are significant events in June 1981 concerning Army
 participation in GRILL FLAME.
 a.   (S/NOFORN) Human Use Issue. The Under Secretary of the Army approved INSCOM
 GRILL FLAME activities on 14 Jan 81 (Z   ,66).   The Army General Counsel determined that
 this authority applied only to internal Army GRILL FLAME activities.  Army participa-
 tion with other governmental and private elements in support of GRILL FLAME required
 separate SA/USofA approval.   SA approval was sought by OACSI DA on 8 May 81 and
 obtained on 27 May 81 (Z A").   On the basis of this approval, INSCOM released its
 FY 81 GRILL FLAME money to DIA for inclusion in a DIA-Army contract with the Stanford
 Research Institute (SRI) (-TAB).   On 15 June 81 Tim Hatch, Office of the Army General
 Counsel, asked me if I had heard whether or not DOD had resolved the human use issue,
 i.e., had obtained Secretary of Defense certification of the DIA GRILL FLAME Program.
 I.replied that it appeared to be a moot point since SA certified the Army program.
 Hatch stated that it was a live issue inasmuch as the AGC advised the SA that his
 approval of the ZA letter dated 8 May 81  TAB B) was contingent upon the review and
 approval by the Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Defense.   Hatch produced an AGC memo
 dated 15 May 81 .(TA) as his authorit     Apparently this memo accompanied the ACSI
 Y 81 (         to the SA.   I did not know of the AGC letter until 15 Jun
 81.   The INSCOM money was intercepted at DIA and returned to INSCOM.   SRI was informed
 of the new delay in Army funding pending the resolution of the human use issue by the
 DOD and Army General Counsels.  An
 officin
 SRI passed information concerning the
 latest delay t
 had a telephone conversation on the
 subject with SA Marsh.  According to Hatch, resolution of the human use issue is now
 a priority task for the DOD and Army General Counsels.
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 (S/NOFORN)  Personnel.   LTC Bob Jachim will replace LTC Scotty Watt this
 summer as GRILL FLAME Program Manager.  Also, the INSCOM GRILL FLAME Program lost
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 its operations officer and five remote viewers due to PCS.   INSCOM is taking action
 to replace four of these vacancies with officers currently attending the MI Officer's
 Advanced Course.
 c.   (C)  On 30 Jun 81, LTC Watt briefed MG Stubblebine on the GRILL FLAME Program.
 He recommended to MG Stubblebine that he and you meet to discuss FY 82 tasks and
 identify funding shortfalls.   I will set up the meeting once I get the details from
 LTC Watt.
 d.   (U)  At TAAB".E"is a memo concerning LTC Watt's update briefing for BG Flynn on
 15 May 81.
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