BRIEFING ON BACKGROUND INFORMATION, INSCOM S INVOLVEMENT IN PROJECT GRILL FLAME

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 I AM LTC JACHIM, PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE INSCOM PORTION OF
 DOD PROJECT GRILL FLAB,
 THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEFING IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH BACKGROUND
 INFORMATION CONCERNING INSCOM'S INVOLVEMENT IN PROJECT
 GRILL FLAME.  THIS BRIEFING IS DIVIDED INTO THREE VAJOR. PORTIONS$
 ? FIRST, THE HISTORY OF INSCOM'S INVOLVEMENT AND THE ROLES
 OF DIA AND I NSCOM IN THE PROJECT.
 ? NEXT, A DISCUSSION OF REMOTE VIEWING AND EY91PLES OF COMPLETED
 PROJECTS FOR WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED THE REQUESTOR'S EVALUATION,
 ? AND, FINALLY, A REVIEW OF THOSE PROJECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
 BUT NOT EVALUATED,
 FIRST THE HISTORY OF INSCOM'S INVOLVEMENT, IN THE FALL OF 1978,
 ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO DETERMINE IF PARAPSYCHOLOGY COULD BE USED
 TO COLLECT INTELLIGENCE.  FOR OUR PURPOSES PARAPSYCHOLOGY IS
 DEFINED IN TWO MAJOR CATEGORIES:
 9~, ? -~-- FIRST. PHYSICAL ACTIONS PERFORMED BY MENTAL PO'ERS THAT
 T BE EXPLAINED BY KNOWN PHYSICAL MEANS) THIS
 IS KNOWN AS TELEKENESIS OR PHYCHOKENISIS, AND
 IS IEFINED,AS THE ABILITY OF AN INDIVIWPL,TO ACCESS INFORMATION
 PREVIOUSLY UN1(NO N,WI OUT REGARD TO TIME, LOTION, OR ANY
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 = T TO HIDE THE TARGET FROM A COLLECTOR,    - _          Sap Q
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 TO MEET ACSI'S TASKING INSCOM ESTABLISHED A PROJECT TEAM UNDER           c(:~,AmWD
 THE ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.
 THE CRITERIA DEVELOPED TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING WOULD
 BE A VIABLE COLLECTION METHOD WAS AS FOLLOWS:
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 JVIEWING COILD BE USED AS. A COLLECTION METHOD,  REMOTE VIEWING
 ' SECOND, PERCEPTIONS WHICH CST  EXPLAINED THROUGH
 KNOWN SENSORY MEANS.) THIS IS KN4V AS E. TELEPATHY
 AND REMOTE VIEWING,
 SPECIFICALLY, INSCCOM'S TASKING WAS TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE
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 FIRST, COULD REMOTE VIEWING BE.-LEARNED?  NEXT COULD REMOTE     S-
 VIEWING T. APPLIED AS A COLLECTION METHOD?  AND, FINALLY,
 COULD REMOTE VIEWING R          TO COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS IN
 TIK  MANNER:
 FIRST, COULD REMOTE VIEWING BE LEARNED:) SRI INTERNATIONAL,
 AN ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER IN THE FIELD OF PARANORMAL RESEARCH.
 W IICH. IS! LOCATED IN MEN LO PARK, CALIFORNIAELIED UPON
 ESTABLISHED PHYCHICS, WHO USED THEIR INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES
 TO REMOTE VIEW,  INSCOM, USING THE P RTY TRAITS AND
 CHARACTERISTICS COMPILED BY SRI DURING THEIR WORK WITH
 TFESE PHYCHICS, SCREENED APPROXIMATELY 250 INTELLIGENCE
 PERSONNEL WITHIN THE BALTIM REAINGTON AREA, LOOKING FOR
 PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS. (BASED ON SRI OBSERVATIONS,
 SUCCESSFUL REMOTE VIEWERS TEND TO BE C( lNT, O   NG,
 ADVENTUROUS, BROADLY SUCCESSFUL INDIVIDUALS WITH SOME ARTISTIC
 BENT,) WE GLEANED MACH OF THIS INFORMATION FROM COT IDERS
 AND SUPERVISORS,  WE THEN CONDUCTED OVER 100 INDIVIDUAL
 INTERVIEWS. AFTER A"SERIES . OF- SCREENINGS AND INTERVIEWS,
 NINE PEOPLE WERE SELECTED.  THEY WERE A MIXTURE OF MILITARY
 AND CIVILIAN, OFFICERS AND ENLISTED, MEN AND WC EN,  AFTER
 ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS WITH THE SRI SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN
 PHYCHIC RESEARCH, SIX WERE SELECTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA FOR
 TWO WEEKS OF ACTUAL TRAINING.  UPON THEIR RETURN TO FORT MEADS
 THEY CONTINUED IN AN IN-HOUSE TRAINING PROGRAM MKI_DE1ED AFTER
 THE SRI TRAINING PHASE,  TO DETERMINE HOW LONG THIS TRAINING
 SHOULD LAST, SINCE NO ONE HAD ATTEIPTED TO TRAIN PHYCHICS,
 GUIDANCE WAS AGAIN SOUGHT FROM SRI.  BASED UPON THEIR
 JUDG ENCT AN 18 TO 24 MONTH TRAINING CYCLE WAS ESTABLISHED,
 MILESTONES DURING THIS FIRST PERIOD WERE:  THE FALL OF 1978
 THROUGH FEBRUARY 1979 - PERSONNEL WERE LOCATED: FROM FEBRUARY
 1979 THROUGH DECEMBER 1979 - INITIAL TRAINING AT SRI IN CALIFORNIA
 AND FORT MEADS WAS UNDERTAKEN. INSCOM'S FIRST TRAINING SESSION
 WAS CONDUCTED ON 28 FEBRUARY 1979.
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 AFTER THE PERSONNEL WERE LOCATED AND TRAINING HAD BEGUN,
 THE NEXT QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED APPLIED TO THE SECOND AND
 THIRD CRITERIA CONCERNING OPERATIONS.  THAT IS, COULD REMOTE
 VIEWING BE APPLIED AS A COLLECTION METHOD?  IF SO, WOULD
 THE INFORMATION BE OF f ASONABLE ACCURACY AND ACCEPTED AND
 USED BY THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST WHO RECEIVE THE PRODUCT,
 FINALLY, COULD REMOTE VIEWING RESPOND TO COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS
 IN A TIMELY MANNER?
 WORK TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS WAS OVERCOME BY EVENTS,  IN
 SEPTEMBER 1979, ACSI TASKED INSCOM TO LOCATE A MISSING NAVY
 AIRCRAFT,  THE ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED WAS A PICTURE OF
 THE TYPE AIRCRAFT MISSING AND THE    OF THE CREW.   WHERE
 THE AIRCRAFT WAS OPERATING WAS NOT DISCLOSED.  ON 4 SEPTE[13ER
 1, 979, THE FIRST OPERATIC REMOTE VIEWING SESSION TOOK PLACE,
 IN THIS INITIAL SESSION, THE REMOTE VIEWER PLACED THE AIRCRAFT
 TO WITHIN 15 MILES OF WHERE IT WAS ACTUALLY LOCATED. BASED
 ON THESE RESULTS, INSCOM WAS TASKED TO WORK AGAINST ADDITIONAL
 OPERATIONAL TARGETS.  THESE TASKINGS FORCED A PREMATURE HALT
 TO THE INITIAL TRAINING PHASE# rINCEER_1979, THE PROJECT
 WAS COMMITTED TO OPERATIONS,
 ACT" Z' D   L   . _TO- -   U   _ 0 ti  TOE
 DIFFERENT ROLES OF DIA
 AND INSCOM, SINCE THERE APPEARS TO RAVE BEEN SOME BLURRING OF
 THESE DISTINCTIONS IN THE PAST.
 DIA IS CONCERNED WITH:
 ASSESSING THE THREAT, PRINCIPALLY FROM THE SOVIET
 UNION AND CHINA,
 ? DETERMINING COUNTERMEASURES TO ANY U.S. VULNERABILITIES. AND, DETERMINING THE POTENTIAL OF REMOTE VIEWING
 USING ESTABLISHED PSYCHICS.
 DIA PERFORMS THIS FUNCTION PRIMARILY THROUGH CONTRACTS AT SRI
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 INSCOM IS -kRYIRG REMOTE VIEWING TO ASSIST IN ITS EVALUATION
 AS A COLLECTION METHODS ? AND TO DETERMINE IF REMOTE VIEWING
 AA -LEARNED BY PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL WHO ARE
 f LT ESTABLISHED PSYCHICS.
 OUR REMOTE VIEWING COLLECTION IS DONE WITH ASSIGNED-PERSONVNEL?
 WE ACT ONLY FOR SPECIFIC ITEPI,S WHICH jEN-HMffE OUR
 COLEOTION.  FOR EXAP'LE:
 e WHICH TARGETING METHODS HAVE THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY
 OF SUCCESS,
 ? CAN THE ACCURACY OF A REMOTE VIEWER BE DETERMINED
 FROM AN ANALYSIS OF HIS STATEMENTS?
 ? CAN THE SRI NEW TRAINING TECHNIQUE INCREASE THE
 QUALITY AND R,ABI~LI1Y OF COLLECTION:
 THIS CM UM THE BACK    PORTION OF THE BRIEFING.
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 THIS BRIEFING HAS COVERED        OF INSCOM AND TEE GRILL
 FLAME PROGRAM..      ~`    I N TIC PROGRNI, AND SOME OF
 THE ACTIONS WE HAVE BEGUN TO             T'4-. O1JR
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 T' E I  T E FUG          RN:
 a             E          WE ARE' WOK I TO* MOP A
 METHOD OF          IT', AND .IN COORDINATION
 WITH TIE STAFF PSYCHOLOGIST,    W
 WTI-E INITIAL
 SCREENING CRITEREA USED. NEXT,
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 STUDYING IOW TO    THE SRI REPORT ON AUDIO
 ANALYSIS.  TEE 3W. 4PHYC %-5 IS ASSISTING US
 B*H4ORKING ON       REMOTE VIEWER
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 AND LOCATING PLA S  E      IIDVIII:. TI,INI.
 COULD BE RECEIVED.  AND, WE ALSO WISH TO
 THE                 PROGRAM, SIDE TFEY INDICATE
 IT WILL    SE -MlES OF A REMOTE VIEWER
 T rt.  _ M RATHER THAN JUST REPOT, I&M THE
 W. I " AND :IABILITY OF REMOTE VIEWING AND
 PROVIDE SOME,            sdaur
 AOBUT TIE REMOTE VIEWING
 PRODUCT,
 IN SUMMARY:
 THE COLLECTION OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH REMOTE VIEWING HAS DEMONSTRATED
 ITS VALUE.  REMOTE VIEWING IS   AK- . - T, IT IS A
 -T QR I      THE PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS WHO ASSIGN
 US PROJECTS, EVALUATE US BY THE INTELLIGENCE WE PRODUCE.  REMOTE
 VIEWING SHOULD ft&-7-~TM,&CUE~ BUT SHOULD BE USED IN CONJUNCTION
 WITH INFORMATION FROM OTHER INTELLIGENCE SOURCES.
 ARMY REMOTE VIEWING IS NOT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, IT IS jWT11
 t-EC'Ift  REMOTE VIEWING IS  . IVE, I    SI, THEW-,,-10,
 ESE AND THERE IS  ;,.   CTI     ROMISE,
 THIS CONCLUDES THE BRIEFING, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?
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