PROJECT GRILL FLAME OPERATIONAL TASKS

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This document is a part of the CIA's Stargate program, specifically Project Grill Flame. This program was set up to assess the potential applications of parapsychology, or ESP, psychoenergetics, and determine the threat of Soviet/East Bloc efforts in these areas. The document provides information on the history of Project Grill Flame and the funding it received. It also discusses the use of remote viewing as a method to access and describe information that is blocked from ordinary perception. Examples are provided that show the success of remote viewing in providing meaningful descriptions of targets of interest to the intelligence community. The document concludes that remote viewing has the potential to be an exploitable source of information, although the degree of accuracy and reliability is still being determined.

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 PROJECT GRILL FLAME  (U)
 OPERATIONAL TASKS
 (DT-5A)
 Defense Intelligence Agency
 Washington, D.C.  20301
 H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D.
 L. A. Lavelle
 Radio Physics Laboratory
 SRI International
 Menlo Park, CA  94025
 CLASSIFIED BY:  DT-5A
 REVIEW ON:   January 2003
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 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       v
 I  PROJECT GRILL FLAME HISTORY . . .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       1
 ?   DoD/Intelligence Psychoenergetics Program Funding (SRI)               .       2
 II         GRILL FLAME REMOTE VIEWING (RV) PROGRAM.       .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       3
 A.    RV Phenomenon--Definition .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
 B.    RV Application to Intelligence Requirements .           .  .  .  .  .       3
 ?   Semipalatinsk, USSR, URDF-3 (PNUTS)     .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       5
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 Comparison of Target Site and Drawing by Remote Viewer of
 PNUTS Site .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        6
 Detail Generated by Remote Viewer on Cylinder Cluster and
 Gores for Sphere Fabrication (PNUTS Site)                  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        7
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 Project Grill Flame is a DoD/Intelligence program set up for the
 following purposes:
 ?   To assess the potential for U.S. applications of
 developments in parapsychology ("ESP," Psi,
 Psychoenergetics).
 ?   To determine the threat potential of corresponding
 Soviet/East Bloc efforts.
 Major Decision Points
 ?   1972 - Startup of a continuous effort, still ongoing,
 involving SRI International as major contractor,
 and a number of agencies as sponsors (CIA, FTD,
 MIA, DIA, etc.).*
 ?   1978 - Effort compartmentalized under codeword GRILL FLAME.
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 ?   1979 - In-house applications program set up by Army's
 Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).
 ?   1980 - Joint Services Integrated Program set up under
 single-agency (DIA) management to handle external
 contracts.
 See funding chart, next page.
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 (S)  DOD/INTELLIGENCE PSYCHOENERGETICS
 PROGRAM FUNDING (SRI)
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 Date
 Organization
 Budget
 Thousands of $
 1971-75
 CIA
 $195
 1975-76
 NAVELEX
 74
 1976-79
 FTD, WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB
 300
 1977-80
 MIA, REDSTONE ARSENAL
 281
 1978-80
 AMSAA, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND
 230
 1978-80
 DIA
 228
 1979-80
 ARMY INSCOM
 75
 JOINT PROGRAM
 FY 1981
 DIA
 300
 ARMY INSCOM
 130
 FY 1982
 DIA
 330
 ARMY INSCOM
 185
 FY 1983
 DIA
 340
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 Remote viewing (RV) is the ability of certain individuals to access
 and describe, by means of mental processes, information blocked from
 ordinary perception by distance or shielding.  Targets for remote viewing
 have ranged from small objects in nearby light-tight cannisters to remote
 technical facilities at intercontinental distances, from numbers generated
 at random in a computer,
 B.    RV Application to Intelligence Requirements
 Since the early 1970s, SRI International has been tasked by the DoD/
 Intelligence communities to assess the potential of remote viewing for
 intelligence applications, both to enhance the potential for U.S. appli-
 cations, and to provide data that would be useful in assessing the threat
 potential of corresponding Soviet/East Bloc applications.  To carry out
 this task, SRI has responded to operational requirements set by intelligence
 community representatives monitoring the progress of the work.
 The investigations have shown that remote viewing, both by SRI and
 Army INSCOM personnel, has in many cases provided meaningful descriptions
 of, e.g., East-bloc targets of interest to the intelligence community.
 Evaluation by appropriate intelligence community specialists indicates
 that a remote viewer is able by this process to generate useful data
 corroborated by other intelligence data.  As is generally true with other
 human sources, the information is fragmentary and imperfect, and therefore
 should not be relied on alone but is best utilized in conjunction with
 other resources.  Although efforts to establish the precise degree of
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 accuracy and reliability are not yet complete, the data generated by the
 RV process appears to exceed any reasonable bounds of chance correlation
 or acquisition by ordinary means and therefore constitutes an exploitable
 information source.
 DoD/Intelligence communities include:
 ?  A secret NSA facility, including codeword retrieval.
 ?  Soviet R&D facility at Semipalatinsk (PNUTS).
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 Results from some of these tests are presented here as examples.
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 CLIENT:    CIA
 SITE:    Semipalatinsk, USSR, URDF-3 (PNUTS)
 SITE/EVENT DESCRIPTION:
 URDF-3 is an unidentified R&D facility located at Semipalatinsk, USSR;
 also known in the intelligence community as PNUTS.
 Site is characterized by:
 (1)  A large rail-mounted crane, several stories tall.
 (2)  Large metallic gores which comprise a sphere (or
 spheres) buried underground.
 (1)  Coordinates of the site (latitude and longitude
 in degrees, minutes and seconds).
 (2)  Viewer told site was an R&D facility in the
 Soviet Union.'
 RESULT:
 Remote viewer narrated a description which was tape recorded, and
 remote viewer rendered (among others) drawings shown on following two
 pages, indicating:
 (1)  The presence of the large crane, correctly
 identified as to size.
 (2)  Assembling of large spheres from metallic gores.
 Puthoff, H. and R. Targ, "Perceptual Augmentation Techniques (U)," Final
 Report, SRI Project 3183, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA
 (December 1, 1975), SECRET.
 Kress, K. A., "Parapsychology in Intelligence:  A Personal Review and Con-
 clusions," Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 7-17 (Winter,
 1977), SECRET/NOFORN.
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 (b) CRANE COMPARISON
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