PROJECT GRILL FLAME OPERATIONAL TASKS

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1983
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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
(U) COMPARISON OF TARGET SITE AND DRAWING BY REMOTE VIEWER
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(U) DETAIL GENERATED BY REMOTE VIEWER ON CYLINDER CLUSTER AND GORES
FOR SPHERE FABRICATION
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