PROPOSAL FOR RESEARCH, SRI INTERNATIONAL NO. ESU 81-60

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Proposal for Research
SRI International No. ESU 81-60
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Part One--Technical Proposal
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Defense Supply Service-Washington
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CLASSIFIED BY: DIA (DT-IA)
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Senior Research Engineer
Radio Physics Laboratory
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This document is a proposal to pursue activity in support of DIA(DT)
Statement of Work, Novel Intelligence Collection Techniques (Psychoenergetics-
Threat to U.S. and Potential Applications), SECRET.
To accomplish the proposed program, SRI will provide approximately
three man-years of effort with the necessary personnel (see attached
biographies), facilities, and materials to perform the work as outlined
in the DIA Statement of Work. Details of the effort are specified in the
following section.
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I STATEMENT OF WORK:
NOVEL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION TECHNIQUES
(PSYCHOENERGETICS-THREAT TO U.S. AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS)
1. General
The objective of this effort is to investigate in detail certain
psychoenergetic phenomena that have potential military applications.
Emphasis will be on evaluating application potential and limitations of
such phenomena, and to provide such knowledge as gained under this contract
to appropriate DoD agencies who will evaluate the significance of foreign
work, particularly as it may pose a threat to the United States.
Major emphasis will be on evaluating remote viewing phenomena and
in particular, targeting aspects, via coordinate or other methods. Related
to this are training methods, methods of enhancing reliability and repeat-
ability of the phenomena.
2. Specific Tasks (FY'81)
2.1 Develop audio/semantic analysis techniques to separate correct
from incorrect data available from taped viewer descriptions of remote
viewing sites and to provide selective editing under operational conditions.
2.2 Determine what is required for target acquisition (names, maps,
coordinates, pictures, arbitrary labelings, simply the word "target," etc.)
2.3 Evaluate threat potential of foreign remote viewing--type
investigations:
2.3.1 Simulate experimental results for which there is data to assess
validity of the foreign research.
2.3.2 Assess military applications potential of the foreign research
(or claims), particularly where a threat to U.S. security is possible.
2.3.3 Assess feasibility of the most significant applications and
evaluate limitations.
2.3.4 Evaluate the use of remote viewing to locate target objects or
people.
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2.3.5 Evaluate the use of remote viewing for event detection and
to locate events.
2.3.6 Evaluate the use of remote viewing to detect the presence or
absence of targets.
2..3.7 Evaluate the potential of various camouflage, concealment and
deception as countermeasures to remote viewing.
2.3.8 Investigate the effects of the following variables on the
remote viewing phenomena. (a) accuracy. (b) degree of resolution.
(c) affect on the sensory inputs (feel, smell, touch, etc.).
2.3.9 Determine potential of remote viewing to assess other types
of information, such as specific S&T data, or function/purpose of facilities
or activities.
2.4 It is anticipated that during the contract period there will be
quick reaction tasks approved by the Grill Flame Committee, passed through
the COTR and levied on the contractor. These will be of high priority and
will require prompt attention.
3. Security Requirements
It is expected that a maximum of six SI/SAO billets will be required
to properly support the program. If and when SRI International commences
work on operational situations, it is required that all personnel connected
with operational matters possess the necessary clearances.
4. Deliverables
4.1 Quarterly Reports to highlight accomplishments and resources
expenditures (by specific tasks the amount of funding, equipment used,
Professional/Support man hours). Detail progress on each sub-task
designated for examination during the quarter will be completed by the
contractor.
4.2 Draft Final Report using the same format as the Quarterly Reports
but covering the entire contract period.
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4.3 A Final Report based on the Draft Final Report and the comments
made by the COTR.
4.4 Program progress briefing shall be of an informal nature and
shall be held at the end of each quarter. The contractor shall furnish
copies of informal charts, viewgraphs and other aids as may be needed.
The informal briefings shall consist of a contractor presentation and
informal discussion among contractor, funding agencies and other government
personnel as appropriate.
4.5 Quick reaction reports as required by the COTR. They will be of
limited scope and deal with subjects of especially high interest and/or
critical timeliness.
4.6 All supporting material, i.e., notes, maps, tapes for this
contract will be made available by the contractor to the COTR and no such
material will be destroyed without written permission.
5. Delivery Schedule
The COTR will insure members of the Grill Flame Committee receive
copies of all deliverables.
5.1 Quarterly Reports: Five copies to the COTR. The first report
is due 100 days after the contract award date and will cover the first
90 days of the contract. Subsequent reports will be due each 90 days
thereafter, i.e., 190 days after contract award, 280 days, 370 days, etc.
5.2 Draft Final Report: Five copies to the COTR within 30 days of
completion of the contract. Comments will be returned to the contractor
within 45 days of receipt of the draft.
5.3 Final Report: Ten copies and a camera ready master to the COTR
within 45 days of receipt of the comments made on the Draft Final Report.
5.4 Programm Progress Briefings: Approximately 4 per year are
anticipated. Specific times and places will be established by the COTR.
Some briefings will occur in the Washington, D.C. area and may involve
more than one presentation by the contractors.
5.5 Quick Reaction Reports: Number of copies, place and time of
delivery to be determined by the COTR.
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5.6 Supporting Materials: Provided to the COTR when requested
during the period of contract performance. All such material will be
finally delivered to the COTR at the same time as Final Report. (5.3 above).
2.1
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2.2
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2.3
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2.4
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UNCLASSIFIED :_.
Director
Radio Physics Laboratory
Systems Research & Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Radio-wave propagation: in normal enviroments; in naturally dis-
turbed enviroments (aurora); in manmade disturbances (nuclear
explosions)
REPRESENTATIVE RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS AT SRI (since 1961)
Project director of a program to remotely sense nuclear detonations
during the U.S. high altitude nuclear test program
Led a research effort to improve the U.S. capability to detect
foreign nuclear test by their effect on radio propagation
Technical director of a large multicontractor research program to
study the effects on radio propagation of an artificially produced
ionospheric plasma
Technical director on a program to develop special communications
techniques
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Instructor, researcher, and graduate student, Geophysical Institute,
University of Alaska: HF and low VHF radio-wave propagation studies
of auroral effects; designed, developed, and tested a prototype of
the 41-MHz auroral radar used in the U.S. IGY program; installed and
operated the six Alaskan IGY-auroral radars, and analyzed the data
collected during the IGY
Teaching assistant, Physics Department, University of Nevada
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.S. (1952) and M.S. (1953) in physics, University of Nevada; Ph.D.
in geophysics (1961). University of Alaska
PUBLICATIONS
"Observations of Ionospheric Disturbances Following the Alaska Earth-
quake," J. Geophys. Res. (March 1965); "Selection of a Model of the
Earth's Magnetic Field," J. Geophys. Res. (December 1962); "Evidence
of Low-Frequency Amplitude Fluctuations in Radar Auroral Echoes," J.
Geophys. Res. (April 1962); "Distribution of Radar Auroras over Alaska,"
J. Geophys. Res. (March 1962); "A Low Power UHF Radar for Auroral
Research ," PIRE (February 1959); "Distribution of Radar Auroras over
Alaska," Ph.D. thesis; "Photoelectric Recording of a Complex Light
Source of Rapidly Varying Intensity," Master's thesis
PROFESSIONAL' ASSOCIATIONS
American Geophysical Union
Union Radio Scientifique Internationale
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Senior Research Engineer
Radio Physics Laboratory
Systems Research and Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Research in "remote viewing" and other psi phenomena (1972-present)
Research in lasers, quantum electronics, nonlinear optics
Research and development of tunable solid-state lasers, electron beam
lasers, microwave tubes
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research associate, Hansen Laboratories of Physics, and lecturer, Depart-
ment of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; teaching, textbook
author, research supervisor of Ph.D. candidates in the area of lasers and
nonlinear optics
Lieutenant, USNR: in-house research and contract monitoring on DoD (NSA)
contracts concerned with the development of ultra high-speed (GHz)
computers, assessment of potential of fiber optics and lasers for use in
optical computers
Research engineer, Sperry Electronic Tube Division, and Sperry fellow,
University of Florida: design and testing of electron-beam focusing
systems for use in microwave tubes
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.E.E. (1958) and M.S.E. (1960), University of Florida; Ph.D. in electri-
cal engineering, Stanford University (1967)
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
Author or coauthor of more than twenty-five papers in professional journals
on electron beam and laser research, and, more recently, first major publi-
cations of research on psi phenomena in Nature ("Information Transfer Un-
der Conditions of Sensory Shielding," Oct. 1974), in the Proceedings of
the IEEE ("A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer
Distances," March 1976) and in the AAAS book The Role of Consciousness
in the Physical World ("Experimental Psi Research: Implications for
Physics," 1980)
Coauthor of textbook, Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics (Wiley, New York,
1969) published in English, French, Russian;
Coauthor of Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability (Delacorte, New
York, 1977);
Coeditor of Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory
Perception (Praeger, New York, 1979);
Patent on high-power tunable infrared laser source (50-250 microns)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical
Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sigma Xi,
Department of Defense Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Perfor-
mance, IEEE Franklyn V. Taylor Memorial Award for paper "A Scientific
Look at ESP," listed in American Men and Women of Science
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Senior Research Physicist
Radio Physics Laboratory
Systems Research and Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Charged particle and gamma-ray spectroscopy; analogue and high-speed
digital electronics; numerical analysis; real-time computer applications
for data acquisition and analysis; research in bio-feedback technology
and applications, and cardiac blood flow problems; field research in
India and laboratory research at Maimonides Medical Center on psycho-
energetic phenomena
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Theoretical calculations in radiation transport;, atmospheric physics,
and E & M wave scattering at the RAND Corporation
Experiments in nuclear reaction mechanism and nuclear structure at the
U. of California Crocker Nuclear Laboratory
Undergraduate physics teaching at the City College of San Francisco
Equipment engineer and clinical experience at the Bio-feedback Institute
of San Francisco
Research consultant on psychokinesis at the Maimonides Medical Center
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.S. in physics, University of Rochester (1962); Ph.D. in physics,
University of Pittsburgh (1968)
PUBLI CATIONS
Author or coauthor of eleven scientific papers in experimental nuclear
physics research;
Author or coauthor of numerous scientific papers in psychoenergetic
research;
Author or coauthor of eleven research abstracts in nuclear physics
for professional meetings
Author or coauthor of three abstracts in psychoenergetic research for
professional and meetings
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Parapsycho-
logy Association, The American Society for Psychical Research
UNCLASSIFIED
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Senior Research Physicist
Radio Physics Laboratory
Systems Research and Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Research in remote sensing and other psychoenergetic phenomena
(1972-present )
Development of high-power gas lasers, FM laser, and supermode laser
techniques
Optical modulation and demodulation at microwave frequencies
Microwave generation from plasmas
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Sylvania Corporation; investigation of techniques for development of
new gas lasers, making use of research with compact, self-contained
multikilowatt CO lasers
Technical Research Group; experiments in new gaseous laser media
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; assisted in the establishment of
electron beam laboratory
Sperry Gyroscope Company, Electron Tube Division; experimental work in
microwave generation from plasmas; early work in the technology of
ultrahigh-vacuum and ion pump design
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.S. in physics (1954), Queens College, New York; graduate work in physics
(1954-56), Columbia University
PUBLICATIONS AND INVENTIONS
Author or coauthor of more than thirty articles on lasers and plasma
research, and more recently, the first major publication of research
on psychoenergetic phenomena in Nature and in The Proceedings of the
IEEE: "Information Transfer Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding,"
Nature (October 18, 1974) and "A Perceptual Channel for Information
Transfer Over Kilometer Distances," Proc. IEEE (March 1976)
Coauthor of Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Physical Research (Delacorte
Press, New York, 1976); Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of
Extrasensory Perception (Praeger, New York, 1979)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Senior member IEEE; American Physical Society; President and cofounder
of Parapsychology Research Group, a tax exempt California corporation
since 1963, with research and educational objectives in the area of
psychic functioning
UNCLASSIFIED
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Research Analyst
Radio Physics Laboratory
Systems Research and Analysis Division
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Historical and theoretical linguistics, languages (modern and ancient),
cognitive anthropology, archeological field techniques
REPRESENTATIVE RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS AT SRI (since 1978)
Blind evaluation of free-response psychoenergetic data and development
of evaluation techniques
Development of psychokinesis experimental protocols and responsibility
for PK experimentation
Investigation of target demarcation and target selection
Participation in RV experiments as both experiment monitor and beacon
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Historical linguistics researcher in ancient Greek at Stanford University
Psychoenergetics research consultant for The Mobius Group (archeological
Egyptian project)
Researcher in correlations between botanical anomalies and archeological
site locations, Florence, Italy
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.A. in anthropology (Stanford University, 1977)
Language study (The Goethe-Institut, Freiberg, Germany, 1975)
Archeological research (Stanford in Italy, 1975)
PUBLICATIONS
Coauthor of "Investigations in Target Acquisition," Research in Para-
psychology (1979); coauthor of several SRI reports on psychoenergetic
research
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Distinction in Anthropology, the Henry
Fairclough Award for Excellence in Classics (Stanford University)
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