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Approved For Release aaeG fo @rigepmp rer ee-00788R001800210001-0 I INTRODUCTION (U) (S/NF) The Grill Flame Program was established at SRI International in 1980 to develop procedures that would apply psi (ESP) abilities to intelligence problems. The most studied phenomenon in this program, remote viewing (RV), seeks to gather data pertaining to a remote site without having to visit that site. There were three phases of development in researching this phenomenon: + Phase I--Reliability Improvement * Phase II--Authentication * Phase III-~In-House Capability, (U) Phase I was a three-year research program aimed at improving the reliability of remote-viewing data. A two-part approach was taken to this problem. First, a training program was developed in which the remote- viewing task is subdivided into six stages and presented sequentially to the student. At each stage the viewer's contact with a site is increased. Initially, the data are acquired when the viewer receives a burst of information upon presentation of the target stimulus. This stimulus could be a map coordinate, a photograph, or a variety of other stimuli. The initial burst of information may include only gross geographical data. A typical response might be water, mountains, or a city. The viewer is trained to process this information and report it--free of any analytical processing. These data are, therefore, largely descriptive. (U) In the latter stages of training, finer detail and analytical data are added by the viewer to his/her descriptions. When training is completed, the viewer can provide a variety of data about a site. This burst-of-information concept is nothing new in parapsychology; descriptions of this phenomenon can be found in Mind to Mind by Warcollier and in Mental Radio by Upton Sinclair. The SRI contribution to this concept was to train people to become aware of this format for data acquisition and, 1 —SECRET Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800210001-0