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Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : SEARS. bo7s9R002100230001-3 I. (U) BACKGROUND 1. (U) US Investigations: (S/NF) Investigations of some aspects of PSI phenomena have been sponsored by various U.S. Government agencies since 1971, when CIA initiated work on remote viewing (RV) with SRI International. Since then, seven DoD elements, most of them from the Intelligence Community, have been involved at various times. (S/NF) Starting in 1981, a three-year integrated intelligence effort began (the GRILL FLAME Project), with funds mainly from DIA and Army INSCOM, and with DIA providing central management. Main thrust of this project was to evaluate the threat that foreign psychoenergetics achievements might pose. to U.S. national security, and to explore the potential of psychoenergetics for use in U.S. intelligence collection or in U.S. military operations. Key findings of this joint project were: (a) (S/NF) Remote viewing (RV) is a real phenomenon and ‘is reproducible. Remote viewing data do not appear to be degraded by long distances or by shielding. Significant foreign psychoenergetics research activity exists in the Soviet Union and in China, which is well funded and has high-level government backing. Consequently, a potential threat to U.S. national security exists from foreign use of remote viewing, and possibly from other aspects of psychoenergetics phenomena. (b) (S/NF) Methodologies for training personnel in the use of remote viewing, and in improving remote viewing performance, can be developed. (c) (S/NF) Remote viewing has potential as an intelligence data collection tool, although at this stage of development descriptive content (e.g., configurations) is more reliable than analytical content (e.g., function, purpose). Consequently, remote viewing could become a highly Approved For Release 2000/08/08C FIK-RPP96-00789R002100230001-3