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Technical Aepewead For Releas§ CHETAN OF GPHY-00789R003 100200001-5 il. BACKGROUND (U) (U) With regard to this proposal, AMP can be divided into two broad categories: @ Anomalous Cognition (AC): The awareness of information that is considered otherwise shielded from all known sensory channels. © Anomalous Perturbation (AP): The perturbation of physical matter under conditions of complete physical and sensorial isolation. 1. Historical Perspective (U) (S/NF) Serious government-funded research of both these domains began in 1973 when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) initiated a modest effort to determine if a genuine anomalous phenomenon could be verified and to assess the degree to which it could be applied to general intelligence problems. Through fiscal year 1990, a variety of intelligence organizations from the military services and the De- fence Intelligence Agency (DIA) had supported predominantly application-oriented research pro- grams at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA. (S/NF) Beginning in fiscal year 1986, the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) initiated the first coordinated, long-term examination of AC and AP phenomena. This program had three major objectives: @ Provide incontrovertible evidence for the existence of AC and AP. © Determine the physiological and physical basis for AC and AP. © Determine the degree to which AC data could be integrated into the intelligence community. (S/NF) The results and conclusions from the Army program were: © The first objective had been partially met. An information transfer anomaly exists (.e., AC) that can not be explained by inappropriate protocols, incorrect analyses, or fraud; however, there was insuffi- cient evidence to conclude if AP exists. e Significant progress had been made in meeting the second objective. For example, (1) The central nervous system (i.e., the brain) of individuals with known AC ability appeared to re- spond to isolated AC stimuli. These responses were similar to those observed when their eyes were stimulated directly. (2) Two physical models have been constructed. One (called Decision Augmentation Theory) sys- tematizes the data of over 600 separate experiments spanning 22 years in the open literature and suggests a possible physical transfer mechanism for AC data. The other is a speculative funda- mental physical model for the type of information that is sensed by AC. (U) Under the same research program, a number of different physical systems were examined for their susceptibility to putative AP effects. They included single-cell algae, single alpha particles, and elec- Approved For ReleaSRORIEATINGOFORRDS-00789R003100200001-5 2