Center Lane

Grill Flame was renamed the INSCOM Center Lane Project at the end of 1982 under Army intelligence commander Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine.

1982 CE · 39.11, -76.74 · status: official

The account

Stubblebine was an enthusiast of psi and human-potential methods. Under him the unit adopted Ingo Swann's coordinate method for training. INSCOM stopped Center Lane collection in September 1984, and an agreement of 18 September 1984 began moving the unit to the Defense Intelligence Agency. DIA's briefing says that after a Senate budget subcommittee cut INSCOM's intelligence funding for the work in December 1982, believing it double funded, INSCOM carried it on as the special access programme Center Lane, and a January 1983 memo from Under Secretary Richard DeLauer allowed R&D money for it (p.27-29). An October 1984 training plan shows Center Lane stopped collection in September 1984 ahead of transfer to DIA, kept training viewers in Swann's method, and was testing whether viewers could pick binary alternatives well enough to compromise cryptographic systems (p.1-2).

Connections in the atlas

• Gen. Albert Stubblebine
• Army assessment of the Monroe 'Gateway Process'
• Center Lane's code-breaking training plan
• Army security review of the book 'Mind Wars'
• Sun Streak
• DIA's Grill Flame Project Report
• DIA's Project Sun Streak briefings
• Grill Flame

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Stargate Project
2. Training Plan 1 Oct-31 Dec 1984, INSCOM Center Lane Project (22 Oct 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001500090053-0)
3. Security Review of 'Mind Wars' (INSCOM, 9 May 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200030003-4)
4. Brief overview of Project Sun Streak (DIA briefing, c. 1986-88, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100240001-2)