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This is an undated Central Intelligence Agency review of a research proposal on non-lethal incapacitation by flash blindness. It judges the proposed flash simulation technique reasonably feasible but says the performance tasks are not described in enough detail and doubts that the predictions hold at potentially damaging intensities. The reviewers also say retinal damage thresholds must be set before flares are used operationally, and they suggest supplementary primate studies to find functional damage thresholds and measure performance decrements.
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THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL IS DECENTIVE TO DEVELOP A FLASH NESS SIMULATION TELLIE TO PRODUCIVE ANALISIS OF THE PERFORMANCE DECENTENT ICONS AND MATERIALS OF FLASH EXPERIENCE APPEARS REASONABLY FULL AND FERABLE. AS THE SIMULATION WILL BE MORE AND MORE WITH ANIMAL FLASHES OF LO. ILLUMINATIVE LEVELS, THE PREDICTIVE EFFICACY. THE SIMULATION WILL SEEM LOOK LEVELS, ASSUMING THE PURPOSE TASKS ARE CLEarly ILLUMINATIBLE TO ACTUAL SIMULATIONS. WE ARE CONCEIVED THAT SINCE ANIMAL IMMACULATE SHALL HAVE NOT BE ESTABLISHED, AND THEREFORE THE INTENSITIES OF ACTUAL FLASHES IUSTED MAY BE MILD, THAT THE PREDICTIVE USEFULNESS OF THE SIMULATION DATA WILL BE SUPPLIED TO NURSAL TINALLY LOW LEVELS OF EXPOSURE. IF POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS CAN INHURE THE POSSIBILITY OF HARMFUL EFFECTS, THEN THE SIMULATION PREDICTIONS Would PRESENT VALIDAL WITH PERFECTION TO INDIVIDUALS EXPOSED AT LONG Distance FROM THE JURGE AND CONSEQUENTLY RECEIVING EXPOSURE INTENSITIES LIKELY TO INSECTS TESTED IN THE MIDY. OTHERWISE, IT SHOULD BE CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD, THAT THE SIMULATION PREDICTIONS MIGHT NOT BE ACCURATE FOR HIGH INTENSITY LAPSURGERIES, WEGANDS OF WHETHER PERMANENTLY EVE JARASE ENABLED. ## . TASK: HELEVA, CR: THE PROPOSAL DOES NOT PREVAIL THE PERFORMANCE TASKS IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL TO ALLOW EVALUATIONS OF ADEQUACY AND RELEVANCE. OUR EXPLAIN- LENCE INDICATES THAT PERFORMANCE TASK DESIGN, MEASUREMENT AND MIRAPOLATIVE POWER IN THE PROPOSED STUDY MAY BE VERY DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE, WHILE THE SIMULATION TECHNIQUE ITSELF MAY BE RELATIVE- LY EASY TO ACHIEVE. THE INJEKS, MEASUREMENTS HETHOUS AND FIELD AND LICABILITY SHOULD BE ELASTICATED PORTHER SINCE PERFORMANCE, STIMA- CILIS AND THE PRIMARY OUTPUT OF THE PROPOSED WORK. ## CXLUSIONS Approved for Release Date 27 FEB 1919 IF ALMAN PERFORMANCE DATA ARE VALUES UNDER CONDITIONS OF VARIABLES CORRESPONDING TO FEASIBLE LINESS RECOVERY FOLLOWING LOADS THE INTENSITY EXPRESSED I.e. THE PROPOSED DIMENSION 142
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.