Government: Investigator sites log (STEP I)

Run 1: 2026-10-05, run on request (first Investigator run; no earlier sites.md). Time-capped run (10 min); Chrome. Owner's direction: target the records the arbiter names as deciding (memo agency DT-ACO / Dr Vorona / RDP96-00792; DIA 2009 LENR report sources and follow-up; Naturwissenschaften 2009 triple tracks and the 2021 re-examination; Kowalski critique; independent He-4; Walter Reed Sharp-Grove record). Elapsed clock time per date +%s was 269 s at the close of browsing. No files were downloaded: downloads need the owner's explicit permission in chat, so research/files/ is empty. The URLs of the downloadable PDFs are listed under "Files to fetch".

Keywords tried

1. "CIA-RDP96-00792R000500240" (Google; no exact hits; results were STARGATE/Gateway items)
2. CIA reading-room site search: scalar waves
3. CIA reading-room site search: 00792R000500240
4. archive.org: "CIA-RDP96-00792R0005002400" (UI) and API identifier:cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00792r0005002400*
5. "Jack Vorona" DIA "DT" directorate scientific technical intelligence Stargate
6. Kowalski comment Mosier-Boss "triple tracks" Naturwissenschaften CR-39
7. Kowalski "Comment on" "The use of CR-39 in Pd/D co-deposition experiments" Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys.
8. "DIA-08-0911-003"
9. Defense Intelligence Agency FOIA "low energy nuclear" OR LENR report 2010 OR 2011 OR 2016 follow-up Barnhart newenergytimes (Google rewrote it; nothing relevant)
10. helium-4 excess heat correlation independent measurement De Ninno ENEA OR "Apicella" OR "Gozzi" palladium deuterium mass spectrometer
11. Sharp Grove Walter Reed microwave "spoken words" OR "word recognition" Justesen 1975 "American Psychologist"
12. Sharp Grove Gandhi 1974 "Generation of acoustic signals by pulsed microwave energy"
13. ARPA-E LENR program 2023 awards low-energy nuclear reactions helium
14. arXiv title: "Helium Detection in Technical Materials"
15. NTRS: Alan C. Holt propulsion

Not yet tried (next run): "DT-ACO" DIA; "Star Wars Now" Bearden 1984 CIA-RDP96; Buzby "CENTER LANE" OR "Sun Streak" scalar; Vorona scalar in the CIA reading room; "Glen Rein" "Tesla watch" PC12; McKubre helium "M4" SRI 2000 heat helium; Berlinguette Nature 2019 "Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion" and its 2021 follow-up; "Kowalski" Montclair cold fusion CR-39 (his own web pages); DTIC Sharp "Walter Reed" microwave 1973; Holt "field resonance propulsion" 1980 AIAA 80-1233; Wikipedia talk archive on the DIA document; German/French: "Skalarwellen" CIA Bearden, "fusion froide" ENEA helium.

Files to fetch (downloadable, not downloaded: needs the owner's OK)

• https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00792r000500240002-5 (PDF, 157 KB)
• https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00792r000500240008-9 (PDF, 586 KB)
• https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r001500100012-3 (PDF, 141 KB)
• https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DeNinnoAexperiment.pdf (ENEA RT/2002/41/FUS, 26 pp.)
• https://zoryglaser.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MICROWAVES-AND-BEHAVIOR.pdf (Justesen 1975, 12 pp.)
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.02307 (Gillespie et al. 2024)
• https://www.epjap.org/articles/epjap/pdf/2008/12/ap08217.pdf (Kowalski 2008; blocked by bot check)
• NTRS 19910012853, 19940022865 (Holt 1990, 1993; public)

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work (here: the documents' own authors and the proponents they summarise)

• Holt's later NASA record (Claim 3, EM-gravity propulsion): Holt kept proposing advanced EM / "breakthrough" propulsion tests from inside NASA: AIAA 89-2858 (1989, "a hypothetical advanced electromagnetic propulsion system utilizing high-temperature superconductivity materials", testable on the space station), Vision-21 (1990, "breakthrough level propulsion research should be initiated now"), Vision 21 (1993), Space 2004 abstract [web: ntrs.nasa.gov]. The record does not go silent after 1979. No abstract defines the "space-time harmonic"; full texts unread.
• Bearden's principle chain, as held in the memo's own folder (Claim 1): CIA-RDP96-00792R000500240002-5 summarises Bearden's "Star Wars Now" (24 Apr 1984) for "COL Buzby": Aharonov-Bohm potentials without fields; two beams 180 degrees out of phase give zero field; hence no attenuation in seawater or earth; two such beams interfering give a "beat frequency" with real energy at a distant point; detection only at the pole of a 4-8 T superconducting magnet in a Faraday cage; collaborators Faretto, Dea, Bedini; funding from Josh Reynolds / Essentia Research [web]. This is the proponent's own mechanism for the seawater claim, which the arbiter said lacked a stated coupling: the stated coupling is interference of two zero-field beams. Bearden's full paper also appears to be in the reading room ("STAR WARS NOW! The Bohm-Aharonov effect, scalar interferometry, and Soviet weaponization"; not opened).

2. Supporting information by others

• Rein cell-culture experiment (Claim 1, extended to biology): Glen Rein, CIA-RDP96-00792R000500240008-9: "Tesla watch" (Puharich Moebius coil, said to emit a "scalar" field near 8 Hz) inhibited noradrenaline uptake in PC12 nerve cells by 19.5% after 30 min (n = 6 per group, p < 0.01 by t-test), no effect at 10 min; control watch without the Moebius strip 12 feet away [web]. Field not measured; blinding not described. Held in the same intelligence folder as the memo.
• CR-39 2021 re-examination (Claim 2): Mosier-Boss and Forsley (JCMNS 34:32-58, 2021) report evidence of 14.1 MeV neutrons, an SRI replication, and examination of the replication's detectors by CR-39 experts from NASA and the Russian Academy of Sciences; they answer deuteroxide/O2 attack, D2/O2 recombination shockwaves and corona discharge [web, abstract; the authors are DIA contributors, so this is their characterization]. 14.1 MeV is above the ~7.9 MeV triple-track threshold computed in deep/DIA, so the threshold argument does not exclude secondary d+t neutrons; the rate argument (about 9 orders too few for watt-level heat) is unaffected.
• ENEA heat-and-helium report (Claim 2): De Ninno, Frattolillo, Rizzo, Del Giudice, Preparata, "Experimental evidence of 4He production in a cold fusion experiment", ENEA RT/2002/41/FUS: heat and helium measured together over intervals under one hour on a Pd stripe cathode [web, title page and search snippets]. A national-laboratory measurement outside China Lake and SRI; the theorists among the authors have a stake in the result.
• Sharp-Grove speech demonstration (Claim 5): the record is Justesen, "Microwaves and Behavior", American Psychologist 30(3):391-401 (1975), which, per Broughton, cites "Sharp, J. C., & Grove, M. Personal communication, September 28, 1973"; method as reported: recorded speech converted to microwave pulse timing, "recognizable words were reportedly perceived". The published Sharp-Grove-Gandhi paper (IEEE Trans. MTT 22(5):583-584, 1974) is about the mechanism of sound generation [web]. So the gif's "1974" Walter Reed claim rests on a 1975 published account of a 1973 personal communication; no Walter Reed report of the speech trial was found. Same article reports A. W. Guy's Morse-code demonstration.

3. Closely related work

• Independent helium-background study (Claim 2): Gillespie, Lin, Jones, Duncan (Texas Tech, arXiv:2405.02307, 2024): untreated 316 stainless steel holds 15-240 pmol of He-4 and can re-absorb it from air; pretreatment is "necessary" when He-4 is used as nuclear evidence [web]. Calculated equivalent: 35-560 J of d+d heat, i.e. 0.1-1.3% of the helium expected from a 0.5 W cell over one day. Bears directly on the arbiter's deciding experiment (heat plus He-4 with air-leak controls).
• US government follow-up in the field: ARPA-E Exploratory Topic on LENR (announced 13 Sep 2022; $10M to 8 projects, 17 Feb 2023) [web, snippets only]. This is an official programme to test whether LENR is real, 13 years after the DIA report; its project results are the next record to find.
• Kowalski critique exists as a published comment: L. Kowalski, Comment on "The use of CR-39 in Pd/D co-deposition experiments", EPJ AP 2008, with the authors' reply in EPJ AP 44:291-295 (2008) [web, bibliographic only; site blocked]. The arbiter's [memory, medium] item can be cited; its argument is still unread.

4. Historical record

• Memo originator is a DIA office (Claim 1): primary record CIA-RDP96-00788R001500100012-3 (US Army INSCOM memo, 25 July 1984) names "Dr. Jack Vorona, Assistant Vice Director for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, DIA" and "DT (Dr. Vorona's office)" [web]. So the memo's addressee "DT (Dr. Vorona)" is DIA's S&T intelligence directorate and "DT-ACO" is an office within it (inference from the office symbol; the memo does not name DIA). "CIA analyst" is not supported; the memo is a DIA document held in CIA's STARGATE release.
• The full folder is now known (Claim 1, absence of evidence): RDP96-00792R0005002400xx has 8 items; scalar waves appear in 0001 (memo), 0002 (Bearden excerpts to Col Buzby), 0008 (Rein); 0003-0007 are press clippings on Entebbe and other topics (titles only) [web: archive.org API]. No test report, tasking or assessment appears in the released folder. This favours the arbiter's explanation (c) (collection of proponents' material by the remote-viewing programme office) and leaves (b) (withheld or unreleased work) open, since items 0001 and 0002 carry SG1B/SG1J redactions.
• "Col Buzby" is very probably LTC Brian Buzby, signer of the 1984 INSCOM memo as CENTER LANE Project Manager [web]; this places the scalar-wave material with the Army/DIA remote-viewing programme (CENTER LANE / later STARGATE), not with a weapons or communications office. Identity not confirmed.
• DIA report's evidence base was a researchers' workshop: per New Energy Times, the report "was based on a workshop held on Aug. 4 and 5, 2009 at SPAWAR Pacific", presenters Tanzella, McKubre, Swartz, Mosier-Boss, McDaniel, Forsley, Hagelstein, McGinnis; the report itself cites the 4-5 Aug 2009 SPAWAR briefings in four notes. HTML copy shows coordination with DIA/DRI, CPT, DWO, DOE/IN, SPAWAR Pacific and NSWC Dahlgren; DIA Public Affairs confirmed by email (23 Nov 2009, as posted) "This is a DIA document." [web]. No DIA follow-up report found.