it RI Ao agers tal pmesinnie MES tae ee B LER tie sath wr lero nial PAPE a bam: re intl toner tial hia Bi alee aa he RI i TS ‘Remote - By NED MacKAY Mental ability to view a distant location through: someone else’s eyes—in some cases via future prediction — has been uncovered by two physicists at-Stanford Re- search Institute (SRI) in Menlo - ’ Park, « — oo The physicists, Harold E. Puth- off and Russell Targ, conducted 51 - experiments during the past three years, using both experienced and in experienced subjects. People’s skills, as the -scientists termed them, were tested using locations as distant as Puerto Rico and as ‘close as the Stanford University . campus. In four cases which the scien- . tists admit reluctance to publish, .one person evidenced ability to describe accurately the spot an- other was visiting, before the visit had occurred and before-even the - visitor knew where it would be. The results of the experiments .are described in an article appear- ing in the March issue of the Pro- ceedings of the Institute of the Electrical and Electronic Engi- neers. “remote viewing” Targ and Puthoff were the two SRI scientists who studied the ap- parent psychokinetic abilities of ' Uri Geller, a young Israeli who toured the United States in 1973 demonstrating his alleged psychic powers. ° . Targ and Puthoff concluded -that they had no scientific expla-' nation for some of the things Geller could do, and that “further investigation is clearly wartrant- ed.” : ‘In working on the more recent research, Puthoff and Targ con- “ducted a series of original experi- : 84th Year—No, 61 Approved ForRelease viewing : Phone — 326-1200 Want Ads — 321-0400 ments, then five additional verifi- cation series using different people. ; In general the format called for a member of SRI management not otherwise connected with the ex- periment to supervise selection of _the locations and keep each loca- tion listed in a sealed envelope in ~ his office safe. During an experiment a sealed “envelope was seiected at random and handed to the experimenter who was to visit the site. The ex- perimenter proceeded directly to over Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-A a g001/03/ 6 : CIA-RDP9 \ 100 the site accompanied by ob- servers. or Meanwhile, the other experi- menter, who remairied ignorant of the site, was kept in the laborato- ty with the subject for the entire period. Some subjects were placed: in a Faraday Cage to screen out ‘most electromagnetic waves, While the team was at the site, the subject focused his thoughts on the outbound experimenter and his Jocation, describing the Scene and making any drawings he wished. a . Ultimately judges not connect- 3 0787R000200080048- Into ed with the experiments were asked to match the descriptions with the sites. Various “double blind” arrangements were used to prevent . accidental ; information leakage. | , According to Puthoff and Targ the results of five out of six stud. ies were significantly better than mere chance would allow. Three of the studies differed from chance expectations by odds of 1,000 to 1 or better, one by odds of half a million to one. . In the long-distance experiment, three .subjects knew only that the unknown . Puthoff- was on a 10-day trip to Costa Rica and would photograph and describe his location at 1:30 p.m. on seven specific days. At one of the appointed times, a subject back at SRI said with some misgivings that Targ’s loca- tion Was an airport with a sandy beach and ocean nearby. It was correct — Targ had taken an un- planned’ side-trip to an offshore island and had just disembarked from a plane. In experiments closer to home, subjects described with: varying accuracy their experimenters’ visits. to the Palo Alto Civic Center, the pedestrian overpass to the Bayshore Freeway at Oregon Expressway, and various, parks. One. subject correctly identified her .experimenter’s location cs . White Memorial Plaza at Stanford University. . . The authors approached the fu- ,ture viewing experiment results with extreme caution. | . “Tf the authors may be forgiven a personal note, we wish ta express that this section deals with observations that. we have been _ (Continued on page 2, col. 4) >
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The first par- ficipant stayed at Stanford Research Institute and did .the sketch, describing ‘some kind of a diagonal trough up in the air," tells of parasensory: ‘sight’ ‘. (Continued from pagel)... reluctant to publish because’ of their striking apparent incompat- , ibility with existing concepts,” Targ and Puthoff wrote. _ “The motivating factor for pre- . senting the data at this time is the ‘ ethical consideration that theorists endeavoring to develop models for paranormal function- ~ ing should .be apprised of all the obseryable data if their efforts: to arrive at.a camprehensive and correct description are to be suc- cessful.” During the original experiments some of the participants had vol- funteered that they had . had: images of where their: experi -' menter would visit in the forth: coming test. . a . So Targ and Puthoff did four. more experiments with one sub- ject. The difference was that the Subject was required to describe the remote location during a 15a minute period beginning 20 min. - utes. before the location was. se-. lected and 35. minutes before the outbound experimenter arrived' there. ' , “For reasons we do not as yet understand, the four transcripts generated in the precognition ex- periment show exceptional coher- ence and accuracy as evidenced by the fact that all of the judges were able to match suecessfully all of the transcripts to the corre- sponding target locations,”. Targ and Puthoff reported. ‘Further experiments are under Targ and: Puthoff. cite current .theorics about extremely low re- quency waves as one possible ex- planation of some of the experi- ment results. a , Their discussion of the apparent “time roved Fe of observa- tid proved directed at the lay reader, It in- eut ik | carvoasevh aatate ee: t orcheleaser 200 volves electromagnetic and quan- ‘- - tum theory, and suggests that precognition “may be the easiest .. of apparent paranormal. pheno- mena to assimilate within the cur- rent theoretical structure of our world view.” “,.. Modern theory is not with-, ' out resources that can be brought, -to bear on the problems at hand, and we expect that these prob- lems will, with further work, con- tinue to yield to analysis and specification,” they wrote.’ . The research was supported by the Foundation for Parasensory Investigation and the Parapsy- - chology Foundation of New York ‘City; the Insitute. of Noetie Sciences, Palo Alto: and‘ the Na- tional Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration. Two killed in pipe blast ROHNERT PARK (AP) — Two men were killed and three injured when a gas explosion ripped open a water pipeline where they were working, police said. ; “It appears the men shot through the water line like can- non fodder because they were pretty badly broken up,’’ said Rohnert Park Police Chief Robert . Dennett. He said one.man was found 1,000 feet from the explo- sion site. Ss Dennett said the: coroner was _on the scene with one of the vic- tims. Four persons were taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. One was dead on arrival, another - was in critical condition and two “were treated for minor injuries. » Authorities said. the men were _ working inside the 48-inch-diame- €r pl & powerful blast. 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Edgar Hoover, Nixon said he was “surprised” at Hoover's disagreement because the FBI chief had ‘attended the meeting setting up the operation, later to be known as the “Huston plan,” ; —The quality. of intelligence during the Nixon administration “was relatively adequate” . but “better intelligence - concerning the 1974 Yom Kippur War in the Middle East might have permitted moves to avert it.” --Nevertheless, he found “re- cent efforts to emasculate the Central Intelligence Agency and ~ related intelligence organizations ’ to be not only incredibly short- sighted but potentially dangerous to the security of all free nations.” —'For the national media to publish and disseminate classified national security information is in my view irresponsible journal- ism." 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