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a long time now
it’s been
no secret that the “competent”
**
organs and government
de-
partments
of yarious countries have
had a systematic and, during the who-
le course of the post-war period, un-
wavering
interest
in
psychotronic
weapons.
It would be naive
to think
that
in the Soviet Union things were
any
different.
The
ever
growing
mound
of materials being turned up
by
the
Russian media
over
recent
years testifies to the level of attention
paid
to parapsychology,
psychotro-
nics, bio-energo-informatics, and other
exotic
areas
of knowledge by
the
higher echelons of power. We might
begin a sun/ey of the press,
in
parti-
cular, with the material
“I Refused to
Work
for
the KGB”
(“Nezavisimaya
Gazeta’VThe
Independent Newspa-
per — May
18,
1991 which carried a
report by A. Yakunina, a specialist on
esoterica, who alleges that the organs
of state security are engaged
in
“re-
search
in
this
field”
(in
the mid-70s
they offered her personally the task of
heading just such a laboratory).
The
question
arises -
just how
trustworthy
is such
a
report? How-
ever,
it is not only one of its type. One
needs
only
recall
identical
reports
from
foreign
sources
of
specialized
and mass information
as,
for exam-
ple, the results of a thirteen American
parapsychologists (of the older gene-
ration) conducted in
1 978. Five of tho-
se
polled confirmed
that,
over -the
course of their work
in
this area,
re-
presentatives of military departments
and
intelligence
sections
often
took
an interest in them.
Official
testimonies
are
also
known. One such
is that of Ye. Alek-
sandrov,
corresponding member
of
the USSR Academy of Sciences and
deputy director of the S. Vavilov State
Optics
Institute, whose article “Tene-
vaya Nauka” (Shadow Science) was
published
in the January, 1991
issue
of the journal “Nauka
i Zhizn” (Scien-
ce and
Life), while an interview with
him
(B.
Pasternak’s
article
“Tuf-
ta’VCrapola) appeared in the ninth
is-
sues of the weekly “Poisk” (Search)
the same year. (We inform the reader
that,
at that time, “Poisk” was an or-
gan
of the academic press and the
aforementioned journal - an organ of
the
All-Union
Society
“Znani-
ye’VKnowledge).
Aleksandrov’s protest was directed
at
the
“special departments” which
waste both
effort and means on
re-
search
in
the sphere
of “pseudo-
science” (cited in the texts are “one of
the defence-related ministries”, “sec-
tions
in
the Defence
Ministry”,
“the
State
Department
for the
Struggle
with Espionage” and, finally, “Lubyan-
ka” - the former KGB’s headquarters
at
No.
Dzerzhinskaya
St.
not
far
from the Kremlin and connected to the
latter by
underground passages. -
Tr.). He considers
parapsychology,
bioenergetics, astrology and so forth
to be “pseudo-sciences”. When
as-
ked whether or not he feels any res-
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ponsibility for divulging state secrets,
Aleksandrov
replied:
“I have absolu-
tely nothing
to
fear! As a
specialist,
I’m well aware that there simply are
no secrets in this area.
It’s
all unadul-
terated
crap”.
(We
should
stress the fact
that
he
is
a
specialist
in
the
field
of
physics, not in
the
subject
under discus-
sion!). The as-
sertion
goes
further:
“All
kinds
of ‘spe-
cial
depart-
ments’ of ours
have
been
feeding,
for
decades
ap-
parently,
this
damn
pseu-
do-science”.
The
magnitu-
de of this “fee-
ding” has be-
come known
only
recently.
Talking
about
“a large-scale
classified programme conducted
in
the
interests
of
different ‘competent’
organs”, and “being
informed about
the sums involved”, Aleksandrov con-
siders
it “his duty to do everything
in
his powers to curb this outrage” (an
alleged squandering
of
half a
billion
roubles!).
Following in the wake of the August
1991
Putsch,
there appeared new
allegations that certain organizations
are
interested
in
the
deve-
lopment
of
unusual wea-
pons.
First
and foremost,
we
have
in
mind
the
arti-
cles “Psycho-
tronic
Wea-
pons
Have
Yet
to
be
Found,
and
500
Million
Roubles Have
Already Been
Spent” (“Kom-
somolskaya
P
r a v d a
” /
Young Com-
munist
Lea-
gue
Truth,
September
27, 1991), and
“Bioenergetics
Under
Arms.
The
Govern-
ment Gave the
Green
Light
to Research on the
Frin-
ge” (“Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, Novem-
ber
19,
1991),
written
by
O.
Volkov
and D. Frolov respectively. Note well:
the first article from “Komsomolskaya
Pravda”,
in which the author talks of
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suits of the next
investigation. He
s
ders
that
the U
scientific groups c
psychotronic gene
a person from a d
ned up a documer
name “On the Imr
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on July 4, 1991
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Technologies, was
kov, recommends
ment of General
nomy
at
the
US
Sciences.
In the decree
it
veral
Union-wide
due scientific exan
a billion roubles on
scientific work”
coi
(torsional)
or
“mic
Their aim was
to
i
new weapons. Th
organizations
are
sors and
clients:
tl
fence, the Ministry
Industries, the KGE
Industrial Commiss
of
Ministers.
In
the
laboratories and
contain the names
titutes, singled out
the
Kiev
Institute
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ing
of
half a
billion
s wake of the August
ere appeared new
ertain organizations
are interested
in
the
deve-
a?
lopment
of
unusual wea-
pons.
First
and foremost,
we
have
in
Tv-
mind the
arti-
i|
cles “Psycho-
fi
tronic
Wea-
pons
Have
y
Yet
to
be
Found,
and
500
Million
Roubles Have
~
Already Been
«
Spent” (“Kom-
somolskaya
-S
P
r a v d a
”
/
Tj
Young
Corn-
el
munist
Lea-
|
gue
Truth,
i
September
|
27, 1991), and
“Bioenergetics
Under
Arms.
The
Govern-
ment Gave the
search on the
Frin-
r Gazeta”, Novem-
Iten
by
O.
Volkov
actively. Note well:
“Komsomolskaya
the author talks of
the supposed mass
production
of
psychotronic generators
in Kiev, was
published on August 27, 1991.
O. Volkov’s
article
reflects the
re-
sults
of the next stage of journalistic
investigation. He earlier informed rea-
ders
that
the USSR
had
several
scientific groups capable of creating a
psychotronic generator for controlling
a person from a distance. He has tur-
ned up a document with the intriguing
name “On the Immoral Practice of Fi-
nancing
Pseudo-Scientific Research
Using State Funds”. A decree issued
on July 4, 1991 by the USSR Supre-
me Soviet Committee on Science and
Technologies, was, according to Vol-
kov, recommended
by
the
Depart-
ment
of General Physics and Astro-
nomy
at
the USSR Academy
of
Sciences.
In the decree
it
is alleged that se-
veral
Union-wide
ministries,
without
due scientific examination, spent half
a billion roubles on “Pseudo- and anti-
scientific work” concerning “spinoric”
(torsional)
or “microleptonic”
fields.
Their aim was to create qualitatively
new weapons. The
following
Soviet
organizations
are among
the
spon-
sors and
clients: the Ministry
of De-
fence, the Ministry of Atomic Energy
Industries, the KGB, and the Military-
Industrial Commission of the Cabinet
of
Ministers.
In the
lists
of research
laboratories and
executors,
which
contain the names of over twenty ins-
titutes, singled out for attention
first is
the
Kiev
Institute
of
Materials
Re-
search
at the Ukrainian Academy
of
Sciences.
The head organization responsible
for such non-conventional work, now
known
as
the
Interbranch
Science-
Technical Centre “Vent”, was earlier cal-
led the Centre for Non-traditional Te-
chnologies of the State Commitee for
Science and Technology. The article
carries data concerning this organiza-
tion’s
financing:
“...The
cost
of
pro-
jects implemented by the USSR De-
fence Ministry accounts for 23 million
roubles”,
but
“general
allocations,
from
various
sources,
including
through
the
Military-Industrial Com-
mission
of the USSR Cabinet of Mi-
nisters and the KGB, total almost half
a billion roubles”. (These statistics are
unverified). (At the time this was equi-
valent to US $100,000,000. - Ed.).
In one
of the Centre’s
accounts,
under the section “Basic Directions of
Research”, there
is direct mention of
“medico-biological
influence
on
troops and populations from a distan-
ce
using
torsional
radiation”, and
at
the same time, the means to protect
these
troops and
population
from
such influence. The Department of Ge-
neral
Physics and Astronomy
at
the
USSR Academy of Sciences (1991) de-
cided that such work should be exami-
ned “as a recurrence of pseudo-scien-
ce having all the signs of a huge ’fraud’".
According to Ye. Aleksandrov, state or-
ganizations are producing and selling
false
“generators”
of
non-existent
fields to defence concerns for big mo-
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ney. (Was
it not these “products” that
General Kobets had in mind when he
warned
the
defenders
of the White
House
during
the August
Putsch?).
Representatives of the KGB and GRU
(Chief
Intelligence
Section) were
in-
formed that the
radiation from these
generators is not weakened over dis-
tance and may be directed on a given
person - for this one need only have
the
subject’s
photograph!
With
the
help
of these emanations, one may
transmit information, but
it’s also pos-
sible to
kill a person!
Industrialists,
however, are assured that these
te-
chnically
powerful
rays
are
totaly
harmless to people and quickly wea-
ken over a distance.
The newspaper “Trud”
(April
10,
1992),
in a continuation of the subject
under discussion, wrote that “perhaps
Associate Member Aleksandrov
is
right when he asserts that all this work
on creating ”psi" weapons
isn’t worth
a brass
farthing. The existence
of a
list
of organizations
involved
in
this
‘nonsense’, however,
is some sort of
safeguard. At “Phenomenon” (the so-
cial commission
of this paper - Ed.)
there
is an enumeration of 26 points
- those working on
the problem
of
“torsional” fields, among which are re-
putable
institutes and
firms,
key
scientists, and academicians".
And what of the “unverified” sum of
half a
billion
spent on
this
spinoric
research?
In the decree of the Com-
mittee on Science and Technologies
(July 4, 1991),
it
is assumed that this
figure
will be made more exact: “To
propose to the State Commission on
Military-Industrial
Questions
of
the
USSR Cabinet of Ministers, to the De-
fence Ministry of the USSR, and to the
KGB that the aforementioned furnish
information
concerning
the
scale
sources of financing research on spi-
noric and
’’microleptonic"
fields and
on any questions connected
with
them".
In his article “Bioenergetics Under
Arms” D. Frolov revealed still another,
hitherto unknown chain of events. He
informs us of several documents un-
der the common name - “On the Ex-
pedience
of Employing
Methods
of
Bioenergetics
in the
Interests
of the
National Economy and
the
Nation’s
Defence".
In 1987 General
F. Khan-
tseverov passed these documents on
to the USSR Council of Ministers. At
the time, the general headed the Spa-
ce-Probing Centre and, as
it
is poin-
ted out
in the
article, had, according
to
reliable
information,
connections
with the GRU. The job
of preparing
the
relevant
information
for then
Chairman
of Sovmin
(the Council
of
Ministers),
N.
Ryzhkov, was
carried
out by his co-worker V. Volkov, a KGB
colonel and head of the information-
analytical
section, who
represented
the so-called “active reserve” of KGB
personnel there.
In the supplement, devoted to this
sphere
of KGB
activity, we
read
of
“the
possibility
of
elaborating
a
system
for
transmitting
ultra-wide-
band information, means of detection
and
control,
appl
field
of
military
ti
engineering, the
,
sensory
possibilil
tary specialists,
s
ployment of bioen
the systems and
i
’’hitting".
In the dc
tion the following
tion of methods
a
kinetic control
of
and
physical
cor
and for influencing
making decisions
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documents,
it
is
;
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to secure social c
V. Volkov
state
handed the task
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problem
to
the
Commission, the
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