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Emigre Tells of Research in Soviet
In Parapsychology for Military Use
By FLORA LEWIS
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PARIS,
June
18—An
emigre
Soviet
physicist says that the Soviet Union has
been doing secret work in parapsycholo-
gy, for what appear" to be military and
police purposes..
The Soviet emigre, August Stem, who
now lives in Paris, spent three years
in
a secret Siberian laboratory in the
late
1960’s trying to find a physical basis for
psychic energy, or “psi particles,” as they
are called.
.
i
:
.Moscow’s interest in the
subject was
demonstrated
in
the
case
of Robert
C.
Toth, a correspondent of The Los Angeles
Times, who was
interrogated
this week
in Moscow by the
K.G.B.,
the
security
police,
and was
accused
of
having
re-
ceived, “state
secrets”
about
parapsy-
chology. He was
allowed
to
leave
for
home after protests by the United States
Government
[to Washington, officials said the in-
telligence
community
was
aware
of
Soviet research in parapsychology, but
added that American specialists did not
believe
the
Russians
had
made
any
unusual
discoveries. One
official
said
NewYoriTinM*
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•
some Soviet work- appeared aimed
at
developing
-
psychological
warfare
methods.]
.
;•
;
.
The Toth
incident
r had
the earmarks
of an entrapment
in -the view
of some
;
diplomats. There
is no. sign that the 25-
page document on parapsychology hand-
ed to him on
the
street
just
before he
was seized contained important informa-
]
tion. However, there is a record of Soviet
i
sensitivity and August Stem’s
informs-
tion
indicates
that parapsychology
is
a
:
matter of concern to the authorities.
Mr. Stem is a son of Dr. Mikhail. Stem,
an
endocrinologist who was imprisoned)
before being allowed to. leave
, the Soviet
Union
in March. August Stem
said
he,
was told before leaving the Soviet Union
two years ago that an even more secret
laboratory than the one he knew in Sibe-
ria had been
set up
in Moscow
under
the direction of the K.G.B.
i
A French
scientist and former
inteHi-j
gence agent, Jacques Bergier, has written
a hook saying that extrasensory percep-
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tion, one of the theories studied by parap-
sychology, may
be
used
in
espionage,
thought
control,
surveillance
and
as
a
form of weapon.
-
Parapsychology
covers
four
specific
fields
of
nonphysical
phenomena.
They
are
telepathy
(transmission
of
thought
without use of the
senses), extrasensory
perception,
telekinesis^ (transmission
of
motion without any evident use of physi-
cal energy) and clairvoyance (the ability
to
see
distant or future events without
physical intervention).
•
Most
scientists
remain
skeptical
that
such phenomena actually exist, but there
are
researchers
throughout
the
world
dedicated to proving and,
if possible, ex-
plaining them.
;
Formal, officially subsidized Soviet re-
search in the field has gone on for years,
sometimes publicly vaunted and at other
times denounced and even denied.
U.S. Navy Was Interested in 1950’s
At one time in the late 1950’s and early
196Q’s,
the United States Navy and
the
Stanford
Research
Institute
did
experi-
ments in telepathy to see whether it could
provide an undetectable means of com-
municating with
submarines.
So
far m
is
known,
the
experiments
failed.
But
am wo
MOSCOW. 3JIG ftPTJflT-
subject.
Robert C. Toth, Los Angeles Times
correspondent, in London yesterday.
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