+, ° Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : cL RDN chad 1700360003-3 New Brunswick, Rutgers- University Press, 1977. ’See Henry Gris and William Dick, The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1978, pp. 286-287; R, A. McCon- nell, ‘Parapsychology in the USSR,"* Journal of Parapsychology (39:2), June 1976; pp. 129-134; Milan Ryzl, Parapsychology: A Scientific Ap- proach; J, G, Pratt, ‘‘Soviet Research in Parapsy- chology’’ in Handbook of Parapsychology, Benja- min Woolman, ed., New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977; Alfred Douglas, Extra-Sensory Perception: A Century of Psychic Research, Lon- don, Victor Gollancz, p. 345, In 1974, it was announced that E. M. Naurov, a principal Soviet ESP investigator, had been jailed for two years on charges of having personally profited from his work and contacting foreigners, and, in 1977, Russian security police detained an American journalist for questioning who had tried to inter- view Soviet ESP researchers. Reports of Soviet VIPs seeking health treatment from a well-known medium have appeared i in the West, ¢.g., see n.a., “Uber Ihrem ein Leuchten,”’ Der Spiegel (35:17), April 20, 1981, pp. 126-139. “See Leslie Groves, Now Jt Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project, New York, Harper and Brothers, 1962, p. 146ff. ° 5See M. Ryzl, ‘Model of Parapsychological Communication,” Sdelovica Technika (8), 1964, pp. 299-302, AD-466927, and I. M: Kogan, **The Information Theory Aspect of Telepathy,” transl. F. J. Krieger, Rand Paper p. 41-45, 1969. For whatever reason. since Kogan's article appeared, listing of ESP-related research in US unclassified technical report indices has ceased. -  §L, Vasiliev, Studies in Mental Telepathy, Mos- cow, Gospoliditzat, 1966. Joint Public Research Service Document No. 10702, p. 175. See Adrian Dobbs, ‘‘The Feasibility of a Physi- cal Theory of ESP" in J. R. Smythies, Science and ESP, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971, pp. 230-254, : 4A, S. Presman, “The Role of Electromagnetic * Fields in the Processes of Vita) Activity,’’ Bio- physics, 1964, P. 134, also see na., ‘‘Biofields: The Aura of Magic," Washington Post, July 20, 1978, Sec. K, p. 10. - 5E.g., see Horace Barlow, Henry L. Kobn and E. Geoffrey Walsh, **Visual Sensations Aroused by Magnetic Fields,” American Journal of Physi- ology (48:2), Feb., 1947, pp. 372-375; Walter Sullivan, ‘‘Finger Tip Regrowth Starts a Study of Regenerating Nerves and Limbs,” New York Times, Dec, 30, 1979, Sec, 1, pp. 1 & 38. Alexander Kolin, ‘‘Magnetic Fields in Biolo- gy,” Physics Today, November, 1968, pp. 39-50. In the early 1970s, the use of very low level currents to aid in the ‘healing of broken bones evolved from research on the electrical aspects of limb regrowth in lower order animals, NC, Maxwell Cade and Ann P, Woodley-Hart, “The Measurement of Hypnosis and Auto-hypno- sis by. Determination of Electrical Skin Resist- ance,’ Journal of the Society for Psychic Re- search (76:748), June 1971, p. 99. “For a brief critique and description, see Eliza- beth Hall, Possible Impossibilities, Boston, Houghton-Miffiin, 1977, p. 161. BSee Stephan A. Schwartz, “Deep Quest,” Omni, March 1979, p. 94ff. “Gerald Messarie, “Le Secret du Nautilis,"’ Science et Vié, No. 509, 1960, pp. 30-35, and n.a., “L'Armée Americdine étudie le 6 sense,’ Science et Vié, No. 508, 1960, p. 32. New York Times Index, 1973; and Bris and Dick, New Soviet Psychic Discoveries, Engle- - wood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1978, p. 293. For a more recent perspective, see Ingo Swann. Ban- quet Address, Proceedings of the 17th Annual U.S. Army Opgrations Resear Beaae Ft. Lee, VA, ABREO Weehares #AD B 0362704, pp. 9-27. %For evidence of a trend in the late 1970s, see Ingo Swann, “The Threat of Possible Psychic Techniques in Future Conflicts. Proceedings of the 17th Annual U.S, Army Operations Research Symposium, 6-9 November 1978, Fort Lee. VA (DDC#AD B 036704); also see Dennis .M. Ross, “Hypnosis as a Tool of Military Intelligence.” Military Intelligence (4:3), July-September 1978, pp. 34-37; and John B. Alexander, ‘‘The New Mental Battlefield: ‘Beam Me UP, Spock,’ ** Aili- tary Review (LY:12), Decemer 1980, pp. 47-54. M. Ruderfer, “Note on the Effect of Distance * in ESP,” Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (63:2), April, 1969, p. 201. MN.a., “Space Experiment in ESP is De- scribed,’* New York Times, February 23, 1971, p. 40. "See Harald E, Puthoff and Russell Targ, “‘A AIRBORNE Portable / Manpack Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspectives and Recent Research” in Mind at Large: IEEE Sympo- sia on the Nature of ESP, ed. Charles T. Tant, Puthoff and Targ (New York: Praeger, 1979), pp. 13-76; n.a., “Techniques to Enhance Man/Ma- chine Communication,” Stanford Research Insti- tute, July 1974, Final Repon on NASA Project (NAS 7-100), *James E. Dougherty, How to Think About Arms Control and Disarmament, New York, Crane and Russak, 1973, p. 52. 71E.g., ¥V. V. Druzhinin and D. S. Kontorov, Concept, Algorithm, Decision. Washington, DC: U.S. Air Force, 1974. 2See Clinton Roche, ‘‘ELF and the SSN: Data Rate at Depth and Speed Today,”* SIGNAL (35:8), April 1981, pp. 29-32 AIRBORNE ‘Shipboard/ Mobile If your current or future requirements indicate a need for satellite commu- nication antennas, please contact Thomas J. Nichols or Frank W. Kellerman for further information.  CIA- REORDER AE ighway Tel. 516-585-4000 Bohemia, N. Y, 11716 LIN, INC. TWX 510-228-6502 ot rewe om eatin at ee Ra TI ey. eee ea
vu, may " Picture this sign propped. in the win- dow of a modest storefront: “Madame ‘Zodiac, Psychic. Palms Read.. Horo- | Scopes - Interpreted, : Russian ‘Sub- ‘marines Tracked.” _ |. called: psychics $400 a month each to: plot the: movements: of. Soviet: ‘sub-.., peanuts by - :Pentagon.’ standards,” but. only a small part of the military ‘and in- _ - ~ parapsychology,- or. ;Sotrasensory. ‘per- “The: -Navy : stoutly | Investigator . has’ uncovered : ‘a’ long” _| ‘record of the’admirals’ fascination with © . the: péssiblity: “that © psychics) might ~- somehow be able‘ to read the minds” - or the ‘secret’ instructions—of Soviet submarine commanders as they zigzag through, the world’s oceans. ‘Dr. J. S. Lawson dr., iéchnical direc: Command, told The Investigator, “I’ve way to fight submarines.” As early as " 1952, in fact, a fop secret Navy docu- ment suggested that psychics be used to'pinpoint hidden submarine pens. ‘In’ 1977, the - Navy: shelled. out $5,111 to a self-styled psychic named Charles White " OF oeaTAS Va., for a device he called a “multi- . BY RON McRAE AND SUE MERROW. | =z -Laughable? Only ify you'r ‘re é the kind of |. : of eccentric who thinks’ it’s amusing when "=" “1 Unéle.: Sam throws”. your: tax: dollars: a _bround on: wierd sci-fi projects. ‘The fact Is. thaf the: United States:Navy- ‘pays” “Madame. “Zodiac” wand: 33: other® SOm “marines:?:That’s . $163; 200- a ‘Yyear—-.. T telligence~ community's: research’ into “locate hidden “migsiles” and. penetrate _ employs sub-chasing- ” ewamnte; ‘But The™ tor. ‘of the: Naval’ Electronic System | ‘thought for 20. years that ESP Is the Belense The Pentagon. is: 5 spending millions ‘on parapsychology cin a crash program | to end Russia's 'S ; psycho- superiority. - . spectral image analyzer.” Whitehouse - assured the gullible admirals they could locate ‘a particular subiarine by insert- ‘Ing a photograph of it in his machine. - “And only last year, “the: Navy” tested ‘some, og New. Yor Teer Shain R cin- Ney maneuvers.. So. far, Tesults. have been: eli “as the Soviet submarines: But'the ever- hopeful Pentagon keeps trying.” Psych=-" FA ies sand :“so-called. “psychotronic’”. ‘devices, which supposedly measure or "amplify .. mental - powers, are’ being tésted for their: ‘ability -to break codes, guarded ifltary installations Pei oh ‘Advocates of these ‘spooky projects, bus”: routine, weapons are as revolutionary, and . - potentially as important, as the atomic bomb. Physicists and other skeptics in-. sist with equal vehemence that the pro- ets are: ridiculous. Despite the crit- _icism, the experiments continue, at the taxpayers’: expense.” The_ CIA,. the space agency, the National Institutes of Health, the National Security Agency and the armed services ‘all “have ‘re- . Search programs on one area of para- ‘ psychology or another... - All of these projects are 2 cloaked in the ‘deepest secrecy. The obvious reason is national security. But from the few bizarre examples that have leaked ceteris A believer’ might be reluctant to admit. -variant on Dr. Wenmug’ s time machine _/ missiles over the North Pole and cause ‘them: ‘to.detonate thousands? Spend: 7 ng sirice ‘World War Il; thé outlays’ on |’: “our, Ouija-board ‘warriors ‘have -been |" f caricature. of the pervasive East-West = of ESP had alow priority at the Pen- : d the:1950s, _-using the old “they laughed at Colum- - - tagon duting the: ° and ifit existed insist .that.. ‘psychic - = The Pentagon was ‘French press’ reported that telepathic " spending money on such a loony gim- | mick as ‘an anti-missile time warp-—a in the ‘comic strip.“Alley Oop”"—which |" "' would “intercept . incoming: ‘Soviet of years of our m “military: justified.as an: answer.to: a-perceived | »*: .. threat from the Kremlin. But the. history |. =. _ of ‘this branch of research is almost a | rivalry. « Research ‘in the military potential | at all in'the. Soviet Union, it w hot tof : alarmed..Was there ¢ a _ “psycho-gap” in the, oe making? ae ficially sanctioned. Then, in 1960, the |. experiments had been made aboard the U.S. submarine Nautilus: while it was chambered in the Ice under the North Pole. 7 th press reports were prob- ab fabricated out of whole cloth, but rr <. , Pee ee ey oo Pe ee Pele oh |
. parapsychology researchers in the Soviet Union—every bit as hungry for their share of the defense budget as are their counterparts In this country— seized on the stories as an opportunity to win approval for their own ex- periments. That did it. A few years after ‘the Nautilus reports, stories of questionable accuracy began surfacing here and there about amazing Soviet advances in voodoo warfare. One apocalyptic ac- count suggested that the Russians were “Psychotronic weapons already exist, and their lethal capability has already been demonstrated.” . amassing an Army ‘of “two million trained psychics” whose mission was to subjugate the world for the Kremlin. ’ The Pentagon was alarmed. ‘Was there ‘a “psychogap” in the making? Clearly, what was needed was money ~: and there were plenty of charlatans * “7: willing to’help the gerierals ward. off im-" eh - pending attack by the Soviet psychic ar- my: in. return fora few thousand dollars, : o . “Uspectacular®: ‘results - claimed for: the : ete ‘Scanate performance. * “Some of the psychics managed to - ‘penetrate the U.S. Treasury—if not the. secret recesses of the Kremlin. For ex-’ _ ample,” in. the .early 1970s Stanford . or a ‘few hundred thousand. .. ane Research “ Institute’ scientists. Harold Putoff..and Russell Tard claimed. to. ~ .have proven that psychics could project . was called “Project Scanate,” and its results so awed some government of- © ficials that one exclaimed, “There's no security left!” Swann and Price were given geo- graphic coordinates and asked to describe the site. Swann sketched a target island in the Indian Ocean. Price. did even better: he gave a detailed description of.a secret military facility in Virginia, and even purportedly read code-worded files (“Cueball,” “14 ball” and “Rackup”) locked inside a top secret installation that monitored Soviet space flights. For his next act, Swann turned his “psychic eye on the Soviet Union itself | and described a supposedly.secret in- | " stallation in the Urals in amazing detail. He even told the astonished test spon- sors that the secret base was staffed by. “an: unusually high proportion of. women.” Security experts in. the “Project Scanate” audience were not con- vinced. But enough top brass in both the CIA and the Navy were Impressed to push for expanded psychic resarch. Since the Scanate test, Putoff and Targ have publicized their’ findings ~ “widely, which has allowed independent. re investigators : ‘to’ run ‘their’ own_ tests.” ‘These experiments have been generally “negative;:.and. ‘none..has ‘brought. the The Navy was untuffled by evidence of improper procedures dn the Scanate "their minds and through “remote view: ‘_ Ing™- see inside. any military installation . "the the. world. The SRI psychics for - ‘whom’ these incredible claims were. _made were Pat Price, now deceased, _ Ingo Swann and Uri Geller, who also ‘claims the ability to bend spoons by © ‘mental force. Swann and Geller have’. --since: been exposed by professional Approved For Release pooorosvorck EN CAR én001700360002-3 oT test, however. In the summer of 1977, Swann and five other Stanford Re- gearch Institute subjects were taken in a Navy research submarine 2,000 feet down to the floor of the Pacific. There they predicted correctly that the sub would find lost anchors and parts of sunken ships. The Navy did not disclose. whether the research site was, perhaps, the scene'of a World War II naval engagement. This was the same year the Navy bought Charles Whitehouse’s $5,111 “spectral image-analyzer,” the machine ' that could supposedly locate a Soviet sub by ingesting its photograph. _ Whitehouse has refused to disclose a how his gadget performed in 20 days of ©. ~ trials, but the Navy bought it, and hired | ~ ‘Whitehouse to train two officers. and ~~. five enlisted men In Its operation. ” Stanford Research Institute. In 1975, the Navy gave SRI a $50,703 contract to determine if psychics could. detect remote electromagnetic sources. A '- year later, it threw in another $26,000 — to find out if the mindreaders could ex: _ert any influence on’ magnetometers, : ..” :_which measure magnetic fields and are important iri submarine detection:.”. -. ’ By all odds the: most bizarre research That's the henomesion of plants ae ; posedly reading human thoughts. You - The Navy's obsession with psychic | _ weapons was a modest bonanza for the . - , sionists—that i is tricksters. magicians as simply. gifted illu- Nevertheless, SRI’s “remote viewing” experiments with Price, | _ Swann and Geller persuaded the in- telligence community,’ and especially the Navy, that psychic research was worth a serious effort, and of course a serious expenditure of money. In 1973, the CIA and the National Security Agency arranged a top secret | * demonstatidyppr OreenbKeoriPelea S22 ( 62 The Investigator, October 1981 Bee ep Bae
_ can see the devastating effect this could have: smuggle a psychic philodendron into the Soviet Presidium’s council chambers, and the Kremlin’ darkest secrets could. be ours—presumably shuttled ‘to the Pentagon by carrier _ aphids. Cleve Backster is a polygraph operator who claimed to have discov- ered that plants attached to a lie detec- tor will “faint” if someone thinks about plucking a leaf, and vegetables’ growth . will languish if they take a dislike to the gardener..Many amateur horticulturists have long suspected things like this, but- Backster actually tried to prove it by. . “interrogating” a. plant that had been present at a murder. The police were "persuaded to march 20 suspects past. the plant, but the pay ‘witness was unable to finger the killer.- Some of the Air Force’s interest in parapsychology is based on concern for _ security of nuclear weapons. If a Uri Geller can bend a spoon by sheer will- - power, might someone similarly gifted _ be able to move the quarter-ounce trig- ger of a bomb the one-eighth of an inch. necessary to explode it? ‘Or could a mindreader pick the brain of a missile .- officer and leam ‘the code words that control the weapon's release? The James §. ‘McDonnell ‘Laboratory is conducting top secret studies on this. sures SSO The Pentagon is spending generously on parapsy- chology in a crash | program to end Russia’s psycho-superiority. The Army has not been lagging in ESP research. In 1972, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sent a team to evaluate Stanford Research Institute's claimed results with spoon-bender Geller. The team was headed by Dr. George Lawrence, a psychologist who is open- -minded on the subject of parapsychology. With him were Ray Hyman, an accomp- lished magician and ESP. debunker, and Dr. Robert Van de Castle, a University of Virginia sleep and dream expert and a past president of the American Parapsychological Associa- tion. App The team's Feport was totally nega- tive. Hyman was moved to suggest that ee kn contan a tain af the Soviet roved For Re ease 2oopfosees After viewing Project Scanate,' one government official exclaimed, “There’s no security left!” Union, in the. hope that he would ~ defect. ~. As a result of their evaluation, the Army grew cool toward some psychic — weapons development—but not com- pletely turned off by any means. In 1976, the Army awarded a $145, 000 . contract to check into the “aura” seen around human beings by ‘ so-called Kirlian photography. The: researchers found that the “aura” was an easily ex- plained interaction of body moisture . and the: ‘electric field... Army” in: : vestigators even | managed to get photos of the. “auras” prophylactic. . When the. ‘lwaye-available ‘Stan: ford Research Institute proposed a $3.5 ‘million study of “remote -viewing” in. 1977, the defense research agency flew ; 4in.a team of debunkers and SRI's Pros “posal was quickly rejected..- ‘But it-ts the. Army's “psychic task . force”,-that:. has reported ..the’ “most ' “alarming possibilities of © psychic : research. As Jack Anderson reported several months ago, the secret psychic ‘task force, operating in a room in the Pentagon basement, has come up with some hair-curling predictions of Soviet . mastery in the ESP field. - According ‘to retired- Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden, the Russians have _ already deployed third-generation psychotronic weapons. These include ‘the - “photonic barrier modulator,” which can induce death or illness from thousands of miles away with the ease ‘of a Haitian’ witch doctor; the “hyperspatial “howitzer,” which | can transmit nuclear explosions - instan- taneously to any point in the world, and the “hieronymous machine,” (perhaps named for the protosurrealist painter, Hieronymous Bosch) which Bearden contends sank the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher in 1963, Ludicrous as all this may seem, psychotronic weaponry has its staunch believers in government. In December '1980, Military Keview, the straight - laced professional journal of the U.S. Army, eu arta an article entitled ander. eek 5 assertions are start) tna Horo are a fow: ¢ “Psychotronic weapons already exist, and their lethal capability capacity has already been demonstrated.” ¢ “The ability to mentally move objects has also been repeatedly demonstrated. - under scientifically controlled condi- tions.” ¢ “Research done on the Transcen-. dental Meditation Sidhis Program. .. . has produced evidence that individ- uals can be taught to Physically, lev- “ itate.” : . ¢ “The intelligence. gathering capability _ of remote viewing is obvious.” ; . surrounding a wet | " sponge, a bowl of of spaghett and. a used © Note that he says “capability,” not . “potential.” ” ’ An important point about Alex- ' ander’s claims is that he's writing about Soviet research, not the Pentagon's. His assertions go beyond any ex- - perimental results reported in this coun-  ~ try. And his article presumably. ‘con- ' stitutes an update of a-Defense In-. ° telligence Agency study in 1972, ‘which ° _ predicted, with something less than cer. tainty: . “Soviet efforts in the field of PSI research, sooner or later might enable them to do some of the following: “A. Know the contents of top secret U.S. documents, the deployment of - _ our troops and ships and the location and nature of our military installations.” ’ “B, Mold the thoughts of key U.S. military and civilian leaders, at. a distance.” C. Cause the instant death of any © U.S. official, at a distance.” “D, Disable, at a distance, U.S. military equipment of all types, including space craft.” Whether the Soviets’ -Star Wars scientists have actually progressed to the deployment stage, as Alexander seems convinced they have, there’s one federal agency that's taking no chances: the Secret Service has com- missioned studies on ways to protect - the President from the Kremlin’s mind control. And senior agents from both the Secret Service and the CIA have - been required to take courses in mind ol Jie at universities in the gion area, to prevent them from falling under the spell of Soviet psychics. ,