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AIR UNIVERSITY
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PSYCHIC WARFARE:
EXPLORING THE MIND FRONTIER
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by
Dolan M. McKelvy
Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY
IN
FULFILLMENT OF THE RESEARCH
REQUIREMENT
Research Advisor: Colonel Donald N. Panzenhagen
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MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, ALABAMA
May 1988
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
DISCLAIMER.
ii
ABSTRACT
iii
BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH
iv
T
INTRODUCTION.
1
II
DEFINING PARAPSYCHOLOGY.
4
III
DISCOVERING THE MINDS GREAT TREASURES
6
SOVIET THREAT
11
U. S. RESEARCH.
17
IV
POTENTIAL MILITARY USES.
21
INTELLIGENCE
22
PERSONNEL.
24
COMMUNICATIONS
26
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
27
WEAPONS.
28
V
FEASABILITY OF OPERATIONAL EMPLOYMENT
30
CONTROLABLILITY.
30
LEARNABLIL ITY
31
PRACTICE
34
OPERATIONAL AVAILABILITY
34
VI
SELF IMPOSED OBSTACLES
37
MIND SET.
37
EXTREME SECRECY
42
NO FOCAL POINT
44
VII
RECOMMENDATIONS.
45
VIII
CONCLUSIONS.
49
LIST OF REFERENCES.
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DISCLAIMER
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research report represents the views of
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author
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not
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reflect
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AIR WAR COLLEGE RESEARCH REPORT ABSTRACT
TITLE:
Psychic Warfare: Exploring The Mind Frontier
AUTHOR:
Dolan M. McKelvy, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner of man.
Vast
untapped mental capabilities create an entirely
new
battlefield dimension which,
if ignored, pose a threat to
self
and country more serious than nuclear weapons.
This
.
threat starts from within.
Our fears and cynical attitudes
towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies.
The Soviets,
on the other hand, take psychic research very
seriously
at
all levels,
particularly for
its
military
application.
Exploring the mind frontier is essential and
the
key to successful exploration is
a
greater
psychic
awareness.
The
mind is rich in unfathomed resources ripe
for
exploration,
a
limitless
source
of
treasures
for
advancing
all mankind,
and a serious threat to those who
our
psychic
ignore
its
potential.
We must
overcome
the
existence
of
paranormal
inhibitions, stop denying
events, and start trying instead to understand the
nature
of
these phenomena.
We must shed the super secret cloaks
and
educate our leaders at all levels on the real psi
military potentials and threats so we can adequately focus
and prioritize
national
resources.
Only thru
greater
openness and awareness
to the truth
can we
adequately
prepare.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Lieutenant
Colonel
Dolan
M.
McKelvy,
USAF,
received
a B. S.
from the United States Air Force Academy
and a M. S.
from Kansas State University.
His
extensive
computer
science and systems engineering
background
have
--
.
circuits,
from
taken him from vacuum tubes to integrated
slide-rules
world-wide computer
networks,
and
from
human
senses to high
tech space
based
sensors.
He
recognizes
the existence and tremendous potential inherent
in extended mental capabilities and is concerned that their
potential
impact on the military and a computer-dependent
world is grossly underestimated in Western society.
He is
a graduate of the Air Force Squadron Officers
School,
the
Air Command and Staff College, the Armed Forces
Staff
College (Class 75), and the Air War College, class of 1988.
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PSYCHIC WARFARE:
EXPLORING THE MIND FRONTIER
Man's greatest
potential remains a prisoner of
man.
Only
fraction
of the human
mind
is
currently
used.
Limitless
mental
capabilities
are
just
waiting
to be
accepted,
developed and understood.
With this tremendous
power comes an entirely new battlefield dimension which, if
ignored,
poses a threat to self and country more serious
than
nuclear weapons.
This tremendous threat starts from-
within.
Our
fears and cynical attitudes towards psychic
capabilities
make us our own
worst
enemies.
Coordinated
military
exploration of the mind frontier is
essential.
And key to successful exploration is a greater awareness of
psychic
phenomena.
To support this thesis I will
examine
some of the mind's great treasures, discuss their potential
use
and feasibility as instruments
of
power,
highlight
major
self-imposed obstacles to developing extended mental
capabilities, and recommend future actions.
INTRODUCTION
In December 1980 Lieutenant Colonel John B. Alexander,
US
Army,
authored an article in Military Review
entitled
"The New Mental Battlefield:
Beam Me Up,
Spock. " In this
article he challenged the imagination of his readers
when
he stated,
"To be more specific, there are weapons systems
that
operate on the power of the mind and whose
lethal
capacity
has
already
been
demonstrated" (3: 47).
He
discussed
psychotronic weaponry
and provided eye-opening,
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American
unclassified
£
information on both Soviet and
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research into parapsychological phenomena.
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He concluded:
The
impact that psychotronic
weaponry
and
.other
paranormal applications will have in
the
future
is
difficult
to determine
at
this
time. .. whoever makes the first major breakthrough
in this field will have a quantum lead over
his
opponent, an advantage similar to sole possession
of
nuclear weapons. . . The
intent
here
is to
emphasize the need for more coordinated
research
in
the realm of the paranormal.
Additionally,
there is a need to provide leaders at all levels
with a basic understanding of weapons
systems
they may encounter
in
the not
too
distant
future (3:52).
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A
response came almost immediately.
In January 1981,
columnist Jack Anderson of The Washington Post was quick to
demonstrate
American skepticism of psychic research in an
article entitled
"Pentagon
Invades Buck Rogers' Turf. "
Anderson's one-sided derogatory prose was filled with terms
"voodoo
like
"futuristic
fantasies, "
"hogwash"
and
warfare" (4: D16 ).
A
month
later
Anderson
was
back
reinforcing psychic skepticism.
This time he began,
"The
brass hats are,
indeed, dabbling in the dark arts. "
Other
carefully chosen phrases included "evil eye," "comic-
strip,"
"Ouija board
warriors" and "voodoo
warriors
arsenalY (5: DC11).
Within weeks he returned to the subject
by referring to "wacky projects" of the CIA,
or studies
"like a Haitian witch doctor might try" (6: B13).
Maclean's magazine reported in 1981 that
President
Reagan and Defense Secretary Weinberger had to decide:
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Whether to continue funding the top-secret
project which, according to Jack Anderson of The
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Washington Post, is currently allotted $6 million
annually (30:38).
Between
1981
and 1984 numerous articles appeared
in
periodicals revealing an astonishing amount of research
in
the
psychic field and reflecting great skepticism
amongst
the
scientific community.
In
January
1984,
columnist
George Hebert wrote an article entitled ".
.
but a peek
at ESP is justified" in a Norfolk, Virginia, newspaper.
He
focused attention on U. S.
Defense Department denials that"
the
government
was
supporting
psychic
research.
He . .
suggested and
hoped
the denials were based on security
...
concerns.
Even as a skeptic he noted:
If, on the other hand, the denial reflects
a
true
military
disinterest
in
the
psychic
possibilities -- our
own and the Soviet
Union's --
that
would be reason for worry (25: A8).
An
NBC Nightline program in February 1984 discussed
the
possibility
of "mind wars. "
Researchers,
scientists
and
government
consultants
were
interviewed.
Especially
noteworthy
was
the
general
skepticism
of
government
advisors
compared
with
the
positive convictions
of
researchers.
And
most
recently,
in the 11
May,
1987
issue of
Newsweek,
Senate Foreign
Relations
Committee
chairman
Claiborne
Pell invited psychic Uri Geller for a
reception
and
dinner in Geneva during Soviet arms negotiations.
He
had
previously arranged for Geller to give a briefing
on
Capital
Hill -- in a special bugproof room.
Most
of
the
spectators
were Hill and
Pentagon aides.
. House Foreign
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Committee
chairman
Dante Fascell
came
away
impressed (22:5).
Was Lt.
Col. Alexander's message taken seriously?
Is
the
Defense
Department
conducting
more
coordinated
parapsychology
research?
Do leaders at all levels have a
basic understanding of these psychic weapons systems we may
soon
encounter?
What
is
the potential
threat to the
electronic
components which form the basic
foundation
of
all our sophisticated weapons systems?
In light of future
Defense Department funding limitations, does parapsychology
(the
mind
frontier)
really
offer
ā
new
battlefield
dimension
which
warrants continued military
exploration?
This paper attempts to answer these questions by
providing
an unclassified status update on LT.
COL. Alexander's 1980
concerns.
It
is
not
a
research
report to
identify
everything the government is doing.
By
researching events
and
literature in the 1980s, particularly those involving
paper
military
personnel
and government
programs,
this
shows
that
too much is happening
in
the parapsychology
field to ignore, and too little information is disseminated
to know how to treat it properly.
DEFINING PARAPSYCHOLOGY
Paranormal
phenomena
are observable facts or events
which
are not scientifically explainable at
this
time.
Psychic research
includes such phenomena
a.s
telepathy
(mind-to-mind
communication), precognition (knowledge of
future events) , dowsing (clairvoyant ability to find water,
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minerals, and so on,
by means beyond known
sensory
or
perceptual
faculties),
remote viewing
or
out-of-body
experiences (seeing locations,
objects or events
shielded
from
ordinary perception in a spatial
location separate
from
one's
physical body) and psychokinesis (movement
of
matter
by
mental means without using any
known physical
force).
These
types
of
psychic
functioning are also
referred to
as
psi,
which is frequently
preferred by
researchers
to
dispel
the
misconception
that
these
capabilities
are
outside
the
realm
of
normal
human
experience.
Researchers
contend
psychic
functioning
"occurs
naturally
in
the everyday
experiences
of
many
people" (41: 11).
Psi
is
further
subdivided into
two
categories.
The term extrasensory perception (ESP)
refers
to
telepathy,
dowsing,
precognition and remote
viewing,
while
the
term
PK
refers to psychokinesis
(33:27).
Psychotronics
is
the
term used
to
describe
"the
amplification
of
psychic
energies
by
electronic
devices" (33: 125).
The
first
recorded experiment of
ps i
involved a
military intelligence application of remote-viewing.
Back
in 550 B. C.
King Croesus of Lydia felt threatened by the
increasing power of the Persians.
He needed to know what
they were planning.
Historians give us a detailed account
of just what happened.
Croesus sought an oracle who could
somehow perceive his enemies plans;
an oracle with proven
psychic abilities. So he devised
a
simple test.
He
dispatched messengers throughout the ancient world to visit
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different
oracles and ask for a written
description of
Croesus '
activities at a specified time and day.
The
oracle at Delphi responded:
I can count the sands, and I can measure the
ocean;
I have ears for the silent, and know what
the
dumb
man nameth;
Lo!
On
my sense
there
striketh
the smell of a shell-covered tortoise,
Boiling now on a fire,
with the flesh of a lamb,
in
a caldron -- Brass is the vessel
below,
and
brass is the cover above it (41: 12).
.
Only
the Delphi oracle provided the correct response;"
for on the specified day, Croesus did something he thought -
most
impossible for anyone to conceive of
and
his
doing. . . He
took
a
tortoise
a
lamb,
and
cutting them in pieces with his own hands, boiled
them
both together in a brazen caldron, covered
over with a lid that was also brass (41: 12).
Croesus
550 B. C.
experiment convinced
him
remote-
viewing worked (for the Delphi oracle), and provided him a
significant
intelligence
force multiplier
against
his
Persian enemies.
How far have we advanced since then?
DISCOVERING THE MINDS GREAT TREASURES
In over 2500 years since Croesus' first psi experiment,
it
is amazing that people still know so little about
this
subject.
Paranormal experiences occur daily throughout the
world:
they are
nothing new, nor are they
limited
to
particular
types
of
individuals.
Our mind
contains
boundless capabilities just waiting to be recognized,
used
and
understood.
We
all accept and share at least
some
common understanding
of this vast mental
potential.
We
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have all
heard
statements such as "Think positive. "
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Sayings
such
as this are based on our acceptance of
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notion
that our mental attitude can directly
affect
the
outcome of events.
Opinions vary,
however,
on just
how
great an impact mental attitude can have and
under
what
circumstances
it
£
can have such an impact.
When we
look
around us, we can all recall personal experiences or those
of
others
who have experienced some type
of
paranormal
event. These events demonstrate the reality of the untapped
potential
of
the
human mind.
"The truth is
that
.
most"
people are interested in psychic experiences because
thẻy
are having them" (41: 156).
Have you ever heard about dowsing to find
water?
An
old
dowser used
a
tree
branch
to
help
some
friends
determine
where to
drill
for water
on
their
mountain
property.
Contrary to geologists ' recommendations, he not
only
picked
the right spot but accurately
predicted how
deep the drillers would have to drill and how many
gallons
of
water
per
minute the well
would
provide.
Are
you
skeptical?
According to a June 1983 Congressional Research
Service Report,
The
Soviets claim that scientific studies of
dowsing
have
yielded
significant
results.
Accordingly,
dowsing
is taught to
professional
mineralogists
and
geologists
at
Tomsk
Polytechnical Institute (17: CRS-14).
The
report goes on to say,
"Dowsing or divining
for
water,
oil, and other minerals is an established practice
in
this country and abroad,
particularly in
the
Soviet
Union" ( 17 : CRS-24).
And what about the "healing" stories?
Researchers and
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ordinary
people around
the world are witnessing and
experiencing faith healings, psychic surgery, and miracles.
Of course there are frauds,
but at the same time countless
numbers
of people have been helped.
Practitioners of
holistic
medicine and other health care specialists are
these
dormant
mental
exploring
and
using
many
of
capabilities.
The mind
frontier is rich with
resources
beyond our imaginations.
Many adventurous and courageous
people have already penetrated portions of this region and
are using their newly developed
talents;
a
scientific
understanding
of how these gifts work continues to elude
.
. .
us.
Soviet researchers and a few Western researchers think
innate signals are transmitted via some type of radio wave,
perhaps extremely low frequencies (41:33).
U. S.
physicist Russell Targ invented the
ultra-high-
power carbon dioxide laser and is a specialist in microwave
and plasma research.
He also conducted psychic research at
the Stanford
Research
Institute (SRI) for years and is
known as one of the prominent experts of psychic
research.
He thinks
The
reasons
more people have
not
£
actively
explored their psychic capabilities are
clear.
Everywhere
we look, we find images of psychic
functioning
that are confusing,
intimidating,
misleading,
and terrifying. . . Meanwhile, critics
of psi,
who often know next to nothing about psi
research, condemn the scientific work in
this
field
out
of
fear
of
its
philosophical
implications (41: 119).
To date,
paranormal events are unexplainable in man's
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view
of
nature.
Much controversy
exists
as
organized
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science and
Western society quickly try to
explain
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very
real
paranormal events.
The
scientific
community
needs
proof based on logical,
analytical and quantitative
analysis.
Such scientific approaches to psychic
research
always
leave room for skeptics to question the validity of
conclusions.
Yet, as someone once succinctly noted, "Just
because
it
can't be proven doesn't mean
it
isn't so. "
Croesus
was
convinced! He didn't let lack of understanding
prevent him from taking advantage of the capability.
This
highly
skeptical Western attitude has
greatly
affected research efforts.
Western researchers credibility
is
jeopardized
because
of
the
..
spiritual
undertones
associated
with psychics.
Jack Anderson's 1981 columns on
"voodoo
warfare" clearly demonstrated a cynical
attitude
by labeling such research as crazy.
But in response to his
columns,
letters poured in
from
the
general
populace
supporting
the research (33: xix) .
Through greater
public
awareness,
by
1984
even Jack Anderson was
changing
his
tune.
But there are legitimate laboratory projects that
may eventually unlock the mysteries of the human
mind.
One of the most promising is the testing
of "remote viewing" -- the claimed ability of some
psychics to describe scenes thousands of miles
away (7: B14).
Much
of
the skepticism and cynicism
is
generated
from
within
the
scientific community itself.
In Ronald
McRae's
1984 book,
Mind Wars,
the author describes several examples
of
the
scientific communities inability to deal
with
the
unknown -- and how in our society
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The prevailing concept defines what research
is
acceptable and what isn't, which laboratories
will enjoy the patronage of the pope in Galileo's
time or the government today,
who is
published
and who isn't.
Parapsychology, for the most
part,
is
an
'isn't' .. . Publication
parapsychology
papers in the
major
scientific
of
journals is rare (33:21).
Of course not all scientists are skeptics constrained
by "prevailing concepts".
Captain Edgar D. Mitchell,
an
astronaut on the Apollo 14 space flight to the moon,
holds
a Doctor of Science Degree in Aeronautics / Astronautics from"
the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He conducted
. .
ESP
tests on that space mission in February 1971.
In the
early 1980s, during an interview with Martin Ebon,
author
of Psychic Warfare:
Threat of Illusion?,
Captain Mitchell
commented :
During the intervening years, my work,
as
well
as the work of parapsychology
in general,
has convinced me
that the human
organism
is
capable
of
of
all
the events
we
study in
parapsychology.
. [I have] established this to
my
own
satisfaction -- if
not fully
to
the
satisfaction of all skeptics (18: 166) .
Within the exploding technological
revolution "The
eminent
computer scientist A. M.
Turing considers the
question that the only discernible difference between a
human being and a computer may be that the latter cannot
experience psi" (41:261).
Similarly,
pioneer computer
researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee stated:
My contention is that machines will be able
to "think" by any human standard
that
can be
precisely defined.
But
as
the
machines
get
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"smarter" by these rational standards, it is the
definition
of humanness that will change. ..
I
think we will discover, beyond these rational
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standards,
that
the
human race has many other
psychic talents we had previously been afraid
to
recognize,
talents
which constitute our
truly
genuine existence as humans.
They are the
only
part of us worth talking about (41:261).
Dr
Robert
Davies
is medical director of Fair
Oaks
Hospital
in
Summit, .
New
Jersey, where he has studied
neurologic
and
psychiatric illness for many
years.
In
1986,
when discussing ESP he said,
"Too many things
like
this
happen
for
it
to
be
just
coincidence. . . The_
commonalities that appear in many of these reports
suggest
that there may be some common physical basis" (36: 88).
This
common
physical
basis is what researchers are trying
to
determine.
But
to
develop a scientific explanation
of
these events may require new principles in physics.
Skeptics
and cynics will always
be
present.
Some
skepticism
is
crucial
to
the
scientific
study
of
parapsychology
Skeptics are valuable when they recognize
the reality of psychic phenomena, help expose con-artists,
and
provide
objective criticism
to help
us
better
understand paranormal events.
Cynics, on the other hand
are biased and close-minded,
trying to make nature change
itself
to conform to their concept of
the universe.
In
spite of personal skepticism, McRae points out "the opinions
of the many eminent scientists in both nations who
believe
parapsychology
research
may
lead
to
fundamental
new
discoveries cannot be ignored" (33: 68).
The other nation he
is referring to is the Soviet Union.
SOVIET THREAT
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With
these tremendous expanded
mental
capabilities
comes
an equally awesome threat to both self and country,
one
which stretches the imagination far beyond its normal
boundaries.
Martin Ebon cites a U. S. Defense Intelligence
Agency report entitled "Controlled Offensive
Behavior --
USSR" which was declassified eight years ahead of schedule.
The report states:
The
Soviet Union
is
well
aware of
the
benefits
and applications
of
parapsychology
research. .. Many scientists, U. S. and Soviet, feel
that
parapsychology can be harnessed to
create
conditions where one can alter or manipulate the
minds of others.
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The major impetus behind
the
Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities
of
telepathic
communication,
telekinetics
and
bionics
are
[sic] said to come from the
Soviet
military and the KGB (18: 12).
Ebon uses extensive research to provide an
in-depth
account of parapsychology research in both the Soviet Union
and the United States.
In noting the dramatic increase in
KGB security and control of Soviet parapsychology research,
he
concludes that "psychic
warfare
is something
to
fear" (18: 219).
After returning from a visit to the Soviet Union as a
guest
of the U. S. S. R.
Academy of Sciences in September
1983,
Russell Targ wrote, "Many Soviet laboratories appear
to be conducting experiments in which their main goal is
the modification of the behavior and feelings
of
remote
humans
and
animals by
psychic means " (24: 78).
In
summarizing his travels from Moscow to Leningrad to Yerevan
and his discussions with Soviet researchers, he notes,
They universally expressed the feeling that
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psi's importance lies in the development of human
potential,
not
in. its
possible
military
or
intelligence applications.
But
everyone
we
talked with also made some oblique reference
to
what we were not being shown (24: 79) (41:89).
In 1978 Henry Gris and William Dick, in The New Soviet
Psychic Discoveries,
provided a wealth of first-hand data
on
Soviet
breakthroughs
in
parapsychology
and
related
fields.
From
this
information
they presented
an
eye-
opening,
inescapable conclusion that the Kremlin was ready.
to
adopt psychic knowledge for military
use.
They
also
reported
on tests conducted by the CIA in 1973
involving
two noted U. S. psychics.
In controlled tests,
the psychics projected
their
minds
over
long
distances,
apparently
accurately
describing
supersecret
military
installations
and
even
the
contents
of
confidential
files in these bases.
During
one
experiment
Price
described in minute
detail
a
Soviet installation hidden in the Ural Mountains.
CIA
agents in Russia confirmed his
description.
The two psychics "spied" on China and once again,
"ground
truth"
agents -- CIA contacts in
the
People's
Republic -- were able to
confirm
their
accuracy (23: 292).
Retired Army Lt.
Col. Thomas E. Bearden has a Master
of Science Degree in Nuclear Engineering with over 29 years
experience in air defense systems, tactics, and operations,
technical
military
intelligence,
nuclear
weapons
employment,
antiradiation
missile
countermeasures,
tube
artillery and air
defense missile systems.
He
also
directed the production of U. S. Army technical intelligence
on Soviet surface-to-air missile systems.
In
his
1980
book, Excalibur Briefing, he describes psychotronic weapons
in detail,
along
with
a
mindboggling hypothesis.
He
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believes
"that by psychotronics,
the minds of all men. can
be
linked
into
a great
supermind
having
absolute
psychokinetic
mastery
over time
and
space" (10:5).
The
basis
for his sense of urgency lies in a
nonconventional
interpretation of two important statements.
Like Gris and
Dick,
he
points
to a statement made by
Soviet
Premier
Leonid Brezhnev on 13 June 1973.
He [Brezhnev ]
urged the United
States
to
agree to a ban on research and development of new
kinds
of weapons "more terrifying" than existing
nuclear
weapons.
The reason and conscience of
humanity dictate
the necessity of erecting
an
insurmountable barrier to the development of such
weapons (23:289).
Bearden also cites a comment made in the mid 1970s
by
former Air Force Chief of Intelligence Major General George
J. Keegan:
The
Soviets
are
working
on
dramatically
exotic
new
weapons,
twenty
years
ahead
of
anything
ever conceived in the U. S. -- so
awesome
as
to
lead the Soviets to believe that
in
the
coming
decade
they
would be capable
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total
neutralization
of our ballistic
and submarine
missiles (13: 24).
Bearden
feels
these
terrifying
weapons
are
psychotronic or paraphysical in nature.
In 1986 he wrote a
book
entitled FER-DE-LANCE:
A Briefing On
Soviet
Scalar
Electromagnetic Weapons.
He
named the book after the
which
unexpectedly
strikes its prey with great agility and lethal effects.
In
deadly South American pit viper snake
this
book he indites the orthodox Western scientific
community for its bureaucratic smugness and arrogance.
He
compares
the
current
Soviet
secret
development
of
psychotronic
weapons with U. S.
secret development of
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atomic bomb.
We
have assumed that it certainly could
never happen to us, and that the "secret weapon"
scenario
will
never be repeated.
On
the
contrary, it has happened again, someone else has
done it, and it has happened to us (9:7).
The equivalent of
about seven
Manhattan
projects has been poured into FER-DE-LANCE by the
Soviets
and
the
program
has
been
successful
almost beyond imagination.
The eery weapons are
now developed, deployed, and tested.
The ambush
has been completed;
FER-DE-LANCE is coiled and
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ready to
strike (9:1).
Bearden's
book
provides
a
detailed theory with
supporting
evidence
which
he and others who share his
convictions have been compiling for years.
He has ventured
beyond
the
"prevailing
concepts"
of
our
scientific
community to find answers to real paranormal events
which
have been occurring around the globe.
His
evidence
specifies dates, times, and places where these weapons have
been tested and how they were detected.
His
theory of
scalar electromagnetic waves (electrogravitation) and Jules
Verne-type weapons is overwhelming, as
well
as
the
ramifications. He notes that, "the results of psychotronic
research
extend
into
every
field
of
military
application" (10:221) .
.
Almost every weapon system we presently have
or
are developing -- is totally vulnerable to
scalar
EM weaponry
This includes personnel,
electronics
(including
fuzing
and warhead) ,
.
explosives,
propellants, fuels, ordnance, ships,
submarines,
torpedoes,
aircraft,
helicopters,
missiles,
drones,
rockets,
tanks,
armored
vehicles,
weapons carriers, self-propelled and
towed artillery,
communications,
satellites,
radars, command and control, directed
energy
weapon systems,
surveillance and sensor systems,
mines
artillery rounds and ammunition
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warheads, etc. " (9:84).
Whether
the
Soviets
have developed
all
of
these
weapons
is
not
the crucial
point.
What
is
apparent,
however,
is
the
tremendous
potential
threat
of
psychotronics
as
an
instrument of
power.
The
crucial
point,
therefore,
is
that
the
Soviets
apparently
are
aggressively pursuing research to control this
instrument.
In
1977
Soviet
parapsychology
research
finally became an issue the Carter administration
could
not ignore, no matter how skeptical some
officials remained.
On June 11, the KGB arrested
Los
Angeles Times reporter Robert
C.
Toth
in
Moscow and charged him with obtaining a "secret"
state document,
which revealed the existence
of
ongoing
research
in parapsychology
at.
several
laboratories
in
the Soviet
Union. .. [Soviets ]
admitted
for
the first
time
current
official
Soviet
interest
in
the military
potential
of
parapsychology (33: 74-75).
This
incident
focused
presidential attention
on
a
science
which
some of his advisers claimed did
not
even
exist.
Carter
ordered
a
new
definitive
intelligence estimate of Soviet psychic
research
and
its military potential,
using
all
the
intelligence resources available to the CIA,
the
first
such report ever done at the
pinnacle
of
the U. S. national security establishment (33:76).
The
report
was completed in 1978 but only
partially
released
under
the Freedom of Information
Act
in
1980.
Rather
ambiguously,
they "found no evidence of a massive
Soviet
'psycho-warfare ' ... Nor did the CIA dismiss entirely
the
most
apocalyptic
allegations of secret
Soviet
ps i
research. .. the evidence is fragmentary and contradictory at
best" (33:78).
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A June 1983 Congressional Research Service report to
Congress says,
It
is
also
speculated
that
the
Soviet
Government is firmly committed to the funding
of
ps i
research and that much of
this
funding,
variously
speculated
to
amount
to
tens
of
millions of dollars,
is directed toward military
research (17: CRS-14).
What makes the Soviet research effort such a threat is
the
United States' apparent lack of
interest.
The
same
report
to
Congress also mentions that "total funding
for
psi research in the United States probably does not greatly
exceed $500,000 per annum, and most funding originates from
private sources and foundations" (17: CRS-13) .
Attempts to
identify more recent and accurate funding levels have been
to no avail.
U.S. RESEARCH
Any lack of interest in psychic research in the United
States
is an outgrowth of personal fears, sensationalism,
and restrictive scientific mind-sets.
We are our own worst
enemies.
Through cynicism, biased criticism, and ridicule
the scientific community
and society
as
a whole have
suppressed exploration of
the
mind frontier.
Greater
psychic awareness
is
the key to opening
our
minds and
discovering the hidden treasures.
Dr.
Roger A.
Beaumont, professor of history at Texas
A&M University,
has published more than 40 articles and
three books on military history and strategic studies.
In
a 1982 article in Signal magazine he points out:
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tainted
by
sensationalism
and
some
charlatanism. . . . The
dramatic
and
the
absurd
overtones
of
the popular culture aspect of
ESP
has [sic] led even the more conservative elements
of
the
popular press
to
treat
ESP
as
a
novelty. ... Major
centers of ESP research in the
West,
at
Utrecht, London and Duke
University,
have come under suspicion from many
scientists.
As a result,
researchers. .. have labored to prove
an effect which the Soviets accept and attempt to
explain -- and control (12: 40).
Dr. Beaumont's comments are certainly proven true when
considers the continued skepticism of the
scientific.
.
one
community
in
view of the extraordinary
potential
Soviet _
threat.
According to Russell Targ,
one of the reasons
ps i
research
has
suffered is that
critics
suggest
any
acceptance of
scientific
data in the
field
of
psychic
research would be inherently irrational (24: 77) .
A survey
of America's elite scientists, which elicited 353 responses
from
497
council
members and committee
members
of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ,
was published in June 1982.
The study states:
Although
recent studies hint that belief in
ESP
may
be increasing
among
the
general
population
and among the
scientific community,
the elite scientific group polled by this study
demonstrated the highest level of skepticism of
any major group surveyed within the last
twenty
years (32: 127).
Also
mentioned in this report was a movement
started
in
1979
that sought to
disaffiliate
the
Parapsychology
Association from the AAAS.
It is interesting to note that
"among
this
elite group,
believers in ESP tend to cite
personal experience as grounds for their belief.
Skeptics
tend
to
cite a priori reasons as grounds
for
disbelief“
(32: 128).
The "prevailing
concepts" and
negative
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pressure
within the scientific community is best shown
by
the
1984 award of a $750,000 endowment for
parapsychology
research
to
the
University of
Edinburgh
in
Scotland.
Leading
British
universities,
including
Oxford
and
Cambridge,
"decided not to
apply
for
the endowment,
primarily
on
the grounds that it would throw doubt on
the
credibility
of
other
research
programs " ( 16: 1274) .
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Obviously
this
is
an
example of the
"suspicion"
Dr.
Beaumont was talking about;
it is an indication that major
self-imposed obstacles continue to impede psychic research.
The first
great
battle of any "mind race"
must
be
fought within ourselves.
If each of us becomes more aware
and open-minded to the reality of paranormal phenomena,
we
can
learn to use these treasures rather than
fear
them.
This
greater psychic awareness has perhaps already begun.
A
survey
by the president of the
American
Society
for
Social
Psychiatry
revealed
in 1981 that
58
percent
of
medical
faculties
polled.
felt
that
"understanding
of
psychic
phenomena
is
important to
future graduates
of
psychiatry programs",
and that the American public accept
the
reality of psychic phenomena with 51 percent believing
in ESP and 37 percent believing in precognition.
The June
1983 Congressional Research Service report says,
All
polls
of
both
the
public and
the
scientific community in recent years have yielded
evidence of a generally positive attitude toward
the existence and relevance of psi phenomena as a
class and research into them.
The general public
accepts the concept of
psi ,
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based
on
personal experience (17: CRS-21)
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But given such great controversy within the scientific
community,
what should be the military attitude,
what are
the potential military uses,
and how feasible
are
they?
Thirteen
of
the
fourteen
best-known
parapsychology
laboratories
in
the United States responded
to
a
questionnaire in 1979 giving us part of the answer.
Four considered "ESPionage" possible,
five
likely, and the remaining four certain.
Similar
proportions
of the researchers believed
psychic
powers might be used to physically harm,
sicken,
or
kill individuals, or to interfere
with
the
operation of physical equipment such as computers
(33:53).
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Ronald
McRae,
an investigative reporter for
Jack
Anderson,
spent
over
a year sifting through
a
"sea
of
conjectures,
rumors,
and confusion", studying conflicting
reports, competing
interests groups and conjectures
of
psychic researchers to compile the most accurate record of
facts he could find.
His 1984 book,
Mind Wars: The True
Story of Government Research into the Military Potential of
Psychic Weapons, provides startling insights into numerous
government projects involving psychic functioning. So much
so that professor Marcello Truzzi, Director of the Center
for Scientific Anomalies Research in Ann Arbor,
Michigan,
said,
He has given us enough pieces of the puzzle
so that we can now at least see some of the areas
filled in enough to make a preliminary assessment
and recognize
that government psi efforts
have
been grossly publicly underestimated (33: xii).
Similarly,
Russell Targ and Keith Harary authored a
1985
National
Bestseller entitled Mind Race,
where they
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discuss the unclassified portions of over ten years of
government
sponsored psi
research at Stanford Research
Institute.
They note,
In laboratories across this country, and in
many
other
nations
as
well,
forty-six
experimental
series
have investigated
remote
viewing.
Twenty-three of these investigations
have
reported successful results and produced
statistically significant data, where three would
be expected (41: 5).
Psi research is definitely alive in the United States
and
Internationally.
In
1983 the Fifth
International
Conference on Psychotronic Research was held in Bratislava,
Czechoslovakia.
The founder and president of the 15 year
old
International Association for Psychotronic
Research
(IAPR) was Dr. Zdenek Rejdak, from Czechoslovakia.
Russell
Targ points out that several speakers at this conference
expressed "a clear desire for openness and cooperation --
rather than for developing military uses
of
psi" (41: 86).
Targ agrees.
But
I
contend that government and the
military have a responsibility to determine what kinds
of
military uses/threats might exists.
POTENTIAL MILITARY USES
It should not be hard for anyone to envision potential
military
uses
of the powerful psi capabilities discussed
thus far. Telepathy, precognition, dowsing, remote viewing
and
psychokinesis offer an endless list of possibilities.
In 1984 Charles Honarton, Director of the Psychophysical
Research
Laboratories
in Princeton,
said,
"There is
potential
£
for
military and other uses,
but psi has
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Let's look at some
specific military uses before addressing the implementation
issue.
INTELLIGENCE
Just
like
Croesus in 550 B. C. ,
remote
viewing
and
precognition
can break through barriers of time and
space
to
perhaps
eliminate the
word
"secrecy"
from
our
--
vocabulary.
In
1976
CIA
director
George
Bush
enthusiastically
gave
retired
astronaut
Edgar
Mitchell
"permission
to organize high-level seminars at the CIA
to
discuss
possible
intelligence
applications
of
parapsychology" (33: 103).
Although interest waned in 1977
when
Admiral
Stansfield Turner replaced Bush,
it
shows
there are others who see definite psi applications for the
intelligence community.
As
mentioned
earlier,
four of the
best-known
U. S.
parapsychology
laboratories
are certain that psi can be
used for espionage.
Those four labs must of known about
Project Scanate!
In
a previous section of this paper
I
quoted ,Henry Gris and William Dick's 1978 book
where
two
U. S.
psychics described supersecret military installations
and
even
the
contents of confidential
files
at
the
installation.
Ronald McRae's 1984 book gives more
details
on this actual test:
Psychics
versus
the
CIA,
extrasensory
perception
against the most sophisticated codes
known
to
the U. S.
National
Security Agency,
remote viewing against satellite photography and
top U.S. agents
behind the
iron
curtain -- the
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whole of the U.S.
national
security
apparatus
cooperating
to make cheating
impossible.
The
test was dubbed "Project Scanate" -- an
impossible
test with impossible results. .. Puthoff, Targ, and
the psychics won" (33:92).
The following example demonstrates some results.
On
impulse,
Puthoff
gave
Price
the
coordinates
for
the latest series
of
targets
selected
by
the
CIA,
including
an
area
in
Virginia
approximately
135 miles
southwest
of
Washington,
D.C.
Three
days
later,
he
got
mail,
Price's
five-page written response in the
"beginning with a description of the area from an
altitude
of
1,500 feet and ending with
a
tour
through
building
interiors.
The
tour
was
complete
with descriptions of
equipment,
names
-.
...
from desks,
and -- just to show he was
serious -- a
list of a dozen labelings on file folders locked
in a file cabinet. ". .. Three weeks later,
the CIA
informed
him [Puthoff] that
Price
was
right.
Exactly right (33: 100).
The other psychic, Swann, although sometimes ambiguous
or off the mark, also was remarkable when he described
A
previously unknown
Soviet
installation,
sketching buildings and rail lines, and noting an
"unusually
high
proportion of women" among
the
personnel.
A U. S. spy satellite verified Swann's
report three months later (33: 101).
Another example involved Navy Captain Joseph L.
Dick,
the
leader of
the
Defense
Intelligence
Agency
office
responsible for
gathering
evidence on potentially
live
MIA's. He used psychics and said, "Some of their leads have
checked out. .. They've been
able to visualize aircraft
crashes,
and
we've found
the
wreckage
where
they
indicated" (33: 18).
Remote viewing is obviously a capability well
suited
to the intelligence business, and unobstructed by distance
limitations.
Remote
viewing
showed
that
the
planet 3
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Jupiter
had
faint
rings
like
those of
its
neighbor
Saturn.
Astronomers
scoffed at
this
claim;
Carl Sagan called it "ridiculous. "
Nine
years later,
Voyager 1 sent back pictures of the
Jovian rings (33:29).
In
addition to remote viewing,
map dowsing could be
used to pinpoint the locations of soviet submarines or find
underground
tunnels
in
the Korean demilitarized zone.
PERSONNEL
Before discussing potential personnel applications of
psi let me remind you that at least four of the U. S.
best-
known
parapsychology
research
laboratories
are
certain
"psychic powers might be used to physically
harm,
sicken,
or
kill individuals. "
Their confidence is probably
based
on
experiments
like
that done in 1975 at
San
Francisco
medical research institute with psychic healer Dean
Kraft.
He
was to try,
psychically,
to lower
the
blood pressure and heart rate of a laboratory rat
in a Plexiglas cage. . . The observers, however, had
an
opportunity to watch for twenty minutes,
and
record the
steady decrease of the rat's
heart
rate, all the way to zero (41:81).
He mentally killed the rat without any contact.
Similarly,
Nina Kulagina of the Soviet Union is known
for her , psychokinetic abilities.
After
just 40 seconds of
focusing her mental influences she
was able to completely stop an isolated frog
heart
from a distance of about a
meter
and
a
half ... "When
we
[ Soviet
Professor
Gennady
Sergeyev] examined it, we found that it was torn
apart,
as if
bombarded by lightning
balls
of
microscopic
size.
The energy flow
can
reach
incredible intensity!" (41: 269).
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Targ notes "Experiments that feature induced pain or
behavioral
manipulation at
a
distance
have
been
the
distinguishing
characteristics
of
almost all
official
Soviet psi research since the early 1920s" (41:77). From the
mid-sixties
until
the
mid-seventies
the
KGB
beamed
mysterious
microwave
radiation at
the
U.S.
embassy in
Moscow.
This
bombardment did
not
exceed
U.S.
health
standards
but did exceed much more rigid Soviet standards.
Why are Soviet standards more rigid than ours, and why were
they putting U. S.
embassy personnel at greater risk than
they would
allow
their own personnel -- for no
apparent
reason? (33:72)
From
a
more
positive view,
psi could
be
used
to
monitor
and even restore health from great
distances.
A
doctor could diagnose and treat many patients
via
remote
control.
Or
better yet,
experiments in biofeedback have
shown
that our minds have the ability to control
much
of
When discussing the interaction
of
our
own physiology.
mind
and
matter,
Alexander said,
"The functions of the
autonomic
nervous system,
previously thought to operate
independently of the conscious mind,
can be controlled. "
With
training,
we can develop this ability to control
stress, fear and even bleeding (3:50).
Another potential
area
for
ps i
use
is
personnel
training.
In 1982 at Fort Hood,
Texas, the Army tested a
program
where soldiers practiced visualizing their combat
-
tasks
to
improve their human performance.
An expanded
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was
then
initiated to train
Green
Berets
meditation
skills so they could adapt to long hours behind
enemy lines (20:69).
What
about
executive
decision
making
and
stress
management?
In todays analytical and statistical world we
tend to underdevelop our "gut instincts".
But good leaders
and
visionaries recognize the value of a highly sensitized
intuition.
Albert Einstein said the really valuable factor_
attributing
to
his
theory of
relativity
was
intuition
(41: 181).
Targ says through psi "you can learn to evaluate
the reliability of your intuitive impressions" (41: 182) .
COMMUNICATIONS
Just
think of the possibilities telepathy provides in
the
area of communications.
Direct mind-to-mind link ups
could
eliminate
security
problems
and
provide direct
access anywhere -- without equipment dependencies.
Soviet
researcher,
Paul
Naumov,
described
an
experiment where a mother rabbit was placed in a laboratory
with electrodes implanted in her brain to monitor activity.
Her
baby rabbits were taken aboard a submarine which then
submerged deep in the ocean.
At synchronized
times
the
baby rabbits
were killed and at each precise
moment
the
mother rabbit's brain reacted (33:33).
This innate form of
communication which
traversed
great distance and
ocean
depths may be the source of many "natural instincts".
When
asked
in an interview about the limits to man's extended
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mental awareness, Targ responded:
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One
of
the
conclusions of our
decade of
research
at SRI is that we found no
bounds
for
psychic
functioning.
As physicists, we always
try and look for the limits
of
phenomena,
but
what we found is that electro-magnetic shielding
does not
interfere with psychic functioning.
We
even went to the extent of having remote
viewing
experiments
conducted with the viewer
submerged
in a submarine under 500 feet of sea-water.
That
greatly
alters
even the
lowest frequency
of
electro-magnetic waves.
But we found the viewers
perfectly
able to do remote viewing
from
the
submarine, just as they had done on dry land.
We
were
look
across
also
found
that
they
to
distances up to thousands of miles.
So from our
experiments we found that neither
distance
nor
electro-magnetic
shielding
interfered
with
psychic functioning (39:86).
Bearden goes even further.
He postulates that through
the
use
of psychotronic electromagnetic
scalar
weapons
all forms of electronic communications are vulnerable.
He
supports
an
emerging theory of local
general
relativity
(LGR) ,
which does not assume that
local spacetime is always
flat, but rather allows the individual conservation laws to
be
violated
locally.
"The major
implication
of
this
startling new engineering physics is that one can
engineer
physical
reality itself ... communication faster than
light
speed is possible" (9: 10) .
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
Many
researchers are concentrating on tests
of
low-
energy
psychokinesis, called micro-PK.
"Typically,
the
psychic
subject tries to influence a simple mechanical
or
electrical
system,
such
sensitive
thermometer
or
computer
microchip,
which
can be affected by a very
low
level
of energy. "
Robert Jahn,
Dean of the
School
of
Engineering
and Applied Science at
Princeton
University,
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such
tests have shown consistently positive results
(33:54).
If a microchip and other electronic equipment can
be mentally
manipulated,
the new
high-tech
information
revolution
has
just
been handed
a
deadly
setback.
Financial institutions,
businesses, governments, and those
dependent
on computers are suddenly very vulnerable.
This
apparent
capability has created
a
paranoia
amongst
talented psychics in the parapsychology field -- perhaps with
some justification.
"Researcher Jeffrey Mishlove believes
that
anyone
with
the
ability to jam computers 'would
probably have to be destroyed '" (33: 55) .
How
big of a step is it from being able to mentally
stop an elevator at will, to manipulating the computer
or
electronics of a weapon system?
WEAPONS
Through
psychotronics
Bearden says
"almost
every
weapon system we presently have -- or are developing -- is
vulnerable to scalar EM weaponry." Once again
we see
existing weapons and technology possibly falling prey to a
new
weapons
generation,
called
psychotronics.
He
developed this weapons list in 1980.
The
following
list
enumerates
all
the
probable
Soviet psychotronic weapons that
I
am
aware of:
(1) Electromagnetic Field Canceler;
(2)
Electron
Current
Canceler;
(3) Death
Radiator
(De-inceptor) ;
(4)
Free Energy
Generator;
(5)
Psychotronic
Bomb;
(6) Brain
link;
(7)
Brain
Probe;
(8)
Disease
Radiator Ray;
(9)
Emotion
(10) Antisubmarine
Systems;
(11)
Radiator Ray;
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-
: .
2
Teleporters
(Prototype) ;
(12) Force Generators;
(13) Orthoframe Generators;
(14) Quark/Antiquark
Rays;
(15)
Distant
Telepathy;
(16)
Nuclear
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Radiation Inhibitors;
(17) Mental
Implantation;
(18)
ABM Systems,
Midcourse and Terminal;
(19)
Materializer
Shields;
(20) Sweeps
for
Nuclear
Debris;
(21)
AAA
Systems;
(22)
Antisatellite
Systems;
(23)
Tesla-effect
Weapons;
(24)
Earthquake Generators;
(25) Antivehicle Systems;
(26) Weather Control Systems (10:220-221) .
He
and
others
have
continued
monitoring
and
documenting instances where they believe these weapons have
been
tested,
theorizing the possible effects and matching
them
up
with
real
world
paranormal
events.
Typical.
.
incidents
he
describes
include,
a
Tesla
Weapon
at
.....
..
Saryshagan
(Scalar
Potential
Interferometer) ,
"Nuclear"
Flashes
off
the
Coast of
Africa,
the
15
April,
1979
Yugoslavian
Earthquake,
Tesla Shield sited
in
August
1980,
a
Continuous
Tesla
Fireball in Lithuania
on
10
September, 1976, a Continuous Tesla EMP Globe in Iran, East
Coast
Aerial Blasts (High Burst Registration?) in 1977 and
and "Laser" Blinding
of
1978,
Booms in Delaware in 1982,
More recent
incidents
U. S.
Satellites
in 1975, (11:26).
include
abnormalities during
Titan
launches ,
shuttle
launches, and even associated weather anomalies.
Think, the ability
to manipulate the weather
would
allow
you to literally control
the fog of war.
But
Bearden's 1986 apocalyptic message foretells of an ultimate
destructive power,
There
is a special time bomb ticking
away
for
all of humanity.
For the first
time,
the
total destruction of our entire biosphere
-- and
perhaps
our
entire solar
system
--
is
only
moments
away
from
the finger on the
trigger
(9:86).
Just how feasible are these potential military
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FEASIBILITY OF OPERATIONAL EMPLOYMENT
The experiments of the 1970s should more than convince
you of psi's potential military uses.
But why did Charles
Honarton say
in
1984 that,
"psi
has
not
reached
the
application
stage?" (38: 38)
Probably because to
use
ps i
capabilities
operationally requires:
1.
the
ability
to
. .
control
psi
so it can be repeated
on
demand.
2.
the
--
ability
to
teach it and learn it.
3.
the
ability
to
practice it,
gain confidence,
improve our
understanding,
and
increase reliability.
How close are we to
satisfying
these requirements?
.....
CONTROLLABILITY
Psi
is
frequently
criticized
because
it
is
so
unpredictable.
Psychics
are
not
always
successful,
experiments
are hard to replicate,
and therefore use upon
demand is unreliable.
But is that reason to exclude it all
together?
We see it used mainly in situations where there
are no, other alternatives.
"The Defense
Department
used
psychics in an attempt to find General Dozier,
kidnaped by
the
Italian Red Brigades in January 1982."
A11
attempts
were
unsuccessful
and
unrelated to his
eventual
rescue
(33: 16).
But if 100 percent reliability is required, then
no technique used today is acceptable either.
A
CIA
commissioned independent evaluation following
Project
Scanate concluded "manifestations of
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[were ]
sufficiently
sharp
and
clear-cut
to
justify
serious
considerations
of
possible
applications" (33: 102).
However,
it
cautioned
that
existing
ignorance
of
the
basis
of
paranormal phenomena together with the capricious
and unreliable nature of the channel dictate that
information
derived from this source can
never
stand
alone
and must be used with
caution
(33: 102).
Who
said
"never say never?"
Psi could be
routinely.
. .
used
to
compliment other systems we have -- and as
a
last
resort
when
and
where
appropriate.
Remember, a
1983
Congressional
Research
Service Report says
"Dowsing
for
water,
oil,
and other minerals is an established practice
around
the
world. "
Similarly,
other
professionals
are
using
psi functioning to assist them in their
businesses.
Police seek help identifying clues and suspects in criminal
investigations.
Mr.
Price frequently used his talents
as
police
commissioner
of
Burbank,
California
(33: 100).
Health
care
specialists
utilize
ps i
techniques
for
determining and improving patients health.
Companies and
individual property owners use dowsers to locate water
for
drilling wells.
But where do you find people like the Delphi oracle or
Mr. Price?
LEARNABILITY
After
years
of study Targ says "We are certain
that
psychic
abilities
are a totally normal
aspect
of
human
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sanely
and
rationally" (41: 5).
"Anyone who decides for
himself
that
it
is
safe to
experience
paranormal
functioning can learn to do so" (41: 125) .
The
key
to
learning appears to be acceptance and
support,
rather
than
skepticism and criticism.
Since
Western
society
has repressed these
psychic abilities,
most
people experiencing psi also tended to ignore
their
potential
and usefulness.
In
our
society,
a person who is
beginning
to
experience emerging psychic abilities, or who is
interested in doing so,
has almost
nowhere
to
turn
for
guidance. ... They can
admit
their
interests
and
risk being
branded
as
social
deviants,
or
they can deny their interests
in
psychic functioning and thereby become alienated
from
what might be an important aspect of their
own lives and experiences (41: 122).
However,
as
people hear more about these capabilities and
realize psi functioning is a normal experience,
there is a
greater sharing and exchange of personal experiences.
People
from all walks of life are attending
personal
awareness
and assertiveness seminars to learn how to take
control of their lives. Instructor Robert Robbins teaches a
seminar entitled "Fear into Power: The Firewalk Experience"
where
hundreds of people learn to walk barefoot over
hot
mind and will can control the world.
Norman Cousins,
and
written
two books on the subject of self-healing.
He
is
coals in a four hour seminar.
Their whole concept is that
adjunct
professor
at
the UCLA School
of
Medicine
has
certain
that the mind has the power to
affect
"physical"
processes (21: 48) .
In
Russia
professional mineralogists and geologists
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are
taught
dowsing
at
Tomsk
Polytechnical
Institute.
Similarly,
the
U. S.
National Dowsing Association teaches
classes at annual conferences to anyone who is
interested.
After using many untrained
individuals
in
remote-
viewing experiments,
Targ concludes,
"The best scientific
research
suggests that the capacity for developing genuine
psychic
abilities lies latent in many,
or perhaps
most,
people" (41: 4) .
.
..
In 1984,
the U. S.
Army initiated a two-year study to
evaluate
the potential of certain unconventional
methods
to
enhance
human
performance.
That
study
recently
concluded,
Sleep
learning,
mental
imaging
and
accelerated
learning
programs
are
among
the
unconventional
techniques which
may
improve
soldier performance ... [ however ],
the
committee
rejected parapsychological techniques
such
as
extrasensory
perception
and
psychokinesis
as
scientifically unsupportable (19:75) .
Note
this
study
rejects
ps i
because
it
is
not
scientifically supportable.
But does it work?
During
Vietnam the Marine Corps trained a platoon of
dowsers to locate hidden tunnels and weapons caches in
I
Corps
near Hue.
They were withdrawn after five
months
"because the successful use of dowsing appeared to require
'special skills
that
cannot be taught to the average
marine '" (33: 15).
The
commander
of
the Training
and
Development
Command did not discredit dowsing,
but merely
pointed
out
it
is a special
skill
his
marines hadn't
mastered.
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PRACTICE
Given that psi can be controlled,
taught and learned,
it probably requires more than a four hour short course for
use
operationally.
Many skills require specialization,
long term training and extensive practice to master.
The experienced psi practitioners of today are
those
people
who
have spent years developing
their
individual
.
talents.
With
those years of
experience
comes
the
increased confidence of how to use their
talents.
Like
..
other
"normal"
skills,
practice and
training
improve
performance, understanding, and reliability.
And those who
have
learned the most about psi are best suited to begin
training
a
new
vanguard to carry on and
improve
their
skills.
But in the hostile environment of Western society,
the
history
of
psi has been one of independent
research
and
independent findings,
held closely to prevent the scorn of
organized science and society.
Consequently, we continue
to lose the
knowledge and experience
of
past
masters,
rather
than building on their understanding to improve our
.
The one historic thread of commonality is
a
belief
own.
that
psi exists and can offer much more for the future of
mankind.
In
1983,
Targ said that "our understanding has
reached
the
point
where
we can
seriously
consider
transferring
the remote viewing technology from laboratory
research to real world applications" (24: 78) .
Are we ready?
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There are
three avenues that
parapsychologist have
long
since recognized
as possible routes
to
general
acceptance of psi: 1. Through experiments which produce psi
upon
demand in laboratories so skeptics are convinced that
all
conditions
are
correctly
controlled.
2.
Through
mainstream
sciences acceptance
of new
theories
which
explain
psi
phenomena.
3.
Through
finding
practical
applications
that
"work"
regardless
of
our
limited
understanding (33: xii-xiii).
..
Researchers have traditionally tried to use method one
to convince the scientific
community,
but "prevailing
concepts"
reign
supreme.
Method two is also directly
dependent on the scientific community and is very
unlikely
given the limited understanding of psi today.
That is why
psi practitioners and many researchers have gone to method
three in the 1980s.
Through practical application they can
develop their skills, leaving "prevailing concepts" behind,
along
with
the scientific
community.
Many
researchers
last
to
point
how
the scientific community was the
will
gain
accept
hypnotism -- so too researchers feel psi
acceptance
from
society long
before
the
scientific
community comes to grips with it.
Operational
use of psi is up to the
user.
King
Croesus
was
content after one test to use the
Delphi
oracle.
World
famous psychic,
Edgar I.
Cayce, advised
General
John
Pershing and accompanied him on European
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Even
General Patton used the psi talents of a
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More recently, according to Barbara Honegger, who
worked three years in the White House office of Policy
Development for the Reagan administration,
parapsychology played a major role in one of
the
administration's most controversial defense
decisions -- abandoning the. Carter administration's
'shell-game'
deployment for the MX
missile. .. In
other words,
U. S.
studies show Soviet psychics
could
beat
the
shell
game
and pinpoint
the
missiles (33: 17).
These
examples
show how operational use depends
equally on
someone
taking the risk to try unorthodox
techniques.
Congressman
Charlie Rose (D-N.C. )
is a
respected long-term
congressman and member of the
House
Select Committee on Intelligence. He takes psychic weapons
seriously, but in 1984 didn't think we had the technology
to build them.
The
congressman's personal experience has
convinced
him
such breakthroughs
are on
the
horizon.
He
has
attended
classified
demonstrations of remote viewing arranged by
the
CIA.
Says Rose,
"I've seen
some incredible
examples
of remote viewing -- so much so
that
I
think
we
ought to pay
close attention
to
developments
in this field, and especially
to
what the Soviets are doing.
If they develop
a
capacity to have people mentally view secret
centers within this country, we could come to the
point where we didn't have any secrets" (33: 47-
48).
Bearden thinks those breakthroughs have occurred.
He
has documented evidence that the Soviets are beyond
the
speculation and research stages, and have deployed psi
weapons systems ready to strike.
With the threat so near,
why are we so unprepared?
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SELF IMPOSED OBSTACLES
Despite extensive evidence of psi and its
tremendous
potential
use as an instrument of power,
we continue to
impede our own progress.
Our mind set,
extreme
secrecy,
and
disjoint
research
fuels skepticism and criticism
rather than seeking truth.
MIND SET
The
history of psi in Western society is filled
with
distinguished
scientist
from diverse
fields
who
.
became
maligned
and
professionally ridiculed for
their
psychic
research.
People feared
that
science
would
undermine
traditional
religious
beliefs.
Even electricity
was
considered to be an occult and mystical force in the 1850s.
Robert
Hare,
a
major
American
chemist,
Alfred
Russel
Wallace,
the
cofounder
with
Darwin of
the
theory of
evolution by natural selection,
and Sir William
Crookes,
the
chemist and
physicist who
discovered
thallium and
invented the
radiometer,
were the first of
a
continual
succession
of eminent scientists who endorsed paranormal
claims based on their own research (27:825).
Even today,
research
is
the
130
years of controversy over psychical
impeding
progress.
Robert Jahn,
Professor of Aerospace
Sciences
and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences at Princeton related one experience.
I
confess
that I
[discuss
parapsychology
research]
with
some
trepidation,
borne
of
previous unpleasant experiences. For example,
a
lighthearted article
in
the Princeton alumni
magazine, in which I attempted to share some of
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[my ]
experiences
in this
field
with
the
university
community
at
large,
brought
an
intensity
and
breadth of reactions for which
I
was
totally
unprepared,
ranging
from
irresponsible and categorical condemnation on one
extreme,
to
equally
irrational
messianic
accolades on the other. Rather than precipitating
further
such
distracting
outbursts,
I
have
largely
avoided
opportunities
for
public
presentation (33:22).
As
long
as the scientific community continues
£
to
challenge the existence of psi, experiments to improve
our
understanding
of it
are
limited.
"Few Soviet
style
experiments are done in this country because it
is
difficult to obtain funding to explore the mechanism of psi
when its very existence is politically controversial in the
scientific community" (33:61).
This
mind set is best describe by one eminent
physicist who read SRI's report on years of remote viewing
research,
"This is something I won't believe even if
it
turns out to be true. " Even author Ronald McRae, after his
investigation into government psi research, is plagued with
the Western culture mind set, "Personally, I cannot accept
the reality of remote viewing ... " (33: 109).
Bearden says
. even when Western scientists are
confronted
with
the actual Soviet tests
of
these
[psychotronic] weapons directly over their heads,
they do
not recognize the weaponry nor the nature of the
effects
produced" (9: 2).
.
How can this kind of atmosphere promote the search for
truth?
It won't -- it retards it.
In 1977
a
group
of
prominent self
appointed people such as Carl Sagan and
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astro-physicist ..
Dennis Rawlins,
formed the Committee for
the
Scientific Investigation of Claims of
the
Paranormal
(CSICOP)
to refute all claims of paranormal events.
This
committee
was
later rebuked by Rawlins
himself,
a co-
founder of the committee,
because of the integrity of some
of
those who make a career of opposing anomaly
research.
He said,
I
now
believe that if
a
flying
saucer
landed
in
the backyard of
a
leading
anti-UFO
spokesman,
he might hide the incident from
the
public
(for the public's own good,
of
course ) .
He
might swiftly convince
himself
that
the
landing
was
a
hoax,
a
delusion,
or
an
"unfortunate" or mundane phenomena which could be
explained away with "further research" (33: 171).
This mentality is even more disturbing when we see the
debilitating
affects
it
can have.
Case in
point -- A
February 1987 article in OMNI states:
In
one
strange
incident
CS ICOP
official
Philip J. Klass, learning of a forum on anomalies
research
that the University
of
Nebraska
was
sponsoring,
called the school to protest
that
CSICOP's
views were not being
represented
and
that, moreover, in questioning the United States
government's word on the nonexistence of
UFO's,
speakers at the conference were seeking "what the
Soviet Union does -- to convey to the public
that
our government cannot be trusted, that it
lies,
that it falsifies .... As a patriotic American,
I
very much resent [this]." After Klass threatened
legal action
against
the
university,
it
canceled its sponsorship of future conferences of
this kind.
Klass
withdrew
the
threat
and
pronounced
himself
satisfied
with
the
university's action.
Since then satellite groups
of debunkers have proliferated
all around
the
do
battle
with
country,
determined
to
:
"pseudoscience" real and imagined.
Not content
simply to argue the issues on their merits,
they
have harassed colleges and universities
into
dropping
(usually
noncredit)
courses
in
parapsychology, conducted vituperative campaigns
against anomaly
proponents,
and done -- in the
words
4
O
Philadelphian Drew
Endacott,
one
of
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their
number -- "anything
short
of
criminal
activity" to get "the point across to people who
have no demonstrated facility to reason" (14: 33).
Given this
obstacle which many in the
scientific
community create, the military is confronted with a similar
situation,
both
personal
and professional.
Can the
military
risk
association
with
the
scorned
psychic
community?
Can a military officer?
I
stated
earlier
that
operational use of
ps i
is-
equally dependent on the user as well as the psychic.
What
is the military mind set when dealing with
parapsychology?
I
began this research because I was concerned the military
establishment was unaware of psi potential applications, or
As my
not taking Lt. Col.
Alexander's message seriously.
some
research
indicates,
the
government,
or at
least
ahead
of
me.
They
have
been
individuals,
were
well
involved,
daring to try unorthodox techniques, and helping
demonstrate the existence of psi by using it when all
else
failed.
But the military and government is a reflection of
its
society,
SO
the controversy
exists there
also.
Congressman
Rose thinks skeptics in the Pentagon and CIA
are
hindering U. S.
research in remote viewing and wonders
openly about their motives.
Some
of the intelligence people I've talked
to know that remote viewing works, although they
still
block further research on it, since
they
claim
it's not yet as accurate
as
satellite
photography. But it seems to me that it would be
a
hell
of a cheap radar system, and if
the
Russians have it and we don't, we are in serious
trouble.
This country wasn't afraid to look into
the
strange
physics
behind
lasers
and
be
semiconductors, and I don't think it should
afraid to look at this (33: 104)
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Samuel
Koslov, the assistant secretary of
the
Navy who tried unsuccessfully to eliminate
psychic research, dislikes even the mention of so
called psychic weapons (33:66).
Navy
research
in the mid-seventies
determined
that
psychics
could
detect
remote
electromagnetic
sources ,
indicating
perhaps
they could also detect
submerged
submarines.
The
Navy also sponsored research to
see
if
psychics
could influence the magnetometers used to detect
the magnetism of submerged substances.
Dr.
Joel Lawson,
once
head of the Naval Electronic Systems
Command,
said
"I have always
believed that ESP is the only way to fight
submarines.
The magnetometer tests were designed to prove
the principle. " Once willing to discuss
psychic
warfare
openly, now he has been officially silenced (33: 106).
My own research experience demonstrates leaders at all
levels do not have a basic understanding of psychic weapons
systems.
I questioned many general officers on the subject
of parapsychology and only one was even aware of what I was
referring to.
That one senior officer said,
"If you
are
interested in that you need to have your head examined!"
He
refused to even discuss which service or organization I
could
contact
for
more
information.
The
total
nonfamiliarity of senior officers I questioned and similar
indications
from my Air War College
classmates is a. poor
response to Alexander's 1980 message.
Further, the hostile
response
I
received from the one general
who had
some
familiarity indicated either a "closed-mind" or "stay away"
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his name in a 1984 Washington Post article as one Pentagon
general who was impressed with some of the psi results, and
concerned about the Soviets lead in
psychic
research
(8: C13). So I take it he meant "stay away. "
EXTREME SECRECY
Through
additional
research
I
was
surprised
to
discover the 1982 Air War College research paper
presented
the
Most
Significant Contribution award was on this
same
topic;
an
unclassified
paper,
later
up-graded
to
classified, and then completely withdrawn.
Contacts
with
the
intelligence
community
for
information
brought back a resounding -- NO,
regardless
of
clearance
or
willingness
to make
this
research effort
classified.
Discussions
with previous DOD psi proponents
warned
it
might be all right to do research in
this
academic situation,
but forget it afterward or it could be
unhealthy for your career.
From this study and these experiences I will
assume
the government is pursuing psi research.
I'm convinced psi
has
tremendous
human/military applications which
can be
used operationally. I'm also convinced that relatively few
military leaders at any level are aware of the threat.
But
most of my original questions remain unanswered:
How much
research?
£
How well coordinated? How well funded?
What
priority in impending funding cuts?
In
addition,
I've
developed some new concerns.
I expected to learn the truth
about military applications of psi and current research so
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I
could
help
identify
impacts
within
my
area
of
specialization -- computers and space systems.
Instead,
I
only
confirmed Alexander's warning,
and found that
super
secrecy in
this area is shrouding
the
truth,
promoting
skepticism within society and the
military,
confining
military
strategic thinking,
and ultimately may be
more
harmful.
I,
like
Congressman Rose,
have to wonder
the
motive.
I've felt like an investigative reporter in my own.
backyard.
When
talking about the electronic warfare (EW)
area,
experts
emphasize how in the
past our
services
treated EW as a "Black Art" far too long.
The result
was
improper
resource allocation which left us with our
pants
down.
I
contend psi research has been locked on the same
course -- with significantly greater risk.
Many senior leaders have been quick to point out that
"Intelligence is too important to leave to the Intelligence
community. "
I
would add "psi
capabilities"
are too
important to leave to the Intelligence community.
Marcello
Truzzi goes one step further.
Psi
is
too
important
to become
the
exclusive property of governments, either at home
or , abroad,
who
might become
interested
in
exploiting
these
abilities
for
their
own
purpose (41:8).
Discussions
with
classmates
on
this
subject
.
demonstrated
a reflection of Western societies mind set.
Most
of
the highly technical scientific community
didn't
even want to discuss it,
"they may laugh too hard" or, "if
there were any possibility of psychotronics then the entire
scientific community would be jumping at it." Others
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caught off guard by its possible reality.
And the few who
were
not surprised (mainly Intelligence backgrounds )
new
something
about
it
but
had no idea
if
we
were
still
actively pursuing psi applications.
NO FOCAL POINT
The
establishment has apparently gone underground and
is using titles other than psi,
ESP or parapsychology
to ...
contract out research.
Targ feels
"Reliable,
undistorted
scientific
information
about psychic functioning must
be
made
more
easily
available and
indentifiable" (41: 139) .
McRae
suggest
it is fear of ridicule that makes
DOD
SO
sensitive to this subject.
"Any CIA report mentioning psi
is automatically classified top secret or higher. " He also
suggest
that
parapsychologist not
spend a significant
portion of their effort on military-related research.
The failures
psychic warfare projects
in military laboratories,
the record shows, have
often
been
among
the
most
irresponsible
experiments ever reported:
The seances with dead
Soviet agents, the multispectral image analyzer
that supposedly detects submarines with a photo,
the
hyperspatial nuclear howitzer,
and
the
antimissile
time warp over the
North
pole, to
review only a few (41: 133).
His book Mind Wars, gives an excellent introduction to
the
broad range of government projects
attempted,
and
what's ridiculous to one may not seem so
ridiculous
to
wheat
(those examples used in this paper) with the
chaff.
another.
In
response
I would suggest he is burning
the
Opponents
of
ps i
research use the
failures to
justify
Professor Jahn says the failures
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underscore
The
'difficulty
of
the
task,
not
in
justifying its abandonment.
Historical examples
abound of far more frustrating and costly routes
to
ultimate attainment of difficult
scientific
and engineering aspirations (e. g. ,
transmutation
of
the elements and manned aerospace flight,
to
name but two) (28:525).
The
less
focused
the initiatives,
the
slower
the
progress
and
the smaller the
knowledge
base.
The
less
information,
the more destructive
misinformation.
Targ
says
"Reliable,
publicly available information about
ps i
research can help protect us all from the damaging
effects
of misinformation" (41:9).
RECOMMENDATIONS
Seven
years after Alexander's article appeared in the
Military
Review,
I can only concur with his
message -- and
more so.
The implications of a distant US second place in
the
parapsychology
mind race with the
Soviet Union
are
unthinkable -- total vulnerability.
Yet this appears to be a
real
possibility.
We are no better or stronger than our
weakest
link.
. And our total dependence on high
tech
sophisticated electronic weapons systems may become
our
Achilles heel. Continued coordinated research is imperative
for rapid advancement.
Psi smart leaders at all levels are
essential
for
necessary resource
support,
strategic
thinking,
and
acceptance of the threat/potential we might
soon
encounter.
Targ
would argue that "The mind
race
should not be
seen as
a
psychic competition between
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nations.
Rather,
it
is a race to develop our own innate
potential for extended awareness" (41:9).
While I can agree
with this in theory, I agree even more with Marcello Truzzi
when he says
Our
government
has
a
responsibility
to
achieve
security
and military
parity,
if
not
superiority,
in
relation
to
our
potential
enemies.
Thus, even if the probabilities for psi
research producing anything practical
are small,
it would
be negligence for
our guardians
in
government to ignore such matters especially when
others are pursuing such avenues. Long shots have
paid off in the past.
Atomic energy was once
a
"wild idea" (33: xi).
--
Opponents
to
psi research today are similar to the
late
Admiral William Leahy,
Chief of U. S. Naval Operations from
1937
to 1939.
He said,
"The A-bomb is the biggest
fool
thing we have ever done.
The bomb will never go off, and I
speak as an expert on explosives" (30:39).
To accomplish these objectives means:
1. Opening the
super
secret door to allow broader classified knowledge of
psi's
true capabilities,
where we are,
and where we are
going.
2.
Focusing
military exploration resources
and
start
targeting capabilities/defenses like we did for
the
Strategic Defense Initiatives.
3. Doing strategic thinking
on a totally new type of warfare.
Opening
super secret door is necessary to begin
acclimating
the
military community to
psi's
true
capabilities.
"It is past time for bringing psi into the
open, where everyone can benefit from a realistic awareness
of
it" (41:262).
Otherwise,
how do we expect people
to
accept and use psi capabilities?
Let's learn
from
our
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personal experiences with computers. We are still trying to
get
leaders accustomed
to
hands-on computer
systems.
Changing attitudes takes time.
The sooner we begin
using
psi to compliment other systems,
the sooner we will build
a reliable psi force and gain managements confidence.
Targ
said,
We
believe the question of psi's usefulness and
importance
may be settled in the next
decade.
Settling
this question will not require
another
century.
It
will
probably be settled
in
the
marketplace and in the everyday lives of millions
of
people and not,
alas,
in the corridors
of
Cambridge (41: 189).
..
The
military community needs to be poised on this
£
leading
edge,
lest
it
fall
behind the society it
is
sworn
to
protect.
Focusing
resources and targeting capabilities is
the
cornerstone to knowing the true picture. Otherwise, who has
the stick?
Who really knows where we are, and what it will
take to get where we need to be?
How else can we present
accurate,
reliable
information to senior leadership
for
prioritizing resources?
Targ notes that
The popular
view of our relationship
to
space
and time
is inadequate ... One
possible
conclusion is that there is something
incomplete
about
our
understanding
of
the
space-time
continuum in which we exist (41:5).
This is Bearden's position also.
So the military needs to
force the scientific community of open their eyes and minds
to better understand paranormal events and the new physical
principles which explain them.
Renowned Soviet physicist
and Nobelian
P.
Kapitsa
informed Soviet leader Krushchey saat078GRdo"661426601Stal
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neutralization of
foreign missiles was to be
found,
it
could
only come from a group of new principles in physics
which
was
called
"energetics " (9: 106 ) .
The
term
"energetics,"
was contracted from "psychoenergetics, "
and
is essentially the expanded physics/electromagnetics
that
Bearden has dubbed scalar electromagnetics.
The
military
needs
to find young blood in the scientific community who
don't know all the reasons why something can't be done.
They are the ones with fresh minds to evaluate Bearden's
evolving concept of scalar electromagnetics,
and to
find
new physical principles explaining psychic phenomena.
August
Stern is one person in the West who actually
worked in top-secret Soviet military laboratories searching
for a physical key to psychic phenomena.
He
warns,
the Soviets will emerge with
a
completely
new
view of man -- not of
muscle
and
bone
but
of quantum
physics, magnetism,
and
electromagnetic waves.
When that day comes, he
asserts, they won't need to scour the countryside
for psychics.
They'll just build machines for
manipulation of the mind (40: 108).
He
goes on to remind us,
"But remember how surprised you
were
when
they
launched
Sputnik.
You'd
better
prepare" (40: 108) .
Strategic
thinking is essential to preparing a solid
.
foundation for a totally new type of warfare.
The Air War
College should incorporate this subject in its curriculum,
and
present it and other futuristic technologies early in
the overall
curriculum.
Knowledge of history
must be
combined
with
knowledge of future weapons systems
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technology, directed energy, psi etc. )
to most
effectively
study
war,
challenge current
leaders,
and
prepare future warriors.
This is the place and the time to
stimulate military
visionaries.
In the words
of
Edgar
Allan Poe,
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of
many
things which escape those who dream only by night" (44: 144) .
In addition, speakers such as Bearden, Alexander, and
others should
be
invited to a
forum
similar to the_
.
Aerospace Power Symposium,
where the issues are put on the
table,
controversies explained, and the students
really
understand
the
weapons and threats they may soon
employ
or confront.
CONCLUSION
Man's
greatest potential remains a prisoner
of
man.
Exploring
the
mind
frontier is essential to
unlock
our
innate capabilities,
and the key to successful exploration
is
a greater
psychic awareness.
The mind
rich
is
in
unfathomed
resources,
ripe for exploration,
a
limitless
and a
source
of
treasures
for advancing all
mankind,
serious threat to those who ignore its potential.
We must
overcome
our
psychic
inhibitions,
stop
denying
the
existence
of
paranormal
events,
and start
trying
to
understand the nature of these events.
Alexander's
message
is
still
valid
and
needs
repeating.
We are at risk!
We need to open the security
doors and open our minds to educate all levels within
the
military community. We need a well coordinated
ongoing
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military exploration of psi.
Since the basic electronic
components which form the foundation of our weapons systems
appear to be vulnerable, we need psi strategic thinking to
chart the course for entering this entirely new battlefield
dimension.
In the words of James Thurber,
"Let us not
look back
in anger, nor forward in fear,
but around
£
in
awareness. "
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HEADQUARTERS AIR UNIVERSITY
MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE AL 36112-5001
7 APR 1988
Mr Gordon Negus
Executive Director
Defense Intelligence Agency
3E265 - Pentagon
Washington DC
20340-1027
Dear
Negus
As AF/IN'S "Man in Montgomery" I am doing the entire Air War
College faculty "thing" to insure the Air University hierarchy is
positively dispossessed toward my real efforts (atch 1) .
Accordingly, one of my roles is as a faculty advisor on several
research papers.
. I am forwarding one (atch 2) to you in an effort to avoid a
repeat of the problems encountered earlier when, due to what is
locally described as DIA concern, a paper on this subject went
from unclassified, to classified, to withdrawn. Not knowing the
original concerns, I have deliberately steered the author away
from anything remotely resembling an expose!
Hopefully, this is
adequate. But, if it was not, I am sending it to you for Agency
review in this "almost finished draft" stage. I believe Air War
College requirements can be quite easily coordinated with any
other recommendations/requirements at this juncture.
Very respectful
Dan
DONALD N. PANZENHAGEN, Colonel, USAF
Military Intelligence Advisor to the
Commander, Air University
2. Paper
2 Atch
1. ACSI Charter
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TO:
Department of the Air Force
Headquarters Air University
Attn: Donald N. Panzenhagen, Colonel, USAF
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL 36112-5001
SUBJECT :
Request for Review of Paper
Reference:
Your Itr dtd 7 Apr 88.
1. We have reviewed enclosure 2 to your referenced letter, "Psychic Warfare:
Exploring the Mind Frontier". This document is presented as a research report
to fullfill a research requirement at the Air University.
2. We wish to express some concerns on the documents' over all tone and
composition. The document is based largely on reviews of uncritical material
and consequently may have misleading intrepretations and conclusions. A
section, or appendix, that summarizes laboratory research and presents
constructive critical reviews of this controversial area would be helpful for
achieving a balanced viewpoint. The document as written might be presented as
a limited survey paper, rather than a research report.
3. Even though we have the above concerns, we pose no objection to the
publication of this document by the Air University providied that a clear
definition of scope and purpose be included with or after the "disclaimer"
section.
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL
I.
Tentative Title.
Psychic Warfare: Exploring The Mind Frontier.
II.
Research
Question.
In
1981,
Washington
Post columnist
Jack
Anderson
periodically
ridiculed the Pentagon for invading
Buck
Rogers'
turf
by exploring potential
extrasensory
weapons
for
psychic warfare.
His cynical attitude perhaps represented western
societies
mindset
that such research
was crazy.
Since
then,
various
articles
and books have continued the debate on whether
this
type of research has any merit.
My assumption is that
Mr.
Anderson's
view
is
still prevalent
and government supported
research
is limited.
In
light
of
future
government
fiscal
constraints and the impact on military spending this
paper
will
address
the following question:
"Does parapsychology (the mind
frontier)
offer
a
new
battlefield
dimension
which
warrants
continued military exploration?"
The search for an answer should
provide
insights
into
this new frontier and provide
a
better
understanding
to
help determine what
importance parapsychology
should have in future military exploration efforts.
III. Methodology.
Most of the work will be completed through library
research.
Source . material will consist of primary and secondary
works
on
parapsychology,
current
research
efforts/results,
potential
military
applications and potential
threats.
Some
telephone
interviews
with
government personnel,
researchers,
experts or practitioners may be conducted depending on literature
survey findings.
IV.
Implications.
This paper could help document an area requiring
greater national resolve in light of possible threats, current
capabilities, and vast potential future military applications.
Research
could lead to
or
result
in
sensitive/classified
information.
V. Special
Requirements. A two- or three-day trip to Washington may
be necessary, but I hope to accomplish my work there by telephone.
Dolay M. M=Mely
Dolan M ._ McKelvy
Lt Colonel, USAF
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Questions to DIA
1. Show proposal for research and get feedback ....
2. Current FUNDING status within DOD
a.) Past few years (1984 - To present )
bi) Out year projections & estimated FUNDING Level
3. Key players within DOD (ARMY, AIR Force, organizations, people)
4. Research institutes with Government contracts
who, purpose, results
5. Recent News Media
. CNN - SAN FRANCISCO .. ARMY STUDY ON PARAPsychology Training?
- ARmy MAJOR before Scientific Board for PARApsychology capable
- STUDies/Reports
COMBAT ORGANIZATION?
6. AREAS of PARApsychology Actively pursuRing (Eg, DowsiNG, TELEKeNesis
remote viewing , Telepathy, precognition)
- People with Talents - Names/phone#'s (actual practitioners)
USA
LTG Keegan's role +feelings
who/ where is driving
7. Comments ON LTC (Ret) Bearden's Book "Excalibur Briefing"
8. General recognition issue -- Do we Accept existence of para Normal?
-- ARE we exploiting Ability to perform ON request?
-- Nave we identified military Applications ?
-- Time frames for implementing + How"
9. Current Concept of RUSSIAN involvement commitment to this area.
(FUNDING, CAPAbilities, current threat, future milestones, etc)
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PERNESE
The Wary Warlords
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have
made it clear to President
Reagan that if a treaty on medi-
um-range missiles in Europe is
politically necessary. they can
live with it-but not happily.
The Soviet proposal to elimi-
nate missiles with ranges of 500
to 5,000 kilometers, say the
chiefs, would "stress" NATO
defenses. And even their grudg-
ing endorsement of the deal
is contingent on modernization
of NATO's remaining nuclear
forces. They are drawing up a
list of requirements, topped by
an air-launched cruise missile
enabling NATO jets to strike
deepinside Eastern Europe and
a land-based nuclear missile
with a range. as one source puts
it,"of 499 kilometersif500 isthe
cutoff" under a zero-zero plan.
The chiefs were influenced
by a recent study by the staff
of retiring NATO command-
er Gen. Bernard Rogers. The
document is a follow-up to an
earlier study that concluded
that NATO should give up
shorter-range missiles (under
1,500 kilometers), which don't
threaten Soviet territory, in fa-
vor of longer-range intermedi-
ate systems with greater deter-
rent value.
With both categories slated
for oblivion under Mikhail Gor-
bachev's proposal, says the new
study, deep-strike NATO air-
craft could probably fill the gap,
though more would be need-
ed-armed with new cruise
missiles. The deal makes it even
more urgent that the Soviets
-eut conventional forces tosome-
thing approaching equality
with NATO and agree to ban
chemical and biological weap -.
ons, the study concludes.
· Vitaly Churkin, 35, blow-
dried first secretary at the Sovi-
et Embassy in Washington, will
be rewarded for five years of vig-
orously defending Moscow'sdis-
armament strategies-and for
JOHN DURICKA -- AP
Up and away: Churkin testifying
his mastery of U.S. TV after the
Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Headed home last week, Chur-
kin told associates he was mov-
ing to the Central Committee's
international department, led
by ex-ambassador to the United
"States Anatoly Dobrynin, now
Gorbachev's chief adviser on
American affairs. Churkin's
new assignment could bring
him quickly into the loftiest
Kremlin circles. "He's going to
the top," said one U.S. diplomat
who has worked with Churkin.
A Twilight
Zone Defense?
Wid Senate Foreign Relations
Committee chairman Clai-
borne Pell enlist psychic spoon-
bender Uri Geller to read the
mind of a Soviet arms negotia-
tor at a dinner in Geneva-and
to beam messages of peace into
the communist's unconscious?
Is Pell trying to sell Geller to
the Pentagon for a Psychic De-
fense .Initiative? No, the sena-
. tor insists. But Geller is happily
claiming some credit for the
move toward an arms deal.
Geller insists he did beam
thoughts of peace at Yuli Vor-
ontsov. head of the Soviet arms-
talk delegation. The very next
day Mikhail Gorbachev made
his offer to eliminate medium-
range missiles from Europe. "I
have a very strong feeling that
Vorontsov called Gorbachev,"
says Geller, who sensed a trans-
fer of psychic power between
himself and Vorontsov. "When
I gave him the spoon, it kept
bending in his hand."
Pell says he finds Geller
LONDON NEWS SERVICE
Psychic initiative: Pell (left), Vorontsov, Kampelman and Geller
"really a very interesting man
... I felt myself stimulated by
his ideas." But Pell says he sim-
ply proposed Geller's parlor
feats as entertainment for the
reception and dinner in Geneva
hosted by U.S. negotiator Max
Kampelman for Soviet officials
and visiting U.S. senators. A
briefing that he arranged for
Geller to give on Capitol Hill-
in a special bugproof room-
"had nothing to do with the
peace talks. Nothing at all."
says Pell. "I just wanted to ex-
pose him to some people here."
Geller, in America to pro-
mote a new book, discussed So-
viet psychic research at the
meeting, says a Pell staffer ---
and twice failed to divine mes-
sages on pocketed scraps of pa-
per. Most of the spectators were
Hill and Pentagon aides. But
Hne of two congressmen to show
up did come away impressed.
House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee chairman Dante Fascell,
says his press secretary, rushed
out to get a book about Geller.
Tales From the
Campaign Trail
The still unannounced presi-
dential campaign of Sen. Jo-
seph Biden startled some strat-
egists with the choice of Bill
Daley-a son of Chicago's leg-
endary Mayor Richard Daley-
as political director. "What
does he know about the country
outside of Chicago?" sniffed one
rival pol. But March's Illinois
primary could be crucial for Bi-
den; Daley "can earn his pay if
he can deliver Chicago," says
one party insider. Meanwhile,
Biden insiders foresee greater
influence by Pat Caddell, the
guru-pollster who helped win
the White House for Jimmy
Carter. Caddell pal Tom Doni-
lon-ex-Carter and Mondale
operative-is expected to take
a top campaign position. His
brother, Mike Donilon, is likely
to do campaign polling.
Democrats in the Middle
Atlantic states now plan a high-
profile, regional primary to fol-
low the Southern Mega-Tues-
day on March 8, 1988. New
York and Pennsylvania party
leaders chose April 12 and hope
Democrats in New Jersey and
Connecticut will go along.
Call for Action
Congress wants faster Justice
Department action on alle-
gations that Education Depart-
ment officials falsified docu-
ments and backdated letters in
a rush to comply with school
desegregation orders. The Edu- .
cation Department inspector
general found serious miscon-
duct in the department's civil-
rights office in Boston Jast sum-
mer; an internal investigation
showed similar practices in six
other regional offices. Top de-
partment officials insist the
problem is solved, but a whistle-
blower in San Francisco recent-
ly claimed otherwise. And Con-
gress reportedly has evidence
that Education Department
staffers in several regions are
pressing complainants to drop
.discrimination charges.
DAVID GATES With bureau reports
K
who are The
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