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Copyright 1984 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
January 10,
1984
Tuesday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section C; Page 1, Column 1; Science Desk
LENGTH: 1888 words
HEADLINE: PENTAGON IS SAID TO FOCUS ON ESP FOR WARTIME USE
BYLINE: BY WILLIAM J. BROAD
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, a' high-level review of psychic research behind the Iron Curtain in an
attempt to assess a possible Soviet threat.
The Pentagon denies that it is spending money on psychic research. The
assertions to the contrary appear in a trio of ...
... events) - all in the name of the national defense.
For more than a century scientists have clashed over what is now called
parapsychology. Some praise it as a legitimate study led by bold visionaries,
while others decry it as a ...
, dollar'' program of psychic research financed by the Defense Department
and intelligence agencies.
The key experiments had to do with what Mr. Targ calls ' 'remote viewing, '' in
which gifted individuals were said to be able to describe distant locations,
events and objects. In 1976, for instance, a '' ...
... so basing scheme in which each MX missile would be secretly shifted among
a bevy of concrete bunkers so that Soviet planners would never know which
shelter to aim at in a first strike.
Quoting a former White House
... positive enough to suggest increased MX vulnerability. The former aide,
Barbara Honegger, who holds a degree in parapsychology and left the Reagan
Administration this fall, confirmed in a telephone interview that the
experiments had been done. But she said she did not know whether the ...
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. professional psychic over the course of 11 months. Showing the woman
top-secret photographs and charts, he had her try to predict the position of
Soviet submarines off the East Coast. And she was not alone. Mr. McRae said that
the Navy has employed at least 34 psychics, ...
documents and interviews.
All of those who say that the military is engaged in psychic research contend
it stems largely from fear that Soviet psychic breakthroughs might mean the
American armed forces could be quietly put out of commission. Specialists from
the Central Intelligence Agency are ...
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visited one of the nation's top parapsychologists to elicit information
on whether psychics could jam computers.
Jimmy Carter was worried about the Soviet threat in 1976 before he was
inaugurated President, according to Mr. McRae, and had a private audience with
Uri Geller. The Israeli mentalist told him that the Soviet Union screened all
children for paranormal powers. In 1977, Mr. McRae says, Mr. Carter ordered a
high-level review of Soviet psychic research. The secret report, completed in
1978, found no evidence of a massive ' 'psycho-warfare'' project such as Mr.
Geller had warned of, but it did find definite Soviet interest. White House
officials in office during the Carter Administration say either that they had no
knowledge of such Presidential concern or that they can neither confirm nor deny
that it existed.
The Russian side of the parapsychology story is emphasized in ' 'Psychic
Warfare, '' by Martin Ebon, published this fall by McGraw-Hill. Mr. Ebon says the
Soviet Union was goaded into action in 1960 by false reports that the United
States Navy conducted telepathy experiments to try to keep ...
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world's first nuclear-powered submarine, as it cruised under the Arctic
icecap.
Those reports touched off a flurry of Soviet projects, according to Mr. Ebon.
He notes a 1972 analysis by the American Defense Intelligence Agency, which
states that ' 'the major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible
capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics and bionics are said to
come from the Soviet military and the K. G. B. ''
Mr. Ebon devotes a chapter to the knotty problem of how Soviet materialism
can accommodate itself to a belief in parapsychology, which in the eyes of some
Western analysts is but a short step to the anathema of Karl Marx - the
supernatural. ''In the Soviet Union itself, '' he writes, ''bureaucratic and
academic pragmatists are at odds with dogmatic ideologues. Within the Soviet
bloc, positions range from the determinedly experimental in Czechoslovakia to
the disdainfully hostile in East Germany. ''
Are the superpowers, in fact,
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