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Chapter 8
ADDITIONAL PAPER
OCT 1970
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Facts and Speculations on ESP and the SIGINT Threat
The winner of ESP lecceich IN USA and i & PK Effect
LT COL
was a man of much experience in the SIGINT
community. When I started my research into the field of Parasychology
he was one of the first people I questioned about Agency interest in the
subject.
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He told me that, as far as he knew, he himself was one of the first/
to advocate looking into the subject. His interest was aroused because
of a personal experience which had occurred many years ago. COL
and
an . Agency colleague were on a TDY trip at the time and were sharing a
room for the night. It had been a busy day and they were still engaged
in an animated discussion at a late hour. COL
was giving his roommate
a seven digit numerical sequence as an example, when the roommate suddenly
exclaimed that it was a precise number he was just then thinking about,
a phone number he had to call. The roommate being a man of mathematical
background was impressed with the odds that such a coincidence it should
be due to chance alone .*
COL
was still thinking about the incident when he returned to the
Agency. He felt strongly enough about the implications of the question to
pay a visit to Mir. William Friedman. When he related the incident to
Mr. Friedman, he closed with a recommendation that the Agency look into
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research on Extrasensory Perception (ESP) and its relevance to the SIGINT
community.
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*Of course sublinqual clues could not be ruled out in such a case.
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Hot .l.owing what lir. Friedman's reaction to his suggestion had been,
COL
was pleasantly surprised when he chanced upon Nr. Friedman in the
halls and was invited into his offices.
Mr. Friedman happily displayed to COL
a list he had composed of
recommend research subjects for the Agency. There among them was ESP.
Since these early days, research has slowly progressed into the
possible relationships between Farapsychology and the Intelligence
community. Experiments have been designed to test the effects of the
Telepathic* and Clairvoyant# phenomena or the cryptosecurity of the U.S.
codes and ciphers; Intelligence community information is periodically
scanned for developments in Free World or SINO/SOVIET Bloc research
which might constitute an increased threat to our Communications Security.
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The search for Agency Psychic talent is actively, if informally persued
whenever possible. One of the difficulties involved in testing for ESP
within a laboratory environment is that the laboratory can rarely dupli-
cate the extreme, and often tragic stimulus found in spontaneous cases.
Lacking such strong motivation, ESP rarely provides spectacularly positive
results in the laboratory.
One apparent exception to this frustrating parapsychological testing
situation occurs when the so called "Pollergeist" phenomera is under study.
- This appears to be the case because the phenomena is apparently a psycho-
pathological condition, somewhat like ulcers and seems to be caused by
Poltergeist (PK): The ability of the mind to influence matter usually by
motion.
*Telepathy: Mind to mind communication.
*Clairvoyance: Awareness of a physical object beyond normal sensory range.
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amporary or long term emotional stress. When the person has stored up
enough to cause objects to move around a room the stored up energy seems
to take some time to dissipate; this storage condition occassionally
permits the scientist to get the subject into a laboratory or into a
reasonably controlled situation, in which he can subject the strange
effects and their perpetrator to careful study.
Having finished with this underhanded introduction to the subject,
I would like to consider two excellent questions: .
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