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WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1985 225
JACK ANDERSON and DALE VAN ATTA
Soviets Winning the 'Mind' Race
here are new developments on the
psychic-warfare front: The Soviets are
outspending us by at least 70-to-1 in occult
·search.
Most scientists take a dim view of such
-If-proclaimed, parapsychological practitioners as
ind readers and psychic spoon-benders.
We've reported in the past on such ludicrous
oncepts as the "antimissile time-warp machine."
he Pentagon once considered developing this
intraption to blast incoming missiles into a
rehistoric era.
For years the Pentagon psychic warriors were
'lowed to pursue any will-o'-the-wisp that flew by,
ith annual budgets reportedly as high as $6
million. No weapons were ever developed-of
bourse-and now the budget has dwindled to less
ian $1 million, for exploration of potential
apabilities of the human mind.
The Kremlin has been working overtime to open
military "psycho-gap." The latest top-secret
Central Intelligence Agency review of Soviet
fforts in parapsychology estimate that it would
ake $500 million to $1 billion for the United States
.) catch up. Operating at much lower labor costs,
le Soviets are probably spending $70 million to
80 million a year, but possibly as much as $350
aillion.
The delightful irony of the Soviets'
arapsychology extravagance is that it began as a
esponse to the perceived threat of U.S. progress
n the art. Several years ago, the French reported
hat U.S. psychics had communicated with the
nuclear submarine Nautilus via mental telepath ;.
This gave Soviet scientists the ammunition to lobby
for research funds-even though the reports were
later exposed as a hoax.
Western scientists may chuckle, but the Soviets
take their psychic-warfare experiments seriously.
In 1977. a Los Angeles Times reporter in Moscow
was arrested by the KGB and charged with
obtaining a secret state document that revealed the
existence of parapsychological research at several
laboratories in the Soviet Union.
The CIA estimates that research is being
conducted in at least two dozen labs in 10 Soviet
cities, 14 in Moscow alone. The experiments range
from "dowsing" for minerals to testing "remote
psychological monitors" to measure heartbeat and
breathing rates of persons thousands of miles away.
From there. according to intelligence reports,
Soviet scientists hope to be able to affect the
heartbeat and respiration of faraway vict:ms, much
in the manner of witch doctors. The Soviets have
even claimed, secretly, that several experiments
were successful, with targets nearly suffering heart
attacks or suffocation.
How serious does U.S. intelligence take all this?
In 1972, the Defense Intelligence Agency said the
Soviets might one day be able to learn the contents
of secret U.S. documents by psychic techniques,
make U.S. weapons malfunction by negative
thinking and even brainwash or disable American
leaders by willpower.
A 1978 CIA study, which cost $100,000, was
more cautious, but it still warned that the Soviets
may have tested and deployed second- or
third-generation psychic weapons.
JOM HILDA RUSSELL MYERS
I TRIED
BREAK DANCING .
WHAT
HAPPENED ?
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BROKE!
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7/17
ODLE AGES RON JAUDON
HERE'S THE SCENARIO -
R SERVE LOOKS GOOD
YOU BUT THE LINESMAN
SNALS OUT. WHAT DO
OU SAY ?
YOU FOUR-
EYED HO !!
KEEP THAT
☆★! PHOTOG
RAPHER QUIET!
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THAT'S IT! I WANT
THE TOURNA -
MENT SUPER-
VISOR DOWN
HERE NOW!
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GOOD. GOOD.
AND YOU, MR.
HOWARD ?
I DON'T WISH TO QUESTION
YOUR INTEGRITY SIR,
BUT COULD YOU
POSSIBLY BE
MISTAKEN?
RIGHT. TAKE
A SHOWER,
HOWARD.
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