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psychics have been used,to spy on	Menlo Park, Calif. Puthoff is stiU	At the risk of being ridiculed o@er
the Soviets by projecting their minds	with the intititute; Targ left two	a "voodoo gap," advocates like
outside their bodies.	years ago to lbrin his own company,	Charlie Rose (D-N.C.), support coh-l'
One psychic was able to describe a	Delphi Associates. They began, their	tinued reseuch into the more pro6-1@i,
secret Soviet base-in astonishing de-	experiments in the early 1970s, using	ising areas of this mysterious field
tail that was later confirtned by sat.	psychics to describe scenes at spe-	After d, the atomic bomb was oncie-11
ellite photographs. Another located a	cific coordinates on the globe. The	thought to be a harebrained idea-'.4
Soviet'1`05 "Backfire" bomber that	project, partly funded by the Do-	It's safe to say that, many thing's con.
had crashed in Africa,	fense Dopartment and the CIA, was	sidered utterly fwitastic today
U.& Navy and Air Force, chiefs	cafled "Scanate" for "scan by coor-	be accepted as commonplace by the,",
axe skeptical about theiie experi-	dinate:'	end of the century.
Dients, which they describe scornful-	Their latest project, code-narned	Backfire of the Week: The fek-@;
ly as "witchcraft" and "black magib."	,
G )rrill Flifinle," produced some amaz-	eral government's massive giveaway-,
But the Army's intelligenca chief, Lt.	ing results. Psychics described the	of cheese not only was supposed to.,,

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ahead in psychic research
Inside the	rings around Jupiter years before	1
stop buying cheese at the supermiir-
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he has raised the question
Pentagon	their exiatence was scientifically es-	ket. So the government.9 stockpile bf'!@
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of whether the SovietA could U90	Despite these Impressive achieve-	million pounds in 1981 to I billion
psychics to penetrate our secret	ments, sow-ces told my associates	pounds last year. The cost of ths'.
vaults. This has led to talk in the	
Dale Van Atta and Joseph Spear	
government's purchase.of surpluea,
backrooms about raising a "psychic	that the psychics' success rate is only	cheese and butter went from $1.8
sbiel(r to block this sort of remote	about 70 percent. For example, psy-	billion in 1979 to $,U billion
spying.	obics who were asked by the Penta-	1983,
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