k, Alma-Ata, and Tagan- tails of Soviet psi research. Nhether it was possible to that I would need special :s were classified. g about psi research in the ie results of some of these I From my experience, I re interested in extending )fficial Soviet scientists are tended means for mental the Soviet Union, where researchers who feel it is government, repeatedly ese studics.24 Psi research nong people in the world )r misuse of psi, indepen- @@s, and countries. ieb a negative purpose for iviet Union. While I was iituation for the better. I =4iumane experiments that ty I emigrated from the beings have an inherent 3pe that this capacity will c use for their energy and i -j-4 x@ d f @J4 - ) @! Approved For Release 2003 -nn792ROO0600150005-1 AUTHORN-v NOTE In September 1983, we received an invitation to visit the Soviet Union as guests of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. This gave us an opportu- nity to discuss our remote-viewing work with them, and also to learn firsthand what sort of research they are currently doing. Our host for this visit was Dr. Andrei Berezine, a biophysicist working at a Moscow re- search hospital. With us on the trip was Elisabeth Targ (daughter of R.T.), who holds a translator's certificate in Russian Ind is a second-year medical student at Stanford. She was able to act as our translator and tell us what was going on at times when Russian conversations would have otherwise gone over our beads. In Moscow we spoke with physicists, psycholo ists, and medical re- @g searchers. The physicists were mainly concerned with discussing the de- tails of our precognitive experiments, while the medical people and psychologists had many good questions and interesting ideas about the whole field of psi research and its implications for their work. We had very stimulating exchanges with both groups of scientists. Over coffee and pastries at the First Moscow Medical Institute, we met Professor Andriankyn, director of the Theoretical Department of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Andriankyn, responsible for inviting us to the Soviet Union, sponsored our visit. His main concern at this Institute is with non-drug treatment of mental patients. One focus of this work concerns the experimental use of low-frequency electric and magnetic fields. At the Institute, we also talked with Dr. Igor Smirnoff and two other 262 Authors'Note researchers who had just completed the experiment in "rat telepathy" interesting experiment in described in Chapter 4. As we sat in their equipment-crowded basement psychic abilities to read le laboratory, along with several other medical people from the hospital, they from the shelves of his off discussed the experiment with us. They had discovered that the experi- started each paragraph on ment was not successful when carried out with groups of rats, because they sor Gulyaev would take tl fought with each other under the stressful conditions. could do this task with sui Konstantine Goubarev is a physicist involved with the rat experiment. to leave the room before i However, he is personally most concerned with the design of a computer back, be reported that be program that analyzes a person's physiological data to determine from Toward the end of oui that data when a particular change in his or her state of consciousness, Soviet Armenia, where ren such as dropping into a hypnotized condition, has occurred. He demon- in the Industrial Psycholo@ strated the program foe us, on typical data tapes. He believes that he has southeast of Istanbul and accomplished his goal of showing changes in the state of human con- contrast with the snow we I sciousness by looking at mathematical transformations of the data and environment, with people: observing phase changes rather than amplitude changes. This would be the city square in the evei quite an accomplishment, because at this tirne it is not even clear to On our first full day ir Western researchers that hypnosis is a definable change of state. with some members of tht We were also very happy to meet again with Dr. Yuri Culyaev at his laboratory full of arcade-ty, Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics overlooking Gorky Park. nation, we met with Profe We all sat on comfortable red leather chairs in his spacious office, while a careful series of remote-vi over countless ceremonial glasses of Armenian cognac Dr. Gulyaev de- chosen by an arcbitect-a scribed some of his most recent work. He also gave us a copy of 1. M. dating from almost the tin Kogan's new book Applied Information Theory. Professor Kogan argues carved out of the solid roc that if psychic phenomena are to be explained at all, it will have to be other Greco-Roman buildl through low-frequency electromagnetic principles, Gulyacv told us that The viewers and outt the first person to put forward the idea that psi was carried by electromag- study were volunteers from netic waves was James Clark Maxwell, in the last century, and that his experimenter, accompanie( idea was described in a recent U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences journal would go to a distant locati. dealing with the measurement of biomagnetic fields. tion, and then go to the a Along with his duties as deputy director of the Institute, Culyaev is tory, an interviewer would able to pursue his interests in psycliotronics as well. With his colleague impressions about the site Dr. Eduard Godik, he has been examining the electromagnetic and visible decided to carry out this vi, radiation emitted by the human body. They have carried out sensitive Electrical and Electronic I pboton-counting experiments with a spectrometer that measures the lated into Russian and pul wavelength of the emitted light, and found that there may be some confirmed the earlier findi physical evidence for the so-called auras that certain people claim to see ence of having a viewer d surrounding the human body. team had opened the enk Professor Gulyaev said that be has also been able, to a limited extent, experiments, this precognit to continue his work witb Nina Kulagina. He described a particularly soon carry out a long-dista r Release 2003/09/10: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO06d,0150005-1 d F o Approve Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0600150005-1 Authors'Note 263 -periment in "rat telepathy" interesting experiment in which he tried to find out if she could use her quipment-crowded basement psychic abilities to read letters. In these trials, he randomly chose a book )eople from the hospital, they from the shelves of his office and asked Kulagina to name the letters that I discovered that the experi- started each paragraph on a given page. After she gave her answer, Profes- h groups of rats, because they sor Gulyaev would take the book down and open it. He told us that she conditions. could do this task with surprising accuracy. However, when she was told Ived with the rat experiment. to leave the room before the book was opened, thereby losing her feed- itb the design of a computer back, he reported that her responses fell to chance. ical data to determine from Toward the end of our visit we were taken to the city of Yerevan, in r her state of consciousness, Soviet Armenia, where remote-viewing experiments bad been carried out )n, has occurred. He demon- in the Industrial Psychology Laboratory at the state university. Yerevan, ipes. He believes that he has southeast of Istanbul and north of Baghdad, was warm and sunny, in in the state of human con- contrast with the snow we left in Moscow. It was also a much more relaxed 3formations of the data and environment, with people strolling around a large illuminated fountain in udc changes. This would be the city square in the evening to listen to music. time it is not even clear to On our first full day in Yerevan we visited the university and spoke iable change of state. with some members of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Then, in a with Dr. Yuri Gulyacv at his laboratory full of arcade-type video games used to study hand-eye coordi- iics overlooking Gorky Park. nation, we met with Professor Rubin Aguzumtsian, who had carried out , in his spacious office, while a careful series of remote-viewing trials. The target sites for this study were ian cognac Dr. Gulyaev de.- chosen by an architect-a good idea in this city of remarkable structures ilso gave us a copy of 1. Mt dating from almost the time of Christ. One church, called Gchard, was !ory. Professor Kogan argues carved out of the solid rock of a mountainside in about A.D. 300. Many ned at all, it will have to be other Greco-Roman buildings were built of a red volcanic rock. -iciples. Gulyaev told us that The viewers and outbound experimenters for the remote-viewing :,si was carried by electromag- study were volunteers from a psychology class. For each trial an outbound ic last century, and that his experimenter, accompanied by two guards (watchers-also from the class), cademy of Sciences journal would go to a distant location, open the envelope with the target inforina- 7tic fields. tion, and then go to the appointed site. Meanwhile, back in the labora- of the Institute, Gulyaev is tory, an interviewer would encourage the viewer to describe his or her as well. With his colleague impressions about the site that was being visited. Professor Aguzumtsian electromagnetic and visible decided to carry out this work after reading the 1976 IEEE (Institute of y have carried out sensitive Electrical and Electronic Engineers) paper from SRI, when it was trans- rometer that measures the lated into Russian and published in the Soviet Union. His experiments d that there may be some confirmed the earlier findings, and also gave him the interesting experi- - certain people claim to see ence of having a viewer describe a chosen target site before the target team bad opened the envelope or gone to the target. As in our own !en able, to a limited extent, 'I experiments, this precognition was an unexpected complication. We may Be described a particularly soon carry out a long-distance series of remote-viewing trials in coopera- 264 A u th ors' No te tion with this laboratory, to see what results we will get from using a ten-thousand-mile baseline for remote viewing. In this series we will, of course, work with a viewer who has never been to Yerevan. In our travels frojn Moscow to Leningrad to Yerevan, we met with many researchers who expressed the hope that there could be continued open communication in this field. They all expressed the feeling that psi's importance lies in the development of human potential, rather than in its possible military applications. But everyone we talked with also made some oblique reference to what we were not being shown. For example, we knew that the Popov Society laboratory run by Professor Spirikin bad been closed down several years ago. On this trip we learned that it has now been re-opened under the direction of Dr. Alexander Cbernetzky. We were even told that the laboratory is now called the Fourmany Street Lab. We were not, however, told what sort of work this lab is currently engaged in. Nevertheless we feel it is important and very desirable to arrange future cooperative meetings with the Soviet scientists to further explore the details of psychic functioning. We might even come up with a poten- tial contribution to help solve the decades-old problem of off-site verifica- tion for nuclear testing and arms control. If successful, that would be an application of psychic functioning that we believe the whole world would like to see. HIBLIOGRAF Rematen For several years, the compile of remote-viewing experiment involving the use of free-res targets; only these types of p, We have found that mc, published formal experiment@ would be expected by chance. (not listed here), with eight r( remote viewing is not due to r ful experiments go unreporte, Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO06 0150005-1