Approved For Release 2001/03126 CIA-RD C "_ Wek'O'Dij- 3 P@ jOQG8i67-5 e 0 Advice: Lipstick at the tablle?./7 Gardens: The JOYS Of grpenhouses/8 sEcTioN E @Of seuch. s' gwn Wil sy@hiq By Tom Kelly THE WASHINGTON TIMES B l, f ' sychic phenom e ie in p ena, on par with a be lief in astrology a decade ago, is gain- i t bil - a ng new respec ity. The most strikin g change is in the scientific commu- a new w nity. it is exhibiting iiiing- ness to believe that some people can know things by inexplicable means and that others can will the behavior of physical objects. psychologist Brenda Dunne, a member of a Princeton University scientific team which has conducted elaborate tests of psychic ability for iS years, says the era of flat rejec- tion is nearly over ',A survey taken about three years ago amqnK scientists showed that a clear majorityt#pll over 50 percent, believ h ' ' s("Mething there. , C ANTPz 1 _ ISAPO - t' @ ' - - 7 1- k bid This I tqm"toonbta ena ut 12 ye4ia&-Wh& &6kdfd 'not!' M 11 lirii if Fast Michigan o orpe ,- , . W- , the comr@jttee fbi.Scientific Investiga- 'Joh,IOf.C.I @@evlded,h s as@'66iates were inter- @te4 only''in"A,616-u-_ n king phenomena. *heio6i.i@@d the Center for Scienti- ;A An earch, which keeps on y Res @Iete@mlnedly open mind. this stuff has any truth, it has Thn.s. 'OPNI 40r] t @bJCCL - it's Ms.-Ball. "If Jim and I -ie things he says, peo ft us. But when lie says it, broadens the show" '11, page E5 Jim Wright, Texas DeniocrM, iS all- other. iroviedEFor Relvassi2MI4 staff "take a detached, scientific and very supportive interest" in the work being done by her and her col- leagues. Mr. Wright's office says he has at- tended lectures by Washington psy- chic Anne Gehman; Mrs. Gehman says she has discussed psychic phe- nomena with Mr. Wright and his wife, Betty, and has a friendly rela- tionship with them. Mr. Pell, perhaps Capitol Hill's most unabashed believer, has urged the National Science Foundation, the Defense Department and other gov- ernment agencies to increase psy- chic research funding, He has a full- time staff member, C.B. Scott Jones, whose exclusive job is to monitor re- ports of psychic activities. Rep. Charlie Rose, North Carolina Democrat, is the founder of the Con- gressional Clearing House on the Future, which has,met with psy- chics. He has urged the CIA to initi- Ate a "psychic Manhattan Project" to develop its abilities to monitor Soviet military projects.- The government's interest in psy- chic phenomena began in the 70s when the Pentagon and the CIA, with the backing of Congress,'sponsored Washington psychic Anne Gehman cautio guarantees physical phenomena is a "liar, experiments on remote viewing at SRI International, formerly Stan- ford Research Institute,at Menlo Park, Calif. It continues today. In a report last year, the National Research Council said.t.he Army and its advisers had considered if para- normal forces "might used to,jam enemy imat trigger' and inca7 d.: pacitate weapons etc -.vehicles:' It said "one, suggesteo :@pplicati6n" was to form a.baqa_@oii,R",worrior and,afraud" monks" who could exert long- distance influence over,enemy per- sonnel. The cutting edge curriently is fo- cused onjps@,_spectacularl goals, the abilities of people to foresee coming even Its mote Per- ception @or46st* .t ones kke ',.'VreP psyl otsj,14, iguing-le, The, M iti have ts en be thok:reporte$,by siciieptists at see 1c, Pga E2 I LIE R Ha Enstein -d . p -,Pic manage' the ' % s more F " in le le diffi@iilfg eve a ca %c, ent of. transforming -adults, at least those who are willing to i tr accept the ex- perience, into children. p pe y Th t f th M d r i e s - e mo P age o fi e n a son Francaise aud@'toFlum is clad in i bl a h s t ack, as are t e wo puppeteers. At times they appear alongside the puppets they'manipulate,occasion@ -h we tend to relegate ally interacting with -uppetry them and of- to the realm of ten merely stariding@out hildren's of the light entertainment, in a semblance of he 4-' invisibility. French understand Wh h mask h l en t -rdly t kid's emse stuff. ves ev completely, in black, an all, it takes. a birthday party di- from a coop6rativp ppets viewer, is the can be ' the conduit htest s4 ntAhd the nedy p6ppets are and slig chilling drama. moving by i6erfi@e se the ' faces ' of puppets' At one p6int aly hfiis immobile gk6las care does not fully takes a puppet :hey of an old cannot convey the woman out of a wicker @!motion.. basket, lays it down on the table-performance .e among the unspoken y platform and leaves which the stage. With a ' Parisian pup- a wondrous -with touch of theatrical the intriguing magic, the doll then Aulu snaps to life - operates. With its by itself or at. least how, at the hand of. "Face a Face," a t i9OVI Armstrong the unseen Mr Peralta. King, an moving Puppeteers fade into the background once The p@ppeis'move'by and the performance' starts' the- simple infe6- . , -ising series almost imperceptible of actions.of skits, Heracio Peralta and their masters, all -colas year under the umbrella of the Although billedthe better to sus- expand as ap the ,priate possi- tain the illusion heir ren of self-propelled art g without Marionette Performance Festival for both over- adq1ts and chil o ne - it . creatures. Bululu with , - strips puppetry spectacle v ' or Francais. If the other two compa- fearp that gim- 6"y,s: tetevision-.tramed down to its nies are as inventive an4 awe- gster6 essence, a feat well ' not have the il- youn may a- pi . lustrated by.the opening appearance , scene of a is inspiring, you should make a point tience the or attention span for a show first -ench of pulling strings to go see them that evolve puppet s in such delicate theaters to _e all. strokes anId ti ny to uches. Instead, sne PIRPETS,. pqge French E5 Embasy this 'RDP96-00787 00,2000 Approved For Rdlea'se 2001/03/26,-: CIA RO 8002T@5` -as D, FranklinfThe Washington Times studios. ;ane Niislem through Feb. 11, mightby disjunction 'roil, Salon (2025 inspire ulu 6--wal- 21ace NW) in 200MO217c&tion for DuponAl plroveditFOVRIPOS~Mdr2OOl/O3/26 atmos- ?aCiA6oROP98-00(7&7RO00 v ly was intended women are depicted 1 phere. As a result, to be in art has be- tures of the women we tend to read from Picasso's ion venture to come a subject of intenseclassical period, and the paintings as patches Mrs. Has- debate such classical of color on sigtime gallery and analysis over the subject matter as Botticelli'scanvas even as we relate on Seventh past decade, to their But as lease and women are Ms, Friedman's"Three Graces.,, recognizable subject problems matter. -ier to close preferred subject matterMs. Friedman's "Three Achieving this kind the Seventh Figures of tension 4pace last December,If her small portrait on the Beach" translatesbetween the formal the renditions this Re- and the repre- of regular monthlyof heavy-lidded, porcelain-skinnednaissance motif into sentational has long exhibi- a dream vi- been a concern -)w has fallen beauties are innocuoussion; the cavorting of painters. Mr. Koch, to the salon. enough, a women seem however, salon will continuenumber of full-figure oblivious to a severedcasts no new light to func- and multiple- foot on the on the matter, -newhat differentlyfigure compositions sand before them. The and here the picturesque from a display the intimation remains Her son and the tense conjunction of of menace and prior just picturesque. salon's di- innocence and violence that Hotel Terminus" NR (descriptions of Holocaust 13s) Actims, colleagues, employers, intances, observers of Klaus CTION; Directed, researched :)duced by Marcel Ophuls, _ive-produced by John S. -ian, Hamilton Fish and Peter . edited by Albert Jurgenson Fitherine Zins, associate =er Bernard Farrel, with Memory released by the Samuel ifyn Company 41/2 hours plus a brief ,iission E: Cineplex Odeon Circle Outer -er, 4849 Wisconsin Ave. NW 1: Opens Friday NUM RATING: FOUR STARS K), his bodyguard in Bolivia, his :-ney in France, his U.S. employ- _n the postwar Counter Intelli- ::e Corps who used and pro- -2d Barbie for his information -ommunists. . fr. Ophuls also talked with Bar- 5 victims who have harrowing mories of his torture methods in ins, with journalists'and Nazi ters who tracked Barbie, with -istance leaders, Auschwitz sur- :)rs, Bolivian authorities and -des of others who knew Barbie -new of hi Im. 117bey all have important stories, hearing them all in one big, =-straining (subtitles and IDS), :)ressing dose is a numbing, of- - disengaging experience. I vote three 90-minute TV segments :1 less of Mr. Ophuls' words and aug face on screen. Psycfuc Froth page El SRI, Princeton and the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. In the precognition tests one per- son, the "precipient;' describes a randomly selected place that a col- league, "the agent," is about to visit, Miss Dunne says in a test which she conducted when she was at Mun- delein College in Chicago, the agent picked a sealed envelope from a. stack of 10 containing sites chosen by outsiders. The Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago was the site picked and the precipient, some miles away, described the chapel in extraordinary detail: "I am getting the little turrets around the building ... long windows in a row quite high a heavy wooden door with a black bolt on it, . .. My feeling at the mo- ment is that it is a building like a church, and I can see the pews" Miss Dunne said that about 15 percent of similar tests at Princeton produced results equally rich in ac- curate detail. The main emphasis at Princeton, however, has been on psychokinesis, which can be more easily fitted into scientific controls. Robert G. Jahn, dean emeritus of the School of Engi- neering and Applied Science, Miss Dunne and others have reported the results of 78 million trials in which voluntary operators have tried to in- fluence the behavior of natural background static, called "white noise," and the distribution of free- falling balls. In the first experiment an elec- tronic device produces 1,000 white% noise pulses a second. Left to chance, half would have positive electrical charges, half negative. . The participating volunteers try to influence the impulses by concen- trating on a desired outcome. The results over the years show a diver- gence from the norm 10,000 times greater than indicated by chance. In the second major experiment, called the "Random Mechanical Caseade;'a specially designed ma- chine drops 9,000 polystyrene balls through a matrix of 330 pegs. Left to chance, the balls would be distributed among 19 bins in a uni- form, perfectly balanced fashion, with a few at each end and inost in the middle in what is known as a bell curve. Operators will the balls to one side or the other. And results over 15 years, according to Miss Du ,rine, have, again, been 10,000 times as. great as anticipated. The other major psychokinesis experimenter, Helmut Schmidt, a quantum physicist formerly of Duke University and currently of the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, has achieved even more striking results. His subjects try to influence the clicks of a Geiger counter. The clicks, which measure the emissions of radioactive materials, come at predictable rates. Operators try to speed or slow them. Mr. Schmidt says they have outscored chance by 10 million to one. The scientific interest in para- normal events has a historical foun- dation. Thomas Edison was a firm believer in the paranormal, and physicist$ Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Neils Bohr took open- minded attitudes. In the 1920s, J.B. and Louisa Rhine were appointed to the faculty of the Department-of Psychology at Duke University, where they touched off a new interest in psychic phenomena. Reports by today's experimenters have received considerable atten- tion, but less than total acceptance in the scientific community John Palmer, of the Foundation for Re- search of the Nature of Man, in Dur- ham, N.C., says in "An Evaluative Re- port on the Current Status of Parapsychology" (1985) that the ex- periments do support the existence of anomalies., A report by the National Re- search Council, "Enhancing Human Performance" (1988), which was funded by the Army, concluded that they "fall short of an experimental ideal" and do not "justify any conclu- sion. " The report praised "the sin- cerity and dedication" of the investi gators and recommended that -tht Army continue to monitor the wort at Princeton, SRI and San Antonio. Mr. nuzzi takes a more positivt view. He says scientists prefer to de scribe test results as "anomalies," o,, abnormalities, and avo id such term as paranormal phenomena. He says he would prefer to hav their significance explained i- terms of physical laws. If they tur out to be paranormal phenomena, h says, "it would shake my world to ii foundations " , Lvlrs, Gehman, a board rr 2mber the National Spiritualist Associatic of Churches, who charges a min mum "gift" of $100 for a 60-minu-.. session and who says she has mar people from Capitol Hill among hi clients, believes that she can cor municate with "those who have goi through the process of death:'and certain situations can heal and bei metal. But she says 99.9 perceiit of r ported physical phenomena - tat rapping, levitation and such - a fraudulent and that any mediu who guarantees. physical phl@noj ena is a "liar, a cheat and a fraud.' She says that if the scienth eventually prove that their ano alies, are rooted in natural law won't bother her at all. "Whatever the explanation," s says, "I will be content." IA4 7 0 27-5 A e as JV6