SG1 I P96-0078QO00200080033-8 SG1 I Emigre Tells of. Research in Soviet In Pa-.ra.'psy@chology for Military Use By FLORA LEWIS SPIANt to The Nswy* Tfioe# PARIS, June, 18-An emigre Soviet some s-ovilot work,appeared aimed at VbYsIcIst says that the Soviet Union h@ri developing psychological warfare been doing ",qet worl; in parapsycholo- methqds.) gy, forwhit'appegr, t? 1?@ Olitary,and @Tbe Toth WiPlOpnt had the@ earmarks Police pums6$. of an entrapment, in ft view of some Theloviet emisre.'August Stern, who diplomats. Theye is 6o &I now. liv,@s tn'P4611, 5 gn that. the 25@ POW.1hree'years 14 page 40cumeqt oupaiapsychology han& a secret Werian. laboratory in W late ed to'him on,the atre6t Just before he 1960a WAj@to:fIn4,A..,physkpaI basis for Was $eIzed contikiqed., important Informa. psychic enerty, or Vp@ as they, tj9p. Howevo a, record of Soviet are callqd, se"ItIvIty, .'smd Ausust St ern's Inforwar Moscow's interest in tbo 'subject was ti6n I ychdlogy is a, nd.1c4tel' W@,vairaps dom grated " on Robert C. matter of c9acAM to t4e authorities. ., m4pit' . APgeles Mr. s @toth, a cofre#@ Los teM 4 A son ot Dr. Mikhail Stern Tlmes,. who ;@is this week ln.,i4@scoi,* to@,$[Aa the I sect aft, *ndOC*kW0gIst Wbo was imprisoned ItItY before bolng #00wed to leave the Soviet As 'in -.A policei an w ic. t@ed 0 having re- ijplon ugust Stem said he ZVO, "ststp qavow, 40ut P4mPBY* w" tolit WOO* leavl@j the Soviet 'Unlan , 4 as p4owpd to t 0108y. V@ leave for t@wp years 4go j1hV3 "- evgn move secret home after protts4 by t4 Onited States l4i?oraW an'the pne he @new in Sibe y tb .,Government. r1a had'bow get up. In Moscow under 6 (In Wishington, officials sald the In.' th direption ot the X.G.13. ur 10nuft . ity W" 4WIWO Of A Franch selentisi and former intelli- poviet.research Wporapsychology, but &6nce agent, Jaoques IBergier, har. written added t4t American sWislists did not a boAk. . Stho extrasensory percep- 61leve the Russians .'had made any Onusual discoveries. One official said Continued go P4kge 20, Column I V.0"Ir K so moN CHANAING CARMUT 9w x,!t suve About Your A out TI$. "Ar T 00cufationel rusm"? Vec's Carter Foc"s Frograla 1A , -44vt. FWI 'ir h4y, .FRv A polp.@ Approved For Release 2001/03/26 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0200080033-8 Approved For Relea;p2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-0078WO0200080033-8 ;&U Emigre Reports on Soviet Researd Continued From Page I tion, one of th; -the-Iri-el s-t-u-d led by parap gy, may be used in espionage, hought control, surveillance and as a t fonn 0@ weapon. - Parapsychology covers four specific ftelds of nonphysical phenomena. They are telepath, (transwission of thought without we of the aeasis), extrasensory perception,. tojokinols: (tranamiRsion of motion without tiny evident uie of physi- aWgy) and clairvoyance (the ability to w distant ior future ovonts without physical intervention), ' ' -. Most scientists remain skeptical Omt such phenomena actusitly exist, but there an reseirchers throughout tha world dedicatedlt proving and, It pQseible. ex@ pl, Ing th 1 officially subsidized Soviet re in 1%ld has gone on for years, VMe bliely vaunted and at o" ced and even denledi U.P. Navy Was InteresteoiA 1050's At one ti%n@ in t o late 1950's and aarl@ IMP% the Unit: StatA% 'NIL' and the StankWO RoWch tastitute 0*0 In tolqiathy to w whOor It,-cpUld Orm*.40 U@qOoctal@le M#,W_@ of- on 1975 some Soviet parapsycho were persecuted and Me whole was publicly 4ttadked. Eduard Ni a resewher with no evident coat V -police, was I Ath the Military or. tharje of &OCOPW4, be Witbout permission. ,ino Los A*gp@W Times t, Loindon yootord4y. . . . . . . Wit 1@ was referring to something in the field of, PgrAmy0hology. But it is a possibility _*is omurr6d W so04e observers, es .9,101.1ybot:41joe of the vascillating treat P 9 ists, @he. evident 10"k, of *W VA B.' with the sub- regard as a tradi Lion- #D4 wrot 15, some W in. Wr .4 Interest in mysticism. @U*s,Wtlal ,pan wem' dJsmh*k1 detention 1, a V week ago, have uoted orted t am o ' was i rep : q "@-jstatmcnt made b an employee I y was madb of the i pwh Contacts with, of Western pamrcholoswsr emy on'June 13 1# LOAM of tAW Sciences who had been the.,*U orities to. examine the 9 0' BWhn6v the Soviet The urjaf lh@ state- jh Vs. "1 " '@ r Uldw states to 1 avree ort Qc and said Part cl t to s p id development is somh at of now secret and shows the F Weapoes more@ terdble W VO tbw @ 4i Aqm of work done in some closed scien- 11 world has kn6w.'Anterlda". tift 4ho biatitutel, of our statQ. ` , @ t4ntrol ne tast gotlators Ivive year, tried to Nod 90 the 1 . et, counterparts %ns, what. he news-paper from, their Soyl Le 1 - Monde shod'a letter by it. Russian & . WIlmir bad In mind.,lbut have, Lvov thq not denouncing learned a y previ- named g more'than t . ous anythin hat letter he b xneant a "some Frenph professor, Henri - i , ng Gastaut. kW%d of mp,,@ adoOdito an UnItO eWr @Rteq that parapsycholo- d ' rwarch was o icially supported in Soviet VawMatlng Treatment Union. Noted Mr. Lvov was Identified by Le Monde At first, American as intelligence tbought a "Soviet scientific writer in Lenin- he mIg1ht have grad," been refe ng to but gser Westernsources said they be- beams, or some lieved way of focusing he c ic was connected with the K.G.B. rays but they no The longer believe French this to professor bi ae one. They had say that they simply are bat- men- tioned, in the course of a plea for support tied by the reference, of parapsychology reseamli, that the Rus- There is no evidence sians that Mr.Brezhnev were engaged in it. Approved For Release 2001/03/26 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0200080033-8 Approved For ReIeW 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-007WO00200080033-8 '111P, JV"- ts-)&K -iljdll@a, SUvDAY, JUNE 19, 1977, t in Parapsychology for Military Usesi The reply, titled "Myths and Realities in the Soviet union,- RM4 published oil Aug. 4,.1976, Mr. Lvov said, "The truth Issiraple. There is no parap- sychology as a legitimateand officially recognized branch of Soviet science. No institute or scientific research center in the U. S. S. R. Is occupied with telepathy, psyr,hokinests, etc. But there are a few groups of amateurs. , . who look Into the 4paranormal' with the aid, of some Journalists without scruples (if scieniffic exactitude." Yet, soon after the trialb _,f, Nountov, the Soviet parapsychojo&t, @a report to m The T1 es of London said - the Soviet Aeade my of Pedagogical Spiencea fiad de clared the. study of psychic pb66mena A. 4u .bject fit for scientific Study, W ;thereto ot. a permlssable field,for unof re allr6hers. rose .Mr. Stern's reminiscenses of the labora- Wry where be worked and ihe way it was finally shut down only add to -the public record. The laboratory was In No- S@oienqe 'City, a complex.be@ nothing, other experiments 4t. .the, labor tary Involved applying electric s4ocks w-wly-born Xittvas,to seq,whether.,their mothers, three'fipqr@.u*tiaifs, reoiswed any roactl6n thr6gtLoome,mehtal con- nection; television gurvaillake of people in a room to see whether they responded to attempts. by others severM room$ away to send them telepathic ord6m studies involving monkeys and eloct"Pagnetic fields. There W@re Also exgrJqt6nt's with photon wA@es, in which . 9V eyes were used as a Im'Gre semitivo maasur4 g in- D 0 strument than a macblnp@ On@. Involved putting 1,* on1wo sides of a glass 6 I 11@tter a. GUAI disease could ate to 04 N @ I ge transmittO Oro* tPe ilass.'It was reasonq0.*r- it thl @ ould' be, done, It would OW-Oft ons--AlgN particles -were,, 4tbdolonWr Vf0t fsomo poxplicable forras of 0 _04V@M@icx*n, Suddenly. 16 IWO,! the laborgtory wvA shut dovm-, ftlltorn Wd be. did not know the d nQt think it M1.1 ok of success or was reaW offloial- j alit , thjk poqr 411 as to the. Siberian branch 0. the ly 4004t tho 0-1 'but,# change &MY Of Sciences. It Wag In ifigOArAte GUM P, - . I I I t , Krem tu pl@@er tulding, and the door could, be opened att, 6nlg by 'a boded. IQck with the' code changed, evW week: I t was known as 7qhWAO ?Avj"t Was C"0164 i'_-@and'wsts it HP, V,VA411 kin Moscow' by'@@hen. He fenvd, to ai i branch of 'the Institute beard thqt%.ni IV, and Particularly of Autconation and Electrpmetry. U t the na*'*w. condu g parapsychology Rewled by a Navy officer 0* The head was Vitaly Perov a navy offi- A frip)A& 0 NIL 0 Leningrad scientist cer, who opened it in 1966, Mr.. $tqrn named'Oe e ev, told him he said, He recalled that Mr. Perov xNwed was recei 4.0"9=4on and fun& to 'y 04. Offered Win deference to two visitors who 00* came 'In 01.41 *41 the@'early dxys to check'-on thelpstalla, 4i 1W don. @ Wk. Wrh believed the visitora, to U iii t I M. that the -9m. T sterl 0 X.G.S. meq.,- WOX 464 1 IV* md'planned =bJnsd In 4 new Workm were, recrulted from arourld the in Left@lSrtd 4@40 0=0 until there were about 60 persons laborAtory iv'1410"W xMices .B. 14 ANP"011. 4t th6 lAbOraWry, The scientists mong Of th* X-Q - More them were given virtually unUmited (on A for,elaborate equipment, "It cost ma eft , lfff4, be was roatty 'S time be I In Stern seld. His own . rk told, ft. t' 0 616 ork b@4 wor, w4s In theoretical physics. His view was hem curtail the ' secret A- 9:111 that there might be an orderly.'s, tem 9,0m. U rat ry 4"he had heard In which all kinds of energy cogad" be Naiors,that aMethln# 'ft at ve OhW.64, slinflar to Mendeleyov's periodic dOgerous" had been dis v table Of' wcafelemQnts. As a 'result 6o ented- 0 fthe Ulc table, which qkI$Inally left '1 never believed It. How m t1w.K.G.R. 91021,k, Weep, unknown elements do effective research? 71", r@eed real ,,system .. tists.st sole If 3@ ch a chart could be discovered Vs experience in Noviosibirsk hm eQn- for eAe 'Mr.' Stern thought, it, too. vinced him that I many reseWhe" with might be band to have blank spaces that. official sponsorship were po qpalitied might lead to'phrical identification of or even quacks and their. COUN n particles to explan the mystery of psyr pot be substantiated. His moarch- chic e ' the "Psi particles," papers were confisato nergy, , d ttOforo @e emi, worked f9r two years and found grated. 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