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 HEADLINE: SUPERPOWERS SAID STUDYING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA FOR MILITARY USE
 BYLINE: BY CHRISTOPHER HANSON
 DATELINE: WASHINGTON, NOV 12
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 ... STUFF OF SCIENCE FICTION -- BUT A U.S. DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (DIA)
 REPORT EXPRESSES FEAR THAT A MAJOR SOVIET 'PSYCHOTRONIC' RESEARCH EFFORT MAY BE
 DEVELOPING JUST SUCH MENTAL POWERS.
 'SOVIET AND CZECH PSYCHOTRONIC RESEARCH ... HAS POWERFUL POTENTIAL FOR USE AS
 AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST GROUPS OF MEN AND LEADERS,- ACCORDING TO THE REPORT,
 A COPY OF WHICH WAS PROVIDED TO REUTERS BY A PRIVATE SOURCE.
 SOME SCEPTICS HAVE DISMISSED REPORTS ABOUT SOVIET PSYCHIC EXPERIMENTS AS
 'DISINFORMATION' AIMED AT CONFUSING THE WEST. MANY MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS REJECT
 PSYCHIC RESEARCH.
 EVEN SO, ...
 ... TESTS IN WHICH PSYCHICS, SITTING IN A LABORATORY AND GIVEN MAP
 COORDINATES OF MILITARY BASES AND NUCLEAR PLANTS IN THE SOVIET UNION, DESCRIBED
 THOSE SITES IN DETAIL THAT WAS CONSISTENT WITH CIA DATA.
 A CIA SPOKESMAN WOULD NOT COMMENT ON WHETHER OR NOT SUCH TESTS HAD BEEN ...
 ... FOR 13 YEARS SRI HAS CARRIED OUT A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SERIES OF U.S.
 GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTS IN 'REMOTE VIEWING', WHICH THEY DESCRIBE AS -THE
 PERCEPTION OF EVENTS, OBJECTS OR PEOPLE WHICH ARE HIDDEN FROM THE FIVE SENSES.-
 IN THESE EXPERIMENTS, THEY SAY, A PSYCHOLOGIST WOULD SIT WITH A
 ... PINS -- WERE REMARKABLY ACCURATE, THE EVIDENT RESULT OF SOME TELEPATHIC
 MENTAL PROCESS NOT YET UNDERSTOOD.
 TARG TOLD REUTERS SOVIET SCIENTISTS HAVE SHOWN GREAT INTEREST IN THEIR
 RESEARCH, HAVE MET THEM IN THE UNITED STATES AND INVITED THEM TO THE SOVIET
 UNION FOR TALKS. THE RUSSIANS WERE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN WHETHER A WAY COULD
 BE FOUND TO SCREEN OFF SECRETS FROM PSYCHIC INTRUSION.
 THE DIA REPORT, 'SOVIET AND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN PARAPSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH', IS
 BASED LARGELY ON SOVIET SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE AND DESCRIBES A LARGE-SCALE
 KREMLIN PROGRAMME INCLUDING MIND-OVER-MATTER EXPERIMENTS, A FIELD KNOWN AS
 PSYCHOKINESIS.
 IT SAID IN ONE SET OF EXPERIMENTS A SOVIET PSYCHIC STOOD IN A LABORATORY
 BESIDE A FROG'S HEART WHICH HAD BEEN SURGICALLY REMOVED AND KEPT BEATING
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 ARTIFICIALLY. 'AS SHE CONCENTRATED ...
 ... STOPPED ITS BEAT ENTIRELY,- THE REPORT SAID.
 HER ABILITY 'MIGHT BE USED AGAINST HUMAN TARGETS,- IT SAID. THE REPORT SAID
 SOVIET SCIENTISTS HAD REPORTED ON EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH PSYCHICS MOVED OR
 LEVITATED OBJECTS THROUGH MIND-POWER.
 IT SAID IN OTHER EXPERIMENTS REPORTED BY SOVIET SCIENTISTS PSYCHICS
 HYPNOTIZED PEOPLE HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY BY TELEPATHY.
 MUCH SOVIET RESEARCH DESCRIBED IN THE REPORT DEALS WITH A THEORY THAT PSYCHIC
 ABILITIES STEM FROM A FORM OF BRAIN ENERGY THAT CAN BE IDENTIFIED. SOVIET
 SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED A MACHINE THEY SAY CAN EXTRACT ENERGY FROM THE BRAIN,
 AND REPORT THAT FLIES EXPOSED TO A BEAM OF SUCH ENERGY I ...
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