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The New York Times
January 10, 19084U Tuesdayr Late City Final Edition
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HEADLINE: PENTAGON IS SAID TO FOCUS ON ESP FOR WARTIME USE
BYLINE: By WILLIAM J. BROAD
... a:high-level review of psychic research behind the Iron Curtain in an
attempt to assess a possible Soviet threat.
The Pentagon denies that it is spending money on psychic research. The
assertions to the contrary appear in a trio of ...
... events) - all in the name of the national defense.
For more than a century scientists have clashed over what is now called
parapsychology. Some praise it as a legitimate study led by bold visionaries,
while others decry it as a ...
... dollar'' program of psychic research financed by the Defense Department
and intelligence agencies.
The key experiments had to do with what Mr. Targ calls ''remote viewing,'' in
which gifted individuals were said to be able to describe distant locations,
events and objects. In 1976, for instance, a 11 ...
... so basing scheme in which each MX missile would be secretly shifted among
a bevy of concrete bunkers so that Soviet planners would never know which
shelter to aim at in a first strike.
Quoting a former White House ...
... positive enough to suggest increased MX vulnerability. The former aide,
Barbara Honegger, who holds a degree in parapsychology and left the Reagan
Administration this fall, confirmed in a telephone interview that the
experiments had been done. But she said she did not know whether the ...
... professional psychic over the course of 11 months. Showing the woman
top-secret photographs and charts, he had her try to predict the position of
Soviet submarines off the East Coast. And she was not alone. Mr. McRae said that
the Navy has employed at least 34 psychics,
... documents and interviews.
All of those who say that the military is engaged in psychic research contend
it stems largely from fear that Soviet psychic breakthroughs might mean the
American armed forces could be quietly put out of commission. Specialists from
the Central Intelligence Agency are ...
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 ... visited one of the nation's top parapsychologists to elicit information
 on whether psychics could jam computers.
 Jimmy Carter was worried about the Soviet threat in 1976 before he was
 inaugurated President, according to Mr. McRae, and had a private audience with
 Uri Geller. The Israeli mentalist told him that the Soviet Union screened all
 children for paranormal powers. In 1977, Mr. McRae says, Mr. Carter ordered a
 high-level review of Soviet psychic research. The secret report, completed in
 1978, found no evidence of a massive ''psycho-warfare'' project such as Mr.
 Geller had warned of, but it did find definite Soviet interest. White House
 officials in office during the Carter Administration say either that they had no
 knowledge of such Presidential concern or that they can neither confirm nor deny
 that it existed.
 The Russian side of the parapsychology story is emphasized in ''Psychic
 Warfare,'' by Martin Ebon, published this fall by McGraw-Hill. Mr. Ebon says the
 Soviet Union was goaded into action in 1960 by false reports that the United
 States Navy conducted telepathy experiments to try to keep ...
 ... world's first nuclear-powered submarine, as it cruised under the Arctic
 icecap.
 Those reports touched off a flurry of Soviet projects, according to Mr. Ebon.
 He notes a 1972 analysis by the American Defense Intelligence Agency, which
 states that ''the major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible
 capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics and bionics are said to
 come from the Soviet military and the K.G.B."
 Mr. Ebon devotes a chapter to the knotty problem of how Soviet materialism
 can accommodate itself to a belief in parapsychology, which in the eyes of some
 Western analysts is but a short step to the anathema of Karl Marx - the
 supernatural. ''In the Soviet Union itself,'' he writes, ''bureaucratic and
 academic pragmatists are at odds with dogmatic ideologues. Within the Soviet
 bloc, positions range from the determinedly experimental in Czechoslovakia to
 the disdainfully hostile in East Germany.''
 Are the superpowers, in fact, ...
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