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   Ampi ' laboratory experimen
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   c ics hove bee to
   C ka Love been used to Vy on
   the Soviets by projecting their winds
   outside their bodies.
   One psychic was able to describe a
   wTet Soviet base in astonishing de-
   too that was later confirmed by sat-
   efte photographs. Another located a
   Soviet Tu95 "Backfire bomber that
   had crashed in Affica.
   US, Navy and Air Force chids
   are skeptical about these experi-
   mente which they describe sewnful-
   ly a:;; aft- and -black triagic.*
        4 t the Amy's intelligence chieC Lt.
   William Odom,'has been im.
   pressed vAth some of the results.
        041_~ Odom is worried about intelli.
        V .-Once reports that the Soviets are far
        shead in psychic rewarch. Inside the
        Pentagon, he has raised the question
        of whether the Soviets could we
        psychics to penetrate our secret
        vaults. This has W to talk in the
        backrOOM about raising a "psychic
        shield" to block this sort of remote
        spying.
        ;:~~C=y."Fo= CIA ch.
   r Stansfield Tumor told critics
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        that their skepticism about the
        C1A'B psychic projects was Ufty
        but Oat t1w research &MM k"P
        th their skepticism.
   im - ross&nh in
   most = cZ
   this am has ucted
   Harold Puthoff &M Russell
   both mpecW Awdema with
   Stanford Research Institute in
   M" park, C41V. puthoff is yQ
   with the iwdtu* Tug M two
   years ago to form his an company.
   Delphi Asisociates. They began their
   experiments in the early 1970s, using
   psychics to dewnU scem at spe-
   cific wordinAtes on the globe, The
   Project; partly fwxled by the Do-
   tense Dewunent and the CK was
   called Tkansle! for %can by coor-
   dinate
        Their latest project, coder-aamed
   'Grill Flarne,* produced some amaz-
   ing results. Psychics ds&mW do
   contents of locked Ming cabinets;
   they mentally bmvlwd the o6curity
   Of secret military installatiom
        Earlier, they had discovered the
   rings around Jupiter years Wore
   their existence was scientirically as.
   tablisW by photoMhs.
        Despite these impressive whieve-
   ments, sources toM my associates
   Dale Van Atto and Joseph Spur
   that the psychice success rate is only
   about 70 Percent For example, psy-
   chics who were sked by the Pents.
   t the place where Ital-
   ian ViBr~44e terrorists were Md.
   ing Brig. Gen. James Dozier prisoner
   in January, 198Z did not come dose.
        ]kit this occasional SU0008448 On'
   courage intelligence Wicials to keep
   trying in hopes of giv~og remote spy-
   Wg more respectability. They AM

   
   we ooncomed about the Soviets who
   we hmn to have spent many more
   yean And far more MODOY 011 pars,
   prychokgical research.
        At the mk of being ridimled over
   a *voodoo gap,* advocates, fib Rep.
   Owlis Ron (D-N.C.), support con- '
   tinued research Into the more prom'
   ising of this MysteriouS Id.
   Mar the atomic bomb was owe
   thouglit to be a harebrained idea.
   It's safe to my that many things eDn-
   -sidered utterly fantastic today wifl
   be accepted as commonplace by the
   end of the century.
        flockrut d the Week- The fed.
   oil govemmeniVit massive giveaway
   of chow not only was supposed to
   food the hungry but also to cut down
   on omplue cheese stocks in govern.
   ment, warehouses. It sieems the give.
   MWAY allowed some consumers to
   stop buying dwu st the supermar-
   ket So the government's Stockpile of
   surplus cheese has Von from 619
   million pounds in 1981 to I billion
   pounds lad year. The cost of the
   government's purchase of surplus
   cheeft AM butter want hom SL3
   Ulm in 1979 to $2.8 billion in
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