-00 10 ; t rbw W 45P J byphone','daimi ddecto .:.?!" THE SOVIET UNION is perfecting a psy- chic device that murders from a distance and a hypnosis technique that can be used as a weapon to kill with a telephone call, reveals a leading Russian scientist who defected to the West. Larissa Vilenskaya, an electronic special- ist who was a top lecturer and theoretician ofi parapsychology in the U.S.S.R., and worked inside a super-secret laboratory at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, says the killer device greatly magnifies ESP powers. "It allows ordinary people - to perform mind over mattee psychic feats and can be used to kill at long range," she sa N~h&ich ei "I heard of one experiment in i Ilit people concentrated on a subject 5,00-0. mil es away. They succeeded in influencing their vic- tim to commit suicide., "I have even used the machine myself. I went to give a lecture at the Moscow Physical Engineering Institute and was handed what looked like a toy," she recalls. "It was a hand-sized Object,' about six in. in.-'* wide, i. q~- *14 A" M0, M, 60 11 Electronics specialist Larissa Vilenskaya says the Soviets have a deadly ESP weapon. long and three - about the psychic-work Nikolayev choking the and gasp- shaped like a Russians are doing,"ing for breath. household iron- he says. ' ina board. It "She should be "At that exact was made listened to." time, Of ' gray metal and Revulsion at turningNikolayev reported not very. jp~y- those heavy. chic powers againstsame sensations. mankind "The researcher led her to defect,.Vilenskaya"He even felt was very the pain of a proud Of it. He says. "I felt thatblow the hypnotist Put some experiments sent men- matches and the aimed at-. influencing'tally. top of a the plastic pen on mind and at reading"And he reported the table. By the feelings concentrating, thoughts of othersof anger, fear he was able to were im- and confusion, make the matches moral," she explains.,all the emotions move in. the hypno- any direction . - "It is difficulttist'had been while he held to assess ex- asked to create the instrument. actly what the in him'. Soviet mili- "Then he gave tary machine is "The prospects it to me doing with are fright- and I too was these experiment&.Thereening. It. is able to make, are possible that a the matches move.centers for this.researchhypnotist could The pen but order a sub- . slid across the rtain of se- ject to stop table and fell they.-have-a cu his own heart or off at my mental Tcrecy around them.?'" she ex- command. I - to kill someone else was astonished." Nonetheless, she , has plains. Vilenskaya, who learned that the "Some Russian fled to Is- Soviets are experi- rael two years working feverishlyments showed ago, has pub- on. long- that although lished over 40 distance hypnosis a hypnotized scientific pa- that kills person will not pers in Russian, with a phone callor'shoot somebody English, Ital- a mental knowingly, ian and German. , he will if he Today, she command. is told that the lises her specialized."A hypnotist calledtarget is, say, knowl-.. Yuri a tiger attack- edge to monitor ~ Soviet PsY'-' Karnensky and a ing him. . chic research recipient I i for the.Wash- called Carl-Nikolayev "A did a t h cen ington Research series of experiments n Center in be- researc er Kiev that is working on long- San Francisco. tween ' Moscow distance hypnosis ' and Lenin- has shown Vilenskaya grad, a distance, that even mental s background of 420 screening was verified by miles," she says. can't keep the former Army , - long-distance Lt. Col. Tom Bearden,"Kamensky imaginedthought waves a nu- out." clear engineer who has writ- ten a book on Soviet psychic weaponry. "She was a leading T Soviet research worker HE only thing necessaryr the triumph who is ex- fo of evil is for good tremely knowledgeablemen to do nothing,philosopher Edmund - English Burks. T Cr J Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788ROO1200200008-0