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Former Top Administrator Reveals:
flA Secretly Uses Psychics
I Mediums
By EDWARD TROPEAHO                  
                                    

In a secret program                 
                                    

more incredible    V                
than the                            
                                    

wildest James Bond                  
mov-                                
                                    

ie, the Central                     
Intelligence                        
                                    

Agency (CIA) has                    
been us-                            
                                    

ing mediums to try                  
to con-                             
                                    

tact dead agents                    
from both                           
                                    

sides of the Iron                   
Curtain,                            
                                    

says a former top                   
CIA ad-                             
                                    

ministrator.       I NATIONAL       
                   ENQUIRER         
                                    

And in other mind-boggling                 
                                    

A experiments, he  ment with        
says, the          the supernatural      
                                    

agency has also    began 15         
used psy-          years ago        
                   - after          
                                    

chics to try to    the agency's      
probe the minds    best double      
                                    

of Russian leaders.agent had        
                   been caught      
                   and              
                                    

Victor Marchetti,  killed by        
a 14-year          the Russians.      
                                    

                   .                
former CIA official,"The CIA         
told The           had a very       
                   sue-             
                                    

ENQUIRER that the  cessful          
bizarre            but short-lived      
                   agent            
                                    

Istory of the CIA'snamed Olag       
involve-           Penkovsky,       
                   a                
                                    

                   Russian          
                   KGB colonel,"      
                   re-              
                                    

                   !                
                   called Marchetti,      
                   who served       
                                    



as executive assistant to the
deputy director of the CIA be-
fore retiring in 1969.
                                The Russian agent lasted
little more than a year before
he was arrested, tried and ex-
eeuted by the Soviets,
                                "After he was killed, some-
body said, 'Why don't we try
and contact him?' That's how
they got involved with medi-
urns," Marchetti revealed.
--m-Ami The success or failure of ef-
forts to contact Penkovsky is
still a closely guarded secret.
But it is believed that the ex-
periment expanded into a
full-scale program.
                                "They began to contact our
own dead agents, as well as
dead agents from the other
side," said Marchetti.
                                Marchetti said that at one
point word flashed through
the agency that contact had
been made with the famous
Major Popov, a Russian agent
who disappeared in the 1950s.
As far back as the 19508, the
agency was using psychics to
try to find out what Kremlin
leaders were thinking and
planning, Marchetti said,
Once, the CIA "even looked
for sets of identical twins in
Russia - because they sup-
posedly had the power to read
each other's minds," claimed
Marchetti.
"To the best of my knowl-
edge, they did, in fact,
Stumble across a set of twins
where one defected - al-
though I don't know what
happened."
The CIA refuses to com-
ment on the alleged pro-
grams, but Marchetti says:
"There is no indication that
they have stopped, and no
reason why they would."
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