YES, PSYCHIC WARFARE IS PART OF THE GAME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100160132-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 132
• Publication Date: February 5, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100160132-1
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THE WASHINGTON POST
5 February 1981
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ceptionr: Ithe research is successful, - tract: It's an antimissile system- that, : physicist Martin Gardner, character
the next; war could be won:.presumab- would throw a: time warp over the izes the. budget for psychotronie weap
ly by casting an evil eye on.Moscow ' North,-Pole. Incoming . Soviet-missiles onry as amonetary"black hole;', into
The a true ? believers are "convinced would fly into the time warp and ex- which bad. research sucks. good money
lode harmlessly P~ Pte-.
served only- by spending millions of . haps' blowing up Cmdr. Robert Peary
dollars: -`ca.,-.such comic-strip concepts.:: or,. if the time warp mechanism was
as the `hyperspatial howitzer; , which tuned. to really high: frequency, killing
supposedly-could transmit,etnuclear: ,a few.dinosaurs.- z
explosion in;the Nevada desert to the The National. Security, -Agenc'y, to
gates of the K,~e with the speed .cite another example, has tried to use
of thought = ? s* , ; ;.ESP .to, crack Soviet codes When the
Rep. Charles Rose (I)=N C.), for ex- agency's computers have failed to
ampie'is"a'- respected{ five-term'con-=~ break- the - secret codes produced byl
gressman and a member of the House. , the Kremlin's computers, the NSA
Select Committee on, Intelligence. He technicians have enlisted the help of
has advocated.. psychotronic--weapons local astrologists and palm readers.: _ .
with the tenacious courage.,of some So far, according to my sources, the
death-defying marvel, He has teetered swamis have been no more successful
but ever. righted himself on the trem- than our computers. But the Ouija-
bling high:=wire, keeping his =-balance board warriors are still trying.
again t `the unseen ? push' and pull of Reporting on the bizarre research
nighty, interests, inching his .way for- that goes on in the Pentagon is not
ward,. &, few .more-yards to his~,goaL ` without its- hazards. Several self-styled
By.Psutagon,standards,.not much psychics have accused me of being an
money. has been invested 'on: psychic unwitting. victim of , Soviet success in
warfare,-a trifling $&,mrllion: Rose : the field-.I am, they say, acting under
thinks the'!; United States should be long-range Kremlin hypnosis intended
spending, a' lot morel Loney: on ese F to persuade the. American populace
ethereal weapons 'Thep could ,!cake that Pentagon- attempts close..-the A
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who wrote in, no, I don't' take hallu . the Buck Rogers weapons would cer- nosis, . like the hyperspatial howitzer,
cinogens.;.Thee brass hats are,.. indeed, tainly make plain old nuclear bombs happens to be one of the key weapons
dabbling in the-dark arts. obsolete -. if they should ever work. in the voodoo warriors' arsenal
They; are. seriously trying to-develop . One. such weapon; it turns out, has But there are more skeptics than
based on Aktrasensory per- ,- been blessed with an Air Force con- advocates. One critic. of ESP warfare,..
Last month, I revealed a'Pentagon --.--every other weapon obsolete," he told "psychotronic weapons -gap" with the
Ron McRae. Soviet Union are a waste of money. -
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100160132-1