PSYCHIC STUDIES MIGHT HELP U.S. EXPLORE SOVIETS - JACK ANDERSON

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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 23, 1984
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P "'Studies mind. One of the most promising is least two tests that produced aston-
sy Cis the testing of "remote viewing"-the ishing results. They gave one psychic
claimed ability of some psychics to the latitude and longitude of a re-
ight Help U.S. describe scenes thousands of miles mote location and told him to pro-
away. ject his mind there and describe the
The CIA and the Pentagon have scene. He described an airfield, com-
xplore"Soviets an obvious interest in this phenom- plete with details-including a large
enon. If they could get psychics to gantry and crane at one end of the
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k abut it,"but they are rushing to Curtain, there'd be no need to risk The CIA was impressed, but crit-
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lfcharlatans that it's easy to debunk simple trick-there was serious dis- Still, it had been a while since
the whole idea as a comic-strip con- cussion of remote viewing. In fact, U.S. spy satellites had taken pictures
cept unworthy of serious scientific the CIA is now seriously pondering of the Semipalatinsk base. So the
study. the possibility of raising "psychic CIA waited for the next set of pho-
tos-and 1981, when I first began report- shields" to keep Soviet remote view- sure enough, there were
mg on secret U.S. and Soviet pro- era away from our secrets. the gantry and crane, just as the psy-
ams using so-called psychics to I asked my skeptical associates
g ther intelligence, some of the gov- Dale Van Atta and Joseph Spear to chic had described them. No one in
find out how remote viewing has be- U.S. intelligence agencies had known
ernment-funded projects were obvi- come almost universally accepted in the equipment was there, so the in-
ously off-the-wall. There was the the intelligence community. They formation couldn't have been leaked
"hyperspatial nuclear howitzer" that to him.
would "transmit" a bomb explosion on the subject. This e is what they The second test involved a Soviet
from the Nevada desert to down- learned: TU95 "Backfire" bomber, which the
town Moscow with the speed of The CIA's latest remote viewing CIA knew had crashed somewhere in
thought, or the "anti-missile time project was code-named "Grill Africa. They were eager to find it be-
warp" that would send an incoming Flame," and was carried out in part fore the Soviets did, so they could
alheiny missile into the past, blowing by two respected academics: Harold take photographs and perhaps pur.
up dinosaurs Instead of 20th century puthoff, formerly with the National loin secret gear from the wreckage.
Americans. Security Agency, and Russell Targ, So one of Project Grill Flame's re-
"$ut $here "are 'legitimate Tabora- formerly with the Stanford Research mote viewers was asked to locate the
tory "projects that may eventually Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. downed bomber. He gave the CIA
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