VOODOO GAP' LOOMS AS LATEST WEAPONS CRISIS

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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 1998
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• Publication Date: April 24, 1984
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CIA also is taking psychic gom to pinpoint the place where Ital-
ch seriously. Forever CIA di- an Red Brigade terrorists were bold-
s Stanafield Turner told critics ing Brig. Gen. James Dozier prisoner
that their skepticism about the in January, 1982, did not come dose.
ffixasses an-
CIA's psychic projects was "healthy But men officials
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but that the research should keep aourag ? ito
spy-
pace with their skepticism. trying ? hopes giving
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more respectab~ty. They also
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Tht impressive researc
Ae mos I have reported p y on so- this area has been conducted by are connerned about the Soviets who
cret projects to a psychic pheno- Harold Putbotf and Russell Targ, are known to have went many more
mena to mi purposes. For ex- both respected academics with the years and far more money on psra-
amps laboratory experiments, Stanford Research Institute in psychological research over
c .cs have been used to spy on Menlo Park, Calif. Puthoff is still At the risk of be ~ Rep.
the Soviets by projecting their minds with the institute; Tug left two a'voodoo gap,
ago to form his an company, Charlie Rose (D-N.C.), support can-
outside their bodies.
yearl their tinued research Into the more prom,
one, psychic was able to describe a Delphi Associates. They began stexioue field-
.
secret Soviet base in astonishing de- experiments in the early 1970x, using ising areas the atomic is mybsmb was ond
tail that was later confirmed by eat- psychics to describe scenes beat W- After 4
. thought to be a harebrained idea.
can=
" " race ct, par lyesfunded by the De- It ii safe to say that~ many c tongs
ettite Soviet phTu95 Botographs. ackfi Arenother babomber ted a that De ment and the CIA, was aidered utterly f(em had crashed in Africa. , ~" for "scan by coor- be accepted as commonplace by the
U.S. Navy and Air Force chiefs wed callous" end of the century.
are skeptical about these experi- Their latest project, code-named Backfire of the Week: The fed-
mente, which they describe scornful- "Grill Flame," produced some amaz- sal government's massive giveaway
ly as "witchcraft" and "black magic." bg results. PW-hka described the of cheese not only was supposed to
t i1w Army's intelligence chief, Lt. contents of locked filing cabinets; feed the hungry but also to cut dawn
n. William Odom,' has been im- they mentally breached the security on surplus cheese stocks in govern-
pressed with some of the results. Of secret military installatiom ment warehotiseL It seems
`-' consumers Odom is worried about intelli- Earlier, they had discovered the away Aowed some at the super to
,,,Once reports that the Soviets are far rings around Jupiter years before stop buying chme ahead in psychic research. Inside the these existence was scientifically es? ket. So the government's stockpile 6 9
Pentagon, he has raised the question tablished by photographs. surplus cheese has grown from of whether the Soviets could use Despite these impressive achieve- million pouf in 1981 to I billion
test year. The cost of the
psychics to penetrate our secret manta, sources told my associates pounds
vaults. This has led to talk in the Dale Van Atta and Joseph Spear government's purchase of surplus
backraoms about raising a "psychic that the psychics' success rate is only cheese and butter went from $L3
billion in 1979 to $2.8 billion in
shield" to block this sort of remote about 70 percent. For example, b96o?
spying. chics who were asked by the
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