SOVIET ESP WEAPON CAN KILL BY PHONE, CLAIMS DEFECTOR

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THE SOVIET UNION is perfecting a psy P!
chic device that murders from a distance g.~.~
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-
inside a super-secret laboratory at the
Academy of Sciences in Moscow, says the
"It allows ordinary people- to perform
'mind over matter' psychic feats and can be
"I heard of one experiment in which eight
people concentrated on a subject 5,000. miles
away. They succeeded in influencing their vic-
Iooked like a toy," she recalls. Vilenekaya says the Soviets have a
long and three - in. wide, about the psychic work the Nikolayev chokin
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plastic pennon the
concentrating, thoughts of others were im- of anger, fear and confusion;
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she explains all the emotions the hypno-
any direction while he held "It is difficult to assess ex- tist'had been asked to create
the instrument
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and I too was able to make:... these ex
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slid across the table and fellthey.-have -a curtain of se- ject to stop his own heart or
off at my mental command. I `crecy around them.?' - to kill someone else," she ex-
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Vilenska 's background distance hypnosis has shown
Ya grad, a distance of 420 that even mental screening
was verified by former Army
ten a book on Soviet psychic
"She was a leading Soviet
research worker who is ex- . HE only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
tremely knowledgeable man to do nothing. ---English philosopher Edmund Burke.
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