TIME INC ARTICLE, FROM DATA BASE SEARCH. 'EXPLORING PSYCHIC WEAPONS'

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• Publication Date: January 23, 1984
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Copyright 1984 Time Inc. All Rights Reserved
Time
January 23~ ~98~?~U.S. Edition
SECTION: NATION; Pg. 17
LENGTH: 692 wards
HEADLINE: An E.S.P. Gap;
Exploring psychic weapons
BODY:
... Zodiac," psychic and palm reader. By looking at top-secret photographs
and charts, the clairvoyant attempted to predict the movements of Soviet
submarines off the East Coast. Madame Zodiac's payment: $ 400 cash.
Ronald McRae, a former investigative reporter ...
.., published this spring. It is one of several forthcoming works, written
by both skeptics and believers, on the military's forays into parapsychology,
the quasi-science that studies the interaction of mind and matter. According to
McRae, who is skeptical of psychic claims, the Department of Denfense has spent
$ ...
The Pentagon denies any interest in parapsychology. A Denfense Department
spokesman said last week that officials had scrutinized the budgets for fiscal
years 1983 and 1984 "and ...
. financed psychic research to study the "shell game" basing mode for the
MX missile, a system that would attempt to confuse Soviet military strategists
by shifting missiles among a number of concrete shelters. Other esoteric
programs uncovered by ...
. CIA or both funded his psychic research programs, but he maintains that
there was a "multimillion-dollar" project, part of which focused on '?remate
viewing" experiments.
In one test, Targ went to Grant's Tomb in New York City and tried to transmit
an ...
. view, which she said "makes me think of a restaurant or museum." Her
vision, Targ argues, was remarkably accurate. On a visit to the U.S.S.R. in
October, Targ found that the Soviets had replicated some of the experiments he
and his colleagues had reported in scientific journals.Says Targ: "In the
Soviet Union, psychic research is taken seriously at the highest levels."
Sighting submarines by clairvoyance? Sending signals with E.S.P."
Representative ...
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. a look. Some people think this is the work os the devil," says he.
"Others think it may be the holy spirit. If the Soviets, as is evident, feel it
is worthwhile, I am willing to spend a few bucks."
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