SCIENTISTS DIVIDED OVER VALIDITY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAPONS

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(SNAP 911018)
Author: Volkov, 0.
Title: SCIENTISTS DIVIDED OVER VALIDITY OF
PSYCHOLO - P R0
Primary Source: amsomo skaya pravda, Sep-
tember 27, 1991, No. 222 (20222), p. 2,
cols. 2-4
Abstract. The article reports on contro-
versy over research of unconventional phys-
ical fields and military applications of
this work. Some scientists are said to be-
lieve that 'psychotronic generators' based
on new physical principles can be used for
remote control of people's minds and behav-
ior, and that original weapons for this
purpose can be developed on the basis of
generators of "spinor (torsion)" or "micro-
lepton" fields, in particular. other sci-
entists are highly skeptical of such re-
search.
It is recalled that a resolution enti-
tled "On the Unsound Practice of Financing
Pseudoscientific Research out of State
Sources" was published, together with an
opinion submitted by the USSR Academy of
Sciences' department of general physics and
astronomy, on July 4 of this year-. The
USSR Supreme Soviet's Committee on Science
and Technologies issued this resolution.
It accused several ministries of spending,
without a proper expert review, half a bil
lion rubles on pseudoscientific and anti-
scientifid developments involving spinor or
microlepton fields with which scientists
are already familiar. The resolution named
the USSR Ministry of Defense (Minoborony),
the USSR Ministry of Nuclear Power Engi-
neering and Industry, the USSR State Secur-
ity Committee (KGB) and the USSR Cabinet of
Ministers' Military-Industrial Commission
as clients and sponsors of this work. More
than 20 institutes were identified as exec-
utors and developers. First on this list
was the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences' In-
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stitute of Materials-Science Problems,,
which is headed by academician Trefllov.
The interagency scientific-technical center
"Vent" (formerly the Center for Unconven-
tional Technologies of the USSR State Com-
mittee for Science and Technology) was .
Identified as the country's "chief" firm'
engaged in developments in the area of un-
,conventional fields. According to unveri-
fied data from A. Akimov, director of this
center, the cost of unconventional-field
:projects has been 23 million rubles in Min-
Iaborony's sector alone, while the overall
-amount which has been allocated for such
research through all of the different chan-
nels is as great as 500 million rubles,
Seeking more information about uncon-
.'entional-fields research and the purposes
Df this research, the author spoke to an
associate of the USSR Supreme Soviet's Com-
mittee on Science and Technologies and sub-
sequently went to the armed forces' General
Staff. He was told that the committee had
received no information in this regard from
mlinoborony, the KGB or other agencies in-
.'olved. Representatives of the General
Staff referred the author to the USSR Acad-
'ntY of Sciences' Section on Problems of Ap-
Dlied Science. Nikolay Prudnikov, deputy
:hairman of this section, said that it
sometimes orders projects to be carried out
=or the General Staff, but he disclosed no
Details of this work. one such project,
4hich was called "Obezlichiye" (de.individ-
aalization), is mentioned. It is recalled
:hat in 1986, a scientific research insti-
:ute informed the academy's section that
:he institute was prepared to carry out
:his project. An associate of the section
who knew more about the project was not
available for questioning, however. At the
'Vent" center, the author was told that di-
ector Akimov was away on a business trip.
Ye. Aleksandrov, corresponding member
of the USSR Academy of Sciences and a sci-
:ntific opponent of Akimov's, sent the au-
.hor a report of the Center for Unconven-
_ional Technologies. According to this
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document, the center is engaged in research
of long-distance production of medical-bio-
logical and psychophysical effects on
troops and the population, using torsion
radiations; and also in research of medi-
cal-biological protection of troops and the
population against effects of such radia-
tions. Aleksandrov expressed doubt that
equipment capable of producing such effects
can be developed. A letter which the edi-
tors received from Aleksandrov is quoted,
in which the'scientist denounced research
of unconventional fields as pseudoscien-
tific, citing a decision of the academy's
department of general physics and astrono-
my. Aleksandrov went so far as to accuse
state enterprises of producing fake "field
generators" and selling them to defense
agencies for large sums.
Scientists who hold opposing views of
unconventional-fields research reportedly
include V. Kaznacheyev, who is believed to
be working in this direction for the de-
fense complex and has signed an Interna-
tional convention on the non-use of "mental
weapons"; A. Veynik, corresponding member
of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences, who
has put forward a number of.theories; and
other academy figures, who have published
works abroad. The author suggests that the
Academy of sciences organize a roundtable
discussion on the topic of psychological
weapons, with all sides in the controversy
represented.
(SNAP 911018)
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