SOVIET AND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN PARAPSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH

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• Publication Date: July 1, 1972
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DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SOVIET AND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN
PARAPSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH (U)
PREPAR,rD BY U. S. ARMY
MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE AND
1NFOR:1ATION Art::CY,
OFFICE OF TIIE SU1CL'C1i GL;IF.RAL
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AlthouCh the L'S Navy subsequently denied the reports of telepathic
testing on atonic oubmariecs. the Soviet hierarchy apparently
heeded Doctor Vasilcv's advicu and gave support, both moral
and financial, to his dynamic vie-.r that: "The discov of the
energy undcrlyin tclcpathic communication
o t a iscovcry o ato ImLi energy . ?
4. (U) ;Since 1962, Doctor Vasilev has headed a special laboratory
for biocommUu:ieatians tr3.rarrh at the UniversLty of
to ~eonduetaresenrch
for aspects o e work of this laboratory tating and studying
and to develop machines capable of oonitoring,
telepathic communication (79).
5. (U) In 1953. Doctor Vssilevclaimed to have conducted successful
long-distanco tclcpathic a orthents botwren Leningrad and Sevastopol,
a distance of fno miles, with the aid of an ultra-short-w ova
(UIUF) radio transmitter. As a result, Doctor Vasilev was convinced
that his experiments, and those he conducted jointly with the
2toscov-based 9ckhtcrev Brain Institute offered scientific too 11 o talctat c common c:at ons. His next goal was to identify
the nature of brain energy that produces it (59).
Theorizing on the above experiments, one Soviet scientist suggested
that telepathic impulses are radiated along the lines of bits of
information in a cybernetic system. Nether scesstkaown
to be working on the idea of tine as energy. speculating telepathic transmissions may be propagate through a supposed
time-energy system, rather than through the electromagnetic field.
6. (U) Soviet research into biocouuurications phenomena does not
appear to bu earth-bound and limited to inner apace, but apparently
extends to outer space as wall. The so-called Father of Soviet
Rocketry, Y.E. Tsiolkovsky, stated thatt
"In the coninsS era of space flights, telepathic
abilities are necessary. While the space rocket
asst bring men toward knowledge of the grand
secrets in the universe, the study of psychic
phenomena can lead us toward knowledge of the
mysteries of the human mind. It?is precisely
the solution of this secret which promises the
greatest achievements." (80).
there are reports that the Soviets are training their cosmonauts
in telepathy to back-up their electronic equipment while in outer
space. One of these back-up schemes is known to involve.coded
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[act that the Soviet Union tykes the appearance
(U) It is a kncnm
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of 1utainous bodies very scriouly as cvkkmmjclt appears Kirlia[he
photography of the htur..in body's aura (91). out of nowhere
Soviets may 1c conr:iJeriog that a hand which appears 41 another
of an old friend.
and can grasp. "with the firm Pr(!-;!;`
person may have first-rate military lrossiitilit.ics. There has
been some dizeusoion recently out t e pruJP4histication being where to
control, the apport technique to a point of op
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iudividu:,ls CUUld lu..trul ihu54 "1LL,t,af+uU3 ci(UJS.~? Th V.c.Ua
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who have studied these effects (real or otherwise) have sure.
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equipment o: cvmunication nets.
If one reads the cases and expcriuents mentioned here
6. (U)
as well as references two throu~l, nine under PMT LI of the noo-cited
bibliography, he can make certain deductions. If any of this
then highly qucStionable material is true it can be C~t~t
o rthis tcan
rganic a::t ter canbe tra:tnforined into ectoplasm,"
ble and thus converted into
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be rendered invisible and impa
something which, for all practical purpotiC5, amo~u~ts to force.
hint
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converted, coo trave rou ~.
(1) that parapsychological
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7. (U) Two things are certa
phenomena are due to the little-known faculties of the subconscious
mind; and (2) that the powers of the subcutiscinus mind are vastly
superior to those of the normal consciousness. The fantastic
memory of the subconscious mind (sometimes referred to as
"photographic ?n2roty") is a well-established fact. So is its
extraordinary mathematical ability, which has baffled Grained
mathematicians no end. It seem-. probable that sov.c of these
little-undcrrtood facultieo of the subconscious mind have sounc-
ain an object
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thing to do with its ability to put tor,et
which it had previously disintegrated, and to manipulate the
The only way one can learn
ess
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forces involved in this proc
Booze about theoc Little-v,idcrstocd rocesscs is throe h intensive
[ y an cxpariaentat1on. T e stakes seem high caough.
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l'hile the process by which ratter is converted
into
8. (U)
v
"force-matter (and vice ersa) may not be understood, neverthe-
less, one is -iced with the possibility that the human mind can
disintegrate and reintegrate organic matter - a feat which seems
far more comp cX-tt~Sn-tfic s n cEra ion and reintegration of,
Say, a stone, a piece of wood, paper, ctc. Experiments show
that ah=anbody which has lost about half its weight can be
reintegrated without loss of nodal. functions. Since this is
possible, ca s n cca sa a t -exclude - without further
investig=ticn - the Yac~ib.iit that lnoreut~l': .-r `i'i~flt uldergo
a similar dislntecracion and reintegration. After all, apport
phenomena in which physical objects have passed through solid
va is ave been obscr- cd and attested to by some of the world's
most eminent scientists as well as by a host of other responsi-
ble witnesses. In ve of what the hu-aan rind has demonstrated
it can do with n:gamic ratter, and in view of the very real Soviet
threat in this sector, the science of parapsychology should be
investigated to its fullest potential, perhaps to the benefit
of national defense.
9. (U) According to Pullman (92), Director of the Southeast
Hypnosis Research Center in Dallas, Texas, before the end of the
1970s, Soviet diplomats will be able to sit in their foreign
embassies and use ESP (in this case a for= of the. apport technique)
to steal the secrets of their enemies. (See also reference 91,
p. Pullman states that a spy would be hypnotized, then
his-invisible "spirit" would be ordered to leave his body, travel
across barriers a spare and time to a foretl,'n government's
security facility, and there read top-secret documents and relay
back their information. Such "astral projection" already has
been accomplished in laboratory sett ngs, u lawn said, adding
that the Russians are probably now trying to perfect it. Pullman
further states that the Soviets Pre at least 25 years ahead of
the US in pcychic research. According to Pullman, the Soviets
have realized the immense military advantage of the psytic ability
kncr n as astral projection (out-of-the-b'cc;y travel). In this
reference, details are given for some of Pullman's work in the
US with astral projection. Other scientists and nedi.ris interested
in this work are professor II.A. Cahn of Northern Arizona University (92),
Doctor Charles Tart of the University of Southern California (91,92),
an Doctor V. Tnyushin of .Una-ata (91). Sybil Leek, noted a%trologer
and author, states, "there is great danger that within the next ten
years the Soviets will be able to steal our top secrets by using
out-of-the-body ;;pies." Further reading, although each older,
can be found in a hook by Muldoon and Carrington (93). Suggested
background reed;ng bn astral projection can be found jr. an excellent
article by J. Fraser Nicol in Psychic (94).
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a. Know the conti?nts of top secret ?US docwwncnts. the movcc nts
of our t uos and slits and the location and nature of our military
Installations.
b. Hold the thou.hts of key US military and civilian leaders,
at a distance.
c. Cause the instant death of.any US official, at a distance.
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d. Disable, at a distcnc_, US militari cquipieut of all types
including space craft.
3. (U) It is generally conceded that the above four areas
sound like science fictien,'however. the liter-tture appears to
support (b) as belr.r the most possible use of pni phcnorana
during the time Era:-:c of this study. Again iron Ostrander and
Schroeder who ci:c Oliver Caldwell, an expert on Sovict :affairs
and past-acting corr. issioner for International Education in HEW,
as follows:
"I urn amazed at the skepticism and sometimes hostility
which I encounter when I try to tell Americans about
some of the experimentation which is taking place in
the USSR in parao ycholovy and related fields. I find
this strange because there. 13 available documentation
in translation which substantiates most of the things
I saw in the USSR. I am really disturbed, because if
the" United States does not make a serious effort to
move forward on this new frontier, in another ten
years it may be too late."
4. (U) In closing this section on parapsychology a quote from
a..tronaut Edgar D. aitcnell, Jr. is appropriate (131).
"Extrasensory perception iq not a matter of belief.
There is a great deal of strrious scientific work
being done in it, and it has been established over
the last thirty years that it is a matter of proba-
bility, and the probabilities have been established
beyond chance. I chink it is an important work. I
happen to be curious about it, and thus have been pur-
suing it for many years. This happened to be an
opportunity (Apollo 14 lunar mission) to do another
little step - a piece in the scientific puzzle of
what man's all about."
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