TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS: FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY WEAPONS AND SYSTEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): NSA-RDP96X00790R000100020016-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 19, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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CIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Trends in Soviet Fsychology
Introduction
(S) The Soviet Uni)n is conducting creditable and
sophisticated resESrch in the behavioral sciences and
has been doing'so for the past 10 to 1.5 years. The main
areas of emphasis are in the fields of psychopharmacolog
psychobiology, parapsychology and human factors. During
this period there ias been a significant shift towards a
multidisciplined EDproach in their research efforts. Th=
most obvious examrles are their investic;ations of the
synergistic effects of multiple drugs, drugs combined
with physical stir.ili (such as ultrasonic and electro-
magnetic fields), and team efforts in parapsychology by
engineers, psycho:igists, and medical in.-vestigators.
Telepathic commun)-ation and psychokinesis have potential
in highly sensitiNe and political areas. A great deal of
effort is also be:ng expended tD borrow Western ideas an3
expertise in this field. In psychopharrracology their
research into the biochemistry of memory and emotional
behavior in human subjects may produce significant break-
throughs.
(S) The Soviets mi jor goal in the Overall area of be-
havioral research is to make significant breakthroughs i+
the fields of psychopharmacologi, and parapsychology.
Another area of significance is refining and enhancing
the .fief;: of humai factors. They have since recognized
the problem of polr equipment design in both critical
military and industrial man-machine interfaces. Politic-
ally the Soviets lave little experience in dealing with
noncapti-re populations. Their hierarchy traditionally
has dictated poli(y, but this approach is not effective
in motivating ind.viduals or groups. To resolve this
sledgehammer approach, the newly found "social psycho-
logists" are very busy incorporating Western ideas in
the remotivation rid control of alienated subgroups.
(S) In the milita y sphere their most significant goals
are to (1) improve their man-machine interfaces, (2)
find quick and easy ways to demoralize, influence or
debilitate the entmy, and (3) find more effective method:
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t) mold, influence and control the vast mi'iterry forces
F. )litically at their disposal. A coro3larN effor ::, a'.
e much smaller scale, is the develcpv'en t of more
s)phisticated means of surgically, cheirica3 ly, or
p ;ychophys ical ly ccn tro i i iriq behavior iii a nondeb i li tat-
iig or overtly detectable manner.
D _scussion
(J) In the USSR, psychology is defined as the study of
mintal "psychic" activity viewed as a finction of the
brain determined by the conditions of 1 ife, reflectinu
o?)jective reality, and regulating the i :tera::tion
between man and- his environment. It in,orp?rates the
dialectical materialist concept of the znity of the
p';ysical and the mental and the insepar ihi] ity of the
m nd from the physiological processes of the brain, and
t',.e vital role of the mind. Man's cons -ioL-sness is
r. -garded as the product of a prolonged ii sto.r. ical develop-
m?.nt in which a decisive rcle was playeri by -nan's work
a:.d by verbal communication.
(") The results of psychological resear-:h are considered
t have a theoretical and a practical s gni.F .cancc . The
s -ientifie kncwlerJie cf the mind con=ti .ute an irlportant
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