PENTAGON, CIA COOPERATING ON PSYCHIC SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970097-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: May 3, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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In past columns, I have reported
that the Pentagon is engaged in
"Twilight Zone" research, using psy-
chics to spy on the Soviet Union:
Now I've learned that the Pentagon
is spending 81 million a year on,the
project and is sharing results with
the CIA.
Weird ~ though psychic espionage
may ~aeem, top-secret reports from
the CIA and Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA} claim remarkable suc-
cesses'for their long-distance mind-
readers. Psychics have "seen" things
deep inside the Soviet Union that .
they couldn't possibly have known
about. And their .psychic sightings
were .later confirmed .by sPY : ~~--
lites or by agents....,: '
The Pentagon ~ project, .called
"Grill Flame," is being conducted by
SRI, a research institute, in Menlo
Park, Calif. One source insisted that
the project, which was begun before
1978, was officially killed in 1982.
But sources told my associate
Dale Van Atta that its apparent dis-
appearance was a bookkeeping mat-
ter. The funding, which rose from
S200.000 to Sl million a .year, .was -
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transferred from DIA's budget to the
Pentagon's general budget.
One of Grill Flame's proiect lead-
ers is a respected physicist, Harold
Puthoff. And the project's top psy-
chic, Ingo Swann, is a New York art-
ist with an impressive record of suc-
cessful "remote viewing." ~ . ,
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researchers in 1973, when he used ties," which details and demystifies ,
his unexplained psychic power Ito ~ und~asaified SRI experiments.
throw a heavily shielded Stanford . On a visiLto Moscow, the authors
University magnetometer off'`track.._ learned that the Soviets had dupli-
The researchers are convinced that -sated U.S. remote-viewing successes. I
Swarm's feat could not have been- "It.was_ clear," Tang said, "that psy-
trickery. - ..: :~ ~. '-= --' chic research has been taken serious- .i
It was also Swann who suggested~_' ly at~tlie highest level of 'the Soviet-
the first CIA=DIA psychic project -' scientific community-" .
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ts used .their powera,
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tling success, to "view" installafions
ati secret -locations, using 'geograph-
ical coordinates Yet Swannhas been
reluctant to promote "remote~view-
ing" as a spy technique because it
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-often produces `-bad .information "constrained by a significant decce-
along with good. ' ?~? ~.- --::.-. ~~ ~ment in fiscal guidance." That is,
Rep. Charlie Rose (D=N.C.), a Ben- .they're cutting the budget.
Bible proponent of the: Pentagon's ~ It continues: "Even though the
psychic research Program, is con- So~~iet military threat continues ; to .
eared that the intelligence commu- increase and future U.S. readiness
nity is pushing for quick results be- requirements seem unlikely to di-
fore scientific research is completed.: . minish, we will face continued fiscal
Sharing this opinion .: is Russell constraints." The answer?
Targ, a former partner in ~ the;_ "It is imperative, therefore, to gain
Scanate and ~ Grill Flame projects.. 'maximum force multipliers, such as
Tang reportedly quit the.:pmjects in innovative strategy, tactics and the
1982,- party because the CIA and contributions - of other services and
DIA wanted --to skip the long-term .allies to naval missions .. , "
research and go for immediate ar?'.
plication. ~ . _ _..
Tang also feel that Americus are
entitled to know, as far as possible,.
what their taxes have been paying
for. He has joined Keith Harary, a
Psychologist and psychic,. in writing I
a book
"The Mind R
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get-cutters are second only to the
'.Soviet fleet on the U.S. Navy's list- of
enemies. This was clear in a .recent
secret directive from the. chief of na-
val operations. Development of the "~
Navy's budget
it sa
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