PSI ON CAPITOL HILL

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• Publication Date: July 1, 1979
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PSI ~1 CAPITOL HIf1
Ely V`Ji!Ija'n }C. Stucky
t cs rct c:ear arhathar Charlie Rose
seeks thy ever-growing Mind-Over-
Far-Out (Moto) vote- Governor Jerry
Qrq?,vn of California certainly does-as
what Rasa would do with it if he got it. The
Mofo vote is rot very conspicuous in the
bdewa:ar district of North Carolina that
Rose rrprasents a5 a Democratic
congressman. But Charlie (that's what hs
puts on his letterhead) certainly has the
pulpit azd connections, possibly the
power, and definitely the inclinaticut to
produce a Mtofo spectacular.
What Reprasentativ? Rose wou-d like to
do is cult a congressional Rearing soon to
confirm publicly that the C!A and the
Pentagcn Rave successfully demonstrated
that certain psi powers are real and can be
used for intelligence purposes, and the
Savigt Union is probably ahead of the
United States.
Rosa is kha chairman of the evaluation
subcommittee of the Houss Permanent
Committee cxi Intelligence and, as such, is
a principal watchdog of spook affairs. 1n
that capacity, he has recently witnessed
several classified demonstrations at
"remote viewing" by Stanford Research
institute (SAt) and intelligence per"
sannel-"in which iha experiments{
sub;ects "vietived" persons and places
thousands at kilometers away in certain
'?interesting" countriQS.
all E can say is thaCif the results were
faked, our security system doesn't work,"
Rose tall ma cryptically "What these
persons 'saw' was confirmed by aerial
photography. TRere's no way it could have
been faked,"
As for the Soviet Union's undertakings in
this arza, Rose disclosed, "I've been told
by the CIA that the Russians era very
inter95ted in psychic phenomena snd that
their vrhole effort is underground. They
have a national screening program to
detect mathematical, artistic, or psychic
a5ilities in schoolchildren. The CIA, on the
other hand, spends next to noshing in Phis
area, except to find out what the Russians
are doing.'
The ~r,itnesses Rosa would Gait include
CIA ofticiats vrho, Rose said, "know this
remote-vie,,ving stuff works but who hav~3
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been blocked by publicity-shy superiors.
Anothor key witness might be Dr Robert
,Jahn, dean of engineering and applied
science at Princeton University, who
with graduate student Carol Curry is
developing an instrument to detect
smelt-scat? psychokinetic effects---not of
the theatrics! Geller spoon-banding type,
but a more modest effert to determine
whether a subject might "vrill" a grain of
sand to move.
Diehard Ulofoers will also recognize khe
names of other potential witnesses, such
as Edgar MitcheN, the astronaut who
conducted an ESP experiment {with
apparently ambiguous results) between'
the moon's surface and Earth; Dr, Harold
Puthoff and Russell Targ, two Stanford
Research Institute psychic researchers
whose reports, claiming that literally every
parson they have tested can perform
remote viewing, have been published in
Nature and the fEEE Proceedings; and Llr,
Willis Harman, an SRI futures researcher,
t1
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widely sought of ter by major corporations
and foundations, who is so convinced of
the reality of psychic phenomena that he
"wouldn't walk across the street to :viness
a levitation:"
Congressman Rose, like Marmara and
the other potential witnesses, in other
words, has seen and believes.
"Some of the intelligence people t've
talked to knr~H that remote viewing works,
although they stilt block lurther research
on it, since they claim it's not yet as
accurate as sat?16ts photography," Rase
asserted. "But it seems to ma chat it would
be a hell of a cheap radar system. And ft
' the Russians have it and w~a don't, we era
in serious trouble. This country wasn't
afraid to look into the strange physics
behind lasers and semicanductars, and
f don't think it should be afraid to took
at this."
When I firsk met him, Charlie was
concerned that some of the acad?mic
debunkers of the psychic-whose
principal spokesman is Martin Gardner, of
Scientific Amerrcan-might stifle
objective, High Science research in this
tietcefy debated ar?a, That he might even
"investigate" the debunkers adds another
dimension to the hearings Rosa proposes.
Charlie might of so find hlmse4f in a
locked-horn mode with somas of the keen-
estthinkers of the day: Dr. John Wheeler,
for exempts, a renowned physicist, wRq
wrote the first paper cn nuetear lissitsn with
Niels Bohr and who associated witR?'
Einstein for more than 2Q years, recently
suggested the expulsion of
parapsychatogy groups from the
respected umbrella organization, the
American Association Eor the
AdvancemenR of Scienoe.
''But Wheeler and Gardner are not close
to His Leadership and Democratic
Highness Boston's own Thomas "Trp"
O'NeiH, and Charlie Rose is. Rose fife
some, but far Prom alt, of the stereotypes
that Naw York parochiats would attach to
Southern rongr?rssmen. It is true that he is
a Southern Presbyterian, and a "religious
onto"; that ha lcrres his chairmanships of
various agriCUiturahsubCOmmitteea On
poultry, dairy products, and tobacco
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arol?ssrar7al, but a Chapel Hi;i, North There are two more Chsr!ie Roses thaP yet another convert to Alvin Tattler, thy;
C~zro!rna, lawyer and fo?mar county prose;- don`t fit country stereoty'pzs 0na ~s the respected futurist-author of Future Shack
c::!or. You see that trap jaw and hear the Rose who is the (-louse's acknor:i~dged Tctf!er~convinced Rosa that Con:~ress ?:das
aoc~nt t~tnd you think of these relaxed rural expert on aompu!ers. according .,o Gary playing ~Ktussran roulette ?.yith the future by
U =~. 5 +?:na might s?y, "Na.v Jake. we knew Hymel, the speaker's right-hand r^.3n. And igno~rng it in most of its le:~~SiatiGn. He in?
yo?,; krr~d your wife. Sa don't go lyin' about Rose is founder of Capito: Hi~~ s r'^GSi Mofo troduced Rose to that gra?r,rng thinkdank
:: Just yet your story together v:hile f go get activity. [he Congressional Crean~,gnouse industry of Pu!urology. ~:ahiuh according to
y~uacupofcaffee.? an the Future-"the science-fiction ~::ing onelcfseveralconflitting)d?ufinipons.uses
The other Charlie Rose, hoa:ever, is a of Congress," according to a sc~ance~ori- available information and mixes in hunches
p~oteye of Terry Sanford. the former south- anted congressman. and personal theories to pred~ct what is
emly liberal governor of North Carolina, The Mofa aspect of the clearinghouse is going to happen in crucial and vital areas.
ex-university president. and aonce- detected in the pages of i!s fascinating In 1974 Congress passed an internal act
hopeful entrant into Democratic presides- , monthly newsletter, "What's -N?xt?" There requiring its committees to conduct
fiat primary etections~--which attracted "all I one finds the news and views Af the L?5 periodic futures research, and by 1976
the bright young Southern liberals like , space colony people, the anarchistic ap- Rose and Cheatham were sending the
Charlie Rase," and not one veteran Capitol i propriate technology of trondrous Karl House a stream of bath close-in and
cbserver. Elected to Congress in 1972, Hess, the soft-energy boys, the worker- farthest-out futurists to prophesy what lay
Rase made a key early commitment to , owned-corporation boosters, the cosmic- in stare for alt of us.
support C7'Neiil far Hous? majority leader. cansciausness kids, and the Committee for Today the clearinghouse functions as a
Tip. now speaker of the House, considers the Elimination of Death. Under its imagin- "caucus," not an official congressional
Charlie one of his key Southern lieutenants, alive director, Ann Cheatham, the Clearing- committee, but rather an informal Hilt-
onewho daesn'tmind doing the necessary house also holds its monthly "Chautauqua based activity financed by contributions
but dirty and no-publicity-value jobs that Congress"-think-and-talk sessions with from interested members of Congress and
keep Congress functioning. The House In- both "futures," and more conventional, ex- other supporters. Many Senate luminaries
tplligence Committee chaired by another p?rts, who produce recommended legisla- are firmly behihd the project.
of Tip's buddies, Massachusetts Repre- lion with a longer-than-usual~?term twist. Thaughitcan'tyetclaimrnanyiegislative
sentative Edward ~toland) is one super job, (For the remainder of the year Chautauqua victories, Rose's clearinghouse-in can-
since most of its hearings are closed to the wilt deaf with future hausin 'soft" a pro-
life-giving (to congressmen) press and g; ~ P junction with Rose's hearings on psychic
priate technology vs. "hard" conventional intelligence gathering-wilt na doubt lead
technology; the scientific nature of life, in- to some of the oddest debates, mast
eluding genetic manipulation; the future astounding iegislatian, and weirdest wit-
social culture; and even "cosmic eon- susses in cangressionaf histcry. California
sciousness.") has set up shop on Capitol Hilt.Oo
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