SECURITY REVIEW OF 'MIND WARS'

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R001200030003-4
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 9, 1984
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
SUBJECT: Security Review of "MIND WARS" (U)
09 May 1984
1. (U) Reference; MIND WARS; The True Story of Secret
Government Research into the Military Potential of Psychic
Weapons; by Ron McRae; St. Martin's Press, New York; 1984.
2. (S/CL-1/NOFORN) There are twenty three (23) specific
references to Remote Viewing, its use, or accuracy made in
statements by; Barbara Honegger, Hal Puthof, Russel Targ, LTC
John Alexander, Congressman Rose, Ingo Swann, G. Gordon Liddy,
and two additional but unnamed individuals purportedly working
in the area of psychoenergetics with the CIA (See attached
Inclosure).
3. (S/CL-1/NOFORN) In reviewing the book the following
statements can be determined as having a high reliability for
truth:
a. Remote Viewing (RV) is real, it is accurate, is
replicable, is being pursued by at least the CIA, Navy, Army and
Pentagon in general. That it is being pursued for intelligence
and military applications.
b. The government's interest in RV is clearly
"applications" oriented.
c. Stanford Research Institute International (SRI-I) is the
key institute involved with the government in RV research and
Development. The specific individual is Dr. Hal Puthoff.
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d. The head of the Pentagon's psychic task force is the
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI), then named; MG
Thompson.
e. Department of Defense used psychics to look for MG
Dozier.
f. The National Security Council and White House are
briefed on all developments in on-going psychic research in both
the Jimmy Carter and Regan terms of presidential office.
g. PSI had a direct affect on the government decisions with
respect towards the MX Missile system vulnerability and its
deployment.
h. There was a Project named SCANATE, run by SRI-I, funded
by the CIA and co-participated in with the National Security
Agency (NSA).
i. SRI-I's key funding support has come from the CIA, NASA,
ARPA and Military.
j. Key psychics involved in the past ten years of research
(both scientific and operational) at SRI-I are Ingo Swann and
Pat Price (now deceased).
k. RV is being tested currently at NSA to break codes.
1. All PSI research (even the word) is always classified
and only passed over encrypted or secure channels.
M. The severe lack of information throughout the entire
system available to the general public, to include even
unclassified documents, indicates information on governmental
research into RV or PSI is being deliberately hidden (and
therefore inferred as not only valid, but of unbelievable
potential).
4. (S/CL-2/NOFORN) The above in combination with information
provided in the numerous Jack Anderson columns (which Ron McRae
is know to be a staff writer for), as well as the book "MIND
RACE" by Russel Targ (who is referenced in this book); is
sufficient to provide a clear trail for any offensive action by
HOIS which is targeted towards:
a. Establishing the current state-of-the-art in RV and
general psychoenergetics.
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b. Determining who the main players are.
c. Determining approximate investment in dollars by the
U.S. government in research and development.
d. Determining the specific agencies of the government who
are dealing in direct applications.
e. Spotting those individuals who are available for
targeting and could provide far more extensive information
pertinent to the above EEI.
f. And, if a watch is put on those known persons, it would
be only a matter of time until the exact location and identity
of units, agencies, and/or projects utilizing RV in modes of
applications are identified and/or exposed.
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Forward: Pg xiii, top line; "Remote Viewing" are established
in this paragraph as the most
accurate/replicable studies done
to date.
Forward: Pg xiii, first para Of three ways described to
accept PSI functioning;
Practical application is
determined to be the only method
which is acceptable within the
government.
Preface: Pg xix, first para Stanford Research Institute is
specifically stated as
performing investigations in PSI
for the U.S. Government.
Intro: Pg xxvii, third para The head of the psychic task
force is named as; Army
Assistant Chief of Staff for
Intelligence, Major General
Thompson.
Text: Pg 5, third para $87K contract between SRI and
the Naval Electronic Systems
Command in 1976, tied directly
to researchers Harold Puthoff
and Russell Targ.
Text: Pg 16, second para The Defense Department used
psychics in an attempt to find
General Dozier.
Text: Pg 17, first para Quote from Barbara Honegger
(White House Staffer) the Reagan
administration is aware of the
latest achievements in
parapsychology "at the highest
levels of the Office of Science
and Technology Policy, the
Office of Policy Development,
and the National Security
Council."
Text, Pg 17, second/third para Barbara Honegger -
Parapsychology played a major
role in one of the
administration's most
controversial defense decisions;
abandoning the Carter
administration's MX missile
proposal.
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Text, Pg 48, first paragraph. Congressman Rose - quoted as
having attended classified
demonstrations of remote viewing
arranged by the CIA. Says;
"I've seen some incredible
examples of remote viewing- so
much so that I think we ought to
pay close attention to
developments in this field and
especially to what the Soviets
are doing." "Some of the
Intelligence people I've talked
to know that remote viewing
works, although they still block
further research on it, since
they claim it's not yet as
accurate as satellite
photography.
text, pg 55, second para One of the psychics tested at
Stanford Research Institute,
Ingo Swann, claimed that
publicizing the research might
result in his assassination.
Statement made in reference to
jamming computers psychiclly.
text, pg 62, second para In 1967 Samuel Koslov, assistant
secretary of the navy for
research and development,
learned the navy had a contract
with Stanford Research Institute
to study ELF and mind control.
text, pg 64, first para G. Gordon Liddy - "and there is
a unit devoted to it in the
Pentagon." reference psychic
research for intelligence
purposes.
text, pg's 92 & 93 Refer to Project SCANATE, test
done by Hal Puthoff and Russel
Targ in support of the CIA.
References Hal Puthoff as
ex-employee of NSA. Locates SRI
in Menlo Park California, and as
doing private research for the
government.
text, pg 95, last paragraph According to Puthoff and Targ,
when beginning their SCANATE
project they were visited by an
interested individual from the
CIA.
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text, pg 97, first paragraph -most of the agencies were
military, and SRI eventually got
funding from both the navy and
the CIA, NASA, the space agency
and ARPA (Pentagon's Advanced
Research Projects Agency)
text, pg's 98 through 103 Numerous accurate statements
concerning the results of CIA
testing of remote viewing
capability involving Ingo Swann,
and others under the auspicies
of Hal Puthoff and Russel Targ
at SRI.
text, pg 104, fifth para SCANATES top psychic performers
are listed as Ingo Swann and Pat
Price, while supporting CIA
research.
text, pg 105, second para Navy signed contracts with SRI
in psychic research for
$50,703. (Final report
submitted in 1978)
text, pg 105, last para Navy signed another contract
with SRI in psychic research for
$26,000. (1976)
text, pg 106, last para Targ - Stated the bottom line of
it is the government has
supported SRI's psychic research
for a decade and continues to do
so.
text, pg 112, last para Barbara Honegger - The National
Security Agency is testing
remote viewing on NSA's primary
job, breaking codes.
text, pg 133, last para Barbara Honegger - The very word
parapsychology is classified and
can be used only over secure
(encrypted) phone lines. Any
CIA report mentioning psi is
automatically classified top
secret or higher.
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text, pg 134, last two para's Author search of computer
listings at Pentagon (DTIC)
Defense Technical Information
Center, using key words;
dowsing, extrasensory
perception, hyperspace, map
dowsing, parapsychology,
psychoelectronics,
psychokinetics, psychotronics,
telekinesis, and telepathy,
resulted in No mention of SRI or
SRI contracts and none of the
intelligence reports on Soviet
research (even unclassified),
the SCANATE report was not
listed.
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