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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 are taught dowsing at Tomsk Polytechnical Institute. Similarly, the U.S. National Dowsing Association teaches classes at annual conferences to anyone who is interested. After using many untrained individuals in remote- viewing experiments, Targ concludes, “The best scientific research suggests that the capacity for developing genuine psychic abilities lies latent in many, or perhaps most, people” (41:4). _ In 1984, the U.S. Army s4nitiated a two-year study to. evaluate the potential of certain unconventional methods to enhance human performance. That study recently concluded, Sleep learning, mental imaging and accelerated learning programs are among the unconventional techniques which may improve soldier performance... [however], the committee rejected parapsychological techniques such as extrasensory perception and psychokinesis AS scientifically unsupportable (19:75). Note this study rejects psi because it is not scientifically supportable. But does it work? During Vietnam the Marine Corps trained a platoon of dowsers to locate hidden tunnels and weapons caches in I Corps near Hue. They were withdrawn after five months "because the successful use of dowsing appeared to require ‘special skills that cannot be taught to the average marine “" (33:15). The commander of the Training and Development Command did not discredit dowsing, but merely pointed out it is a special skill his marines hadnt mastered. Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 22