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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA. RDP96 -00789R001001420001 -3 SBME Sop eek pt etd pas ge PE Ce & Cpe Akg AREF SNA EC pe ME caught off guard by its possible reality. And the few who were not surprised (mainly Intelligence backgrounds) new something about it but had no idea if we were still actively pursuing psi applications. NO FOCAL POINT The establishment has apparently gone underground and is using titles other than psi, ESP or parapsychology to... contract out research. Targ feels “Reliable, undistorted _. scientific information about psychic functioning must be made more easily available and indentifiable" (41: 139). McRae suggest it is fear of ridicule that makes DOD so sensitive to this subject. “Any CIA report mentioning psi is automatically classified top secret or higher.” He also suggest that parapsychologist not spend a significant portion of their effort on military-related research. The failures of psychic warfare projects in military laboratories, the record shows, have often been among the most irresponsible experiments ever reported: The seances with dead Soviet agents, the multispectral image analyzer that supposedly detects submarines with a photo, the hyperspatial nuclear howitzer, and the antimissile time warp over the North pole, to reyiew only a few (41: 133). His book Mind Wars, gives an excellent introduction to the broad range of government projects attempted, and what’s ridiculous to one may not seem so ridiculous to another. In response I would suggest he is burning the wheat (those examples used in this paper) with the chaff. Opponents of psi research use the failures to justify Jahn the fail 1 ApprovabPar R&Bise 200 i0dI0F “BIR RDBSS-00789R001001420001-3 AA