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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 LN734-85 cancelled. Since this woman can move objects by will power, then it is possible that other people have this ability. Subjects can be found where there are not any such restrictions and restraints, and research work can be carried out here. Actually, recently there has been a flurry of cases of people who claim to have PK. The most reported is a young Israeli named Yuri. Even though papers have published many reports exposing Yuri as a fake, they have been unable to bend metal under his conditions. In 1973, at the annual conference of parapsychologists, H. Puthoff and R. Targ of thestanford research center, showed that using a scales they determoned that Yuri's PK force on the scales was 1 to 1.5 grams. These two researchers also reported that Yuri created a magnetic field, ‘which could be measured with a magnetometer. They conducted this experiment several times. At the 1974 conference, E. Cox reported what so far has been closest to the real thing. Gox conducted an experiment with Yuri using two keys. One key was a key to a safe, so hard it could not be bent by hand. Cox placed it on the glass table top. He kept his finger on the large end of the key throughout the experiment so the key could not be switched. Yuri gently stroked the key with his finger. Cox watched it slowly bend up 12 degrees. The second time he used a common soft metal two inch pass key. Under the same conditions as the first experiment, Yuri bent the key 36 degrees. An experiment was also successful in causing a broken watch to run again. ; If Yuri really has the abilities that Cox believes he has, then they are so much greater thatn those weak powers verified in a lab that even parapsychologists are shocked. We have to go and find out what this psychic research is all about. At the 1973 conference, Puthoff and Targ also reported that they aslo conducted experiments with ?swang?. In these experiments, ?swang? was able to create a magnetic field just like Yuri, and it was measured with a magnometer. Of course, with each new subject with these kinds of abilities, everyone imagines that there must be even more people with psychic abilities, because a definite number of qualified subject is the main prerequisite for advancement of this research. 5. The Effect of PK on Lower Life: The first section of this chapter already discussed the french schoolteacher Vasse, her clever ideas and enthusiasm curiosity. In the 1950's she also conducted some new experiments to see if man's will power could affect the growth of lower life. She placed barley seeds in two different trays, and placed them on the window sill. In the experiment she attempted to use will power to make one tray of seeds sprout faster than the other. After several days, there was a clear difference between the two. In two trays she had given to her husband as a control group, however, there was no discernable - difference. She sent pictures of the results of this experiment to J. B. Lion. This aroused the interest of J. B. Lion. However, although the difference in the pictures were believed to be the result of the will power of Vasse, it -~83- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8