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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 * 1N734-85 In 1962, K. Osis of Parapsychology labs first reported experiments with clear cut results. He selsected six cats, mostly from five to eight weeks old. He petted them and became friendly with them. The experiment was of the double blind type. A worker who did not know what the experiment was all about placed food dishes every so far on both sides of a hallway. Normally, the cats would eat from one side first, then turn around and eat from the other side. Then they would continue up the hallway to the next dish. They seldom changed this procedure. The experiment attempted to have the cats eat from the food dish as willed by the unseen experimentor. The target dish was positioned according to a random number chart. Thé experiment produced three Significant results. First, after the cats had formed the habit of going to a specific dish, later ESP signals had little effect. That is to say, in two experiments, the success rate of the first experiment was greater than that in the second experiment. Secondly, in the same experiment, the success rate was higher in the first half of the experiment than it was in the second half of the same experiment. This indicates that there was a decrease in ESP ability during the course of the experiment, just as happens among some humans. Third, during the same day, the cats did better in the morning than in the afternoon. The entire experiment eliminated any possibility of prompting. Osis believes that his esperiment signified an ESP between himself and the cats. But he did not attempt to judge what part the man (through PK) or the cats (through ESP) played. In France, an experiment was conducted using white mice to test whether animals could tell the future. A professor called Duval and his student Montredor designed an automatic recording device which could speedily carry out repeated experiments when no one was around. In animal experiments there is one question which is repeatedly asked: Is the ESP ability generated by the animals themselves, or is it caused by the experimentors? To show that the psychic phenomenon was a result of the animals themselves, and eliminating any human role, this automatic recrding device took a giant step. The object of the experiment was to determine if the white mice could predict danger and avoid the discomfort of a Slight electrical shock. A low fence was used to divide a small cage into two part. Each half was wrapped with a separate conducting wire. A binary random number generator controlled the path of the current. The number of discharges was random. However, the total number of discharges were the same for each half of the cage. If the mice could predict the danger, before each discharge they would climb over the fence to the safe side. A photocell tracker recorded the number of mice on each side of the. cage for each discharge. The results of the experiment were slightly better than chance, but were not statistically significant. The actions of the nice seemed to be mechanical. When they received a shock, they would immediately run to the other side of the cage. Since ESP itself is not a strong entity, it may be hopeless to expect a mouse to be receptive to a weak ESP signal while it is recovering from an electrical shock. Furthermore, the experimentors discovered - that the mice would sometimes act not in a purely mechanical manner. Sometimes they would stay on the same side after receiving a shock, as if it were getting ready fot something unusual. Four white mice were used in 612 experiments. Successes outnumbered failures by about ten to ~87- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8