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Approved For Release 2000/04/44: R) OSTFIE 0400320001-8 UNCTA >) (U) Technical evaluation of efforts such as those presented at the Institute of High Energy Physics is, of course, difficult on the basis of a short laboratory visit and the exchange of a few publications, On one side of the ledger the individuals carrying out the experiments were physicists, well respected in their own fields, and using standard tech- niques and procedures familiar to them. Such factors, coupled with the degree of official sanction that exists, tend to lend de facto credibility to their claims. On the other side of the ledger, however, details as to countermeasures against the possibility of fraud, methodological procedures used, and the statistical treatment of the data are notably lacking in the brief publications to date, a weakness noted in general in the response of Western scientists to published reports on EHBF work by the Chinese.!* Definitive conclusions as to the technical quality of the work must there- fore await further development of information exchange, om Shanghai Meeting with Editorial Staff of 'Nature' ('Ziran Zazhi') (WU) (U) Later in the trip the group of Western parapsychologists met at length over a two-day period with the staff and Editor-in-Chief, Mr. He Chongyin, of Nature (Ziran Zazhi), and from them obtained an overview of the experimentation, results, conferences and publication of the Chinese efforts. It was clear from these discussions that the Nature group played a seminal role in bringing together researchers in the Shanghai and Chongqing conferences of 1980 and 1981, and in providing space in their journal for the publication of results. (U) In addition to discussion, an hour of filmed EHBF research was shown, The film, made by Shanghai Science and Education Studio for tele- vision distribution within the PRC, showed a wide-ranging series of investigations, including mass screening of schoolchildren with regard to the capacity to "skin read," standard telepathy/clairvoyance tests over room-to-room distances, apparently successful "dowsing" to locate buried 10 Approved For Release 2000/04u NGLASSURLEA 100320001-8