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Approved For Release 2000/08 NI CTRA SS PEPE DN 7008200078 (U) e The use of EHBF phenomena in Chinese hospitals was found to be somewhat effective as a tool in medical diagnosis, and in helping the blind to sense their environment, e Several of China's well-known scientists have involved themselves in the increasing activity in psi studies, including H. 8. Tsien, Bei Shi-Zhang, Zhao Zhong~-Yao, Wang Gan-Chang, Wang Da-Heng and Tan Ja=-Zeng. * {U) In the above list, H. S. Tsien, who has been a driving force behind establishing EHBF science, is singled out as an individual who has played a key role in legitimizing the investigation of EHBF in China, Tsien is one of China's most respected scientists in the field of military rocketry, and is thought to have had a major role in developing China's first nuclear bombs, Before emigrating to China from the United States in 1955, he was Goddard Professor of Jet Propulsion at Caltech and Director of the Rocket Section of the U.S. National Defense Scientific Advisory Board. At Caltech he was well known to Richard D, Delaur, now Under- secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, who characterizes Tsien as an "elder statesman” in China's scientific development. D. PRC Representation at Cambridge Conference (U) ‘(U) Each August the Parapsychological Association (PA) holds its annual conference, where about 150 professionals meet over a three-to-four- day period to present papers and exchange research information. In 1982 the PA meeting was cosponsored by the British SPR (Society for Psychical Research) and held at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, as the Centenary Conférence to commemorate the founding of the SPR 100 years ago in 1882, To parapsychologists in the West, the 1882 date in a certain sense marks * (U) Qian Xue Sen in Pinyin transcription. 12 Approved For Release sooo/0bd NGLASSIFIED 1 100320001-8