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Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-1810S-387-75 September 1975 SECTION III - TELEPATHY (ENERGY TRANSFER) IN MAN PART A - Classical Theories and Experiments (U) Over: the past 25 years, Soviet scientists have reported that abilities such as extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, and telepathy have been demonstrated in the laboratory under rigorously controlled conditions. Many of these claims have been published in the Soviet technical and pop- ular literature. Just how far the Soviets have really gone in their ef- forts to learn about the mechanisms of human telepathy is not known. If the Soviet reports are even partly true, and if mind-to-mind thought trans- ference can be used for such applications as interplanetary communications or the guiding of interplanetary spacecraft, the Soviets have accomplished a scientific breakthrough of tremendous significance. (U) For many years, any attempt to study telepathic phenomena was de~ nounced in the Soviet Union as mysticism and idealism. From 1922 to 1959, however, this attitude gradually changed. Official recognition of para- psychology as a legitimate science was prompted to a considerable extent by the Party's recognition of other disciplines which had previously been rejected as bourgeois idealism (quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, and cybernetics). In 1959 Professor L.L. Vasilev published his "Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche," followed in 1962 by his "Experiments in Mental Suggestion."' These two publications caused some surprise among Western scientists, but the possible military implications were apparently - overlooked in the West. The first attempt to illustrate the possible military and intelligence impact of Goviet research in telepathy and psychokinesis was published in 1972. 5 (U) The publication of Vasilev's first book in 1959 was followed by the appearance of countless studies by other Soviet researchers and numerous articles in the Soviet periodical press. Soviet parapsychology research gained impetus and sophistication, growing from a single laboratory into a coordinated USSR-wide effort; laboratories were also established in Czechoslovakia. Funds for research (reported at 20 million rubles in 1973) are believed to be primarily from military sources. This high level of support advanced Soviet research on human telepathy far beyond that of the West and the USSR became the leader in sponsoring and participating in international parapsychology symposiums. Such international meetings have served Soviet interests by allowing them to benefit from Western research. (U) After 1959 large numbers of Soviet scientists began investigating telepathic communication. In 1965, a bioinformation department was formed 15 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3