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UNITED STATES Ae MENT | © 4 - “Memoranium YY (pS tre TO : De J. Parsons } (PATE: June 16, 1960 copy _ l ~- Farsons ~ “4 ig —— COR igriap - Belnont Telé. Room ___. FROM : A, Be Bermons ets Pye ie 7 = Branigan Gandy re host os kw Laboratory- - res; 7 SUBJECT: SPY ING BY MIND-READING!™ " \ CE Soe rae, ¢ JUNE 14, 1960. ry gt % Wiscaieankous - espronage-=!k/-2 <7 Uy SAm . Ceyt ea siseuy, Peiteg her) Thie memorandum ts in response to the Director's inquiry concerning a newspaper column relating to the use of mental telepathy by the Army Intelligence Service. ema mee The "New York Journal American" on 6~14~60 carried a column by Ruth Montgomery “Spying by Mind-Reading!" in which she stated the Army Intelligence Service was conducting research experiments in mental telepathy. She speculated that the ultimate achievement would be to develop a method whereby U. S. spies could “receive” thoughts of plotters itn the Kremlin. The Director asked, "Is there anything to this?" aa _ Lieutenant Colonel Lee Martin, Chief of Investigations, tel Lssist Staff for Intelligence, U. S. Army, advised liaison agent that the Army ts conducting no such project as | aesers é rticle. He did state that the U S. Air Force had a contract In 1958 and 1959 with the Bureau of Social Stience Research, Washington, D. C. which did research in the many phases of mental problems raised by the Korean War, with particular emphasis on bratn- washing. This research did incidentally include mental telepathy or extra sensory perception; however, the results were in onclusive. Ait : 7 & C) Our Laboratory experts advised that informed sctentific -. opinion at the present time is that there ts no basis in science jor the validity of extra sensory perception as described in this article. It ig true, of course, there are some areas and activities of the human mind which have not been explored or completely understood. In recent years serious scientific study has been undertaken by psychologists for the purpose of explaining these little-understood functions of the mind. wy teeta dee be TT I 1957 one William Foos, Richmond, Virginia, claimed that — he could teach blind persons to see through the use of extra sensory ms at Hf + + ‘abewd tdi side j perception. He claimed he could teach people to read a paper which was = ba-jppeciecs. eet 9 YOR G- G - ce +, -99 AA ee Ti Li ee = JUL 14 196 Teh LL F- GO : hes G