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Ue Nr .telligence agents are ‘ conducting ‘nating ‘phase of extra : sensory perception. ‘ expert guidance within ‘the department, but ‘many. of the officers _ nated by the possibili- _ties that they have “OTF on oa atu vl , the 2\ ...., auc untouca- Spying b ASHINGTON: The Army Intell!- gence Service is beginning to delve into an unknown reach of the ‘mind which — should it eventually prove successful— could. make spying the least hazardous branch of defense. - A number of top in- 7 ; research ° experiments in men- tal telepathy, a fasci- The project receives. have become so fasci- MONTGOMERY formed groups, outside of office hours, to try reading each other’s minds. Some of the experiments to date have proved enormously successful, with the average of correct responses far surpassing that which could be achieved by hit-and-miss guessing. The Intelligence Service hopes to . develop enough “sensitive” agents, and to perfect their technique to such an extent that they could actually pick up thought waves emanating from the Cold War “‘enemy” camp. . a to develop a method whereby American spies could actually “receive” the thoughts of Soviet plotters meeting in» the inner reaches of the Kremlin. The 20th Century has witnessed such fantastic advances in other realms of -gceience that this project may not. be as wild as it seems at first glance. How many in the 19th Century be- Meved that man could fly, not only above the clouds, but at a speed ex- ceeding that of sound? =’ + BT. ret gk MEPL ES TIREA é es eo sh iecd Steet, Ms ee eo VEEL wd bu [Tea se8! BY BAM G vet seat Sor. ind-Readi By RUTH MONTGOMERY 302... vue al by “w o ay Who at the turn ef the century | ‘thought that by turning a dial in bis’ | as i , living room, he could hear a sym- .- phony concert in New York, or 8 news commentator speaking from Tokyo? Only 20 years ago, would you have ; believed it possible to sprawl on your. own couch, while watching a ball game. in St. Louis, or a political convention: in Los Angeles? For that matter, did. you think man could send a monkey into orbit around the earth or moon? This age is surely the most fasci--° nating that the world has ever known, -put perhaps the most neglected phase’ of science is the probing of the sub-. conscious mind, and the possibilities “4 of thought transmission. Military intelligence for some time © has been delving into the possible utili- gation of hypnosis in spying. — This correspondent reported several years ago that intelligence agents were being sent on delicate missions; then brought back and queried in the normal man-. . ner about what they had observed. ~~ . Afterwards, they were hypnotized, and while in trance were again ques- tioned about the layout of the room they had been assigned to visit. Under this condition they were able to sup- ply every detail, even down to the number of slats in the venetian blinds. The ultimate achievement would be - The drive to develop, other tech niques for espionage has been height- _ened, since the U-2 incident. OF: ' Think what a joke it would be-on Nikita if, as a result of his tantrums, America was spurred to develop a new . and fool-proof technique for espionage. It would be pleasant to think that -U. 8. spies seated comfortably in Wash- . - ington could pick up the dastardly plots that Communist big-wigs were hatch- ing behind locked doors in the Kremlin. At least we can dream, can’t we? wa mae ae AR de Uf . 4) 026 - Y