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Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300410002-8 Parapsychology in the Soviet Union 1981 (May) A second conference on parapsychology organized by the Chinese Human Body Science Association was held in Chongqing. This led to publication of a series of papers in Ziran Zazhi. 1981 (October) The State Science Commission set up a special group to study exceptional human body function. 1981 (October) Organized by Dr. Stanley Krippner of Saybrook Institute, a group of American and Canadian scientists, physicians, and educators visited the People’s Republic of China and attended 5 formal technical meetings. 1981 In order to accommodate the many papers submitted to Nature Journal, a monthly newletter, the EFHB Bulletin, was initiated by Nature Jounal. 1981 China Encyclopedia Almanac uses the term "extraordinary functions of the human body."* 1981 (October 30) Summary statement issued by the Committee for the Study of Exceptional Human Functions who had visited the PRC earlier in the month. 1982 (February 24) Chinese Academy of Sciences sponsored a public hearing ‘in Beijing attended by 4,000 scholars, in which the cases reported were analyzed and most of them considered to be unfounded. They called for "fair but strictly controlled" tests to lead to a final judgment. This disapproval of psi research was widely published in the two most important government—authorized media, Xinghua News Agency and the People’s Daily. 1982 (February 28) People’s Daily presented the view that no solid evidence for the paranormal had been put forth. 1982 (April) A joint trial was arranged by the Party’s Na— tional Committee of Science at Beijing Teacher’s College. Proponents of both sides attended. The results were mostly negative, with the exception of those of G'Z& (Zhang Baosheng). * The entire article has been translated into English and is printed in Section IIC. Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R00030041 0002-8