PSYCHIC WARFARE

by
!NGO SWANN

Given at the
Harold Sherman ESP Conference
St. Louis, MO
4 August 1977
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Tonight, I have been invited to talk on an unusual topic. I'm

afraid it's a topic that strikes a note of apprehension in all of us.
Also, in terms of parapsychology, it is the least attractive of all
possible things in the psychic universes. This is the use of man's
innate psychic aptitudes for purposes of psychic warfare.

How many of you here have seen the cultural breakthrough entitled
"Star Wars"? Do you feel like screaming about it? Then you all know
what psychic warfare is about. Some of you who are familiar with my
interests in psychic beauty, creativity, research, arts, esthetics
might wonder just what it is I'm doing delving into such a topic. The
answer is that in my continuing research on man's psychic nature I've
discovered that there is one human preoccupation--that called warmongering-­
that has not yet been canpletely abolished on planet Earth. Psychic war­
fare is really quite close to the surface in most of us. Have any of you
here ever had a bad thought about someone? Well, that's the beginning of
psychic warfare. Just think of what it would be like if a very powerful
psychic got perturbed, one that wasn't quite in control of his aptitudes
and abilities. In "Star Wars" the psychic psychosphere that is being
dealt with is called "The Force." It's simply that arena of creative
aptitudes psychically that you can plug into, and you can pick up on
each other, and you can have an intuitive feeling of what's going on in
each other. In
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they divide this psychic force in half. The
very interesting caricature of Darth-veda represents the black use of
The Force; Darth-veda has a skulls mask on his face, he's a giant, he
picks people up and he psychically crushes their spines. Then Obe-wan
Kanobi is the white force who runs around teaching people how to defend
themselves in the face of Darth-veda. This essentially is the allegorical
type of things that we're being prepared for on planet Earth. From our
point of view I think "Star Wars" is probably a very prophetic movie.
And for those of you who haven't seen it, I don't wish you here to be
culturally deprived. You must rush right out and go see it.

I've been researching psychic abilities actively in seventeen

research centers since 1971, and before that I spent sane twleve years
studying the literature. I have no doubt at all, based upon my experience

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throughout these nineteen years, that we here on Earth are today already
engaged in forms of psychic warfare. And I shall now begin to tell you
here, tonight, why I think this is so.

Those of us living today can well understand that we have been

priviliged to live in an age that has seen enormous, unbelievable advances
in science. We have thus lived in an age that is characterized by
scientific technology. It has been a marvelous age in many ways. But
it is an age that has outstripped and left far behind discoveries about
man's inner psychic nature, those subtle needs called religion, art,
aesthetics, wonderment, intuition, futurology, and last, but by far
not the least, man's direct psychic potential.

On the other hand, in many aspects, without many of us knowing it,

the age of scientific technology has begun slipping over into one that
will best be called the age of psychic technocracy. And it is beginning
to appear that it will be an age in which the mere cause-effect mechanisms
of material science are going to look like fragile tinker-toys.

I wish to assure everyone here tonight that everything I am going to

say is capable of being backed up by facts, although these facts are
distributed in such a manner here and there that often the relevant
conclusions are not drawn so well.

What I will say may start to sound like a science-fiction novel, but
it is not.

If my imagination has been used at all, it has been used to ferret

out diverse, obscure scientific reports not generally available, and to
recombine the indicators into what I feel is a most probable future
scenario.

I will talk in terms only of the next twenty years, and not of the
next century.

As far as I am concerned, the age of psychic technocracy has already

begun, and I feel that within only a few years this reality will become
apparent to one and all.

Thus, tonight, I will talk on five topics that are all interrelated,
topics that may not even have been dreamt of in 1933, when modern para­
psychology became a reality.

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 First, the age of psychic technocracy will be characterized by a
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general redefinition of the term psychic, into a much broader context
than is in current popular use.

Second, the age of psychic technocracy will most assuredly be

characterized by bizzare forms of psychic warfare.

Third, closely related to this last topic, I am convinced beyond

any doubt that the Soviet Union is far, far in advance of the United
States in psychic research and the applications of psi.

Fourth, on the beneficial side, the future will be enlightened by

fascinating quantum leaps in understanding concerning the magnificent
uses psi aptitudes can be put.

Fifth, there is no doubt that a concept concerning psychic freedom

as an inalienable human right will have to be considered and take its
place alongside the other freedoms we all as citizens of earth are
guaranteed.

Scientists, parapsychologists and philosophers in general hardly

ever take up or speculate upon the humanitarian cultural shifts that
must take place, and are, indeed, beginning to take place in relation
to psi. This reticence to discuss implications leaves the public ill
informed, and thinking that psi is a somewhat harmless parlor game
involving the ouiji board and so forth. This is adamantly not true
any longer. It is characteristic of any emerging science that its
discoveries can and will be put both to negative as well as positive
ends. Men are like that. But we should not shirk from a study of the
negative, since then we shall never learn how to surmount it.

So, tonight, I will touch upon these delicate forbidden topics that
revolve around the implications of psi.

My in-depth experience in psi research has convinced me that someone

should bring these issues to public consciousness, and should frankly
open them for inspection and consideration in the highest forums of
humanitarian consciousness everywhere. I do this on behalf of all
well-meaning and gifted psychic subjects, past, present, and future,
since the realities of psi should not be left aolely in the hands of
depersonalized mechanistic science and scientists in the employ of
political and societal manipulators.

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 Actually, the term PSI is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet,
but this letter and its symbol have begun to be used by scientists
today in several new ways. Those who study personality, mind, and
consciousness are called psychologists. The word PSYCHE (the original
word from which the word psychology came ) meant
" soul, "
and psychology
meant a discourse or treatise on the human soul. Only later in science
was the word limited to the mind or mental aspects of man.

Not all phenomena concerning the mind fit nicely into current
limited concepts of psychology, however, and so there eventually broke
off special groups called parapsychologists who investigated the extra
or unusual properties that could not be attributed to the mind, as
defined and confined by psychology.

These unusual properties include a very wide range of phenomena.

There is telepathy, or mind to mind communication. There is clairvoyance,
or the act of perceiving something invisible to the eye. Another
unusual property of the human psyche is psychokenesis, or mind acting
upon matter. There are also dreams or visions that come true, and
also a very extensive and complex study of coincidences which seem to
have a canmon cause.

The word psychic is used to describe these types of anomalies of

the mind or soul, and also to refer to those people who are able to
demonstrate them in some manner.

The terms parapsychology or psychic has recently begun to shift

towards the shortened PSI. Psychologists and parapsychologists speak
now of psi energies and psi fields.

For many decades, psi seems to have been dominated by psychologists

who have sought to explain the unusual properties of the mind or soul
through behavior. But recently, a new unusual event occurred. Physicists
began to enter the field of psi. This came about because physicists had
made several radical new discoveries in the microscopic world of
particles and energies.

As physicists continued their inspection of the atomic states in

nature, one significant discovery occurred. For many centuries, it was
thought that the atom was a sort of tiny planetary universe of moving,
circulating solid particles. As electron microscopes and other equipment

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were developed, it was seen that at the submicroscopic levels, the atom
was not solid at all, nor composed of particles either. The old model
of the atom gave way to a new concept in which units were described
either as invisible particles or as waves or frequencies of energy, or
often as all three.

These particles or waves could not really be any longer located

and their behavior could not be exactly predicted. Additionally,
sometimes these invisible particles functioned much like holes in space.
And at the submicroscopic level time appeared sometimes to go backward,
and strange effects seemed to be coming from invisible influences, except
that it was not very possible to be too concise about these influences.

The material world thus disappeared, and in quantum physics,

physicists were left studying a universe that, as far as any accurate
statement goes, was not there exactly. This universe cannot be described
in physical terms.

Physicists chose the Greek letter psi as the symbol to designate

these invisible fields of influences, and like parapsychologists, they
too speak of psi effects and psi fields.

Both in parapsychology and in physics, therefore, the older popular

expression ESP, or extrasensory perception, now tends to be included in
the new psi category. And just as psychology developed parapsychology
to study the extraordinary effects of mind and consciousness, so physics
has developed paraphysics to deal with the most unusual invisible
interactions.

The cooperation between these disciplines is creating a new science

that is today caning to be called the science of psi. And the great
scientific debate between the two is whether or not human awareness
participates in these invisible quantum universes.

If it is true that the world of the psychic or the science of psi

is beginning to be broadened overall, this is not occurring without
major upsets in science as a whole. I recall when I was a child, I was
taught that acience had learned all it was ever going to learn by the
end of the 1930's. Later on, I also learned that there had been at
least five separate epochs in human acientific history, where at the

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highest echelons of science it was commonly held that there was nothing
more just to be learned.

One of these epochs was just at the time Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone. Naturally, these examples of scientific conceit
and bombast are eagerly forgotten in the next wave of strange, startling
and marvelous discovery.

In terms of PSI, there has been a lot of resistance to discovery,

mostly because many scientists had already decided that PSI didn't
exist at all. There are many American scientists who hold this opinion
today, and furthermore, take active propaganda steps to cast into ill
repute the work of their colleagues who are doing research in the field
of psi.

I have spent quite a bit of time during the last five years studying
the sociology of parapsychology and the psychic. I have found that all
major figures and discoveries in psychical research have been caused to
suffer attacks of other scientists who usually believed in philosophies
that excluded psychic things.

False accusations, distortions and lies all have reached print

against any significant breakthrough in psychic research. And a good
part of these lies and distortions have reached print in prestigious
scientific journals, since their authors have ready access to their
pages.

Because of this facitious situation I feel that the study of the

sociology of psi will have to be added to the overall commitment of
psi research.

The study of the personalities and psychologies of psychic subjects

is generally part and parcel of psi research. Not too long ago I
proposed that the personalities and psychological profiles of parapsy­
chologists and scientists should also undergo sane kind of a quantifiable
study. As you might imagine, this caused a lot of alarm. I will not
submit that the personalities and psychological profiles of antagonists
to psychic phenanena should also be considered as part of the sociology
of psi, since these antagonists certainly are contributing in the nega­
tive sense of retarding research in the field of psi.

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 To date, the behavior of scientists who destroy, distort, or simply
ignore the very facts that constitute human inquiries has not been
scientifically investigated in depth. Only recently have sociologists
become aware that much of the apparent scientific resistance to psi
phenomena results from ingrained personality factors in the critics
themselves, rather than from genuine scientific critique of the research.
The personalities of critics in this field are now a subject for study
by sociologists at Bath University, England.

It is true that scientists are not the only ones to blame for
attempting to impede discovery in psi. At various times there have been
religious bans against psi, and certainly the press at times has a field
day laughing at parapsychology.

But two things have happened now that indicate that castigation of
psi qualifies as a morbid preoccupation. First, quant\DII physics has
firmly established the existence, or perhaps the pre-existance of a
non-material universe, and can also, hypothetically, establish consciousness
connections to that non-material universe.

Second, we have on hand thousands upon thousands of reliable witnesses

to unexplained phenomena. This has created an almost unbelievable gap
between official scientific beliefs and the perceptions of millions of
people.

These millions of reliable witnesses stand as an unbelievable

monument to the limitations of our scientific understanding. And I am
sure that in this audience tonight there are many, many people who have
had personal contact or perception of psychic events.

In the western world, resistance to psi is so overwhelmingly present

that I feel it should be considered as the first of the three stages of
psychic warfare I will talk about tonight.

In all fairness, each in our own way, we are shaped psychologically

by our culture, our education, and our speciality training. These combine
and lead us to see the world in a certain way. And they also allow us
comfortably to ignore or reject these aspects of reality that don't fit.

This might be all right when it comes to the individual man, who
should be free to choose among alternative life styles and the way he

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wishes to live. But I feel that through scientific discovery, alterna­
tives should constantly be made available to men and women everywhere.
And scientific discovery should include discovery in psychic matters,
and that scientists should not arbitrarily be permitted to reject man's
psi nature.

I have begun to call the amazing resistance to psi as a primary

or a first stage psychic warfare.

Resistance to psi and the possibilities of a non-material universe

that interacts with the material is really an age old battle. It can be
traced back at least to Plato and Aristotle. On the one hand we have
those philosophers who believe only in the existence of and the possi­
bilities of materialism. I use a slang word for these types, calling
them the ROCKS.

On the other hand, there are those who believe in things beyond the
senses. And historically, these have been involved with life after
death, sometimes with reincarnation, and very often with extraordinary
psychic abilities. I call these the SPOO{S.

The battle between the Rocks and the Spooks has been going on for
quite some time.

Normally, the Rocks win out over the Spooks, since it is easier to
pick up a bit of the physical universe, and clobber those who believe
otherwise. There have been many purges throughout history, and expecially
in the middle ages, that revolved around this type of psychic warfare.

When belief systems conflict without the benefits of philosophy or

science, there is no doubt that the banner heretofore has gone to the
strongest in sheer physical force. So it is easy to understand why matter
itself constitutes a confident belief system to many.

But science, at least, should not be entwined with belief systems.

Science is, after all, the discovery of facts, truths, and laws, and
aligning them into broader more accurate pictures of the universe. Human
consciousness and the non-material should not and cannot be excluded from
science, merely because science in the western world was formerly founded
upon rational materialism.

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The indications of this anti-psychic attitude have many common

denominators, many symptoms, as it were. Most of these common denominators
can be grouped under the fact that psi conflicts with an individual's
belief system. Well, belief has not got much to do with science, which
proceeds upon facts.
But since the indications are similar, historically as well as
scientifically, we can call this anti-psychic attitude a syndrome. A
syndrome is any group of signs and symptoms that occur together and
characterize a particular abnormality.

This anti-psychic syndrome can be seen to be psychopathological in

the sociological sense, since it inhibits philisophical thinking about
psi universes, and, in science, it prevents speedy conclusive research into
this most important area for mankind.

All of us, after all, are being denied the benefits of scientific
discovery as concerns the overall capabilities of our mind and soul,
and psychic aptitudes.

And, as such, the anti-psychic syndrome is a primary stage of psychic

warfare. And, I feel research into its symptomologies should be in­
corporated into the overall concept of the science of psi.

I would now like to turn our attention to a second form of psychic

warfare, a form of warfare that is currently going on all around us, but
has never before been identified as psychic.

Today, many forms of external manipulations that are known to change

the interior psychic formation of any man or woman have evolved into fine
forms. The most gross of these techniques was the early forms of
brainwashing, where subtle suggestion was enforced and imbedded along
with vicious and violent physical trauma.

Since that time, however, through perceptual psychology and through

psychological behaviorism, we now have the refined techniques known as
subliminal persuasion, behavior modification and various forms of covert
mind control.

At the scientific level, these discoveries were in themselves

informative. Man can perceive and will respond to subliminal cues with
other levels of awareness than his immediate waking consciousness. Research

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into subliminal effects show that material planted today can be called
forth at some later date to influence behavior--like a mental time bomb.

Man's behavior will respond to reinforcement, whether it be negative

or positive. Positive reinforcement is like a psychic reward system, and
yields the best results. The behaviorist only has to find out what an
individual wants or likes and start giving it to him. This is just like
giving a trout a nice colorful fly once you find out what color fly is on
the water that day.

Now, I know that most people will say that subliminal tricks, behavior
modification, and covert mind control will not work on them. But both
of these psychological and psychic technologies are growing daily.

I am preparing a book on psychic warfare and psychic peace. My

research has led me to understand that forms of mind control behavior
modification are a multimillion dollar a year business. They are used by
factories and offices to increase production. They are used by larger
programs to do research on large population sectors. And they are used by
certain neo-religious leaders to gather unto themselves large devoted
followings of our nation's youth, all without the knowing consent of the
individuals involved.

As to subliminal suggestion, there is no legislation against it,

contrary to popular opinion. Advertisements in magazines and on TV often
contain subliminal imbeds in them.

Thus, we all are being bombarded daily with psychic subliminal content,
urging us to smoke more, drink more, buy this or that soap, and so forth.
And the sociology gossip line has it that at least one university riot was
brought about as a result of a covert research project to find out if
subliminal material could be used to instigate civil riot.

Like the marvels of electricity and fire, it is not understood

basically how these tools of the mind and the psychic work, but only
that they do with fearsome predictability. They are thus a function of
unfamiliar levels of consciousness, and are very probably related to human
psychic nature.

And these technological tools, used on very wide sectors of population,

without their knowing consent, constitute to my way of thinking a form
of psychic warfare, and a very bizzare form at that.

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 I can't help but think that most people would like to know all they
could about this type of psychic machination. It is probably not a
comforting thought to get the idea that officially psi research is being
condemned on the one hand, but in other forms that are not directly related
to parapsychology, psychic research is going on apace, resulting in
technologies that are aimed at our personal psychic freedom.

Now, almost every human activity bas its secret side, and science
does not escape this rule. There are many types of psychic research
that are generally not reported. Research done under grants from
industry might not reach popular release if there is an economic advantage
that can be gained. And, of course, research results in general that do
not fit into a pre-existing framework are likely also to be suppressed
from the public, but built upon in secret by concerned parties. Classified
research in general does not reach the public until many years have
passed.

This brings me to the third form of psychic warfare, which, of

course, is concerned with significant psi aptitudes harnessed and used
for military advantage or aggression.

I think everyone probably knows that there are many meetings these
days behind closed doors. Scientists and military men do meet and
swap scary absurd stories. These stories are enlarged upon by the press
one week, and in a following week there appear contrary articles that
once more try to make psi research a foolish endeavor. All in all, there
is not a very clear picture emerging as a result of this confusion.

The United States, so far as I have been able to ascertain, has no

official government research commitment for psi research. I believe
there have been, however, small unofficial efforts made in this area
since at least 1940. The fact that there is today no major United States
commitment suggests that the results of these small programs were not
very encouraging. Another reason for there being no major commitment
here is the fact that psi phenomena at official levels suffers the stigma
created and maintained by the perpetrators of the anti-psychic syndrome.
To the anti-psychic personality, psi phenomena are a laughing matter, and
no one in our democratic beaucracy wishes to be laughed at.

On the other hand, it is now surmized, based upon substantive

evidence, that the Soviets have mounted a very large, very major commitment

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in psi research. And that therefore, the threat of psi abilities being
used in the balance of power race is real and imminent.

I personally have no doubt that the Soviet Union has gained a great
advantage in psychic research over the United States. This situation is
comparable to the advantage that the Soviets were found to have in space
research a couple of decades ago.

At that time, leading American scientific opinion held that the race
for space was impracticable. Today, leading American scientific opinion
says that psychic phenomena are not only impracticable, but unlikely
and impossible. When the Soviets put their first satellite in space,
the American attitude changed quickly. And, I feel it will shortly
become public knowledge that the Soviets have created the first psychic
weaponry.

It is a somewhat difficult thing to assess Russian research in the

several areas that compose parapsychology. There are at least two
reasons for this. The first is the fact that all official research in
the Soviet Union is supported by the Soviet State, and the Soviet State
is notably secretive about just about everything. The second factor is
that in the Soviet Union, scientists do not view parapsychology as it
is viewed here in the United States.

Here in the United States, parapsychology is viewed officially as a

pseudo-science at best, and is more usually thought to be hogwash by
the mainstream of American science.

In the Soviet Union, however, there have been several news statements
during the past eight years that really constitute position statements
by leading Soviet scientists on psychic phenomena.

The increasing importance of this area in Soviet research was indicated

recently when the Soviet Psychological Association issued an unprecedented
position paper calling on the Soviet Academy of Sciences to step up efforts
in this area. They reccamended that the newly formed Psychological
Institute within the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Psychological
Institute of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences review the area and
consider the creation of a new laboratory within one of the institutes
to study persons with unusual abilities. They also recommended a

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comprehensive evaluation of experiments and theory by the Academy of
Sciences' Institute of Biophysics and Institute for the Problems of
Information Transmission.

This indicates unquestionably that the Soviets take psychic

phenomena seriously. And we have therefore to assume that officially,
and at the State level in the Soviet Union, psychic research is a serious,
widely-funded, and developing science.

The Soviets however do not view psychical phenomena as merely errant

psychological events. Quite the contrary. They view psychic potential
as a rather holistic human phenomenology. That is, to them, the interaction
of psychic events with the material universe is part and parcel of the
whole man, bis body, bis electronic structures, and so forth. It is a
peculiar irony that as a result of their materialistic outlook, and given
that consciousness is an observable fact of the physical universe, they
end up associating consciousness with matter and are therefore quite open
to the idea of matter-consciousness interaction. The East European
countries have coined a new word for their new science of psychic events:
psychotronics.

There are thus three factors that are rather arresting, if one is
interested at all in strategic matters, and in interpretation of clues.

In a lecture like this, of course, it is difficult to give the

enormously long type of briefing that would be desirable to clearly
outline the Soviet effort in psychic research. Therefore, I will only
touch upon what I feel are some of the salient, more suggestive facts
that have presented themselves. Let us start with a clue that establishes
the seriousness of the Soviet effort, and of any presumed effect upon
mankind in general.

There exists a good deal of evidence that Stalin had intended to

take over Europe immediately after World War II, after the alies had
withdrawn. The emergence of a tactical atomic bomb frustrated this
plan, because troops could no longer be massed and deployed before they
could be crushed by a bomb. Stalin then gathered Soviet scientists
together.

Be instructed them that the Soviet Union should never again be

taken by surprise by a technological breakthrough. Soviet scientists

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were thence forth to look into everything, no matter how strange, no
matter how far out, and no matter if the rest of the scientific world
was uninterested.
Since that time, at least a few Soviet scientists have been
inquiring into every field of human endeavor, and, it appears that the
new science of psychotronics has somehow topped out of the pile. It
should be remembered that Stalin was able to demand and receive energetic
obedience rather easily. He was responsible for the Stalin purges, in
which millions of Russians were murdered in concentration camps.

Now, in 1960, Premier Kurshchev made a rather significant statement

when he reported to the Presidium and to the highest leaders of the
Canmunist parties in Moscow. His statement was carried in the New York
Times. He reported upon the status of rockets, nuclear weapons and so
forth. But then be added that the Soviets also had a new weapon, one
that was so powerful that if it was unrestrainedly used, it could wipe
out all life on earth.

At that time, many beads were set to work trying to figure out what
this weapon might be, but to my knowledge, most estimates hinged upon
conventional atomic devices, whose effects were somehow magnified greatly.
It has taken over fifteen years for American strategists to begin to
speculate upon the fact that this mighty weapon might in fact be a
psychotronic weapon.

A few years later, Krushchev bragged publically that Soviet

cosmonauts had used ESP in space. And, in 1967, the Soviet Maritime
News reported, to surprise and disbelief in the United States, that,
and I quote, "Cosmonauts, when in orbit, seem to be able to communicate
telepathically more easily with each other than with people on earth."

This one statement, alone, is revealing and significant. For the

Soviets to have tested ESP in space means that there must have been
extensive long-distance experimentation on the surface of earth. It
also means that officially there must have existed for a long time a
rather large program for this type of research.

And, of course, mounting a space-to-earth telepathy experimentation

program would certainly have been costly, considering all the personnel
and technology that would be involved. Also, it would be perfectly clear

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at this point that the Soviet effort in telepathy had become a military
effort, since almost all technological research is monitored, designed,
and approved by the gigantic Soviet military apparatus.

I would like to give a more strategic example of the scope of

Soviet research. In 1969, a leading Soviet scientist actually came to
the United States and gave a paper at a ■ymposium at the University of
California at Los Angeles. His paper was about an informational theory
concerning telepathy.

This man was and is considered one of the Soviet Union's leading
researchers in the field of parapsychology and psychotronics. After
his appearance in the United States, he returned to the Soviet Union,
and dropped canpletely out of sight. Scientists who had corresponded
with him, no longer were able to do so.

In fact, it is my personal knowledge that a great deal of effort

has been made to estimate his whereabouts and his activities in the
Soviet Union. However, as far as I was able to find out, the security
around him in the Soviet Union was very good, and there was no indication
of where he was or what he was working upon.

We were all surprised, therefore, to discover that he had reappeared

suddenly and briefly after five years vanishment. A report of an interview
with him was printed in the Soviet newspaper Lenin's Banner, dated
28 April 1974.

In this interview he talks easily about parapsychology, although he

refers to it as bioinformation, and defines it as means of perception and
reception of information that are not explainable by the action of those
sense organs known to us. He goes on further to indicate that it would
be premature to say that his group had discovered the essence of the
phenomena, but he states that, and I quote: "The work of our section
has been the discovery of a new type of communication."

He then described that his section uses not only traditional methods
of thought suggestion at a distance, and the description of objects in
opaque containers, but that they also try to vary their research
methodologies, studying bioinformation at different distances, and
global experiments on telepathic transmissions of emotions.

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 He then gives what, to me at any rate, establishes the minimwn scope
of the Soviet effort. He indicates that psi abilities are like art.
Any man can draw, he says, but few can become an artist. Everyone, he
says, has the capabilities of bioinformation, or psi aptitudes. He then
indicates that their experiments have given them a rather dependable
statistic as to how the superior abilities are spread throughout the
general population. I quote: "On the average, out of 100 1 000 to 200 1 000
persons, those who clearly show paranormal capabilities are only one or
two."

This is an amazing statistic, for several reasons. First, no

Western researcher could make such a statement, since there has not been
anywhere near the testing of people that would be necessary to develop it.

A conservative estimate of the amount of people tested for psi

abilities to average out on this one or two in every 100-200 thousand
would be in the range of at least two million to five million tested.
A guess as to where they got personnel in these amounts suggests they
draw upon their military personnel, or the Soviet State school and
university systems.

This statistic, even if it errored significantly in either direction,

is revealing, for it again established the minimum scope of the Soviet
effort in psi research, and this minimum is itself vast.

The published work of the Soviet scientists shows that they have
been able to hypnotize people at a distance by telepathy, and presumably
to control that individual's mind or responses to some degree.

In the recent ten years, the Soviets have published various reports
indicating a very large interest in combining machinery with psi
aptitudes; that is, somehow reinforcing or enlarging the psi result
through radio, radar, or microwave frequencies.

We also know that the Soviets have been extraordinarily interested

in the electronic biofields, around the human body, and have researched
means for diagnosing human ailments through monitoring these fields.
Brain waves are only a part of these fields.

It is only reasonable to assume that complementary research has

taken place on how to use and influence the human through bis biofields,
both through electromagnetic and telepathic means.

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 This type of effort brings into existence the possibilities that
go along with radiating life energies. The frequencies associated with
brainwaves and psi manifestations are of reported and prime interest.
And it is very reasonable to assume that the Soviets have developed
methods of stimulating the brain itself, and that they can tune into
the minds of individuals at a distance, or perhaps telepathically
induce subconscious images that are incorporated eventually into the
thinking and decision-making apparatus of the individual targeted. That
man's subconscious levels can be influenced at all is supported by no
less than American psychological behaviorism, whose psi-related technologies
have become a multi-million dollar business. The Soviets have taken this
type of research to its next logical step.

So that you all here tonight will not think I have drifted off into
the vague fields of science fiction, various news reports that suggest
this type of activity have been circulating for quite some time.

A few years ago, the noted columnist Jack Anderson reported that
important United States personnel had apparently been irradiated by some
type of clandestine Soviet devices. And only last year, in February,
The New York Times and other papers reported on the fact that some type
of microwave devices had been used to radiate no less than the entire
United States Embassy personnel in Moscow.

Now the most significant developments in psychotronic or psi weaponry

would hinge around reinforced psi states either to enhance the gifted
person's abilities at telepathy of mind control, or to influence
involuntarily those individuals targeted. It is thus possible to think
in terms of an entire series of radiation weapons. The first, but
certainly not the least, would be something that could effect people's
emotions, that could generate in people the various emotions such as fear,
hate, or violent rage. Such induction by subaudio techniques for crowd
control have been reported.

Others might zero in on the body's specific mechanisms, inducing

■leep, comas, epileptic seizures, heart stoppages. In relation to this
it is now public knowledge that the wonderful, famous Nina Kulagina,
Russia's most top psychic in the last few years, is able to stop the
hearts of frogs. Disease generators are within the possibilities, but
the most significant generator would be what might be called, simply, the
death radiator.

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 This might, in fact, be very simple to do. All one needs is the
equipment and knowledge to jam or disrupt the electron flows within a
biological body and it would just simply kill instantly any living
thing in its path. This may be done with electromagnetic waves alone,
or in association with a psychic aptitude akin to the phenomena we witness
in healing where the healer somehow changes the sick person's electron
flows to beneficial ends.

There are several reports circulating since I wrote this speech that
indicate the Russians have also solicited famous Shamans from Tibet and
the Siberian steps who, concentrating together, can crack a man's skull.
Thus, Darth-veda is alive and well in the Soviet Union.

And this type of possibility is not unreal or improbable. The vast

amounts of papers published in the Soviet Union just simply verify that
the Soviets are accelerating their research into the relationships between
electromagnetic frequencies and the human or living psychotronic universes.

It should be considered, therefore, that for all apparent estimates,

the Soviets may be approaching the weapon Kurshchev bragged about many
years ago, and that weapon, used unrestrainedly, as he said, could wipe
out all life on earth.

A short summary of the Soviet effort, therefore, involves advanced

research in telepathy, hypnosis induced by telepathy, even over long
distances, reading the minds or emotions of targeted people over vast
distances.

It involves a satellite-to-earth telepathy and clairvoyance project,

and it involves a variety of mechanical and biological mechanisms, all
intended to interfere either in the physiology or the physical mechanisms
of targeted populations.

If you put all this together with the fact that the Soviets have at
least 700 satellites aloft, it is unbelievable that sane of those
satellites do not carry at least experimental, if not operational,
psychotronic and parapsychological weapon devices in them.

It is, of course, regretable that these three forms of psychic

warfare will be part of the coming years. Unfortunately, there are those
in society who will always take significant scientific discovery and turn
it to negative, anti-social purposes.

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 On the other hand, this is no reason at all that science should not
proceed in discovery. Man's overall condition is enlightened thereby, and
I feel that a great deal of good can come out of scientific research into
man's hitherto unsuspected psychic nature. We must only be alerted
to negative trends, because these can be corrected in the long run.

I fully believe that psi research holds great promise, and that the
beneficial uses of psychic potential far outweigh the possible negative
effects of psychic warfare, although admittedly the latter do seem
particularly horrifying.

Psychic potential must, in some manner, achieve equal footing in

humanitarian culture as a whole, where it can come under the many
beneficient laws and methods used to guarantee other innate constituents
of hlDllanity.

After all, here in the United States at least, as well as through

the United Nations, we are guaranteed freedom from physical slavery,
freedom of speech, of movement and of opinion. Why should it not be
established that our personal psychic nature is not likewise deserving of
protection through accepted international legislation.

Last year at the United Nations the Prime Minister of Grenada,

Mr. Eric Gairy, made an interesting and significant proposal in the
General Assembly.

He indicated that it is not the place we are born, the family, the
religion or the color of our skin that makes man truly great. It is
rather the sublime inner qualities that are found in the deepest and
innermost recesses of man's consciousness.

Prime Minister Gairy pointed out that bountiful human talents go

to waste because of man's ignorance of his essoteric and inner self.

He proposed that the United Nations should seriously give thought

to and initiate the establishment of an appropriate department or an
agency devoted to psychic research, 80 that men everywhere would no longer
be afraid to unlock the inner doors to himself.

In some ways this proposal fell on deaf ears, but in other ways it
has begun a ripple that is not going to die out. Too many people are

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interested in psychic research today. But it appears to be needing of
safeguards, like everything else.

Therefore I have taken steps to form a group of concerned people

to establish a Committee on Psychic Freedom as an Inalienable Human Right.

Why should we not establish at this time that our minds, our inner
nature, our psychic potentials are as inalienable a right as our other
valuable native possessions. And that this right should be free from
pollution, contamination and control from outside influences as all
other rights.

This new Committee has already drafted a petition to the Commission

on Human Rights at the United Nations for a formal interpretative opinion
that psychic freedom is an inalienable human right.

I think many here tonight might like to hear the operative part of
this petition. It reads that the freedom to explore, research, educate
on and actively disseminate findings and opinion on human psychic nature
is an inalienable right, protected by the Universal Declaration on
Human Rights.

This right consists specifically of

• The freedom to hypothesize about and research human psychic

nature
• The freedom to present and publish findings and opinion on
human psychic nature in scholarly journals and popular
media across any front�ers
• The freedom to openly educate professional and public
audiences about human psychic nature
• Freedom from arbitrary attacks upon the privacy and reputation
of persons exploring, researching or educating on human psychic
nature
• Freedom from the covert use of subliminal, behavior modification
and related techniques which manipulate human psychic nature
• Freedom from the use of psychic warfare and espionage techniques
by the governments of member and non-member states of the
United Nations, and by private parties.

In addition to working for the human rights aspect, this Committee

will undertake humanitarian interpretations of man's psychic nature, as
regards society, philosophy and science in general. It will probably
publish a bulletin eventually, and possibly a journal, and will begin

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to call in to account and point out violations against man's psychic
nature everywhere.

I wish to state categorically on behalf of myself as one of para­

psychology's guinea pigs, and on behalf of all well meaning psychics
everywhere, I consider my obligation in this matter as irrevocable. And
that I, and those that join in this purpose, will use every tool necessary
to establish psychic freedom and abolish man's fear of unlocking the
deepest and innermost recesses of man's consciousness.

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 1 February 1977

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N.Y. Magazine/New West= Scandal

Village Voice= Scandal
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L.A. Times= Scandnl
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N.Y. Times= Political/science
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Durmit McGuire
Rolling Stone/Playboy
John Wilhelm=+
Special warfare
Psychic morality
Ladies Home Journal

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Policy concerning press and looking at militnry sites. Need
to deflect attention of press.

Deny Nike Missle site: Ingo questions "Is it a Nike site?" Answer could be
that no, it wasn't a Nike site. Topogr�phy was similar, but was a group
of vacation cabins.

"Laugh off" psychic warfare questions from press •.

Ask reporters to send articles in writing for comments--no comments over

phone.

Problems with possible clients.

N.Y. Times Journalists

L.A. Times
Stucky
Village Voice
David Black
National Star
Alan Smith
Psychic Magazine
Psychic Times Paul Bannister
Martin Gardner
Psychic News
Readers Digest Randi
John Willhelm
I,adies Horne Journal Individuals
London Express Sarfatte
New West Honorton
Psychology Today Pratt
Human Nature Morris

Para Journals
ASPR J.
Para. J.
Para. Review

Articles Published/to be Published

NY Magazine
National Enquirer
Ladies Home Journal
Reader's Digest

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Change Duetsch's policy--will talk if threatened.

Possible solutions:

1. Admit to being fakes

2. Admit to psychic warfare via book by I. Swann: "Possibilities of

Psychic Worfare"--stcal thunder from press. Help get attention
away from Ingo, personnaly.
Could be through media (interview/David Susskind), to establish
that Ingo is against psychic warfare.

2. Press release

•• Not under SRI

b. Not tactical potential but emphasize Russian involvement
c. Get Govenunent to admit to Russian ESP threat as part of
new US policy with Russia (not mentioning SRI).

Find out as much about caller as possible to keep track of responses

(not referred to Duetsch): who, number, work for, what call is about.

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