CIA Reading Room cia-rdp96-00791r000200230024-6: TIME INC ARTICLE, FROM DATA BASE SEARCH. 'EXPLORING PSYCHIC WEAPONS'

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App7~~r~~~or ~te~ease22~~~%08/10 :CIA-RDP96-007918000200230024-6 Copyright 1984 Time Inc. All Rights Reserved Time January 23~ ~98~?~U.S. Edition SECTION: NATION; Pg. 17 LENGTH: 692 wards HEADLINE: An E.S.P. Gap; Exploring psychic weapons BODY: ... Zodiac," psychic and palm reader. By looking at top-secret photographs and charts, the clairvoyant attempted to predict the movements of Soviet submarines off the East Coast. Madame Zodiac's payment: $ 400 cash. Ronald McRae, a former investigative reporter ... .., published this spring. It is one of several forthcoming works, written by both skeptics and believers, on the military's forays into parapsychology, the quasi-science that studies the interaction of mind and matter. According to McRae, who is skeptical of psychic claims, the Department of Denfense has spent $ ... The Pentagon denies any interest in parapsychology. A Denfense Department spokesman said last week that officials had scrutinized the budgets for fiscal years 1983 and 1984 "and ... . financed psychic research to study the "shell game" basing mode for the MX missile, a system that would attempt to confuse Soviet military strategists by shifting missiles among a number of concrete shelters. Other esoteric programs uncovered by ... . CIA or both funded his psychic research programs, but he maintains that there was a "multimillion-dollar" project, part of which focused on '?remate viewing" experiments. In one test, Targ went to Grant's Tomb in New York City and tried to transmit an ... . view, which she said "makes me think of a restaurant or museum." Her vision, Targ argues, was remarkably accurate. On a visit to the U.S.S.R. in October, Targ found that the Soviets had replicated some of the experiments he and his colleagues had reported in scientific journals.Says Targ: "In the Soviet Union, psychic research is taken seriously at the highest levels." Sighting submarines by clairvoyance? Sending signals with E.S.P." Representative ... ~~ . a look. Some people think this is the work os the devil," says he. "Others think it may be the holy spirit. If the Soviets, as is evident, feel it is worthwhile, I am willing to spend a few bucks." Approved For Release 2000/08/10 :CIA-RDP96-007918000200230024-6