Introduction
At the height of the Cold War, a new twist to weapons development
occurred. The Soviet Union systematized its investigations in to
how
to harness the paranormal and use it for military purposes. What in
other times was seen as magic or witchcraft - laying a curse,
predicting the future, having second sight - had already gained
scientific respectability in the USSR with the recognition of
clairvoyance and the acceptance of psychic phenomena; research into
telepathy had started in the Soviet Union in the twenties and
thirties. However it was stopped by Stalin, who thought it smacked
of idealism and superstition.
Now the Russians plunged into a large-scale research programme.
Billions of roubles were poured into the investigation and
development of psychic energy (psi) and electronic mind-control
technology. To convince hard-nosed military men that psychic
phenomena can win wars may, on the face of it, appear to be a
forlorn task. In fact, it happened the other way around as some of
the leading minds in the Russian military convinced their leaders to
spend fortunes on this effort.
Science fiction writers have not come close to the reality of the
actual research undertaken since then. The aim was no less than to
produce psychic agents, capable of visualizing top-secret sites and
installations located thousands of miles away, reading the minds of
their country’s enemies, intervening and altering thought processes,
and even killing through psychic attack.
The first step was the development of remote viewing. People
displaying psychic sensitivity were sought out all over the USSR and
trained under the strictest secrecy as spies with a difference. They
were required to focus on, say, a particular top-secret facility in
the US or China perhaps, and conjure up a detailed picture of it,
its location and personnel, in their mind’s eye, which they would
then describe to their spy masters. Remote viewing then is a kind of
psychic spying.
The Americans realized that something unusual was going on.
‘Between
1969 and 1971, American intelligence sources began discovering and
confirming that the Soviet Union was deeply engaged in so-called
“psychic research”. By 1970, it was discovered that the Soviets were
spending approximately 60 million roubles per year on it, and over
300 million by 1975,' according to
Ingo Swann, the godfather of US
remote viewing.
In the early seventies, he was commissioned by the
CIA to develop a remote-viewing programme for the US military, to be
operated from Fort Meade in Maryland.
Others in the United States also became aware of the possibilities -
and dangers. In 1980,
Colonel John Alexander wrote an article in
Military Review, a respected Army journal, entitled ‘The New Mental
Battlefield’. The article described remote viewing and suggested
that effective mind-influencing devices were already a ‘lethal’
reality. The US Army’s partly classified ‘Fire Support Mission Area
Analysis’ of 1981 talked about,
‘cryptomental technologies’ and ‘the
relatively unexplored, unexploited human technologies in such areas
as influence, communications, thinking, learning, and stress
reduction. Discussions in this area represent an excursion into a
largely unknown realm which appears to possess significant military
application.’
Progress from that time has been rapid with the development of
sophisticated techniques and technology, until today, as this book
will show, psychotronic, i.e. mind-control, weapons are the most
top-secret class of weapons used not only by the Russians and
Americans, but increasingly by the Chinese, Japanese, British,
Czechs and Israelis.
It may be hard to believe that the Soviet Union and the United
States could actually explore the paranormal in search of new
military technology for decades in almost absolute secrecy, but the
power and mastery to be attained by controlling the minds and wills
of their perceived enemies was the spur. As long ago as 1975, when
Leonid Brezhnev urged the US to agree to ban research into and
development of new kinds of weapons ‘more terrible’ than anything
the world has known (reported in the New York Times, June 1977), he
was warning America that the USSR had the knowledge to end the Cold
War by psychic means.
The first popular reports of this research appeared in:
Apart from the books, a few stories have filtered out into the
public domain. For instance, the Associated Wire Press ran a story
on 28 November 1995 under the headline ‘US used “psychic” spies’:
For 20 years, the United States has
secretly used psychics in attempts to hunt down Libyan leader
Muammar Quaddafi, find plutonium in North Korea and help drug
enforcement agencies, the CIA and others confirmed Tuesday.
The London Daily Express
published an article on 25 September 1997 under the headline ‘Reds
planned psycho-wars’:
The KGB and the Red Army carried out
experiments aimed at using hypnotic warfare against the West, it
emerged yesterday. Revelations include a prototype satellite
releasing electronic mind-bending signals to ‘control and
correct the behaviour of the population’ over an area the size
of England. Research into psycho-warfare was conducted in more
than twenty institutes led by the Siberian scientific community
of Novosibirsk, and only stopped in 1991. However fears were
voiced yesterday that the technology could fall into the hands
of the powerful Russian Mafia. The research was disclosed by the
Izvestia newspaper under the headline ‘They Could Produce
Zombies in the USSR’. It is clear large-scale experiments were
carried out on ordinary Russians and soldiers.
However, under the US Freedom of
Information Act, previously unpublished files from the US Department
of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have now become available,
which detail Soviet research in this area and add weight to the
assertions made in the books, as well as giving credibility to the
other stories. The documents given in Appendices 1 and 2 together
provide the definitive work on Soviet psychical research up until
1975. They show the importance accorded the Soviet Union’s advances
in psychic spying and mind-control techniques by the United States
authorities, and the countermeasures taken and parallel progress
made.
I found all this hard to swallow when I first learnt of it but my
research into the scientific basis of the biophysical technology
convinced me that the Russians had entered into new territories.
They had begun the inner-space arms race, which they developed to
undreamed of levels of power. After nuclear warfare, biophysical
warfare is the second great cross-roads for human civilization.
Inner-space weapon systems had, and have, the potential to kill, or
even to drive mad entire populations by means of biophysical and
electronic technology unknown to the West in the 1970s.
Whether or not you believe in remote viewing and the psychotronic
weapons described in this book, by the end of the first part you
will know that the US and Soviet military authorities believed in
them.
During my research, I have become aware of how useful remote viewing
can be in gaining information on topics that have proved impossible
to analyze by any other method. Having developed basic
do-it-yourself guides for beginners, I found that with these simple
methods accuracy could be a problem. The new methodology outlined in
the second part of this book will help people who want to practice
controlled remote viewing as espoused by the Americans, as well as
teaching a Russian-like version of extended remote viewing.
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