In 2012, the second, revised and expanded, edition of Dmitry Sokolov's book "The Mystic and Philosophy of Special Services" will be published in Russia. The author uses autobiographical materials of the heads of a number of domestic and foreign services of foreign and domestic intelligence. At one time, these people headed highly classified units that were engaged in the research and practical application of parapsychological abilities. On the pages of our publication, we present excerpts from the chapter of Dmitry Sokolov's book devoted to foreign experts who waged a "cold psi-war" against the USSR.
Everyone can do it
American scientists began serious parapsychological research in the late 1940s. Their results were so impressive that since the early 1950s there has been a real parapsychological boom. It was catalysed by one of the “fathers” of scientific parapsychology, Joseph Banks Rhine, who noted: “We were surprised to find that psi abilities are much more common than people think. It is even possible that they are inherent in all people."
CIA Science Programs
The first scientific program, the results of which were intended for use in the work of the American intelligence services, was launched in 1945 and had the rather strange name "Operation Paper Clip". The main task facing the scientists within the framework of this program is the development of methods for controlling the human psyche. The research was based not so much on the own developments of American scientists, as on the materials they received as trophies during the fall of the Third Reich.
Following the first program, a series of scientific studies began: "Chatterbox" in 1947, "Blue Bird" in 1950, "Artichoke" in 1951. Their results gave such a powerful result that in 1953, by order of CIA Director Allen Dulles, the most ambitious project was launched - MK-Ultra, headed by Sydney Gottlieb, Doctor of Chemical Sciences. The central task of the project was to find a means, popularly called "truth serum", with which it would be possible to identify foreign spies, primarily Soviet ones.
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MK-Ultra project
How was the CIA going to achieve the desired result? To subordinate the will of people, the researchers were going to use various psychotropic substances. The scientific curator was Sidney Gottlieb, the head of a group of chemists from the technical department of the CIA. In search of the right composition, chemists experimented with various drugs: hallucinogenic mushrooms, mescaline, amphetamines and marijuana. The tragicomic nature of the situation was that the experiments were carried out on American citizens. As follows from the report of the Senatorial Commission, 44 colleges and universities, 15 research institutes, 12 hospitals, and three prisons participated in the MK-Ultra project. At the same time, about $ 25 million was allocated for the entire project - an astronomical amount for those times.
Free speech against the CIA
However, freedom of speech, so beloved by American society, played a cruel joke with the CIA. In late 1974, New York Times newspapermen got wind of the 1960s CIA research on American citizens and erupted into an angry publication. The reaction to the article was a congressional investigation by the Church Committee and the Rockefeller Commission. As a result, on their persistent recommendation, US President Gerald Ford issued an executive order in 1976 prohibiting the secret services from drug experiments with people without their knowledge. Subsequently, Carter and Reagan made additions to the order, thus forbidding any experiments on humans.
Grill Flame Project
One of the psychic officers who worked for the US intelligence services became known today as clairvoyant agent 001 Joseph McMoneagle, a former senior warrant officer of US intelligence. Having retired, he, one of the few, was not afraid to tell the truth about his unusual activities while serving in the army.
The Grill Flame project existed from 1977 to 1987. The main goal of the project, which was founded by the US Department of Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, was to use the abilities of clairvoyants for intelligence purposes.
I can clearly see the Abrams
Soon, Joseph received his first combat mission. At the end of 1978 he was summoned to the management and placed in front of him a photograph of the hangar taken from a great height. Military and civilian aircraft were visible around the hangar. Joseph was asked to determine what was inside the hangar. With his inner vision, McMonigle saw and depicted on paper the tank XM "Abram", of which there were only three copies in the world at that time, which was quite true!
Over the years of the project's existence, dozens of different objects have been discovered in the United States and beyond: fallen and not found aircraft, the places of stay of people of interest to the American special services, secret buildings and equipment.
Star Gates
Talking about the practical experience of using military psychics in the United States, one cannot fail to mention the nuclear physicist, director of the Stargate program, Dr. Edwin C. May. After his resignation, he told the public about what research actually took place in the program he headed.
One day, a team of specialists led by Edwin C. May was asked, with the help of psychics, participants in the experiment, to evaluate the feasibility of the Carter administration's (and later Reagan's) proposal to deploy a new MX missile system. The peculiarity of the proposal was that the military had to create more launchers for launching missiles than there were missiles themselves. The authors of the project suggested constantly moving missiles from one launcher to another.
It was planned to create from 20 to 29 shelters for each of the MX-class missiles. According to the project, there were five such structures - in each of the 40 valleys in the deserts of Utah and Nevada. The diameter of the ring for moving missiles was about 65 kilometers, and the introduction of the first stage was supposed to be completed by 1986. The uniqueness of the proposal consisted in the fact that after its introduction, the USSR would not be able to find out in which silos the missiles are at a given time, and would not have the opportunity to suppress their basing sites with its missiles. However, the command feared that the USSR also had military psychics who could quite accurately locate the locations of American missiles and, if hostilities began, destroy them. Are such fears justified? There was only one way to check this - to offer your own psychics to find the missile basing sites at a given time.
Successful experiment
The experiment was carried out as follows. A Stanford Institute researcher was shown ten randomly placed circles on a monitor. In this case, each circle in the computer was constantly associated with one of ten hypothetical hideouts, only one of which was designated as containing a rocket. The researcher's task was to select the correct circle associated with the shelter where the rocket was located. As soon as the choice was made, the circles were "shuffled" again, and everything started again. During the experiment, psychics showed a good result, far exceeding 10% of an accidental hit. The final report indicated that psychics were able to correctly locate the missile 12 times out of 12 attempts, and the correct choice of strike was more than 2.5 times higher than the expected statistical 1:10.
However, despite the successes of the Stargate program participants, in 1995, just after the end of the Cold War, the CIA and the Department of Defense stopped funding the project, and it was closed. The result was a review of the Stargate program over the previous 20 years of its operation, commissioned by the US Congress in 1995.
Magazine: Secrets of the 20th century №38. Author: Dmitry Sokolov