CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001-7.pdf

Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001 -7 CLASSIFICATION/CONTROLS : UNCLASSIFIED SOURCE: NEWSWIRES SEQUENCE: NWS-95-01267263 PUBLICATION: FBIS WIRE PUBLICATION DATE: 27-Aug-95 London “INDEPENDENT,” 27 Aug 95, The Sunday Review pp 10-13 Article by Jim Schnabel: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi" In a desert country, a dictator is on the run. He moves from house to house, Bedouin tent to underground bunker, never staying in one place for more than a few hours. Angry at his regional bullying, his sponsorship of terrorism, his production of chemical weapons, America is armed to…

Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001 -7 control of the Soviet military and KGB, and by the early Seventies, US intelligence analysts -- formerly concerned about a possible "missile gap" -- were beginning to grow anxious about a “psi gap". An unclassified 1972 DIA report expressed concerns that "Soviet efforts in the field of psi research sooner or later, might enable them to do some of the following: (a) Know the contents of top secret US documents, the movements of our troops and ships and the location and nature of our military installations (b) Mould the thoughts o…

Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001 -7 the more modern-sounding term "remote-viewing". At first Ingo Swann claimed that, given only the targets' precise geographical co- ordinates, he could do just that. In time, other remote-viewers would set to work even without co-ordinates. "We would just sit the viewer down and say 'Target'," remembers Puthoff. "We got some of our best results that way." The claims of the remote-viewers initially met with scepticism from their CIA sponsors, but as stories spread of astounding successes, support gew throughout the intelligence co…

Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001 -7 work on the target," remembers a long-time member of the unit who prefers not to give his name. "With CRV, we'd give the viewer a set of numbers or coordinates and he'd sketch some mountains, for example, and some factories, and three white buildings. The next day, we'd go back and use ERV to walk around inside the three white buildings." But how good was the information gathered that way? "Tt was very good," insists the source, recalling one operation where the unit was asked to psychically investigate a foreign agent on the CI…

a enna Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001 -7 ‘they're doing what [preceding word in italics]! That's the craziest thing I've ever heard!' The fact that he didn't say that tells you something." MEL RILEY was working as an apprentice machine repairman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when, in 1969, he was called up by the Army. He joined the intelligence corps, and eventually wound up at Fort Meade as an imagery interpreter, a specialist in the analysis of overhead reconnaissance photographs. In 1977, he heard about plans for a remote-viewing unit, and got himself selected as…

een Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001 -7 paranormal near Charlottesville, Virginia. At the Monroe Institute, an audio process known as "hemi-sync" was used to help induce deep altered states, which led in some cases to so-called out-of-body experiences. Stubblebine began to send his INSCOM staff officers there. And ripples of annoyance began to spread. "You wear your pyjamas around every morning and hug each other," says Skip Atwater, who is now the research director at Monroe. "You can't have that in a military setting." Stubblebine's own frequent trips to Monroe …

ania eT Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001 -7 In the eyes of Ed Dames and Mel Riley, Angela achieved an undue influence on the unit when she began to give personal channelling sessions, featuring advice on the most intimate matters of their lives, to Jack Vorona and other officials. "Jack Vorona would sit at one end of the table, and Angela at the other," recalls Dames. "She would say, 'Good morning, Dr Vorona. Maurice says hello!'" "Their eyes would be shining when they came out of those sessions," recalls Riley. "They were told all the nice things they wanted to h…

Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001 -7 would arise from their desert dwellings, shocking the world. When I saw him in 1994, Ed Dames was almost out of money. MOST OF the remote-viewers I've talked to are willing to admit, when pressed, that their craft does have its psychiatric hazards. As with any prolonged and forced alteration of consciousness, it promotes altered states anda general mental instability, and thus can be dangerous for those who are inherently unstable. They also point out that in the absence of regular independent verification, remote-viewing can qu…