alle@ihuxb.UUCP (11/09/83)
(AP) Washington - The Soviet Union has achieved "significant progress"
toward developing mind-control weapons, according to a US Army study
disclosed in a new book focusing of military uses of psychic phenomena.
Author Martin Ebon contends that mind-altering effects of "remote
monitoring of brain wave activity" are among possible reasons behind
the Soviet microwave bombardment of the US Embassy in Moscow.
"Soviet scientists view the brain as an apparatus available for
probing and manipulation," Ebon says. "They are well aware that
perfected techniques in ESP and other phenomena would make effective
wartime strategies."
Publication of Ebon's book, "Psychic Warfare: Threat or Illusion?"
comes amid increased interest in parapsychology research on Capitol
Hill as well as within the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies.
A report prepared recently by the Congressional Research Service,
an arm of the Library of Congress, concluded that "psi phenomena" could
be applied in fields such as education, medicine, geological exploration
and business management.
Mind-control techniques also may prove useful for "military
intelligence and police work" along with "crime, persuasion, mischief
and disinformation," it said.
Psi phenomena include various forms of extrasensory perception.