Air War College paper 'Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier'
A May 1988 research paper by Lt. Col. Dolan McKelvy at the Air War College argued that the US was losing a psychic arms race with the USSR.
1988 CE · 32.38, -86.36 · status: official
The account
McKelvy starts from John Alexander's 1980 Military Review article on 'the new mental battlefield' and the press mockery that followed, and recounts the 1977 arrest of Robert Toth in Moscow over a parapsychology paper (p.6-8, p.21). He retells SCANATE stories about Pat Price and Ingo Swann mainly from Ron McRae's 'Mind Wars' (p.28-29). He recommends lifting secrecy, focusing military research and teaching psi in the Air War College curriculum (p.50-54). A disclaimer says it reflects the author's views, not the Air Force's (p.3).
The sceptical view
The paper relies on popular books and advocates such as Tom Bearden rather than programme data; it shows how psi was argued inside the military, not that the claims were true.
Connections in the atlas
- Army security review of the book 'Mind Wars'
- Pat Price and the Semipalatinsk crane
- Stargate (final phase)
- Ingo Swann
- SCANATE and the start of remote viewing at SRI