DIA survey: Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research
A September 1975 Defense Intelligence Agency report, written by Army medical intelligence, surveying Soviet and Czech research on telepathy, psychokinesis and 'psychotronics'.
1975 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: official
The account
Written by Louis F. Maire III and Maj. J. D. LaMothe for DIA (report DST-1810S-387-75), it covers telepathy and 'telepathic behavior modification', Robert Pavlita's psychotronic generators, psychokinesis, out-of-body phenomena and intelligence gaps. It traces Leonid Vasiliev's Leningrad work and reports Soviet funding of 20 million rubles in 1973, believed to be mainly military (p.11, p.21). It summarises Soviet claims about Nina Kulagina and Alla Vinogradova and reported levitation by Boris Ermolayev (p.47-49). It concludes that Soviet and Czech researchers accept the phenomena as real, warns that psychotronics could become a weapon, but also notes that the effects are unstable and hard to prove under control (p.59-62).
The sceptical view
The report largely relays Soviet and Czech claims and popular Western sources; it contains slips, such as calling Ingo Swann 'British', and none of the Soviet results it cites was independently verified.
Connections in the atlas
- Robert Pavlita's 'psychotronic generators'
- Leonid Vasiliev's Soviet telepathy experiments
- Nina Kulagina
- Gondola Wish
- SCANATE and the start of remote viewing at SRI