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 *See the Daily SIMPI, October 17, 1991, p.
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 (SNAP 911018)
 Author:  Volkov, 0.
 Title:  SCIENTISTS DIVIDED OVER KA,LIPZTY OF
 Primary Source:  Komsomolskaya pravda, Sep-
 tember 27, 1991, No. 222 (20222), p. 2,
 cols. 2-4
 Abstract:  The article reports on contro-
 versy over research of unconventional phys-
 ical fields and military applications of
 this work.  Some scientists are said to be-
 lieve that 'psychotronic generators' based
 on new physical principles can be used for
 remote control of people's minds and behav-
 ior, and that original weapons for this
 purpose can be developed on the basis of
 generators of "spinor (torsion)" or "micro-
 epton" fields, in particular.  other sci-
 entists are highly skeptical of such re-
 search.
 It is recalled that a resolution enti-
 tled "On the Unsound Practice of Financing
 Pseudoscientific Research out of State
 Sources" was published, together with an
 opinion submitted by the USSR Academy of
 Sciences' department of general physics and
 astronomy, on duly 4 of this year.  The
 USSR Supreme Soviet's Committee on Science
 and Technologies issued this resolution.
 It accused several ministries of spending,
 without a proper expert review, half a bil-
 lion rubles on pseudoscientific and anti-
 scientific developments involving spinor or
 microlepton fields with which scientists
 are already familiar.  The resolution named
 the USSR Ministry of Defense (Minoborony),
 the USSR Ministry of Nuclear Power Engi-
 neering and Industry, the USSR State Secur-
 ity Committee (KGB) and the USSR Cabinet of
 Ministers' Military-Industrial Commission
 as clients and sponsors of this work.  More
 than 20 institutes were identified as exec-
 utors and developers.  First on this list
 was the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences' In-
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 stitute of Materials-Science Problems,.
 which is headed by academician Trefilov.
 The interagency scientific-technical center
 "Vent" (formerly the Center for Unconven-
 tional Technologies of the USSR State Com-
 mittee for Science and Technology) was
 identified as the country's "chief" firm
 engaged in developments in the area of un-
 conventional fields. According to unveri-
 fied data from A. Akimov, director of this
 center, the cost of unconventional-field
 projects has been 23 million rubles in Min-
 oborony's sector alone, while the overall
 amount which has been allocated for such
 research through all of the different chan-
 nels is as great as 500 million rubles,
 Seeking more information about uncon-
 ventional-fields research and the purposes
 of this research, the author spoke to an
 associate of the USSR Supreme Soviet's Com-
 mittee on Science and Technologies and sub-
 sequently went to the armed forces' General
 Staff,  He was told that the committee had
 received no information in this regard from
 Minoborony, the KGB or other agencies in-
 volved,  Representatives of the General
 Staff referred the author to the USSR Acad-
 emy of Sciences' Section on Problems of Ap-
 plied Science,  Nikolay Prudnikov, deputy
 chairman of this section, said that it
 sometimes orders projects to be carried out
 for the General Staff, but he disclosed no
 details of this work. one such project, ,.
 which was called "dbezlichiye'" (de-
 individ-ualization), is mentioned.  It is recalled
 that in 1986, a scientific research insti-
 tute informed the academy's section that
 the institute was prepared to carry out
 this project.  An associate of the section
 who knew more about the project was not
 -available for' questioning, however.  At the
 "Vent" center, the author was told that di-
 rector Akimov was away on a business trip,
 Ye. Aleksandrov, corresponding member
 of the USSR Academy of Sciences and a sci-
 _-ntific opponent of Akimov's, sent the au-
 thor a report of the Center for Unconven-
 :lonal Technologies.  According to this
 document, the center is engaged in research
 of long-distance production of medical-bio-
 logical and psychophysical effects on
 troops and the population, using torsion
 radiations; and also in research of medi-
 cal-biological protection of troops and the
 population against effects of such radia-
 tions.  Aleksandrov expressed doubt that
 equipment capable of producing such effects
 can be developed.  A letter which the edi-
 tors received from Aleksandrov is quoted,
 in which the'scientist denounced research
 of unconventional fields as pseudoscien-
 tific, citing a decision of the academy's
 department of general physics and astrono-
 my.  Aleksandrov went so far as to accuse
 state enterprises of producing fake "field
 generators" and selling them to defense
 agencies for large sums.
 Scientists who hold opposing views of
 unconventional-fields research reportedly
 include V. Kaznacheyev, who is believed to
 be working in this direction for the de-
 fense complex and has signed an interna-
 tional convention on the non-use of "mental
 weapons"; A. Veynik, corresponding member
 of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences, who
 has put forward a number of theories; and
 other academy figures, who have published
 works abroad.  The author suggests that the
 Academy of Sciences organize a roundtable
 discussion on the topic of psychological
 weapons, with all sides in the controversy
 represented.
 (SNAP 911018)
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