THE ABSENCES OF ESP RESEARCH IN NSA AND THE PK EFFECT

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Summary: The document discusses a personal experience shared by a lieutenant colonel in the SIGINT community, who believes in the relevance of researching Extrasensory Perception (ESP) and its impact on the intelligence community. The CIA has been conducting experiments to test the effects of Telepathy and Clairvoyance on the security of US codes and ciphers. The search for psychic talent within the Agency is ongoing, although it is challenging to replicate spontaneous cases in a laboratory environment. However, phenomena such as Poltergeist appear to provide a promising avenue for studying the abilities of the mind to influence matter. The document concludes with two questions for further consideration.

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 .comtYUnity.  When I started ~Y research into the field of Para
 of a personal experience which had occurred many years ago.  COL  n  and
 to advocate looking into the subject.  His interest was aroused because
 subject.
 He told me that, as far as he knew, he himself was one of the fir
 he was oi~e of the first people I questioned about Agency interest in the
 an-Agency colleague were on a TDY trip at the time and were sharing a
 room for the night.  It had been a busy day and they were still engaged
 in an animated discussion, at a late hour.  COL
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 was giving his roommate
 a seven digit nuiaerical sequence as an example, when the rooruaate sudden],y
 exclaimed that it was a precise number he was just then thinking about,
 a phone nuriber he had to czll.  The roorrate being a man of mathematical
 background was impressed with the odds that such a coincidence it should
 be due~to chance aloae.#
 COL  0  was still thinking about the incident when he returned to the
 Agency.  He felt stroroly ei:ough about the implicatior_s of the question to
 pay a visit to I?ir. William ~-iedman.  When he related the incident to
 bs. F??iedna-~, he closed with a recoaaaer-dation that the Agency look into
 research on Extrasensory Perception (ESP~'~and its relevance to the SIGIVT
 comr~ur~ity.
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 I~lot .I-a.cwi_~~g what i~:r . Fx?ied.+naz ~ s reaction to his suggestion had been,
 COL was pleasantly surprised when he cht~?~ced upon t~s. Friedtaan in the
 halls and was ir~vited?into his offices.
 1:z? . ~4?ied~~.n happily displayed to COL ~ a list he had composed of
 reco~unend research subjects for the Agency.   Tha:?e amo~:g them was ESP.
 Since these early days, research has slowly progressed into the
 possible relationships betrreeii FarGpsychologjr and the Intelligence
 community.  Experirients have been designed to test the effects of the
 Telepathic# and Clairvoyant# phenomer:a or: the cryptosccurity of the U.S.
 codes and ciphers; Intelligence corsaunity irfoi?mation is periodically
 scanned for developmer_ts in Free World or SIPIO/SOVIET Bloc  research
 which L~ignt constitute an i?~creased threat _to our Comrcunications Security.
 The search for Agency Psychic talent is actively, if informally persued
 whenever possibin.  Ore of the difficulties ir~voived in testing for F,SP
 within a laboratory er?vironr?ert is that the laboratory can rarely dupli-
 cate the extreme,  End often. tragic stiriulus found in spontaneous cases.
 Lacking such strong motivation, FSI' raroly provides spectaculr.rly positive
 results in the laboratory.
 One apparent exception to this frustrating parapsychological testing
 situation occurs ~rher. the so called ~~Pollergeist~~ phenomara is under study.
 "This appears to be the case because the pheroaena is spparar_tly a psycho-
 pathological cor:dition,? sor.:ewhat like ulcers a:.d seeps to be caused by
 Poltergeist (PK The ability of the mind to irfluer.ce matter usually by
 .   motion..
 ~'!'elepathy:   Afind to mir_d con.~ur.ication.
 #Clairvoya-ice:  Aware:ess of a physical object bzyord ro:~!al se:~.sory x?a^.oa.
 4s;.' ~.:~.~ '`::sue ;1 1-~. ~a   _
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 racy or lo~:g terra e~otior~al stress.  llhen the person has stored up
 enough to causo objects to :-,ove around a room the sto=~d up energy seeas
 to t~~.e so:.~e time to dissi~_.ate; this ~torr,oe   n      .,
 ' ~  co ditio_~ occassiorally
 per:~its the scientist to ??et  the
 o       subjec~ i?.to ~. laboratory or into a
 reaso:~4bly controlled si.tuati o.:,   i n which he can subject the strange
 efi?ects and their perp~tr?~tor to care~ul study.
 Havi:7g finished with this u_nderiu.r~dec; introduction to the su'oject,
 I would lil~:e to consider two excellent questions: .
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