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 Ely V`Ji!Ija'n }C. Stucky
 t cs rct c:ear arhathar Charlie Rose
 seeks thy ever-growing Mind-Over-
 Far-Out (Moto) vote- Governor Jerry
 Qrq?,vn of California certainly does-as
 what Rasa would do with it if he got it. The
 Mofo vote is rot very conspicuous in the
 bdewa:ar district of North Carolina that
 Rose rrprasents a5 a Democratic
 congressman. But Charlie (that's what hs
 puts on his letterhead) certainly has the
 pulpit azd connections, possibly the
 power, and definitely the inclinaticut to
 produce a Mtofo spectacular.
 What Reprasentativ? Rose wou-d like to
 do is cult a congressional Rearing soon to
 confirm publicly that the C!A and the
 Pentagcn Rave successfully demonstrated
 that certain psi powers are real and can be
 used for intelligence purposes, and the
 Savigt Union is probably ahead of the
 United States.
 Rosa is kha chairman of the evaluation
 subcommittee of the Houss Permanent
 Committee cxi Intelligence and, as such, is
 a principal watchdog of spook affairs. 1n
 that capacity, he has recently witnessed
 several classified demonstrations at
 "remote viewing" by Stanford Research
 institute (SAt) and intelligence per"
 sannel-"in which iha experiments{
 sub;ects "vietived" persons and places
 thousands at kilometers away in certain
 '?interesting" countriQS.
 all E can say is thaCif the results were
 faked, our security system doesn't work,"
 Rose tall ma cryptically "What these
 persons 'saw' was confirmed by aerial
 photography. TRere's no way it could have
 been faked,"
 As for the Soviet Union's undertakings in
 this arza, Rose disclosed, "I've been told
 by the CIA that the Russians era very
 inter95ted in psychic phenomena snd that
 their vrhole effort is underground. They
 have a national screening program to
 detect mathematical, artistic, or psychic
 a5ilities in schoolchildren. The CIA, on the
 other hand, spends next to noshing in Phis
 area, except to find out what the Russians
 are doing.'
 The ~r,itnesses Rosa would Gait include
 CIA ofticiats vrho, Rose said, "know this
 remote-vie,,ving stuff works but who hav~3
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 been blocked by publicity-shy superiors.
 Anothor key witness might be Dr Robert
 ,Jahn, dean of engineering and applied
 science at Princeton University, who
 with graduate student Carol Curry is
 developing an instrument to detect
 smelt-scat? psychokinetic effects---not of
 the theatrics! Geller spoon-banding type,
 but a more modest effert to determine
 whether a subject might "vrill" a grain of
 sand to move.
 Diehard Ulofoers will also recognize khe
 names of other potential witnesses, such
 as Edgar MitcheN, the astronaut who
 conducted an ESP experiment {with
 apparently ambiguous results) between'
 the moon's surface and Earth; Dr, Harold
 Puthoff and Russell Targ, two Stanford
 Research Institute psychic researchers
 whose reports, claiming that literally every
 parson they have tested can perform
 remote viewing, have been published in
 Nature and the fEEE Proceedings; and Llr,
 Willis Harman, an SRI futures researcher,
 t1
 :,j~
 ~~
 widely sought of ter by major corporations
 and foundations, who is so convinced of
 the reality of psychic phenomena that he
 "wouldn't walk across the street to :viness
 a levitation:"
 Congressman Rose, like Marmara and
 the other potential witnesses, in other
 words, has seen and believes.
 "Some of the intelligence people t've
 talked to knr~H that remote viewing works,
 although they stilt block lurther research
 on it, since they claim it's not yet as
 accurate as sat?16ts photography," Rase
 asserted. "But it seems to ma chat it would
 be a hell of a cheap radar system. And ft
 ' the Russians have it and w~a don't, we era
 in serious trouble. This country wasn't
 afraid to look into the strange physics
 behind lasers and semicanductars, and
 f don't think it should be afraid to took
 at this."
 When I firsk met him, Charlie was
 concerned that some of the acad?mic
 debunkers of the psychic-whose
 principal spokesman is Martin Gardner, of
 Scientific Amerrcan-might stifle
 objective, High Science research in this
 tietcefy debated ar?a, That he might even
 "investigate" the debunkers adds another
 dimension to the hearings Rosa proposes.
 Charlie might of so find hlmse4f in a
 locked-horn mode with somas of the keen-
 estthinkers of the day: Dr. John Wheeler,
 for exempts, a renowned physicist, wRq
 wrote the first paper cn nuetear lissitsn with
 Niels Bohr and who associated witR?'
 Einstein for more than 2Q years, recently
 suggested the expulsion of
 parapsychatogy groups from the
 respected umbrella organization, the
 American Association Eor the
 AdvancemenR of Scienoe.
 ''But Wheeler and Gardner are not close
 to His Leadership and Democratic
 Highness Boston's own Thomas "Trp"
 O'NeiH, and Charlie Rose is. Rose fife
 some, but far Prom alt, of the stereotypes
 that Naw York parochiats would attach to
 Southern rongr?rssmen. It is true that he is
 a Southern Presbyterian, and a "religious
 onto"; that ha lcrres his chairmanships of
 various agriCUiturahsubCOmmitteea On
 poultry, dairy products, and tobacco
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 arol?ssrar7al,  but  a  Chapel Hi;i,  North        There are two more Chsr!ie Roses thaP  yet another convert to Alvin Tattler, thy;
 C~zro!rna, lawyer and fo?mar county prose;-      don`t fit country stereoty'pzs  0na ~s the   respected futurist-author of Future Shack
 c::!or. You see that trap jaw and hear the       Rose who is the (-louse's acknor:i~dged      Tctf!er~convinced Rosa that Con:~ress ?:das
 aoc~nt t~tnd you think of these relaxed rural    expert on aompu!ers. according .,o Gary      playing ~Ktussran roulette ?.yith the future by
 U =~. 5 +?:na might s?y, "Na.v Jake. we knew     Hymel, the speaker's right-hand r^.3n. And   igno~rng it in most of its le:~~SiatiGn. He in?
 yo?,; krr~d your wife. Sa don't go lyin' about   Rose is founder of Capito: Hi~~ s r'^GSi Mofo   troduced Rose to that gra?r,rng thinkdank
 :: Just yet your story together v:hile f go get   activity. [he Congressional Crean~,gnouse      industry of Pu!urology. ~:ahiuh  according to
 y~uacupofcaffee.?                                 an the Future-"the science-fiction ~::ing      onelcfseveralconflitting)d?ufinipons.uses
 The other Charlie Rose, hoa:ever, is a          of Congress," according to a sc~ance~ori-      available information and mixes in hunches
 p~oteye of Terry Sanford. the former south-       anted congressman.                             and personal theories to pred~ct what is
 emly liberal governor of North Carolina,            The Mofa aspect of the clearinghouse is      going to happen in crucial and vital areas.
 ex-university president.  and aonce-              detected in the pages of i!s fascinating       In 1974 Congress passed an internal act
 hopeful entrant into Democratic presides- ,       monthly newsletter, "What's -N?xt?" There      requiring its committees to conduct
 fiat primary etections~--which attracted "all I   one finds the news and views Af the L?5        periodic futures research, and by 1976
 the bright young Southern liberals like ,         space colony people, the anarchistic ap-       Rose and Cheatham were sending the
 Charlie Rase," and not one veteran Capitol i      propriate technology of trondrous Karl         House a stream of bath close-in and
 cbserver. Elected to Congress in 1972, Hess, the soft-energy boys, the worker-                   farthest-out futurists to prophesy what lay
 Rase made a key early commitment to ,             owned-corporation boosters, the cosmic-        in stare for alt of us.
 support C7'Neiil far Hous? majority leader.       cansciausness kids, and the Committee for        Today the clearinghouse functions as a
 Tip. now speaker of the House, considers          the Elimination of Death. Under its imagin-    "caucus," not an official congressional
 Charlie one of his key Southern lieutenants,      alive director, Ann Cheatham, the Clearing-    committee, but rather an informal Hilt-
 onewho daesn'tmind doing the necessary            house also holds its monthly "Chautauqua       based activity financed by contributions
 but dirty and no-publicity-value jobs that        Congress"-think-and-talk  sessions with        from interested members of Congress and
 keep Congress functioning. The House In-          both "futures," and more conventional, ex-     other supporters. Many Senate luminaries
 tplligence Committee chaired by another           p?rts, who produce recommended legisla-        are firmly behihd the project.
 of Tip's buddies, Massachusetts Repre-            lion with a longer-than-usual~?term twist.       Thaughitcan'tyetclaimrnanyiegislative
 sentative Edward ~toland) is one super job,       (For the remainder of the year Chautauqua      victories, Rose's clearinghouse-in can-
 since most of its hearings are closed to the      wilt deaf with future hausin   'soft" a  pro-
 life-giving (to congressmen) press and                           g; ~        P                   junction with Rose's hearings on psychic
 priate technology vs. "hard" conventional      intelligence gathering-wilt na doubt lead
 technology; the scientific nature of life, in-   to some of the oddest debates, mast
 eluding genetic manipulation; the future         astounding iegislatian, and weirdest wit-
 social culture; and even "cosmic eon-            susses in cangressionaf histcry. California
 sciousness.")                                    has set up shop on Capitol Hilt.Oo
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