European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday june 20, 1977 Tofu Case underscores sensitivity May be probing Psi Energy i a i m by he a not an emigre soviet physicist says that the soviet Union has been doing secret work in parapsychology wit what appear to be military and police Pur poses. A French scientist and former Intelli gence agent Jacques Bergier has written a Book saying that extrasensory perception one of the theories studied by Para psychology May be used in espionage thought Cunt Rol surveillance and As a form of Wui Pim. The soviet emigre August Stem is Ason of or. Mikhail Stem an endocrinologist who was imprisoned before being Al Lowed to leave the soviet Union in March. Animus Hern spent several years in a secret siberian Laboratory in the late 1960strying to find a physical basis for psychic Energy a Psi particles As Thev recalled Toth s interrogation soviet concern on the Issue was demonstrated in the Case of Robert c Toth. A Cor a san Lorii of the Ilia Angeles times who was interrogated in Moscow by the Kab the Security lice. And was accused of having received slate secrets about a ranks Rheology. He was allowed to leave for Home after protests by the govern ment. The incident had the earmarks of an in Ernp mint in the View of diplomats and others there is no sign that the 25-Pagedocument on parapsychology handed to him on the Street just before he was seize contains important information. However there is a record of soviet sensitivity and August Stern s information indicates that parapsychology is a matter of concern to the authorities. Stern Ivhon now lives in vans said he was told before leaving the soviet Union two years ago that an even More secret Laboratory than the one he knew in Siberia had been set up in Moscow under the direction of the Kab 4 specific Fields parapsychology covers four specific Fields of Iio physical Phenomena. They Are telepathy transmission of thought without use of the sense extrasensory perception telekinesis transmission of motion without any evident use of physical Energy and Clairvoyance the ability to Sec Distant or future events without physical intervention. Most scientists remain sceptical that such Phenomena actually exist but there Are researchers throughout the world dedicated to proving and if possible explain ing them formal officially subsidized soviet re search in the Field has gone on for years sometimes publicly admitted and at other times denounced and even denied. At one time in the late 1950s and Early 1960s, the . Navy and the Stanford re seat cd Institute did experiments in telepathy to s e whether it could provide an Undi Tec table Means of communicating with submarines. So far As is known the experiments failed. Publicly attacked word of them reached Moscow and apparently provoked High level interest m the subject. In 1973 some soviet Para psycho Logiste were persecuted and the whole subject was publicly attacked. Eduar Naumov. A researcher with no evident connection with the military or police was tried on a charge of accepting fees for lec Tures without Penn Sion. And was sentenced to two years in a labor Camp. His colleagues were dismissed from heir jobs and otherwise harassed a the trial much was made of the fact that he had contacts with Western Para psychologists later on june 13, 1975. Leonid i Brezhnev the soviet Leader urged the b a to agree on a ban of research and develop ment of new kinds of weapons More Terri ble than anything the world has known. American arms control negotiators have tried to find out from their soviet counter parts what he had in mind but they have not Learned anything More than that he meant some kind of according to officials. At first american intelligence though the might have been referring to laser beams or some Way of focusing cosmic rays but they no longer believe this to be the Case. They say that they Are baffled bythe reference there is no evidence that Brezhnev was referring to something in the Field of parapsychology. But it is a possibility that has occurred to some observers especially because of the vacillating treatment of a a psychologists. The evident involvement of the Kab with the subject and what some utilizing woman Power militia women of kazakh nationality ride a mounted patrol along a segment of China s Northwest Border. The women help the Frontier guards of the chinese liberation army in surveil Lance of the sensitive Boundary l i l / Dies As cholera cases continue Rise in Japan Tokyo up1 the number of cholera victims continued to Rise in the Western japanese port City of Arida sunday despite intensified efforts by health officials to contain the disease. Officials of the cholera prevention head quarters in Wakayama province where Arida is located said 63 persons have no been found to be cholera victims including the first fatality in the mass outbreak. They said there were 20 confirmed cases of persons suffering from cholera. 17 suspected cases and 28 germ carriers. One victim Yasuichi Nishibata. 71, die thursday from stomach pains diarrhoea and dehydration the first fatality of the cholera outbreak. It is the first mass outbreak of cholera i Japan in some 30 years. The report of tie new cholera victims came after health officials sent by the health and welfare ministry for on site inspections discounted the possibility of a further spread of the disease earlier sunday. The outbreak spread to Tokyo saturday when a woman Hospital employee in the suburban cily of Koganei who recently re turned from Manila was confirmed to be cholera Case. Officials suspect the disease w a earned to Japan by japanese who recently visited the Philippines. In Tokyo the metropolitan govern ment s Public health Bureau officials said there was Little possibility of secondary infection in the Tokyo area. They said the 155 tourists and Crew members who returned from Manila with the hospitalized woman in the same plane were free of cholera germs in Arida. Japanese news reports said residents capitalized on a break in rain sunday to disinfect mattresses under Sun Light a id clean their Homes. The health and welfare ministry has designated Arida a cholera infected Are and notified the world health organization of the action. Fishermen in Arida remained Idle sunday As they were ordered to keep their by it in port regard As a traditional russian interest i mysticism. After his initial detention a week ago Toth was reported to have quoted from a statement made by an employee of the Aca Demy of sciences who had been called by he authorities to examine the documents in his Possession. The statement referred to Psi particles and said this material is secret and shows the kind of work done in some closed scientific institutes of our Stem s reminiscences of the Laboratory where he worked and the Way in was finally shut Down Only add to the Public Laboratory was in Novosibirsk s Sci ence City a Complex belonging to the site ruin Branch of the Academy of sciences. It wins in a separate building and the door could be opened Only by a coded lock wit the Rexle changed every week. U was known is special department no. 8" an was refi Ureil to As a Branch of the Institute of aul Matiun and Leader was Vitaly prov a Navy officer who opened it in 1966, Stem said. He recalled that Perov showed deference Toto visitors who came in the Early Dap to Check on the installation. Stern believe the visitors to be Kab men. Workers were recruited from around the winery until there were about 60 persons at the Laboratory. The scientists Amon them were Given virtually unlimited funds for elaborate equip nent. It Cost Stern said. Orderly system his own work was in theoretical View was that there might be an orderly system in which All kinds of Energy could be charted similar to Mendeleyev s periodic table of chemical elements. As a result of the periodic table which originally left some Blank spaces unknown ele ment were discovered fitting precisely into the system. If such a Chart could be discovered for Energy Stern thought it too might be found to Haw Blank spaces that might Lead to physical identification of particles to explain the mystery of psychic Energy the pm he worked for two years and found Noth ing other experiments at the Laboratory involved applying electric shocks to newly born Kittens to see whether their mothers three floors upstairs registered any reaction through some mental connection Tele vision surveillance of people in a room to see whether they responded to attempts bothers several rooms away to Send them telepathic orders studies involving Mon keys and electromagnetic Fields. There were also experiments with photon Waves in which frogs eyes were used As a More sensitive measuring instrument than a machine. One involved putting bacteria on two sides of a Glass plate to see whether a fatal disease could be transmitted through the Glass it was reasoned that if this could be done it would show that photons Light particles were accounting for some inexplicable forms of Jimmu Mcalinn. Suddenly in 1969, the Laboratory was shut Down. Stern said he did not know the reason and did not think in was really the team s Lack of Success or the poor Quality of its science As officially suggested at the time but a change of attitude or Power balance in the Kremlin. He was Back in Moscow by then. He heard that the military and particularly the Navy was conducting parapsychology research in Leningrad. A Friend of his a Leningrad dentist named Gennadi Sergeyev told him he was receiving permission and funds to open a new Laboratory and offered him a Job. But the project was cancelled. Later friends told Stem that the work done m Novosibirsk and planned in Lenin Grad had been combined in a new Laboratory in Moscow under the auspices of them Ili he never Learned any More about it
