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         MindNet Journal - Vol. 1, No. 36
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         V E R I C O M M / MindNet         "Quid veritas est?"
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    Editor: Mike Coyle

    Associate Editors: Walter Bowart
                       Alex Constantine
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    Research: Darrell Bross

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    Statement by Ingo Swann on Remote Viewing

    December 1, 1995

    I refer to:

    1- CIA Public Affairs Bureau release of a statement concerning
    Remote Viewing dated 6 September 1995 (which is available via the
    WWW).

    2- The ABC TV Nightline show of 28 November 1995 (hosted by Ted
    Koppel).

            Since these two events, I have been besieged by many
    telephone calls and requests for interviews. I have decided that
    the most efficient way to respond is to prepare this general
    statement which addresses the basic issues of the involvement of
    the intelligence/military communities with remote viewing.

            A good place to begin this statement is to unequivocally
    state that nothing being reported in this latest 1995 flap is new
    news. Media coverage was quite extensive during the 1970s decade
    regarding this issue.

            Jack Anderson's syndicated columns usually had the scoop,
    but all the news services picked up the lead a day or two later.
    These include the Associated Press (AP) and the Washington Post,
    etc., who are claiming new discovery, but which venerable
    institutions apparently haven't bothered to check their own
    archives of published materials. Several competent books were
    also published during the 1970s and early 1980s. I, however,
    maintain a nearly complete archive of all published materials I
    am referring to here.

            Hardly anything I've seen or read in the media during the
    last two weeks is new news, and all of it has been reported on
    before, including the fact that several intelligence agencies
    were involved in so-called "psychic research." The present
    media, therefore, are re-sensationalizing (i.e. re-hashing) old
    news, probably for the novelty of hype or the benefit of ratings
    and shares.

            There is one difference, though. This regards the "spin"
    being loaded into today's media frenzy. This spin is different
    from the more factual one of the 1970s. To understand it requires
    a little background data.

            Between 1969 and 1971, American intelligence sources
    began discovering and confirming that the Soviet Union was deeply
    engaged in so-called "psychic research." By 1970, it was
    discovered that the Soviets were spending approximately 60
    million rubles per year on it, and over 300 million by 1975.

            However, the Soviets were not conducting research into
    what the West means by "psychic research." The term for their
    general concept of the research was "psychotronics."

            This was a Soviet neologism, and English has no near
    equivalent. So reporters glibly assumed that psychotronics and
    psychic stuff amounted to the same thing.

            A clarification is, therefore, necessary. The nearest
    English equivalent is "mind (psycho) energy applications
    (-tronics)," with emphasis on "applications."

            The new English equivalent became "psychoenergetics," but
    which term does not convey "applications." "Applied
    psychoenergetics" would be more accurate.

            The amount of money and personnel involved in the Soviet
    psychotronics clearly confirmed that they were serious about it
    and had already achieved breakthroughs which justified the
    increases in expenditures and tightest security.

            American intelligence analysts were appalled and
    embarrassed that the Soviets (KGB and GRU), were involved in
    topics considered in the USA as speculative, controversial, and
    fringy. But they were alarmed at the prospect that the Soviets
    would "get ahead." And so the phrase "the psychic warfare gap"
    came into existence.

            The intelligence community was well aware that
    "psychotronics" meant an "applied" something, something
    psychically aggressive with real applications, something
    threatening to the well-being and security of the American
    nation.

            In response to this, and with Congressional approval to
    do so, the intelligence community then involved itself with
    researching this threat -- the threat analysis of Soviet-applied
    psychotronics. It is, after all, the established and expected
    duty of the intelligence community to examine and research all
    threats to the security of the nation.

            This is to say that the intelligence community did not
    conduct psychic research and go out on a limb just for the hell
    of it. In fact, that community never did psychic research. What
    it did was to assess the threat of the Soviet efforts.

            This is not just splitting hairs. There is a very big
    difference.

            All media reports of the 1970s correctly identified the
    purpose of this threat analysis, albeit with a good deal of
    joking and amusement.

            At the time, this threat analysis was perfectly
    justified, completely necessary, and unquestionably required in
    behalf of the well-being of the nation.

            All personnel involved with this situation considered
    that they were working on behalf of the nation and its security
    -- and future discoveries regarding invasive penetration by
    psychoenergetic means -- clearly confirmed the reality of the
    threat. Even most of the 1970s media concluded that the work was
    necessary, even if it was funny and ridiculous according to
    Western anti-psychic traditions.

            The most authoritative and publicly available Western
    book on psi warfare was by Martin Ebon, published as Psychic
    Warfare: Threat or Illusion? (1983). Documents still classified
    tell an even more threatening tale.

            The present 1995 media versions of this effort have slid
    out of this particular important focus which made the effort
    understandable in the 1970s. The 1995 focus has detached from the
    cold war and exclusively hypes the sensationalistic aspects.

            This largely hype-deliberate change of focus is not only
    just trivializing. It is disgusting -- and cruel to all those
    past workers who did that strange work to defend the nation and
    its security. Hardly any of those past workers can come forward
    with the cold war facts because they are patriotic and still
    bound by their security oaths.

            On the Nightline TV show of 28 November 1995, Mr. Robert
    Gates, former director of the CIA, estimated that the
    intelligence community had invested about $20 million over the
    sixteen-year period during which the threat was under
    examination.

            Well. During the mid-1970s, the government paid a
    manufacturer about $65 each for hammers which could be bought in
    a hardware store for $2.95. The Pentagon invested $60 million for
    new toilet seat designs, none of which worked better than the
    ones you and I use.

            A great deal was learned for those $20 million, and our
    nation received a lot back for the buck spent.

            And this knowledge, although somewhat on the shelf now,
    will soon come in handy, again.

            Several quite respectable sources have informed me that
    two major nations are making advances in psychoenergetics
    applications, one of which is remote viewing. It is also being
    alleged that a third smaller nation, with well known and
    advertised hatred of the American Way of Life, is also making
    progress.

            I believe those sources, because I know that liberated
    Russia sold for big bucks the Soviet psychic secrets three times
    over in order to acquire needed foreign exchange monies.

            Remote viewing was researched in response to the fact
    that the Soviet Union was engaged in large scale research into
    psychotronic applications phenomena. The national security
    implications of failure to match a technological breakthrough by
    the Soviets is obvious. In this respect, the remote viewing
    research was a product of the Cold War, and is analogous to
    myriad other projects.

            Initial research was carried out at the very
    prestigious Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Certain
    psychically-gifted individuals were able to describe distant
    locations, often with amazing accuracy.

            With this fact established, the military/intelligence
    community approved further funding. Research continued, but the
    main effort soon switched to development (applications), based on
    two key findings. First, remote viewing ability is latent in
    nearly all humans. Second, it is possible to teach ordinary
    people to perform remote viewing.

            Groups of students recruited form the ranks of the
    funding client agencies were trained at SRI. Their mission was to
    gather data, using remote viewing, regarding targets of special
    interest to the client agencies. Usually, these were targets
    inside the Soviet Union that had resisted the standard
    intelligence gathering techniques.

            The 15% accuracy cited in recent public statements on
    behalf of the CIA is the baseline which ordinary non-gifted and
    untrained persons often do achieve. This figure was identified
    very early in the SRI research phase. The minimum accuracy needed
    by the clients was 65%. In the later stages of the development
    (training) part of the effort, this accuracy level was achieved
    and often consistently exceeded.

            Throughout the period of my personal involvement
    (1972-1988), oversight and  monitoring teams from the client
    agencies were in constant attendance. These teams consisted of
    multi-discipline scientific professionals, some being leaders of
    their disciplines, and drawn from just about every scientific
    field. Over the years, representatives of these teams were
    rotated, with replacements coming in.

            During the sixteen-year time span involved,
    approximately 500 representatives of these oversight teams
    identified flaws and strengths in the effort. With this intense
    scrutiny, the program continued to be approved, tested, and
    ultimately utilized by testing various kinds of experimental and
    real-time applications. Thus, it seems at variance with the
    oversight committees' facts that the CIA suggests that remote
    viewing was "unpromising." But, as is well known, there are
    various levels to all games.

            Per the definition used by the client military and
    intelligence agencies, and as I identified it at SRI, developed
    (or trained) remote viewing is a highly-specialized technique.
    However, the term has been adopted unfairly and incorrectly to
    include almost any sort of psychic endeavor. This clouds the
    public mind as to what remote viewing really is.

            The key players in the development, training and use of
    remote viewing remain under the strictest security constraints.
    They can't talk, but I, at least, honor them for their commitment
    to the welfare of the Nation even if within a controversial area.
    Similarly, the documentation supporting the real story is
    archived under top security wraps.

            So, there you have it. Detach the topic of remote viewing
    from the threat analysis regarding nations who have motives
    against our own -- and yes! you can have a media circus, and
    spin doctors can gain pseudo-points and amuse and entertain the
    gullible public.

            However, remote viewers did help find SCUD missiles, did
    help find secret biological and chemical warfare projects, did
    locate tunnels and extensive underground facilities and identify
    their purposes. Not all of the time, of course, and sometimes
    imperfectly so.

            From the top of our system on down, there are many who
    could stand up and be counted regarding the efficiency of
    developed remote viewing, and even regarding superior natural
    psychics. It has been circulated in the intelligence community
    that successful remote viewing sessions probably saved the nation
    a billion-plus dollars in what otherwise would have been wasted,
    or misdirected, activities. Not a bad payback for the $20
    million.

            Why do they not stand up and be counted? For the most
    part, they are afraid of being taken apart in the press, afraid
    of being ridiculed for doing their duty in an area of threat
    analysis which was completely justified. This fear is not their
    fault. It is the fault of our unthinking and irresponsible
    popular culture.

            I now direct your attention to "successful remote
    viewing," and ask you to wonder if it can exist. Begin by
    considering psychics who successfully help the police. Add to
    that success some quite good remote viewing training. Then
    consider that what is a bit possible in natural psychics might be
    understood, developed, and then trained.

            Now assume that a "little-bit-psychic" can become a
    "whole-lot-psychic" -- and you come up with the "eight martini
    result."

            Those of you who witnessed the Nightline TV show of 28
    November 1995, will recall an individual said to be from the CIA,
    but identified only by the name "Norm."

            Mr. Robert Gates had just finished saying that remote
    viewing was unpromising. But when it came "Norm's" time to talk,
    he began saying something like, "Well, if it's the Eight-Martini
    Results you want to talk about, I won't talk about them."

            What, then, is an "eight-martini" result? Well, this is
    an intelligence community in-house term for remote viewing data
    so good that it cracks everyone's realities. So they have to go
    out and drink eight martinis to recover. Remote viewing does
    have its amusing aspects, you know.

            Regardless of official and media misdirecting, the
    general world knows now that remote viewing exists. Soon other
    nations will utilize it for their own interests.

            So official and media misdirecting is shooting Uncle Sam
    in his feet -- just for the hell of it and a few sensationalizing
    laughs.

            But some insiders know that soon a new psi-threat
    analysis will be necessary, or at least advisable.

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