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of dollars investigating extrasensory phenomina to determine whether the human mind can be harnessed to perform various acts of war—for example, penetrating secret files, locating submarines or blowing up guided missiles in midflight.
The Times also cites the Pentagon’s denial that it is spending money on psychic research. But the paper then notes that Lt. Gen. Danial 0. Graham, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, acknowledged in an interview that the military had spent “considerable sums” on psychic research (although less than the $6 million annually that McRae says was expanded).
According to the Times, what emerges from McRae’s book and two others recently published on the same topic is “a picture of both superpowers trying to master such esoteric arts as ESP (extrasensory perception), telepathy (thought transfer), clairvoyance (seeing things that are out of sight) and psychokinesis (mental influence over objects or events)—all in the name of the national defense.”
And what does McRae think? He believes that the government fears there may be something to this mental warfare and if the U.S. doesn’t learn to control psychic weapons first, then the soviets may get the upper hand. But as to whether these mental powers actually exist in anyone—American or Russian—he isn’t so sure. “I started out as a hardline skeptic. In fact, I wasn’t even very interested in the subject. But once I
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