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+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: I. M. Kogan
+tags:
+  - person
+  - scientist
+  - engineer
+  - Soviet
+description: I. M. Kogan was a Soviet electrical engineer and parapsychologist who researched psi phenomena from a communications perspective.
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+I. M. Kogan was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] electrical engineer and parapsychologist who approached psi research from a communications perspective. Unlike some other Soviet researchers, his work was considered relatively serious by Western intelligence agencies.[^1]
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+Kogan, like many [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] researchers, hypothesized that psi was a low-frequency radio system built into human brains. He conducted experiments to characterize psi data transmission, concluding that it could transmit about 0.1 "bit" of information per second within a laboratory, decreasing to 0.005 bits per second over six hundred miles.[^1]
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+His work gained further attention when it suddenly disappeared from public view around 1969, coinciding with reports that the [[Soviet Union|KGB]] had begun to fund and direct his laboratory at the Popov Society. This suggested a heightened interest from Soviet intelligence in the practical applications of psi.[^1]
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+[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.