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Pavel Naumov Dr. Pavel Naumov P. Naumov Pavel Naumov (psychologist)	Scientists & Researchers	Person SovietUnion Parapsychology Telepathy Moscow Submarine	Moscow psychologist who in 1968 reported telepathic communication between mothers and infants in a gynecological clinic, and to whom a 1975 DIA study attributed a submarine rabbit experiment that Western accounts credit to Edward Naumov.	Moscow, Soviet Union	type with start role fn participant_in Congress on Scientific Problems of Telepathy 1968-02-22 presented 'Methods of Training Telepathic Abilities' at the Popov Society's congress in Moscow 2 type with start role fn subject_of Defense Intelligence Agency 1975-09 named in the Army-prepared study DST-1810S-387-75 as the conductor of a submarine and rabbit experiment around 1956 1	2025-08-05	2026-10-08

Pavel Naumov was a Moscow psychologist, described by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1975 as bearing "no relation to the now imprisoned Edward Naumov" (Eduard Naumov).¹ Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder wrote that he conducted studies in the noisy atmosphere of a Moscow gynecological clinic, where mothers were housed in a section distant from their babies and "cannot possibly hear them." A mother, he said, showed nervousness when her baby cried, and anxiety when an infant was in pain as a doctor took a blood specimen; "we found communication in 65 percent of our cases," he concluded in a paper at the Congress on Scientific Problems of Telepathy at the Popov Society in Moscow on February 22, 1968, titled "Methods of Training Telepathic Abilities." He also reported that girls dating boys with telepathic aptitudes correctly received up to 40 percent of the images the boys sent. Ostrander and Schroeder list a second paper, "On the Question of Wordless Transmission of Information," among his publications.²

The submarine rabbit experiment

The DIA's 1975 study, prepared by the U.S. Army Medical Intelligence and Information Agency, stated that "Dr. Pavel Naumov" conducted animal biocommunication studies "between a submerged Soviet Navy submarine and a shore research station" with a mother rabbit and her newborn litter "around 1956, three years prior to the U.S.S. The Nautilus (Telepathy Project) disclosure." According to the study, the baby rabbits were placed aboard the submarine, electrodes (possibly EEG) were implanted in the mother's brain in a shore laboratory, and assistants killed the young one by one while the submarine was submerged; at each moment of death the mother's brain produced "detectable and recordable reactions." It added that "as late as 1970 the precise protocol and results of this test described by Naumov were believed to be classified."¹ Annie Jacobsen describes a Soviet military scientist, Pavel Naumov, who conducted a notable ESP experiment around 1956 with the same arrangement, and writes that the experiment suggested to some that Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Waves might be an information carrier for Extrasensory Perception; she states that Stephan Schwartz, a former U.S. naval officer, knew of it, and that it contributed to U.S. military interest in the relationship between ELF and ESP for communication in a post-nuclear-strike environment.³

In Ostrander and Schroeder's book the rabbit experiment appears in a chapter that also quotes Pavel Naumov on mothers and infants, but the authors introduce it with "The first day we met Naumov he brought up an extremely interesting 'telepathy' test," in a conversation about the American Nautilus reports, and the Naumov they met on arrival in Moscow was Edward. In that account he put the test "about three years previously," that is, about 1965 rather than 1956, and said the reports "are, I'm sorry to say, not public."² Igor Tsykunov's 2023 article records that the submarine-and-rabbit method was repeated in the foreword to Lyall Watson's Supernature (London, 1976), and that a department under Vitaly Perov at the Institute of Automation and Electrometry in Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok sponsored by naval officers ran rabbit telepathy experiments from October 5 to November 16, 1967, after more than two years of preliminary work.⁴ The 1975 DIA study's personnel appendix lists "Naumov, P." among Soviet researchers whose affiliation is unknown.¹

When the British delegate John Cutten asked whether the work implied close cooperation with the government and the military, Naumov answered that Cutten's remark "speaks for itself."⁵ Jim Schnabel attributes the announcement at the 1968 Moscow conference that the Red Navy had replicated the entire Nautilus experiment to Eduard Naumov.⁶

Footnotes

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1. Defense Intelligence Agency, "Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research (U)," DST-1810S-387-75, September 1975, prepared by U.S. Army Medical Intelligence and Information Agency, Part I Section II and appendix, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500420001-2. https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00787r000500420001-2 ↩︎

2. Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (Prentice-Hall, 1970), chapters 1 and 3 ("Mind-Link, Body-Link") and Partial Bibliography, read in the archive.org copy of the 1984 printing. https://archive.org/details/shelia-ostrander-psychic-discoveries-behind-the-iron-curtain-1984 ↩︎

3. Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis (Little, Brown and Company, 2017). ↩︎

4. I. V. Tsykunov, "Ot fantazii k realnosti: kak istoriya Nautilusa otkryla gonku sverkhestestvennykh vooruzheniy mezhdu SSSR i SShA," Aliter (2023). https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ot-fantazii-k-realnosti-kak-istoriya-nautilusa-otkryla-gonku-sverhestestvennyh-vooruzheniy-mezhdu-sssr-i-ssha ↩︎

5. Ostrander, Sheila, and Lynn Schroeder. Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. Prentice-Hall, 1970, pp. 32-33. ↩︎

6. Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies. Dell, 1997, pp. 90-93. ↩︎