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Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact (DST-1810S-202-78) was a March 1978 Defense Intelligence Agency report, which Annie Jacobsen attributes to Dale Graff, assessing Soviet and Warsaw Pact research into psi phenomena. | Psi Research Program | 'Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact' (DST-1810S-202-78) was a March 1978 DIA report, attributed by Annie Jacobsen to Dale Graff, assessing Soviet and Warsaw Pact psi research, cited as competitive justification for American programs. | 1978-03-30 | Defense Intelligence Agency |
"Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact" (document DST-1810S-202-78, DIA Task No. PT-1810-18-76) was published on March 30, 1978, with an information cutoff date of October 1, 1977. It was prepared by the Foreign Technology Division of the Air Force Systems Command and approved by the Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence of the Defense Intelligence Agency.1 Annie Jacobsen wrote that Dale Graff was its author.2 The report assessed Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact research into Psi phenomena, including electromagnetic fields, quantum physics, holography, and gravitation. Graff coined the term "paraphysics" to describe this field, aiming to pivot the nomenclature away from psychology towards physics to gain more traction within the Department of Defense.2
The report highlighted Soviet research in biophysics and psychic healing, Kirlian photographs, auras, and map dowsing, with particular attention to Psychokinesis. It summarized the activities of individuals whose abilities were of concern to the U.S. intelligence and military communities, citing the "Geller Effect" and the frog experiments of Ninel Kulagina.2
This report, along with the earlier "Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR" report, contributed to the U.S. intelligence community's increased interest in and funding of its own psi research, including the Stargate Project.2
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The report rated the telepathy experiments of I. M. Kogan, begun in 1965, as the best documented and controlled of the Soviet data; in a 1967 series attested by at least five members of the Popov Society, 105 of 135 randomly selected digits were received correctly, which the report called the most statistically significant result ever reported in psychic research literature.1 It identified the Kazakh State University imeni Kirov in Alma-Ata as in all probability the largest Soviet center, with at least 20 researchers known, and gave Table III totals of 75 cities, 213 facilities and 657 persons for Warsaw Pact paraphysics research. On funding it recorded that the estimate of 12 to 20 million rubles had no known derivation and that the RAND Corporation had found "prima facie evidence that the figure of 12 to 20 million rubles is, if anything, grossly inflated."1
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Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact, DST-1810S-202-78, Foreign Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, for the Defense Intelligence Agency, 30 March 1978, front matter and Sections II and VII. https://archive.org/details/ParaphysicsRDWarsawPact_201609 ↩︎
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Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎