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AiResearch Manufacturing Group was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor known for its work on life support systems and classified research. | Private Organization | AiResearch Manufacturing Group was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor based in Torrance, California. | 1936 | Torrance, California |
AiResearch Manufacturing Group was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor based in Torrance, California. The company held numerous classified Department of Defense contracts, including those in avionics, hydraulics, and microprocessors. Notably, AiResearch engineered the life support systems for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts, giving it unique expertise in human physiology under extreme conditions.1
In the context of psychic research, the Central Intelligence Agency contracted AiResearch to conduct a classified study on Soviet Union Extrasensory Perception, Psychokinesis, and electromagnetic (EM) research. While AiResearch found much of the Soviet work to be "speculative, unscientific and sensationalistic," they identified a cause for alarm in Soviet efforts to enhance psychic functioning by bombarding test subjects with very high frequency (VHF) sound and pulsing the brain with electromagnetic signals. The goal was to bring humans to "the razor's edge between sleep and wakefulness" and to "facilitate hallucinations and altered states."1
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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. ↩︎