Jack Anderson Column: 'Yes, Psychic Warfare Is Part of the Game' (Washington Post, 5 Feb 1981)

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THE WASHINGTON POST
5 February 1981

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Warfare Is Part. of f the Game

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Last month, I revealed a’ Pentagon -

secret that raised eyebrows from coast -
to coast. To the thousands of skeptics ~

who wrote in, no, I don’t’ take hallu-.:

cinogens. ‘The brass hats .are,- indeed, ° .
dabbling ‘in the-dark arta. }¥.3¢2 i605.
They. are seriously trying to-develop « :
weapons: based. on extrasensory. “per-~)
ceptionsJf the research is. successful, “i
the next,war could be won. presumab- .:

ly by, casting an evil eye on, Moscow.)

The. true. believers. ‘are: convinced

that our, national security can be pre-:°

served ‘oaly. by spending millions - of...
dollars: ‘on.:such comic-strip concepts.:*

“every other weapon oheolete,” he told.

"my associate, Ron McRae. :

The congressman is quite correct;
‘the Buck Rogers weapons would cer-
tainly make plain old nuclear bombs
obsolete — if they should ever work.

_.One.such weapon, it turns out, has
- been blessed with an Air -Force con-

-tract..It’s an antimissile ‘system: that _

‘ would: throw a: time ,warp over: the
.NorthPole. Incoming: Soviet* missiles

would fly into the time warp and ex-

‘plode harmlessly in the-past — per-

‘haps blowing up Cmdr. Robert Peary]

or, if the time warp mechanism was

as the: “hyperspatial howitzer,”. which :;: tuned: to really high. frequency, killing

could transmit.-a:;nuclear:/.a few dinosaurs. ~:

supposedly ..
explosion in. the Nevada desert to the. :
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ample,” is* a” respected’ five-term*con-***

gressman and a member of the House _
Select Committee on: Intelligence. He
has. advocated . psychotronic..weapons —
with the::tenacious courage:.of some
death-defying marvel.’ He: has‘ teetered ° ”

bling high:-wire, keeping _ ‘his: balance ©
against ‘the“unseen. push f and “pull of
mighty interests, inching his .way- for-.

ward. a: few.more yards to:his-goal. =" a

By . Pentagon :standards,; not much:

money. has been: invested on. psychic -,

warfare —a" trifling. $6< million. Rose »

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‘The National Security. Agency, to

“ESP to: crack Soviet. codes. When the

* cite another example, has tried to |
a agency’s computers have failed to

“peychotronic weapons’ ga gap” aa ‘the ‘

Soviet Union are a waste of money.
I must confess that long-range hyp-.

‘nosis, like the hyperspatial howitzer, :

happens to be one of the key weapons ,

. in the voodoo warriors’ arsenal.

But there are: more skeptics ‘than’

‘advocates. One critic. of ESP warfare...
- physicist Martin Gardner, character- |

'- izes the. budget for psychotronie weap- .

: break~the -secret codes ‘ produced by4

the Kremlin’s computers, the NSA‘

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technicians have enlisted the help of :

local astrologists and palm readers. ...
So far, according to my sources, the
swamis have been no more su

-but ever: righted himself on the trem-, .than ‘our computers. But the Ouija-

board warriors are still trying. .
Reporting on the bizarre research

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that. goes on in the Pentagon is not

_-without its hazards. Several self-styled
* psychics have accused me of being an
unwitting victim of Soviet success in
‘the field..I am, they say, acting under |

thinks the * United States, should - ibe, “ long-range Kremlin ‘hypnosis intended *

spending? a-lot more? money on-
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which bad. research sucks: -good.. money
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