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Appr poration (pp. 2-3) plans to investi- gate. It will study the man who caused the weird changes in the rings. His name is Uri Geller. Uri, a 25-year-old native of Israel, is well-known in that country for. his ability with telepathy. (Telepathy is a form of ESP that involves the ex- change of mental messages between two or more people.) Uri’s ability with telepathy attract- ed the attention of Dr. A. Puharich, a physician from New York City who has done much psychical research. When Dr. Puharich was convinced that Uri possessed PK ability, he ar- ranged a trip to America for a series of tests and psychic experiments. While here Uri demonstrated a. whole string of seemingly unbelievable PK experiences—all witnessed by a group of distinguished doctors and sci- entists, including Capt. Edgar Mitchell. Based on an interview with ° a member of the group, here is what - Uri’s audience says they saw. REPORT OF EVENTS The day. began at Dr, Puharich’s home with a gold ring containing a stone.. The stone was attached to the band with heavy gold prongs. . Uri, using only concentration, caused the prongs to bend back from the stone. The wearer felt nothing. The second occurence involved Captain Mitchell’s astronaut watch— a very large instrument with double stems and lots of hands. Everyone _noted the time: 10 a.m. The watch was placed facedown on. a table, and Uri announced he would move the hands back. He went into deep concentration, and when Captain Mitchell turned the watch over, the hands had been moved back one hour and eight minutes. ved For Releasg,200g§03/07 : CIA-RDP96- o07a7agoows100022- 5 Next, a 14-carat gold ring—large and hard—was placed on the table. Uri concentrated and told the group to watch the ring. Suddenly there ap- peared a smooth cut through one side of it, As the group watched, one-half of ’ the ring began twisting out of shape. It continued to twist for several hours, even after Uri had stopped concen- trating on it. It ended up as the S- shaped object pictured on page 4. The afternoon’ brought even more PK demonstrations. Uri shattered a long needle—merely by concentrating on it. Then he caused the pointed end of a safety pin to bend out of shape by rubbing it between. his thumb and forefinger. The power followed Uri ‘outdoors i also. While outside getting a breath of =| fresh air, he closed his hand over the hand of someone who. was holding a young green bud from a bush. Within 20 seconds the bud was brown and withered. 1S HE FOR REAL? Those are the reported events, Were they all part of a hoax? Remember, Uri was. carefully watched by trained scientists and doctors, an audience not easy to fool. Nobody pretends to know how Uri’s . ability works. But EDMA Corp. in- tends to try to find out. It hopes to do tests on Uri, monitoring his brain waves, heartbeat, and muscular ac- tivity to find out. what happens when he goes into his PK state. , That. might be-tough, because Uri himself says that his power comes and goes. And when the power is gone, he couldn’t shear through a ring any © more than you could. But further studies of Uri Geller could be very in- teresting. Very interesting. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100022-5