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Approved For Release 2008 NCL A : sia P96-00788R001300020001-6 NCLASS! ST-CS-01-169-72 July 1972 APPENDIX VI MILAN RYZL Biocummunications (Parapsychology) Scientist 1. (U) Doctor Milan Ryzl is an international authority on para~ psychology, who has lectured widely both in the United States and in Europe. Doctor Ryzl, educated in Czechoslovakia, was a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague and was a leading figure in the application of scientific methods to the study of parapsychology. After he arrived in the United States, he worked with Doctor J.B. Rhine at the Institute of Parapsychology in Durham, North Carolina. There Doctor Ryzl was especially noted for his original research on the influence of hypnosis on ESP. 2. (WU) Doctor Ryzl has taught parapsychology at San Diego State College and is currently a professor of parapsychology at San Jose State University. He is a member of and has founded para- psychological and psychical research groups in Europe and in the United States. Doctor Ryzl's primary efforts in this field have been to document a case for parapsychology by means of highly refined and systematized scientific methods. He published his results in, Parapsychology: A Scientific Approach (Hawthom Books, 1970). In his work, Doctor Ryzl presents indisputable and thoroughly documented evidence that psychic phenomena exist and scientifically examines the full range of psychic phenomena by evaluating experi- mental evidence derived from laboratory controlled testing. 3. (U) Doctor Ryzl is also well-known as a reviewer and analyst of parapsychology developments and trends in Easter Europe. He has frequently published reviews and commentaries on parapsycho- logical works from behind the Iron Curtain. One such is Telepatie A Jasnovidnost (Telepathy and Clairvoyance), by Doctor Z. Rejdak. Doctor Ryzl's review of this book was published in the July-August 1971 edition of the Parapsychology Review. 143 (Reverse Blank) UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300020001-6