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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 With these tremendous expanded mental capabilities comes an equally awesome threat to bath self and country, one which stretches the imagination far beyond its normal boundaries. Martin Ebon cites a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report entitled "Controlled Offensive Behavior-- USSR" which was declassified elght years ahead of schedule. The report states: The Soviet Umion is well aware of the benefits and applications of parapsychology research...Many scientists, U.S. and Soviet, feel that parapsychology can be harnessed to create conditions where one can alter or manipulate the minds of others. The major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics and bionics are [sic] said to come from the Soviet military and the KGB (18:12). Kbon uses extensive research to provide an in-depth account of parapsychology research in both the Soviet Union and the United States. In noting the dramatic increase in KGB security and control of Soviet parapsychology research, he concludes that "psychic warfare is something to fear" (18: 219). After returning from a visit to the Soviet Union as a suest of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in September 1983, Russell Targ wrote, “Many Soviet laboratories appear to be conducting experiments in which their main goal is the modification of the behavior and feelings of remote humans and animals by psychic means" (24:78). In summarizing his travels from Moscow to Leningrad to Yerevan ~ “* and his discussions with Soviet researchers, he notes, They universally expressed the feeling that Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96- 00789R001001420001 -3 wm