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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 warheads, etc." (9:84). Whether the Soviets have developed all of these weapons is not the crucial point. What is apparent, however, is the tremendous potential threat of psychotronics as an instrument of power. The crucial point, therefore, is that the Soviets apparently are aggressively pursuing research to control this instrument. In 1977 Soviet parapsychology research - finally became an issue the Carter administration could not ignore, no matter how skeptical some officials remained. On June 11, the KGB arrested Los Angeles Times reporter Robert C. Toth in Moscow and charged him with obtaining a “secret” state document, which revealed the existence of ongoing research in parapsychology at several laboratories in the Soviet Union... [Soviets] admitted for the first time current official Soviet interest in the military potential of parapsychology (33:74-75). This incident focused presidential attention on a science which some of his advisers claimed did not even exist. Carter ordered a new definitive intelligence estimate of Soviet psychic research and its military potential, using all the intelligence resources available to the CIA, the first such report ever done at the pinnacle of the U.S. national security establishment (33:76). The report was completed in 1978 but only partially released under the Freedom of Information Act in 1980. Rather ambiguously, they “found no evidence of a massive Seviet ‘psycho-warfare’...Nor did the CIA dismiss entirely the most apocalyptic allegations of secret Soviet psi research...the evidence is fragmentary and contradictory at best" (33:78). Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 1¢