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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 But given such great controversy within the scientific community, what should be the military attitude, what are the potential military uses, and how feasible are they? Thirteen of the fourteen best-known parapsychology laboratories in the United States responded to a questionnaire in 1979 giving us part of the answer. Four considered "“ESPionage” possible, five likely, and the remaining four certain. Similar an proportions of the researchers believed psychic powers might be used to physically harm, sicken, or kill individuals, or to interfere with the operation of physical equipment such as computers (33:53). Ronald McRae, an investigative reporter for Jack Anderson, spent over a year sifting through a "sea of conjectures, rumors, and confusion", studying conflictine reports, competing interests groups and conjectures of psychic researchers to compile the most accurate record of facts he could find. His 1984 book, Mind Wars: The True Story of Government Research into the Military Potential of Psychic Weapons, government projects involving psychic functioning. So so that professor Marcello Truzzi, provides startling insights into numerous much Director of the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said, 1985 He has given us enough pieces of the puzzle so that we can now at least see some of the areas filled in enough to make a preliminary assessment and recognize that government psi efforts have been grossly publicly underestimated (33: xii). Similarly, Russell Targ and Keith Harary authored a National Bestseller entitled Mind Race, where they Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 an