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_ Approved F For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001001420001 3 ONT arth BEAR IR Gall Serer oct Re tet DOL S NALS Sr CENCE We eR SCSAUSE SCORE CON UCU eh So Samuel Koslov, ‘the assistant secretary of the Navy who tried unsuccessfully to eliminate psychic research, dislikes even the mention of so called psychic weapons (33:66). Navy research in the mid-seventies determined that psychics could detect remote electromagnetic sources, indicating perhaps they could also detect submerged submarines. The Navy also sponsored research to see if psychics could influence the magnetometers used to detect, the magnetism of submerged substances. Dr. Joel Lawson, _ once head of the Naval Electronic Systems Command, said “IT have always believed that ESP is the only way to fight submarines. The magnetometer tests were designed to prove the principle. Once willing to discuss psychic warfare openly, now he has been officially silenced (33:106). My own research experience demonstrates leaders at all levels do not have a basic understanding of psychic weapons systems. I questioned many general officers on the subject of parapsychology and only one was even aware of what I was referring to. That one senior officer said, “If you are interested in that you need to have your head examined!" He refused to even discuss which service or organization I could “contact for more information. The total nonfamiliarity of senior officers I questioned and similar indications from my Air War College classmates is a. poor response to Alexander’s 1980 message. Further, the hostile response I received from the one general who had some familiarity indicated either a “closed-mind" or “stay away" attitude. You can imagine my surprise when I later found Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 44 s vee ae