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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 Affairs Committee chairman Dante Fascell came away impressed (22:5). Was Lt. Col. Alexander’s message taken seriously? Is the Defense Department conducting more coordinated parapsychology research? Do leaders at all levels have a basic understanding of these psychic weapons systems we may soon encounter? What is the potential threat to the electronic components which form the basic foundation of -~ all our sophisticated weapons systems? In light of future Defense Department funding limitations, does parapsychology (the mind frontier) really offer a new battlefield dimension which warrants continued military exploration? This paper attempts to answer these questions by providing an unclassified status update on LT. COL. Alexander’s 1980 concerns. It is not a research report to identify everything the government is doing. By researching events and literature in the 1980s, particularly those involving military personnel and government programs, this paper shows that too much is happening in the parapsychology field to ignore, and too little information is disseminated to know how to treat it properly. DEFINING PARAPSYCHOLOGY Paranormal phenomena are observable facts or events which are not scientifically explainable at this time. Psychic research includes such phenomena as telepathy (mind-to-mind communication), precognition (knowledge of future events), dowsing (clairvoyant ability to find water, Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 4