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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 1N734-85 one. This number is very significant. It shows that mice used prediction to avoid a shock in this experiment. - Several years later (1971), S. S. Schouten from Holland, to verify the French experiment described above, designed a new experiment. In order to test white mice's ability to predict, he changed the punishment stimulus to a reward stimulus. Ina state of water deprivation, the white mice would be given water when they made the correct response. Another purpose of this experiment was to check it there was any thought transfer among the mice. , Schouten first trained the mice to press a control lever on one side of the cage. If the buzzer sounded, they were given a drop of water. After they had learned how to do this, they were given further training. A black and white lever were installed. Both sides of the cage had a light. A watering system was installed in the side of the cage. The mice were trained that when a light went on on one end of the cage, if they pressed that color lever they would be rewarded with water. If they did not press the lever, the light was extinguished. ; ; After the mice learned this sequence, two cages similar to the one used in the training described above were prepared. One was used as the target cage, but it did not have a bar. The other was the response cage, but it did not have lights. The two cages were separated by several rooms. During the experiment, the mice in the target cage could see the black or white light flashing, knew what they were supposed to do, but there was no bar for them to press. The mice in the response cage had a black and white bar to press, but did not know which one to press unless they received ESP signals from the mice, in the target cage. If themie in the response cage pressed ‘the correct bar, the mice in both cages were rewarded with a drink of water. This experiment was conducted with ten mice. The average for all the rats was 16 correct responses out of 20. This seems significant, but there is no way to determine if there was thought transfer or if it was psychic vision. The results were mostly similar to those of the experiment in France. Only when the experiments are conducted by humans do the mice show any psychic ability. Several years ago, people began testing animals for PK in Seattle. When people proved man had PK abilities, they began to wonder if animals had similar abilities. Theoretically, ESP and PK are two different aspects of the same ability. H. Schmidt, research physicist for Boeing aircraft, designed an especially sensitive instrument for testing PK. Inside was a geiger counter and a light | switch controlled by strontium 90 decay. Barring anything unexpected, the light should be on 50% of the time and off 50% of the time. In a small room with a temperature of zero degrees, he installed a heat lamp of 200 watts. Then he put _ a small cat which likes warmth in the room. He conducted five successive ' experiments in the afternoon. Each half hour was an experimental group. When each experimental group was concluded and recorded, the at was remmoved, but the equipment was left on in order to test whether there was a 50/50 on/off ratio when the cat was not there. Each experimental group was -88- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8