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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 LN734-85 ‘It was said that when this experiment began, when the student was being interviewed, there would be static in the microphone and the video picture would tilt. The wave expert said that when he first heard about the student being able to bend a spoon and take pictures with his mind, he felt it was, "Lies, a bunch of baloney." He did not bellieve it at all. This was the same sort of attitude we had in the editorial department. ‘When we asked the student to give us a demonstration in his house, he was successful right away. It was the same on that day. With everyone wathing, he took a spoon he had just taken fron the cafeteria to use for stirring coffee, and held it up in front of his face. Right away, the small spoon bent and broke in two. Within the space of about thirty minutes, with some rest time, he bent three spoons and broke two. - ; / . When everything went smoothly, when he would pull his fingers of his right hand away from the handle of the spoon, the spoon would still be bending. Bending a Wrench In the final test, a person from the photography department brought out a wrench from a corner of the office and asked him to try to bend it. It was three millimeters thick and 1.5 centimeters wide. One end bent up over the middle. Even those who had watched him bend several spoons were amazed by this. There were many different reactions from the reporters who had watched him bend several spoons. One reporter who had started with a negative attitude said, "It's real, it's amazing. This changes the way we look at everything." One reporter said, "I believed it all along." Other reporters looked moved. They discussed supernatural things that had happened to them in the past. A computer programmer said, "It's really scary." Another chief reporter said, "My heart jumped when the spoon broke." Finally, I would like to talk about the differences between people who have observed psychic powers and those who have not. A reporter in his twenties who had not seen the demonstration said that no matter what we believed, he still did not believe it. When that computer programmer was later talking to his friends about what he - had seen that day, no matter how many times he told them, he could not make them believe. People who have not seen it with their own eyes will not believe. This is -93- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8