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Approved For Release £000/08/182 ©1ALRDP96-5079PR680300400002-9 yoga although it is easier to exercise than difficult stretching postures of its Indian counterpart. The fast growing popularity of qigong in China has been accelerated by the fame of a few individuals capable of performing various supernatural tasks ranging from healing to psychokinesis. These supernatural abilities were tested in various elaborate experiments and are well documented in Chinese scientific journals [1-10]. Mr. Zhang Baosheng Born in 1955 in Najing, Zhang Baosheng received some basic education and worked in a local factory. Apparently he did not distinguish himself in any way until one day, when handing to the coworker a letter, he casually mentioned what is written in it. Angry coworker, suspecting the message from his girl-friend has been steam opened, read, and resealed, complained to the manager. When confronted with the supervisor, Zhang Baosheng seemed sincerely surprised that not everybody can read through the cover and immediately demonstrated his ability by telling the contains of a closed business file picked at random by the baffled manager. Since that event in 1976 Zhang Baosheng's abilities were 5 Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300400002-9