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Approved For Release 2090/0841 1aT@1A RDPY6-0OVT2ARORAZ00400002-9 Envelope test At first, Mr. Zhang's clairvoyance abilities were tested by showing him a sealed business envelope. In the envelope there were four Chinese characters written with a red, fine point permanent marker on a transparent, 2 mm thick polyester foil. After writing, the text was covered by a 0.5 mm thick trace detector that looks like a common red translucent foil. Both foils were taped together making the red text invisible under the red foil. The only person who knew the text and the content of the envelope, prepared in advance, was Dr.Li. . 1 Upon presentation, Mr. Zhang gave a proper description of the content of the envelope as two rectangular pieces of foil, one of them red, held together in four corners by adhesive tape. He also said that there were 4 red characters written on the foil but he could not see them clearly. In his attempts to guess he wrote four characters out of which the first two were correct. Then, he crossed over and wrote another four characters. This time only the third one was correct. Finally, he gave up saying v again that he could not see clearly. Next, Mr. Zhang folded one of the edges of the envelope, sufficiently to cover a small coin, and handed it to one of the scientist (Dr. Chen). The latter, after ensuring that the coin is indeed in the fold and not in the envelope, held it visible to 8 Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300400002-9