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Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96- 00792R000600350001 -3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-1810S-387-75 September 1975 at the Moscow section of the Scientific-Technical Society of Radio Engineering and Telecommunications imeni A.S. Popov, with the purpose of furthering scientific research on information transmission "in the living part of nature." The early Soviet objectives which were made public were: (1) to study and organize relevant materials from the world literature; (2) to record and systematize observed occurrences . of "spontaneous" telepathy; and (3) to develop and organize experiments on artifically initiated telepathic occurrences. _(U) At a meeting of the Bionics Department of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1965, I.M. Kogan raised the following three questions: (1) is telepathy possible in principle; (2) does it contradict natural laws; and finally, (3) do the observed facts agree with the concept of electromagnetic fields? To answer these questions, the following hypotheses have been advanced in the USSR: (1) The electromagnetic hypothesis (1892), advanced as a result of the discovery of electromagnetic waves in 1888. By the mid 1960s this hypothesis had been subjectd to considerable criticism. The entire range of the electromagnetic spectrum from gamma rays to radio waves had been studied; throughout this range there was not a single sector in which telepathic communication could be established. Experiments with reliable forms of metallic shielding had not prevented the percipient from receiv- ing messages transmitted to him (also verified in the West). Moreover, the effectiveness of "signals" transmitted over hundreds or thousands of kilometers should, according to the theory, diminish in proportion to the square of the distance; this has never been established in relevant exper- imentation. The electromagnetic hypothesis has not been rejected and some evidence indicates that there may be electromagnetic waves of some unknown length emitted by the brain which are capable of penetrating metallic obstacles. (2) The metaethereal hypothesis, borrowed from French parapsychology. This presupposes the existence of some unknown methaetheredl energy, the oscillations of which can be detected only by special organs of "crypto- aesthetic sensitivity," possessed by persons endowed with parapsychic abilities. (3) The psychic energy hypothesis. According to this theory, bio- electrical charges in the “working” brain of the inductor are transformed into psychic energy which is transformed back again into bioelectric charges in the "receiving" brain of the percipient. (4) L. Vasilev proposed the gravitational hypothesis, first formulated by the German physicist Pascual Jordon and Einstein's former collaborator Dr. B. Hoffman. Vasilev suggested that an interaction between the 16 Approved For Release 200AN08/031 FIAFRDP96-00792R000600350001-3