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Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 CONFIDENTIAL DST-18108-387-75 oo Py September 1975 (U) Numerous Soviet experiments in human telepathic communication fol- lowed Kogan's work. Rapid Soviet advances in electronics, cybernetics, bionics, and neurophysiology brought new techniques to the study of telepathic phenomena. By 1970 the prime objective of Soviet telepathic research was reproducibility of results and Soviet scientists now say that in the future they will be able to make ample use of telepathic resources and to develop, direct, and control telepathic processes as well. PART B - Current Soviet/Czech Theories and Research Objectives (U) The most obvious trend of current Soviet and Czech telepathy research is that it is now causally oriented rather than directed toward pragmatic attempts to apply observed but little-understood phenomena, The previous "cart-before-the-horse' approach was not, however, an illogical one, since it led them to theorize that telepathic effects may be based on subtle, unidentified forms of energy or non-energy interactions. (U) In 1973 Peter Rezek of Prague stated that telepathy may be conceived of as transfer realized by means of some known or unknown type of energy, or is made possible by some non-energy factor that accompanies the func- tioning of the brain. Rezek questions G.A. Sergeyev's dedication to the interpretation of electroencephalograms (EEG) and wave measurements to uncover the carrier of transfer and feels that Sergeyev's approach is am, directed primarily toward the application of the investigated phenomena and not towards an understanding of them. He questions attempts to regulate or confpol psychic phenomena before their underlying causes are under- stood. According to Rezek, ESP research and research onj sense per- ception are similar since scientists in both fields are investigating the composition and structure of the apparatus by which transfer takes place. Perception, as such, in the natural science approach, is actually incom- prehensible; nevertheless, the advocates of this approach are unable to accept telepathic phenomena because proof of energy transfer is lacking. Rezek feels that if the natural-science approach, which is unable to explain perception as such, were applied to ESP, this would make ESP doubly incomprehensible. Even if a wave motion is found to be associated with ESP, this phenomenon as such will again be incomprehensible. Rezek concludes that when ordinary sense perception become comprehensible, it may open the way to the understanding of telepathy. On the other hand, ESP could become the basis for an understanding of perception in general. SG1B 20 Man, CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3