Monday, August 21, 2006

[spy v spy] russia’s kgb and the clairvoyants – grasping at straws?

Would you fear an international intelligence service which employed clairvoyants?

Correspondents of the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily said that not long before he passed away, Professor Alexander Spirkin, well-known scholar and co-author of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, admitted in an interview that the Soviet KGB employed clairvoyants to spy on their enemies.

Alexander Spirkin used to head a secret lab under the Soviet government and worked closely with clairvoyants hired to carry out special missions for the Kremlin.

“I used to work closely with hundreds of all sorts of extrasensory individuals,” Mr. Spirkin recalled in a conversation with Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondents.

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3 comments:

  1. The Americans ran a similar operation during, I think, the late 60s to mid 80s, before disbanding it.

    ScotsToryB

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  2. I meant to get back to you before!

    Try http://www.williamjames.com/Folklore/PSIONICS.htm

    About 10% down under the heading 'America' it gives the basics about 'remote viewing'. You should be able to follow up from there - if you haven't by now. There was a TV programme made about it but it's so long ago I have no idea who broadcast it.


    STB

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