[iwar] [fc:From.satellites.to.psychics]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2002-05-03 22:52:33

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From satellites to psychics

NEW CIA DOCUMENTS REVEAL AGENCY'S SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EXPLOITS

 Washington, D.C., September 10 - The National Security Archive today 
published over <A HREF="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/index.html">40 
declassified CIA and Intelligence Community documents</A> 
tracing the CIA’s involvement in the exploitation of science and 
technology for intelligence purposes. The documents illuminate some of 
the CIA’s most significant achievements, from breakthroughs in overhead 
reconnaissance, to some of its more dubious efforts including an attempt 
to employ alleged psychics for “remote viewing” of Soviet installations 
and the wiring of cats for use in audio surveillance operations. The 
documents were obtained by Archive Senior Fellow Jeffrey Richelson for 
his latest book, &lt;A HREF="http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/perseus-cgi-bin/display/0-8133-6699-2"The 
Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA’s Directorate of 
Science and Technology&lt;/A, and include material obtained through the Freedom 

of Information Act, the National Archives, and the CIA public affairs 
office. The documents show how the agency, in its first fifteen to twenty 
years became involved in the development of satellite and aerial 
reconnaissance systems, the technical analysis of foreign space and 
missile systems, the analysis of foreign nuclear programs, the collection 
of electronic intelligence to aid analysts of Soviet missile systems as 
well as those charged with determining the vulnerability of CIA  
reconnaissance aircraft.  (One CIA program, PALLADIUM, involved 
manipulating Soviet radars to place “ghost aircraft” on the screens of 
Soviet operators – and determine how well the Soviets could detect 
aircraft of different sizes.) The documents also trace the evolution of 
CIA’s science and technology activities and organization during the Cold 
War and beyond – as well as conflicts with the National Reconnaissance 
Office and Air Force with regard to satellite development and technical 
intelligence analysis. 

In addition to employing “psychics” to attempt to peer into Soviet and 
other foreign military activities, other questionable scientific 
activities, illustrated by the documents, included behavior modification 
research and the attempt to use cats as mobile bugging devices (a project 
dubbed “Acoustic Kitty”). A never before published document contains a 
rather negative evaluation of a “remote viewing” exercise directed at a 
facility the CIA designated URDF-3 (Unidentified Research and Development 
Facility-3). 

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