The FTD concluded: “Since the early 1960’s, USSR researchers have expressed an interest in Eisenbud’s work.…”
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“His experiments involve attempts to have ‘mental images’ appear on photographic film,” recorded the FTD, adding: “He claims to have recorded this effect under controlled conditions. As an example, a person who could visualise images well, even to the point of hallucinating, was able to specify the image beforehand that was later observed on the film. “Although much of his work appears to be very non-professional, his later experiments with the apparent recording of mental imagery appear reasonably well controlled.
However, no firm evaluation can be made of his experimental procedure or results at this time. Other researchers, such as L. Vilenskaya, have apparently observed some of Krokhalev’s experiments and judged them valid.” The FTD continued: “This form of apparent psychoenergetic-type process is not new to parapsychological researchers. Krokhalev’s investigations appear similar to those reported in the US by Dr. J. Eisenbud, who is a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Medical School. Dr. Eisenbud conducted extensive controlled investigations into the alleged ability of a subject, Ted Serios, who appeared to cause specific images to appear on films when under intense concentration. Eisenbud’s recent work appears to be valid but is subject to the same evaluation difficulty as most all investigations involving such phenomena.”
The FTD concluded: “Since the early 1960’s, USSR researchers have expressed an interest in Eisenbud’s work, along with all the other forms of apparent psychoenergetic processes. There has also been recent evidence of similar research, apparently with positive results, in a Japanese research laboratory.” Now let’s take a look at what the British have done in this field. In 2007, the British Ministry of Defence admitted that between 2001 and 2002, it had undertaken a secret, 168-page study to determine if remote-viewing and psychic phenomena might prove to be valuable in terms of intelligence gathering.
The documentation, declassified as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request submitted to the MoD by British UFO researcher and author Timothy Good, was heavily blacked out by MoD censors upon its release.
According to Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the MoD between 1991 and 1994, this was because “the MoD believes their release would compromise defence interests in relation to the working practices of the Defence Intelligence Staff.”
Pope continues: “Other sections have been blacked out because the MoD judge that release would undermine international relations. This is almost certainly a reference to the US, because the report draws heavily on American research and is likely to include details of liaison with the US intelligence community.” Pope adds: “The MoD’s remote viewing study was undertaken in 2001 and the report into this work was dated June 2002. Details of the distribution are not known, because the MoD has withheld this information, but only three copies of the report were ever made. Some of the work was carried out by a commercial company, presumably on a contract basis. Again, details of this company’s identity have been withheld by the MoD.”
Intriguingly, Pope says, “while some remote viewers are adjudged not to have accessed the target, some assessments stated that ‘the subject may have accessed the target’ or that the subject ‘had accessed some of the features associated with the target.’ “Skeptics and cynics will doubtless say the whole project was a waste of time and money—details of the cost of this study have been withheld. But to me, such criticism shows a lack of imagination … maybe the strangest X-File in the MoD’s history has a final message for the bad guys: beyond your understanding and against all odds, we’re coming to get you. The psychic spies are on your trail.”
Indeed, as Pope says: “I worked for the MoD for 21 years and know the mindset. While Bin Laden and Iraqi WMD may not have featured in the original thinking behind the study, those involved are unlikely not to have thought about these as potential RV targets, as the work progressed. In a sense, the DIS will have regarded RV as just another potential means of gathering intelligence, and like any intelligence-gathering capability, the issue is how best to focus your capability on current requirements.” The most telling quote in that regard is the one near the bottom of page two: “The second phase could involve the selection of one or more individuals who it is felt can be ‘trusted’ to be used for the sensitive targets.”
In other words, the secret research may very well be continuing. All of which brings us back to Raymond Wallis.