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Bibliographies on Parapsychology (Psychoenergetics) and Related Subjects USSR

Central Intelligence Agency · 1972-03-28 · 108 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 28 March 1972, contains a translated Soviet bibliography on parapsychology (psychoenergetics) and related subjects. E. K. Naumov and L. V. Vilenskaya compiled it in Moscow in 1971. It lists Soviet and foreign works on telepathy, bioenergetics, dermo-optic sensitivity, yoga and autogenic training, followed by a list of journals and foreign writing on Soviet research. Appended is a 1952 CIA foreign-press report from Vienna's Die Presse on two fiery disks over the Belgian Congo uranium mines, which Commander Pierre chased in a fighter.

  • p. 77 …Medhurst, R. G., "The Moscow Conference: June 1968," J. of Paral- physics, Vol 2, No 3…
  • p. 105 …Medhurst, R. G., "The Moscow Conference: June 1968," J. of Para- physics, Vol 2, No 3…

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APPENDIX II. Foreign Literature on Soviet Research

1. Banerjee, H. N., "Parapsychology in Russia," Indian J. Parapsych. Vol 3, No 3, 1961-62, pp 43-51.

2. Donnayar, F., White, R., "Psychical Research in Colleges and Universities. Part 4. Institutions in Non-English Speaking Countries," J. Amar; Soc, Psych, Ras., Vol 58, No 2, 1964, pp 79-104.

3. Herbert, B., "ESP and Soviet Scepticism," New Scientists, Jan 23, 1969, Vol 41, No 633, p 192.

4. Keil, H. H. J., "Russian Parapsychologists Hold Meeting," Newsletter of the Parapsychology Foundation, Vol 15, No 5, 1968, pp 12-14.

5. Medhurst, R. G., "The Moscow Conference: June 1968," J. of Para- physics, Vol 2, No 3, 1968, pp 71-72.

6. "Moscow Researcher Outlines 'Electronic' Hypnosis Apparatus," Newsletter of the Parapsychology Foundation, 1964, Vol 11, No 2, p 7.

7. "Moscow Symposium Held," Bulletin FRNM, 1968, No 10, p 3.

8. Ostrander, Sheils, Schroeder, Lynn, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Englewood Cliffs, N. Y., Prentice-Hall, 1970.

9. "Parapsychology in Russia," Parapsychology Bulletin, No 57, May 1961, p 1

10. "Parapsychology in the Soviet Union," Special Issue International Journal of Parapsychology, Vol 7, No 4, 1965.

11. Pract, J. G., "Parapsychology in Russia and Czechoslovakia." J. Soc. Psych. Res., Vol 42, 1963, pp 16-20.

12. Pratt, J. G., "ESP Research in Russia and Czechoslovakia," International J. of Neuropsychiatry, Vol 2, No 5, 1966.

13. "The Relationship of Parapsychology to Communism," Parapsychology Today, edited by J. B. Rhine and R. Brier, New York, Citadel, 1968.

14. Rush, J. H., "Book Review: Experiments in Mental Suggestion by L. L. Vassiliev," Hampshire, England, Gally Hill Press, 1963. J. Amer. Soc. Psych. Res., Vol 50, No 3, 1964, pp 216-221.

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