part0013

“E SP Wars” sounds like something from a science fiction novel. Yet what you have before you is a book written with contributions by military men and scientists, generals and Ph.Ds., some of whom directed the largest military ESP programs in the US and Russia. Psychic espionage, telepathy, psychotronic generators, and the psychic work that military intelligence, the CIA, and the KGB engaged in are among the many topics covered in this book.

It has repeatedly been said that intelligence services and military personnel around the world exhibit a special interest in parapsychology, the field of science that studies psychic phenomena and abilities. In the absence of authentic information from the agencies involved, there has been much misunderstanding and many unsubstantiated claims made about these programs. In reality, some military and intelligence agencies do view psychic means of gathering data and influencing people as a means of waging a new type of war—ESP Wars. This particular interest in parapsychology has allowed the opportunity to create new and unique types of espionage and weapons. This is why work in these areas has been, and continues to be, conducted in recent decades in many countries, above all in the USSR/Russia and the US, which were until relatively recently major geopolitical adversaries.

The most extensive work in the field of military ESP and parapsychology was conducted in Russia by a special Directorate of the General Staff known as secret Military Unit 10003 under the leadership of Lieutenant General Alexei Savin, Ph.D. Much work was done in the Federal Security Service and the Presidential Security/Secret Service—special services, which emerged from the 9th Directorate of the KGB—under the direction of Major Generals Boris Ratnikov and Georgii Rogozin, who served as Vice Directors of these services. Parapsychological research and ESP operations in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were directed by the Colonel of Internal Services, Colonel (and Professor) Vyacheslav Zvonikov, M.D.

The Star Gate program, the most extensive military ESP program in the US, was conducted by military intelligence and CIA from 1972 until 1995. Its main goal was the application of extrasensory perception for military purposes, primarily the use of remote viewing to gather information about military installations in the USSR. Dr. Edwin May was the director of this program during the last decade of its operation. Joe McMoneagle, a professional intelligence agent of the highest caliber, was officially registered as Agent 001, and became the project’s most successful psychic.

Naturally, all these programs were classified as top-secret. But, times have changed. The history of the Communist Bloc has come to an end, the strategic parity of forces has changed, and many military secrets are no longer secret. Former opponents have become friends, have had the opportunity to share their experiences, achievements and plans for the future and have started to work together. One result is the book you are holding in your hands. I know that other books have been planned, and more than one television production company has expressed interest in becoming involved, so it is entirely possible that there will be a series of documentary films based on this and subsequent books. You have before you the first book, which I recommend to your attention in every possible way.

I’d like to make some general remarks concerning the material presented.

Non-military research in parapsychology in both the Soviet Union and the United States did not fundamentally differ either in its focus or level. Scientists set the same goals, based their work on the same principles, used similar techniques and equipment, and their results were also similar. With respect to the military research, there were some differences. In the US, a major emphasis was placed on working with operative psychics and remote viewing. In other words, the focus was, on the extrasensory retrieval of information about the potential enemy’s important installations, as was distinctly defined in the Star Gate program. Although similar work was done in the Soviet Union and Russia, there were two features that fundamentally distinguished it.

First, psychics were physically on site during combat operations, such as in Chechnya. This surprised Americans, because in fact, their presence wasn’t necessary in working with ESP. But there were substantial reasons for this, and General Savin will discuss them.

Second, more attention was placed on developing hardware in working with the psyche and on developing unusual methods to influence material objects, what later became fashionably known as “psychotronic generators” or “psychotronic weapons.” The constraint of Marxist-Leninist ideology contributed in part to this approach because from its point of view, hardware was more “material” than the “mystical fluids” of psychics. Hardware research was conducted in many classified scientific research institutes, and civilian scientists also submitted design proposals for hardware. In all honesty, it should be pointed out that 90% of these proposals, designs and research projects were unsuccessful, and mostly the result of errors, scientific incompetence or simply deceit. As for the remaining 10%, they were, and still remain, utterly unique designs that were frequently ahead of their time and which created the foundation for future technologies. We will begin talking about them in this book.

Because of perestroika beginning in the early 1990s, and with it the change of ideology and the political system in the USSR, then in Russia, a massive military program of research into, and the development of, extraordinary human capacities was initiated. It was conducted by a special Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in Russia. Under the direction of Lieutenant General Alexei Savin, a large body of research was conducted into various aspects of the effects of energy and information, traditionally identified with parapsychology and ESP. Groups of military-psychics were trained for operations in different branches of the Armed Forces, primarily the Navy and Air Force, and psychics were trained and used in operations during military conflicts in Chechnya. But most importantly, unique techniques of developing extraordinary human abilities and qualitatively increasing intellectual and spiritual levels were developed and carefully tested in practice.

The Federal Security Service and President’s Security Service of Russia tackled the challenges of protecting high-level government officials, as well as the collection and analysis of politically significant information. Major Generals Boris Ratnikov and Georgii Rogozin used many parapsychological techniques in these special security services. Other defense and law enforcement agencies began systematically using psychics in their work in the 1990s. The Ministry of Internal Affairs under Colonel Vyacheslav Zvonikov did their own parapsychological research, training of psychics and operative work. All these efforts needed to be systematized and as Deputy Director of the KGB in the early 1990s, I devoted much energy to coordinating the parapsychological research done by various security departments.

Employing psychics in operations is far from the most important consideration here—parapsychology and ESP are much broader than this. This work began from trivial motives in both the USSR and the US: to overtake the enemy, not to allow the enemy to retrieve data from our facilities or to affect them. During that time, it was to obtain information about the enemy and, whenever possible, to influence him by parapsychological means. But the range of phenomenal human abilities is extraordinarily broad: it includes clairvoyance and telepathy, mentally moving objects, diagnosing and treating illness, and using energy and information to exert influence on various environments. This range goes beyond any confines that utilitarian military goals can impose, which points to the altogether different significance of extrasensory phenomena within the network of complex evolutionary processes. Moreover, in the process of seeking the mechanisms of how extraordinary capacities arise, and in the course of their development and operative use, we saw that the individuals who engaged in this research were transformed, their values were changed, and their cultural and intellectual levels improved.

From my point of view, this constitutes the most important result of our work in the field of parapsychology and ESP, although it lies outside the scope of the initial challenges set by the security services and military departments. I am convinced that it is precisely these results of our work that will most significantly contribute to strengthening the mutual understanding between people and will, in some way, help solve the difficult problems facing the human community as a whole today.