Like the CIA and the DIA, the NSA was gravely concerned about the impact of psychic ability on national security. In 1981, they decided to look into exploring the possibility of mind control and wanted elite groups of highly gifted psychics but were afraid of “morbid people of talent” compromising their efforts. To remedy this, they wanted to construct a worldwide database of psychics (perhaps one of our own is lucky enough to be counted among those marked out!). The NSA document concluded that psychic mind control through telepathy would be possible by 1990 and that no known method of defending against such telepathic hypnosis was known.

Prior to this, in 1972, the DIA composed a piece entitled “Soviet Offensive Behavior” which expressed concern over the development of telepathic hypnosis among the Soviets, stating that they had learned how to use this ability to put them to sleep and then wake them up again from 1,000+ miles away. The Soviet psychologist K.O. Kotkov was allegedly an example of someone who was very talented in this respect. In fact, the neurophysiological correlates of this effect had allegedly been documented through EEGs. Controversy then ensued over the causal mechanism involved, with the Soviets suggesting that electromagnetic waves were the means by which subjects could be telepathically placed into a sleep state and then woken up.

Disturbingly, the document suggests that this ability may open up avenues for the implementation of novel propaganda techniques. With respect to offensive maneuvers, the document amusingly suggests that a subject could be telepathically influenced to steal important documents or military technology or detonate equipment in a way that would compromise the enemy. These notions bear an intriguing resemblance to the act of Controlled Remote Influencing detailed by Lyn Buchanan.

This method entails a specialized use of Stage 4 (qualitative mental percepts), at which time the remote influencer is able to telepathically induce his target to perform or abstain from certain tasks. Nevertheless, Lyn Buchanan warns about the real dangers of this ability, as it is possible to become absorbed into the target’s mind and to begin to take on his personality traits. He also warns that those who use this ability for nefarious purposes can expect profoundly negative consequences. This impressive DIA article is over 150 pages long and I intend to explore its contents further in later articles.