The Stanford Research Institute did a multi-year project throughout the 70's and early '80stesting remote viewing, psychekinesis and other aspects of psychic ability (Targ, Puthoff). One of their subjects, Ingo Swann, had a remarkable degree of accuracy in describing places chosen at random from a map and given to him only in terms of remote site long-lat figures. He told me the story of an upset in the course of the experimentation when he described a rocky shore with water lapping against it and was told it was a 'miss'. He was told the location was in the center of Lake Titicaca, as I recall. He blew up and demanded a finer-scaled map, which when it was acquired revealed a long narrow spit of land extending well into the lak3e right to the intersection of long-lat values he's been given. There had been no sign of it on the large-area map the controller had been using, because the scaling was too large to reveal the detail.

This was just one of many incidents that occurred during those tests in which clear demonstration of abilities beyond the scope of bodily parameters occurred. These anomalies are not well enough understood to provide a workable weapon. It is arguable that they are not ever likely to prove useable for applied destruction, and it is certainly a somewhat foolish impulse to try.

If there were a volunteer who wished to exercise psychic powers to support the Department of Defense it would seem pretty obvious that his best and greatest use, and his most probable zone of success, would be in bringing about a mor amenable frame of mind on the part of the enemy, to quote Klausewitz, rather than to try and do magic tricks by melting submarines or finding underground bunkers. The power of thought goes a lot further applied to the domain of thought than applied to bending spoons.

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