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Subject: Re: Psychic Warfare - an informed opinio - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Jan 14 12:38:00 1984

    /***** ucbesvax:net.misc / cbosgd!dir /  8:49 am  Jan 14, 1984*/
    Subject: Psychic Warfare - an informed opinion

    2. Yes, the Soviets and associated Iron Curtain countries are
       doing research in military and political uses of 'psi',
       and we know (1)...
		      ...(2) their political philosophy is not
       prone to supporting anything that might smack of mysticism, 
       thus we are fairly sure they are serious about it and they
       at least feel they're not wasting their money,...

We *are* talking about the same people who brought us T.D. Lysenko?
And I believe there was an official position for some years that
quantum mechanics was just a lot of bourgeois fulminating.  To quote a
friend of mine (the first translator into English of Marx's mathematical
manuscripts): "You can prove *anything* with dialectical materialism."
How much more mystical than that can you get?
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Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)