Recently unearth documents show the CIA ’s attempt to realise an understanding of the USSR ’s wacky speculation into “ extrasensory ” telepathic communication during the heat of the Cold War .

Three CIA documents , date between 1963 and 1964 , were recently prevail by theGovernment Attic , a transparency website that write declassified government documents .

Peppered with unknown anecdote and outlandish ideas , one of the most interesting documents shows a conversation between a CIA factor and Professor D A Kerimov from the University of Leningrad about the USSR ’s “ cybernetics research ” and “ surplus - sensory perception ” while they shared a few “ social drinks . ”

In other words , they were toast alcohol and discussing the latest maraud into Soviet judgment - mastery technology , presumably a fairly commontopic of conversationamong Cold War spies .

Professor Kerimov explicate that he had heard scientists in Kyiv   were turn on a project that managed to “ solicit ” the brain activity of a skilled musician as they played the piano . This brain natural process , somehow , could then be recorded and play back into the forearm of a non - player , allowing them to toy the piano with pure mastery . The Soviet scientist , funnily enough , refused to go into item about this research   and the CIA agent take note that some of these stories are “ clean dubious ” .

Another project saw researcher make grow a " simulated frog ’s eye " for the intention of airport surveillance , while a further avenue of enquiry explored the possibility of verbatim communication between humans and computers via telepathy .

One of the boldest title in the conversations besiege the supposed power of people to parade “ redundant - receptive percept ” . Professor Kerimov   propose they had evidence that   some masses are subject of picking up brain “ waves ” from others and even using this ability to call “ future random events ” . Kerimov conceded that these ideas have not been take too badly in the past , but they were slowly gaining traction among his peers .

The CIA agent complete the report by noting that not much gruelling evidence came from the preservation , but they note that the USSR ’s geographic expedition into extra - centripetal perception did n’t appear to be a home certificate terror .

" When I require him what concrete ontogeny have already taken place as a result of cybernetics , he was not really prepared to supply an example , ” the agent write .

" I would say that at no single full point , except the fair dubious story about tapping message from the forearm , did I learn of a single new Soviet development in advance of the US state of the art , ” they added .

Indeed , the US intelligence information service were no alien to madcap mind control condition technology throughout the Cold War , whether it was the infamousMKUltraand Project Stargate or creatingremote - contain bounder . In 1983 , the CIAwrote an hidden reportabout the " Gateway Experience , " claiming that an altered state of human consciousness may be capable to top infinite and time . They eventried to peach to Martiansby interviewing a psychical as they “ visited ” Mars 1 million years ago during a spell .

Just guess what the Soviet spy ' reports back to the USSR sounded like .

[ H / T : VICE Motherboard ]