2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 30, 1995 NNWOi Military officials consulted psychics for infoj U.S. spent $20 million in attempts to find plutonium and Libyan leader Qaddafi SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For 20 years, the United States has secretly used psychics in attempts to hunt down Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi, find plutonium in North Korea and help drug enforcement agencies, the CIA and others confirmed yesterday. The ESP spying operations - codenamed "Stargate" - were unreli- able, but three psychics continued to work out of Fort Meade, Md., at least into July, said researchers who evalu- ated the program for the CIA. The program has cost the govern- merit $20 million, said Ray Hyman, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene, who helped pre- pare the study. He said the psychics were used by various agencies for remote viewing- using extrasensory perception to pro- vide information from distant sites. Up to six psychics at any time worked at assignments that included trying to hunt down Qaddafi before the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya, find plutonium in North Korea in 1994, and locate kidnapped Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier in Italy. Gadhafi was not injured in the bomb- ing. Dozier, kidnapped by the Red Bri- gddes in Italy in 1981, was freed by Italian police after 42 days. News re- ports at the time said the police were assisted by an undisclosed number of U.S. State and Defense Department specialists using sophisticated elec- tronic surveillance equipment. But Dale Graffa former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency's ESP program, told ABC'S "Nightline" that psychics provided the name of the city and the building where Dozier was held. The study reported mixed success with the psychics. Hyman was skepti- cal, while his co-author, said Jessica Utts, a professor of statistics at the University of California-Davis, said some of the results were promising. "My conclusion was that there's no evidence these people have done any- thing helpful for the government," Hlyman said. Utts, however, said the government psychics were accurate about 15 per- cent of the time. In some tests, when given a series of four choices, they picked the right answer a third of the time. "I think they would be effective if they were used in conjunction with other intelligence," she said. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield con- firmed the existence of Stargate and the study. "The CIA is reviewing available pro- grams regarding parapsychological phe- nomena, mostly remote viewing, to determine their usefulness to the intel- ligence community," he said. But he noted that when the CIA first sponsored research on the program in the 1970s, the program was found to be "unpromising" and was laterturned over to the Defense Department. The Defense Intelligence Agency made the psychics available to govern- ment departments that needed informa- tion, Hyman said. At one time as many as six worked for the government. Mansfield declined to comment on the psychics at Fort Meade or specific incidents. Joe McMoneagle, who worked for 17 years as a psychic spy, told ABC that the psychics were instrumental in help- ing find missing Americans during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. He said they described the inside and outside of the building and even the captors' uni- forms. William Green, aCustoms official involved in the 1989 hunt for Charles Jordan, a one-time Customs agent wanted on drug charges, said Qaddafi thepsychics accu- rately described that Jordan would be foundin Wyoming near an Indian burial site. "It was almost spooky or something," Green told ABC. "It couldn't have been much more accurate." However, a former CIA technical director who monitored ESP programs within the intelligence community said he wasn't aware of any significant re- sults from the psychics. The man, iden- tified on "Nightline" only as Norm, said the psychics offered "some inter- esting results, and maybe even tantaliz- ing, but beyond that it left more ques- tions than it answered." He said sometimes they would have amazing perception, but on unrelated issues. "The gold nugget somehow tends to elude us," he said. The psychics were regularly tested by the Stanford Research Institute and later Science Applications Interna- tional Corp., both south of San Fran- cisco. Utts said that testing consisted of three basic efforts. In one, a "sender" would travel to a remote site and view an object, while the "viewer" back in the laboratory would try to use extra- sensory perception to describe and draw it. A particularly talented viewer accu- rately drew windmills when the sender was at a windmill farm at Altamont Pass in California, and later a foot- bridge across a marsh when the sender went to a San Francisco Bay area wild- life refuge. The government also looked at pre- cognition - having psychics try to guess an answer that had not yet been reached. And they looked at clair- voyance - trying to discover some- thing that has happened but is not yet known. Both Utts and Hyman said the re- search was faulty in some respects. The government often used only one "judge" to determine how close the psychics had come to the right answer. That should have been duplicated by other judges, they said. Both researchers also agreed that the psychics were not reliable enough to be used alone. But Utts said the statistical results were promising enough that research should continue. "I would like to see funding in the open science world - I think we're at the point that something needs to be explained," she said. Congress aproves overhaul of lobbying WASHINGTON - Stung by polls that indicate the public still believes lobbyists have runaway influence in Washington, Congress yesterday approved the first overhaul of lobbying law in. half a century. President Clinton has said he will sign the bill that would require lobbyists to disclose information many would prefer to hide: who their clients are, the issues they are seeking to influence and how much they spend on persuading Congress and the executive branch. "There may be some activities that have been going on quietly, secretly, that will stop because of the light of day," said Rep. Charles Canady (R-Fla.), a primary sponsor of the bill. "I believe there have been abuses." "For untold numbers of years the American people have justifiably believed unseen forces were causing Congress to make decisions," said Rep. John Bryant (D-Texas), who supported both the lobbying changes and a gift ban the House passed this month. "Those forces will no longer be unseen, and this Congress is no longer going to be wined and dined." Yesterday's 419-0 House vote- following a 98-0 vote by the Senate in July - belied the difficulty of bringing the bill through the legislative thicket.,At least 10 times since the first, loophole-riddled lobbying regulations were passed in 1946, efforts to update the law had ended in failure. ON==" I y M ,. n"-, ',i. * Pat 'F THANO'S LAM PLIGHTER 20% off on all GREEK food every ,, r /4.++. om14MI114 a l out v wael.- Call us to find a home for Fall 1996! r Brady's condition improves after heart seizure Tuesday WASHINGTON - Former presi- dential aide James Brady was in fair condition yesterday in a northern Vir- ginia hospital after his heart stopped at an oral surgeon's office a day earlier. Brady, who was shot in the head in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan, had been in critical condition and on a respirator when admitted Tues- day to Fairfax Hospital but was upgraded to stable and fair condition yesterday. The Brady family said in a statement that the former White House press sec- retary was "consciousand doing very well." His heart stopped while having work done on tooth implants required because of a recent fall. Brady's wife, Sarah, canceled an ap- pearance yesterday at a District of Co- lumbia police headquarters news con- ference, where a study was released indicating that 36-percent of the guns used to kill law enforcement officers since January 1994 were firearms now banned under a year-old assault-weap- South Korea business leader arrested SEOUL, South Korea- The head of one of South Korea's large business conglomerates, Hanbo Group Chair- man Chung Tae Soo, was arrested yes- terday on charges of del'ping former President Roh Tae Woo laundera $653- million slush fund - the first business tycoons to be charged in the spreading corruption scandal. Chung's arrest-and the issuance of an arrest warrant for a former corporate chieftan believed to be in hiding-may be the precursors to further indictments and arrests of top South Korean busi- ness leaders in the next few days. Chung, who heads a steel, construc- tion and pharmaceuticals ,cohglomerate that grew rapidly during goh's term in office, was arrested for allegedly laun- dering $78.7 million for Roh. He was already accused in an indictment Mon- day of giving Roh $13 million in bribes related to real estate purchases in Seoul, but he was not detained at that time. Authorities yesterday also issued an arrest warrant for Pae Joig Yol, the former chairman ofthe HanyangGroup. ons prohibition. Mrs. Brady is fighting Republican efforts to overturn the ban. Reading the family's statement, Handgun Control Inc. President Rich- ard Aborn said Brady was expected to return home by the end of the week. Mrs. Brady credited the oral surgeon and his staff with saving Brady's life. 14-year fugitive killed in Puerto Rico LARES, Puerto Rico-Puerto Rico's most wanted fugitive was killed in a shootout yesterday after a 14-year spree of robbery, rape, kidnapping and hur- der, police said. Francisco Antonio Garcia Lopez, whose exploits made him a legend on this Caribbean island, was gunned down on a ranch in the mountain town of Lares, about 50 miles west of San Juan. Garcia Lopez was convicted and sentenced to prison in 1973 for niut- dering his wife, but escaped from prison in 1981 and evaded dozens of police manhunts - often with the help of those who he was accused of assaulting. 5RLD Pae, also accused of giving bribes of $13 million to Roh and of laundering slush-fund money, has been wanted for questioning since Nov. 7, but prosecu- tors have been unable to locate him. Nicar aunvolcano threatens towns MANAGUA, Nicaragua - More than a thousand people were evacuated from the base of a newly active volcano in western Nicaragua yesterday, as thick volcanic mud rained on nearby villages and the city of Leon. Towns near the volcano went on emergency alert after the Nicaraguan Earth Studies Institute called the vol- cano a serious threat. "The number of explosions are con- tinuous and increasingly violent, as fresh lava flows from the open crater," the Institute said in a statement. The Cerro Negro volcano, which be- gan belching sand and ashes Nov. 19 after a three-year lull, roared to life again Tuesday night, as molten lava formed a new volcanic cone higher than the mountain, said Camilo Urbina, an Earth Studies seismologist. - From Daily wire services 421 tel. E. Liberty St. 996-0555 Wednesday Live Bouzouki! Night! Prime Student Housing 761-8000 Columbia Review INTENSIVE MAT PREPARATION CLASSES NOW FILLING! MONITOR COMPANY Monitor Company, an international management consulting firm, invites graduate and undergraduate students of the class of 1996 to apply to its Strate- gic Market Research Group. Candi- dates, with expertise in survey design and statistical modeling will be viewed favorably. 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