CIA'S PSYCHIC RESEARCH PROPRIETARY

STEFAN T. POSSONY Sovietologist and Psychological Warfare Specialist Dr. Possony is a Sovietologist, International Affairs, and Psychological Warfare Specialist of high reputation and experience. Prior to and during the early stages of World War II, he served as an Advisor to the French Air Ministry and the French Foreign Office. After this assignment, he came to the United States and held a post as a Carnegie Re-search Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.

During World War II and through 1946, he was a Psychological Warfare Specialist at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Between 1946 and 1961, he served as Special Advisor to the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intel-ligence, USAF. During the same period, Dr. Possony served as Professor of International Politics r Georgetown Uni-versity, and during 1956-1958 as Director of Research for Life Magazine's Russian Revolution project. In 1961, Dr. Possony became Director of the International Political Studies Program at the Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace, where he is now a Senior Fellow. He testified before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Sub- Committee on the Threat of U.S. Security Posed by Stepped-up Sino-Soviet Hostilities and has on frequent occasion been called upon as a special consultant to U.S. Presidential Committees, Congress, and the Defense Department.

Dr. Possony has been a Visiting Professor at American, ''European and Asian universities and participated in numerous international conferences.

Dr. Possony received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna.

He has authored, co-authored and edited many books and other publications. Some of the more recent and relevant of these are: The Strategy of Technology; and Lenin, the Compulsive Revolutionary.

MILAN RYZL Biocommunications/Parapsychology Scientist Dr. Milan Ryzl is an international authority in biocommunications and parapsychology, who has lectured widely both in the United States and in Europe. Dr. Ryzl, educated in Czechoslovakia, was a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague and was a leading figure in the application of scientific methods to the study of parapsychology. After he arrived in the United States, he worked with Dr. J. B. Rhine at the Institute of Parapsychology in Durham, North Carolina. There, Dr. Ryzl was especially noted for his original research on the influence of hypnosis on ESP. Dr. Ryzl has taught parapsychology at San Diego State College and is currently a professor of parapsychology at San Jose State University. He is a member of and has founded parapsychological and psychical research groups in Europe and in the United