DIA Controlled Offensive Behavior USSR: full report passages
Key passages transcribed from CIA-RDP96-00788R001300010001-7, the 177-page July 1972 DIA assessment of Soviet psychotronic weapons research. Available in full at the CIA FOIA reading room.
CONTROLLED OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOR, USSR
Author: John D. LaMothe, Captain, Medical Service Corps
Short Title: ST-CS-01-169-72
DIA Task Number: T72-01-14
Date of Publication: July 1972
Prepared by: Medical Intelligence Office, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army
Approved by: Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency
Original Classification: SECRET. No Foreign Dissemination.
"The Soviet Union is well aware of the benefits and applications of parapsychology research. In 1963, a Kremlin edict apparently gave top priority to biological research, which in Russia includes parapsychology."
"The major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics, and bionics is said to come from the Soviet military and the KGB."
"Today it is reported that the USSR has twenty or more centers for the study of parapsychological phenomena, with an annual budget estimated in 1967 at over 12 million rubles (13 million dollars) and reported to be as high as 21 million dollars."
"Soviet interest in biocommunications was clearly indicated in 1965 when the Department of Bioinformation of the Scientific and Technical Society of Radio Engineering and Telecommunications was established at the Popov Institute in Moscow. Its stated objectives are to discuss physical, biological, and philosophical aspects of bioinformation and to acquaint the Soviet scientific community with biocommunications research conducted outside the Soviet Union."
The document notes that the Soviet Union used the term "biocommunications" rather than "parapsychology" to describe its own research program. The table of basic types of biocommunication phenomena listed in the document covers three primary categories: telepathic communication between individuals, psychokinesis or telekinetics (the influence of physical systems through mental intention), and bionics and bioenergetics (the study of energy fields associated with living systems).
The Soviet preference for "biocommunications" over "parapsychology" was deliberate. It positioned the research within an engineering and communications framework rather than an occult or speculative one, which made it more defensible as a legitimate state-funded military research priority.
The assessment's core conclusion is that the Soviet Union was not treating psychotronic research as a fringe scientific curiosity. A 1963 Kremlin directive had elevated it to a priority. The KGB, not a peripheral academic body, was identified as the primary institutional driver. The budget, at an estimated $21 million annually, represented a serious state investment. The Soviet program had dedicated institutional infrastructure including a formal Department of Bioinformation at an established technical institute.
The DIA's conclusion was that the Soviet program represented a potential offensive capability requiring formal intelligence assessment and a classified American response. The American programs that followed this assessment, including the CIA's own remote viewing research funded beginning in 1972, were directly informed by this evaluation of Soviet priorities.
The 1972 assessment is available in full. Follow-up DIA assessments from 1974 and 1975 were also released, covering updates to Soviet program activity. However, documents from the later 1980s, when both Soviet and American parallel programs were most active, remain largely withheld. The CIA has acknowledged holding additional documents under national security exemptions covering the period when Soviet psychotronics research was at its most advanced and when the American STARGATE program was fully operational.
CIA Reading Room: CIA-RDP96-00788R001300010001-7 , Full 177-page report →
1974 update: CIA-RDP96-00792R000600360001-2. CIA Reading Room →
1975 update: CIA-RDP96-00792R000500730002-1. CIA Reading Room →
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