[VerDeTerre]

> People back at shore would dip the bandages from a wound inflicted on a dog, which would supposedly cause the dog on board to yelp.

That kind of morbid experimentation was apparently still in fashion during the Cold War:

> Dr. Pavel Naumov … conducted animal biocommunication studies between a submerged Soviet Navy submarine and a shore research station; these tests involved a mother rabbit and her newborn litter and occurred around 1956 … . When the submarine was submerged, assistants killed the rabbits one by one. At each precise moment of death, the mother rabbit's brain produced detectable and recordable reactions.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R0006003... (page 12)

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[VerDeTerre]

This was an example of the dubious kind of parapsychology experiment conducted during the period. I'm sure there were true believers, but I think healthy skepticism probably prevented people from pursuing it too seriously, even when positive results were reported.

[taxicabjesus]

Ingo Swann said at the talk I attended that the government managers always hated their remote viewing program, so they had to get results right from the start. As soon as the Soviet Union was no more they said ‘thank God we can finally get rid of this awful program.’ The problem was that they liked the idea that there can be “secrets”.

It started as a threat assessment.

Two of my previous comments on Swann and the CIA’s remote viewing program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19427917 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238552