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category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
summary: Kogan, like many Soviet researchers, hypothesized that psi was a low-frequency
  radio system built into human brains.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- Soviet
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I. M. Kogan was a [Soviet](/places/soviet-union/) electrical engineer and parapsychologist who approached psi research from a communications perspective. Unlike some other Soviet researchers, his work was considered relatively serious by Western intelligence agencies.[^1]

Kogan, like many [Soviet](/places/soviet-union/) researchers, hypothesized that psi was a low-frequency radio system built into human brains. He conducted experiments to characterize psi data transmission, concluding that it could transmit about 0.1 "bit" of information per second within a laboratory, decreasing to 0.005 bits per second over six hundred miles.[^1]

His work gained further attention when it suddenly disappeared from public view around 1969, coinciding with reports that the [KGB](/places/soviet-union/) had begun to fund and direct his laboratory at the Popov Society. This suggested a heightened interest from Soviet intelligence in the practical applications of psi.[^1]

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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.