Oliver J. Caldwell
Caldwell expressed significant concern about the Soviet advancements in parapsychology and psychic warfare.
Oliver J. Caldwell was a former OSS officer who was known to run operations for the Central Intelligence Agency. He is cited in John L. LaMothe's 1972 report, Controlled Offensive Behavior—USSR, regarding the perceived Soviet psychoenergetic threat1.
Caldwell expressed significant concern about the Soviet advancements in parapsychology and psychic warfare. He told LaMothe, "I am really disturbed... because if the United States does not make a serious effort to move forward on this new frontier, in another ten years it may be too late"1. His statement underscored the urgency felt by some within the U.S. intelligence community to counter perceived Soviet capabilities in ESP and PK1.
Sources
- Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩
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