Psychic Warfare; Threat or Illusion

New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [6], 282 pages. Includes Appendix, Notes on Sources; Bibliography; and Index. Chapters include Moscow, June 11, 1977; Would Marx Approve?; The Great Nautilus Hoax; Amplified Mind Power; The Tragedy of Edward Naumov; If Thoughts Can Kill...; Code by Telepathy; The Skin Readers; They Call It Psychotronics; Secrets, Rumors, Speculations; Boosting the Human Brain; The Novosibirsk Connection; Dzhuna the Healer; The KGB Takes Control; An Astronaut Speaks Out; The View from Menlo Park; Washington's Dilemma; Treat or Illusion?; and The Century of Fear. Also contains Appendix, Notes on Sources, Bibliography, and Index. Martin Ebon (May 27, 1917 - February 11, 2006) was a German American author of nonfiction books from the paranormal to politics. Born in Germany, as Hans Martin Schwarz, Ebon immigrated to the U. S. in 1938. During WWII he was a Staff Member, U.S. Office of War Information, and Information Officer with U.S. Department of State. He was the Managing Editor at the Overseas News Agency; U.S. Information Agency, New York City, Information Officer on Far Eastern desks, 1950-52; Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., New York City, editor, 1953-65,Consulting Editor, New American Library (publishers), 1966-83; executive editor of hardcover book division, Playboy Press, 1971-72, Lecturer in Division of Social Sciences, The New School, 1949-50, 1955-56, 1967, and Consultant, Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, 1966-67. Ebon was, primarily, a full-time freelance writer, from 1967, forward. Ebon lived in New York City, from 1938, forward. Psychic Warfare is the military utilization of such elusive human facilities as telepathy (mind-to-mind communication), Clairvoyance (seeing faroff events through the mind's eye), and psychokinesis (the impact of the human mind on matter). The author documents the Soviet Union's extensive research into directing, controlling, and stimulating human minds, electronically, with drugs, and by hypnosis. He examines the ongoing conflict within Soviet science about the feasibility of psychic studies. The tragic role of Soviet parapsychologist is shown in moving detail. Yet this is no one-sided, alarmist selection of facts. Mr. Ebon also explores the hoax that the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus once engages in dramatically successful shore-to-vessel telepathy. He summarizes U.S. policy dilemmas, including the role of the CIA in extrasensory perception studies.