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Penetrating the Impenetrable 99Even the Soviets began to backpedal. In a 1973 articleentitled “Parapsychology—Fact or Fiction?” Soviet conservativesattacked the Ostrander and Schroeder book as a “lowstandardwork of sensational value.” 7 They said that theauthors were given stories of psychic experiments by Sovietscientists who were only seeking more research money. “Inaddition, parapsychology serves as publicity for anti-Sovietism,while the anti-Sovietism serves as publicity for the parapsychology,”stated the report. 8Ron McRae, whose 1984 book Mind Wars detailed thepsychic Cold War, wrote:When the Voice of America broadcast excerptsfrom Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain,Soviet officials sharply curtailed foreign contact withparapsychology researchers. Naumov, who was one ofthe authors’ primary sources, was arrested and sentencedto hard labor in Siberia. His laboratory wasclosed and his associates dismissed. 9Critics in the United States were also vocal and active.Swann, who has been at the center of this collision of beliefsystems for many years, wrote:[A]n in-depth study concluded that the battlefieldbetween parapsychologists and open science forumswas not based on scientific merits, but on philosophicaldifferences which would call for the complete philosophicalrestructuring of modern sciences’ fundamentalbases if any form of psi was to be accepted by modern