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98PSI SpiesSecret Police, and other paramilitary agencies. Sovietscientists doing psi research in nonmilitary areas oftenhave trouble getting money. 6Though admitting that the secrecy surrounding SovietESP research made an accurate assessment of their advancesdifficult, the authors nevertheless made it quite clearthat America was definitely lagging behind the Soviets. Thisview brought unforeseen consequences within the halls of theCIA and the Pentagon.After all, no one in 1970s Washington wanted to think thatthe Soviets might be ahead of the United States in anything,much less a human potential with such an application forCold War spy craft.CIA officers dreamed of contacting agents without usingthe normal detectable means. Military minds wereagog at the notion that commanders might be able to anticipateenemy actions, read their plans, and break theircommunications codes. Both were astounded by the ideathat leaders (enemy and our own) could be incapacitatedby sickness, disorientation, or death induced by psychicmeans.Leaders in the U.S. military, and even some members ofCongress, demanded that whatever was necessary bedone to prevent the Soviets from outstripping America inthe psychic arms race. But interest in psychic phenomenawithin the ruling circles of Cold War leaders on both sidesof the Atlantic remained very much a hidden agenda. Officially,the United States had no interest in nonexistentphenomena.