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2026-10-08 — Internet Archive (CIA Reading Room mirrors, Swann memoir, Kelly manual)

Searches used the archive.org advancedsearch API: Ruderfer; "Manual of Free Energy Devices"; "5022-1"; psychotronic AND Prague AND 1973; Ruderfer AND neutrino. Full texts (_djvu.txt) were fetched to research/pages/ and grepped.

1. CIA-RDP79-00999A000300070001-4: "Novel Biophysical Information Transfer Mechanisms (NBIT)", Final Report, 14 Jan 1976, AiResearch Manufacturing Co. of California (Garrett Corp.), Torrance; contract XG-4208(54-20)75S; paragraphs marked SECRET; released 2002/10/21

[web] https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000300070001-4 (also cia.gov readingroom). A copy of the text is saved as research/files/CIA-RDP79-00999A000300070001-4_NBIT-1976_djvu.txt. - Quote: "(S) A neutrino detector may be used. Both the Russian Je. Parnov (Nauka i Religija, No. 3, pp. 48 to 49, 1966) and the American Martin Ruderfer ("Neutrino Theory of Extrasensory Perception" in Abstracts: 1st International Conference on Psychotronics, Vol. 2, Prague, pp. 9 to 13, June 1973) have suggested neutrinos as the means of transmitting thought from one mind to another. One of the collaborators in the present study, J. Eerkens, has a plausible hypothesis about the production and detection of neutrinos that could be experimentally tested by relatively modest expenditures for equipment and labor." - This gives a new citation for the 1973 paper: Abstracts, 1st International Conference on Psychotronics, Vol. 2, Prague, pp. 9-13, June 1973. That is a separate abstracts volume, not the JPRS proceedings, and is a second route to the missing text. - The report's appendix, "Speculation on the neutrino mechanism for NBIT", sets out the "neutrino theory of photons (NTP)": photons are "composite quanta made up of one neutrino and one antineutrino". Low-frequency (kHz-MHz) solar neutrinos could "stimulate the deexcitation of biophysical rotationally excited molecules in the brain", releasing VLF (very low frequency) waves; or communication goes "directly via thought-modulated monochromatic neutrinos". The report recommends a "proof-of-principle experiment ... to prove or disprove the neutrino or 'photino' theory of photons concept as formulated by J. W. Eerkens" (Section 7). References: Eerkens, "Semi-Classical Calculation of Neutrino Emission and Stimulation Probabilities" (Terra Nova Inc., Dec 1963); "Neutrino Communications" (XION/Terra Nova, Sept 1967); de Broglie (C. R. Acad. Sci. 1932-34); Kronig (Physica 1935); Pryce (Proc. Roy. Soc.). - Bearing: this is independent, government-funded closely related work (priority 3) on the same principle as claims 3 and 5. It shows a US intelligence contractor in 1976 citing Ruderfer's paper and recommending a test of the neutrino-photon idea. Whether that test was funded or done is unknown. Contracting-office records and Eerkens' Terra Nova reports would decide it (priority 4).

2. CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010009-6: J. H. M. Whiteman, "Quantum Theory and Parapsychology" (JASPR, c.1973)

[web] https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010009-6 - The opening sentence quotes Ruderfer: physical theories of psi are needed since "many scientists reject psi because of its apparent nonphysical nature" (28, p. 84). Ref. 28: "RUDERFER, M. Correspondence. Journal A.S.P.R., 62, 1968, 84-86." Whiteman then argues against physicalist psi theories. This is a critic engaging Ruderfer's framing, and it gives a new Ruderfer item: JASPR 62 (1968) 84-86.

3. CIA-RDP96-00788R001200350008-4: Roger A. Beaumont, "Cnth?: On the Strategic Potential of ESP", Military Review (Jan 1982); released 2001

[web] https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001200350008-4 - Footnote 7, attached to the sentence "a theory of analogous enhancement and relay through psi-sensitive individuals of ESP 'signals' came to the fore", cites "M. Ruderfer, 'Note on the Effect of Distance in ESP,' Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (63:2), April, 1969, p. 201." This is another new Ruderfer item. It matches the distance and feedback (automatic gain control) argument of the 1980 paper.

4. Ingo Swann, "Remote Viewing: The Real Story" (memoir)

[web] https://archive.org/details/IngoSwannmemoir (djvu text, line ~10777) - Swann reproduces Karlis Osis's ASPR statement on the out-of-body research with Swann, which the ASPR publications committee "refused to publish". Its acknowledgement list includes: "ENGINEERS: Mr. Kenneth Cohen, Mr. Martin Ruderfer, Mr. G.M. Smith." Swann's text places this with JASPR vol. 67 (Oct 1973). This is a witness/participant record: Ruderfer was a volunteer engineer on the ASPR out-of-body programme (c.1972-73). What he contributed is unknown.

5. D. A. Kelly, "The Manual of Free Energy Devices and Systems" (1991)

[web] https://archive.org/details/TheManualOfFreeEnergyDevicesAndSystems - Quotes Ruderfer: "The earlier, original concept of perpetual motion refers merely to any device that does work in excess of its energy input. This does not exclude an unseen energy source (such as the G-Field!) as the input to a perpetual motion device." Source given: "Earth Rotation as a Source of Free Energy", Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Non-Conventional Energy Technology, 23-24 Oct 1981, University of Toronto. ("G-Field!" may be Kelly's interpolation; check against the original.) Google snippets add: Dimensions, Inc. Tech. Bulletin TE-4, 85 Madison Ave., Hempstead; presented at the U.S. Psychotronics Assoc. Conference, Dayton, Ohio, 25 Jul 1981 (Cejka/Valone database, Scribd); reprinted in Energy Unlimited no. 13, Spring 1983, pp.10-17 (uqd-edu.eu bibliography). This is a late Ruderfer work on a new subject (free energy from Earth's rotation), which links him to the 1980s free-energy movement.

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  • No archive.org item for JPRS L/5022-1 (Part I). The searches "5022-1" and psychotronic AND Prague AND 1973 found only Part II and CIA items.
  • Puthoff and Targ, "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances" (CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6), and "International Conference on Psychotronic Research, June 5-10 1983" (CIA-RDP96-00792R000500400001-8): no Ruderfer or neutrino mention.