Machine for Biofield Treatment of Medical Disorders Invented (CIA FBIS Translation)
This UNCLASSIFIED CIA Reading Room document is an English-language extract of an article from the Russian daily Izvestiya (DOC REF IZVESTIYA, 920811, Nr 181), itself citing a TASS report and an October 20, 1992 issue. It describes a 'super machine' developed at a formerly secret Moscow research institute that allegedly treats medical disorders — including headaches and epilepsy — by replacing the body's 'information field' with positive information, purportedly changing a person's emotions, behavior, and character. The article frames the device as equal in effectiveness to a thousand faith healers, citing the Ostankino evening channel's broadcast showing the machine, its antenna, and a woman whose headache reportedly ceased when it was activated. It situates the work within long-standing Soviet study of environmental effects on humans in extreme professions (cosmonauts, test pilots, polar explorers) and describes measurements of biological currents taken while hypnotherapists and faith healers such as Dzhuna Davitashvili worked. Named parties include the research institute (Nauchno Issledovatelskiy Institut), healer Dzhuna Davitashvili, and Academician Aleksandr Chuchalin. Physiologists in the article express doubt that the mechanism could surpass a living healer, noting the body is not fully understood. The claims are unverified and reported in an archival, neutral tone.
Description
A CIA-translated extract of a Russian Izvestiya newspaper article reporting on a purported Soviet/Russian research-institute machine claimed to reproduce and amplify the 'biofield' healing effects associated with faith healer Dzhuna Davitashvili, said to treat headaches and even epilepsy.
Claims
Physiologists doubt the mechanism will surpass a living healer since the body is not fully understood.
60%Physiologists expressed doubt the machine would surpass a living healer, since the body is not fully understood.
60%The Ostankino evening channel showed the machine and a woman whose headache passed as soon as the machine was turned on.
40%Physicists and physiologists measured biological currents produced by faith healers such as Dzhuna Davitashvili and were able to reproduce and amplify them.
20%A Moscow research institute invented a machine as effective as a thousand faith healers, treating headaches and even epilepsy.
15%Instruments recorded and reproduced the biocurrents of faith healer Dzhuna Davitashvili, and the machine could amplify them.
15%A formerly secret Moscow research institute invented a 'super machine' equal in effectiveness to a thousand faith healers, able to treat headaches and epilepsy.
15%The machine works by replacing the body's 'information field' with positive information, changing emotions, behavior, and character.
10%The device works by replacing the body's 'information field' with positive information, changing a person's emotions, behavior, and character for the better.
10%
Events
Oct 19, 1992
Izvestiya article publication
Publication of the article on the biofield treatment machine (DOC REF IZVESTIYA, 920811, Nr 181).
May 16, 2002
CIA release approval
Document approved for release by the CIA.
Oct 19, 1992
Referenced October 1992 issue
Text states the article was published in the October 20, 1992 issue of the daily.
May 16, 2002
CIA release
Document approved for release per stamp 'Approved For Release 2002/05/17'.
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