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at liberty to discuss it. Later, however, in private conversation, .
. 4;] he claimed that he had taught one of his students to accurately
read an article
completely obscured by heavy cardboard and
P:2 that teaching the ability to see beyond a solid masonry uzzll
was merely
a matter of He
degree. would pursue this matter no
further. _

inquired of Foos as
to hisgeneral
method of teaching - whether individual tutoring uas essential.
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June 17, 957!,
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~-*= FOOS, secured by ablack elastic blindfold, and in that condition
*&#39;;_., she had, found and read passage from amagazine furnished by a
reporter and had read
samples of handwriting as well as verses
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FOOS was a foreman
in the salvage warehouse of the C. &O, Railway on leave of
absence, that
he startedexperimenting with
the children
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his horses and later working
began with friends. Further, that
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as being thorggghly sincere and sat tde that his main interest
in his project is to e p t eblind; however, he refused to
divulge his methods of teaching, but believed he can teach
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acharter for Extra Sensor erce P tiR on esea r hc., Inc and p listed
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of the organization as E HY CARAVATI,
.92-, ., Richmond Public Relations Han, WILLIAM CANTOR, an auctioneer,
and ROBERTCANTOR,alawyer. Further, ifthe charter was granted J
FOOS plannedto recruit blind youngsters who would be
willing
to cooperate in the experiment.
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§.._ lined June 22, 957!, to the effect that
ESP Extra 3enscry
!¥ &#39;4 Perception! Research,
the state Qorporation Commission
received
Inc.,
and will
undertake
acharter yesterday from
clinical
training for the blind.
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WILLIAM A.
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HENRY L.
CARAVATI, Vice-President _.
ROBERT A.LLOYD, Vice-President .
SAM LOMBARDO,Vice-President &#39;
ROBERT CANTOR, Secretary
WILLIAM CANTOR, Treasurer
MARGARET FOOS, Research Assistant .
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Attached hereto is acopy
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As
the
of a
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memorandum
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August
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representing
the
Department
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was given Foos to individuals to
unknown Colonel
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A--;_; ;. Colonel Downie stated that Lieutena t Colonel Leroy C.
v- Hill- ," the representative Army
from the Intelligence is
Center, making
an evaluation of the demonstration; however, to date he has reached
no conclusion. According when
to Colonel Downie, colonel Hill
3: -.
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he, Downie, so advise the Bureau. _
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others who have attended
with the following results:
different
Inquiry
demonstrations
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put onby
representatives
Foos
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committee on Employment of the Physically Eandicappe
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who attended one of Foes demonstrations. It was determined that 1.5,
Major
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of this Committee, was of the opinion that the claims by Foos that
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he could teach persons to perceive has not_.been proven""by his
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;AUGUST 8,
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According to representatives the
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of A
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, Foos would not submit scientific
to testings and since portions
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_h_~Vetenons.Administration~were-l00eper~cent.unsuocessjw1,.concluded
that the
P&#39; .4_~;.";&#39;..2
claims Foos
of were without basis. The Veterans Administration
&#39;."92 contemplated no further action. Downie
Colonel stated that the
.I.- "J. information from Blind
the Veterans Association and the
from Veterans
;. -,.>--.-&#39; Administration was obtained on
a very confidential basis. He, &#39;
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also acopy of a
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to Henry K.
Puharich, Round Table Ibundation, Glen Cove, Maine. Ihile
Dr. Puharich&#39;s work is not exactly the
in field extra
of sensory
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Colonel stated that the Army is interested in
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Numerous estions were asked
of Mr. Foos following the
demonstration m
most
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questioning
his in attempts
ll to find out if there were any gimmicks" involved. Mr.
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also refusedto allow ademonstration of theyoung boyreading documents
enclosed
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walls orfa room. He claimed,
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his beliefs. Mr. Foos hasappeared before
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and the document being He
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policein solving public is entitledtothisinformation
crimes. Krell feelsthe and
a statement
requested onthismatterforuseinthearticle.
fromtheDirector
-Krell mentioned Dutch medium,whoreportedly
GerardCroiset,1a
to JudgeJoseph
relatedwhathappened in NewYork in
Crater, whovanished 1930.
.£ __~,_. Krell also made reference to Peter H1:-kos, also from Holland, who in J921l1¬
,
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whileworkingontheCarrollJackson
1960,madeheadlines case.
familymurder
Krell notedthat Hurkos&#39; of
work led to the arrest a suspect
John Atwell Tarmon!
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by
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There isno information
in Bu les concerning Gerard
Croiset,
reportedlyaDutch medium. Bu les re ect that inApril, 1952, Captain &#39;
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Filippus Brink,an attorney
and member
of thede Bilt, Holland, police
force,
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toured theBureau inconnection with
avisit to the United States
to studylaw
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that Hurkos, whose true name is Peter
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CorneliusVan
Der Hurk, wasborn 5-21-ll, in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
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aliged tohave extrasensory
perception and
it has been claimedin manynews and
magazine articles
thathe
has assisted police
departmentsmany
in countries
in
solving crimes as aresult of his ability. Bu les contain noinformation to sub-
stantiateany
of the
claims by
made
Hurkos
concerning
solution
the
crimes.
of
. .7A&#39;I ;. On 5-25-60,Dr. FrancisRegis Riesenman,
psychiatrist on
the sta
at St.Elizabeth&#39;s Hospital,
Washington, C.
D. , advised the
Virginia State
Police
VSP! that
he planned
bring Hurkos Virginia
to to and
Marylandobservethe sites
to
where the
bodies of the Jackson
iamily were found. Herequested that
the VSP allow
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Hurkos opportimity examining
of the
clothing and
other physical
evidenceinthe
Y
case. VSP felt ihqwould besubjectedpublic criticism whether
to they agreed or
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declined participate
to and
nally decidedto allowHurkos toexamine the
material.
The Director
noted:
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am"I amazed
that VSP
the would
participate
inanysuch
Riesenman and
contacted
Hurkos VSP on 6-7-60,and spent
the about
a week
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the Jackson case,
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Says He
Can See
Killer" whichrelated that
Hurkos stated
he
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the murders
looked like
and hoped
"soon" to
turn over
to police
t__,,. _ ..;
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would solve
the case.Mr. Tolson
commented: "This screwball
is
connected with
thegreat
Interpol." -The Director
"Just
noted: how silly
can one
get."
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63-4036

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Clairvoyance Tests: Aspecial ESP card deck of five cards
each of five different symbols isused cross, circle, star,
wavy lines
and asquare!. probability
The for correct guesses of cards is five
in twenty-five. If subject consistently averages above one in five,
results are not explainable by mere chance. ,
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five,
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knowledge concerning the ESP symbols in ashuffled deck.

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holds choice
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have them correspond to order of ESP deck after it is shuffled by
experiments. Also subject may decide beforehand face
which of adie
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Z» factors which have led to considerable false evidence for extra chance
. scores using the above methods:
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