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Dr. Harold E. Puthoff, telephoned and BEGGED me to do so. I will report this event fully in a chapter ahead -- and you can look forward to reading it, if only because I didn’t behave very well during it. Chapter 44 PUTHOFF SPREADS THE WORD Sometime soon after the Fourth of July, 1972, I received from Puthoff a copy of a letter he had sent to Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler, dated June 30, 1972. I will quote its entirety -- for a reason you’ll shortly understand. "To introduce myself, I am a physicist at SRI working primarily in the area of lasers and quantum physics. I also have obtained a contract to investigate the primary perception hypothesis of Cleve Backster (sponsored by Wm. Church, Scientific Unlimited Research Foundation of San Antonio, Texas) from a quantum physics viewpoint, so you can see my physics is broad by my definition. "As you probably know, I recently had the pleasure of hosting Ingo Swann’s visit to the West Coast. I had earlier heard of the very impressive work you had done with him (from Ingo himself), so that’s why I invited him out. As part of my work to determine the nature of the