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Indeed, it was for THIS reason that parapsychology had consistently experienced considerable trouble in acquiring not only mainstream societal interest but, more importantly, FUNDING. After all, there ARE those in the world who do realize that if they do not want something "developed," then it must be deprived of funding. * In my own mind, the whole of this now represented an overall impossible and pointless situation that fluctuated somewhere between the ridiculous and the futile. Yuk! and several times over. So, as my recovery from pneumonia proved well underway, I said to wonderful Zelda, my nurse-attendant: "I’ve decided to quit research." "Don’t be silly," she smiled, "you can’t." "Why not?" "They won’t let you." None the less, I got out of bed determined to telephone Puthoff at SRI to explain why I was terminating taking part in research, and to tell him not to count on me for the project he was cooking up. As I picked up the telephone to do so, something dawned on me. Even though what he was cooking up was supposed to be hush-hush, word about the forthcoming project had been leaking out, and would continue to do so. Indeed, Ruth Hagy Brod had it from some horse’s mouth in Washington that the go-ahead was in the works.