Nina Kulagina
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Nina Kulagina was a Russian woman who purportedly had great psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis. During the Cold War, silent black-and-white films of her apparently moving objects on a table in front of her without touching them, supposedly demonstrating her abilities under controlled conditions for Soviet authorities, caused excitement to many believers in parapsychology around the world who believed that they represented the clearest evidence of the existence of psychic phenomena.
However, few of the films themselves can be found today, let alone the documentation of test conditions that would rule out forms of fraud that have been discovered in other supposed demonstration of psychic phenomena. This has led some observers to suggest that her demonstrations for Soviet authorities were in fact fraudulent, and some even suggest that they were known to be fraudulent by the Soviets but deliberately released as part of a disinformation campaign to suggest that the Soviet Union was winning the "Psi Race" even as the West appeared to be winning the "Space Race".