Sheila Ostrander and
Lynn Schroeder

A pair of “women’s magazine” journalists who traveled behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1960s, allegedly to do psychic research. In reality they were working for the CIA to put together a book describing how far ahead the Eastern bloc was in psychic research. In even deeper reality, they were working for SANDMAN to act as both a spur to US military-intelligence psychic research and for their book — Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (Prentice-Hall, 1970) — to act as a useful honeypot for psi active individuals in the United States.

While their primary mission has been one of disinfo and confusing the informational battlefield, they did see some real examples of History B-touched psychic ability in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. They are as close as SANDMAN gets to field experts in psi research.

Sheila and Lynn brought Mitch to Mount Shasta in order to help assist him in cultivating his own psychic abilities. They seemed friendly and helpful enough.