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Evangelist Peter Popoff, who admitted 16 months ago to relying on a radio receiver in his ear to identify people and their ailments at his faith healing rallies, is off television and recently filed bankruptcy petitions for himself and his evangelistic association, it was learned this week.

Popoff’s attorney, William J.

Simon of San Bernardino, attributed the collapse of his ministry to financial mismanagement more than to disclosures about Popoff.

Popoff and other Pentecostal faith healers have described the purported ability of an evangelist to call out people and illnesses as made possible by a “word of knowledge” from the Holy Spirit.

But a group headed by magician-debunker James Randi, struck by Popoff’s remarkable recall of information provided on cards filled out by audiences, surreptitiously set up a radio receiver at several healing rallies and recorded transmissions from Popoff’s wife, Elizabeth.

Randi played tapes and recordings of Popoff’s technique on “The Tonight Show” on April 22, 1986.

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