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<A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:549389">::: NSA/DOD Funded Implant
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Subject: ::: NSA/DOD Funded Implant Research :::
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brother Blue)
Date: Wed, 01 September 1999 02:31 PM EDT
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Human Brain Implant Research Suspended At Major University
By Andrew Brownstein Staff Writer
The Albany Times Union
8-25-99
Albany -- Professor whose work is at issue has focused on
surgically inserted mind-control devices
The University at Albany has shut down the research of a
psychology professor probing the "X-Files'' world of
government surveillance and mind control.
At conferences, in papers and research over two semesters,
Professor Kathryn Kelley explored the claims of those who say
they were surgically implanted with communications devices to
read their thoughts.
According to colleagues, Kelley has privately claimed the
university is violating her academic freedom. She declined to
discuss the matter with a reporter.
Kelley's research and the controversy surrounding it echoes
the experience of John Mack, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist
who wrote the 1994 best seller "Abductions: Human Encounters
with Aliens.'' By lending credence to the stories of those
who claimed they were abducted and molested by space aliens,
the book led to an unprecedented inquiry by the Harvard
Medical School. A school committee eventually chastised Mack
for engaging in unorthodox research and "affirming the
delusions'' of his patients.
But unlike Kelley, Mack has an international reputation. He
earns hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants and won a
Pulitzer Prize for his biography of T.E. Lawrence, known as
Lawrence of Arabia. And while Harvard challenged Mack's
conclusions, the investigation at UAlbany is focused on
methods.
Last week, university spokeswoman Mary Fiess released this
statement on the matter: "The university imposed the
suspension because of serious concerns that the experiment
did not meet the standards governing such projects on campus.
While we're working to gather all the facts in this case, we
cannot comment further.''
A memo sent to all psychology professors and graduate
students last week instructed them to refer calls "looking
for information on any psychological research conducted in
our department'' to the university's public relations office.
According to three sources -- two faculty members and a
graduate student -- the school's Institutional Review Board,
which monitors human research, closed the project when a
student complained late last spring. The student, sources
said, was not allowed to leave a lecture that was part of
Kelley's experiment. Refusal to allow a subject to leave an
experiment violates National Science Foundation guidelines.
Despite the inquiry, Kelley, a fully tenured professor who
earned $67,000 last year, is slated to teach two graduate
courses in the fall .
The department became aware of Kelley's theories as early as
the spring of 1998, when a note on her office door announced
a lecture called "The Psychology of Invading the Self.''
The note described implant research funded by the National
Security Agency and the Department of Defense with an annual
budget of $2 billion. The "uninformed, unconsenting
subjects'' of these devices were typically "federal prisoners
and political dissidents,'' the note said.
At the same time, Kelley won approval from the review board
to conduct research on "advances in technology that affect
interpersonal communication.'' In a 16-page outline to the
board, Kelley said she wanted to look at the uses of
technology for "monitoring and control.'' She proposed
presenting a lecture to research subjects and then having
them respond to 60 questions about how the case study she
would describe affected their views.
The interest in technology marked an extreme departure for
Kelley, a professor at UAlbany since 1979. Kelley, who earned
her Ph.D. from Purdue University, was a professor at
Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin before
joining the psychology faculty at UAlbany. Her previous
research dealt with issues like health, date rape and
risk-taking. With her ex-husband, distinguished psychology
professor Donn Byrne, she co-authored a textbook on gender
differences.
The shift in the focus of her research puzzled many. Gregory
George, a graduate student who has since left the university,
said he was part of a team assigned to lay the factual
foundation for the implants research.
To his astonishment, he found several firms had developed
"trans-tympanic transducers,'' instruments that function as
mini-telephones, sending voice messages to the inner ear.
Companies declined to market the product for fear of bad
transmissions causing deafness, he said.
George believed the point of the research was to look at how
people would perceive those with the implants, and whether
there might be a social stigma attached.
"Kathryn has never been one to go traditional,'' said George.
"But some of us wondered why we were looking at the social
stigma of something that hadn't been developed yet. Why not
look at the stigma of using something more common, like a
wheelchair?''
Papers Kelley delivered at two recent conferences suggest
that she was becoming fascinated with the subject of mind
control.
At the annual conference of the Eastern Psychological
Association in Providence, R.I. -- attended by several
UAlbany graduate students -- she delivered a paper that
looked at implant claims as "one of the indicators of
schizophrenia.''
Yet many colleagues began wondering to what extent Kelley
believed that such implants were actually occurring.
"A lot of people wonder where she draws the line,'' said one
graduate student, who asked not to be named. "Is it
hypothetical? Or is it fact?''
In a more detailed treatment she gave at a conference earlier
this month in Orlando, Fla., Kelley lent more credence to the
phenomenon. She described how a subject might be implanted
with the device during anesthesia, perhaps leaving tiny
stitches visible in the ear. She called the devices RAATs,
short for radio wave, auditory, assaultive, transmitting
implants.
"When (short-wave) operators transmit to or scan RAAT
implants in victims, they can talk to the victims remotely
and anonymously, and hear the victim's speech and thoughts,''
Kelley wrote.
The paper noted that the National Institutes of Health denied
any governmental role in such research.
The EPA is a respected psychological organization. But few
professors had heard of the groups behind the Orlando
meeting: the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics
and Informatics, and the International Conference on
Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis. The Web site for
the organization, based in Venezuela, said it is devoted to
cybernetics, which it describes as integrating various
disciplines into "a whole that is permeating human thinking
and practice.''
The current investigation into Kelley's work is considered
highly sensitive at the university, coming four years after a
gunman who claimed the government planted microchips in his
body held a class of 37 students hostage and shot one student
during a struggle. Ralph Tortorici, the gunman, recently
hanged himself in his state prison cell.
Without commenting on specifics, sociology Professor David
Wagner, outgoing chair of the review board, said that
shutting down a professor's research was "quite rare.''
Some faculty members said the last time they remember the
board making such a move was in the early 1970s.
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