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Defense Electronics, July 1993, page 17
DOD, Intel Agencies Look at Russian Mind Control Technology,
Claims: FBI Considered Testing on Koresh
By Mark Tapscott
Federal law enforcement officials considered testing a Russian
scientist's acoustic mind control device on cultist David Koresh
a few weeks before the fiery conflagration that killed the Branch
Davidian leader and more than 70 of his followers in Waco, Texas,
Defense Electronics has learned.
In a series of closed meetings beginning March 17 in suburban
Northern Virginia with Dr. Igor Smirnov of the Moscow Medical
Academy, FBI officials were brief on the Russian's decade-long
research on a computerized acoustic device allegedly capable of
implanting thoughts in a person's mind without that person being
aware of the source of the thought.
"It was suggested to us [by other federal officials] that they
bring in the FBI, which was looking for a viable operation to
deal with Koresh," said a source who participated in the Smirnov
meetings who agreed to discuss the gatherings only on condition
of anonymity.
His account of the meetings was confirmed by an executive summary
memorandum prepared by officials of Psychotechnologies Corp., a
Richmond, Virginia, based firm that owns the American rights to
the Russian technology. A copy of the Psychotechnologies
summary, which has been circulated among U.S. intelligence
executives, was obtained by DE.
The Psychotechnologies memo described the standoff between
federal agents and Koresh in Waco as "an on-going domestic
hostage situation."
After several meetings with Smirnov, FBI officials, who
repeatedly expressed fears during the discussions that Koresh and
his followers were suicidal, asked for a proposal describing
requirements and procedures for using the device in Waco, he
said.
"They wanted the Russians to promise zero risk" in using the
device on Koresh, but the Russians wouldn't do that," the
participant said. Another obstacle was the fact Smirnov had only
brought "entry-level equipment" and more sophisticated hardware
would have had to be rushed over from Russia before the device
could be used in an attempt to end the standoff in Texas.
As a result, Koresh and his band were not used as test subjects
for a demonstration of the technology developed under the former
Soviet Union and apparently used against civilians in
Afghanistan, which is why the U.S. defense and intelligence
communities were well-represented in the March meetings in
Virginia.
"There was a strong interest among the intelligence agencies
because they had been tracking Smirnov for years," the
participant said, "and because we know there is evidence the
Soviet Army's Special Forces used the technology during the
conflict in Afghanistan."
Alcohol and drug abuse among Red Army soldiers was so pervasive
during the Afghan war that Soviet officials relied upon the
technology in preparing troops for missions involving atrocities
against civilians.
Officials from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Advance Research Projects
Agency (ARPA) were also present according to the source.
Spokesmen for those agencies did not return a reporter's
telephone calls seeking to confirm whether individuals from their
organizations attended the Smirnov meetings.
Because the U.S. has no known counter-measure to the technology,
intelligence community and ARPA officials are concerned that
weaponized versions of the device may still be in the Russian
military inventory, and they expressed fear during the meetings
that the technology could be exported to Third World nations via
the growing black market in military equipment from the former
Soviet Union, he said.
The main purpose of the March meetings was described in the
Psychotechnologies memo as to "determine whether
psycho-correction technologies represent a present or future
threat to U.S. national security in situations where inaudible
commands might be used to alter behavior."
The memo went on to note that meeting attendees were also
interest in whether "psycho-correct detection, decoding and
counter-measures programs should be undertaken by the U.S." An
effective psycho-correction device could be a military threat,
the memorandum continued, if it were deployed to "negatively
affect morale of U.S. troops in combat: or to "affect judgement
or opinions of decision-makers, key personnel or populaces" in a
conflict. Further, the memo said Department of Defense (DOD)
officials were concerned that the technology could be used in the
protection of U.S. embassies, military training and in
non-violently "clearing areas of potential enemies, snipers,
etc."
Non-military participants were also included in the Smirnov
meetings in Virginia, as well as a series of subsequent briefings
by the two Russians at the University of Kansas Medical Center in
Topeka. The non-military attendees included Dr. Richard Nakamura
of the National Institute of Mental Health, and Dr. Christopher
Green, director of General Motors Corp (GM) biomedical research
department in Detroit.
Dr. Nakamura (KK's comments: Dr. Nakamura was moved into Dr.
Skirboll's position just after I mailed the NIH the packet of
protest letters with documentation calling for a stop to covert
research) could not be reached for comment, but he was described
in the Psychotechnologies memo as being "familiar with U.S.
patents" in the area and that "the Russians seemed to have
solved" mathematical problems" which had prevented development of
U.S. work beyond basic stages."
Dr. Green said through a GM spokesman that he attended the
Smirnov briefings in his capacity as member of a National Academy
of Sciences (NAS) panel on 21st Century Army technologies.
"This has no connection to anything being done by GM," the
spokesman said.
"It looks promising, but we don't have enough details yet to
really appraise it," Dr. Fowler Jones of University of Kansas
medical Center's psychology division told DE. "It was really
more of a presentation than an actual demonstration because,
unfortunately, a lot of the software we couldn't get going."
Jones said he and his colleagues at the Kansas facility are
looking for funding sources for research to determine whether the
Russian psycho-correction technology can be used in treating
alcoholism and other addictions (KK's comments: refer back to the
DIA document called "Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR which
claimed to be searching for solutions to alcoholism, and the fact
that Dr. Ron Siegel - Dr. West's co-principal investigator - is
now doing research with "alcoholics" at the Veteran's
Administration; I have to wonder if this is the cover story for
utilizing a vulnerable population in covert experimentation).
The Psychotechnologies memo described an agreement company
officials entered into with Smirnov in March in which "the
Russian side agreed to commit the psycho-correction technologies
still in Russia and all related know-how to the U.S. company in
exchange for stock. The Russian side has agreed to provide all
support necessary to recreate current [psycho-correction]
capability in the U.S. and to upgrade the capability using U.S.
components and computer programmers. All necessary developmental
and exiting algorithms will be provided by the Russian side."
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