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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:58:22 -0400
From: Kris Millegan RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SOME ASPECTS OF ANTI PERSONNEL ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS
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David G. Guyatt Freelance Writer/Researcher
SOME ASPECTS OF ANTI PERSONNEL ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS
Synopsis prepared for the ICRC Symposium
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE EFFECTS OF WEAPONS
February 1996
BACKGROUND - 1940 THROUGH 1995
The background to the development of anti-personnel
electromagnetic weapons can be traced by to the early-middle
1940's and possibly earlier. The earliest extant reference, to
my knowledge, was contained in the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey
(Pacific Survey, Military Analysis Division, Volume 63) which
reviewed Japanese research and development efforts on a "Death
Ray".
Whilst not reaching the stage of practical application,
research was considered to be sufficiently promising to warrant
the expenditure of Yen 2 million during the years 1940-1945.
Summarizing the Japanese efforts allied scientists concluded that
a ray apparatus might be developed that could kill unshielded
human beings at a distance of 5 to 10 miles. Studies
demonstrated that, for example, automobile engines could be
stopped by tuned waves as early as 1943.1 It is, therefore,
reasonable to suppose that this technique has been available for
a great many years? Research on living organisms ( mice and
ground hogs) revealed that waves from 2 meters to 60 centimeters
in length caused hemorrhage of lungs, whereas waves shorter than
two meters destroyed brain cells.
However, experiments in behaviour modification and mind
manipulation have a grisly past. Nazi doctors at the Dachau
concentration camp conducted involuntary experiments with
hypnosis and narco-hypnosis - using the drug mescaline - on
inmates. Additional research was conducted at Aushwitz, using a
range of chemicals including various barbiturates and morphine
derivatives.
Many of these experiments proved fatal. Following the
conclusion of the war the U.S. Naval Technical Mission was tasked
with obtaining pertinent industria l and scientific material that
had been produced by the Third Reich and which may be of benefit
to U.S. interests. Following a lengthy report the Navy
instigated Project CHATTER in 1947. Many of the Nazi scientists
and medical doctors who conducted these and other hideous
experiments were later recruited by the U.S. Army and worked out
of Heidelberg prior to being secretly relocated to the United
States under the Project PAPERCLIP programme. Under the
leadership of Dr. Hubertus Strughold, 34 ex Nazi scientists
accepted "Paperclip" contracts, authorised by the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and were put to work at Randolph Air Force Base, San
Antonio, Texas.
By 1953 the CIA, US Navy and the US Army Chemical Corps
were conducting their own narco-hypnosis programmes on unwilling
victims that included prisoners, mental patients, foreigners,
ethic minorities and those classified as sexual deviants.2 It was
not until the middle or late 1970's that the American public
became aware of a series of hitherto secret programmes that had
been conducted over the preceding two decades by the military and
intelligence community.3 Primarily focusing on narco-hypnosis
these covert programmes were extensive and were assigned project
titles: MKULTRA, MKDELTA, MKNAOMI, MKSEARCH (MK being understood
to stand for Mind Kontrol), BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE and CHATTER.
The principal aim of these and associated programmes was
the development of a reliable "programmable" assassin. Secondary
aims were the development of a method of citizen control.4
Particularly relevant was Dr. Jose Delgado's secret work directed
towards the creation of a "psycho-civilised" society by use of a
"stimoceiver."5 Delgado's work was seminal and his experiments
on human and animals demonstrated that electronic stimulation can
excite extreme emotions including rage, lust, fatigue etc. In
his paper "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and recording in
Completely Free Patients" , Delgado observed that: "Radio
Stimulation on different points in the amygdala and hippocampus
in the four patients produced a variety of effect, including
pleasant sensations, elation, deep thoughtful concentration, odd
feelings, super relaxation (an essential precursor for deep
hypnosis 6) coloured visions, and other responses." With regard
to the "coloured visions" citation, it is reasonable to conclude
he was referring to hallucinations - an effect that a number of
so called "victims" allude to.7 As far back as 1969, Delgado
predicted the day would soon arrive when a computer would be able
to establish two-way radio communication with the brain, an event
that first occurred in 1974. Lawrence Pinneo, a
neurophysiologist and electronic engineer working for Stanford
Research Institute (a leading military contractor), "developed a
computer system capable of reading a person's mind.
It correlated brain waves on an electroencephalograph with
specific commands. Twenty years ago the omputer responded with a
dot on a TV screen.
Nowadays it could be the input to a stimulator (ESB) in
advanced stages using radio frequencies" 8 In the event,
narco-hypnosis was found, it is claimed, to be less than
reliable, although some writers and observers dispute this.9
Additional studies conducted by Dr. Ewen Cameron, and funded by
the CIA, were directed towards erasing memory and imposing new
personalities on unwilling patients.
Cameron discovered that electroshock treatment caused
amnesia. He set about a programme that he called "de-patterning"
which had the effect of erasing the memory of selected patients.
Further work revealed that subjects could be transformed into a
virtual blank machine (Tabula Rasa) and then be re-programmed
with a technique which he termed "psychic driving". Such was the
bitter public outrage, once his work was revealed (as a result of
FOIA searches) that Cameron was forced to retire in disgrace.
Of interest too is Dr. John C. Lilly10 who was asked by the
Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to
brief the CIA, FBI, NSA and other military intelligence services
on his work using electrodes to stimulate, directly, the pleasure
and pain centres of the brain. According to Lilly he refused.
However, as revealed in his book he continued to do "useful" work
for the national security apparatus. However, in terms of timing
this is interesting for these events took place in 1953. Another
scientists, Eldon Byrd, who worked for Naval Surface Weapons
Office was commissioned in 1981 to develop electromagnetic
devices for purposes including "riot control", clandestine
operations and hostage removal.11 From 1965 through to 1970,
Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), with up to
70-80% funding provided by the military, set in motion operation
PANDORA to study the health and psychological effects of low
intensity microwaves with regard to the so called "Moscow
signal". This project appears to have been quite extensive and
included (under US Navy funding) studies demonstrating how to:
induce heart seizures, create leaks in the blood brain barrier
and production of auditory hallucinations. Despite attempts to
render the Pandora programme invisible to scrutiny, FOIA filings
revealed memoranda of Richard Cesaro, Director, DARPA, which
confirmed that the programme's initial goal was to "discover
whether a carefully controlled microwave signal could control the
mind." Cesaro urged that these studies be made "for potential
weapons applications."12 Following immense public outcry,
Congress forbade further research and demanded that these
projects be terminated across the board, but as Victor Marchetti,
a former CIA agent later revealed, the programmes merely became
more covert with a high element of "deniability" built in to
them., and that CIA claims to the contrary are a "cover story"13
Despite the fact that many of the aforementioned projects
revolved around the use of narcotics and hallucogenics, projects
ARTICHOKE, PANDORA and CHATTER clearly demonstrate that
"psychoelectronics" were a high priority. Indeed the author John
Marks; anonymous informant (known humorously as "Deep Trance")
stated that beginning in 1963 mind control research strongly
emphasised electronics.
An obscure District of Columbia corporation called Mankind
Research Unlimited (MRU) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Systems
Consultants Inc. (SCI) operated a number of classified
intelligence, government and Pentagon contracts, specialising in,
amongst other things: "problem solving in the areas of
intelligence electronic warfare, sensor technology and
applications." 14 MRU's "capability and experience" is divided
into four fields. These include "biophysics - Biological Effects
of Magnetic Fields", "Research in Magneto-fluid Dynamics",
"Planetary Electro-Hydro-Dynamics" and "Geo-pathic Efforts on
Living Organisms". The latter focuses on the induction of
illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography. Also
under research were "Biocybernetics, Psychodynamic Experiments in
Telepathy", "Errors in Human Perception" , "Biologically
Generated Fields" "Metapsychiatry and the Ultraconscious Mind"
(believed to refer to experiments in telepathic mind control),
"Behavioural Neuropsychiatry" "Analysis and Measurement of Human
Subjective States" and "Human Unconscious Behavioural Patterns".
Employing some old OSS, CIA and military intelligence officers,
the company also engages the services of prominent physicians and
psychologists including E. Stanton Maxey, Stanley R. Dean
Berthold Eric Schwarz plus many more. MRU lists in its Company
Capabilities "brain and mind control."15 Despite vehement claims
by MRU's chairman that it is not a "front organisation for any
branch of the United States Government..."16 one must treat these
claims with a great deal of scepticism.
There followed an extensive hiatus in available
information during the 1980's and up to the present day. This
initially appears to have closely paralleled Ronald Reagan's
Presidency and not surprisingly flowed onwards during President
Bush's term of office17. As a result the once user-friendly
Freedom of Information Act became less accessible and more
bureaucratic.
Search costs soared and material that had been (or
scheduled to be) de-classified was reviewed and re-classified.
This phenomenon is not an unusual occurrence in the United
States, and tends to shadow the outward face of Congress. Public
outrage leads to a temporary liberalisation, but as public memory
recedes (all too quickly) the old institutionalised covert ways
quickly re-engage. We thus move to more recent times.
During 1989 CNN aired a programme on electromagnetic
weapons and showed a US government document that outlined a
contingency plan to use EM weapons against "terrorists". Prior
to the show a DoD medical engineer sourced a story claiming that
in the context of conditioning, microwaves and other modalities
had regularly been used against Palestinians. During 1993
Defense News, the prestigious US weekly announced that Russian
government was discussing with American counterparts the transfer
of technical information and equipment known as "Acoustic
Psycho-correction". The Russians claimed that this device
involves "the transmission of specific commands via static or
white noise bands into the human subconscious without upsetting
other intellectual functions." Experts said that demonstrations
of this equipment have shown "encouraging" results "after
exposure of less than one minute," and has produced "the ability
to alter behaviour on willing and unwilling subjects." The
article goes on to explain that combined "software and hardware
associated with the (sic) psycho-correction programme could be
procured for as little as US$80,000. The Russians went on to
observe that "World opinion is not ready for dealing
appropriately with the problems coming from the possibility of
direct access to the human mind." Acoustic psycho-correction
dates back to the mid 1970's and can be used to "suppress riots,
control dissidents, demoralise or disable opposing forces and
enhance the performance of friendly special operations teams.18"
One US concern in relation to this device, was aired by Janet
Morris of the Global Strategy Council, a Washington based think
tank established by former CIA deputy director, Ray Cline, who
noted that "Ground troops risk exposure to bone-conducting sound
that cannot be offset by earplugs or other protective gear." In
recent months I met with and discussed Russian research efforts,
with a contact who had visited Russia earlier this year. He, in
turn, met with a number of Russian scientists who
areknowledgeable in this field. I have few doubts that the
Defense News article cited earlier is fundamentally accurate.
Dr. Ross Adey, in his pioneering work determined that that
emotional states and behaviour can be remotely influenced merely
by placing a subject in an electromagnetic field. By directing a
carrier frequency to stimulate the brain and using amplitude
modulation to shape the wave to mimic a desired EEG frequency he
was able to impose a 4.5 CPS theta rhythm on his subjects. Drs
Joseph Sharp and Allen Frey experimented with microwaves seeking
to transmit spoken words directly into the audio cortex via a
pulsed-microwave analog of the speaker's sound vibration.
Indeed, Frey's work in this field, dating back to 1960 gave rise
to the so called "Frey effect" which is now more commonly
referred to as "microwave hearing."19 Within the Pentagon this
ability is now known as "Artificial Telepathy".20 Adey and
others have compiled an entire library of frequencies and
pulsation rates which can effect the mind and nervous system21
During the siege of Waco, Texas, last year, FBI agents discussed
with Russian counterparts the use of Acoustic psycho-correction
on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. In the event it is
understood that this contingency did not proceed. However, some
unusual EM weapons were deployed at Waco. BBC World News, and
additional FBI film-footage (in the possession of this writer)
show both the Russian equipment being demonstrated, as well as
previously unseen noise generator and an unusual low frequency
strobe array in use at Waco.
Have weapons of this nature been developed and field
tested? Judged by the number of individuals and groups coming
forward with complaints of harassment the answer, appears, to be
yes. Kim Besley, of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, has
compiled a fairly extensive catalogue of effects that have
resulted from low frequency signals emanating from the US
Greenham Common base, and, apparently, targeted upon the women
protesters. These include: vertigo, retinal bleeding, burnt face
(even at night), nausea, sleep disturbances, palpitations, loss
of concentration, loss of memory, disorientation, severe
headaches, temporary paralysis, faulty speech co-ordination,
irritability and a sense of panic in non-panic situations.
Identical and similar effects have been reported elsewhere
and appear to be fairly common-place amongst so called "victims".
Many of these symptoms have been associated in medical literature
with exposure to microwaves and especially through low intensity
or non thermal exposures.22 These have been reviewed by Dr.
Robert Becker, twice nominated for the Noebel Prize, and
specialist in EM effects. His report confirms that the symptoms
mirror those he would expect to see, had Microwave weapons been
deployed.
The Scientific American dated April 1994 carried an article
entitled "Bang! You're Alive" which briefly described some of the
known arsenal of Less Than Lethal weapons presently available.
These include Laser Rifles, low frequency ""infrasound"
generators powerful enough to trigger nausea or diarrhoea. Steve
Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) noted
that Non-Lethal weapons have been linked to "mind control"
devices and that three of the most prominent advocates of non
lethality share an interest in psychic phenomena23 Current
Projects include SLEEPING BEAUTY, directed towards the
battlefield use of mind-altering electromagnetic weapons. This
project is headed by Jack Verona, a highly placed Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer. Dr.
Michael Persinger of Laurentian University is also employed
on the project.
Other sources have revealed a project entitled MONARCH
which, supposedly, is directed towards the deliberate creation of
severe multiple personality disorder.24 It is now the opinion of
many that these and related programmes have been brought under
the banner of Non Lethal Weapons, otherwise known as Less Than
Lethal, which are now promulgated in connection with the doctrine
of Low Intensity Conflict, a concept for warfare in the 21st
century. It is clear that many of these Pentagon and related LTL
programmes operate under high classification. Others consider
many similar or related "black" programmes are funded from the
vast resources presently available under the US counter-drug law
enforcement policy which has a FY 1995 budget of $13.2 billion.25
Defense Secretary, William J Perry, issued a memorandum on Non
lethal Weapons dated 21 July 1994. This was of interest in that
it outlined a tasking priority list for use of these
technologies. Second on the list was "crowd control". Coming in
at a poor fifth was "Disable or destroy weapons or weapon
development/production processes, including suspected weapons of
mass destruction." It is therefore clear that Non Lethality is
fundamentally seen as anti-personnel rather than anti-material.
In July this year, Spotlight, a rightist and widely circulated US
newspaper reported that well placed DoD sources have confirmed a
classified Pentagon contract for the development of "high-power
electromagnetic generators that interfere with human brain
waves." The article cited the memorandum of understanding dated
1994 between Attorney General, Janet Reno, and Defense Secretary,
William Perry for transfer of LTL weapons to the law enforcement
sector. A budget of under $50 million has been made available
for funding associated "black" programmes.
Dr. Emery Horvath, a professor of physics at Harvard
University has stated in connection to the generator that
interferes with human brain waves that "These electronic
'skull-zappers' are designed to invade the mind and short circuit
its synapses...in the hands of government technicians, it may be
used to disorient entire crowds, or to manipulate individuals
into self destructive acts. It's a terrifying weapon."26
In a 1993 US Air Command and Staff College paper entitled
"Non Lethal Technology and Air Power, authors Maj. Jonathan W.
Klaaren (USAF) and Maj. Ronald S. Mitchell (USAF) outlined
selected NLT weapons.
<cont'd in Part 2>
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