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There is a considerable probability that
unethical and involuntary human experiments are currently being
conducted by the U.S. Federal Government for research into
behavioral control.
In this research, bio-effects of EM fields and
beamed energy are used to directly affect the central nervous
system, with the goal of influencing human behavior.
Chemtrails
I.
In the past the U.S. Federal
Government engaged in unethical and involuntary human
experimentation for the development of technologies thought
critical to U.S. national security.
A. This occurred during the Cold War.
1. "From the end of world War II
well in to the 1970s, the Atomic Energy Commission, the
Defense Department, the military services, the CIA and other
agencies used prisoners, drug addicts, mental patients,
college students, soldiers, even bar patrons, in a vast
range of government-run experiments to test the effects of
everything from radiation, LSD and nerve gas to intense
electric shocks and prolonged ‘sensory deprivation.’ Some of
the human guinea pigs knew what they were getting into; many
others did not even know they were being experimented on."
The Cold War
Experiments , Budiansky, Goode and Gest,
U.S News and World Report , January 24, 1994
2. "During the last 50 years, hundreds of thousands of
military personnel have been involved in human
experimentation and other intentional exposures conducted by
the Department of Defense (DOD), often without a servicemember's knowledge or consent....
The U.S. General
Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994,
which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other
national security agencies studied hundreds of thousands of
human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous
substances. GAO stated that some tests and experiments were
conducted in secret."
Is Military Research
Hazardous to Veterans’ Health?
Lessons Spanning Half a Century,
A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans’
Affairs,
103d Congress, 2d Session, United States Senate, December 8,
1994
3. "Between 1944 and 1974, the federal government authorized
and funded experiments to test the effects of radiation on
humans.
... For example, institutionalized children and adult
prisoners were used in experiments, some cancer patients
died after being given total body irradiation with no
medical benefit, and 410 uranium miners died of lung cancer
from a radon hazard that could have been avoided.
... Even when there was no prospect of medical benefit, it
was common for researchers to conduct experiments without
patient consent.
... Perhaps most important, the committee found that hiding
experiments from subjects was simply the norm."
The Verdict: No Harm,
No Foul , Danielle Gordon,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , Vol. 51, No. 1, January
/ February 1996
4. "In 1993 the Governmental Affairs Committee began to
investigate the cold war radiation experiments. These
experiments are one of the unfortunate legacies of the cold
war, when our Government sponsored experiments involving
radiation on our own citizens without their consent. They
did not even know the experiments were being run on them. It
was without their consent."
U.S. Senator John
Glenn,
STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS
AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS (Senate - January 22, 1997)
Statements Introducing Human Research Subject Protection Act
of 1997
5. "Some 2 years ago, the Senate Health Subcommittee heard
chilling testimony about the human experimentation
activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Deputy
Director of the CIA revealed that over 30 universities and
institutions ere involved in an ‘extensive testing and
experimentation’ program which included covert drug tests on
unwitting citizens ‘at all social levels, [high and low] ,
native Americans and foreign.’ Several of these [tests
involved] the administration of LSD to ‘unwitting subjects
in [social] situations.’ ...
The Central Intelligence Agency
drugged American citizens without their knowledge or
consent. It used university facilities and personnel without
their knowledge."
Project MKULTRA, the
CIA’s Program of Behavior Modification,
Testimony of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy,
Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence,
U.S. Senate, 95th Congress, 1977
B. The U.S. Federal Government
continued to conduct unethical and involuntary human
experiments even after the Cold War was over.
1. During a 1994 U.S. Senate
hearing, U.S. Senator Rockefeller made the following
statement regarding the testing of experimental drugs on
U.S. soldiers during the 1991 Persian Gulf War:
"During the Persian Gulf War, hundreds of thousands of
soldiers were given experimental vaccines and drugs... The
Pentagon... threw caution to the winds, ignoring all
warnings of potential harm, and gave these drugs... with
virtually no warnings and no safeguards... "
Senator John D.
Rockefeller IV, Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
United States Senate Hearing, May 6, 1994
Later in 1994 the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on
Veteran’s Affairs published a report on its investigation
into the use of U.S. soldiers in federal research. This
report reflects the opinion of the majority of the staff,
and concluded:
"DOD [Department of Defense]
incorrectly claims that since their goal was treatment,
the use of investigational drugs in the Persian Gulf War
was not research. DOD used investigational drugs in the
Persian Gulf War in ways that were not effective. ...
DOD has demonstrated a pattern of misrepresenting the
danger of various military exposures that continues
today."
Is Military Research
Hazardous to Veterans’ Health?
Lessons Spanning Half a Century,
A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans’
Affairs,
103d Congress, 2d Session, United States Senate, December 8,
1994
2. From 1990 to 1991 the Center for Disease Control (CDC)
conducted a study of an experimental measles vaccine is Los
Angeles, California involving 1200 children whose parents
had not given informed consent for their children’s
participation. The study was experimental in that:
• It involved administration
of the Edmonston-Zagreb (EZ) strain of measles virus,
which was not licensed for use in the United States.
• The vaccine was administered in an experimentally high
dosage.
• The vaccine was administered to children under 1 year
of age, while in the U.S. measles vaccine is not
recommended for children under 15 months of age.
News that children had been used
in this study without their parents’ informed consent
surfaced in 1996. A magazine for pediatricians, Infectious
Diseases in Children, reported
"... The informed consent
form given to the parents of the children enrolled in
the study, however, failed to make clear that EZ vaccine
was under FDA review and was not licensed for use in the
U.S. The study was stopped in 1991, 18 months after the
children were initially enrolled, because of reports of
excess mortality in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Haiti."
[(note from author of this
report) Walter Orenstein, MD is director of the National
Immunization Program, CDC. The article quotes Orenstein as
saying]
"... we made a serious
mistake by not telling parents that the vaccine was
experimental and not licensed in the United States ...
And we also did not accurately explain to parents the
purposes at the time of entrance into the study."
Measles Vaccine Study Damages
Perception of Federal Research Projects,
Infectious Diseases in Children, October 1996
The Washington Office on Haiti and the National Vaccine
Information Center published a joint press release in which
Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and President of the National
Vaccine Information Center stated,
"The parents in inner-city
LA weren't told what it meant to subject their babies to
a dose of measles vaccine many times stronger than
normal. They weren't told that measles vaccine is not
recommended for American babies under 15 months of age.
... Their human rights were violated ..."
Washington Office on Haiti
National Vaccine Information Center
Join press release, July 16, 1996
II.
Members of the U.S.
Congress have publicly stated that current safeguards in U.S.
federal law and U.S. federal policies do not provide sufficient
protection for human research subjects and do not prohibit
involuntary human research.
Although legislation has been
introduced to correct these problems, the legislation has not
been ratified.
These problems continue to exist.
A. In 1997 U.S. Senator John Glenn
introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate titled Human
Research Subject
Protections Act of 1997 (S.193,
U.S. Senate, 105th Congress, 1st session).
Introducing S.193, Senator Glenn made the following comments
on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
"In 1993 the Governmental
Affairs Committee began to investigate the cold war
radiation experiments. These experiments are one of the
unfortunate legacies of the cold war, when our
Government sponsored experiments involving radiation on
our own citizens without their consent.
... During the course of this investigation, I began to
ask the question, what protections are in place to
prevent such abuses from happening again? What law
prohibits experimenting on people without their informed
consent?
What I found, when I looked into it, is there is no law
on the books requiring that informed consent be
obtained. More important, I believe there is a need for
such a law, as there continue to be cases where this
basic right - I do view it as a basic right - is abused.
... we still don't have a law on our books requiring
that informed consent - those two words, 'informed
consent' - be obtained prior to conducting research on
human subjects.
... there is a very elaborate system of protections that
have developed over the years. Unfortunately, though,
this system does have some gaps and, if enacted, I
believe this legislation will close those gaps.
Unfortunately, Mr. President, there are ongoing problems
with inappropriate, ethically suspect research on human
subjects. It is difficult to know the extent of such
problems because information is not collected in any
formal manner on human research.
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer [a newspaper] in my home
State of Ohio has recently reported in a whole series of
articles, after much investigation of this issue.
... The Plain-Dealer uncovered a number of disturbing
cases, very disturbing cases as a matter of fact, where
people were either unaware of the fact that they were
involved in research or were not provided full
information about potential side effects of research.
The series raises very serious questions about the
adequacy of our current system of protecting human
research subjects.
... The Plain-Dealer uncovered much evidence to suggest
that the Federal Government continues to sponsor
research where informed consent is not obtained. And
this fact disturbed me greatly also.
... Under current rule and executive order, it is
possible to waive informed consent and IRB review for
classified research."
U.S. Senator John Glenn,
Statements made introducing Human Research Subject
Protection Act of 1997,
STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
(U.S. Senate - January 22, 1997)
In the text of his proposed legislation, Senator Glenn noted
the following specific deficiencies in current protections
for human research subjects in the U.S.:
"(a) FINDINGS- Congress
makes the following findings:
(5) In 1995, the President's Advisory Committee on Human
Radiation Experiments found that there are significant
deficiencies in some aspects of the current system for
the protection of human subjects. In particular, the
Committee found that some consent forms currently in use
are flawed in morally significant aspects.
(7) Some agencies of the Federal government sponsor
research involving human subjects, but these agencies
have not adopted the Common Rule as provided for in part
46 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations.
(8) Private individuals or institutions that do not
receive any Federal funding or that are not seeking the
approval of the Food and Drug Administration for a drug
or device, and that sponsor research involving human
subjects, do not need to abide by the requirements of
part 46 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations.
(10) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) through (9), no
provision of United States law explicitly requires that
informed consent and independent review of research
involving human subject be obtained."
Human Research Subject
Protections Act of 1997 (Introduced in Senate)
S.193, 105th CONGRESS, 1st Session
The Human Research Subject Protections Act of 1997 has not
been ratified.
B. On June 8th, 2000, U.S.
Representative Diana DeGette introduced legislation
titled Human Research Subject
Protections Act of 2000 (H.R.4605, 106th Congress, 2nd
session) in the U.S. House of Representatives.
This legislation is very similar
to the Human Research Subject Protection Act of 1997 that
Senator Glenn introduced in the U.S. Senate.
In particular,
with minor changes, the text of Human Research Subject
Protections Act of 2000 contains each of the above quoted
findings, "(5)", "(7)", "(8)", and "(10)" from the text of
Human Research Subject Protection Act of 1997.
Representative DeGette’s Human Research Subject Protections
Act of 2000 has not been ratified.
C. Very recently, on November
21, 2003 Representative DeGette introduced legislation
titled Protection for
Participants in Research Act of 2003 (H. R. 3594, 108th
Congress, 1st session) in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In particular, from the text of
the proposed law, Protection for Participants in Research
Act of 2003 would require that "a principal investigator,
may not, except as provided in the Common Rule, involve an
individual as a subject in human subject research unless the
investigator or other knowledgeable person has obtained the
informed consent of the individual to be a subject."
On December 4th 2003 the Protection for Participants in
Research Act of 2003 was referred for consideration to the
Subcommittee on Health of the House Committee on Energy and
Commerce.
The recent introduction of Protection for Participants in
Research Act of 2003, with its specific requirement that
informed consent be obtained before a person can be used in
human subject research, indicates that involuntary human
experimentation continues to be a problem in the U.S.
III.
During the Cold War, the U.S. Federal Government conducted
research into behavioral control. It was judged to be critical
to U.S. national security that the U.S. acquire capabilities in
this area, in order to maintain parity with, and to develop
counter-measures against, believed advances that had been made
in this field by the USSR and China.
It was thought to be impossible to
make substantial progress in behavioral control research without
using unwitting human test subjects.
The agency conducting the
research justified the ethical and legal violations involved in
using unwitting human test subjects by the impossibility of
otherwise making progress and by the critical importance the
sought after capabilities had to U.S. national security.
A. "On June 1, 1951, top military and
intelligence officials of the United States, Canada and
Great Britain,
alarmed by the frightening
reports of communist success at ‘intervention in the
individual mind,’ summoned a small group of eminent
psychologists to a secret meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
in Montreal. The Soviets had gotten Hungary's Joszef
Cardinal Mindszenty, an outspoken anti-communist, to confess
to espionage, and they also seemed to be able to
indoctrinate political enemies and even control the thoughts
of entire populations.
The researchers were convinced
that the communists' success must be the fruit of some
mysterious breakthroughs. By the following September, U.S.
government scientists, spurred on by reports that American
prisoners of war were being brainwashed in North Korea, were
proposing an urgent, top-secret research program on behavior
modification. Drugs, hypnosis, electroshock, lobotomy -- all
were to be studied as part of a vast U.S. effort to close
the mind-control gap."
The Cold War
Experiments, Budiansky, Goode and Gest,
U.S News and World Report, January 24, 1994
B. "MKULTRA was the principal
CIA program
involving the research and
development of chemical and biological agents. It was
‘concerned with the research and development of chemical,
biological, and radiological materials capable of employment
in clandestine operations to control human behavior.’
[ Memorandum from the CIA
Inspector General to the Director, 7/26/63 ]
...
MKULTRA was approved by
the DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] on April 13,
1953 along the lines proposed by ADDP [Associate Deputy
Director for Plans] Helms.
... Over the ten-year life of the program, many
‘additional avenues to the control of human behavior’
were designated as appropriate for investigation under
the MKULTRA charter. These include ‘radiation,
electroshock, various fields of psychology, psychiatry,
sociology, and anthropology, graphology, harassment
substances, and paramilitary devices and materials.’
... LSD was one of the materials tested in the MKULTRA
program. The final phase of LSD testing involved
surreptitious administration to unwitting nonvolunteer
subjects in normal life settings by undercover officers
of the Bureau of Narcotics acting for the CIA.
The rationale for such testing was ‘that testing of
materials under accepted scientific procedures fails to
disclose the full pattern of reactions and attributions
that may occur in operational situations.’
[ Inspector General
Report on MKULTRA, 1963, p. 21 ]
... The late 1940s and early 1950s were marked by
concern over the threat posed by the activities of the
Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and other
Communist bloc countries. United States concern over the
use of chemical and biological agents by these powers
was acute.
The belief that hostile powers had used
chemical and biological agents in interrogations,
brainwashing, and in attacks designed to harass,
disable, or kill Allied personnel created considerable
pressure for a ‘defensive’ program to investigate
chemical and biological agents so that the intelligence
community could understand the mechanisms by which these
substances worked and how their effects could be
defeated.
... As the Deputy Director for Plans, Richard Helms,
wrote the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence during
discussions which led to tile cessation of unwitting
testing:
‘While I share your uneasiness and distaste for any
program which tends to intrude upon an individual's
private and legal prerogatives, I believe it is
necessary that the Agency maintain a central role in
this activity, keep current on enemy capabilities the
manipulation of human behavior, and maintain an
offensive capability.’
[Memorandum for the
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from the Deputy
Director for Plans, 12/17/63, pp. 2-3 ]
... On December 17, 1963, Deputy Director for Plans
Helms wrote a memo to the DDCI, who with the Inspector
General and the Executive Director-Comptroller had
opposed the covert testing. He noted two aspects of the
problem:
(1) ‘for over a decade the Clandestine Services
has had the mission of maintaining a capability for
influencing human behavior;’ and
(2) ‘testing
arrangements in furtherance of this mission should be as
operationally realistic and yet as controllable as
possible.’
Helms argued that the individuals must be
‘unwitting’ as this was ‘the only realistic method of
maintaining the capability, considering the intended
operational use of materials to influence human behavior
as the operational targets will certainly be unwitting.
Should the subjects of the testing not be unwitting, the
program would only be ‘pro forma’ resulting in a ‘false
sense of accomplishment and readiness.’’
[Memorandum for the
Record prepared by the Inspector General, 5/15/63]
... Helms noted that because of the suspension of covert
testing, the Agency's ‘positive operational capability
to use drugs is diminishing, owing to a lack of
realistic testing. With increasing knowledge of the
state of the art, we are less capable of staying up with
Soviet advances in this field.’
[ Memorandum from DDP
Helms to DCI, 6/9/64, pp 1-2. ]"
Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s
Program of Behavior Modification,
Appendix A, XVII. Testing And Use Of Chemical
And Biological Agents By The Intelligence Community,
Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence,
U.S. Senate, 95th Congress, 1977
C. "According to Sidney Gottlieb, a
medical doctor and former CIA agent, MKULTRA
was established to investigate
whether and how an individual's behavior could be modified
by covert means. According to Dr. Gottlieb, the CIA believed
that both the Soviet Union and Communist China might be
using techniques of altering human behavior which were not
understood by the United States.
Dr. Gottlieb testified that ‘it
was felt to be mandatory and of the utmost urgency for our
intelligence organization to establish what was possible in
this field on a high priority basis.’ Although many human
subjects were not informed or protected, Dr. Gottlieb
defended those actions by stating, ‘...harsh as it may seem
in retrospect, it was felt that in an issue where national
survival might be concerned, such a procedure and such a
risk was a reasonable one to take.’ "
Is Military Research
Hazardous to Veterans’ Health?
Lessons Spanning Half a Century,
A Staff Report Prepared for the Committee on Veterans’
Affairs,
103d Congress, 2d Session, United States Senate, December 8,
1994
IV.
The U.S. Federal Government is again conducting research into
behavioral control. In this current research, bio-effects of EM
fields and beamed energy are used to directly affect the central
nervous system, with the goal of influencing human behavior.
A. Applications of the bio-effects of
EM fields
and beamed energy to influencing
human behavior have been identified by researchers
affiliated with the U.S. Federal Government as possible
areas for future research:
1. "MKULTRA was the principal CIA program involving the
research and development of chemical and biological agents.
... Over the ten-year life
of the program, many ‘additional avenues to the control
of human behavior’ were designated as appropriate for
investigation under the MKULTRA charter. These include
‘radiation, electroshock, various fields of psychology,
psychiatry, sociology, and anthropology, graphology,
harassment substances, and paramilitary devices and
materials.’
[Inspector General Report
on MKULTRA, 1963 p. 4 ]"
Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s
Program of Behavior Modification,
Appendix A, XVII. Testing And Use Of Chemical
And Biological Agents By The Intelligence Community,
Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence,
U.S. Senate, 95th Congress, 1977
2. "Experience with electroshock therapy, RFR experiments
and the increasing understanding of the brain as an
electrically mediated organ suggest the serious probability
that impressed electromagnetic fields can be disruptive of
purposeful behavior and may be capable of directing and/or
interrogating such behavior.
... While initial attention
should be toward degradation of human performance
through thermal loading and electromagnetic field
effects, subsequent work should address the
possibilities of directing and interrogating mental
functioning, using externally applied fields within the
possibility of a revolutionary capability to defend
against hostile actions and to collect intelligence data
prior to conflict onset."
Final Report On Biotechnology
Research Requirements For
Aeronautical Systems Through the Year 2000, Volumes I and
II,
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, p. 188,
189
B. The unclassified news media
has reported on research into applications of EM fields and
beamed energy to influencing human behavior.
1. "Scores of new contracts have been let, and scientists,
aided by government research on the ‘bioeffects’ of beamed
energy, are searching the electromagnetic and sonic
spectrums for wavelengths that can affect human behavior.
... From 1980 to 1983, a man
named Eldon Byrd ran the Marine Corps Nonlethal
Electromagnetic Weapons project. He conducted most of
his research at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research
Institute in Bethesda, Md. ‘We were looking at
electrical activity in the brain and how to influence
it,’ he says. Byrd, a specialist in medical engineering
and bioeffects, funded small research projects,
including a paper on vortex weapons by Obolensky. He
conducted experiments on animals--and even on
himself--to see if brain waves would move into sync with
waves impinging on them from the outside. (He found that
they would, but the effect was short lived.)
By using very low frequency electromagnetic
radiation - the waves way below radio frequencies on the
electromagnetic spectrum - he found he could induce the
brain to release behavior-regulating chemicals. ‘We
could put animals into a stupor,’ he says, by hitting
them with these frequencies."
Wonder Weapons: The
Pentagon’s
quest for nonlethal arms is amazing. But is it smart?,
Douglas Pasternak, U.S. News and World Report, July 7, 1997
2. "Development of many of the proposed weapons described on
these pages has been undertaken by NATO, the United States,
and probably other nations as well.
The Certain Conventional
Weapons Convention (also known as the Inhumane Weapons
Convention). Many of the non-lethal weapons under
consideration utilize infrasound or electromagnetic
energy (including lasers, microwave or radio-frequency
radiation, or visible light pulsed at brain-wave
frequency) for their effects.
These weapons are said to
cause temporary or permanent blinding, interference with
mental processes, modification of behavior and emotional
response, seizures, severe pain, dizziness, nausea and
diarrhea, or disruption of internal organ functions in
various other ways."
Non-lethal Weapons May
Violate Peace Treaties,
Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,
page 44, September-October 1994
3. "The Russian government is perfecting mind-control
technology developed in the 1970s that could be used to hone
fighting capabilities of friendly forces while demoralizing
and disabling opposing troops. Known as acoustic
psycho-correction, the capability to control minds and alter
behavior of civilians and soldiers may soon be shared with
U.S. military, medical and political officials, according to
U.S. and Russian sources.
... Meanwhile, the U.S. Army’s Armament Research,
Development & Engineering Center is conducting a one-year
study of acoustic beam technology that may mirror some of
the effects reported by the Russians."
U.S. Explores Russian
Mind-Control Technology,
Barbara Opall, Defense News, January 11-17, 1993
4. "Richard S. Cesaro, deputy director for advanced sensors
at the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, in an
interview prior to his death two years ago, contended that,
‘in our experiments we did some remarkable things. And there
was no question in my mind that you can get into the brain
with microwaves. ...If you really make the breakthrough,
you’ve got something better than any bomb ever built,
because when you finally come down the line you’re talking
about controlling people’s minds’ ..."
Looking at the Moscow
Signal, the Zapping of an Embassy
35 years later, The Mystery Lingers,
Barton Reppert, Associated Press, May 22, 1988
V.
As with past behavioral
control research, there are indications that acquiring
capabilities to influence human behavior using the bio-effects
of EM fields and beamed energy is considered critically
important to U.S. national security:
A. As stated in ‘d.’ above,
the U.S. Federal Government is currently conducting research
in this area.
B. Former U.S. defense
department officials
have publicly stated that
behavioral control technologies based on bio-effects of EM
fields and beamed energy are of potentially revolutionary
military importance:
"Richard S. Cesaro, deputy
director for advanced sensors at the Pentagon’s Advanced
Research Projects Agency, in an interview prior to his
death two years ago, contended that ‘in our experiments
we did some remarkable things. And there was no question
in my mind that you can get into the brain with
microwaves.
...If you really make the breakthrough,
you’ve got something better than any bomb ever built,
because when you finally come down the line you’re
talking about controlling people’s minds’ ..."
Looking at the Moscow Signal,
the Zapping of an Embassy:
35 years later, The Mystery Lingers,
Barton Reppert, Associated Press, May 22, 1988
C. Research efforts by
competing foreign powers in applying bio-effects of EM
fields
and beamed energy to influencing
human behavior have been reported in the U.S. news media
with alarm, including in recent years:
1. "The Russian government is perfecting mind-control
technology developed in the 1970s that could be used to hone
fighting capabilities of friendly forces while demoralizing
and disabling opposing troops.
Known as acoustic psycho-correction, the capability to
control minds and alter behavior of civilians and soldiers
may soon be shared with U.S. military, medical and political
officials, according to U.S. and Russian sources.
Pioneered by the government funded Department of
Psycho-Correction at the Moscow Medical Academy, acoustic
psycho-correction involves the transmission of specific
commands via static or white noise bands into the human
subconscious without upsetting other intellectual functions.
Moreover, decades of research and investment of untold
millions of rubles in the process of psycho-correction has
produced the ability to alter behavior on willing and
unwilling subjects, the experts add.
... At least one senior U.S. senator, government
intelligence officials and the U.S. Army’s Office for
Operations, Plans and Force Development are interested in
reviewing the Russian capabilities, U.S. sources said.
... Meanwhile, the U.S. Army’s Armament Research,
Development & Engineering Center is conducting a one-year
study of acoustic beam technology that may mirror some of
the effects reported by the Russians."
U.S. Explores Russian
Mind-Control Technology,
Barbara Opall, Defense News, pages 4 and 29, January 11-17,
1993
2. A 1998 article titled “The Mind Has No Firewall” in the
U.S. Army War College Quarterly, Parameters, begins with the
following quote from a Russian army officer:
" ‘It is completely clear
that the state which is first to create such weapons
will achieve incomparable superiority.’
-- Major I. Chernishev,
Russian army [Can Rulers Make `Zombies' and Control the
World?, I. Chernishev, Orienteer, pp. 58-62, February
1997 ]"
The article then continues:
"... A recent Russian
military article offered a slightly different slant to
the problem, declaring that ‘humanity stands on the
brink of a psychotronic war’ with the mind and body as
the focus. That article discussed Russian and
international attempts to control the psycho-physical
condition of man and his decision-making processes by the
use of VHF-generators, ‘noiseless cassettes,’ and other
technologies.
An entirely new arsenal of weapons, based on devices
designed to introduce subliminal messages or to alter
the body's psychological and data-processing
capabilities, might be used to incapacitate individuals.
These weapons aim to control or alter the psyche, or to
attack the various sensory and data-processing systems
of the human organism.
... The term ‘psycho-terrorism’ was coined by Russian
writer N. Anisimov of the Moscow Anti-Psychotronic
Center. According to Anisimov, psychotropic weapons are
those that act to,
‘take away a part of the information
which is stored in a man's brain. It is sent to a
computer, which reworks it to the level needed for those
who need to control the man, and the modified
information is then reinserted into the brain.’
These
weapons are used against the mind to induce
hallucinations, sickness, mutations in human cells, ‘zombification,’
or even death. Included in the arsenal are VHF
generators, X-rays, ultrasound, and radio waves. Russian
army Major I. Chernishev, writing in the military
journal Orienteer in February 1997, asserted that ‘psy’
weapons are under development all over the globe.
... There is confirmation from U.S. researchers that
this type of study is going on. Dr. Janet Morris,
coauthor of
The Warrior's Edge, reportedly went to the
Moscow Institute of Psychocorrelations in 1991. There
she was shown a technique pioneered by the Russian
Department of Psycho-Correction at Moscow Medical
Academy in which researchers electronically analyze the
human mind in order to influence it."
The Mind Has No Firewall,
Timothy L. Thomas, Parameters (U.S. Army War College
Quarterly),
pp. 84-92, Spring 1998
3. "One specific data processor,
however, has received far less attention in U.S. thinking.
It is the security of the data processor known as the mind,
which unfortunately has no innate firewall to protect it
from either deceptive or electromagnetic processes. As a
result, the mind of the soldier on the battlefield is
potentially the most exploitable and unprotected IW [Information Warfare] capability our military possesses.
... China and Russia, in addition to studying hardware
technology, data processing equipment, computer networks and
‘system of systems’ developments, have focused considerable
attention on several nontraditional targets of the
information weapon, to include the mind.
... This article examines China's psychological warfare and
knowledge concepts (including the impact of the information
age on China's strategic culture) and ‘new concept’ weapons
(variants of nonlethal weapons); and Russia's development of
information-psychological operations, reflexive control or
‘intellectual IW’ stratagems and human behavior control
mechanisms.
... Russian IW modelers try to foresee the application and
utility of information weapons. They study an information
model of the psyche of a person and then attempt to simulate
the interaction between people, social groups and other
factors. The formation of methods to ensure
moral-psychological stability is important to Russian
modelers. They want to counter the influence of information
weapons that aim to suppress the will to resist, ‘zombify’
the psyche through manipulation and reconfigured thinking,
reprogram human behavior and demoralize and psychologically
degrade people
... The Russian armed forces are studying a host of unusual
subjects, almost all of which center on how information or
electronic waves affect the mind.
... In other words, the Russians are exhaustively exploring
what makes the mind tick and how to manage it."
Human Network Attacks,
Timothy L. Thomas, Military Review, September-October 1999
Note: Military Review is an official publication of the U.S.
Army Command and General Staff College
4. "An even more sinister behavior modification technique is
cited by Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo:
‘Soviet scientists have been perfecting a device that
bombards the brain with low-frequency radio waves. These
airborne waves can travel over distances and are known to
change the behavior of animals and humans in their path.
Such remote control makes possible potentially frightening
uses for altering the brain’s functioning.’ "
Thought Control,
Stanley N. Wellborn, U.S. News & World Report, p. 89, Dec.
26, 1983
5. "On May 20, 1983 U.S. newspapers printed an Associated
Press story from the Veteran's Hospital and Loma Linda,
California that the Soviets developed a device, called Lida,
to bombard human brains with radio waves.
... Lida is reported to
change behavior in animals.
... According to Dr. Adey, who repeatedly visited the
USSR, the Soviets have used the machine on people since
at least 1960. The machine is technically described as
‘a distant pulse treatment apparatus.’ It generates 40
megahertz radio waves which stimulate the brain's
electromagnetic activity at substantially lower
frequencies.
Dr. Adey was quoted as saying:
‘Some people theorize
that the Soviets may be using an advanced version of the
machine clandestinely to seek a change in the behavior
in the United States through signals beamed from the
USSR.’
No reference was made to the protracted microwave
bombardment several years ago of the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow.
... In the U.S. research on direct brain waves has
scarcely begun, and the USSR has a lead of approximately
25 years. Once it is matured the new technology will be
extraordinarily significant in medicine. It may also
have major impacts on communications, intelligence, and
psychological operations, and permit deliberate
physiological impairment.
The KGB is known to be interested in the program. It is
not known whether the U.S. and other governments are
trying to determine whether their countries have become
targets of clandestine brain wave beamed from the USSR.
Nor are there indications that work on countermeasures
is being contemplated, except perhaps in the USSR."
Psy-War: Soviet Device
Experiment,
Stefan T. Possony, Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily, pp. 1-2,
June 7, 1983
6. "(Soviet) mind-altering techniques, designed to impact on
an opponent are well-advanced. The procedures employed
include manipulation of human behavior through the use of
psychological weapons effecting sight, sound, smell,
temperature, electromagnetic energy, or sensory deprivation.
... Soviet researchers,
studying controlled behavior, have also examined the
effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans and have
applied these techniques against the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow.
... Researchers suggest that certain low-frequency (ELF)
emissions possess psychoactive characteristics. These
transmissions can be used to induce depression or
irritability in a target population. The application of
large-scale ELF behavior modification could have
horrendous impact."
The New Mental Battlefield,
Lt. Col. John B. Alexander, U.S. Army, Ph.D.,
Military Review, December 1980
Note: Military Review is an official publication of the U.S.
Army Command and General Staff College
7. "A newly classified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
report says extensive Soviet research into microwaves might
lead to methods of causing disoriented human behavior, nerve
disorders, or even heart attacks.
‘Soviet scientists are fully aware of the biological effects
of low-level microwave radiation which might have offensive
weapons applications,’ says the report, based on an analysis
of experiments conducted in the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe.
According to the study, this research work suggests the
potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel
applications.
... A copy of the study was provided by the agency to The
Associated Press in response to a request under the Freedom
of Information Act. The Pentagon agency refused to release
some portions of the study, saying they remain classified on
national security grounds.
The report concluded that Soviet research in this area ‘has
great potential for development into a system for
disorienting or disrupting the behavior patterns of military
or diplomatic personnel. It could be used equally well as an
interrogation tool.’
... The report said that along with microwave hearing, the
Soviets have also studied various changes in body chemistry
and functioning of the brain resulting from exposure to
microwaves and other frequencies of the electromagnetic
spectrum."
Mind-Altering
Microwaves: Soviets Studying Invisible Ray,
Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Sec. A, Nov. 22, 1976
VI.
Currently, as in the past, it is hard to see how research into
obtaining behavioral control in unwitting or uncooperative
targets can be conducted using informed and consenting human
test subjects.
This must be combined with the past history of the U.S. Federal
Government of conducting unethical and involuntary human
research, as well as with the lack of sufficient protection for
human research subjects in U.S. federal law and policies.
Therefore, a considerable probability exists that national
security needs are again being cited to justify the use of
unwitting and involuntary human test subjects in behavioral
control research.
VII.
Additional factors support the possibility that unethical and
involuntary human subject research is currently taking place in
the U.S. in support of non-lethal weapons and behavioral control
research:
A. The World Organization Against
Torture,
in its 1998 report “Torture in
the United States”, stated allegations of these unethical
human research procedures being made by U.S. activist groups
are credible enough that they should not be dismissed
without an impartial investigation:
"Similar concerns also are
being raised about involuntary human experimentation
involving new forms of classified research and testing
of high technology military weaponry, including
microwave and laser equipment. Groups working on these
issues cite, among other evidence of the existence of
these unauthorized testing procedures, a White House
inter-governmental memorandum dated March 27, 1997,
establishing stronger guidelines prohibiting
non-consensual testing for classified research, but
suggesting, by implication, that this type of human
subject research may, in fact, be taking place. … these
allegations of continuing improprieties involving secret
government sponsored human testing should not be
dismissed without more thorough, impartial
investigation."
Torture in the United States,
World Organization Against Torture, 1998
B. A number of experts have
stated they believe
it is possible that such involuntary human research is
currently being done in the U.S. :
1. Letter from Professor John C. Syer in support of the
efforts of Cheryl Welsh, president of CAHRA (Citizens
Against Human Rights Abuse), to investigate allegations of
involuntary human testing of electromagnetic weapons
technology:
"May 11, 1998
To Whom It May Concern:
I write in support of the efforts of Cheryl Welsh and
others to obtain a definitive hearing concerning
nonconsensual human testing of electromagnetic
technologies. The effect of beamed energy on the human
body is deserving of the highest levels of understanding
and accountability. Regarding electromagnetic weapons,
Professor Steven Metz of the U.S. Army War College has
said, ‘We need an open debate on them now.’ (Singapore
Straights Times. July 18, 1997.)
Cheryl Welsh will receive her B.A. from California State
University-Sacramento later this month. While conducting
independent research, Ms. Welsh has compiled an
extensive bibliography and a useful list of expert
witnesses. She has also collected data on the victims of
nonconsensual testing. Ms. Welsh has formed a nonprofit
research organization on this question, and she has
appeared on CNN and the Learning Channel to address this
issue. Cheryl Welsh may be reached at 915 Zaragoza
Street, Davis, California 95616.
The materials assembled by Ms. Welsh provide a solid
basis for undertaking a more thorough examination of
this issue. Given the classified nature of weapons
development, it is imperative that ample scrutiny
accompany this type of experimentation in order that
human rights and the public health are not endangered.
Government personnel, and individuals working under
government contracts, must be held to the highest
standards of accountability. A public investigation of
nonconsensual electromagnetic testing is long overdue.
[Signature]
John C. Syer
Professor of Government
CSU-Sacramento
6000 J. Street
Sacramento, CA. 95819"
2. Letter by Dr. Eldon A. Byrd,
former director of the Marine Corps Nonlethal
Electromagnetic Weapons Development Project from 1980 to
1983, provided to Cheryl Welsh, president of CAHRA (Citizens
Against Human Rights Abuse):
"January 8, 2002
To Whom It May Concern
This letter of recommendation has been prepared to
introduce and support both a technology and a person.
The person is Cheryl Welsh, a law student and researcher
who is engaged in trying to find out what is behind the
thousands of cases of reported abuse against humans that
is causing pain and suffering to innocent victims. The
technology is one which, if applied malevolently, could
cause the abuse.
... The technology she is investigating opens the door
to the possibility that humans are being used as
subjects in a massive, worldwide experiment to test mind
control techniques. Although there is no hard evidence
for such a claim, the ‘dirty hands’ of governments in
the past (the Third Reich, e.g., and several well known
and documented human experiments by other governments,
including our own) to experiment on its citizens without
their permission, makes her claims plausible.
... I am qualified to evaluate the technology involved,
having been in charge of the U.S. Marine Corps
Electromagnetic Non-lethal Weapons Development Project
in the early 1980’s, wherein it was shown that it was
possible to alter the behavior of animals with magnetic
fields, and entrain human brain waves remotely. Since
then, the technology has progressed to the point where
even genetic engineering with fields is possible and
demonstrable. That the technology to inflict mind
control on human beings exists is beyond question ...
Eldon A. Byrd"
C. The CNN documentary TV program
“American Edge”,
shown on June 18, 1997, reported that the non-profit group
CAHRA (Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse) networks with
over 500 alleged victims, and that other groups say
thousands are targeted.
 
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