The Experts121
Many scientists, philosophers, psychologists, and military analysts
have written on the possibilities of accumulating information
directly from the human brain as well as controlling human beings
for various governmental and militaristic purposes using the
aforementioned technologies.
What follows are excerpts from recent
interviews conducted by the authors with notable experts focusing on
the capabilities of US EMF technologies and concerns about human
rights and cognitive liberty.
We contacted twenty-two experts in the
fields of EMF technologies, many would not comment. The following
are quotes from four experts who were willing to publicly address
the subject.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Lopatin
Director of The Republican Scientific Research Institute of
Intellectual Property, Moscow, former
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the Vologda
from 1995 to 1999, and Senior
Assistant to the General Public Prosecutor of the Russian
Federation. During the 1990s Lopatin was
active in the Russian Federation’s banning of EMF technologies for
military purposes.122
121 Gaining interviews with DARPA scientists and officials at the
Human Effectiveness Directorate at Brooks proved
troublesome. For information about current projects, see DARPA
Defense Science Program, specifically COL Geoffrey
Ling, M.D., PhD’s program “Human-Assisted Neural Devices” and Amy
Kruse’s Improving War fighter Information
Intake Under Stress (AugCog) and Neurotechnology for Intelligence
Analysts. At the Human Effectiveness Directorate
see Andrei G. Pakhomov , Yahya Akyel , Olga N. Pakhomova , Bruce E.
Stuck , Michael R. Murphy, “Current state and
implications of research on biological effects of millimeter waves:
A review of the literature”, in Bioelectromagnetics,
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Pages 393 - 413.
122 The following are excerpts
of an interview with Lopatin translated by U.C. Davis student,
Tatiana Kanare.
The following are quotes from Lopatin:
“At the same time, the necessity of protection from information
weapons, information terrorism and information war is being
discussed more often during the last years.”
“…according to the Security Department of the Russian Federation,
directors of Russian Special Services and the Ministry of Defense of
Russia. Based on the data of special services, by the beginning of
the 21st century expenses for purchasing means of information war
increased within the last 15 years in the USA in four times and are
ahead of all armament programs. Information confrontation during the
times of a regular war began to change to a new, higher level –
information war.”
“According to article 6 of the Federal Law “On weapons,” as of July
30, 2001, on the territory of the Russian Federation it is forbidden
to circulate as means of civil and service weapons: ‘weapons and
other objects, destructive ability of which is based on the use of
electro-magnetic, light, heat, infrasound and ultrasound radiation
and which have output parameters that exceed the amounts, set by
state standards of the Russian Federation and norms of the federal
body of executive power responsible for healthcare, and also
mentioned above weapons and objects, manufactured outside of the
territory of the Russian Federation’.”
Carol Smith
British psychoanalyst, private practice in London, member of The
College of Psychoanalysts and the Institute for Psychotherapy and
Social Studies and member of their Ethics Committee.
Asked if there are human rights concerns associated with these
particular non-lethal weapons, Smith answered,
“Yes – it depends
though by what is meant by ‘the wrong hands’. For people who are
targeted for experimentation – all such devices need testing – all
hands are the wrong hands, be they government, private commercial,
or sadistic/commercial. Ionatron, a large company based in Arizona,
developed plasma channel directed energy weapons and state in their
website:
‘What are LIPC laser-guided directed-energy weapons?
Laser-guided directed-energy weapons work like “man-made lightning”
to disable people or things. LIPC technology is Ionatron’s
proprietary type of laser-guided directed-energy weapon. LIPC stands
for laser-induced plasma channel; the plasma channel is how the
energy is directed through the air at the target. Extremely fast
femto-second lasers cause light to break into filaments, which form
a plasma channel that conducts the energy like a virtual wire. This
technology can be adjusted for non-lethal or lethal use’.”
Discussing neurotechnology, Smith adds,
“Brain mapping indicated to
us the pleasure centers of the brain. TMS is the accessing these
with rapidly changing magnetic fields to produce electrical fields.
If the right hand rule is operative, the effect of inducing
electrical fields by changing magnetic fields improves mood.
(Lenz’s law, however, gives the direction of the induced
electromotive force (EMF) resulting from
electromagnetic induction, thus: The EMF induced in an electric
circuit always acts in such a
direction that the current it drives around a closed circuit
produces a magnetic field which opposes
the change in magnetic flux.)
In other words, it would be possible
to create depression and a feeling
of overwhelming hopelessness by the induction of a current into the
electrical circuit of the brain,
which opposed the change in magnetic flux.123
“In 2004, The US Air Force Directorate:
Controlled Effects gives a
clear picture of objectives:
“The Controlled Effects long-term
challenge focuses technology developments in three primary areas
Measured Global Force Projection looks at the exploitation of
electromagnetic and other non-conventional force capabilities
against facilities and equipment to achieve strategic, tactical, and
lethal and non lethal force projection around the world. Controlled
Personnel Effects investigates technologies to make selected
adversaries think and act according to our needs.
Dominant Remote
Control seeks to control, at a distance, an enemy’s vehicles,
sensors, communications, and information systems and manipulate them
for military purposes. The S&T Planning Review panel looked first at
extending the applications of advanced military technologies
currently under development and then at new, revolutionary
technologies for their military significance.”
“For the Controlled Personnel Effects capability, the S&T panel
explored the potential for targeting
individuals with non lethal force, from a militarily useful range,
to make selected adversaries think
or act according to our needs. Through the application of non-lethal
force, it is possible to physically
influence or incapacitate personnel. Advanced technologies could
enable the war fighter to remotely
create physical sensations such as pressure or temperature changes.
A current example of this
technology is Active Denial, a non-lethal counter-personnel
millimeter wave system that creates a
skin heating sensation to repel an individual or group of people
without harm.
By studying and
modeling the human brain and nervous system, the ability to mentally
influence or confuse
personnel is also possible. Through sensory deception, it may be
possible to create synthetic images,
or holograms, to confuse an individual’s visual sense or, in a
similar manner, confuse his senses of
sound, taste, touch, or smell. Through cognitive engineering,
scientists can develop a better
understanding of how an individual’s cognitive processes (pattern
recognition, visual conditioning,
and difference detection) affect his decision-making processes. Once
understood, scientists could use
these cognitive models to predict a person’s behavior under a
variety of conditions with the potential
to affect an adversary’s mission accomplishment via a wide range of
personnel effects.”
124
123 To access Lenz’s Law online, go to:
http://www.launc.tased.edu.au/online/sciences/physics/Lenz’s.html
124 For the complete briefing see the Air Force Research Lab website
at
http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Jun04/DE0401.html.
Dr. Dean Radin
Former positions at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs on advanced
telecommunications R&D, appointments at Princeton University,
University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, SRI International and
Interval Research Corporation, co-founder of the Boundary Institute,
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Adjunct
appointment at Sonoma State University, Distinguished Consulting
Faculty for Saybrook Graduate School.
“I have spoken with experts in this area (extremely low frequency)
about health effects in general
and the consensus seems to be that non-ionizing EM radiation
definitely does have effects on living systems, from individual
cells to human behavior. The principle health concern is childhood
leukemia associated with proximity to high-tension lines. There the
epidemiological evidence is fairly clear.
On other sources of EM,
like cell phones and microwaves, the jury still seems to be out,
although I strongly suspect that directed microwaves at non-ionizing
strength can induce all sorts of behavioral changes through direct
influence of the nervous system. This comes from my contacts in the
non-lethal weapons arena, which is often lumped in with the hysteria
over supposed psychic mind-control. All things being equal, I’d
rather see development of non-lethal weapons than lethal ones. How
such weapons are actually used is another matter, of course.”
“The question is, were there ever elements of the intel/military
world engaged in experiments on
human behavior (not mind) control? Yes, many decades ago, during the
cold war. But is such work
still taking place? I don’t know, because if it is it would be a
black project and then by definition
only those involved would know of it. I hope no such projects are
underway, because I do believe
that EMF, used in nefarious ways, can destabilize the brain, and
potentially generate feelings of
violence or apathy. But I very strongly doubt that specific thoughts
or intentions or actions can be
induced”
Dr. Nick Begich
He is the editor of Earthpulse Flashpoints, a new-science book
series and published articles in science, politics and education and
is a well known lecturer, having presented throughout the United
States and in nineteen countries. Begich has served as an expert
witness and speaker before the European Parliament and has spoken on
various issues for groups representing citizen concerns, statesmen
and elected officials, scientists and others.
He is the publisher
and co-owner of Earthpulse Press and Executive Director of The Lay
Institute of Technology, Inc. a Texas non-profit corporation.
“There are several ways that microwaves can affect humans. For
instance, the Sheriff and weapons that can heat the skin for crowd
control do what the military states but they are capable of much
more. The thermal heating weapons act like a car radio; you can
change the frequencies to get different effects. The electromagnetic
weapons send an impulse through the nervous system. They can
transfer sounds, like Woody Norris’ directed acoustic weapons, which
is contracted to the US government.
It modulates a signal that is a
radio frequency, which can be changed to affect certain organs. It
can override an organ like the heart or the liver. So changing the
perimeter is like changing the broadcast on the radio. These
extremely low frequencies also have the capability to send messages
directly into the head when only the receiver can hear it. (see the
1985 Radiofrequency Radiation Dosimetry Handbook).”
“The handbook talks about electromagnetics and about the rapid
healing of bones. The frequencies can also be used to manipulate the
brain and create a disequilibrium. These frequencies can also imbed
signals on radio broadcasts to create a feeling of fear or anxiety.
The US military would embed these signals on the Muslim prayer
broadcasts during the first Gulf War. This was called Project Solo.”
“During the 1990’s, in both presidential administrations, non-lethal
weapons such as these and others received priority funding. The
Secretary of Energy under Clinton, O’Leary, warned that over a 40
year period, 500,000 had been unwitting test subjects for military
research on non-lethal weapons, including MKULTRA who claims among
many victims, Ted Kaczinky, the Unabomber. There is no way to know
who these people are or how to help them because there is paranoia
in the military and no oversight in Congress. These black projects
probably don’t even make it to the President.”
“The problem is that the military’s role is to be paranoid and think
up scenarios where the worst can happen then prepare for this in
order to protect the people from a hypothetical future event. But
there is little to no oversight. The Senate Intelligence Committee
is made up of people like Ted Stephens who thinks the internet is
made up of pipes and tubes. These people do not have the required
background knowledge to ask the right questions. According to the
defense budget report, 40% of the budget is dedicated to black
projects. There is no oversight and no public knowledge. In the
European Union, things are much different.”
“In February 1998, I testified before the European Union parliament
for an hour and a half and convinced them of the detrimental effects
of non lethal weapons on humans, their behavior and their minds. The
EU was convinced and passed a resolution banning the use of weapons
that can manipulate a person (see Parliament Resolution A4-005/99
entitled “Resolution on the Environment, Security, and Foreign
Policy” passed on January 29, 1999). During the hearings, the US
representative and NATO representatives sat in the back and declined
to participate when asked. In the US, there is no such resolution or
anything remotely close to being considered by any member of
Congress. There is no concern for it in the US because no one knows
about them.”
“During the 1980’s and 1990’s, there were a lot of papers that came
out of the Naval War College and from top military officials that
advocated using weapons that would cut down on the carnage seen by
the American public in order to maintain public support. There was
another paper that discusses how people will give up their liberties
if they lived in a climate of fear by an outside enemy. If the US
public knew about these weapons and what they could potentially
asked to give up, their minds, the public would resist. So now,
these weapons are being developed by the companies that comprise the
industrial military complex who are immune from FOIA requests.”
“Without oversight, these weapons will a government to have absolute
control. These weapons are most certainly in the hands of most
industrialized countries. China certainly has them as intelligence
reports released by the CIA reveal claims about these new concept
weapons. There needs to be a debate in the public sphere because
while these weapons appear frightening, they have amazing
therapeutic potentials. There is the possibility of quicker healing
and curing disease and what is just as important about government
transparency concerning weapons is the transparency of life saving
science being kept from the public. If we have the ability to cure
and the government or military hides this, we have just as big a
problem.”
Summary Analysis of Expert Interviews
From the four interviews we were able to complete, there is a clear
consensus of concern for the potentiality of human rights abuses
with EMF weapons testing and use.
They collectively agree that the
US is the leading global researcher in this area and spends
increasingly more money building this technology.
It is also clear
that we know very little about the actual levels of experimentation,
research, and capabilities of EMF weapons technologies due to high
levels of US government security.
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Department of Defense Military Contractors
Military contractors run our wars in concert with power elites.
The
corporation also has the power to determine which studies will reach
the public.125 To be certain, the military, in the interest of
budgets, will allow negative or alarming studies to remain
unreported or lost in a sea of classified documents.
The power of the military and DOD contractors is staggering. In the
interest of national security and lessons learned from an open
democracy during the 1970s and the 1990s, operations have become
more black. In essence, no one can know with certainty what our
military, government, or corporations have in store for the world,
though, we have some clues.
Michael Vickers, senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense for the
2005 Quadrennial Defense Review and principal strategist for the
largest covert action program in the CIA’s history, recently
testified on the importance of black operations:
“US Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) emphasis after 9/11 has
been to make white Special
Operations Forces (SOF) more gray and black SOF more black. It is
imperative, however, that white
and black SOF be integrated fully from a strategic perspective.”126
The money involved in the non-lethal weapons industry is growing and
military contractors are
reaping the profits. According to Defense Industry Daily,
-
Aaardvark Tactical, Inc. in Azusa,
CA won a $50 million contract to develop non-lethal weapons,
anti-terrorism capabilities, and riot gear127
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Ionatron was awarded a $12 million contract to develop the
Laser Induced Plasma Channel
technology which produces man-made lightening bolts128
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SAIC
received a $49 million in November
2004 to develop High Power Microwave and other directed energy
systems
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Fiore Industries
received a $16.35 million contract for similar technology
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ITT
received a $7.85 million contract
for the same in 2000129
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Fiore Industries received a $7.1 million
for High Power Microwave Research and Experiment Program as early as
1994
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the same year Hughes Missile Systems Company received a
$6.6 million contract for High Power Microwave Suppression of Enemy
Air Defense Technology130
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Lockheed Martin secured a deal with DARPA
in 2005 to continue the development of the Space Based Radar Antenna
Technology in a $19.5 million contract131
-
According to the Lockheed
press release, the technology, “could significantly increase global
persistent surveillance coverage”
-
In May of 2006, the Air Force issued $24 million in contracts for
“Electro Magnetic Effects Research and Development” to Northrup
Gruman, Voss Scientific, Lockheed Martin, Electro Magnetic
Applications, and SAIC among others.132
The DOD viewed
electromagnetic research and development as a key component in
future wars as early as the 1990s.
Emmett Paige Jr., Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and
Intelligence declared in 1996 that,
“Well over a decade ago, a
Soviet general reportedly said something like ‘to prevail in the
next conflict, one must control the electromagnetic spectrum.’ That
statement proved true in the Bacca Valley and on deserts in Iraq.
The Department of Defense is committed to ensuring that 'in the next
conflict it is we who will control the spectrum. We know its
value’.133 Increasingly, the value of non lethal weapons continues
to rise as they produce fewer images of death in the media than
traditional weapons.”
In addition to DOD contractors, the realm of non-lethal weapons
extends into the universities with
millions of dollars in scholarships and research fellowships.
Pennsylvania State University, sponsors
the Institute for Non-Lethal Defense Technologies (INLDT), the
University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey has the Stress and Motivated Behavior
Institute, University of New
Hampshire houses the Non-lethal Technology Innovation Center, and
many US military schools
have classes directly related to non-lethal weapons technology.134
There are also numerous
conferences each year hosted by the Department of Defense,
contractors and universities.135
The
business of non-lethal weapons is expanding and will continue to
grow. In 2006, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate received $43.9 million compared to $25.8
million in 2000.136
Ionatron’s website states that,
“…the market for new directed-energy
applications will increase to
$12.7 billion over the next ten years for the defense market
alone.” 137
125 From Microwave News, July 2006, “Radiation Research and The Cult
of Negative Results:” “When we investigated
who sponsored the microwave-DNA papers published in Radiation
Research, we discovered that four out of five were
paid for by the wireless industry —notably Motorola— and/or the US
Air Force, both of which have a long history of
trying to control or suppress EMF research. Indeed, industry and the
USAF paid for more than 75% of all the negative
genotox studies, that is those published in all the various
journals.”
126 According to Michael Vickers biography at the Center for
Strategic Defense Budget Studies’ website, “The
paramilitary operation that drove the Soviet army out of Afghanistan
and played a major role in ending the Cold War.”
http://www.csbaonline.org/6About_Us/2Staff_Directory/Michael_Vickers.htm
127
“$50M for USMC Riot Gear, Protection Items, and Non-Lethal Weapons”,
Defense Industry Daily, July 27, 2005.
128 “Ionatron Facing Scrutiny Over Laser Projects”, Defense Industry
Daily, May 24, 2006.
129 “USAF Detachment 8 Continues US Research Into EMP-Microwave
Weapons”, Defense Industry Daily, March 7,2006.
130 ibid.
131 Lockheed Martin news release, May 23, 2005, “Lockheed Martin
Selected for Continued Development of the Innovative Space Based
Radar Antenna Technology (ISAT)”.
132 US Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Public Affairs), No. 169-06 March 01, 2006.
133 United States Department of Defense Speech, Volume 11, Number
83, “Electromagnetic Spectrum: Key to Success in
Future Conflicts”,
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/index.html.
134 See Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Naval War College,
and the US Army War College course offerings on
their websites.
135 Bunker, Robert J., “Non-Lethal Weapons Conferences”, Military
Review, vol. 80, no. 2, Mar./Apr. 2000, pp. 103-109.
136 Pappalardo, Joe, “Homeland Defense Plan Favors Non-Lethal
Technology”, National Defense Magazine, June 2005.
137 Direct quote from the Ionatron website:
http://www.ionatron.com/default.aspx?id=4, accessed August 2006.
Despite Clinton’s reforms on human testing, the government, military
and the corporation will
undoubtedly want to test these weapons on humans whenever possible.
Easiest to test would be
prisoners in undisclosed CIA detention centers, civilians in war
torn regions, and even US citizens in
protest crowds or civilian jails. In addition to the rubber bullets
and pepper spray, which are common
in many police forces, new concept weapons are also in use. Perhaps
soon Americans will learn firsthand, the effects of the new human
control technologies.
However, hundreds of people continue to assert that a person or
persons, whom they do not know, have been targeting them with
electromagnetic weapons in a widespread campaign of either illegal
experimentation or outright persecution.
These experiences involved a number of discrete phenomena:
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Hearing voices when no one was present.
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Feeling sensations of burning, itching, tickling, or pressure with
no apparent physical cause.
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Sleeplessness and anxiety as a result of “humming” or “buzzing”.
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Loss of bodily control, such as twitching or jerking of an arm or
leg suddenly and without control.
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Unexpected emotional states, such as a sudden overwhelming feeling
of dread, rage, lust or sorrow
that passes as quickly as it arises.138
138 This list of symptoms was compiled from material available on
the website of Californians Against Human Rights
Abuses (CAHRA) and can be found at
www.mindjustice.org. In addition
the authors conducted interviews with seven individuals who wish to
have their identities protected and who presented anecdotal and
physical evidence to support their assertions. There is, however,
little in the public domain that conclusively states the existence
of direct human manipulation by governments, militaries or private
companies/researchers in the current day, MKULTRA and other historic
programs notwithstanding. However, there are many organizations that
seek to help these people including concerned scientists, Russian
Duma members and EU parliamentarians, psychologists and academics. A
list of organizations follows in Appendix A.
The levels of research on directed energy is now large enough to
support a Directed Energy (DE) Professional Society made up of
private contractors and Department of Defense officials with
security clearances. They have been holding high security symposiums
since spring 2001 including a planned meeting set for March 2007.
The following is from the Directed Energy Professional Society’s
website.
“The Directed Energy (DE) Systems Symposium (March 2007) will focus
on systems aspects of DE in a limited-attendance environment. The
Systems Symposium consists of co-located technical sessions
organized by five separate conferences, with joint technical and
plenary sessions to encourage discussion outside narrow technical
limits. Attendance at all sessions is limited to US citizens with
classified visit requests on file.
Symposium Highlights
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Beam Control Conference
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Directed Energy Modeling and
Simulation Conference
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Employment of Directed Energy Weapons Conference
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High Energy Laser Lethality Conference
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High Power Microwave Systems and Effects Conference”
139
139 Directed Energy Professional Society, Monterey, CA, 19-23 March
2007, Directed Energy Modeling and Simulation
Conference 2007,
http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/DEMSconf07.html
The following are three course descriptions from the October
Directed Energy Conference:
Course 9 †
Military Utility Analysis for DE (Direct Energy) Systems
Classification: Secret Course Description: This course will provide an overview of military
worth analysis for DE weapon systems. The course will include a
description of four areas of systems engineering assessment that are
brought together to form military worth analysis.
These are:
1)
weapon system concept performance trade studies
2) target
vulnerability assessment
3) engagement-level system operational
effectiveness assessment
4) war gaming and mission/campaign
level analysis
Each of these areas will be covered during the short
course, with emphasis on the elements that are drawn from each of
these areas to support military worth analysis. The course will
particularly emphasize methods for assessing system level
effectiveness in the context of traditional weapon effectiveness
tools such as the Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEMs) and
for providing data on DE weapons effectiveness to mission and
campaign level analysis tools and to models and simulations used to
support war gaming.
Topics to be covered include:
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Definition of military worth analysis
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Elements of DE weapon system performance trade studies and how they
feed military worth analysis
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Target vulnerability assessment and its use to support weapon
effectiveness
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Adapting standard weapon “kill” criteria to measure benefit of DE
effects
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Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEMs) weapon effectiveness
models
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Military utility studies
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Modeling and simulation to support war games and war fighter
exercises
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Mission and campaign level modeling
Course 10
Laser Lethality
Classification: Secret
Course Description: This course reviews laser material interactions
over parameter ranges of interest for weapons applications.
Fundamental considerations of the optical coupling of the laser
energy into the material will be presented. This will be followed by
physics-based treatments of the response of metals, organic-based
materials, and ceramics to the laser irradiation.
Metals: Simple cw, one-dimensional treatments will be utilized to
illustrate the general principles of the response of metals to laser
radiation, but two-dimensional cases, phase changes, and pulsed
effects will be discussed as well.
Organic Based Materials: The effects of
high-energy laser (HEL)
radiation on organic based materials, including fiber reinforced
composites, plastics and coatings will be reviewed. Materials will
range from char formers and charring ablators to clean ablators. The
relationship between the pyrolysis processes taking place in various
materials during HEL radiation will be reviewed as a function of
material composition, form and structure.
Ceramic Materials: Considerations of the response of ceramic shapes
when laser loading is added to in-service stresses will be
presented. An understanding of these responses from models, which
are based on a combination of the thermo-mechanical stress
calculations and statistically based fracture initiation, will be
presented.
Course 11
†
Directed Energy Bioeffects
Classification: Secret
Course Description and Topics: This course will introduce the basics
of the biological effects of Directed Energy on cells, tissues,
organisms, and humans, with particular emphasis on the influence of
such effects on the development of use of Directed-Energy-Emitting
technologies.
The student will learn about the mechanisms, resulting damage, and
mission impact of laser-tissue interaction. The student will learn
what tissues are most susceptible to laser damage based on
wavelength, exposure duration, and irradiance. The potential
mission-impact of sub-threshold, threshold, and supra-threshold
exposures will be discussed.
Student will understand the nature of
RF bioeffects research,
including human/animal studies, modeling and simulation, and
biotechnology approaches. Students will become familiar with current
state of knowledge on potential health effects RF, such as cancer,
memory loss, and birth defects. Students will become familiar with
basis and structure of current RF safety standards, comparison
between competing standards, and how RF safety standards are
applied. Students will be instructed on common RF measurement
equipment and important factors for investigating potential RF
overexposures.
Topics to be covered include:
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Laser damage of the eye (retina and cornea)
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Laser damage to the skin
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Laser safety standards
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Laser damage as a function of energy, pulse duration, wavelength,
and spot size
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RF bioeffects research and the current scientific consensus on RF
hazards
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RF safety standards
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RF measurement basics
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Investigating RF overexposures”140
The US Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate released a paper in 2004
which presents “Crowd Control Modeling and Simulation.”
This report
discusses behavioral changes human populations.141 That the
Department of Defense calls for new weapons systems designed to work
on the psychological underpinnings of a population should give human
rights activists great cause for alarm.
The use of electromagnetic
weapons to alter the emotional state, hamper the ability of an enemy
or US citizens, to think clearly, and result in chaos and pain are
morally problematic for a number of reasons:
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Creating fear, anxiety confusion and irrational behavior within
an individual or a population is counterproductive to the operations
of a free society and to the execution of warfare. Chaos only breeds
the need for greater and greater means of physical repression;
irrational behavior is by definition unpredictable and as such
provides significant difficulty when the task is to secure an area.
-
These weapons leave no tell tale clues. There are no bullet holes
or gross damage (with the exception of those designed to maim, burn
or explode targets).
-
They are operated from a great distance, meaning that the
operator has no feedback as to the effects of his or her actions.
This provides us with a very dangerous circumstance very similar to Millgram’s experiment where we can predict with certainty gross
abuses of power.
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Any device that invades a persons mind, either
through induction of “evoked potentials” through electromagnetic
means or through the various “crazy-making” tactics employed in both
information warfare and psychological operations is a violation of
human rights and cognitive liberty.
In terms of authorizing and administering tests of radioactive
substances and other tests on
unsuspecting members of the public, history shows that people
without ethical standards can rise to
positions of great responsibility and once ensconced in such
positions of trust, produce the most
horrifying abuses without fear of reprisal.
When layers of secrecy
overlay the activities of otherwise
rational and intelligent men, the failings of their hearts more
readily show.
In the case of actually
attempting to control human behavior through both overt and covert
means our departments of
defense and intelligence agencies, both subordinate to the executive
branch of government have
historically proven incapable of protecting the public and
undeserving of the trust given them to
perform their functions for the public good.
140 Directed Energy Professional Society, 2006 Directed Energy
Symposium Short Courses, 30 October 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico:
http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/DEsymp06ShortCourse.html
141 Louis Slesin, “Radiation Research and The Cult of Negative Results”,
Microwave News, July 31, 2006.
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Total Surveillance
- Cognitive Liberties vs. National Security
Today the US and the U.K. are becoming total surveillance societies
in the name of national security.
London, like cities across the US,
is equipped with cameras citywide. Daily human actions are recorded
with video and voice recognition device, while our email and
computer usage is monitored. Increased demand for resources, the
erosion of middle classes, war, poverty, and environmental disasters
are historically factors leading to social uprisings and
infiltration of political borders. As governments reinforce the
threat of terror, people increasingly turn to their governments for
protection.
The US has a long history of human rights violations through
harassment, telephone tapping, video
surveillance, behavior manipulation, torture, drug-induced states of
conscience and psychological
control. Congress’s passage of the Military Commission Act of 2006
put universal human rights
outside the scope of US policy.
Today, the US government is using
the most technologically
advanced forms of surveillance and control, along with the
propaganda of fear and intimidation
against its citizens. The US engages in covert torture, covert
imprisonment, increased censorship and
the massive secret classification of government documents.142
A prominent neuroscientist, Francis Crick stated in 1994, that,
“your
joys and your sorrows, your
memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and
free will, are in fact no more than
the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated
molecules.”143
Is it possible that today’s scientists in the employ of the US
neo-conservative global-dominance policy elites believe the same?
According to Steven Rose, there are, “bad hats” in neuroscience:
“There are always opportunists. The current affairs of our country
have produced many.”144
The
abundance of neuro-research has led to the development of several
products by private business in
the name of national security, including brain fingerprinting.145
142 For verification of US torturing people to death see, “US
Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and
Iraq”, Project Censored Top 10 Uncensored Stories of 2006:
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#7
143 Michael Shermer, “Astonishing Mind: Francis Crick 1916–2004 recollections on
the life of a scientist”.
144 Steven Rose, The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and
Manipulating the Mind, Jonathan Cape Publishing,
March 31, 2005.
145 The official explanation of Brain Fingerprinting from Dr.
Lawrence Farwell: “Brain Fingerprinting testing is a
scientific technique to determine whether or not specific
information is stored in an individual’s brain. We do this by
measuring brain-wave responses to words, phrases, sounds or pictures
presented by a computer. We present details about
a crime, training or other types of specific knowledge, mixed in a
sequence with other, irrelevant items. We use details
that the person being tested would have encountered in the course of
committing a crime, but that an innocent person
would have no way of knowing. We can tell by the brainwave response
if a person recognizes the stimulus or not. If the
suspect recognizes the details of the crime, this indicates that he
has a record of the crime stored in his brain.” For more
research, see the Brain Wave Science site, the official internet
identity of Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories at
http://www.brainwavescience.com/Publications.php.
John Norseen, a neuroscientist interested in Biofusion, the
relationship between humans and
computers, says,
“If this research pans out you can begin to
manipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it.”
Norseen says he is agnostic on the moral ramifications of this
research.
He feels that he is not a “mad” scientist - just a dedicated one.
“The ethics don’t concern me,” he
says, “but they should concern someone else.”146
We, the authors of this report, contend that human ethics should
concern every person who believes in human rights and desires
control over their own mind and body.
Our brains control our bodies,
actions, and thought processes. If the government and the scientists
they employ perceive that the human mind as simply a collection of
neurons, it then becomes possible to justify the surveillance of the
human mind and body for national security purposes.
The control and manipulation of a human brain is a terrifying
possibility. Lieutenant Colonel
Timothy L. Thomas, US Army (ret), published an article in the
military journal Parameters which
likens the mind as a new battlefield.
He quotes a Russian army major
in relation to mind wars,
“It is
completely clear that the state which is first to create such
weapons will achieve incomparable
superiority.”
Thomas expresses concern about “information dominance”
though he stops short on the
moral implications.147
Under the cover of secrecy provided by claims of national security,
researchers in service to higher circle policy elites have implanted
electrodes into human subjects to control minds and tortured
prisoners and the mentally ill in efforts to find better
“brainwashing” techniques. They have poisoned thousands with atomic
testing, experimented on young children using drugs, trauma and
hypnosis, sprayed major cities with biological agents to prepare for
a future attack, overthrown governments, instituted mass killings,
and engaged in every form of information distortion.
The current “War on Terror” has revealed to the public some of the
tools that the military has been
developing for decades.
High profile weapons systems flash across
the nightly reports of the major
news networks, including,
-
highflying Stealth bombers on grainy green
tinted video from the noses of
“smart” bombs
-
on occasion glimpses are given through the media of
what one article dubbed
“Wonder Weapons”
148
-
weapons that fall under the
military category of “Non-Lethal Weapons”
146 Douglas Pasternak, “John Norseen Reading your mind - and
injecting smart thoughts”, US News and World Report,
January 3-10, 2000.
147 Timothy L. Thomas, The Mind Has No Firewall, Parameters, Spring
1998, pp. 84-92.
148 Douglas Pasternak, “Wonder Weapons”, Newsweek August 22, 1994 p.
57.
149 H. Pollack, “Epidemiologic data on American personnel in the
Moscow embassy”, Bull N Y Acad Med., 1979 Dec;55(11):1182-6.
In
fact the general position of the agencies who do comment on weapons
that exploit the lower end of
the electromagnetic spectrum is that they have no biological effect
at all, except for what are dubbed
“thermal effects,” in essence heating of human cells.149
Research into this subject has shown that this position is
inaccurate, and that the effects of electromagnetic radiation
weapons on human beings are in fact both chilling and dramatic.
As
reported in 2001, the statement of Dr. Eldon Byrd should be
considered with great weight:
“A medical engineer, Eldon Byrd, reported a case that illustrates
this point. After
working on the Polaris submarine, which carried long-range nuclear
weapons, Byrd
developed non-lethal weapons with reversible effects. He regarded
this as a
humanitarian alternative to ‘punching holes in people and having
their blood leak out’
in battle. His inventions used magnetic fields at biologically
active wave frequencies
to affect brain function. Byrd could put animals to sleep at a
distance and influence
their movements.
When the success of his research became evident,
suddenly he was
pulled off the project and it went “black.” He believes that the
electromagnetic resonance
weapons he developed have been used for psychological control of
civilians rather
than for exigencies in battle. That is, to ensure his participation,
he was uninformed
about the true nature of the project. Byrd’s case also illustrates
how morally tolerable
operations may transition to morally intolerable operations, or at
least rise above the
atrocity line”
150
150 Military and Civilian Perspectives on the Ethics of
Intelligence— Report on a Workshop at the Department
of Philosophy Claremont Graduate University, September 29, 2000,
Jean Maria Arrigo, Ph.D. Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy Paper presented to
The Joint Services Conference on
Professional Ethics Springfield, Virginia January 25-26, 2001
Power elites who fund and support efforts at supplanting the will of
the people do so from on high.
Their ability to redirect public
attention to ward external threats and away from their own
motivations in effect silences opposition to their programs. By
controlling the flow of information in society, the power elites
provide the public with a limited choice in all matters that pertain
to machinations of government and corporate control.
Given more
advanced technologies for the control of information unscrupulous
individuals who ascribe to a “might makes right” philosophy may will
find the ways and means of employing these technologies against
those who would oppose their plans. The dangers here are great, in
that the individual who would direct the torture and killing of
innocents is usually removed from the actual fact. It is left up to
lesser authorities to administer the beatings, bullets, and
mind/body bending technologies.
For the US Government to unilaterally declare that our country will
not comply with international human rights laws, nor uphold the core
values of our nation’s foundation is an indication of extremism that
supersedes the values and beliefs of the American people.
When such
extremism exists we need to take seriously the founders’ declaration
that,
“to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
(Declaration
of Independence 1776)
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Appendix
Appendix A
ORGANIZATIONS CONCERNED WITH ILLEGAL EXPERIMENTATION AND
INDIVIDUAL VICTIMS
Angelic Harp Foundation 2219 Lexford LN.
Houston, Texas 77080-5216 713-461-0623 Fax: 713-461-0091
http://angelicharpfoundation.org
Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics
P.O. Box 73481 Davis, CA 95617-3481 USA Fax: 205. 449. 3119
COPUS Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom Fax +44 (0)20 7839 5561
http://www.copus.org.uk
Federation of American Scientists
1717 K St., NW Suite 209 Washington, DC 20036
Voice: (202)546-3300 Fax: (202)675-1010
http://www.fas.org
The Lay Institute Nick Begich, Executive Director
Dallas, Texas
info@layinstitute.org
Mind Justice
Cheryl Welsh, Executive Director E-mail:
welsh@mindjustice.org
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Signalistgatan
9 SE-169 70 Solna Sweden Phone: +46-8-655 97 00 Fax: +46-8-655 97 33
E-mail:
sipri@sipri.org
Sunshine Project Germany
The Sunshine Project Scheplerstrasse 78 22767 Hamburg
Germany Phone: +49 40 431 88 001 Fax: +49 40 67 50 39 88
Sunshine Project USA PO Box 41987 Austin TX 78704
USA Phone/Fax: +1 512 494 0545
http://www.sunshine-project.org
World Transhumanist Association PO Box 128
Willington CT 06279 USA
http://www.transhumanism.org
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Acoustic Weapons - A Perspective
Jurgen Altmann Science and Global Security, Vol. 9, pp. 165-234
Taylor and Francis, 2001
The Body Electric
Robert Becker, Gary Selden Harper Paperbacks; 1st Quill edition (August 5, 1998)
Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project Research Report #
8 Neil Davison, Nick Lewer, March 2006
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/nlw/
Controlling the Human Mind Nick Begich Earthpulse Press, 2006
Human Network Attacks Timothy L. Thomas Military Review, September-October 1999
Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Epidemiologic data on American personnel in the Moscow Embassy
Pollack H. Bull N Y Acad Med. 1979 Dec;55(11):1182-6.
High Power Microwaves: Strategic and Operational Implications for
Warfare Eileen M. Walling, Col, USAF, Feb 2000, Occasional Paper NO 11
Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, Air University,
Maxwell AFB, AL
Hypno Politics and Hyper State Control Law Entrainment and the
Symbolic Order Konrad Becker, May 1997
Introducing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and its Property
of Causal Inference in Investigation Brain-Function Relationships
Dennis J. L. G. Schutter, Jack Van Honk and Jaak Panksepp
Journal of Cognitive Liberties Center for Cognitive Liberties and Ethics
"The Mind Has No Firewall” Parameters, spring 1998, pp. 84-92.
Timothy L. Thomas
The Politics and Costs of Postmodern War in the Age of Bush II
Douglas Kellner, UCLA
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/politicscostspostmodernwar.pdf
“Quiet Transformation: The Role of the Office of Net Assessment”
The National Security Strategy Process, May 2, 2003
National Defense University National War College, CDR Debra O’Maddrell
Therapeutic Application of repetitive Tran cranial magnetic
stimulation: A Review Eric M. Wasserman and Sarah H. Lasanby Elsevier, April 27, 2001
Magnetic Stimulation: An Introduction by Grant Balfour
v1.0 - May 6, 2002
A Validation Methodology for Human Behavior Representation Models
Authors: Simon R. Goerger; Michael L. McGinnis; Rudolph P. Darken
Military Academy West Point, NY, Dept. of System Engineering
by Robert J. Bunker
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