Electromagnetic Radiation (emr)Weapons: As Powerful As The Atomic Bomb

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Electromagnetic Radiation (emr)Weapons: As Powerful As The Atomic Bomb

 

 

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Suppression of nonthermal emr research by US government and emr industry for

fifty years is documented

Microwave Debate by Nicholas Steneck, 1984, MIT Press, page 84. Following

the UCLA conference, the military, which controlled the RF bioeffects

pursestrings and therefore made the major policy decisions, decided both to

fish and cut bait. Publicly talk of athermal effects was downplayed. Open

contracts were not awarded for athermal or central nervous system studies,

and in fact efforts were even made to keep information about central nervous

system research from circulating too widely. Privately, however, the

military and the State Department began work to try to determine whether

there was any factual basis for a belief in the direct effect of RF

radiation on human behavior and whether perhaps the Soviets had gotten the

jump in exploiting such effects for espionage and military purposes. The

primary motivation for the work was a desire to find out the purpose of a

beam of microwave radiation that was being directed at the U.S. embassy in

Moscow. This and all subsequent information on the UCLA meeting is taken

from the unpublished minutes: " Neurological Responses to External

Electromagnetic Energy (A Critique of Currently Available Data and

Hypotheses), " co sponsored by the Brain Research Institute, UCLA and the Air

Force Systems Command, July 11, 1963, USAF Contract 18(600)-2057.

 

Zapping of America by Paul Brodeur, 1977. [The following comments are by

Milton Zaret, an opthmalogist who was paid by the Air Force to examine the

eyes of military radar technicians in 1959. Zaret has documented that the

posteriour capsular cataract was a " marker disease " , " a medical indication "

, of sustained exposure to low-level microwaves. This finding was hotly

disputed by the military. After Zaret published these findings, the Air

Force announced it had no intention of pursuing the matter. Dr. Zaret is now

bitterly suspicious of the military's motives in this whole business. Zaret

believes that the military is eager to suppress studies of low-level

microwave hazards.] " By this time, I had been approached on a number of

occasions by the Central Intelligence Agency. The contacts were innocuous to

begin with. At first, the CIA people wanted to know about research I had

performed on the ophthalmological effects of microwave and laser radiation.

They also wanted me to analyze some of the foreign and American literature

on the subject of radiation for them. In 1964, however, they started asking

me about the possible behavioral effects of microwaves. They wanted to know,

for example, whether I thought that electromagnetic radiation beamed at the

brain from a distance could affect the way a person might act. I said that

from what I had read primarily in Soviet literature on the subject it seemed

conceivable. During 1964 and 1965, I had a number of visits from a medical

doctor who worked for the agency. He wanted to know if a device that took

pictures at night with an invisible laser beam instead of a conventional

flashbulb was safe to use. When I exposed the eye of a rabbit to the beam I

found that it produced an immediate retinal hemorrhage, so I told him that

in my opinion the device was not safe. He also wanted answers to a number of

theoretical questions. For instance, would a laser beam directed at a

listening device planted on a windowsill be liable to injure anyone inside

the room that was being bugged? And could microwaves be used to facilitate

brainwashing or to break down prisoners under interrogation? "

 

Trial 8-90 page 32, Bruce H. DeBoskey, " Non-Ionizing Radiation: Hidden

Hazards " . It summarizes the litigation surrounding prolonged exposure to

NIEMR or non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. This is a good reference

article and it demonstrates the difficulty involved in court cases filed by

victims. The article stated " the potential for hazards from NIEMR has long

been known to the industries involved. " " ...Some industries have been

funding research designed to show the absence of harm to workers or the

general public. "

Fifty years later, nonthermal effects of emr are the scientific basis for

weapons and biological basis of brain function, human rights professionals,

military, civilian and top government science advisor say

International Review of the Red Cross 279, 1, Nov. 1990 entitled " The

Development of New Antipersonnel Weapons by Louise Doswald-Beck and Gerald

C. Cauderay. " Directed Energy Weapons. ...Research work in this field has

been carried out in almost all industrialized countries, and especially by

the great powers, with a view to using these phenomena for anti-materiel or

anti-personnel purposes. ...It is possible today to generate a very powerful

microwave pulse (e.g., between 150 and 3,000 megahertz), with an energy

level of several hundreds of megawatts. Using specially adapted antenna

systems, these generators could in principle transmit over hundreds of

metres sufficient energy to cook a meal. However, it is important to mention

that the lethal of incapacitating effects which can be expected from weapons

systems using this technology can be produced with much lower energy levels.

Using the principle of magnetic field concentration, which permits the

control of the geometry on the target, by means of antenna systems

especially designed for the purpose, the radiated energy can be concentrated

on very small surfaces of the human body, for example the base of the brain

where relatively low energy can produce lethal effects....In spite of the

rarity of publications on this subject, and the fact that it is usually

strictly classified information, research undertaken in this field seems to

have demonstrated that very small amounts of electromagnetic radiation could

appreciably alter the functions of living cells. Research work has also

revealed that pathological effects close to those induced by highly toxic

substances could be produced by electromagnetic radiation even at very low

power, especially those using a pulse shape containing a large number of

different frequencies. ...Some research seem to have confirmed that lo-level

electromagnetic fields, modulated to be similar to normal brainwaves, could

seriously affect brain function. Experiments with pulsed magnetic fields

carried out in animals have reportedly produced specific effects such as

inducing sleep and triggering anxiety or aggressiveness, depending on the

modulation of the frequency used. It is, on the other hand, well known that

lethal effects can also be produced by using higher power levels than those

used for the experiments on behaviour modification. An anti-personnel weapon

based on such biophysical principles could produce similar effects to those

of a nerve gas, but would have no secondary effects and leave no lasting

trace. "

 

US News & World Report, 7-7-97, " Wonder Weapons " , an article on emr weapons

by Douglas Pasternak, page 40. " In fact, the military routinely has

approached the national Institutes of Health for research information.

" DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has come to use every few

years to see if there are ways to incapacitate the central nervous system

remotely, " Dr. F. Terry Hambrecht, head of the Neural Prosthesis Program at

NIH, told U.S. News. " But nothing has ever come of it, " he said, " That is

too science fiction and far-fetched. "

 

US News & World Report, Jan3/Jan 10 2000, Page 67, " Reading your mind and

injecting smart thoughts " , John Norseen, " The Lockheed Martin neuroengineer

hopes to turn the " electrohypnomentalophone, " a mind reading machine...into

science fact. Norseen's interest in the brain stems from a Soviet book he

read in the mid-1980s, claiming that research on the mind would

revolutionize the military and society at large. The former Navy pilot

coined the term " BioFusion " to cover his plans to map and manipulate gray

matter, leading (he hopes) to advances in medicine, national security, and

entertainment. BioFusion would be able to convert thoughts into computer

commands, predicts Norseen, by deciphering the brain's electrical activity.

electromagnetic pulsations would trigger the release of the brain's own

neurotransmitters to fight off disease, enhance learning, or alter the mind'

s visual images, creating what Norseen has dubbed " synthetic reality. "

....The key is finding " brain prints. " " Think of your hand touching a

mirror, " explains Norseen. " It leaves a fingerprint. " BioFusion would

reveal the fingerprints of the brain by using mathematical models. " Just

like you can find one person in a million through fingertips, " he says, " you

can find one thought in a million. " It sounds crazy, but Uncle Sam is

listening. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Defense

Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Army's National ground

Intelligence center have all awarded small basic research contracts to

Norseen, who works for Lockheed Martin's Intelligent Systems Division.

Norseen is waiting to hear if the second stage of these contracts--portions

of them classified--comes through. Norseen's theories are grounded in

current science. ...By viewing a brain scan recorded by a magnetic resonance

imaging (MRI) machine, scientists can tell what the person was doing at the

time of the recording--say, reading or writing. Emotions from love to hate

can be recognized from the brain's electrical activity. " It this research

pans out, says Norseen, " you can begin to manipulate what someone is

thinking even before they know it. " Thought police. He has submitted a

research-and -development plan to the Pentagon, at its request, to identify

a terrorist's mental profile. A miniaturized brain-mapping device inside an

airport metal detector would screen passengers' brain patterns against a

dictionary of brain prints. Norseen predicts profiling by brain print will

be in place by 2005. ...Norseen would like to draw upon Russian

brain-mimicking software and American brain-mapping break-through to allow

that communication to take place in a less invasive way. A modified helmet

could record a pilot's brain waves. ...If the pilot misheard instructions to

turn 090 degrees and was thinking 080 degrees, " the helmet would detect the

error, then inject the right number via electromagnetic waves. If this

research pans out, say Norseen, " you can begin to manipulate what someone is

thinking even before they know it. "

 

US News & World Report, Jan 3-10, 2000, Page 68, Rodolfo Llinas. " A grand

unification theory of the brain " . " ...Using a Meg--a technology Llinas

helped develop--he has been studying the brain's electromagnetic waves. What

he has found in broad paraphrase is that the thalamus is in constant

dialogue with the brain's higher processing centers: An electromagnetic loop

sends pulses from the thalamus to the cortex, but the different sensory

centers of the brain also message the thalamus in return. Consciousness

exists when these oscillations are in sync--pulsing at the same rate--so

smells, sounds, and so forth assemble in a kind of electromagnetic

symphony. "

 

Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton is a

physicist and was quoted in the Bill Joy article in April 2000 Wired

Magazine on the dangers of technology. Dr. Dyson coined the word

" radiotelepathy " , i.e. " something like a cordless phone inside your head "

Dyson wrote this comment. " After the organization of the central nervous

system has been explored and understood, the way will be open to develop and

use the technology of electromagnetic brain signals. " This quote was from

International Herald Tribune, Rudy Rucker, April 25, 1997 page 4, book

review of Imagined Worlds,

 

Freeman Dyson was a member of the elite Jason Division, the 40-odd leading

scientists-including some Nobel laureates, -who in 1959 and 1960 banded

together to work on national security matters in the summertime under the

aegis of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). Jason originated as an

enabling mechanism to keep younger physicists in touch with defense

problems, but it rapidly evolved into a club. " We were all bright young men

together; we were all precocious 30 years ago, " recalled Dyson. (Excerpt

from Science, February 1973 page 460.)

 

In reply to a question by email from Cheryl Welsh, concerning classified

brain research on March 18, 2000, Freeman Dyson wrote, " Nothing important

in science stays secret for long. ...The Russians had hundreds of secret

projects.... Luckily we are not so good as the Russians at hiding stupid

stuff. So stop worrying about imaginary scares. ..One of my friends ...cures

his patients with magnets. ...But this had nothing to do with science. "

 

Wired magazine, April 2000, article on the peril of technology. Nearly 20

years ago, in the documentary " The Day after Trinity " , Freeman Dyson

summarized the scientific attitudes that brought us to the nuclear

precipice: " I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is

irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your

hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your

bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the

sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and

it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles-this, what you might

call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can

do with their minds. "

 

Dyson, Freeman, 1997, Imagined Worlds President and Fellows of Harvard

College. Acknowledgments. " This book grew out of a set of lectures given in

May 1995 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem... ...The idea of

radiotelepathy first appeared, so far as I know, in the science-fiction

novel Last and First Men, written by Olaf Stapledon, in 1931, ...in which

the cells of a multicellular creature communicate with each other by means

of electric and magnetic fields... The chief barrier to progress in

neurophysiology is the lack of observational tools. To understand in depth

what is going on in the brain, we need tools that can fit inside or between

the neurons and transmit reports of neural events to receivers outside.

....observing instruments...with rapid response, high band-width and high

spacial resolution...There is no law of physics that declares that such an

observational tool to be impossible. We know that high-frequency

electromagnetic signals can be propagated through brain tissue for distances

of the order of centimeters. We know that microscopic generators and

receivers of electromagnetic radiation are possible. We know that modern

digital data-handling technology is capable of recording and analyzing the

signals emerging from millions of tiny transmitters simultaneously. All that

is lacking in order to transform these possibilities into an effective

observational tool is the neurological equivalent of integrated-circuit

technology. We need a technology that allows us to build and deploy large

arrays of small transmitters inside a living brain, just as

integrated-circuit technology allows us to build large arrays of small

transistors on a chip of silicon. ...Radioneurology is in principle only an

extension of the existing technology of magnetic resonance imaging, which

also used radio-frequency magnetic fields to observe neural structures. A

rough estimate based on the available band-width indicates that a million

transmitters could be monitored through each patch of brain surface with

size equal to the radio wave-length. The factor of a million is the ratio

between the radio band-width, of the order of hundreds of millions of cycles

per second, and the band-width of a neuron, of the order of hundred of

cycles.... "

US says Russians have mind control emr capabilities

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, The Associated Press, " Mind-Altering

Microwaves, Soviets Studying Invisible Ray, " 22 Nov. 1976, Sec A-. " A newly

declassified 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.... 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. "

 

NBC Magazine with David Brinkley, July 16, 1981 No. 47592. DB (David

Brinkley): " It is known the Russians are working hard on controlling the

human mind by remote electronic means. ...As I say I find it hard to

believe, it is crazy and none of us here know what to make of it: the

Russian Government is known to be trying to change human behavior by

external electronic influences. We do know that much. and we know that some

kind of Russian transmitter is bombarding this country with extreme low

frequency radiowaves. " Garrick Utley: ...The theory is the fact that the

brain does emit electronic energy energy which can be harnessed and used.

And, by the same token, the electronic field of the brain can be interfered

with in order to change-affect human behavior, attitudes, opinions. ...To

what extent can you disrupt the mental process, the brain through the use of

electronic fields, microwaves? William Bise, radio engineer, " Well I would

think that the easiest way to do it would be with microwaves. "

 

Military Review (official publication of the U.S. Army Command and General

Staff College), " The New Mental Battlefield " , Lt. Col. John B. Alexander,

U.S. Army, Ph.D. [He is a leading proponent of and spokesman for nonlethal

weapons. Col. Alexander worked at Los Alamos Lab on nonlethal weapons.]

" (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. " He

further stated, " 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. " Also, " 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. "

US government claims emr mind control weapons are classified

U.S. News and World Report July 7, 1997, Wonder Weapons " , page 38; " 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. " " ...Louis

Slesin, editor of the trade journal Microwave News stated " That's because

the human body is essentially an electrochemical system, and devices that

disrupt the electrical impulses of the nervous system can affect behavior

and body functions. But these programs-particularly those involving

antipersonnel research-are so well guarded that details are scarce. " " People

[in the military] go silent on this issue, " says Slesin, " more than any

other issue. People just do not want to talk about this. "

 

Bulletin of Atomic Scientist, Sept/Oct 1994, " The Soft-Kill Fallacy " by

Steven Aftergood, " Details about programs to develop so called " non-lethal

" weapons are slowly emerging from the U.S. government's secret " black

budget " . " ...The concept of non-lethal weapons is not new; the term appears

in heavily censored CIA documents dating from the 1960s. "

Why the public is in the dark about electromagnetic weapons

The Washington Post article by George Lardner, 4-27, 5-3-92, page 34,

reported on a 1992 CIA report on Greater CIA Openness " Director Joseph

DeTrani stated " PAO [CIA's Public Affairs Office] now has relationships with

reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly and

television network in the nation, " the report said. " This has helped us

turn some 'intelligence failure' stories into 'intelligence success stories,

and it has contributed to the accuracy of countless others. " In many

instances, " the report continued, " we have persuaded reporters to postpone,

change, hold or even scrap stories that could have adversely affected

national security interests or jeopardized sources and methods, "

 

In The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist article entitled, The Soft-Kill Fallacy,

Sept/Oct 94 page 43 Steve Aftergood wrote; " The government secrecy system as

a whole is among the most poisonous legacies of the Cold War. ..the Cold war

secrecy system also mandates ACTIVE DECEPTION. " The article continues, " A

security manual for special access programs authorizes contractors to employ

" cover stories " to disguise their activities. The only conditions is that

" cover stories must be believable. " Even the government is starting to

recognize that official cover and deception programs are getting out of hand

and need to be curtailed. A Joint Security Commission established by the

secretary of defense and the director of central intelligence reported in

March that " the use of cover to conceal the existence of a government

facility or the fact of government research and development interest in a

particular technology is broader than necessary and significantly increases

costs. " One cover story for electromagnetic nonconsensual experimentation is

mental illness.

 

Boston Globe, 7-7-89, Larry Collins, " Can we influence human emotions and

behavior? Are there or were such experiments now going on? " William Casey,, CIA, " This is not a subject we're going to discuss with you or

anyone else. "

 

Open Verdict An account of 25 mysterious deaths in the defense industry,

Tony Collins, Sphere Books Ltd., a division of MacDonald & Co. Publishers

London, 1990. Twenty five Star Wars Marconi defense workers mysteriously

died by suicide and strange accidents in the early 1980s in England. Collins

wrote, " This book is about a new type of war, electronic war. ...It is

fought by ...research students in universities and electronics engineers

working for defense contractors. ...It is a war that must be waged

constantly during peacetime to maintain the upper hand. It is a war that

must be waged in secrecy. " Tony Collins is executive editor of Computer

Weekly. He worked for the BBC and national newspapers, such as Sunday

Mirror. The editor of the Collins book, Stephen Arkell described the

discrepancies found during his investigation and problems such as the

following. " The companies and establishments where they worked are reluctant

to give out details of any projects, even those already in the public

domain. In addition, there are many other project, so called 'black'

projects, which these organizations cannot even officially admit to. The

secrecy surrounding the peacetime preparations for a future electronic war

ensures that any attempt to prove or disprove a definite work link can be

not more than a calculated stab in the dark. ...In May 1989, for example,

eleven Russians and four Czechs were expelled from the UK for allegedly

trying to obtain highly sensitive information about powerful microchips,

radar, laser technology and advanced materials such as titanium and carbon

fibres. These agents were reported to have approached the executive of

defense contractors in a series of 'cash for secrets' deals. ...Another

theory ...concerns the investigation into alleged fraud at Marconi. ...This

investigation [by the Ministry of Defense Police] has since resulted in

charges being brought, ...However there is not one scrap of evidence to

suggest that any of the scientists named in the book were involved in fraud.

....the deaths and disappearances of 28 defense workers is one of the most

bizarre and enigmatic stories of the past decade. "