US
Electromagnetic Weapons and
Human
Rights
By Peter
Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton
A Study of
the History of the
Rights
Violations and Continuing Research in Electromagnetic
Weapons
Completed
December 2006
Project
Censored
Media
Freedom Foundation
Table of
Contents
Page
Research
Statement
3
American
Ruling Class
5
Neo-Conservatism
6
Global
Dominance
9
Psychological
War
10
Telsa and EMF
13
MK-ULTRA
17
Illegal
Experimentation
19
The
Scientists
20
Exposure of
MKULTRA
22
EMF Weapons
Research
24
Project
Sheriff
27
Pulsed
Energy Projectiles
27
Directed
Acoustics
28
Neurological
Technology
29
Implants
31
Expert
Interviews:
31
Vladimir
Lopatin
31
Carol Smith
32
Dean Radin
33
Nick Begich
34
DOD Military
Contractors
36
Human Rights
and EMF Testing
38
Directed
Energy Prof. Society
38
Human Rights
and Cognitive
41
Total
Surveillance
42
Conclusion
43
Appendix
45
US
Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights
By Peter
Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton
This
research explores the current capabilities of the
(EMF)
devices to harass, intimidate, and kill individuals and the continuing
possibilities
of
violations of human rights by the testing and deployment of these weapons. To
establish
historical precedent in the
rights and
freedom of thought violations by US military/intelligence organizations.
Additionally,
we explore contemporary evidence of on-going government research in
EMF weapons
technologies and examine the potentialities of continuing human rights
abuses.
In the 1950s
and 60s the
emotion and
behavior. Through the use of the psychological understanding of the human
being as a
social animal and the ability to manipulate a subject’s environment through
isolation,
drugs and hypnosis, US funded scientists have long searched for better means
of
controlling human behavior. This research has included the use of wireless
directed
electromagnetic
energy under the heading of “Information Warfare” and “Non Lethal
Weapons.”
New technological capabilities have been developed in black budget projects
over the
last few decades— including the ability to influence human emotion, disrupt
thought, and
present excruciating pain through the manipulation of magnetic fields. The
US military
and intelligence agencies have at their disposal frightful new weapons,
weapons that
have likely already been covertly used and/or tested on humans, both here
and abroad,
and which could be directed against the public in the event of mass protests
or civil
disturbance.
Human Rights
belong to people collectively. To believe in rights for some and not others
is a denial
of the humanness of people worldwide. Yet, denial is exactly what Congress
and George
W. Bush did with the signing of the Military Commission Act of 2006. The
new official
anyone the
president deems to be a terrorist or supporter. This act is the overt denial of
the
inalienable rights of human beings propagated in our Declaration of Independence
and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. More so, US actions declared to the
world that
the
The precious
words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are
Life,
(and women)
possess unalienable rights. Our independence was founded on the
understanding
that all men and women are recognized by this nation as having innate
rights
derived by their humanity.
Likewise,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created by the United Nations in
1948, signed
and ratified by the US Congress, specifies in its preamble that “recognition
of the
inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the
human family
is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”
The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been a guide for international law for
most of six
decades, and as such binds the
10 states
that “everyone is entitled to full equality, to a fair and public hearing by an
independent
and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and
of any
criminal charge against him,” and Article 5 specifically prohibits torture or
cruel,
inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment. Both of these basic human rights have
been
superceded by the passage the of Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Additionally,
the Universal Declaration of Human rights declares that everyone has the
right to
freedom of thought and freedom of expression and opinion. This means that
humans have
the inalienable right to be able to freely think their own thoughts and
discover
their own truths. This paper addresses this most fundamental human right and
explores the
pending threats to individual freedom of thought posed by new EMF
weapons technologies.
Freedom of
thought or cognitive liberty is the natural human right of each person to be
secure in
their ability to perceive the world to the best of their ability. To have true
cognitive
liberty in a world as complex as ours would mean that first we must have
access to
truthful and unbiased information about the actions of others and the general
state of the
world. The Center for Cognitive Liberties defines this as “the right of each
individual
to think independently and autonomously, to use the full spectrum of his or her
mind, and to
engage in multiple modes of thought.” Without accurate representations we
cannot make
independently informed choices. It is imperative that the human body and
mind be
considered sacrosanct. To invade a person’s body without their consent is an
egregious
human rights crime.
The
circumstance may soon arrive in which anti-war or human rights protesters
suddenly
feel a
burning sensation akin to touching a hot skillet over their entire body.
Simultaneously
they may hear terrifying nauseating screaming, which while not produced
externally,
fills their brains with overwhelming disruption. Not only are both phenomena
currently
possible, but designs for more powerful EMF technologies receive continuous
funding from
the US Government.
We are in a
time of extremism, permanent war, and the unilateral manifestation of
ethnocentrism
and power by a cabal of people in the
have been in
operation for decades and are set on nothing less than the total US military
domination
of the world. They defy the foundational values of the American people to
achieve
their ends. This is not a new phenomenon. The repression of human rights has
been present
within the US Government throughout our history.
A long
thread of sociological research documents the existence of a dominant ruling
class
in the
ruling class
is complex and inter-competitive, maintaining itself through interacting
families of
high social standing with similar life styles, corporate affiliations, and
memberships
in elite social clubs and private schools.
This
American ruling class is self-perpetuating, maintaining its influence through
policy-
making
institutions such as the National Manufacturing Association, National Chamber
of Commerce,
Business Council, Business Roundtable, Conference Board, American
Enterprise
Institute, Council on Foreign Relations and other business-centered policy
groups. C.
Wright Mills, in his 1956 book The Power Elite, documents how World War
II
solidified a trinity of power in the
government
elites in a centralized power structure motivated by class interests and
working in
unison through "higher circles" of contact and agreement. Mills
described
how the
power elite were those “who decide whatever is decided” of major consequence.
With the
advent of the military-industrial complex after World War II, President
Eisenhower
observed that an internal military industrial power faction was consolidating
their
long-term plans for the domination of
Eisenhower
was in no position to fight these men, and history records his feelings on the
subject with
the text of his short farewell address:
“….But
threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. Of these, I
mention two
only…
…This
conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms
industry is
new in the American experience. The total influence –
economic,
political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse,
every office
of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need
for this
development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave
implications.
Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the
very
structure of our society.
In the
councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-
industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists
and will persist.
We must
never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or
democratic
processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert
and
knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge
industrial
and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods
and goals,
so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and
largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our
industrial-military
posture, has been the technological revolution during
recent
decades.
In this
revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more
formalized,
complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted
for, by, or
at the direction of, the Federal government.”
We now
understand that Eisenhower was referring to the conjunction of redirected tax
monies to
research secret new technology aimed at nothing less than increasing the
controlling
power of the military industrial elite to a global scale.
One
particular faction of ambitious men, the former cold warriors and emerging neo-
conservatives,
were close followers of philosopher Leo Strauss. This elite group included
not just
generals and industrialists but philosophers, scientists, academics, and
politicians
have now
become the most powerful public-private war organization ever known.
Strauss
espoused an elitist philosophy that fawned over the characteristics of those
who
inherited
wealth and lived lives of leisure to pursue whatever their interests may be. His
ideas have
been transformed into a cogent ideology in which the media, religion, and
government
are used to subdue the masses while the real “nobles” follow their own will
without
regard to the laws designed to control lesser men. Strauss was likewise fond of
secrecy, as
a necessity for control, because if the lesser men found out what was being
done to them
they would no doubt be upset.
“The people
will not be happy to learn that there is only one natural right – the right of
the superior
to rule over the inferior, the master over the slave, the husband over the wife,
and the wise
few over the vulgar many.” In On Tyranny, Strauss refers to this natural
right as the
“tyrannical teaching” of his beloved ancients.
Leo Strauss,
Albert Wohlstetter, and others at the University of Chicago’s Committee on
Social
Thought receive wide credit for promoting the neo-conservative agenda through
their
students, Paul Wolfowitz, Allan Bloom, and Bloom's student Richard Perle.
Canadian
cultural review magazine Adbusters, defines neo-conservatism as,
"The belief
that
Democracy, however flawed, was best defended by an ignorant public pumped on
nationalism
and religion. Only a militantly nationalist state could deter human aggression
…such
nationalism requires an external threat and if one cannot be found it must be
manufactured."
The neo-conservative
philosophy emerged as a reaction to the 1960s era of social
revolutions.
Numerous officials and associates in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush
presidencies
were strongly influenced by the neo-conservative philosophy including:
John
Ashcroft, Charles Fairbanks, Richard Cheney, Kenneth Adelman, Elliot Abrams,
William
Kristol and Douglas Feith.
Within the
Ford administration there was a split between Cold War traditionalists seeking
to minimize
confrontations through diplomacy and detente and neo-conservatives
advocating
stronger confrontations with the Soviet’s "Evil Empire." The latter
group
became more
entrenched when George H.W. Bush became
the
formation of "Team B" headed by Richard Pipes along with Paul
Wolfowitz, Lewis
Libby, Paul
Nitze and others, who formed the second Committee on the Present Danger
to raise
awareness of the Soviet threat and the continuing need for a strong aggressive
defense
policy. Their efforts led to strong anti-Soviet positioning during the Reagan
administration.
The
Committees on the Present Danger (CPD) extend from the 1950s Russian threat to
the present.
The current CPD proudly boasts on their website;
“In times of
great challenge to the security of the United States,
Republicans,
Democrats, and Independents have traditionally joined to
make an
assertive defense of American interests.
Twice before
in American history, The Committee on the Present
Danger has
risen to this challenge. It emerged in 1950 as a bipartisan
education
and advocacy organization dedicated to building a national
consensus
for a strong defense against Soviet expansionism. In 1976,
the
Committee on the Present Danger reemerged, with leadership from
the labor
movement, bipartisan representatives of the foreign policy
community
and academia, all of whom were concerned about strategic
drift in US
security policy. With victory in the Cold War, the mission
of the
Committee on the Present Danger was considered complete and
consequently
was deactivated.
Today, the
current CPD promotes radical Islamists as the primary
threat to
the American people and millions of others who prize liberty.
They claim
that the threat is global. They also claim that they operate
from cells
in a number of countries. Rogue regimes seek power by
making
common cause with terrorist groups. The prospect that this
deadly
collusion may include weapons of mass murder was the
justification
for the invasion of Iraq.”
Journalist
John Pilger recalls his interview with neo-conservative Richard Perle during
the Reagan
administration: “I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan; and when
he spoke
about 'total war,' I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term
again in
describing America's 'war on terror', “No stages, This is total war. We are
fighting a
variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first
we
are going to
do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go
about it. If
we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we
don't try to
piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children
will sing
great songs about us years from now.”
There is
ample evidence available to show that some individuals within government and
industry
have little problem with violating the public trust and using their positions to
kill, maim,
torture and destroy. It is of the utmost importance to our traditional American
values of
human rights and cognitive liberty that we recognize this threat from within.
We must move
to identify those who show these proclivities and ensure that their
activities
have adequate oversight.
Stanley
Milgram's famous experiment involving obedience to authority proved that
individuals
are fairly easily cowed into submitting to anyone who has a claim of
authority,
and that on average 61 percent of people will administer pain to another person
if
instructed to do so. Both test groups in these experiments rationalized their
behavior by
appealing to
“the greater good.” Because it was for the “advancement of science” they
were able to
be convinced they should ignore personal judgment and obey the
instructions
given to them by the experimenters.
Martin Orne, who was one of those paid by the
obedience,
showed in 1962 that people would go to tremendous lengths to please a
person in
authority. Orne conducted research that involved presenting subjects with a
stack of
2,000 pages of random numbers and instructing them to add each two adjacent
numbers
until he returned. Over 90 percent of the test subjects continued in this
meaningless
task for up to five hours.
Today the
combination of political climate and technological capability presents a
condition in
which widespread manipulation of, not only the flow of information through
the media,
but also the manipulation of the emotional states and cognitive ability in large
populations
could be achieved. If policy elites are unaccountable to the public for their
actions, and
the public has been emotionally manipulated to support them, we can assume
that they
will certainly abuse their positions in the pursuit of their agendas.
Previous
human rights and cognitive liberty violations are evidenced in
records
pertaining to the infamous MK-ULTRA project and the grim record of
harassment
and subversion uncovered in the COINTELPRO program in force through the
1950s and
into the 1970s. We also examined some of the cases of illegal experimentation
on the
public dating back to the 1930s. We consider, in depth, the forms of
electromagnetic
weapons entering the battlefield today that trace their origins back
through the
secret projects of the Defense Department in the 1950s and 1960s.
Psychological
Warfare, Information War, and mind control may seem to be exotic topics,
but the
impact of these technologies and techniques is profound. Our minds are being
impacted
through a longstanding series of programs aimed at manipulating public
opinion
through intelligence agencies, think tanks, corporate media and a host of non-
governmental
organizations designed to engender fear, division and uncertainty in the
public.
Media manipulation involving the artificial framing of our collective reality is
often a hit
or miss proposition, but psychological operations have been carried out in the
past, and
are being carried out even today, through the practices of “Information
Warfare,”
directed at enemies abroad and at the American people.
According to
Mary C. FitzGerald of the Hudson Institute, New-concept weapons, such as
laser,
electromagnetic, plasma, climatic, genetic and biotechnological are the central
principle
driving the modernization of national defense. The potential for these weapons
to be used
for both good and bad deserves a great deal of attention, but there is little
to be
found in the
media or discussed by our administration.
The US is a
system of many institutions including those whose sole function is to provide
government
oversight. When problems arise that threaten the stability of the country or
the safety
of the people, the US government is designed to have checks and balances that
allow the
people to challenge misconduct either directly or through congressional
representatives.
Increasingly, oversight is disintegrating. According to a 2006 report in
the Boston
Globe, the intelligence committee does not read most intelligence reports in
their
entirety.
The media is
complicit in omitting information necessary to make democratic decisions.
A global
dominance agenda includes penetration into the boardrooms of the corporate
media in the
US. A research team at Sonoma State University recently finished
conducting a
network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media
organizations
in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the
membership
on the boards of director of the ten big media giants. These 118 individuals
in turn sit
on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations. Four of
the top 10
media corporations in the US have DOD contractors on their boards of
directors
including:
William
Kennard: New York Times, Carlyle Group
Douglas
Warner
John Bryson:
Disney (ABC), Boeing
Alwyn Lewis:
Disney (ABC), Halliburton
Douglas
McCorkindale: Gannett, Lockheed-Martin
Given an
interlocked media network, big media in the US effectively represent corporate
America’s
interests. The media elite, a key component of policy elites in the US, are the
watchdogs of
acceptable ideological messages, the controllers of news and information
content, and
the decision makers regarding media resources
It is not
suggested that everyone in the government believes in global domination, nor
that it is
the intent of every government official to ‘cover up’ misconduct. Scientists
involved in
potentially harmful technology are not ‘mad scientists.’ In fact, there are
many reports
in the public sphere addressing government and military misconduct that
are put
forth by people within these very institutions. The problem is when the
government
threatens whistleblowers, intimidates officials with job loss, infiltrates
activist
organizations, and increases surveillance.
PSYCHOLOGICAL
WAR
Modern
Psychological Operations (Psy-Ops) were significantly advanced in the Second
World War
and were brought to bear on the American public during the 1950s with the
formation of
a widespread network of social scientists, journalists, politicians, military
specialists
and intelligence operatives. Psy-Ops were used to promote a variety of
programs in
cooperation with the Industrial Military Complex. Their key piece of
information
warfare was the Communist Red Menace.
One of the opening
salvos in this war of deception was fired by George Kennan, the
American
ambassador to Moscow, describing the Soviet threat in a “long cable” sent to
Washington
in 1946. Kennan spent decades studying the Russian political scene. He
became
convinced that there would be little chance of cooperation with the Soviets and
recommended
a number of actions, most notably the institution of “political war” through
the newly
formed
the
In the late
1950s, a right-wing cadre of men within the new
armies,
planning assassinations, and generally devising plans for world domination that
still play
out today. Operation Gladio was one example, well documented and
international
in scope, in which right-wing members of the US intelligence community
created
“stay-behind” armies in many of the nations of Europe. Those armies managed to
infiltrate
the highest levels of politics (most notably in Italy where the term “Gladio”
refers to a
double edged sword) and have been held responsible for numerous false-flag
terrorist
acts through the 1980s and 1990s. Terror and propaganda often go hand-in-hand
in the
extremist elements within our military and intelligence communities.
To counter
the divisions within the intelligence community, a greater voice was given to
organizations
formal and informal. In the 1950s, one such group, the first Committee on
the Present
Danger (CPD), promulgated a series of “gap crises.” The Bomber Gap, the
Missile Gap,
the Space Gap, and the Brainwashing and Psychotronic Gap were used to
justify
increased military technology spending. Congress was led to believe that the
Soviets were
a much greater threat than they actually were, and that a terrifying new
weapon was
being developed that threatened America. They were thus convinced to vote
for
virtually any black budget proposal that came their way. The CPD ran a series of
broadcasts
to the public through the Mutual Broadcasting Network that spread fear in the
minds of the
public.
Under the
first civilian
forward with
its agenda of manufacturing consent from the American people for a new
state of
perpetual war industrialization. Dulles was a well-connected individual, a
successful
spy for the OSS in Switzerland during the war, related to three secretaries of
state, and
the chief advisor to Dewey when he ran for President in 1948. Dulles had
access to
the highest echelons of policy making and his influence was global in scope,
counting
among his close friends Henry Luce, publisher of Newsweek. Relying
heavily
upon
established circles of contacts within the nation’s media elites, Dulles
recruited key
members of
the media to work directly for the
Mockingbird
was a psychological information campaign against the American people. In
a campaign
that would lead to acceptance of blanket secrecy for “national security”, “the
Red Scare”
became the excuse for spending vast sums of money on weapon systems and
an increase
in covert operations both in foreign countries and within the United States. In
the 1950s
and 1960s, movies, news articles, books, radio and television programs were
carefully
laced with anti-communist messages and images designed to produce an
acceptance
of the policies being promoted by the defense elite’s propaganda machine.
“Among the
executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were
William
Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of
Time Inc.,
Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry
Bingham Sr.
of the Louisville Courier-Journal and James Copley of
the Copley
News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with
the
Broadcasting
Company, the Associated Press, United Press
International,
Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard,
Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting
System, The Miami
Herald, and the old Saturday Evening Post and
New York Herald-
Tribune. By far the most valuable of these
associations, according to
Inc.”
One of the
engineers of this deception was a former head of the stay-behind network,
Edward W.
Barrett, director of the Interdepartmental Psychological Strategy Board
(IPSB) and,
not coincidentally an editor at Newsweek. Barrett was seen as being very
effective in
his efforts to manipulate public opinion. At the same time, CPD was a “non-
political
group of citizens of the western coast” and launched a media campaign in favor
of the urgent
reinforcement of the national defense. Among the organizers of the
Committee
were Frank Altschul (Director of the Council for Foreign Relations), William
Donovan
(former head of the OSS during WWII) and General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
All of this
activity was more than enough to stoke the fears of the public and encourage
policy
makers to accept the Cold War view of the world. This allowed Truman to
convince
Congress to approve a tripled military budget that provided funding for secret
research and
development and turn a blind eye (in the name of National Security) to
“black
operations” programs authorized under the new Cold War rubric of “containment”
and aimed at
undermining otherwise peaceful nations and fomenting war, torture and
assassination
in countries as diverse as Iran, Guatemala and Indochina.
Post-war
developments in Europe, especially the British withdrawal from Greece, led
Truman to
decide it was necessary to have a permanent American presence in the old
continent to
counteract the Communist influence. General George C. Marshall, Secretary
of State,
designed a vast plan that mixed economic assistance and secret actions aimed at
establishing
democracies and making sure that voters in foreign countries made “the right
choice.”
National Security Council directive
made
official the creation of an anti-Communist interference network.
The US
intelligence community had an ace in the hole, Reinhardt Gehlen, a Nazi
spymaster
with an existing network of agents became the front man in Eastern Europe for
American
intelligence. General Reinhardt Gehlen proved to be troublesome for the
over the
years. Communist counter-spies infiltrated his network, his information was
often
incorrect, and he had downplayed his eagerness to serve the Reich. But Gehlen
was
only one of
thousands of Nazis recruited to assist in the new “Cold War” through
Operation
Paperclip. In fact, the intelligence assets acquired by bringing the Gestapo
onto
the US
public payroll was overshadowed by the acquisition of dozens of brilliant Nazi
scientists
and researchers.
At this
juncture, Truman, through the application of the 1947 National Security Act and
the newly
formed National Security Council, authorized a vast number of secret projects
involving
chemical, biological, nuclear and electromagnetic experiments. Former Nazis
were put in
charge of many of the most sensitive programs and facilities. The Army
Ballistic
Missile Agency (ABMA) was entrusted to the former SS officer Wernher von
Braun.Kurt
Debus, another ex-SS officer, directed Cape Canaveral. At this time scientists
began
working on “black” projects in earnest, including attempts at finally
developing the
“lost”
theories of Nicola Tesla, the Serbian-born American physicist, into military
and
intelligence
applications.
TESLA
Military
interest into the weaponization of the electromagnetic spectrum has a long
history,
based on the theoretical work of Nikola Tesla. Radar, in its early inception,
was
seen not
only as a means of tracking the position and speed of enemy targets, but as a
potential
weapon in its own right. There are very real problems however with overcoming
the normal
decrease in effect of an electromagnetic field over distance. This effect is a
natural
function of the laws of physics and applies to both electrical and magnetic
fields.
In short,
the strength of a field drops off in inverse proportion to the distance of the
target
from the source.
Without a means of concentrating and directing a beam of energy across
long
distances, any effect that an EMF weapon may have would be limited to its
immediate
vicinity. From 1900 until his death in 1943, Nikola Tesla worked to develop
just such a
weapon.
In a letter
to the New York Times editor in 1908 Telsa wrote,
“When I
spoke of future warfare I meant that it should be conducted by
direct
application of electrical waves without the use of aerial engines or
other
implements of destruction...What I said in regard to the greatest
achievement
of the man of science whose mind is bent upon the mastery
of the
physical universe, was nothing more than what I stated in one of my
unpublished
addresses, from which I quote: "According to an adopted
theory, every
ponderable atom is differentiated from a tenuous fluid,
filling all
space merely by spinning motion, as a whirl of water in a calm
lake. By
being set in movement this fluid, the ether, becomes gross matter.
Its movement
arrested, the primary substance reverts to its normal state. It
appears,
then, possible for man through harnessed energy of the medium
and suitable
agencies for starting and stopping ether whirls to cause matter
to form and
disappear. At his command, almost without effort on his part,
old worlds
would vanish and new ones would spring into being. He could
alter the
size of this planet, control its seasons, adjust its distance from the
sun, and
guide it on its eternal journey along any path he might choose,
through the
depths of the universe. He could make planets collide and
produce his
suns and stars, his heat and light; he could originate life in all
its infinite
forms. To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be
man's
grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical
creation,
make him fulfill his ultimate destiny."
Tesla made
several claims during the latter years of his life, published by the New York
Times in what became an annual event. His
theory of the hidden nature of our universe
supplants
those of many of his contemporaries in that he was able to infer a
multidimensional
model of the universe that is only now being investigated through the
theoretical
mathematics of our leading physicists.
Tesla also
developed means of remotely controlling aircraft as early as 1915,
foreshadowing
the Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) of today’s battlefields. In 1934
Tesla offers
to build a “Death Ray” that would make the power of an opponents air force
obsolete.
This was one of the earliest recorded statements regarding directed energy
weapons.
Tesla’s offer to build this device for the US government for a bargain price,
but
with many
caveats, was refused by officials who, preferred instead to pump money into
the new Army
Air Corp, which in turn gave rise to the military aviation complex that we
have today.
Before the
war the airline industry was not a major part of the economic life of the
nation.
With huge
wartime contracts, however, corporations such as Hughes, McDonnell
Douglas, Lockheed, and Northrop
quickly grew in power commensurate with the
financial
bonanza that was unearthed in the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. These
companies
formed the core of the “military-industrial complex.” Their investors and
managers
began to consolidate their clout in political circles to keep the nation on a
wartime
economic footing; a simple and vastly powerful weapon that would make
aircraft,
bombs, missiles and attendant industries irrelevant would certainly be seen as a
direct
threat to the growing power of military arsenal. Instead, a “black budget”
program
was put into
motion, which exploited the work of Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein
and others.
The Manhattan Project, developed by the DOD in 1942, generated a vastly
destructive
weapon that required a well-established and unbelievably expensive
aerospace
industry, along with unprecedented levels of secrecy and autonomy from
Congress and
the public.
The US
government also ignored Tesla’s offer to produce a “city killing machine,”
which
was composed
of an electromagnetic shield and a wireless torpedo. Tesla made several
proposals
during the 1930s, none of which received funding. Among Tesla’s claims,
published
annually on his birthday in the New York Times, were methods of
harnessing
the power of
the sun to electrify the earth and provide free electrical power to anybody,
anywhere.
Tesla did,
however, conceive of at least one device that became a major part of our
nation’s
arsenal - radar. As early as 1917 he published his theory and developed the
first
prototype in
1934. It is from the basis of this technology that future research into
weaponizing
the electromagnetic spectrum proceeded. At the same time Tesla was
working on
methods of transmitting and receiving communication signals through
interplanetary
space and reading the images on a sleeping person’s retina (by extension
mind
reading). His prediction that future wars would be fought with electromagnetic
means
foreshadowed the rise of electronic warfare and the non-lethal weapons
technology
being deployed today.
At first
glance, it would seem probable that the military had taken over the management
of Tesla’s
material. In fact, a number of projects related to his life’s work were in
development.
For instance, the building of beam weapons at Wright Patterson Air Force
Base under
the code name “Project Nick” headed by Brigadier General L.C. Craigie. This
project was
however, cancelled due to an apparent lack of understanding of Tesla’s
means of
transmitting high-energy waves without a loss of power over great distances.
Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began another project in 1958
codenamed
“Seesaw” at Lawrence Livermore Labs aimed at combating reported Soviet
advances in
electromagnetic weapons and defenses, advances that many believe came
about after
1952 when the bulk of Tesla’s research and personal effects were turned over
to his
nephew, Sava Kosanovic, who promptly whisked them away to Yugoslavia. Eight
years later
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev would state that, “A new and fantastic
weapon is in
the hatching stage,” horrifying many and prompting calls for more effective
means of
using EMF, espionage and counter-espionage.
On February
9, 1981, the office of the Undersecretary of Defense Research and
Engineering
department sent a letter to the FBI that requested the papers of Tesla, stating,
“We believe
that certain of Tesla’s papers may contain basic principles which would be
of
considerable value to certain ongoing research within the DOD. It would be very
helpful to
have access to these papers. The letter was signed by Lt. Col. Allan J. Mclaren,
an R.O.T.C.
graduate from M.I.T. in 1960, who later went on to become a project
director
with Lockheed Martin Space Systems from
which he retired in 2003.
This section
of his memo to the FBI was not declassified until 1993. In response, the FBI
issued the
same response as to all of the other inquiries with one exception, this time
they
identified
who it was that examined the stored effects; it was the Office of Scientific
Research and
Development from MIT, a breeding ground of
Office of
Naval Intelligence and agents from US Naval Research. What they may have
been looking
for had likely already been taken, according to a recent PBS special entitled
Tesla:
Life and Legacy;
Tesla’s nephew reported that Tesla’s most recent journal was
missing from
the bulk of material stored by the OAP. In recent years high profile projects
such as the
High Altitude Auroral Project (“HAARP”), the Strategic Defense Initiative
(“Star
Wars”), and many of the devices promoted by proponents of “Non-Lethal
Weapons”
have Tesla’s intellectual fingerprints all over them.
MK-ULTRA
In terms of
mind-control and the breaking down of prisoners for military interrogations,
the events
at Abu-Ghraib, Guantanamo, and in the
the globe,
all have their intellectual origin in the work carried out by a network of
scientists
under the behest of the intelligence community beginning in the World War II
period.
Mind-control, per se, refers to a well-funded, broad based series of programs
designed to
explore the furthest reaches of human cognitive ability. The Nazis, as well as
the
Japanese, had been experimenting on prisoners throughout the war. Recovery of
the
records of
these experiments led the US to proceed with investigations into new means of
interrogations
and the building of resistance to interrogations of US personnel.
The
experiments
on unsuspecting prisoners, students, military personnel and others recruited
into one of
the at least 162 subprojects of what became known as MKULTRA. Interest
was
certainly piqued by the case of Cardinal Mindseztny and the reports of brainwashing
techniques
used on American soldiers in prisoner of war camps in Korea. But even prior
to the
Korean War the resiliency of the human mind was being tested by researchers on
the black
budget. These projects reportedly at times violated every conceivable notion of
human rights
and dignity.
Frank Olson,
a mid-level
of drugs and
poisons at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. His work, which is still classified, was
funded
through MKULTRA. Olson took a trip to England where MI6 and the
working
together on ways to prevent allied spies and servicemen from yielding to
interrogation.
Olson also traveled to Frankfurt, where the two agencies conducted fatal
experiments
on prisoners of war and others considered to be “expendable.” Olson had an
ethical
dilemma with the research and, after voicing his concerns, returned to the
United
States. On
November 28, 1953, Olson was in room 1018A of the Hotel Statler in New
York. At 2
a.m., Olson fell from the 10
th
floor window
of his room to his death on the
sidewalk
below. The headline reported his death as an accident or suicide. This report
was
discredited when, in 1975, another official lie was issued to ease his family’s
suffering
and deflect public scrutiny. This time Olson was called the victim of an LSD
experiment.
Media reports cited in the New York Times focused on the sensational
aspects
of LSD use
and psychic warfare, but did not dwell on the more egregious violations of
human rights
and dignity inherent in the programs overseen by the
The truth
was not revealed until 1994 when his son finally had his body exhumed and
examined.
The autopsy showed that Olson’s left temple had been fractured before he fell.
According to
the New York Times Magazine
since been
released teach that “one of the surest methods of killing somebody without a
trace
involves impairing their reflexes with alcohol (or drugs) and then stepping up
behind them
and stunning them with a blow to the temple. After that you quickly grab
their ankles
and in a single motion flip them over a bridge, balcony or out of a window
more than 70
feet off of the ground.” What Olson saw, and what cost him his life and his
family their
peace of mind for 30 years, was the beginning of a long term strategy to
develop
means of making individual both resistant to “brainwashing” and to control the
actions of
individuals. The cover story that was used to justify the beginning of the
project was
that there was a “brainwashing gap” with the Koreans.
Experimenters
used college students, servicemen, mental patients, the poor and, in
several
instances, children as young as four years old, in attempts to create
untraceable
assassins, couriers
and other operatives. MKULTRA sub-projects involved the services
of many
notable universities and used a number of false front corporations such as the
Foundation
for the Study of Human Ecology and think tanks such as
source of
funding from those with ethical “problems.” We would still know nothing of
these
activities had it not been for the release of 16,000 pages of documents in 1977
through the
FOIA request filed by the surviving family of Frank Olson. Unfortunately,
before the
order came in to his office, leaving an incomplete picture of a concerted effort
by various
agencies to create new and better means of controlling the thoughts, emotions
and thus
behavior, of unsuspecting individuals.
ILLEGAL
EXPERIMENTATION
MKULTRA was,
however, neither the first nor the last project funded by government or
industry to
experiment on people in the name of some greater good. A quick review of
the history
of secret experimentation and medical atrocities reveals a pattern of deadly
behavior.
The Tuskegee
Experiments in 1932 cruelly condemned scores of black men to death from
syphilis.
The Pellagra
Incident, in which millions died over two decades, in spite of the fact that
the US
Public Health Service knew at the time that these deaths were caused by little
more than a
niacin deficiency.
In 1940,
scientists exposed four hundred prisoners in Chicago with malaria (a US
experiment
Nazis cited at the Nuremberg trials to defend their own experimentation).
During WWII,
Seventh Day Adventist conscientious objectors were enlisted into
Operation Whitecoat
by the US Army and the Adventist Church. They were told that they
were being
tested for defensive research purposes while the government was in fact
testing
offensive chemical and biological weapons.
After WWII,
matters became far worse for those who were caught up in the web of
illegal
scientific testing. In 1947, Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the US Atomic Energy
Commission
issued a secret document stating that the agency would begin administering
intravenous
doses of radioactive substances to human subjects. At the same time,
residents of
Utah and Nevada were purposely exposed to radioactive fallout during
atomic
tests. There were also a series of operations during the 1940s and 1950s in
which
US cities
were attacked secretly by the military through the spread of biological agents
in
order to
track their propagation through a real population.
THE
SCIENTISTS
Dr. Ewen
Cameron
Once the
details of MKULTRA came to light, the focus in the media and in the Senate
was on the
use of drugs, especially LSD. While the researchers within the project did
indeed
concentrate on developing a variety of hallucinogenic concoctions, they did so
with an end
in mind. The goal was to devise means and methods of enabling undercover
operatives,
soldiers, contractors or anyone who was involved in secret projects, to be able
to keep
those secrets if they were captured or interrogated. Hypnosis, combined with
drugs,
sensory deprivation and systematic abuse were seen as a means to that end. The
leader in
this pharmaceutical and psychological research was Dr. Ewen Cameron.
Cameron was
at the time, one of the most esteemed psychiatrists in the world. As
president of
the American Psychiatric Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association, and
one of the
founders of the World Psychiatric Association, Dr. Cameron began
experimenting
on brainwashing techniques as early as the 1930s with schizophrenic
patients. At
this time, lobotomies were not yet in common use, though the procedure
would begin
to be implemented in 1936 on a wide scale. Electroshock therapy was some
years from
being accepted as a primary means of changing behavior.
Cameron
relied on torturous and highly stressful techniques for breaking down the
personality
of his patients. Schizophrenics would be stripped down naked beneath red
lights for
eight hours a day, sometimes for up to eight months with repeated messages
inundating
their senses. In other experiments, Cameron would attempt to induce the
delirium
associated with a high fever by cooking his patients in an electric cage until
their
body
temperature reached 102 degrees.
From January
of 1957 until September of 1960 Cameron became one of the promising
researchers
the
and
programming human beings to do the will of the agency. Cameron received
$64,242.44
from the
individual’s
memory of an event and enable the programmer to control their behavior
through
post-hypnotic commands. Cameron used a variety of drug combinations coupled
with
prolonged sleep deprivation, isolation, hypnosis, and electro convulsive
therapy in
order to
“wipe” an individual’s memory. His techniques worked, to a certain extent, but
ethical
considerations led the
Cameron to
move to Canada to continue his work with funding channeled through the
Canadian
Government.
He continued
his work, officially, from 1961 until 1964 in Montreal where he received an
additional
$57,750. During this time Cameron combined his techniques (in a “therapy” he
called
de-patterning) with electroconvulsive therapy in which the voltage introduced
into
one subjects
brain, Linda Macdonald, exceeded the
succeeded in
wiping her memory and to this day, she cannot remember anything prior to
1963. In a
January 17, 1984 broadcast of the Canadian Broadcasting System, a program
called “The
Fifth Estate” detailed the experiments of Cameron, prompting a burst of
investigative
journalism culminating in a class-action suit brought against the
former
subjects. In 1988, the case was settled out of court for $750,000,
divided between
8 plaintiffs.
Linda Macdonald received $100,000 and legal fees from the Canadian
government,
but Cameron himself, faced no punishment.
Dr. Jose
Delgado
Whereas
Cameron focused on creating traumatized individuals through intense
psychological
pressure, Dr. Jose Delgado was investigating the direct route to control of
“human
subjects.” Delgado physically invaded the brains of subjects with electrodes in
order to
create emotions and control actions with the push of a button. As he stated
himself,
"We
need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society.
The purpose
is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from
the given
norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that
the most
important reality is his own existence, but this is only his
personal
point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not
have the
right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has
great
appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and
generals
will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."
In his paper
"Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording in Completely Free
Patients,”
Delgado observed that:
"Radio
Stimulation on different points in the amygdala and hippocampus
in the four
patients produced a variety of effect, including pleasant
sensations,
elation, deep thoughtful concentration, odd feelings, super
relaxation
(an essential precursor for deep hypnosis) colored visions, and
other
responses."
Delgado, to
his credit, did make great strides toward a better understanding of the
physiology
of brain structures and their attendant behavioral and emotional correlates,
strides that
did not go unnoticed by the intelligence community and the military.
While
Delgado worked in an area of specific interest, the direct stimulation of brain
structures
through implanted electronics, other researchers explored means of creating
multiple
personalities and programming the alternate personalities that emerged to do a
variety of
intelligence related work as operatives, still others explored the effects of
various drug
combinations and other “programming” and interrogation techniques aimed
at creating
super spies and breaking down enemy agents.
THE
EXPOSURE OF WATERGATE/MKULTRA/COINTELPRO
According to
testimony by Senator Edward Kennedy in 1977,
"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
30
universities and institutions were 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."
As an
example of the hubris wrought by institutions veiled in secrecy, given
unlimited
funds and
staffed with amoral people we can only refer to the statement made by George
White in a
letter to MKUltra director Sidney Gottleib: "I toiled wholeheartedly in the
vineyards
because it was fun, fun, fun! Where else could an American boy lie,
cheat, rape
and pillage
with the sanction and blessing of the All Highest?”
After
Watergate, more information hit the papers; COINTELPRO was uncovered by a
group of
people who have never been apprehended, in spite of a six-year FBI
investigation.
The COINTELPRO program was secret until 1971, when an FBI field
office was
burglarized by a group calling themselves the Citizens' Commission to
Investigate
the FBI. These people broke into an FBI office in Pennsylvania, rifled
through the
filing cabinets and leaked to the press documents detailing the abuses
suffered by
a wide variety of activists, including a long-term plan to destroy Martin
Luther King
Jr.:
“Agents
tapped his phone, bugged his rooms, trumpeted his supposed
commie
connections, and his sexual proclivities, and sicced the Internal
Revenue
Service on him. When it was announced in 1964 that King would
receive a
Nobel Peace Prize, the FBI grew desperate. Hoping to prevent
King from
accepting the award, the Bureau mailed him a package
containing a
tape of phone calls documenting King’s extramarital affairs
and an
anonymous, threatening letter (shown here in censored form). In
barely
concealed language, King was told to commit suicide before the
award
ceremony or risk seeing his "filthy, abnormal fraudulent self"
exposed to
the nation. Fortunately, King ignored the FBI’s advice. He
accepted the
award and lived four more years until his assassination.”
Some of the
largest COINTELPRO campaigns targeted the Socialist Worker's Party, the
Ku Klux
Klan, the "New Left" (including several anti-war groups such as the
Students
for a
Democratic Society and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Black
Liberation
groups (such as the Black Panthers and the Republic of New Africa), Puerto
Rican
independence groups, the American Indian Movement, and the Weather
Underground.
Later, Director Hoover declared that the centralized COINTELPRO was
over, and
that all future counterintelligence operations would be handled on a case-by-
case basis.
In addition,
the MKULTRA documents hit the press and a number of books were written
about the
subject, most notable were’ “The Search for the Manchurian Candidate” by
John Marks,
“Bluebird” by Colin A. Ross MD, and “A Nation Betrayed” by Carol Rutz.
At this
point victims began to come forward with claims of being horribly abused in
these
programs,
one of the most famous is a woman named Candy Jones who described in
stunning
detail a tale of corruption and abuse.
When Jimmy
Carter became President in 1976 he promptly moved to introduce a
modicum of
control, he instituted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
establishing
an 11 member secret court to oversee the surveillance activities of
our covert
agencies. As an example of the limited reporting requirements for the
court, we
have the first report issued to Vice President Mondale from Attorney
General
Benjamin R. Civiletti in 1979:
This report
is submitted pursuant to Section 107 of the Foreign
Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978, Title 50, United States Code
Section 1807.
During
calendar year 1979, 199 applications were made for orders and
extensions
of orders approving electronic surveillance under the Act. The
United
States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued 207 orders
granting
authority for the requested electronic surveillances. No orders
were entered
which modified or denied the requested authority.
Pointedly
Carter’s reform measure did not do anything to insure that the American public
would be
protected in the future from abuse and testing at the hands of the intelligence
arm of the
military-industrial complex. Carter’s move to reform the
an outsider
as head of the agency, Admiral Stansfield Turner. After Turner took over as
Director of
the
in various
false front companies that had been set up in the previous years.
Both the
Rockefeller Commission and the Church Committee revealed a long-standing
pattern of
both developing new psychological, pharmaceutical and radiological
technologies,
to influence individuals and groups and long-standing pattern of behavior
whereby
politically disruptive citizens were systematically targeted, harassed and
destroyed.
Yet there have, to date, been no provisions instituted which would stop this
behavior,
nor is there any guarantee that these kinds of covert programs ever actually
ceased. The
only practical change engendered by the disclosures of the 1970s was to
drive these
kinds of operations further into the shadows. That such research and
experimentation
may still be occurring is evidenced by a DOD directive, issued by the
Secretary of
the Navy on November 6, 2006 that specifically requires prior approval of
the Under
Secretary of the Navy before conducting “severe or unusual intrusions, either
physical or
psychological, on human subjects (such as consciousness altering drugs, or
mind-control
techniques).”
Non-Lethal
Weapons Research Today
There is a
long history that illustrates US Intelligence operations had tragic results for
many
involved. There was, however, no public debate surrounding these black
operations
because they
were classified under the guise of national security. MKULTRA, Project
PANDORA,
plutonium testing, and many more projects conducted by the DOD and the
However,
tighter restrictions on human experiment including accountability and
transparency
did not occur until 1997, when President Clinton instituted revised protocols
on human
experiments.
Official
reports insist that the research involving experiments during the 1950s through
the 1970s
was destroyed. Yet, the scientists involved went without punishment, free to
continue
their careers. Given the levels of ongoing EMF technology research today, and
the recent
retroactive approval of torture approved by the Military Commissions Act, it
may be that
human testing is occurring under post-9/11 national security protocols. Can
we accept
that all the psychological research conducted with government funding up to
the 1970s
was simply destroyed? At this time, the American public has no way to answer
this
question. The current administration classifies more information than any
previous
US
administration. Unclassified documents have even been recalled and
re-classified.
In the
1980s, nuclear radiation experiments on humans became public knowledge and
Russian
tests making use of the electromagnetic spectrum were exposed. Countries
around the
world passed laws and signed treaties in response to the danger of weapons
that could
adversely effect human behavior or manipulate human cognition. The Russians
banned all
EMF weapons in 2001.
These
treaties have roots in the human radiation experiments of the 1950s, 1960s and
1970s. In
effect, these treaties declared a basic tenant of human rights and cognitive
liberties.
In the quest
for global military superiority, the US stepped up funding for the concept of
the “Future
Warrior” beginning in the late 1990s with the use of advanced nano-
technology.
The idea was to streamline the military, improve soldier performance, control
the fighting
in real-time and avoid soldier mortality. Toward this end, the concept was to
enhance the
ability of soldiers in the field to interface with computer systems by using
their own
brain waves. The US began to fund research into decoding the brain as well as
other
neurological research. President George H.W. Bush declared the 1990s “The
Decade of
the Brain”. At the same time, funding for computer to human interface poured
into
universities and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) stepped up
their
research and development. In the universities, the field became “cognitive
science”
and within
DARPA, the term “augmented cognition” was born. While developments in
brain
research are touted for their amazing therapeutic advances in the medical
field, they
primarily
serve the purposes of the US military.
Americans
have little idea about the research concerning the capabilities of
electromagnetism,
directed acoustics, or computer-human interfacing. The majority of
Americans do
not know that we are currently using these new-concept weapons in Iraq
and
Afghanistan. Indiana University law professor David Fidler stated to the Economist,
“because
these weapons are most likely to be used on civilians, it is not clear that
using
them is
legal under the international rules governing armed conflict…if they are used in
conjunction
with conventional weapons, they could end up making war more deadly,
rather than
less.”
A peek into
the US arsenal of weapons is like a look into a science fiction film. DARPA
and various
military research labs provide a view of the current technology available to
enhance US
soldiers in the field and manipulate the emotions and behaviors of the
perceived
enemy. As American sentiment toward the Iraq war spirals downward, along
with the
approval ratings of the US president, domestic civil disobedience is likely to
rise,
as it has in
many countries in response to US foreign policy.
Are new
electromagnetic weapons in the possession of the government be used on
American
citizens? The issue at hand is whether the research and technology currently
being
developed will benefit or harm us and how much liberty we are willing to
sacrifice
for a
possibly skewed sense of national security and protection.
In September
2006, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne announced that crowd control
weapons
should be tested on Americans first. "If we're not willing to use it here
against
our fellow
citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,"
said
Wynne.
"(Because) if I hit somebody with a non-lethal weapon and they claim that
it
injured them
in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world
press."
Non-lethal
weapons sound harmless in relation to guns and bombs. However, non-lethal
weapons are
not just tasers and annoying sounds. Nor are they harmless. In fact, NLWs
are such a
concern that many countries have treaties demanding transparency. Beginning
in the
1990s, groups have formed to provide oversight of NLW research, including
international
committees, concerned scientists, and citizens’ groups including the
Federation
of American Scientists and the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics. The
proliferation
of NLWs have raised concern within the EU, Russia, and other countries, as
records of
Cold War abuses come to light and people come forward with complaints of
illegal
testing.
The concern
is more than a political issue and stretches beyond civil liberties into human
rights as
they relate to a person’s cognitive liberties. The following section highlights
technologies
with the capability to control and manipulate individuals or large groups of
people.
Crowd
Control using the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The
electromagnetic spectrum has provided the military with an expanse of weapons,
which are
operational and in military and private use today in the form of millimeter
waves,
pulsed energy projectiles, and high power magnetic weapons.
Project
Sheriff
The US has
deployed the Project Sheriff active denial weapon in Iraq. Raytheon outfitted
Humvees with
their Silent Guardian Protection System, a device capable of heating the
skin to 1/64
of an inch, causing instant pain similar to intense sunburn, with the goal to
facilitate
dispersing a crowd. According to a report released by the Air Force on the
human
effects of this weapon, people with contact lenses and those wearing metal
suffered
greater effects. An imprint of a coin was discovered on the skin of a test
subject
and death or
severe heart problems may occur.
Pulsed
Energy Projectiles
Pulsed
Energy Projectiles (PEPs) are another form of weaponry that is used to paralyze
a
victim with
pain. According to New Scientist magazine, the expanding plasma affects
nerve cells,
but the long-term effects remain a public mystery. The Joint Non-Lethal
Weapons
Program reports that, PEPs create a flash bang effect that startles and
distracts.
However, the
effects are much greater than just startling an individual. A 2001 Time
magazine
article states that the
rapidly that
it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The
effect is
like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the pep travels at nearly the speed of
light and
can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy…as far away as 2 km.”
While the
effects of these weapons appear to be short-term and topical in nature, there is
evidence
that electromagnetic weapons have effects on the brain, including sleep
disruption
and behavior changes. They can produce anxiety and fear or compliance in
humans. It
is possible to use these weapons as a means of torture, yet without knowing
exactly
when, where, and how the weapons are used, we are left to speculate. An article
by David
Hambling in New Scientist magazine, March 2005, was titled, “Maximum
pain
is aim of
new US weapons.” In 2006, Dr. Brian Martin, associate professor in Science,
Technology
and Society, University of Wollongong, Australia, co-authored a paper
entitled
“Looming struggles over technology for border control,” which describes the
potential
catastrophes that would lead to an extreme border protection plan. In the event
of a natural
disaster, or the rapid reduction of resources, or a major climactic change such
as drought,
rich countries will have a need to reinforce their borders against a massive
influx of
refugees. This scenario is often described in the nation-state context but it is
possible to
imagine such a perceived need in the event of internal civil unrest.
Directed
Acoustics
In Maoist
China, cities were equipped with megaphones, bombarding the people with on-
going
propaganda. The megaphones were in full vision of the people, yet there was no
way to
escape the sound. Today technology exists that fills a similar purpose. Voice to
Skull
directed acoustic devices are neuro-electromagnetic non-lethal weapons that can
produce
sounds within the skull of a human.
A similar
technology, known as Hypersonic Sound, is used in a similar fashion.
According to
its inventor, Elwood Norris of American Technology Corporation (ATC),
the handheld
speaker can focus sound waves directly at a person without anyone else
hearing the
sound. The technology is being tested by corporations such as McDonald’s
and Wal-Mart
to direct advertisements into a consumer’s head.
The Long
Rage Acoustical Device (LRAD) is used by the military in situations such as
crowd
control, mass notification, and perimeter enforcement. For instance, an unruly
mob
may not hear
a warning to disperse with traditional acoustic technology, or border
enforcement
agents may need to warn an approaching intruder to turn away or face
bodily harm.
The technology has advantages over lethal force, yet it also has the potential
to inflict
physical harm, emotional manipulation, and death. According to Defense
Update, the LRAD can produce a 150-decibel
acoustic beam from 300 meters away. The
human
threshold for pain is between 120 to 140 decibels. In a 2003 New York Times
article Mr.
Norris demonstrates his technology to the reporter. At 1% of capacity, the
reporter’s
eyes hurt, and hours later still experienced a headache.
This
technology can inflict permanent damage and death despite its classification as
a
non-lethal
weapon. While the LRAD may be seen as a way to save lives in times of
disaster or
to avoid civilian casualties, the LRAD and similar directed acoustics may be
cause for
concern to those who exercise their right to assemble and conduct peaceful
demonstrations
and protests. The New York City police used the LRAD at the
Republican
National Convention and it was also used in Miami at a WTO Free Trade
protests.
Covering one’s ears will not protect a person and given, the long-range
capabilities,
fleeing from the beam may not help either (as evidenced in the use of
directed
acoustics against Jewish settlers in Gaza). The Associated Press (AP) reported
that a
device called “the scream” was used in a 2005 protest against Palestinians who
“covered
their ears and grabbed their heads, overcome by dizziness and nausea, after the
vehicle-mounted
device began sending out bursts of audible, but not loud, sound at
intervals of
about 10 seconds. An AP photographer at the scene said that even after he
covered his
ears, he continued to hear the sound ringing in his head.”
Neurological
Technology
Neurobiology
has many facets including therapeutic applications with Alzheimer’s,
epilepsy,
depression, and stroke victims using Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation (
Bush’s
Decade of the Brain produced outstanding advances for those with spinal cord
injuries as
well, which allows a paralyzed person to control a computer screen or a limb
with a brain
implant. There is also a new field in neurological research, Augmented
Cognition.
From universities to private business to the military, advances in neuro-
technology
can be used for amazing good. However, as we learned from the history of
the Cold
War, technology that has the capacity to heal also has the capacity to harm. Of
great
concern is the research being conducted at DARPA, which is trying to revolutionize
the way
soldiers receive information, respond to orders, adapt to stress, and perform
while sleep
deprived.
proximity to
the skull to enhance mood, affect sleep patterns, and increase creativity. This
technology
is beginning to replace electro-shock therapy. DARPA granted a contract to
the Medical
University of South Carolina to research now to improve a soldier’s
performance.
A soldier’s reaction to stress may be less intense, or a 40-hour flight will
allow for
the soldier to remain awake without the side effects of sleep deprivation. Few,
if any,
understand the long-term effects of
field of
Augmented Cognition. Does
twenty,
fifty years down the road? To what extent is
of the
overall field of Augmented Cognition. In essence, Augmented Cognition allows a
human to
interact with a computer through brain waves. The idea is to enhance a person’s
cognitive
capabilities in the area of memory, learning, attention, visualization, and
decision-making.
One
application of augmented cognition allows a user to monitor a person’s brain
functions
and send anticipatory commands to the person being monitored. For instance, a
military
command unit will be able to monitor a pilot in a cockpit, and based on the
sensory
output of the soldier, the base command can input messages directly into the
pilot’s
brain to improve performance. DARPA describes this as a human computer
symbiosis
whereby, “This research will enable development of closed loop human-
computer technologies,
where the state of the user is measured, analyzed, and
automatically
adapted to by the computational system.” The increase in human-computer
relations
and the ability to manipulate and control a person’s senses, memory, and neural
output has
wide implications.
The basic
ability to enter a person’s mind is not a futuristic fantasy. This is real and
in
prototype.
DARPA began this research in 1983. The Internet has become a focal point in
our lives
with reliance for information and communication. Our interaction and intimacy
with
computers is increasingly pervasive, as is our exposure to the field of
augmented
cognition.
DARPA does not address the implications of such symbiosis, or the dilemma
of he extent
to which a person can or should be manipulated. The use of this technology
is used for
military purposes but it may not be long until it is used to “improve” the
factory
worker, prisoners, or the mentally ill.
The
Implant
Another
realm of brain research is the field of neural implants. Until recently,
implants
were a
futuristic fantasy. Current advances in the private and military sectors have
produced an
implant that can allow a victim of a spinal cord injury to walk again or give
an amputee
the ability to control her leg with her mind. In the private sector,
Cyberkinetics
is leading the way to liberating some people from wheelchairs. This
technology
is a path to a more functional way of life, but it is also possible that the
use of
implants
could be used for malevolence.
John
Donohoe, founder, chief scientific officer, and director of Cyberkinetics,
addressed
the issue of
mind control and neural implants. When asked if creating a brain-machine
interface
will open the door to mind control Donohoe responded, “We do that all the time
already.
Advertising is mind control. Even pharmaceutical agents are a form of mind
control.
When people have behaviors that deviate far from the norm, they are given
medications
that bring their mind back into the realm of behavior that we call normal. If a
child were
to have a seizure and became unconscious because of the seizure, and we
controlled
his mind so that he did not have seizures, that would be a wonderful thing. We
want to do
that.”
The
Experts
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.
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 21
st
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.
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.
“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.”
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,
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
Kaczynski, 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
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.
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. 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
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.”
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 gear. Ionatron was awarded a $12 million contract to
develop the
Laser Induced Plasma Channel technology which produces man-made
lightening
bolts. SAIC received a $49 million in November 2004 to develop High Power
Microwave
and other directed energy systems while Fiore Industries received a $16.35
million
contract for similar technology and
same in
2000. Fiore Industries received a $7.1 million for High Power Microwave
Research and
Experiment Program as early as 1994 and the same year Hughes Missile
Systems
Company received a $6.6 million contract for High Power Microwave
Suppression
of Enemy Air Defense Technology. 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 contract. 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. 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’.
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. There are also numerous conferences each year
hosted by
the Department of Defense, contractors and universities. 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.
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.”
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
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 first-hand, 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:
Hearing
voices when no one was present.
Feeling
sensations of burning, itching, tickling, or pressure with no apparent physical
cause.
Sleeplessness
and anxiety as a result of “humming” or “buzzing”.
Loss of
bodily control, such as twitching or jerking of an arm or leg suddenly and
without
control.
Unexpected
emotional states, such as a sudden overwhelming feeling of dread, rage, lust
or sorrow
that passes as quickly as it arises.
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
Beam Control
Conference
Directed
Energy Modeling and Simulation Conference
Employment
of Directed Energy Weapons Conference
High Energy
Laser Lethality Conference
High Power
Microwave Systems and Effects Conference”
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, and 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:
Definition
of military worth analysis
Elements of
DE weapon system performance trade studies and how they feed military
worth
analysis
Target
vulnerability assessment and its use to support weapon effectiveness
Adapting
standard weapon "kill" criteria to measure benefit of DE effects
Joint
Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEMs) weapon effectiveness models
Military
utility studies
Modeling and
simulation to support war games and war fighter exercises
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
sub0-threshold, threshold, and suprathreshold 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:
Laser damage
of the eye (retina and cornea)
Laser damage
to the skin
Laser safety
standards
Laser damage
as a function of energy, pulse duration, wavelength, and spot size
RF
bioeffects research and the current scientific consensus on RF hazards
RF safety
standards
RF
measurement basics
Investigating
RF overexposures”
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. 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:
1. 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.
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. 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.
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.
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.”
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.” 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.
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.”
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.
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.” Weapons that fall
under the
military category of “Non-Lethal Weapons.” 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.
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." His believes 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”
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)
________________________________________________________________________
_________
Peter
Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of
Project
Censored. Principle researchers on this report were Lew Brown and Bridget
Thornton.
Lew Brown holds a degree in Psychology and was the main writer and
researcher
on the historical sections of this paper. Bridget Thornton is a senior level
History
major at Sonoma State University and the primary researcher and writer for the
new EMF
technologies portion. Final editing was completed by Trish Boreta with Project
Censored.
Special thanks to Andy Roth Ph.D. for his editorial review.
Appendix A
ORGANIZATIONS
CONCERNED WITH ILLEGAL EXPERIMENTATION
INDIVIDUAL
VICTIMS
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Harp Foundation
2219 Lexford
LN.
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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
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Kingdom
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(0)20 7839 5561
http://www.copus.org.uk
Federation
of American Scientists
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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
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Phone:
+46-8-655 97 00
Fax:
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E-mail:
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Transhumanist Association
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CT 06279 USA
http://www.transhumanism.org
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Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project
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Neil
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