"No matter how paranoid you are,
what they're actually doing
is worse than you can possibly
imagine."
- RALPH J. GLEASON
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The capacity of the U.S. intelligence services to
modify human perception and behaviour through chemical means is enormous, given
their vast resources and intimate connections with drug trafficking (see DEALING IN DEATH: The CIA and the Drugs Trade).
In fact it was the CIA who introduced LSD to the U.S. population in the late
1950s, while testing its potential as a "truth serum" in
universities.
However, there are many other disquieting methods
of thought control currently being explored by covert security agencies in the
West.
Despite protestations by the CIA to the contrary,
clandestine research into all areas of mind control and manipulation is one of
their largest fields of development, and involves not only the CIA but various
sinister organisations and research laboratories working on behalf of the
intelligence services.
Much of what follows uses information that has
only recently been declassified under Freedom of Information Act appeals filed
three years previously....
THE CIA AND LSD
The work of various groups and individuals
employed by the CIA to research mind control through the use of drugs, mirrors
the notorious experiments by Nazi doctors at Dachau, who used mescaline as a
means of eliminating their victims' will to resist interrogation. After World
War II, a number of Nazi chemical warfare specialists went to work for the
American secret services. These scientists included Karl Tauboeck, whose
attempts to find a reliable "truth serum" for the CIA involved
ruthless human experimentation. Karl Rarh and Hans Turit also continued their
wartime experimentation with the nerve gases Tabun and Sarin (which are closely
related to the Zyklon B gas used in the Nazi concentration camps) and other
chemicals for the CIA.
In the early 1950s, the CIA embarked on a series
of mind-control and drug experiments on unwitting American and Canadian
victims. Project BLUEBIRD was established in 1950 to research mind control for
the CIA. The Agency contacted academics and other experts who specialised in
behaviour modification. Liaison was established with the research sections of
police departments and criminology laboratories. Medical practitioners,
professional hypnotists arid psychiatrists were brought In as paid consultants,
and various branches of the military provided assistance. Often, these
arrangements involved a cover to conceal the Agency's interest in the subject.
A memo, dated July 13th 1951, described BLUEBIRD's
efforts as "broad and comprehensive, involving both domestic and overseas
activities, and taking into consideration the programmes and objectives of
other departments, principally the military services." BLUEBIRD's
activities were "designed to create an exploitable alteration of
personality in selected individuals". Specific targets included
"potential agents, defectors, refugees, POWs" and a vague category of
"others." The programme was re-christened ARTICHOKE in 1951.
When the CIA had difficulties finding the ideal
truth drug, agents were sent out around the world to gather samples of rare
herbs and botanicals. One cocaine derivative, procaine, was injected into the
frontal lobes of the brain via trephine holes drilled through the skulls of
mental patients. However, repeated failure of cocaine and its derivatives led
the Agency to look into heroin as a possible mind control drug. According to a
CIA document dated April 26th 1952, heroin was "frequently used by police
and intelligence officers on a routine basis in interrogation." CIA
operatives determined that heroin and other habit-forming substances "can
be useful in reverse because of the stress produced when they are withdrawn
from those who are addicted to their use."
The name of the programme was changed again in 1953 to
MKULTRA, which primarily focused on the covert study of the hallucinogenic drug
lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for military or intelligence purposes as
either a weapon or a tool for brainwashing.
The CIA funded many individuals in the private sector on
LSD research. Dr Max Rinkel, Dr Paul Hoch, Dr Joylon West, Dr Harris Isbell and
Dr Carl Pfeiffer worked as contract employees for the Agency in this sphere.
Like the Nazi doctors at Dachau, the CIA victimised groups of people who were
unable to resist: prisoners, mental patients, foreigners, the terminally ill
and ethnic minorities.
One project took place at the Addiction Research Centre of
the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. This was
ostensibly a place where heroin addicts could go to kick their habits, but
unknown to the patients, it was in fact one of fifteen penal and mental
institutions used by the CIA in its drug development programme. To conceal its
role, the Agency enlisted the aid of the Navy and the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH) which served as conduits for channelling CIA money to Dr Harris
Isbell, a research scientist who remained on the Agency's payroll for over a
decade. When the CIA came across a new drug (usually supplied by U.S.
pharmaceutical firms) that needed testing, they sent it to Isbell at Lexington,
where an ample supply of captive human guinea pigs was available. Over 800
compounds were tested by Isbell, including LSD and a variety of hallucinogens.
At the Georgetown University Hospital, Professor Charles
Geschickter lent his name to a CIA research front foundation, the Geschickter
Fund for Medical Research, and tested mind-control drugs on psychiatric and
terminally ill cancer patients. LSD research for MKULTRA was also conducted at
44 colleges and universities in the United States in the mid-1950s.
Students from Harvard and other Boston area universities
were among those who were given doses of LSD through the MKULTRA programme at
the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, now the Massachusetts Mental Health Center.
Another CIA-front organisation used for MKULTRA was the Human Ecology Fund at
Madison.
"We have no answer to the moral
issue."
CIA director RICHARD HELMS, on the
Agency's MKULTRA programme of illegal experimentation with mind-controlling
drugs on unwitting victims. Helms ordered the destruction of MKULTRA records to
prevent disclosure by investigating committees.
On November 28th 1953, Frank Olson, one of the nation's
top biological warfare experts, died after falling from the 13th floor of a
Manhattan hotel, while CIA doctor Robert Lashbrook was "asleep" in
the room. Olson was a victim of MKULTRA, murdered by the CIA because he was a
security risk. Olson had told his wife that he had made a "terrible
mistake" and wanted to quit his job. Congressional hearings in 1975
revealed that nine days before his death, a CIA scientist had given Olson an
after-dinner drink of Cointreau that was laced with LSD. The normally cheerful
researcher then sank into a deep paranoid depression and he was checked into
the Statler Hilton under the supervision of Lashbrook.
On the night of Olson's death, Lashbrook called neither an
ambulance nor police. Instead he dialled a number on Long Island. According to
the testimony of the night manager Armand Pastore, who listened in on the
conversation, Lashbrook said, "Well, he's gone." The other man
replied, "That's too bad," and both hung up.
In July 1994, Professor of Law and Forensic Science James
Starrs examined Olson's body and found evidence that he described as
"sinister." There were "so many fractures in the skull that it
is not possible that he received this type of injury simply from falling out of
a window.... it would not be possible unless he was on a trampoline."
Starrs also found no evidence of glass cuts from smashing though the window
which were reported in the original autopsy.
Frank Olson had worked closely with the U.S. Army's
Chemical Corps' Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick in Maryland
and the surviving records show that U.S. Army Intelligence continued to carry
out LSD tests on unsuspecting victims after his death. Tests were run
simulating diplomatic cocktail parties where 30 to 35 volunteers were served
drinks containing LSD. Trained interrogators then tried to extract classified
information about the volunteers' special duties. During the course of the "parties"
the interrogators, without the knowledge of their subjects, administered
additional doses of LSD. None of the volunteers gave their informed consent
prior to receiving the drug and there was a deliberate attempt to deny them any
information that would have permitted them to evaluate the dangers involved.
According to the testimony of one of the volunteers, Charles Shirley Jr, in
August 1975, the brief given to them was that if they declined to participate
in the tests it would put them in immediate disfavour with their superiors.
After the first phase of experiments in November 1958, a
letter from the Chief of Clinical Division at Edgewood Arsenal Research
Laboratories (EARL) in Maryland to Commanding General Army Intelligence Centre
stated that all the initial work was completed with rewarding results
andrecommended that "actual application of the material [LSD] be utilised
in real situations." It is hard to believe that such a recommendation
could be given on a drug with such unpredictable and potentially dangerous
results after tests on only 35 volunteers.
On April 9th 1959, the Chemical Warfare Laboratory and the
Intelligence Centre proposed the use of LSD overseas on "non-volunteer
foreign nationals" to test its use as an aid to interrogation. This
continuation of the research in foreign countries was specifically in order to
do things that were forbidden by U.S. law. The U.S. Surgeon General concurred
in the plan and offered "no medical objections." Thus began Operation
Third Chance in Europe, the surreptitious administration of LSD to the drinks
of unwitting subjects in social environments. This operation paved the way for
similar experiments in the U.S. Army Pacific and elsewhere. A favourite plan of
the CIA involved slipping P-1 (the codename for LSD when used operationally) to
socialist or left-leaning politicians so that they would "babble
incoherently and discredit themselves in public."
Despite another report in 1963 recommending the
termination of testing LSD on unwitting subjects, the CIA's Deputy Director for
Plans, Richard Helms, continued to advocate covert testing of the drug. On the
subject of moral issues in connection with these illicit human experiments,
Helms commented: "We have no answer to the moral issue."
Almost twenty years after the introduction of LSD, and
dozens of psychological casualties later, a study by the Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs reported that LSD's early use by the American public began
"among small groups of intellectuals at large eastern and western coast
universities. It spread to undergraduate students, then to other campuses. Most
often, users have been introduced to the drug by persons of higher status.
Teachers have influenced students; upperclassmen have influenced
lowerclassmen." Ironically, the CIA, during its MKULTRA experimentation,
initiated the 1960s' psychedelic explosion.
This may have been unwitting but it may also have been a
deliberate effort to undermine the anti-establishment protest culture of the
time. In the late 1960s and early 70s, New York biochemist Ronald Stark was one
of the world's leading suppliers of LSD (which he produced at his illicit
laboratories in Europe); Stark was widely suspected (as he himself claimed) of
being attached to the CIA project later to be revealed as MKULTRA.
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a hippie religious
organisation based in Laguna Beach, California, supplied ample quantities of
LSD to the local hippies and eventually acquired a sophisticated network of
smuggling hashish and LSD to the whole United States.
Billy Hitchcock served as banker for the Brotherhood,
maintaining an account with Castle Bank, which had been set up by the CIA as a
front for covert narcotics and money laundering operations (see DEALING IN
DEATH: The CIA and the Drugs Trade). Hitchcock also poured the sum of $5
million into "litter stocks" which were associated with Mary Carter
Paint Company (known later as Resorts International), which was suspected of
having links to organised crime. When the company constructed a casino in the
Bahamas, the star guest on opening day was none other than Richard Nixon, who
was about to run for president. Strange bedfellows indeed for influential
figures involved in the psychedelic movement. (In 1970 Resorts International
formed a private intelligence corporation called Intertel, which was staffed
largely by ex-CIA, NSA, Interpol and Justice Department officials. Intertel
rented its services to a wide range of corporate clients, including ITT,
McDonald's and Howard Hughes' Summa Corporation).
Ronald Stark later took over Hitchcock's position of
banker for the Brotherhood of Etemal Love and was involved in overseeing their
LSD operation. For someone who was just known as a person helping the hippie
movement, Stark kept a mysterious profile. He travelled to all the drug
factories and hippie communes across the U.S., and stayed in rich hotels and
private clubs, mingling with the rich and famous. He also operated a cocaine
ring in the Bay Area. Since Stark took over the running of the Brotherhood, it
became the single most productive manufacturer of LSD in the United States. 50
million doses (20 kilos) of the drug were mostly sold in the U.S.
Stark was imprisoned in Italy from 1975 to 1979, following
his involvement with a gang of drug-dealing fascist terrorists. While in jail
in Bologna, he received a vast number of visitors from the British and American
consulates. According to the judge who released him from prison in April 1979,
"an impressive series of scrupulously enumerated proofs" showed that
"from 1960 onwards, Stark belonged to the American secret services."
Technically, MKULTRA was closed in 1964 but some of its
programmes remained active under the name of Project MKSEARCH well into the I
970s. In 1973, tipped off about forthcoming investigations, CIA Director
Richard Helms ordered the destruction of all MKULTRA records. Three years
later, in testimony to the Church Committee, Helms confessed that the CIA had destroyed
the files "so that anybody who assisted us in the past would not be
subject to follow-up questions, embarrassment if you will."
The key researcher for the CIA-Army LSD tests was Dr
Albert Kligman from the University of Pennsylvania. In the mid-1960s, Kligman
founded the Ivy Research Laboratories (IRL), the conduit for EARL to perform
experiments on humans which were not possible even under the dubious ethics of
EARL's programmes. Records show that in 1971, the CIA provided Kligman with
$37,000 to test a classified potentially incapacitating psycho-chemical
compound known only as EA3167. Kligman tested this on human subjects, including
prisoners from Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania.
Similarly, Dr Robert Heath carried out work for the CIA at
the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University in New Orleans,
one of several U.S. Army research centres at which 3,000 doses of LSD were
given to about 1,500 subjects in secret studies.
Dr. Robert Heath, testing his
"deep brain electrodes" at Tulane University, 1966.
So what were the implications of LSD? The CIA sought the
perfect truth serum; unsuccessful in this, the Agency then used LSD on the
basis of how it could affect social and political awareness. One of the MKULTRA
manuals that was destroyed at the behest of Richard Helms was entitled
"Some Unpsychadelic Effects!" No-one can be sure what the CIA meant
by this, but the fact remains that the new left movement that was growing in
America in the 1960s was drastically disrupted by the widespread use of LSD,
with millions of peace-loving youths becoming somewhat less conscious about the
world around them.
OTHER MKULTRA PROJECTS
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed
by John Marks in 1977, additional MKULTRA records were discovered in financial
files held by the Office of Technical Services which had not been indexed under
the name MKULTRA. These documents, dating back to 1963, revealed that MKULTRA
was "concerned with research and development ofchemical, biological and
radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to
control human behaviour," and that "radiation was one of the
additional avenues to control human behaviour." In an undated Memorandum
for the Record in MKULTRA Sub-project 86, Dr Wallace Chan proposed
"radio-isotopes with predetermined half-lives, selectively implanted
and/or injected; and radiologically opaque foreign bodies selectively implanted
and/or injected into predetermined sites in the human body."
The Canadian MKULTRA programme took place at the Allan
Memorial Institute (AMI), the psychiatric wing of Royal Victoria Hospital in
Montreal. AMI's director from 1943 to 1964 was Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, who
called his experimental techniques "depatterning" and "psychic
driving." Cameron subjected his patients to heavy doses of drugs combined
with electric shock treatment, technically known as Electro-Convulsive Therapy
(ECT), but not as Cameron practised it. In standard professional ECT, the
patient is given a single dose of 110 volts lasting afraction of a second.
Cameron used a dosage twenty to forty times more intense,
two to three times a day, with the power turned up to 150V. The frequent
screams of patients that echoed through the hospital did not deter Cameron and
his associates in their attempts to "de-pattern" their subjects
completely. Sometimes Cameron would combine this treatment with up to 35 days
of prolonged sensory deprivation in a sealed environment. This constituted the
"depatterning" phase of the treatment, at the end of which the
patient's mind would be "more or less in a childlike and unconcerned
state."
Cameron would then attempt to reprogram his victims with
his "psychic driving" techniques, which consisted of messages played
on tape recorders, repeated thousands of times through headphones. Usually ten
days of "negative signals," stressing the patient's presumed
inadequacies, would be followed by ten days of "positive" messages,
encouraging the desired behaviour. Psychic driving would take place for continuous
periods of up to 16 hours per day.
The CIA invited Cameron to apply for funding from the
Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA front. From 1957 to 1962,
the Agency supported Cameron's work with grants totally $84,820. The
"psychic driving" research was code-named MKULTRA Sub-project 38.
Cameron, the architect of these inhuman experiments which
amounted to little more than torture, was elected chairman of the American
Psychiatric Association in 1952 and later became the founding chairman of the
World Psychiatric Association. In 1966, he was awarded the Canadian Mental
Health Award for his services to the profession. Such honours would hardly have
met with the approval of the Canadian victims of the MKULTRA experiments, some
of whom recently sued the CIA for irreparable mental damage.
Dr. Ewen Cameron (left) receiving the
Canadian Mental Health Award, 1966.
A series of mind-altering drug tests and electric-shock
experiments were also carried out on inmates of the Californian prisons of
Vacaville and Atascadero during the 1960s. Some of these were particularly
directed against gay inmates, attempting to "convert" them to
heterosexuality. Blanche Wiesen Cooke, a New York history professor, has raised
the question of whether AIDS may have developed as a result of such
experiments.
Mind control research was transferred from MKULTRA to the
Office of Research and Development (ORD) in 1963, and the U.S. Army officially
terminated their LSD experiments at that time. However it has recently been
revealed that their British counterparts, the Chemical and Biological Defence
Establishment (CBDE) at Porton Down took over and continued these experiments.
In 1993, Graham Pearson, the Director of CBDE, disclosed that they carried out
LSD tests on 72 service volunteers, on behalf of the Ministry of Defence,
between 1961 and 1972. This was the first official admission that the British
government had carried out secret mind-control tests on human guinea pigs.
In the early 1970s, one of MKULTRA's payrolled scientists,
Dr Joylon West, was involved in planning a secret camp in California for
"comparative studies.... of experimental or model programs for the
alteration of undesirable behaviour" and the "study and reduction of
violence." Proposed by then Governor Ronald Reagan, this centre would
"predict the probability of occurrences of violence" according to
ethnic population grouping. When asked how the subjects would be obtained for
the experiments, Edwin Meese, Reagan's executive secretary at the time (later
to become U.S. Attorney General), replied: "We'll kidnap them!" (H.W.
Bowart suggests that the many cases of "alien abductions" reported
[and apparently sincerely believed] by American citizens may be evidence of
psychological programming experiments by the security services).
The camp would "test chemical castration,
psychosurgery and experimental drugs" on involuntary incarcerated people.
A law would also be passed in California that would put into effect a computer
filing system on "pre-delinquent children." The children would then
be "treated by the camp before they could harm society." This
Orwellian nightmare was stopped after the plans for the scheme leaked to the
news media.
MIND CONTROL AND BRAIN IMPLANTS
When news of the existence of MKULTRA was disclosed to the
public during the major investigations of the CIA in the 1970s, it was
discovered that in addition to mind control through the use of drugs, other
areas researched by the CIA included hypnosis, sensory deprivation,
psycho-surgery, brain implants and ESP. Mystery still surrounds the area which
seems to have most interested MKULTRA'S successor, the Office of Research and
Development (ORD) -"psychoelectronics".
In the late 1950s, a neuroscientist named Jose Delgado
developed a "stimoceiver", a miniature depth electrode which can
receive and transmit electronic signals over FM radio waves. By stimulating a
correctly positioned stimoceiver within an individual's cranium, an outside
operator could wield a surprising degree of control over the subject's
responses. The most famous example of Delgado's work occurred in a Madrid bull
ring. Delgado "wired" a bull before stepping into the ring entirely
unprotected. The bull charged towards the doctor, then stopped just before
reaching him. Delgado had halted the animal simply by pushing a button in a
black box held in his hand.
Delgado's human experiments demonstrated that emotions and
behaviour such as rage, lust, relaxation, fear, fatigue, hallucinations etc.,
can be easily induced using radio stimulation by an outside operator of
different points in the amygdala and hippocampus regions of the brain. The
techniques could also be used to modify "unwanted" social behaviour.
Speaking in 1966, Delgado asserted that his experiments
"support the distasteful conclusion that motion, emotion and behaviour can
be directed by electrical forces and that humans can be controlled like robots
by push buttons." He even professed a day when brain control could be
turned over to non-human operators by establishing two-way radio communication
between the implanted brain and a computer. Work by the brothers Ralph and
Robert Schwitzgebel for tracking individuals over long ranges led to the
proposal of a scheme whereby miniature radio receivers are mounted on utility
poles throughout a given city, thereby providing a 24-hour monitoring
capability.
One of the most disturbing suggestions in this area came
in 1994 from Joseph Meyer of the National Security Agency, who proposed
implanting roughly half of all Americans arrested (but not necessarily
convicted of any crime). These "subscribers" (his term) could then be
monitored continually by computer. Meyer carefully worked out the economics of
his mass-implantation system and asserted that taxpayer liability should be
reduced by forcing subscribers to "rent" the implant from the state.
Meyer argued that implants are cheaper and more efficient than police.
REMOTE MIND CONTROL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WARFARE
As far back as 1953, the scientist John C. Lilly was asked
by the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (a regular CIA
funding conduit) to brief the CIA, FBI, NSA and military intelligence on his
work using electrodes to stimulate the pleasure and pain centres of the brain.
Lilly refused, stating in his reply: "Dr Antoine Redmond, using our
techniques in Paris, has demonstrated that this method of stimulation of the
brain can be applied to the human without the help of the neurosurgeon; he is
doing it in his office in Paris without neurosurgical supervision. This means
that anybody with the proper apparatus can carry this out on a person covertly,
with no external signs that electrodes have been used on that person. I feel
that if this technique got into the hands of a secret agency, they would have
total control over a human being and be able to change his beliefs extremely
quickly, leaving little evidence of what they had done."
Unfortunately the Freedom of Information Act can only pry
loose scant information on electronic mind control and most of MKULTRA's work
in this area remains secret. The earliest reference to remotely-applied
electronic stimulation of the brain (ESB) is a 1959 document pertaining to
MKULTRA Sub-project 94 and shows that a great deal of research was carried out
in this area. A 350-page CIA manual dating from 1963 asserted that the Agency
had mastered a technology called RHIC-EDOM (Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral
Control and Electronic Dissolution of Memory). Together, these techniques can
allegedly remotely induce hypnotic trance, deliver suggestions to the subject
and erase all memory for both instruction period and the act which the subject
is asked to perform.
During 1977 Senate hearings on CIA drug testing, Dr Sidney
Gottlieb, an important MKULTRA administrator, admitted the possibility of the
existence of Agency research involving hypnosis using radio beams and the use
of microwaves to erase memory, alter brain functions and disrupt behaviour
patterns.
Early work by microwave scientist Allan H. Frey provided
evidence that the perception of sound can be induced in normal and clinically
deaf humans by irradiation of the head with low-density, pulse-modulated
ultra-high frequency (UHF) electromagnetic radiation - a type of radio wave. It
had previously been shown that UHF wavelengths smaller than 10cm could produce
a heating of the skin and even cause severe burning. Since then, work by Frey
and others has shown that this same microwave energy is capable of producing
selective tachycardia (a speeding-up of the heart beat) and brachycardia
(slowing down of the heart beat). A U.S. State Department report by G.W. Biles
in 1976 suggests that it is quite possible to induce a heart attack in a person
from a distance with radar, since radar uses the same pulse-modulated UHF
energy that Frey had used in some of his early experiments.
In 1961, Frey showed that the effect and range of auditory
response to radio frequency (RF) energy could reach thousands of feet. Using a
pulse-modulated transmitter, all types of biological effects could be induced
on the targeted subject, including dizziness, nausea and vomiting. Even words
could be sent to the brain, independent of the tympanic membrane of the ear. A
new form of communications, with immense implications for the military and
security services, was discovered: direct communication to the brain by radio
waves. An intelligence asset, programmed by remote hypnosis, could be activated
by RF means to carry out orders bypassing his or her consciousness. The
hypnotic command that the target obeyed would be considered their own idea.
Such operations could be carried out on the basis of a
"timed hypnotic command" - using RF means, certain information could
be made to appear in the target's mind at a given time in the future. A similar
effect could be produced when the hypnotic suggestion is designed to be
triggered by a word, a picture or other signal. "There are also means of
blocking the target's access to retrieve information; by inducing amnesia it is
possible to disrupt, inhibit and reconnect his or her conscious (mental)
linkages at will, and thus produce contrasting effects which are of the highest
value for later hypnotic commands".
Similar research by Dr W. Ross Adey at the University of
Southern California has shown that simply by placing subjects in an
electromagnetic field, their behaviour can be altered. By directing a carrier
frequency to stimulate the brain and using amplitude modulation to
"shape" the wave into a mimicry of a desired EEG frequency, the mind
can be externally conditioned into aversive or docile states, for example.
Ideas including names can be synchronised with the feelings that the fields
induce. Such devices could also have a role in covert operations designed to
drive a target crazy with "imaginary voices" or to deliver
undetectable instructions to a programmed assassin. Adey compiled an entire
library of frequencies and pulsation rates which could be used to affect the
mind and nervous systems.
In a rare and astonishing admission in 1963 by Dr George
Estabrooks (the man who first proposed to U.S. military intelligence the
potential uses of hypnosis in warfare back in the 1 940s), Estabrooks revealed
that he had conducted extensive hypnosis work on behalf of the CIA, FBI and
military intelligence and stated that "the key to creating an effective
spy or assassin rests in... creating a multiple personality with the aid of
hypnosis," a process which the doctor described as "child's
play." That same year (the year of President Kennedy's assassination)
Estabrooks even offered the suggestion that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby
"could very well have been performing through hypnosis."
Albert Einstein conferring with naval officers
in his study, Princetown, New Jersey, July 24th 1943. Einstein was involved
with secret U.S. government experiments known as the 'Rainbow Project' in which
the use of a very powerful electromagnetic field around an object was used to
divert radar waves around it, making it radar invisible. This culminated in the
test known as the 'Philadelphia Experiment' on August 12th 1943, in which the
warship USS Eldridge reportedly achieved not only radar but also physical
invisibility. The same research team was later involved in using
electromagnetic waves for mind control experiments at Montauk Point, Long
Island. Sensing the dangers of the experiments, Congress refused further
approval for the work in 1967 and the project was abandoned.
Some months before his death, Einstein was
reported to have burned papers relating to his Unified Field Theory and its
possible practical applications on the grounds that the world wasn't ready for
such things and would be better off without them.
In 1967 the U.S. Air Force base at Montauk Point in New
York's Long Island was used for top secret experiments using a giant Sage radar
that was capable of transmitting electromagnetic waves at frequencies of 425 to
450 Megahertz, the level at which it is possible to alter human thought. Some
of the military technicians at the base had used the Sage radar in the 1960s
and noticed how it had been possible to change the mood of the personnel on the
base by changing the frequency and pulse duration of the radar. Thus, mood altering
experiments were begun in earnest. One of the Montauk Project leaders, Al
Bielek, later revealed that, "with no military or defence purposes to
begin with, the project was only designed for controlling the minds of the
population, in spite of Congress forbidding the project." At first, the
focus of the experiments was a person sitting inside a shielded room. The radar
reflector was angled down so that it focused on the room. The researchers
observed that certain changes in frequencies and pulses "made a person
sleep, cry, laugh, be agitated and so on."
The experiments were then expanded to include the base
personnel, then on to the townspeople in Montauk, Long Island, New Jersey,
upstate New York and then Connecticut "just to see how far it could
go." A special chair was designed using technology that could display what
a person was thinking. It would collect the electromagnetic impulses from that
person, then translate them into a understandable form. Coils, which acted as
sensors, were placed around the chair, along with three receivers, six channels
and a computer which would display the person's thoughts digitally on a screen.
Bielek claims that the research at Montauk is still ongoing.
In 1974, J. F. Schapitz filed a plan to study the
effect of inducing hypnotic suggestions through radio frequencies. In his
experiment, subjects were implanted with the subconscious suggestion to leave
the lab and buy a particular item, the action triggered by a certain
"cue" word or action. Schapitz' work was funded by the Department of
Defence. Despite Freedom of Information requests, the results have never been
revealed.
A 1976 U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)
report entitled "Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation"
notes that "the potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel
applications is suggested by the research published in the USSR, East Europe
and the West. Sounds and possibly even words which appear to be originating
intra-cranially can be induced by signal modulation at very low power
densities."
Russian scientists recently reported the following
(quote): 'With the help of computer-processed frequency-modulated pulses,
coding texts are being introduced into human consciousness. Programming is
usually being carried out during night-time by three synchronised frequency
generators situated in a city's suburbs in the course of a week. After this,
the "patient" receives a coded message. This can be some specific
sound but more usually it is a phone call. The call is usually made past
midnight (between 12.00 p.m. and 1.00 a.m.) when human energy defences are at
their lowest point, being in restoration phase. After receiving such a message,
a person - against his/her will and even without conscious awareness - can take
a self-destructive course of action.... In 1979, a modified generator emitter
called 'Genotron' was created. The device, the size of a small saucer, is fixed
on the breast of an assassin. A left wire is connected through the shirt sleeve
with a feeder (the energy pumping cycle lasts seven seconds) and a right wire
is connected with a control system of a 20 KWT electron ray emitter, powered by
a 9V source. When a "clean elimination" of an
"inconvenient" person is required, the killer walks behind the target
and with the help of the ultrasound aiming device zeroes in on the victim's
heart and "shoots." The result is heart defibrillation and multiple
ruptures of the heart tissue.
There has also been produced a car-based variety
of the generator emitter which is used on the road when it is necessary to
cause an auto accident. The hypnotic emitter blocks the functioning of the left
brain, where the centres of rational control are situated. As a result, the
driver of the tracked car loses the feeling of reality and in the euphoric
state there appears a wish to increase speed beyond any limits. The result is a
crash."
The use of mind control weapons to cause car
accidents brings to mind various incidents of people whose deaths were
remarkably convenient for the powers that be. Karen Silkwood was the young
American woman who died in most suspicious circumstances while she was en route
to going public with the lack of safety standards at the plutonium plant at
which she worked. The attempted breakout of five IRA prisoners from Whitemoor
Maximum Security Prison in September 1994 led to speculation that the security
services had set up the escape. The vital footage from the video recordings of
the prison fences (which would have shown the prisoners receiving outside help)
were mysteriously "missing." One of the prison officers who had been
in the prison control room during the break-out, Marcia Whitehurst, died when
her car plunged into a river near Wisbech. She was driving to court to give
evidence at the trial of the prisoners and was due to be cross-examined about
her entries in a log book. The police described her death as a "tragic
accident." Another Whitemoor prison officer who was present in the control
room, Peter Curran, disappeared when he left home to play golf. His car has
never been found. His wife stated that "he was very concerned about
something before he disappeared."
There are also the curious events in Britain
surrounding Mark Purdey, the diary farmer who opposed the British agro-chemical
industry, claiming to have compelling evidence that BSE, the "mad-cow
disease," was the result of organo-phosphate pesticide poisoning. Purdey's
experiments, conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry in south London,
confirmed that Phosmet, which contains a chemical component of the
notoriousdrug Thalidomide, can affect the "prion protein" believed to
trigger the devastating BSE brain disease. The only other countries to use
Phosmet in a similar way to Britain - pouring it along the cow's spine - were
France, Switzerland and Ireland, which were the other countries that had BSE. Two
of the people who took Purdey's side of the argument died in mysterious
circumstances. One was a solicitor, Peter Ward, who helped Purdey In a case
against the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The second was a vet,
Christopher Budge. Both died when their cars inexplicably left the road and
crashed, Ward hitting a stone wall and Budge swerving into the path of an
on-coming lorry.
(Organo-phosphates, which are chemically related
to nerve gas, were widely used by allied forces during the Gulf War. Their use
has been linked to the debilitating Gulf War syndrome suffered by the allied
troops. In March 1997 the armed forces minister Nicholas Soames admitted
misleading Parliament by denying the use and known effects of
organo-phosphates.)
Microwave weapons have been in development for
decades. A report for the U.S. Army entitled 'Analysis of Microwaves for
Barrier Warfare' released under a Freedom of Information request shows that
even in the early 1970s, the military were developing electromagnetic weapons:
"When the beam is turned on, the person will probably fall down in pain
and die in 35 seconds, If somehow he proceeds towards the friendly forces, the
intensity will continue to rise and he will die before he reaches the 300m
front of the barrier." Microwave and laser weapons exist that can cause
"exploding eyeballs" or turn people into fireballs. A weapon that can
temporarily blind or render an enemy unconscious, can with a turn of the power
dial, cut them in two or "cook their internal organs." These
so-called "Non Lethal Weapons," which include High Powered Microwave
(HPM), infrasound, "plasma bullet guns," Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
and radio frequency devices, provide "a new spectrum of options" as
the Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) puts it. The weapons are so
horrific that there was even debate in the Department of Defence about whether
they violate treaties governing humanity in war.
The CIA had a programme called Operation Pique in
1978 which included bouncing radio or microwave signals off the ionosphere to
affect the mental functions of people in selected areas, including Eastern
European nuclear installations. A 1985 experiment at the Midwest Research
Institute in Kansas City showed that pinpoint accuracy could be achieved with
behaviour-altering microwave beams, such that an individual in a room might be
affected by an outside beam while another person elsewhere in the room is
unaffected.
The Christic Institute, a public interest law firm
in the U.S., has many files from state, Senate and Congressional
representatives who claim to be victims of clandestine bombardment with
non-ionising radiation or microwaves.
These people (nicknamed "wavies") report
sudden changes in psychological states, alteration of sleep patterns, intra-cerebral
voices and other sounds, and other unusual physiological effects. The number
and scope of the individuals reporting such claims makes it difficult to
dismiss them all out of hand as being mentally ill. The matter has been taken
up in the U.S. by the Association of National Security Alumni (ANSC), after
investigating the known Department of Defence and CIA interests in this field.
In a briefing issued on August 19th 1992, ANSO commented on "the
increasing number of persons contacting us for assistance in ending what they
believe to be electronic harassment by elements of U.S. intelligence."
Julianne McKinney, author of a 20-page report for
ANSC, "Microwave Harassment and Mind Control Experimentation", wrote:
"Four months ago, when this project commenced, we approached these
complaints of government harassment and experimentation with a high degree of
caution. We are no longer sceptical. The growing numbers of independent
complaints and the similarities between these complaints cannot be
ignored."
There is now a victims group in the U.S. called
Victims of Electronic Assault. In the ex-Soviet Union, political dissenters are
emerging claiming to be "wavies" with the same reports as their
counterparts in the U.S.
In the summer of 1984, the women peace protesters
camped around the U.S. air base at Greenham Common were surprised to find that
the military and police personnel who had been regularly facing them across the
wire disappeared at a particular time. This coincided with the appearance of
new aerials on the base buildings and in the months that followed, the women
began to suffer a wide variety of illnesses, with symptoms including disruption
of their menstrual cycles, panic, swollen tongues, bleeding gums, headaches,
voices in the head, vertigo and burns - even at night. Similar phenomena have
more recently plagued the women's peace camp at Seneca in the United States.
The British woman who is co-ordinating the research into this for the Greenham
women has had both her car and her house shot at. In his book The Geller
Effect, Uri Geller also noted the strange use of the back focus of a radar dish
being used to affect the Greenham Common protesters.
In addition to these cases, more and more people
are turning up claiming to have had brain implants while they have been
incarcerated for various reasons. A Freedom of Information request produced a
1970 NASAreport on implantable biotelemetry systems, which describes the
development of precisely these kinds of devices. "…. it is therefore
possible that the biological application of radar could be used as a weapon on
an individual basis for sociological or political purposes....."
The involvement of NASA in the CIA's mind control
experiments has sinister implications….
The CIA's research in "evoked brain
potentials" (potential is used in the electrical sense, meaning voltage)
had the goal of finding methods to replace both polygraphs and voice stress
analysis, which are notoriously unreliable lie detectors. Evoked potential
studies measure and analyse brain wave responses that result from different
stimuli. Using computers, the CIA's aim was to develop these techniques into
methods of mind reading and eventually, mind programming or reprogramming.
By 1974 Lawrence Pinneo, a neurophysiologist and
electronic engineer at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) had developed a
computer system capable of reading a person's mind. It correlated brain waves
on an electroencephalograph with specific commands. Twenty years ago, the
computer responded with a dot on a TV screen. Today, it can be the input to an
EBB stimulator that uses radio frequencies. The concept of mind-reading
computers is no longer science fiction.
According to Ken Lawrence's testimony before
Congress in 1985 on the issue of CIA campus activity, a revival of the MKULTRA
programme exists at the University of Florida, where CIA-funded researchers
have been carrying out "truth detector" experiments using a computer
to read brain waves. Major Edward Dames of Psi-Tech said in April 1995 on NBC's
'The Other Side' programme: "The U.S. government has an electronic device
which could implant thoughts in people." Dames would not comment any
further.
The cooking ability of microwaves is a well-known
fact of everyday life. At power levels which have no heating effect, microwave
radiation affects biological cells in other ways. Both American and British
military security is built on a complex global system of communications links
involving the widespread use of RF microwaves, including missile tracking radar
and surveillance radar. These are found at American bases around the world,
including the UK. The military are well aware of the adverse health effects of
this and have sought to cover up deaths resulting from microwave exposure. In
1977, two army researchers published a paper showing that power levels of
microwaves thousands of times below safety limits damaged the brain. This
research and the debate it stimulated was stopped by the Department of Defence.
Dr. Koslov at John Hopkins University attempted to restart work into this in
1986, but was unable to get funding. In 1981, U.S. Army pathologist Dr.
Friedman published some preliminary findings of a study into the large number
of radar operators referred to him with a rare blood disease. The army refused
to publish his full report.
The British ultra-secure communications network is
completely independent from the British Telecom network. It ensures that the
government can control the country in the event of the collapse of its
authority by war or mass strike action and is based on the use of microwave
communication links dotted around the country, with a higher concentration in
built-up areas. The centre of research for developing this system is the
Defence Research Agency's Malvern branch (formerly the Royal Signals and Radar
Establishment). Since the mid-70s, eight scientists working there have died
from brain tumours. Recent cases in Britain of various illnesses amongst people
living near overhead power lines have added to the evidence that
electromagnetic radiation is more harmful to humans than previously thought.
During the Gulf War in 1991, Cruise missiles with
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) warheads were used against the Iraqis. This
information was released via the American military trade publication Defence
News in April 1992. The same year, the UK Ministry of Defence confirmed the
development of a British microwave bomb. The EMP bomb works by "emitting a
massive pulse of radio energy which would render humans unconscious by
scrambling neural paths in the brain but would not cause lasting injury."
In fact, evidence from research scientists exposed to EMP has shown that it can
cause cancers such as myclogenous leukaemia, a fatal bone marrow disease.
In 1993, residents in the Crossmaglen area of
South Armagh in Northern Ireland voiced their concerns that British army
surveillance equipment was linked to observed clusters and increases in cancer
cases in the area. Following the deaths in 1997 of three members of the E4A
undercover surveillance unit of the Special Branch (all three died of cancer of
the colon), the RUC consulted the National Radiological Protection Board over
concerns that their deaths might be linked to the wearing of concealed
microwave equipment which is strapped to the skin beneath clothing. The RUC
press office claimed that the NRPB's review was not just linked to the deaths but
covered the use of all microwave equipment.
SOUND WARFARE
William Arkin, a US consultant on the humanitarian
impact of weapons and warfare, revealed in the Journal Medicine in 1998 that
the United States army and airforce were developing a new generation of
acoustic weapons that rupture organs, inflict burns and create cavities in
human tissues. The research was so far advanced that deployment of the weapons
was imminent.
Such weapons can radiate a directed energy beam
with an intensity varying from a 90-120 decibel low-frequency soundwave
"to provide extreme levels of annoyance and distraction" through
140-150 decibels for "strong physical bodily trauma and damage to
tissues", up to "shockwave" levels of over 170 decibels,
producing "instantaneous blastwave-type trauma" which could be
lethal.
Abstracts from a US Department of Defense
programme on the military's acquisition of mind control technology described
the use of "a system for altering the states of human consciousness"
involving "the simultaneous application of multiple stimuli, preferably
sounds, having different frequencies and wave forms…. Researchers have devised
a variety of systems for stimulating the brain to exhibit specific brain wave
rhythms and thereby alter the state of consciousness of an individual
subject."
Dr. Oliver Lowry, who has carried out several
classified projects for the U.S. Government on what is termed by the military
and intelligence services Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), sometimes called
SQUAD, developed and patented a system which he described as "a silent
communications system in which non-aural carriers, in the very high audio
frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplified
or frequency modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated
acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain. The modulated
carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be recorded and stored
on mechanical, magnetic or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission
to the listener."
The first known military use of the system was against
Iraq during the Gulf War. Although completely silent to the human ear, the
negative voice messages programmed by PsyOps psychologists were clearly
perceived by the subconscious minds of Iraqi soldiers: "The silent sounds
completely demoralised them and instilled a perpetual feeling of fear and
hopelessness in their minds."
PSYCHIC WARFARE
In the course of the MKULTRA projects, the CIA
allocated some of the project's budget to study the use of mediums and called
for a scientific study of the use of psychics for intelligence work. This work
was set up at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Melano Park, California,
whose studies in parapsychology were supported by the CIA, the Navy and the
DIA. Dealing in secret high-tech defence projects, SRI was America's second
largest think-tank, with over $70 million in government funding annually. The
CIA's main contact in funding SRI's work was Harold Chipman, who had served in
Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Laos and Vietnam.
Stanford Research Institute, the base for the
CIA's psychic warfare programme.
In 1952, Dr Andrija Puharich presented a paper,
'An Evaluation of the Possible Uses of Extrasensory Perception (ESP) in
Psychological Warfare' to a secret Pentagon gathering. Puharich's psychic
research findings were in line with the CIA's current mind control work and in
1956 Puharich brought in the Israeli psychic Uri Geller to SRI. Mossad had
provided SRI with an intelligence report on Geller's abilities. Geller
underwent several weeks of exhaustive scientific tests at SRI, under two of the
institute's chief scientists, physicists Harold Puthof and Russell Targ.
The psychic Uri Geller was employed by the CIA for
over twenty years. Here, Geller demonstrates his ability to erase computer
tapes while specialists look on.
In the early 1960s, the U.S. Air Force
commissioned the American Institute for Research (AIR) to conduct a feasibility
study on the development and use of psychological phenomena for warfare. AIR
published their findings under the title of 'Psychological Phenomena Applicable
to the Development of Psychological Weapons'.
Spurred on by heavy involvement of the Soviet
Union in psychic research (on which the Soviets were spending about 60 million
roubles per year in 1971, increased to 300 million roubles - $450 million - in
1975), the CIA embarked on intense psychic research. SRI's Harold Puthof
focused on ESP as the area most likely to give results that could be used
operationally. The phenomenon was seen as a low-cost radar system; people
possessing suitable extra-sensory powers could be the perfect spies.
The CIA adopted a twin-track approach towards this
new area of interest. Publicly, through disinformation campaigns, they
endeavoured to dismiss and discredit psychic research. Secretly, they funded a
series of projects on which they spent over $20 million over the next 16 years.
The Soviets, aware of the U.S. policy,reacted similarly. They too publicly
denied the credibility of any psychic research, imprisoned a number of
researchers (particularly those involved in information exchange with their
Western counterparts) and appeared to close down several research institutes.
A series of 'Anomalous Mental Phenomena'
programmes were carried out at SRI from 1973 to 1989 and were continued at the
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) from 1992 to 1994. A
technique known as 'Sleep-Wake Hypnosis' was developed, in which a hypnotist
transferred hypnotic commands telepathically to a subject, whether they were a
few feet or even a thousand miles away. Psychics were trained to influence
foreign leaders as they spoke to the public on the TV or radio. Some of the
experiments had highly negative effects on subjects, including sickness,
nervous breakdowns and even insanity. The 'Sleep-Wake Hypnosis' technique was
recently demonstrated on Paul McKenna's World of the Paranormal television
programme, when an Eastern European hypnotist telepathically raised and lowered
the heartbeat of a subject in another room.
Stanford Research Institute - now named SRI
International - termed their telepathy work Remote Viewing (RV), which involved
a sender transmitting messages telepathically to a receiver. Two of SRI's most
important projects were Grill Flame, a multi-million dollar psychic research
and development programme, started by the CIA in 1972 and now primarily run by
the DIA; and SCANATE (SCANning by coordinATE), which started on May 29th 1973
and was completed in 1975. Grill Flame produced telepathic information, later
confirmed by satellite, about a very sensitive nuclear test site at
Semipalatinsk in Soviet Kazakhstan and which led to the location of a crashed
Soviet Tu-95 'Backfire' bomber in Africa. Little else is known at present about
the project.
Harold Puthof, head of the CIA's Remote Viewing
programme at Stanford Research Institute.
In his first attempt at remote viewing a site,
having been given only the geographical co-ordinates, latitude and longitude,
the psychic Ingo Swann described in considerable detail what was officially
described as a meteorological research installation (in fact a Soviet missile-tracking
base) on the remote Pacific island of Kerguelen. Swann's descriptions included
the layout of buildings and a map of the island. It was later confirmed that
these were correct in every detail.
Ingo Swann, psychic and Remote Viewer at SRI, 1972
- 1989.
One of the most intriguing of SCANATE's
experiments was Number 46, dated April 27th 1973. The purpose of the experiment
was "to try to ascertain if long distance remote sensing could extend to a
very far distance to record the time it took before impressions began to be
given, and to compare the impressions with published scientific feedback."
The target chosen was the planet Jupiter. NASA's Pioneer Ten satellite was
already en route to the planet but too far away to send data back to the Earth
laboratories. The viewers were Ingo Swann in California and Harold Sherman in
Arkansas. With these two viewers 2,000 miles apart, the idea was to see whether
their independent data would correspond with each other - which they did. In
the course of this attempt, a ring around Jupiter was discovered by the
viewers. Swann described: "Very high in the atmosphere there are crystals,
they glitter. Maybe the stripes are like bands of crystals... Very close within
the atmosphere. I bet you they'll reflect radio waves. Is that possible, if you
had a cloud of crystals that were assaulted by different radio waves?"
The existence of the ring was confirmed in early
1979, six years after this experiment.
In another SCANATE experiment, psychic Pat Price
was given a set of map co-ordinates and was able to describe every detail of a
satellite eavesdropping station, including the complex of buildings and
underground storage areas, communication and computer equipment, names on desks
in the building and even code words on the labels of file folders in a locked
cabinet in one of the rooms. The CIA scientist monitoring the test believed he
had a potential Class 'A' espionage agent who could roam psychically anywhere
in the world, ferreting out secrets undetected.
More than a hundred tests were carried out for
Project SCANATE, which ran for two years. Targets chosen by the CIA, in
association with the NSA, included a number of very sensitive military
locations in the Soviet Union. Descriptions of these provided by SCANATE
subjects were later confirmed, in some cases very precisely, by satellite
observations. Harold Puthof later confirmed that SRI's Remote Viewing research
had been successfully replicated by several other laboratory teams, notably the
Princeton University group headed by Dr Robert Jahn. Pat Price was asked on
several occasions to provide his services to the Office of Naval Intelligence
(ONI) as well as the NSA.
During the 1970s, when he was living in Mexico,
Uri Geller was asked by the CIA to psychically eavesdrop on the Soviet embassy.
The Agency asked Geller to describe the interior of the building, erase
thecomputer tapes there, read the numbers of a combination lock, name the ranks
and duties of visiting personnel, crack codes, predict espionage drops and
describe the papers in the diplomatic pouches. Another of the tasks that Geller
was asked to do for the Agency was to influence the mind of incoming U.S.
President Jimmy Carter at his presidential inauguration on January 20th 1977.
By 1975, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ reported
that the development of Remote Viewing at SRI "has evolved to the point
where visiting CIA personnel with no previous exposure to such concepts have
performed well under controlled laboratory conditions... generating target
descriptions of sufficiently high quality to permit matching of descriptions by
independent judges."
Harold Puthof with Remote Viewer Pat Price.
The Remote Viewing programme received a blow when
Price died in 1975, but Ingo Swann remained and other psychics joined SRI's
ranks over the years. After his success with SCANATE, for several years Ingo
Swann trained selected individuals with possible psychic abilities from the
military and intelligence to become psychic spies. Swann claimed that almost
anyone could demonstrate some RV ability and he developed a training programme
which "could make anyone as good as the best natural psychic." Those
admitted to the programme were military intelligence personnel whose
backgrounds might indicate natural psychic talents: image interpreters
(analysts of aerial reconnaissance photos) were found to have a natural
visualisation ability suited for RV training; and also people with artistic
ability, entrepreneurs, risk takers and those who had reported near-death
experiences from combat injuries.
Even high ranking officers such as Major General
Thompson (Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence 1977-91), Major General
Albert Stubblebine (Director of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command,
INSCOM) and Jack Verona of the DIA were indoctrinated with Remote Viewing. The
training took one year in controlled conditions. Major General Thompson was one
of the Army's most enthusiastic supporters of RV and other paranormal
phenomena, and he set up an RV unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, under the
jurisdiction of INSCOM.
Major General Stubblebine stated that Remote
Viewing practitioners tended to give more controlled readings than non-RV
psychics, adding: "I can go anywhere on this Earth. I can go into any
closet, I can go into any mind. I can access that information at any location
that I choose."
Stubblebine directed several operations employing
psychics, including Project BLUEBIRD which targeted Libyan leader Colonel
Qaddafi; Project LANDBROKER, which targeted Panamanian leader General Noriega;
and Project ARROWSHOP, about which little is known. A letter from U.S. Army
Intelligence and Security Command, signed by Deputy Commander Brigadier General
Ira Owens, dated February 29th 1996, states: "In 1983 this Headquarters
initiated a project named Landbroker.... This was an offensive intelligence
collection operation broken down into four parts, designed to collect
information using psychic penetrations. Landbroker projects were always
targeted against foreign nationals and never involved U.S. citizens." This
last-sentence denial bears wary consideration.
In the course of the siege of General Noriega's
headquarters during the U.S. invasion of Panama, U.S. forces used psychological
warfare techniques to drive Noriega out by playing extremely high volume
Western rock music through loudspeakers. Less publicised was the use of
microwave beams and other experimental weapon systems against Noriega.
During the siege of Waco, Texas in 1993, the FBI
blasted out tapes of the sounds of dentists' drills and the squeals of rabbits
being slaughtered to keep the cult leader David Koresh on edge. It has been
speculated that microwaves and other non-conventional weapons may have been the
cause of the ensuing fires which killed Koresh's cult followers.
Today, U.S. military and intelligence have
projects, identified only by numbers, which monitor the progress, research and
development of psychic and paranormal research world-wide. Project 223310 also
collates information on paranormal topics in relation to their use In psychic
warfare. This project has been ongoing for 25 years. U.S. Air Force Project
140410 is similarly tasked.
One project currently being undertaken by the U.S.
military, named SLEEPING BEAUTY, is directed towards the battlefield use of
mind-altering electromagnetic weaponry. Jack Verona, a highly placed, highly
secretive DIA chief, heads this project. Verona's associates include Major
Edward Dames (ex-DIA), who recently founded a company called PSI-tech, which
performs Remote Viewing experiments for both the government and corporate
clients.
PSI-Tech's company board includes now-retired
Major General Stubblebine and Colonel John B. Alexander (who was a Commander of
Green Beret Special Forces in Vietnam and Cambodia, and took partin a number of
clandestine CIA operations including the mass-murder Phoenix programme during
the Vietnam War). The company also employs Major David Morehouse (ex-82nd
Airborne Division) and Ron Blackburn (a microwave scientist and a specialist at
Kirkland Air Force Base).
Two of the key players
in the CIA's
psychic warfare programme
Colonel John Alexander, US Army Intelligence and
Security Command (INSCOM), 1981-1984.
Major General Albert Stubblebine, Director at
INSCOM.
Both are on the board of the
mysterious PSI-tech company.
Psychokinesis or telekinesis (the use of the mind
to move matter) is an area of major interest to the CIA. A total of 281
laboratory experiments in psychokinesis were carried out over a ten-year period
on behalf of the Agency. SRI in particular conducted some extraordinary
demonstrations of metal fork bending in front of generals and colonels and
other highly-qualified witnesses. In a 1995 television documentary, John
Alexander revealed that "people would ask, are you going to bend tank
barrels? And no, that's ridiculous. But what we can do is impact electronics
and things of that nature. Rather than moving large amounts of physical matter,
we're talking about moving electrons."
Anybody doubting that the U.S. military are not
seriously involved in the area of psychic research should bear in mind the
December 1980 issue of the U.S. Army's Military Review, whose cover story was
entitled "The New Mental Battlefield," complete with cover pictures
of Kirlian photographs of the aura surrounding living organisms. The article,
written by John Alexander, related to the use of telepathy to interfere with
the brain's electrical activity. This caught the attention of senior Army
generals who encouraged him to pursue what they termed "soft option
kill" technologies.
On November 30th and December 1st 1983, a
symposium was held in Leesburg, Virginia, entitled "Applications of
Anomalous Phenomena". It was organised by Kaman Tempo, a division of the
Kaman Sciences think-tank in Santa Barbara, California, and its stated purpose
was "to provide a venue where researchers could present government
managers and scientists with details of their research on psychic phenomena,
and an assessment of the potential of applications of this research."
Subjects discussed ranged from telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and
psychokinesis to "human/equipment interaction systems" (eg. people
affecting computers), "the continuity of life" and "the military
applications of anomalous phenomena". There were nineteen speakers from
all parts of the country, several of them heads of major university
departments, and it should be noted that they were not asked to discuss the
possible existence of psychic phenomena, but to describe what was being done
with them. The guests were described as "senior scientists and civilian
and military managers." No guest list was published.
In 1983, John Alexander set up a course called
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). This presented to selected officers and
Senior Executive Service members a set of techniques to modify behaviour
patterns. Among the first generals to take the course was Lieutenant General
Maxwell Thurman, who went on to become Vice Chief of Staff at the Army and
Commander Southern Command. Among other senior participants were Major General
Stubblebine and no less than vice-president Al Gore, who still retains his
friendship with Alexander.
Another of Alexander's programmes is the Jedi
Project (taking its name from the Star Wars movies) which aims to
"construct models of behavioural/ physical excellence using unconventional
means" - in other words, paranormal methods of raising human performance
to optimum levels and therefore producing an invincible warrior - a disquieting
concept when one considers the sort of people employed by the intelligence
agencies.
After retiring from the army in 1988, Alexander
began working with Janet Morris, the Research Director of the U.S. Global
Strategy Council (USGSC), chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of
the CIA.
Throughout 1990, the USGSC lobbied the main
national laboratories, major defence contractors and industries and senior
military and intelligence officers to develop what they termed "Non-Lethal
Weapons (NLWs) for Disabling Measures." In her support of their doctrine
for the use of such weapons by the U.S. "in crisis at home or abroad... by
projecting power without indiscriminately taking lives or destroying
property," Janet Morris admitted that "casualties cannot be avoided."
A senior Department of Defence official described the term "Non Lethal
Weapons" as "an almost obscene oxymoron."
There is a massive investment programme in NLWs,
about $1 billion over the next few years. The Army's Training and Doctrine
Command (TRADOC) is rewriting military strategy to account for the new weapons.
It states that "a wide range of disabling measures now exists. This was
not true ten years ago."
John Alexander is currently involved in over 20
mind control and psychotronic projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratories,
where he holds the post of Director of Non-Lethal Programmes. Alexander and his
team have been working with Dr Igor Smirnov, a psychologist from the Moscow
Institute of Psycho-corrections, who pioneered a technique to electronically
analyse the human mind in order to influence it. They input subliminal command
messages using key words transmitted in "white noise" or music. Using
an infrasound very low frequency transmission, the acoustic psycho-correction
message is transmitted via bone conduction - ear plugs would not restrict the
message. The subliminal messages by-pass the conscious level and are effective
almost immediately.
The U.S. magazine Defence News of January 1993
reported that a U.S. company called Healthline Corporation was evaluating
Russian mind-control techniques of "acoustic psycho-correction,"
consisting of "transmission of specific commands via static or white noise
bands into the human subconscious without upsetting other intellectual
functions."
A 1995 report by a task force, whose members
included Richard Perle (the hard-line Assistance Secretary of Defence under
President Reagan) and John Alexander, sponsored by the Council on Foreign
Relations, titled 'Non-Lethal Technologies: Military Options and Implications,'
concluded that "a number of non-lethal technologies deserve serious
consideration for future military contingencies."
An ongoing top-secret CIA mind control programme
is called MONARCH, which apparently involves the deliberate creation of severe
multiple personality disorder. Little else of this project is confirmable at
present, but its ramifications are said to be staggering.
Following the Irangate scandal, newly-appointed
National Security Adviser (and former Deputy Director of the CIA) Frank
Carlucci ordered the destruction of records of the Agency's more exotic
programmes which might be prone to public scrutiny. This included much of SRI's
paranormal work, and the motors of two paper-shredding machines were burned out
in the process of destroying their records. The remaining DIA Remote Viewing
agents were moved from their posts at Fort Meade. Their whereabouts and the
future of the programme are unknown.
CONCLUSION
Even though the world's governments have yet to
officially acknowledge the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation and
microwaves, the evidence available does clearly indicate that both within NATO and
the former Warsaw Pact countries, electromagnetic and/or microwave weapons are
now being used or field tested. Already police departments of some governments
such as France have reportedly used powerful infrasound beam devices to control
crowds and to make rioters lose control of their bowels.
The ability to modify human behaviour with
auditory-cortex stimuli, brain rhythm modifications and many other biological
applications of microwaves has been repeatedly shown since the I 950s. The
radio wave energy used in most of the experiments is pulse-modulated or RF
microwave energy. It is the same type of RF used in radar techniques: radar
equipment is used in almost all mind control experiments. Radar range at 10cm
wavelength - the type used in most of the experiments - is over 25 miles. A
1976 U.S. State Department Office of Security report stated: "It is
therefore possible that the biological applications of radar could be used as a
weapon on an individual or mass basis for sociological or political purposes."
The involvement of NASA in this field raises the
sinister prospect of not just individuals being targeted by the new
technologies of mind control, but of entire cities and larger areas of the
population being affected via satellite transmissions.
If this all sounds far-fetched, be warned. In the
decade that these mind control experiments were started by the intelligence
agencies, the idea of fitting a computer into a single room was science
fiction. Today, they are carried in pockets. Subsequent work has of course long
since superseded Delgado's early techniques. None of us knows the full extent
of research and experimentation that has been carried out since then. There is
little doubt, however, that lavishly funded covert experimentation - unrestrained
by peer review or the need for legal controls - has achieved far more rapid
progress than scientists working legitimately. The interest in this area by the
U.S. and Russian military now dates back more than 30 years. It is the most
secretive of all the U.S. intelligence and military covert projects and it is
quite likely to represent the biggest development in military technology since
the splitting of the atom.
As a minimum, every citizen of every country
should be warned of patterns of activity by the security services which point
to resurgent mind control experimentation and major civil rights abuses. Any
study of the past fifty years of illicit covert intelligence operations
indicates that we usually only learn of them, if at all, decades too late. How
much has still been hidden from our scrutiny? If the intelligence agencies have
succeeded in any of their mind control aims outlined here, the social and
political implications are literally mind-boggling….
Orginial Source
------------------------------------------------------------------------
All logos and trademarks in this site
are property of their respective owner. FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains
copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically
authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our
efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights,
economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, and for the general
purpose of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, research and / or
educational purposes only. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such
copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In
accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in
receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If
you wish to use this material for purposes other than provided by law. You must
obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html,
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Home Archives News Resources Victims
Search Web Ring Contact Our Disclaimer Fair Use
© 1995-2004 Heart, MTC Online
Forums, and Survivors.
Nothing can be copied with out
permission
This Page Last Updated: Sat Feb 28 11:45:14 2004