Restrictions Needed On EM/RF Mind
Control Technology
December 1, 1999
HAMILTON, Ont., Canada - The recent flap over invasive
"X-ray" devices at Los Angeles International Airport that can scan the
human body more invasively than ever before is just the tip of a
technological iceberg which has been growing for half a century and
has now yielded devices literally capable of "broadcasting" directly
to the human mind.
Yet, in spite of considerable material published over
the past half-century, the arrival of a time when any moderately
wealthy person can purchase or have devices made to order that can
"talk to" the brain and nervous system, has been met with silence.
Indeed, in a response (http://www.raven1.net/nsa1.gif) to a 1975
request to the
National Security Agency (NSA) for information on mind control
devices, the NSA said one responsive document obtained from the
Russians by the Defense Intelligence Agency could cause
"exceptionally grave damage" to national security if released.
The seminal event in the developments that have produced
"electronic mind weapons" was the discovery during World War II that
radar technicians could hear the buzz of the radar signal in their
skulls, no receiver needed, when they worked in close proximity to an
energized antenna. Radar signals are a uniform train of short pulses
of microwave signal, and the audible effect matches the pulse rate.
This told scientists that by pulsing a radio signal, it
is possible to have the signal interact with the brain and nervous
system.
Radar hearing was studied on a grant from General
Electric in the early 1960s by scientist Dr. Allan Frey, at Cornell
University in upstate New York. Dr. Frey's work has been reported in
several scientific journals, including the Journal of Applied
Physiology, 17(4): 689-692. 1962.
Dr. Frey found that a wide spectrum of "carrier"
frequencies, (that is, the "spot on the radio dial" of the test
signals,) when pulsed, and from about 125 megahertz (lower TV channel
range) well up into the microwave region, could cause buzzes or clicks
to be heard by the test subject. If a steady train of uniform, short,
sharp pulses was aimed at a test subject's head, a buzz was heard. If
a single pulse was transmitted, then the subject heard a pop.
In general, unclassified experiments on human beings lay
dormant for the next decade, at least according to information
dveloped by a Canadian organization, Citizens Against Human Rights
Abuses (CAHRA), has been able to unearth. The pulses needed to place a
signal power of about three-tenths of a watt per square centimeter on
the subject's skull in order for the signal to be heard.
For ethical scientists, this power level -- about the
same as when basking under an infrared heat lamp -- indicated caution.
Further studies at the cellular level have turned up sensitivities to
certain signals far, far below that level. Dr. Ross Adey of the
University of California at Riverside, a leading experimenter in this
area, has recently warned
(http://electric-words.com/adey/adeyindex.html) that
"there are important biomedical considerations associated with long
term exposure to any environmental factor capable of tissue
interactions."
Other scientists studied "microwave hearing" by means of
exposing animals to various combinations of carrier frequency, pulse
shape, and power level. The animals were tested at the simplest level
for "startle" response, by applying a simple pulse or pulse train to a
caged or restrained animal.
More invasive unclassified experiments were performed in
which electrodes were implanted into the brains of the animals, in
areas of the brain where vision, sound, and other perceptive functions
were known to reside. These electrodes measured the response of each
perception region to different signal types.
These animal studies found that various perception
effects are frequency and power dependent. That is logically to be
expected, since the size of the animal and its sensory organs and
brain region vary in size. Size affects how much of the power from an
incoming signal is absorbed, and absorption is necessary to generate
effects.
One of the most notable scientists in the animal exper-
imental field was Dr. Jose Delgado, Director of Neuropsychiatry at
Yale Medical School in the early 1970s. In a segment titled "Special
Assignment" on CNN in 1985, Dr. Delgado demonstrated that by mounting
a transmitter on an animal, and having received radio signals
converted to stimulating pulses fed to implants in the animal's brain,
behavior can be dramatically altered. A bull apparently intent on
challenging an
experimenter with a radio transmitter stopped moving toward the
experimenter when the appropriate button on a small transmitter was
pressed.
While this was not direct radio signal-to-brain
technology, it did demonstrate clearly that the brain can be
controlled by electrical stimulation. It also, significantly,
demonstrated intent. Demonstration of intent is crucial to anyone
interested in arousing public interest in getting electronic mind
weapons exposed, debated, and controlled.
Three other effects were discovered during these animal
experiments: Window effect, bio-amplification, and bio-detection.
Window effect means that, just as with drugs, there is
both a minimum and maximum signal level which will cause a desired
effect. Bio-amplification is the more significant phenomenon, as what
it means in practical terms is that at just the right frequency and
pulse shape, a given effect can be produced with very small power
levels, far below power levels required to produce heating. Under
grants from the government, Dr. Adey studied how electromagnetic (i.e.
"radio")
signals interacted with cells down to the molecular level.
Bio-amplification also makes possible signals which do
not interfere with radio and TV appliances, and which are extremely
hard to detect. Hopping these small signals around in a band of
effectiveness makes then virtually impossible to detect.
Bio-detection means that a cell is not simply
"stimulated" at a certain signal frequency, but can actually behave
according to "modulation" applied to that signal. The old crystal set
radios are one of the simplest detectors of "modulation". When voice
is superimposed on a steady carrier frequency, that variation in the
signal is called the modulation. The crystal set extracts the voice
and causes the attached headphones to reproduce the original voice.
Headphones alone cannot respond to frequencies as high
as, say, AM broadcast band signals, and the detector, the crystal or
diode, converts the radio signal into a voice signal. Cells can do the
same thing. This leads to the next stage in radar-hearing human
experimentation: The successful transmission of, first, morse code,
and then voice, to a human test subject.
That milestone was apparently been achieved a quarter of
a century ago. In the Journal of the American Psychological
Association in March 1975, Dr. Don R. Justesen wrote:
"Communication has in fact been demonstrated. A. Guy
(Note 1), a skilled telegrapher, arranged for his father, a retired
railroad telegrapher, to operate a key, each closure and opening of
which resulted in a pulse of microwave energy. By directing the
radiations at his own head, complex mess- ages via the Continental
Morse Code were readily received by Guy.
"Sharp and Grove (note 2) found that appropriate
modulation of microwave energy can result in "wireless" and
"receiverless" communication of speech. The recorded by voice on tape
each of the single-syllable words for digits between 1 and 10. The
electrical sine-wave analogs of each word were then processed so that
each time a sine wave crossed zero reference in the negative
direction, a brief pulse of microwave energy was triggered.
"By radiating themselves with these "voice modulated"
microwaves, Sharp and Grove were readily able to hear, identify, and
distinguish among the 9 words. The sounds heard were not unlike those
emitted by persons with artificial larynxes."
This early '70s success forms the basis for the powerful
mind weapons that are still classified today. This writer makes no
judgement here as to the truth of the allegations of CAHRA's 300
members, who claim to have been targetted by devices based on
technology like this. Pain,
manipulation of body parts, and hypnotic effects have all been
reported, with a high degree of sameness among those reporting such
effects.
However, the experimental results above make it plain
that the means to communicate electronically with the brain and
nervous system have existed for some time, outside the classified
realm.
Audible words may be transmitted, as described above. A
more recent technology can be coupled to "microwave hearing" to
produce a signal which can carry vocal content which is not
consciously audible, but is "audible" to the human mind. This is
called "SSSS" or "S-QUAD" or "Silent Sound Spread Spectrum"
technology.
The first unclassified patent found by CAHRA is U.S.
Patent 5,159,703, by Dr. Oliver Lowery, dated October 27, 1992. This
technology converts a hypnotist's voice to non-consciously-audible
ultrasound, which can be sent using microwave hearing, or piggybacked
on to commercial broadcast sound. This powerful combination of
technologies can be used
to apply hypnosis, undetectably over months and years.
Britain's ITV News Service, in March of 1991, reported
the use of ultrasound carried via a commercial FM channel (100 MHz) to
entrain the brains of Iraqi troops to pulse rates set to produce
despair, during the Gulf War. Clearly both means and motive exist to
use technologies developed over the past half-century. But has there
also been a motive for criminal use of such devices?
Potential For Abuse
To recap, new devices which can "talk to" the human
brain and nervous system are a reality. They have, in their classified
form, been a reality at least since Dr. Joseph Sharp's successful
transmission of voice using pulsed microwave radio signals in 1973.
In the first part of this article, scientific research
was summarized describing the events which led to Dr. Sharp's success.
The chain of events was begun with the World War II discovery that
radar signals can be "heard" buzzing within the skull of technicians
working in close proximity to energized equipment.
Studies on animals, and Dr. Allan Frey's human
experiments at Cornell University showed that this phenomenon is both
frequency and power level dependent. Also discovered were that (a)
cells assist in amplifying radio signals at certain frequencies, and
(b) cells can not only respond to a radio signal, but can actually
"detect," that is, "decode" any modulation, such as voice,
superimposed on the basic carrier signal.
Finally, brief reference was made to a form of sound
conversion, "Silent Sound," in which both mood setting ("brain
entrainment") signals and ultrasound voice facsimile can be used to
undetectably communicate with the human brain. The radio signal or
"microwave hearing" phenomenon can carry "Silent Sound," or, "Silent
Sound" can be carried on top of an audible radio or TV sound
broadcast.
This capability to carry inaudible "voice" or "mood"
signals sets the stage for undetectable and repetitive hypnosis.
Although the full details remain classified, the British ITV wire
service received reports that the U.S. military used Silent Sound,
piggybacked on FM broadcasts to Iraqi troops, to set them up for a
quick surrender.
To this point, then, we can see that the potential for
extremely invasive, undetectable, and unethical use of these
technologies exists. Being undetectable and easy to suspend when
witnesses are present, the world's justice systems can offer no remedy
should the equipment be used against citizens in their homes and
communities.
The question now is: "How likely is it that the
unethical, involuntary, aggressive or voyeuristic use of these
technologies has happened, is happening, or may be happening, by those
who possess these devices?"
To evaluate this likelihood, one must answer this
question: "Why would anyone use invasive, silent electronic equipment
to both cause pain and discomfort, or, to read the state of mind,
including said-to-self vocal thoughts and images, on a non-volunteer
subject?"
One word sums the answer up quite thoroughly: "MKULTRA."
MKULTRA was originally a collection of 149 psychological warfare and
interrogation experiments commissioned in the 1950s by the CIA. These
experiments were spurred into existence by the "brainwashing" tactics
used on
Korean POWs, which involved torture, sensory deprivation, and drugs.
MKULTRA planners decided that for brainwashing and other
types of "mind control" activity, it was essential that involuntary
test subjects be used. (No doubt, too, that volunteers for such
horrible experiments would be nearly impossible to recruit.)
Among CAHRA members, and a parallel organization named
ACHES-MC (Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors -
Mind Control), are severely and seemingly permanently mentally damaged
survivors of the kidnap/institutional/drugging/torture forms of
MKULTRA activity.
Most of the survivors' torment ceased shortly after the
exposure of the non-electronic atrocities, by the U.S. Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence hearings, chaired first by Senator Frank
Church, then by Senator Inouye in the late 1970s. None of the
perpetrators of those atrocities were ever brought to trial.
However, even though the perpetrators were not punished,
and the neuro-electromagnetic experiments were not brought to light,
the MKULTRA experience demonstrates undeniably that a modern,
"civilized," western country which places a high value on freedom,
still harbors a motive pool capable of unspeakable cruelty.
Add to the MKULTRA experience the continuing revelations
of individuals who prey on children (Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne
Gacy, for example) and it becomes clear that once invasive electronic
devices fall into the hands of society's "baddest apples," the devices
will be used in the worst possible ways. That is historical certainty,
not speculation.
To sum up: We have shown that both the means and the
will do exist, and have existed for some time, to carry out what the
300 members of CAHRA and ACHES-MC report.
But there is even more cause for concern: The basic
technologies to inject long-term silent hypnosis (which can be used to
generate hypnotic body pain) and to read sub-vocalized word-thoughts
and even images seen by the target's eyes, can be bought or had built
by the average millionaire. Not all "millionaires" are entirely
ethical or altruistic.
Here is a list of technologies and their characteristics
which can be had by the wealthy at this point in time:
Through-wall, through-clothing, undetectable passive
radar scanners from Millivision Corp., Northamptom, Mass. This item
also allows perpetrators to see if witnesses or test equipment is set
up, and allows the perpetrators to shut down, rather than be detected.
Radar-based life detectors, used for rescue and law-enforcement, but
also available to stalkers and pedophiles. Can also "illuminate" a
dwelling's indoor areas for the radar scanners above, for better
visibility. Simple "brain rhythm entrainment" machines, which are
transmitters pulsing at rates which can alter moods without the target
realizing a signal is aimed at them. (The first of which was used
during the Korean War, the Russian "LIDA" machine.) Involuntary
voice-to-skull transmitters, capable of forcing a neighbor to listen
to inescapable sounds while trying to sleep. Modified telephone voice
converters, making a hypnotist's voice inaudible to the target's
hearing sense, but still audible to certain parts of the mind. Can be
transmitted using the pulsed microwave voice-to-skull transmitters.
This "silent sound" equipment can also be transmitted over cable TV to
the intended target, or over the target's favorite radio channel.
For the more determined aggressive device owner, a ruse
involving less-than-ethical doctors can be set up where the new
Applied Digital Solutions Inc. satellite-trackable implants can be
surreptitiously placed during surgery for other conditions, resulting
in the whereabouts of the targetted individual being known at all
times to the perpetrator. This type of atrocity lends itself more to
large organizations like government agencies or defense and
intelligence contractors; and for such agencies this is not difficult
to arrange.
What can be done? What should be done? CAHRA is a
non-profit organization, meaning, by law anyone speaking or writing on
behalf of CAHRA may not attempt to influence legislation either
directly or indirectly by way of influencing voters. CAHRA's role is
to supply information to others, that others may independently take
action they see as appropriate.
Speaking here as Eleanor White, world citizen, and not
as an agent of CAHRA, I suggest that the European Parliament's
resolutions passed on January 28, 1999, be also passed by the U.S.
Congress and the Canadian Parliament. Excerpts from those resolutions
follow:
Resolution adopted by the European Parliament, 28.1.99
Environment, security and foreign affairs A4-0005/99:
23. Calls on the European Union to seek to have the new
'non-lethal' weapons technology and the development of new arms
strategies also covered and regulated by international conventions;
...
27. Calls for an international convention introducing a
global ban on all developments and deployments of weapons which might
enable any form of manipulation of human beings;
Impetus for making such resolutions can be derived from
a speech by Jean-Pierre Changeux, of the Paris Pasteur Institute,
published in the prestigious scinetific journal Nature in January,
1998:
But neuroscience also poses potential risks, he said,
arguing that advances in cerebral imaging make the scope for invasion
of privacy immense. Although the equipment needed is still highly
specialized, it will become commonplace and capable of being used at a
distance, he predicted. That will open the way for abuses such as
invasion of personal liberty, control of behaviour and brainwashing.
These are far from being science-fiction concerns, said Changeux, and
constitute "a serious risk to society".
It is hoped the reader will take away from this article
the need to get this matter of weapons-capable electronic devices on
to the agendas of those we elect and pay to defend our nations from
involuntary experimentation and atrocities.
Eleanor White is an engineer and technical advisor to
the Ontario-based Citizens Agaionst Human Rights Abuses.
This article was recently published by the University of
Technology,
(http://www.phys.uts.edu.au/~asearle/mind_switch/m_switch.html):
and is posted here with thanks to the Andrew Searle:
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY
Presents
THE MIND SWITCH
Overview
The Mind Switch refers to the technology that has been
developed which allows a person to turn on and off an electrical
appliance, such as a desk lamp or TV in 2-3 seconds using EEG signals,
without training.
Proportional control, such as turning up or down the
volume of a radio is also possible with the technology. This research
is being carried at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Background - General
Early in 1994 while studying the response of the brain
to environmental factors Professor Ashley Craig and Mr Paul McIsaac of
the Department of Health Sciences at UTS, noticed an effect which
appears to be common among all persons.
That effect is an increase in a particular brain signal
when a person closes his/her eyes for more than one second.
The important question that Ashley and Paul then asked
was could this effect be used to do something useful?, ie - could the
control of the brain signal be used, in turn, to control something
else?
At this stage Ashley contacted Professor Tony Moon, the
Dean of Science at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), to find out
if anyone could help answer the technical questions and design a
system that might exploit the apparent change in the signal level when
a person closes his/her eyes.
Professor Moon introduced Ashley to Assoc Prof Les
Kirkup who is a associate professor in the department of Applied
Physics at UTS, who has experience in developing electronics and
instrumentation. It was thought he could offer important input to the
project.
He was initially skeptical that signals as small as
those that are present on the scalp, (where electrodes are placed to
pick up brain activity) could be detected reliably and analysed
sufficiently quickly to allow activation of an external device, such
as a lamp or TV.
The data that had been gathered on signal levels with
eyes open and eyes closed showed that a significant increase occurred
in the 8-13Hz part of the "brain spectrum" commonly referred to as the
"alpha" region.
Les built a detection, discrimination and analysis
system based on Ashley and Paul's data and, much to his surprise at
least, the first person (Lucy) connected to the system showed the
capability of operating a switch which could control an electrical
appliance.
Background - Technical
Serious work done on brain signals began with Berger in
1929 [Berger 1967]. Since that time the acquisition and analysis of
brain signals, referred to as Electroencephalography (EEG) has
advanced to such a state that EEG is regularly used to assist in the
diagnosis of schizophrenia, epilepsy and brain tumours. [Geddes and
Baker, 1989].
EEG has also been used in biofeedback studies in which
subjects may learn to modify their EEG signals in response to visual
representation of their EEG signals. This control usually take weeks
or months to learn and is not highly reliable.
The system we have developed does not rely on any
learned skill by an individual. It simply requires a person to close
his/her eyes for more than 1 second to effect sufficient change in the
signals levels to allow for the reliable operation of a switch.
It turns out that it has been known for many years that
increase in signal level occur upon eye closure, but this is the first
example (to our knowledge) of the recognition of its potential and the
exploitation of the effect.
The system used to detect the change in signals consists
of amplifiers, filters and other signal processing elements (full
details are still classified at the moment!). As there are other
sources which can generate signals which can interfere with brain
signals (and hence cause intermittent switching on and off of
appliances) we have developed a noise suppression system which
eliminates the effect of those noise sources.
This feature is very important as we are currently
developing the technology for disabled persons (we have a three year
grant from the Motor Accident Authority of New South Wales, MAA) and
reliability is a major issue.
The funding from MAA has allowed us to appoint Mr Andrew
Searle who has become a key figure in the technical developments
regarding the Mind Switch. In addition Mr Perez Moses is developing
new noise suppression techniques to be applied in this work.
Footnotes
Berger, H. 1967. On the electroencephalogram of man
(trans. by P. Gloor).EEG Clin. Neurophysiol., Suppl. 28:1-350
Geddes, L. A. and Baker, L. E. 1989. Principles of
applied biomedical instrumentation 3rd ed. (Wiley, New York):
pp726-727
Copyright 2000 Joe Shea The American Reporter. All
Rights Reserved.
By Eleanor White - Correspondent
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