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     V E R I C O M M / MindNet         "Quid veritas est?"
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[Continued from part 1]

   Unfortunately, even the Freedom of Information Act couldn't
pry loose much information on electronic mind control techniques,
though we know a great deal of study was done in these areas. We
have, for example, only four pages on subproject 94 -- by
comparison, a veritable flood of documents were released on the
use of drugs in mind control. (Whenever an author tells us that
MKULTRA met with little success, the reference is to drug
testing.)  On this point, I must criticize John Marks: His book
never mentions that roughly 20-25 percent of the  subprojects are
"dark" -- i.e., little or no information was ever made available,
despite lawyers and FOIA requests. Marks seems to feel that the
only information worth having is the information he received. We
know,  however, that research into psychoelectronics was
extensive indeed, statements of project goals dating from
ARTICHOKE and BLUEBIRD days clearly identify this area as a high
priority. Marks' anonymous informant, jocularly named "Deep
Trance," even told a previous interviewer that, beginning in
1963, CIA and the military's mind control efforts strongly
emphasized electronics[49]. I therefore assume -- not rashly, I
hope -- that the "dark" MKULTRA subprojects concerned matters
such as brain implants, microwaves, ESB, and related
technologies.
   I make an issue of the timing and secrecy involved in this
research to underscore three points: 1. We can never know with
certainty the true origin dates of the various brainwashing
methods -- often, we discover that techniques which seem
impossibly futuristic actually originated in the 19th century.
(Pioneering ESB research was conducted in 1898, by J.R. Ewald,
professor of physiology at Straussbourg[50].)  2. The open
literature almost certainly gives a bowdlerized view of the
actual research. 3. Lavishly-funded clandestine researchers --
unrestrained by peer review or the need for strict controls --
can achieve far more rapid progress than scientists "on the
outside."
   Potential critics should keep these points in mind should they
attempt to invalidate the "mind control" thesis of UFO abductions
by citing an abduction account which antedates Delgado.

THE QUANDARY

   We have amply demonstrated, then, that as far back as the
1960s -- and possibly earlier still -- scientists have had the
capability to create implants similar to those now purportedly
visible in abductee MRI scans. Indeed, we have no notion just how
advanced this technology has become, since the popular press
stopped reporting on brain implantation in the 1970s. The
research has no doubt continued, albeit in a less public fashion.
In fact, scientists such as Delgado have cast their eye far
beyond the implants; ESB effects can now be elicited with
microwaves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation, used
with and without electrodes.
   So why -- if we take UFO abduction accounts at face value --
are the "advanced aliens" using an old technology, an EARTH
technology, a technology which may soon be rendered obsolescent,
if it hasn't been so rendered already? I am reminded of the
charming anachronisms in the old Flash Gordon serials, where
swords and spaceships clashed continually.
   Do they also watch black-and-white television on Zeta
Reticuli?

REMOTE HYPNOSIS

   Hypnosis provides the (highly controversial) key which opens
the door to many abduction accounts[51]. And obviously, if my
thesis is correct, hypnosis plays a large part in the abduction
itself. One thing we know with certainty: Since the earliest days
of project BLUEBIRD, the CIA's spy-chiatrists spent enormous sums
mastering Mesmer's art.
   I cannot here give even a brief summary of hypnosis, nor even
of the CIA's studies in this area. (Fortunately, FOIA requests
were rather more successful in shaking loose information on this
topic than in the area of psycho- electronics.)  Here, we will
concentrate on a particularly intriguing allegation -- one heard
faintly, but persistently, for the past twenty years by those who
would investigate the shadow side of politics.
   If this allegation proves true, hypnosis is NOT necessarily a
person-to- person affair.
   The abductee -- or the mind control victim -- need not have
physical contact with a hypnotist for hypnotic suggestion to take
effect; trance could be induced, and suggestions made, via the
intracerebral transmitters described above. The concept sounds
like something out of Huxley's or Orwell's most masochistic
fantasies. Yet remote hypnosis was first reported -- using
allegedly parapsychological means -- in the early 1930s, by L.L.
Vasilev,  Professor of Physiology in the University of
Leningrad[52]. Later, other  scientists attempted to accomplish
the same goal, using less mystic means.
   Over the years, certain journalists have asserted that the CIA
has mastered a technology call RHIC-EDOM. RHIC means "Radio
Hypnotic Intracerebral  Control."  EDOM stands for "Electronic
Dissolution of Memory."  Together, these techniques can --
allegedly -- remotely induce hypnotic trance, deliver suggestions
to the subject, and erase all memory for both the instruction
period and the act which the subject is asked to perform.
   RHIC uses the stimoceiver, or a microminiaturized offspring of
that tech- nology to induce a hypnotic state. Interestingly, this
technique is also  reputed to involve the use of INTRAMUSCULAR
implants, a detail strikingly  reminiscent of the "scars"
mentioned in Budd Hopkins MISSING TIME. Apparently,  these
implants are stimulated to induce a post-hypnotic suggestion.
   EDOM is nothing more than missing time itself -- the erasure
of memory from consciousness through the blockage of synaptic
transmission in certain areas of the brain. By jamming the
brain's synapses through a surfeit of acetocholine, neural
transmission along selected pathways can be effectively stilled.
According to the proponents of RHIC-EDOM, acetocholine production
can be affected by electromagnetic means. (Modern research in the
psycho-physio- logical effects of microwaves confirm this
proposition.)
   Does RHIC-EDOM exist? In our discussion of Delgado's work, I
have already cited a strange little book (published in 1969)
titled WERE WE CONTROLLED?, written by one Lincoln Lawrence, a
former FBI agent turned journalist. (The name is a pseudonym; I
know his real identity.)  This work deals at length with
RHIC-EDOM; a careful comparison of Lawrence's work with MKULTRA
files declas- sified ten years later indicates a strong
possibility that the writer did indeed have "inside" sources.
   Here is how Lawrence describes RHIC in action:

         It is the ultra-sophisticated application of 
      post-hypnotic suggestion TRIGGERED AT WILL [italics in 
      original] by radio transmission. It is a recurring 
      hypnotic state, re-induced automatically at intervals by 
      the same radio control. An individual is brought under 
      hypnosis. This can be done either with his knowledge  -- 
      or WITHOUT it by use of narco-hypnosis, which can be 
      brought into play under many guises. He is then 
      programmed to perform certain actions and maintain 
      certain attitudes upon radio signal[53].

   Other authors have mentioned this technique -- specifically
Walter Bowart (in his book OPERATION MIND CONTROL) and journalist
James Moore, who, in a 1975 issue of a periodical called MODERN
PEOPLE, claimed to have secured a  350-page manual, prepared in
1963, on RHIC-EDOM[54]. He received the manual from CIA sources,
although -- interestingly -- the technique is said to have
originated in the military.
   The following quote by Moore on RHIC should prove especially
intriguing to abduction researchers who have confronted odd
"personality shifts" in abductees:

         Medically, these radio signals are directed to certain 
      parts of the brain. When a part of your brain receives a 
      tiny electrical impulse from outside sources, such as vision,
      hearing, etc.,an emotion is produced -- anger at the sight of
      a gang of boys beating an old woman, for example. The same 
      emotion of anger can be created by artificial radio signals
      sent to your brain by a controller. You could instantly feel
      the same white-hot anger without any apparent reason[55].

   Lawrence's sources imparted an even more tantalizing -- and
frightening -- revelation:

         ...there is already in use a small EDOM generator-
      transmitter which can be concealed on the body of a person. 
      Contact with this person -- a casual handshake or even just 
      a touch -- transmits a tiny electronic charge plus an 
      ultra-sonic signal tone which for a short while will disturb 
      the time orientation of the person affected[56].

   If RHIC-EDOM exists, it goes a long way toward providing an
earthbound rationale for alien abductions -- or, at least,
certain aspects of them. The phenomenon of "missing time" is no
longer mysterious. Abductee implants, both intracerebral and
otherwise, are explained. And note the reference to "recurring
hypnotic state, reinduced automatically by the same radio
command." This situation may account for "repeater" abductees
who, after their initial encounter, have regular sessions of
"missing time" and abduction -- even while a bed-mate sleeps
undisturbed.
   At present, I cannot claim conclusively that RHIC-EDOM is
real. To my  knowledge, the only official questioning of a CIA
representive concerning these techniques occurred in 1977, during
Senate hearings on CIA drug testing. Senator Richard Schweicker
had the following interchange with Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, an
important MKULTRA administrator:

         SCHWEICKER: Some of the projects under MKULTRA involved
      hypnosis, is that correct?
         GOTTLIEB: Yes.
         SCHWEICKER: Did any of these projects involve something
      called radio hypnotic intracerebral control, which is a 
      combination, as I understand it, in layman's terms, of radio
      transmissions and hypnosis.
         GOTTLIEB: My answer is "No."
         SCHWEICKER: None whatsoever?
         GOTTLIEB: Well, I am trying to be responsive to the
      terms you used. As I remember it, there was a current
      interest, running interest, all the time in what effects
      people's standing in the field of radio energy have, and
      it could easily have been that somewhere in many projects,
      someone was trying to see if you could hypnotize someone
      easier if he was standing in a radio beam. That would
      seem like a reasonable piece of research to do.

   Schweicker went on to mention that he had heard testimony that
radar (i.e., microwaves) had been used to wipe out memory in
animals; Gottlieb responded, "I can believe that, Senator."[57]
   Gottlieb's blandishments do not comfort much. For one thing,
the good doctor did not always provide thoroughly candid
testimony. (During the same hearing he averred that 99 percent on
the CIA's research had been openly published; if so, why are so
many MKULTRA subprojects still "dark," and why does the Agency
still go to great lengths to protect the identities of its
scientists?[58])  We should also recognize that the CIA's
operations are compartmentalized on a "need-to-know" basis;
Gottlieb may not have had access to the information requested by
Schweicker. Note that the MKULTRA rubric circumscribed Gottlieb's
statement: RHIC-EDOM might have been the focus of another
program. (There were several others: MKNAOMI, MKACTION, MKSEARCH,
etc.)  Also keep in mind the revelation by "Deep Trance" that the
CIA concentrated on psychoelectronics AFTER the termination of
MKULTRA in 1963. Most significantly: RHIC-EDOM is described by
both Lawrence and Moore as a product of MILITARY research;
Gottlieb spoke only of matters pertaining to CIA. He may thus
have spoken truthfully -- at least in a strictly technical sense
-- while still misleading the Congressional interlocutors.
   Personally, I believe that the RHIC-EDOM story deserves a
great deal of further research. I find it significant that when
Dr. Petter Lindstrom examined X-rays of Robert Naesland, a
Swedish victim of brain-implantation, the doctor authoritatively
cited WERE WE CONTROLLED? in his letter of response[59]. This is
the same Dr. Lindstrom noted for his pioneering use of
ultrasonics in neurosurgery[60]. Lincoln Lawrence's book has
received a strong endorsement indeed.
   Bowart's OPERATION MIND CONTROL contains a significant
interview with an intelligence agent knowledgeable in these
areas. Granted, the reader has every right to adopt a skeptical
attitude toward information culled from anonymous sources; still,
one should note that this operative's statements confirm, in
pertinent part, Lawrence's thesis[61].
   Most importantly: The open literature on brain-wave
entrainment and the behavioral effects of electromagnetic
radiation substantiates much of the RHIC- EDOM story -- as we
shall see.

THAT'S ENTRAINMENT

   Robert Anton Wilson, an author with a devoted cult following,
recently has taken to promoting a new generation of "mind
machines" designed to promote creativity, stimulate learning, and
alter consciousness -- i.e., provide a drug-less high.
Interestingly, these machines can also induce "Out-of-Body-
Experiences," in which the percipient mentally "travels" to
another location while his body remains at rest[62]. This
rapidly-developing technology has spawned a technological
equivalent to the drug culture; indeed, the aficionados of the
electronic buzz even have their own magazine, REALITY HACKERS.
[Now  defunct. -jpg]  I strongly suspect that we will hear much
of these machines in the future.
   One such device is called the "hemi-synch."  This
headphone-like invention produces slightly different frequences
in each ear; the brain calculates the difference between these
frequencies, resulting in a rhythm known as the "binaural beat."
The brain "entrains" itself to this beat -- that is, the
subject's EEG slows down or speeds up to keep pace with its
electronic  running partner[63].
   The brain has a "beat" of its own.
   This rhythm was first discovered in 1924 by the German
psychiatrist Hans Berger, who recorded cerebral voltages as part
of a telepathy study[64]. He noted two distinct frequencies:
alpha (8-13 cycles per second), associated with a relaxed, alert
state, and beta (14-30 cycles per second), produced during states
of agitation and intense mental concentration. Later, other
rhythms were noted, which are particularly important for our
present purposes: theta (4-7 cycles per second), a hypnogogic
state, and delta (.5 to 3.5 cycles per second), generally found
in sleeping subjects[65].
   The hemi-synch -- and related mind-machines -- can produce
alpha or theta waves, on demand, according to the operator's
wishes. A suitably-entrained brain is much more responsive to
suggestion, and is even likely to experience vivid
hallucinations.
   I have spoken to several UFO abductees who describe a
"stereophonic sound" effect -- EXACTLY SIMILAR TO THAT PRODUCED
BY THE HEMI-SYNCH -- preceding many "encounters."  Of course, one
usually administers the hemi-synch via head- phones, but I see no
reason why the effect cannot be transmitted via the above-
described stimoceiver. Again, I remind the reader of the abductee
with an implant just inside her ear canal.
   There's more than one way to entrain a brain. Michael
Hutchison's excellent book MEGA BRAIN details the author's
personal experiences with many such devices -- the Alpha-stim,
TENS, the Synchro-energizer, Tranquilite, etc. He recounts
dazzling, Dali-esque hallucinations, as a result of using this
mind- expanding technology; moreover, he offers a seductive
argument that these  devices may represent a true breakthrough in
consciousness-control, thereby fulfilling the dashed dream of the
hallucinogenic '60s.
   I wish to avoid a knee-jerk Luddite response to these
fascinating wonder- boxes. At the same time, I recognize the
dangers involved. What about the possibility of an outside
operator literally "changing our minds" by altering our
brainwaves without our knowledge or permission? If these machines
can induce a hypnotic state, what's to stop a skilled hypnotist
from making use of this state?
   Granted, most of these devices require some physical
interaction with the subject. But a tool called the Bio-Pacer
can, according to its manufacturer, produce a number of mood
altering frequencies -- WITHOUT attachment to the subject.
Indeed, the Bio-Pacer III (a high-powered version) can affect an
entire room. This device costs $275, according to the most recent
price sheet available[66]. What sort of machine might $27,500
buy? Or $275,000? What effects, what ranges might a
million-dollar machine be capable of?
   The military certainly has that sort of money.
   And they're certainly interested in this sort of technology,
according to Michael Hutchison. His interview with an informant
named Joseph Light elicited some particularly provocative
revelations. According to Light:

         There are important elements in the scientific community,
      powerful people, who are very much interested in these areas...
      but they have to keep most of their work secret. Because as
      soon as they start to publish some of these sensitive things,
      they have problems in their lives. You see, they work on
      research grants, and if you follow the research being done,
      you find that as soon as these scientists publish something
      about this, their research funds are cut off. There are areas
      in bioelectric research  where very simple techniques and
      devices can have mind-boggling effects. Conceivably, if you
      have a crazed person with a bit of a technical background, he
      can do a lot of damage[67].

   This last statement is particularly evocative. In 1984, a
violent neo-NAZI group called The Order (responsible for the
murder of talk-show host Alan Berg) established contact with two
government scientists engaged in clandestine research to project
chemical imbalances and render targeted individuals docile via
certain frequencies of electronic waves. For $100,000 the
scientists were willing to deliver this information[68].
   Thus, at least one group of crazed individuals almost got the
goods.

WAVE YOUR BRAIN GOODBYE

   Every Senator and Congressional representative has a "wavie"
file. So do many state representatives. Wavies have even pled
their case to private institutions such as the Christic
Institute[69].
   And who are the wavies?
   They claim to be victims of clandestine bombardment with
non-ionizing radiation -- or microwaves. They report sudden
changes in psychological states, alteration of sleep patterns,
intracerebral voices and other sounds, and physiological effects.
Most people never realize how many wavies there are in this
country. I've spoken to a number of wavies myself.
   Are these troubled individuals seeking an exterior rationale
for their mental problems? Maybe. Indeed, I'm sure that such is
the case in many instances. But the fact is that the literature
on the behavioral effects of microwaves, extra-low-frequencies
(ELF) and ultra-sonics is such that we cannot blithely dismiss
ALL such claims.
   For decades, American science and industry tried to convince
the population that microwaves could have no adverse effects on
human beings at sub-thermal levels -- in other words, the
attitude was, "If it can't burn you, it can't hurt you."  This
approach became increasingly difficult to defend as reports
mounted of microwave-induced physiological effects. Technicians
described "hearing" certain radar installations; users of radar
telescopes began developing cataracts at an appallingly high
rate[70]. The Soviets had long recognized the strange and
sometimes subtle effects of these radio frequencies, which is why
their exposure standards have always been much stricter.
   Soviet microwave bombardment of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
prompted the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Project
PANDORA (later renamed), whose ostensible goal was to determine
whether these pulsations (reportedly 10 cycles per second, which
puts them in the alpha range) could be used for the purposes of
mind control. I suspect that the "war on Tchaikowsky Street," as
I call it[71], was used, at least in part, as a cover story for
DARPA mind control research, and that the stories floated in the
news (via, for example, Jack Anderson's column) about Soviet
remote brainwashing served the same propaganda purposes as did
the bleatings of Edward Hunter during the 1950s.[72]
   What can low-level microwaves do to the mind?
   According to a DIA report released under the Freedom of
Information Act[73], microwaves can induce metabolic changes,
alter brain functions, and disrupt behavior patterns. PANDORA
discovered that pulsed microwaves can create leaks in the
blood/brain barrier, induce heart seizures, and create behavioral
disorganization[74]. In 1970, a RAND Corporation scientist
reported that microwaves could be used to promote insomnia,
fatigue, irritability, memory loss, and hallucinations[75].
   Perhaps the most significant work in this area has been
produced by Dr. W. Ross Adey at the University of Southern
California. He determined that behavior and emotional states can
be altered without electrodes -- simply by placing the subject in
an electromagnetic field. 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, he was able to
impose a 4.5 cps theta rhythm on his subjects -- a frequency
which he previously measured in the hippocampus during avoidance
learning. Thus, he could externally condition the mind towards an
aversive reaction[76]. (Adey has also done extensive work on the
use of electrodes in animals[77].)  According to another
prominent microwave scientist, Allen Frey, other frequencies
could -- in animal studies -- induce docility[78]. [cf USP
#3,884,218 by Robert Monroe, METHOD OF INDUCING AND MAINTAINING
VARIOUS STAGES OF SLEEP IN THE HUMAN BEING, granted 20 May 1975;
ABSTRACT: A method of inducing sleep in the human being wherein
an audio signal is generated comprising a familiar pleasing
repetitive sound modulated by an EEG sleep pattern. -jpg]
   The controversial researcher Andrijah Puharich asserts that "a
weak (1 mW) 4 Hz magnetic sine wave will modify human brain waves
in 6 to 10 seconds. The psychological effects of a 4 Hz sine
magnetic wave are negative -- causing dizzyness, nausea,
headache, and can lead to vomiting."  Conversely, an 8 Hz
magnetic sine wave has beneficial effects[79]. Though some
writers question Puharich's integrity (perhaps correctly,
considering his involvement in the confused tale of Uri Geller),
his claims here seem in line with the findings of less-flamboyant
experimenters.
   As investigative journalist Anne Keeler writes:

         Specific frequencies at low intensities can predictably 
      influence sensory processes...pleasantness-unpleasantness,
      strain-relaxation, and excitement-quiescence can be created
      with the fields. Negative feelings and avoidance are strong
      biological phenomena and relate to survival. Feelings are
      the true basis of much "decision-making" and often occur as
      subthreshold [i.e. subliminal -jpg] impressions...Ideas 
      INCLUDING NAMES [my italics] [Cannon's italics -jpg] can be
      synchronized with the feelings that the fields induce[80].

   Adey and compatriots have compiled an entire library of
frequencies and pulsation rates which can affect the mind and
nervous system. Some of these effects can be extremely bizarre.
For example, engineer Tom Jarski, in an attempt to replicate the
seminal work of F. Cazzamali, found that a particular frequency
caused a ringing sensation in the ears of his subjects -- who
felt strangely compelled to BITE the experimenters![81]. On the
other hand, the diet-conscious may be intrigued by the finding
that rats exposed to ELF waves failed to gain weight
normally[82].
   For our present purposes, the most significant electromagnetic
research findings concern microwave signals modulated by
hypnoidal EEG frequencies. Microwaves can act much like the
"hemi-synch" device previously described -- that is, they can
entrain the brain to theta rhythms[83]. I need not emphasize the
implications of remotely synchronizing the brain to resonate at a
frequency conducive to sleep, or to hypnosis.
   Trance may be remotely induced -- but can it be directed? Yes.
Recall the intracerebral voices mentioned earlier in our
discussion of Delgado. The same effect can be produced by "the
wave."  Frey demonstrated in the early 1960s that microwaves
could produce booming, hissing, buzzing, and other intra-
cerebral static (this phenomenon is now called "the Frey
effect"); in 1973, Dr. Joseph Sharp, of the Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research, expanded on Frey's work in an experiment
where the subject -- in this case, Sharp himself-- "heard" and
understood spoken words delivered via a pulsed-microwave analog
of the speaker's sound vibrations[84].
   Dr. Robert Becker comments that "Such a device has obvious
applications in covert operations designed to drive a target
crazy with 'voices' or deliver undetectable instructions to a
programmed assassin."[85]  In other words, we now have, AT THE
PUSH OF A BUTTON, the technology either to inflict an electronic
GASLIGHT -- or to create a true MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Indeed, the
former capability could effectively disguise the latter. Who will
listen to the victims, when electronically-induced hallucinations
they recount exactly parallel the classical signals of paranoid
schizophrenia and/or temporal lobe epilepsy?
   Perhaps the most ominous revelations, however, concern the
mysterious work of J.F. Schapitz, who in 1974 filed a plan to
explore the interaction of  radio frequencies and hypnosis. He
proposed the following:

         In this investigation it will be shown that the spoken 
      word of the hypnotist may be conveyed by modulated electro-
      magnetic energy DIRECTLY INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS PARTS OF THE
      HUMAN BRAIN [my italics] -- i.e., without employing any
      technical devices for receiving or transcoding the messages
      and without the person exposed to such influence having a
      chance to control the information input consciously.

   He outlined an experiment, innocent in its immediate effects
yet chilling in its implications, whereby subjects would be
implanted with the subconscious suggestion to leave the lab and
buy a particular item; this action would be triggered by a
certain cue word or action. Schapitz felt certain that the
subjects would rationalize the behavior -- in other words, the
subject would seize upon any excuse, however thin, to chalk up
his actions to the working of free will[86]. His instincts on
this latter point coalesce perfectly with findings of
professional hypnotists[87].
   Schapitz's work was funded by the Department of Defense.
Despite FOIA requests, the results have never been publicly
revealed[88].

FINAL THOUGHTS ON "THE WAVE"

   I must again offer a caveat about possible disparities between
the  "official" record of electromagnetism's psychological
effects and the hidden history. Once more, we face a question of
timing. How long ago did this research REALLY begin?
   In the eary years of this century, Nikola Tesla seems to have
stumbled  upon certain of the behavioral effects of
electromagnetic exposure[89]. Cazamalli, mentioned earlier,
conducted his studies in the 1930s. In 1934, E.L. Chaffe and R.U.
Light published a paper on "A Method for the Remote  Control of
Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System."[90]  From the very
beginning of their work with microwaves, the Soviets explored the
more subtle physiological effects of electromagnetism -- and
despite the bleatings of  certain right-wing alarmists[91] that
an "electromagnetic gap" separates us from Soviet advances, East
European literature in this area has been closely monitored for
decades by the West. ARTICHOKE/BLUEBIRD project outlines,  dating
from the early 1950s, prominently mention the need to explore all
 possible uses of the electromagnetic spectrum.
   Another point worth mentioning concerns the combination of EMR
and miniature brain electrodes. The father of the stimoceiver,
Dr. J.M.R. Delgado, has recently conducted experiments in which
monkeys are exposed to electromagnetic fields, thereby eliciting
a wide range of behavioral effects -- one monkey might fly into a
volcanic rage while, just a few feet away, his simian partner
begins to nod off. Fascinatingly, when monkeys with brain
implants felt "the wave," the effects were greatly intensified.
Apparently, these tiny electrodes can act as AMPLIFIERS of the
electromagnetic effect[92].
   This last point is important to our "alien abduction" thesis.
Critics might counter that any burst of microwave energy powerful
enough to have truly remote effects would probably also create a
thermal reaction. That is, if a clandestine operator propagated a
"wave" from outside an abductee's bedroom (say, from a low-flying
helicopter, or from a truck travelling alongside the subject's
car), the power necessary to do the job might be such that the
microwave would cook the target before it got a chance to launder
his thoughts. Our abductee would end up like the victim of the
microwave "hit" in the finale of Jerzy Kozinsky's COCKPIT.
   It's a fair criticism. But Delgado's work may give us our
solution. Once an abductee has been implanted -- and if we are to
trust hypnotic regression accounts of abductees at all, the first
implanting session may occur in childhood -- the
chip-in-the-brain would act an an intensifier of the signal. Such
an individual could have any number of "UFO" experiences while
his or her bed partner dozes comfortably.
   Furthermore, recent reports indicate that a "waver" can
achieve pinpoint accuracy without the use of Delgado-style
implants. In 1985, volunteers at the Midwest Research Institute
in Kansas City, Missouri, were exposed to microwave beams as part
of an experiment sponsored by the Department of Energy and the
New York State Department of Health. As THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC[93]
described the experiment, "A matched control group sat IN THE
SAME ROOM without being bombarded by non-ionizing radiation." [My
italics.]  Apparently, one can focus "the wave" quite narrowly --
a fact which has wide implications for abductees.

III. Applications

   So we now have some idea of the tools available to the
"spy-chiatrists." How have these tools been used?
   This question necessarily involves some detective work. The
Central Intelligence Agency, under duress, provided some, though
not enough, documen- tation of its efforts to commandeer "the
space between our ears."  We know that these efforts were
extensive, long-term, and at least partially successful. We know
also that these experiments used human subjects. But who? When?
   One paradox of this line of inquiry is that, for many readers,
the victims elicit sympathy only insofar as they remain
anonymous. Intellectually, we realize that MKULTRA and its allied
projects must have affected hundreds,  probably thousands, of
individuals. Yet we react with deep suspicion  whenever one of
these individuals steps forward and identifies himself, or
whenever an independent investigator argues that mind control has
directed some newsworthy person's otherwise inexplicable actions.
Where, the skeptic may rightfully ask, is the documentation
supporting such accusations? Most of the MKULTRA "paper trail"
was (allegedly) burnt at Richard Helms' order; what's left has
been censored, leaving black ink smudges wherever the names
originally appeared. Claimed mind control victims can, for the
most part, only give us testimony -- and how reliable can such
testimony be, especially in light of the fact that one purpose of
MKULTRA was to induce insanity? Anyone asserting that he was
victimized by the program might well be seeking an extrinsic
excuse for his own psychopathology. If you say that you are a
manufactured madman, you were probably mad to begin with: Catch
22.
   When John Marks wrote THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN
CANDIDATE" he received numerous letters from people insisting
that they had been drugged, "waved," or otherwise abused by the
CIA or the military. Most of these communications went directly
into his crank file. Perhaps many deserved that destination; I
know  of at least one that did not[94].
   Marks did, however, devote much attention to Val Orlikov, a
former "patient" of perhaps the most notorious figure in the
annals of American medical crime: Dr. Ewen Cameron, a CIA-funded
scientist heading the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill
University, Montreal, Canada. Cameron, a highly-respected mental
health researcher[95], experimented with a technique he called
"psychic driving," a brainwashing program which involved
inflicting upon a subject an endless tape loop blaring selected
messages, 16-to-24 hours a day, combined with massive
electroshock and LSD. The project's "guinea pigs" were patients
who had come to Allan Memorial with relatively minor
psychological complaints. Cameron's experiments failed and his
theories were discredited, which may explain why the CIA and its
apologists now feel relatively comfortable discussing the
Frankensteinian efforts at Allan Memorial, as opposed to more
successful work elsewhere.

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