Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief, October 28, 2009

Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

THE LANCASETER COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

CIVIL DIVISION

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In Re: STANLEY J. CATERBONE and ADVANCED MEDIA GROUP, PETITIONERS v. Case No. ______RESIDENTS of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania DEFENDANTS

Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief

AND NOW, on this 17th day of August, 2015 I, STANLEY J. CATERBONE and ADVANCED MEDIA GROUP, Plaintiff's, appearing pro se, and In Forma Pauperis, do hereby file a Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief according to Pa. R. Civ. P. 1531(a) on this 17th day of August 2015. “In determining whether a preliminary or special injunction should be granted and whether notice or a hearing should be required, the court may act on the basis of the averments of the pleadings or petition and may consider affidavits of parties or third persons or any other proof which the court may require.” Pa. R. Civ. P. 1531(a). The decision whether or not to grant a hearing on an emergency injunction is therefore left to the sound discretion of the court; the mere filing of a motion by the plaintiff does not automatically entitle him to a hearing. Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

Pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 126 Liberal Construction and Application of Rules, which states "the rules shall be liberally construed to secure the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action or proceeding to which they are applicable. The court at every stage of any such action or proceeding may disregard any error or defect of procedure which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties. Dated August, 2015

Stanley J. Caterbone Advanced Media Group, President and Owner Pro Se Litigant, U.S. District Court & Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court [email protected] 1250 Fremont Street Lancaster, PA 17603 717-669-2163 Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief

Summation: I, Stanley J. Caterbone, Targeted Individual or TI, residing at: 1250 Fremont Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 17603, do hereby state that I am at least 18 years of age, that I am a citizen or a legal resident of the United States of America, that I am of sound mind, and that I am the person whose signature follows on this Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief. The purpose of this document is (1) to advise the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas as well as state and local officials of the participation of the residents of Lancaster County in organized stalking and/or electronic and mind manipulation torture being committed against me and (2) to request a cease and desist order of their participation of the activities described herein.

Our Government is responsible for protecting its citizens from elements that covertly harass, torment, murder, and cause victims to commit suicide through organized stalking and remote electronic torture. Yet, unbiased research indicates that certain elements of Government either engage in these activities or protect those who perform them. I seek the complete dismantling of any officially-sanctioned covert Government torture programs, and organized stalking and harassment programs and the passage of legislation specifically outlawing that high-tech torture, and the full prosecution of any person, regardless of his rank or position, who has violated my civil rights and my most basic human rights. The assaults on my mind, body, person, property, intellectual property, and business interests have been occurring for 29 year(s) and include, but are not limited to the following victimization's:

1.Blanketing my dwelling and surroundings with electromagnetic energy. Bombarding my body with debilitating electronic and mind manipulation effects. Directed Energy Weapons Causing Severe Pain to Body and Brain. Began in at least 2005 and still continuing, with complaints to Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance, FFCHS in 2009, and in cited in various state and federal court cases over the past several years. Attacks causing severe artificial pain most likely from Directed Energy Devices synchronized with telepathic harassment and organized stalking and harassment have been logged and reported to law enforcement and medical professionals since 2008. Prior to 2008 the attacks were experienced and reported to medical professionals but the sources were not Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

known. Also reported attacks of pain to a family physician, emergency room personnel and psychiatrists.

2.Invading my thoughts via remote sensing technologies. Was sent an autonomous email in 1998 introducing the term remote viewing. Various technologies and tactics are being used to create “emotional signatures” that induce various emotional states; a systematic complete hacking of my mind.

3.Making me mentally “hear” others' voices through the microwave hearing effect. Synthetic and/or Mental Telepathy. First started to experience telepathy/synthetic telepathy in 2005 with full-time 24/7 connection during the same time to present. When full- time telepathy started a male conducted interrogations lasting several hours at a time concerning a wealth of subjects including ISC/CIA Knowledge. Cannot disconnect from continuous conversations at all times with one female person. The handlers know everything I know and experience in real time. During 2006 and 2007 have been telepathic with some 10 or more persons, both male and female for short durations. Can recall most conversations and subject matter with identities of who they said they were. Interrogation type harassment is still being used telepathically to harass and for some sleep deprivation. Made first complaints to DARPA, the FBI, and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter in 2007. Some conversations by the persons that are telepathic with me elude to some program similar to the DARPA datalog program where they record your entire life. Everything that you try to do on a daily basis is subject matter for conversation and harassment. Interference with thought, harassment, and interrogation is used often times with electromagnetic weapon attacks to the brain or body.

4.Depriving me of sleep due to neurological intervention. Mostly Experienced Sleep Deprivation Techniques during periods of time in 2008 to 2010. Mostly with attacks of pain from Directed Energy Weapons to back, neck, head (brain); and heart on a few occasions; and with harassment from telepathy.

5.Introducing poisonous gas and radiation toxins into my home. First experienced toxic gases (Chloroform?) in heavy doses in 2006-2007. Made complaints to the Lancaster City Police Department and the Southern Regional Police. Experienced attacks that would cause dizziness at home, in automobile and in public. Was informed it was being released through a distribution system the size of fishing line. To counter attacks used cotton in nostrils and gas Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

mask. In 2009 experienced attacks of what is said to be sleeping gas, when attacked could not open eyes. Took Pictures during some attacks.

6.Having me stalked en masse on foot and in vehicles. vandalizing my home and/or car. Gang Stalking or Organized Stalking began in 1987 and continues today. It includes strangers using gestures such as finger under eye; various forms of harassment; and public mobbing. Complaints have been filed in 1987; 1992;1998 and 2005 to 2010. Complaints were made to various public officials and local, state, and federal agencies as mental duress. The terms organized stalking, gang stalking, targeted individual, etc., was not learned until a few years ago. The organized stalking and harassment followed in several states, some while traveling from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to California. Tracking technologies may have been used and most likely are still being used. Police were involved in most places.

7.Tapping (Bugging) my phones. Complaints of phone tapping/tampering were made to New Jersey Bell in 1987 with a service call to Stone Harbor, New Jersey to check lines and phones. The same was done by a Bell Atlantic repairman in Conestoga, Pennsylvania in 1998. In 2004 a complaint with a report number was filed with the Pennsylvania Attorney General Office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Agent Amy Zelnick) regarding interference with phone calls and impersonations by perps intercepting and rerouting calls. Computer Hacking complaints were filed to local authorities in the County of Lancaster and the Cyber Crime unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2005 to 2010.

8.Blacklisting me in the labor market. Filed complains of employment discrimination with the Pennsylvania Attorney General in 2006 and the Lancaster County Human Relations Commission in 2008.

9.Workplace mobbing. Experienced in 1987 at Financial Management Group, Ltd., American Helix of High Industries in 1991 and Pflumm Contractors, Inc., in 1997/1998. Filed complaints and logs as mental duress and harassment. Was forced out of all 3 organizations as a result of the mobbing and harassment.

Millersville University Library and University Offices. I was given suspicious and illegal “No Trespass” Notices in some 18 public places in Lancaster County in the years 2005 to 2009 without just cause. I was complaining of stalking and harassing in most all of those public places. The Lancaster County Public Library and the Millersville University took away my access to a computer after my personal computers were vandalized and/or hacked inoperable. Fulton Bank took away my safe deposit box. Others included my church of worship, various bars and restaurants and one attorneys office. Complaints have been filed regarding the same in courts and with various authorities.

11.Attempted Murder. Experienced with an attempt of vehicular homicide in 1991 after National News Media reported ISC/CIA-NSA connection of “Arms to Irag”. The incident involved a vehicle changing lanes and direction and heading directly toward me in the wrong direction running me off the road, narrowly missing a tree. I Filed the incident in federal courts and used as a motion to seal federal case no. 05-2288 in 2005 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

12.Pet Killing. Cat was killed in 2005 with complaints to the Lancaster County Humane Shelter and the Southern Regional Police Department.

13.Illegal Entries of Home/Properties. First in 1987 in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, then again in 1991; 1997-1998; and most serious in 2005 to 2010. Filed Police Reports and insurance claims, most with the Southern Regional Police Department of Conestoga, Pennsylvania , State Farm and Harleysville Insurance Companies.

14.Illegal Repossessions. Airplane in 1987 containing legal and business files. Home/Property and Contents in 2006 also containing legal and business files and documents.

15.Physical Assaults. One attack and filed complaint with police report in Los Osos California in 2005 and one in the City of Lancaster. Police reports were filed and obtained for both.

16.False Arrests. Experienced 7 in 1987 and more than 20 in 2005 and 2006 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas. The false arrests were charges that were all dismissed prior to court hearings. Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

17.False Imprisonments. Spent 7 to 10 days in Lancaster County Prison in 1987 with all charges dismissed and again for some 60 days in 2006 with all charges dismissed. The 60 Days of imprisonment of 2006 was triggered with a false report of missing a bail supervision meeting, which was confirmed to be false in court; however bail was maliciously and purposefully reinstated as secured instead of unsecured. The appropriate appeal was filed which secured my release after some 60 days of false imprisonment. There were no charges that resulted in any convictions.

18.Psychiatric Abuses with False Suicide Allegations from Perpetrators/Stalkers. One in 1987 resulting in a forced hospitalization for several hours by police in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. And one again in February of 2005 resulting in police restraining me in my home and abusing me. This one was a fraudulent and phony email sent to police by a perp. The Southern Regional Police had to vacate after the email was proven to be a fraud.

19.Vandalism to Property. First in 1987 in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, then again in 1991; 1997-1998; and most serious in 2005 to 2010. Filed Police Reports and insurance claims, most with the Southern Regional Police Department of Conestoga, Pennsylvania and Harleysville Insurance Company. 3 computers have been rendered inoperable since 2005 along with various electronics equipment; dvd recorders; printers; household items; appliances; etc., Most insurance claims have been paid. In the past years a wave of purchased items, online and in stores, were received broken or the wrong item and all had to be returned. Some included items to secure my property, and others included computer related items, others were household and clothing items.

20.Gas Lighting. The illegal entering of home and causing psychological duress by moving items and or hiding items. First reported in 1998 to the Conestoga Police and continued to present. Clothing was also manipulated and altered. The term “gas lighting” was only learned in 2010, although it was reported to police as harassment by neighbors of friends. The daily draining of my hot tub was also used as a psychological warfare tactic and used to run up utility bills. Numerous complaints were made to police in 2008 to 2010.

21.Thefts of Property. As evidenced by various police complaints, insurance claims, and incident reports. Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

22.Vandalism to Car/Truck. Since 2005 have experienced years of gas siphoning, battery outages, letting air out of tires, and wetting of inside of floor mats as psychological warfare tactics by perps and stalkers. Made numerous complaints the Lancaster City Police Department.

23.Toxic Chemical Causing Running Nose. Experienced on regular basis in 2009 when in public places. Was not in conjunction with cold/flu symptoms. Research states it is a tactic used in organized stalking.

24.Computer Hacking. Computer Hacking complaints were filed to local authorities in the County of Lancaster and the Cyber Crime unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2005 to 2010. Numerous complaint numbers have been secured. Complaints of cell phone hacking was also reported in 2010. Websites and blogs were regularly hacked and sometimes taken off-line. Electronic calenders, court documents, and financial records were often hacked causing many problems of the years, including having to withdraw civil complaints.

25.Cyber Stalking. Most in 2005 to 2010. Complaints to Microsoft legal counsel, Yahoo Message Board, and the FBI Cyber Crime Unit.

26.Interference/Delay/Theft of U.S. Mails. First reported to U.S. Postmaster of mail tampering and illegal changing of address in 1987. In 2008 to 2009 have made several more complaints to the U.S. Postmaster Inspector General who claim to have begun investigations. Some caused missed court hearings and other missed appointments and or meetings.

27.Electromagnetic Weapons Causing Severe Muscle Spasms/Cramps. First experienced in 2006 to present. One experience in 2006 was while I was in my hot tub and the pain and cramp was so severe in my left calf muscle (you automatically bend over to rub it out, which placed my head underwater) I had to crawl out of the hot tub before almost drowning.

28.Electromagnetic Weapons Causing Sexual Stimulation. First experienced in 2005.

29.Forced Hospitalizations. Forced Hospitalizations in 1987 (2) one for 6 hours and one for 5 days; 2006 one for 3 days; 2009 one for several hours while in intensive care for emergency Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

surgery; and 2010 one for 8 days. Filed complaints to Citizens Commission for Human Rights in 1991 and 2008.

30.Manipulation and Theft of Documents. Numerous thefts and manipulation of all legal and business documents both in paper and in electronic format have occurred since 1987. Microfiche/Microfilming began in 1987 and other measures to secure documents have been ongoing to present. Numerous complaints have been filed with law enforcement since 1987.

ISC was a Department of Defense (DOD) Contractor and a partner with United States Intelligence Agencies since it's beginnings in the early 1970's. One of it's first contracts was Project X with the National Security Agency or NSA of Ft. Meade, Maryland. Former Secretary of the Navy, Bobby Ray Inman was on the Board of Directors of ISC and was also on the Board of Directors of Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC. SAIC was a huge defense contractor that was the recipient of the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, program on Remote Viewing, which SAIC named Project Stargate. It was reported that Bobby Ray Inman declined the nomination for Secretary of Defense under the first Clinton Administration because of the ISC and Trecor scandals. In the early 1990's I was a subcontractor on a project for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, or DARPA, with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST called TIMIT. The project developed speech corpora for the development of computer based speech recognition systems. I was also involved in the bidding of other Department of Defense contracts dealing with information technologies. In 1998 I was stalked and approached by an employee of the National Security Agency, or NSA in York, Pennsylvania who said my problems were not with the NSA, but the “good ole boys”. Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

In 2005 I was detained by 2 Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA officers in a museum on a military base in Austin, Texas and was questioned and interviewed regarding my civil actions filed in federal court for several hours. I was released and told to stay off of all military bases. My brother, a Family Physician in Austin Texas had to verify my travel plans and the fact that I was staying with him prior to my release.

My father alleged he was part of U.S. Navy experiments in the 1940's and experienced synthetic telepathy in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's as outlined in memos and documents he had authored; and from my personal conversations with him prior to his death. Ms. Amy Fuchs of the Disclosure Project confirmed that he was most likely given an ET experience via synthetic telepathy. He died in 2001 in New York City of cancer. My brother was in the U.S. Air Force in the late 1960's and I allege was a victim of the LSD experiments relating to MKULTRA in the late 1960's and a victim of murder (Suspicious Suicide with tainted medical reports) in Santa Barbara California in 1984; Notarized Complaints were filed to the California Attorney General in 1991. He made a declaration type statement prior to his death that he got “bad LSD” while in the U.S. Air Force.

Organized stalking and harassment began in 1987 following the public allegations of fraud within ISC. As far back as the late 1980's I thought that my mind was being read, or "remotely viewed". During the times that legal Counsel and attorneys were solicited in 1987, 1991, and 1997 Organized Stalking and Harassment and other forms of attacks experienced by Targeted Individuals were severely increased. In 2005 the U.S. sponsored mind control turned into an all-out assault of mental telepathy; synthetic telepathy; and pain and torture through the use of directed energy devices and/or electromagnetic weapons. This assault was no coincidence in that it began simultaneously with the filing of the federal action in U.S. District Court, of CATERBONE v. Lancaster County Prison, et. al., or 05-cv-2288. Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

This targeting has ruined every aspect of my life and must be stopped as much as possible by eliminating the residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania from particpating.

Date August 17, 2015

ORDER

AND NOW on this ______day of ______, 2015 I hereby ORDER the residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania to cease and desist against further participation in any way any of the officially-sanctioned covert Government torture programs, and organized stalking and harassment programs as described herein. The County of Lancaster Pennsylvania will enlist the media, specifically Lancaster Newspapers and WGAL-TV 8 to provide a public community wide media campaign to bring awareness to this ORDER. The public awareness campaign shall include such items as prescribed by the ADVANCED MEDIA GROUP.

The ADVANCED MEDIA GROUP, owned and operated by Stan J. Caterbone is a company that was founded in 1989 that has provided “Information Technologies” to both domestic and foreign clients including many government agencies. The ADVANCED MEDIA GROUP has an extensive library of research materials that could be utilized for the public awareness campaign. Experts such as Dr. Nick Begich, Dr. John Hall, Dr. Terry Robertson, Juluane McKinney, Cheryl Welsh, Jim Guest, and Derrich Robinson, founder of the human rights organization Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance could all be used for this purpose. The reprinting of articles of interest, such as the Washington Post story of Harland Gerard By Sharon Weinberger Sunday, January 14, 2007. To offer scientific evidence of U.S. Sponsored Mind Control the article “Misled and Betrayed How US Cover Stories Are Keeping a Cold War Weapon Neuroweapons and Illegal Human Testing a Secret”, June 2013 could be used. Another excellent article is “In Contravention of Conventional Wisdom CIA “no touch” torture makes sense out of mind control allegations By Cheryl Welsh” published in January 2008. Information on Church Committee Hearings should also be publicized.

DATE: Judge Preliminary Emergency Injunction for Relief re Residents of the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania, August 17, 2015

EXHIBITS

AFFIDAVIT

I, Stanley J. Caterbone , Targeted Individual or TI , residing at: 1250 Fremont Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 17603 , do hereby state that I am at least 18 years of age, that I am a citizen or a legal resident of the United States of America, that I am of sound mind, and that I am the person whose signature follows on this Affidavit. The purpose of this document is (1) to advise Congress as well as state and local officials of organized stalking and electronic and mind manipulation torture being committed against me and (2) to request a state, local, or Congressional investigation and hearing on the use of remotely-operated directed energy attacks and mind control technologies on Americans in this country.

Our Government is responsible for protecting its citizens from elements that covertly harass, torment, murder, and cause victims to commit suicide through organized stalking and remote electronic torture. Yet, unbiased research indicates that certain elements of Government either engage in these activities or protect those who perform them. I seek the complete dismantling of any officially-sanctioned covert Government torture programs, the passage of legislation specifically outlawing that high-tech torture, and the full prosecution of any person, regardless of his rank or position, who has violated my civil rights and my most basic human rights. The assaults on my mind and body have been occurring for 24 year(s) and include, but are not limited to the following victimization's:

1. Blanketing my dwelling and surroundings with electromagnetic energy. Bombarding my body with debilitating electronic and mind manipulation effects. Directed Energy Weapons Causing Severe Pain to Body and Brain. Began in at least 2005 and still continuing, with complaints to Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance, FFCHS in 2009, and in cited in various state and federal court cases over the past several years. Attacks causing severe artificial pain most likely from Directed Energy Devices synchronized with telepathic harassment and organized stalking and harassment have been logged and reported to law enforcement and medical professionals since 2008. Prior to 2008 the attacks were experienced and reported to medical professionals but the sources were not known. Also reported attacks of pain to a family physician, emergency room personnel and psychiatrists.

2. Invading my thoughts via remote sensing technologies . Was sent an autonomous email in 1998 introducing the term remote viewing. Various technologies and tactics are being used to create “emotional signatures” that induce various emotional states; a systematic complete hacking of my mind.

3. Making me mentally “hear” others' voices through the microwave hearing effect. Synthetic and/or Mental Telepathy. First started to experience telepathy/synthetic telepathy in 2005 with full-time 24/7 connection during the same time to present. When full-time telepathy started a male conducted interrogations lasting several hours at a time concerning a wealth of subjects including ISC/CIA Knowledge. Cannot disconnect from continuous conversations at all times with one female person. The handlers know everything I know and experience in real time. During 2006 and 2007 have been telepathic with some 10 or more persons, both male and female for short durations. Can recall most conversations and subject matter with identities of who they said they were. Interrogation type harassment is still being used telepathically to harass and for some sleep deprivation. Made first complaints to DARPA, the FBI, and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter in 2007. Some conversations by the persons that are telepathic with me elude to some program similar to the DARPA datalog program where they record your entire life. Everything that you try to do on a daily basis is subject matter for conversation and harassment. Interference with thought, harassment, and interrogation is used often times with electromagnetic weapon attacks to the brain or body.

4. Depriving me of sleep due to neurological intervention. Mostly Experienced Sleep Deprivation Techniques during periods of time in 2008 to 2010. Mostly with attacks of pain from Directed Energy Weapons to back, neck, head (brain); and heart on a few occasions; and with harassment from telepathy.

5. Introducing poisonous gas and radiation toxins into my home. First experienced toxic gases (Chloroform?) in heavy doses in 2006-2007. Made complaints to the Lancaster City Police Department and the Southern Regional Police. Experienced attacks that would cause dizziness at home, in automobile and in public. Was informed it was being released through a distribution system the size of fishing line. To counter attacks used cotton in nostrils and gas mask. In 2009 experienced attacks of what is said to be sleeping gas, when attacked could not open eyes. Took Pictures during some attacks.

6. Having me stalked en masse on foot and in vehicles. vandalizing my home and/or car. Gang Stalking or Organized Stalking began in 1987 and continues today. It includes strangers using gestures such as finger under eye; various forms of harassment; and public mobbing. Complaints have been filed in 1987; 1992;1998 and 2005 to 2010. Complaints were made to various public officials and local, state, and federal agencies as mental duress. The terms organized stalking, gang stalking, targeted individual, etc., was not learned until a few years ago. The organized stalking and harassment followed in several states, some while traveling from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to California. Tracking technologies may have been used and most likely are still being used. Police were involved in most places.

7. Tapping (Bugging) my phones. Complaints of phone tapping/tampering were made to New Jersey Bell in 1987 with a service call to Stone Harbor, New Jersey to check lines and phones. The same was done by a Bell Atlantic repairman in Conestoga, Pennsylvania in 1998. In 2004 a complaint with a report number was filed with the Pennsylvania Attorney General Office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Agent Amy Zelnick) regarding interference with phone calls and impersonations by perps intercepting and rerouting calls. Computer Hacking complaints were filed to local authorities in the County of Lancaster and the Cyber Crime unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2005 to 2010.

8. Blacklisting me in the labor market. Filed complains of employment discrimination with the Pennsylvania Attorney General in 2006 and the Lancaster County Human Relations Commission in 2008.

9. Workplace mobbing. Experienced in 1987 at Financial Management Group, Ltd., American Helix of High Industries in 1991 and Pflumm Contractors, Inc., in 1997/1998. Filed complaints and logs as mental duress and harassment. Was forced out of all 3 organizations as a result of the mobbing and harassment.

10. Public Mobbing. Public type mobbing and organized stalking and harassment was perpetrated heavily in the years 2005 to 2010 in the following places: The Lancaster County Courthouse, The Lancaster County Public Library, the Pennsylvania Career Link, and the Millersville University Library and University Offices. I was given suspicious and illegal “No Trespass” Notices in some 18 public places in Lancaster County in the years 2005 to 2009 without just cause. I was complaining of stalking and harassing in most all of those public places. The Lancaster County Public Library and the Millersville University took away my access to a computer after my personal computers were vandalized and/or hacked inoperable. Fulton Bank took away my safe deposit box. Others included my church of worship, various bars and restaurants and one attorneys office. Complaints have been filed regarding the same in courts and with various authorities.

11. Attempted Murder. Experienced with an attempt of vehicular homicide in 1991 after National News Media reported ISC/CIA-NSA connection of “Arms to Irag”. The incident involved a vehicle changing lanes and direction and heading directly toward me in the wrong direction running me off the road, narrowly missing a tree. I Filed the incident in federal courts and used as a motion to seal federal case no. 05-2288 in 2005 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

12. Pet Killing. Cat was killed in 2005 with complaints to the Lancaster County Humane Shelter and the Southern Regional Police Department.

13. Illegal Entries of Home/Properties. First in 1987 in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, then again in 1991; 1997-1998; and most serious in 2005 to 2010. Filed Police Reports and insurance claims, most with the Southern Regional Police Department of Conestoga, Pennsylvania , State Farm and Harleysville Insurance Companies.

14. Illegal Repossessions. Airplane in 1987 containing legal and business files. Home/Property and Contents in 2006 also containing legal and business files and documents.

15. Physical Assaults. One attack and filed complaint with police report in Los Osos California in 2005 and one in the City of Lancaster. Police reports were filed and obtained for both.

17. False Imprisonments. Spent 7 to 10 days in Lancaster County Prison in 1987 with all charges dismissed and again for some 60 days in 2006 with all charges dismissed. The 60 Days of imprisonment of 2006 was triggered with a false report of missing a bail supervision meeting, which was confirmed to be false in court; however bail was maliciously and purposefully reinstated as secured instead of unsecured. The appropriate appeal was filed which secured my release after some 60 days of false imprisonment. There were no charges that resulted in any convictions.

18. Psychiatric Abuses with False Suicide Allegations from Perpetrators/Stalkers. One in 1987 resulting in a forced hospitalization for several hours by police in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. And one again in February of 2005 resulting in police restraining me in my home and abusing me. This one was a fraudulent and phony email sent to police by a perp. The Southern Regional Police had to vacate after the email was proven to be a fraud.

19. Vandalism to Property. First in 1987 in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, then again in 1991; 1997-1998; and most serious in 2005 to 2010. Filed Police Reports and insurance claims, most with the Southern Regional Police Department of Conestoga, Pennsylvania and Harleysville Insurance Company. 3 computers have been rendered inoperable since 2005 along with various electronics equipment; dvd recorders; printers; household items; appliances; etc., Most insurance claims have been paid. In the past years a wave of purchased items, online and in stores, were received broken or the wrong item and all had to be returned. Some included items to secure my property, and others included computer related items, others were household and clothing items.

20. Gas Lighting. The illegal entering of home and causing psychological duress by moving items and or hiding items. First reported in 1998 to the Conestoga Police and continued to present. Clothing was also manipulated and altered. The term “gas lighting” was only learned in 2010, although it was reported to police as harassment by neighbors of friends. The daily draining of my hot tub was also used as a psychological warfare tactic and used to run up utility bills. Numerous complaints were made to police in 2008 to 2010.

21. Thefts of Property. Not Yet Completed .

22. Vandalism to Car/Truck. Since 2005 have experienced years of gas siphoning, battery outages, letting air out of tires, and wetting of inside of floor mats as psychological warfare tactics by perps and stalkers. Made numerous complaints the Lancaster City Police Department.

23. Toxic Chemical Causing Running Nose. Experienced on regular basis in 2009 when in public places. Was not in conjunction with cold/flu symptoms. Research states it is a tactic used in organized stalking.

24. Computer Hacking. Computer Hacking complaints were filed to local authorities in the County of Lancaster and the Cyber Crime unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2005 to 2010. Numerous complaint numbers have been secured. Complaints of cell phone hacking was also reported in 2010. Websites and blogs were regularly hacked and sometimes taken off-line. Electronic calenders, court documents, and financial records were often hacked causing many problems of the years, including having to withdraw civil complaints.

25. Cyber Stalking. Most in 2005 to 2010. Complaints to Microsoft legal counsel, Yahoo Message Board, and the FBI Cyber Crime Unit.

26. Interference/Delay/Theft of U.S. Mails. First reported to U.S. Postmaster of mail tampering and illegal changing of address in 1987. In 2008 to 2009 have made several more complaints to the U.S. Postmaster Inspector General who claim to have begun investigations. Some caused missed court hearings and other missed appointments and or meetings.

27. Electromagnetic Weapons Causing Severe Muscle Spasms/Cramps. First experienced in 2006 to present. One experience in 2006 was while I was in my hot tub and the pain and cramp was so severe in my left calf muscle (you automatically bend over to rub it out, which placed my head underwater) I had to crawl out of the hot tub before almost drowning.

28. Electromagnetic Weapons Causing Sexual Stimulation. First experienced in 2005.

29. Forced Hospitalizations. Forced Hospitalizations in 1987 (2) one for 6 hours and one for 5 days; 2006 one for 3 days; 2009 one for several hours while in intensive care for emergency surgery; and 2010 one for 8 days. Filed complaints to Citizens Commission for Human Rights in 1991 and 2008.

30. Manipulation and Theft of Documents. Numerous thefts and manipulation of all legal and business documents both in paper and in electronic format have occurred since 1987. Microfiche/Microfilming began in 1987 and other measures to secure documents have been ongoing to present. Numerous complaints have been filed with law enforcement since 1987.

Statement: I have been a Targeted Individual, TI, and Victim since 1987. In 1987 I blew the whistle (public Allegations and Complaints to State and Federal Authorities of Fraud during merger negotiations with British Defense Contractor Ferranti International) on an international defense contractor named International Signal & Control, or ISC, who was selling arms (Everything from Telemetry Systems to Cluster Bombs) to Iraq via South Africa and was convicted of a $1 Billion dollar Fraud in 1992 by the United States Attorney and several other federal agencies. See ABC/News 20/20 and Nightline in 1991. They were founded and headquartered in my hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I was a shareholder and was solicited by a top ISC Executives (Convicted as a Mastermind of the Billion Dollar Fraud) to help finance some of their operations through an affiliate called United Chem Con. ISC was a Department of Defense (DOD) Contractor and a partner with United States Intelligence Agencies since it's beginnings in the early 1970's. One of it's first contracts was Project X with the National Security Agency or NSA of Ft. Meade, Maryland. Former Secretary of the Navy, Bobby Ray Inman was on the Board of Directors of ISC and was also on the Board of Directors of Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC. SAIC was a huge defense contractor that was the recipient of the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, program on Remote Viewing, which SAIC named Project Stargate. It was reported that Bobby Ray Inman declined the nomination for Secretary of Defense under the first Clinton Administration because of the ISC and Trecor scandals. In the early 1990's I was a subcontractor on a project for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, or DARPA, with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST called TIMIT. The project developed speech corpora for the development of computer based speech recognition systems. I was also involved in the bidding of other Department of Defense contracts dealing with information technologies. In 1998 I was stalked and approached by an employee of the National Security Agency, or NSA in York, Pennsylvania who said my problems were not with the NSA, but the “good ole boys”. In 2005 I was detained by 2 Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA officers in a museum on a military base in Austin, Texas and was questioned and interviewed regarding my civil actions filed in federal court for several hours. I was released and told to stay off of all military bases. My brother, a Family Physician in Austin Texas had to verify my travel plans and the fact that I was staying with him prior to my release.

Organized stalking and harassment began in 1987 following the public allegations of fraud within ISC. As far back as the late 1980's I thought that my mind was being read, or "remotely viewed". During the times that legal Counsel and attorneys were solicited in 1987, 1991, and 1997 Organized Stalking and Harassment and other forms of attacks experienced by Targeted Individuals were severely increased. In 2005 the U.S. sponsored mind control turned into an all- out assault of mental telepathy; synthetic telepathy; and pain and torture through the use of directed energy devices and/or electromagnetic weapons. This assault was no coincidence in that it began simultaneously with the filing of the federal action in U.S. District Court, of CATERBONE v. Lancaster County Prison, et. al., or 05-cv-2288.

This targeting has ruined every aspect of my life.

Some Perspectives “The calculated and technological entry into another person’s mind is an act of monumental bar- barism which obliterates– perhaps with the twiddling of a dial – the history and civilization of man’s mental development. It is more than an abuse of human rights, it is the destruction of meaning. For anyone who is forced into the hell of living with an unseen mental rapist, the effort to stay sane is beyond the scope of tolerable endurance. The imaginative capacity of the ordinary mind cannot encompass the horror of it. We have attempted to come to terms with the experiments of the Nazis in concentration camps. We now have the prospect of systematic control authorized by men who issue instructions through satellite communications for the destruction of societies while they are driving new Jaguars and Mercedes, and going to the opera.” "On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology"by Carole Smith Global Research, October 18, 2007; Journal of Psycho-Social Studies, 2003.

“People have no comprehension of how lethal only one aspect (aside from the obvious of driving the victim completely insane) of telepathy technology can be in disrupting and ruining an individual's life through the sabotaging of his/her daily activities. Everything an individual does begins with a momentary thought. From the split second that thought is learned by the person on the other end (telepathically) - the individual's right to privacy is not the real threat or loss. The real lethal weapon is the advantage in disrupting or preventing the individual from accomplishing whatever he/she is going to do before they actually do it. With a simple cell phone call or instant message, the “Advanced Team” is in place to subvert; sabotage; manipulate; propagandize; smear; disrupt; or even prevent the task or activity from being accomplished in any successful manner. The perps are skilled at creating scenarios that are covertly arranged to simulate every- day occurrences to make the victim at fault for the loss or failure. Imagine the consequences when these activities have legal and financial implications. With telepathy technology the need for tracking and surveillance technology is greatly diminished and may even become obsolete. This is not merely “Mind Invasive” Technology, as Carole Smith so eloquently wrote – this is “LIFE Inva- sive” Technology”. Say Goodbye to any true sense of capitalism and free enterprise in the not to distant future – unless of course someone stops these illegal and disastrous technology transfers and leaks”. Stan J. Caterbone

Organized or Gang Stalking “A system of organized psychological terror tactics used against a person who has become an enemy of an individual or a government. Subtle but effective techniques of stalking by multiple individuals and psychological intimidation and manipulation are used to slowly but surely drive the target to make complaints to authorities who will see the complaints as bogus because of the methods used against the target. As a result, the target gets labeled as mentally ill.

There are as many stalking tactics as there are targets as the multistalkers will tailor the stalking to the individuals habits and individual personality. Some common examples or organized stalking are: following the target on foot, by car and public transportation, crowding the target's space in a public place, murmuring insults under the breath so only the target can hear, sitting in the car outside the target's residence, starting "fights" in public with the target, doing "skits" on the street which involves information only the target should know but has been found out via surveillance of the target, stealing and vandalism of the target's possessions.” Organized Stalking Website

“Organized Stalking is a form of terrorism used against an individual in a malicious attempt to reduce the quality of a person’s life so they will: have a nervous break-down, become incarcer- ated, institutionalized, experience constant mental, emotional, or physical pain, become home- less, and/or commit suicide. This is done using well-orchestrated accusations, lies, rumors, bogus investigations, setups, framings, intimidation, overt or covert threats, vandalism, thefts, sabotage, torture, humiliation, emotional terror and general harassment. It is a “ganging up” by members of the community who follow an organizer and participate in a systematic “terrorizing” of an individual.” Mark M. Rich The acts described above violate many laws aimed at protecting Americans. Some of these laws include but are not limited to the following: 10 USC 921, Article 121 -- Larceny and wrongful appropriation 10 USC 920A, Article 120a -- Stalking 18 2340 USC -- Torture 18 USC 241 -- Conspiracy against rights of sovereign, free, God created, spirit and soul beings 18 USC 213 -- Illegal Surreptitious entry 18 USC 242 -- Deprivation of rights under color of law 18 USC 35 -- Imparting or conveying false information 18 USC 1117 -- Conspiracy to Murder 18 USC 1111 -- Murder 18 USC 1905 -- Disclosure of information generally 42 USC 1983 -- Civil action for deprivation of rights 42 USC 1985 -- Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights 31 USC 5328 -- Whistleblower protections 18 USC 1512 -- Engaging in misleading conduct 18 USC 1503 -- Intimidating a witness/victim 18 USC 1512 -- Tampering with a witness/victim 18 USC 1513 -- Retaliation against a witness/victim 18 USC 1510 -- Obstructing a criminal investigation, conflict of interest roles in government 18 USC 1509 -- Impeding due exercise of rights by attempting to prevent, obstruct, impede and Interfere with same 18 USC 1622 -- Subordination of perjury by procuring another to commit perjury

(Optional) I have attached a personal message ______(check).

AFFIRMATION

I affirm that the statements in this Affidavit concerning my torture and the results of that torture are true and correct. I further affirm that those statements are based on my own direct knowledge, personal experience, research, and known and published historical fact.

Affiant (signature) ______Stan J. Caterbone Name (print): ______Stan J. Caterbone _____

Date: ______June 19, 2015 ____

State of ______Pennsylvania County of ______Lancaster

Sworn before me this ______19 day of ______June ______, 20__15

______,Stan J. Caterbone - I was a notary from '94-'98 Notary Public Exp.: Don't Know When ______Stamp & Seal: SJC

Freedom From Covert Harassment & Surveillance. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2010 (This is an amended form of the original Affidavit of September 2010 from Freedom From Covert Harassment & Surveillance.)

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Stan Caterbone, Pro Se Litigant Advanced Media Group 1250 Fremont Street Lancaster, PA 17603

July 16, 2007

Email to Philadelphia Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Federal Bureau of Investigations Philadelphia, PA

Re: Important Matters

Dear Sir or Madam:

First of all, I received a personal letter from Senator Arlen Specter on July 11, 2007. It was held in the mail system or was stolen for almost a full 30 days. I have had so many complaints regarding the same that I filed a complaint with the United States Postal Inspector (See Attached). They had written me but I never did receive the follow-up to the investigation as the letter promise. I am attaching a copy of the letter with the hopes that you could follow- up and make certain that my complaint is not being subverted.

If you are not aware, I have a Federal Whistle-Blowing and Federal False Claims Act case that I need to file against the United States Attorney General, as required by law. This case involves the former Department of Defense contractor International Signal & Control, Plc, (ISC) formerly of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, I also have an unprecedented case of obstruction of justice that surrounds that case, and I am evaluating the merits of waiting until your subcommittee finds a resolution to U.S. Attorney General controversy before I file my action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. I am certain that any filing before would only be subject to further misconduct. My cases now before the United States District Courts and the various Courts of the Commonwealth have been subject to an unprecedented array of judicial misconduct. However, I realize that you do not have the authority or the jurisdiction to intervene, so I am told.

For approximately the past 19 months I have had the ability to communicate telepathically. I have spent much time researching this ability through the various intelligence agencies declassified documents. My problem is that I am connected 24/7 with a person (Sheryl Crow) that is compromising my interests and my intellectual property at a time when I am litigating civil and criminal proceedings. My business interests are also greatly compromised. I do not know how I became telepathic, or if I was trained without my knowledge and or consent. I need to seek help in trying to disconnect. The person that is connected to me subjects me to a brutal array of mental and psychological abuse. I firmly believe that they are being used as a medium for this purpose. I have waited 20 years to resolve my issues in a Court of Law, and this is not a good time for this ability to assert itself, and of course it is very suspect considering my Federal False Claims Act allegations.

Unfortunately, I have had personal “dealings” with the Department of Advanced Research Projects (DARPA) that dates back to 1990 when I had contracts with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and DARPA. I know that they study and research paranormal activities and technologies, including remote channeling. My Whistle-Blowing activities and my knowledge of the fraud within ISC back in 1987, has put me in direct scrutiny of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) due to their relationships with ISC, and of course my very public condemnation of the fraud. I don’t know if any of your agents have any experience with this type of situation, but there are definitely National Security issues that may need to be addressed. There are persons that can actually eaves drop on this type of communication, and I am constantly being question on matters related to ISC, and other foreign affairs. My knowledge of the Middle East is quite extensive, and there is always the possibility for someone to glean information for illegitimate reasons.

In the past few weeks I have downloaded a declassified document dump from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that contained hundreds of bibliographies from the Soviet Union dating as far back as the 1930’s regarding this subject. It appears that they have more knowledge and expertise than the United States. This brings me to a disclosure that may or may not be concerning. Over the past several months I have had two contacts and intimate conversation with an 80-year-old Russian immigrant regarding my problem. She seemed to be knowledgeable of the subject matter and made several disclosures, which may or not be true. She said that she was a Psychologist with a Doctorate degree and a former employee of the Pennsylvania State University System. She also disclosed that her former husband was imprisoned and tortured by the KGB.

I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Stan J. Caterbone cc: USPS Certified Mail Enclosures Letter of June 15, 2007 May 24, 2007 – Letter from United States Postal Inspection Service February 26, 2007 - Email to DARPA April 12, 2007 – Email Confirmation from CIA 2002 – CIA Declassified Document July 10, 2007 – Email from The GAO

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PRESS RELEASE Saturday, July 4, 2015 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Advanced Media Group and Stan J. Caterbone Proposed ORGANIZED STALKING AND DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS HARASSMENT BILL to Pennsylvania House of Representative Mike Sturla (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) and City of Lancaster Mayor Richard Gray.

The draft legislation is the work of Missouri House of Representative Jim Guest, who has been working on helping victims of these horrendous crimes for years. The bill will provide protections to individuals who are being harassed, stalked, harmed by surveillance, and assaulted; as well as protections to keep individuals from becoming human research subjects, tortured, and killed by electronic frequency devices, directed energy devices, implants, and directed energy weapons.

Stan J. Caterbone has been a victim of organized stalking since 1987 and a victim of electronic and direct energy weapons since 2005. He has also been telepathic since 2005. Stan J. Caterbone will help introduce measures that also pertain to remote viewing; mental telepathy and synthetic telepathy in more detail. Personal accounts of his pain and torture are also filed in various United States federal and state courts.

We are urging you to contact your local representatives and support our efforts to pass this legislation. Below you will find the listings of Pennsylvania State Representatives.

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______The draft of the legislation can be found on the following page:

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Organized Stalking and Directed Energy Devices and Weapons Bill

Section 1. Short Title - This bill may be cited as the “Organized Stalking and Directed Energy Devices and Weapons Bill” ””

Section 2. Findings and Purpose A) Findings

1) The constitution guarantees the right of the people to be secure in their person. The Declaration of Independence asserts as self-evident that all men have certain inalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

2) As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1928, “the framers of the Constitution sought "to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions, and their sensations." It is for this reason that they established, as against the government, the right to be let alone as "the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.“

3) The first principle of the Nuremberg Code states that with respect to human research, the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. The Nuremberg Code further asserts that such consent must be competent, informed, and comprehending.

4)There are current regulations implementing the obligations of the United States to adhere to Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Forms of Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment including all terms that are Subject to any reservations, understandings, declarations, and provisions contained in the United States Senate resolution of ratification of the Convention.

B) Purpose To establish regulations and penalties for those who use any type of electronic frequency devices, directed energy devices, implants, surveillance technology, and directed energy weapon to purposefully cause any of the following: stalking, harassing, mental or physical harm, injury, harmful surveillance, torture, diseases, and death to any United States citizen.

Section 3. Organized Stalking If two or more persons willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follow or willfully and maliciously harass another person and who make a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of his or her immediate family, they are guilty of the crime of organized stalking, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by not more than one thousand dollars ($ 1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in a federal prison. If two or more persons violate subdivision (a) when there is a temporary restraining order, injunction, or any other court order in effect prohibiting the behavior described in subdivision (a) against the same party, they shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.

For the purposes of this section, "harass" means engages in a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes the person, or damages his personal property or possessions and that serves no legitimate purpose. * * *

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For the purposes of this section, "course of conduct" means two or more acts occurring over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of "course of conduct."

For the purposes of this section, "credible threat" means a verbal or written threat, including that performed through the use of an electronic communication device, or a threat implied by a pattern of conduct or a combination of verbal, written, or electronically communicated statements and conduct, made with the intent to place the person that is the target of the threat in reasonable fear for his or her safety or the safety of his or her family, or personal property or possessions and made with the apparent ability to carry out the threat so as to cause the person who is the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety or the safety of his or her family or personal property or possessions. It is not necessary to prove that the defendant had the intent to actually carry out the threat. The present incarceration of a person making the threat shall not be a bar to prosecution under this section. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of "credible threat."

For purposes of this section, the term "electronic communication device" includes, but is not limited to, telephones, cellular phones, computers, video recorders, fax machines, pagers or synthetic telepathy devices.

The sentencing court also shall consider issuing an order restraining the defendant from any contact with the victim, that may be valid for up to 10 years, as determined by the court. It is the intent of the Legislature that the length of any restraining order be based upon the seriousness of the facts before the court, the probability of future violations, and the safety of the victim and his or her immediate family.

For purposes of this section, "immediate family" means any spouse, parent, child, any person related by consanguinity or affinity within the second degree, or any other person who regularly resides in the household, or who, within the prior six months, regularly resided in the household.

Section 4. Punishment for threats Any person or persons who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family's safety, shall be punished by imprisonment in a federal prison not to exceed one year..

For the purposes of this section, "immediate family" means any spouse, whether by marriage or not, parent, child, any person related by consanguinity or affinity within the second degree, or any other person who regularly resides in the household, or who, within the prior six months, regularly resided in the household.

"Electronic communication device" includes, but is not limited to, telephones, cellular telephones, computers, video recorders, fax machines, pagers or synthetic telepathy devices

Obscene, threatening or annoying communication (a) Every person or persons who, with intent to annoy, telephones or makes constant contact by means of an electronic communication device with another and addresses to or about the other person any obscene language or addresses to the other person any threat to inflict injury to the person or any member of his or her family, or any property or personal possessions is guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to telephone calls or electronic contacts made in good faith. Page 3

(b) Every person or persons who makes repeated telephone calls or makes repeated contact by means of an electronic communication device with intent to annoy another person at his or her residence, is, whether or not conversation ensues from making the telephone call or electronic contact, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to telephone calls or electronic contacts made in good faith.

(c) Every person or persons who makes repeated telephone calls or makes repeated contact by means of an electronic communication device with the intent to annoy another person at his or her place of work is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($ 1,000), or by imprisonment in a federal prison for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to telephone calls or electronic contacts made in good faith. This subdivision applies only if one or both of the following circumstances exist:

(1) There is a temporary restraining order, an injunction, or any other court order, or any combination of these court orders, in effect prohibiting the behavior described in this section.

(2) The person or persons makes repeated telephone calls or makes repeated contact by means of an electronic communication device with the intent to annoy another person at his or her place of work, totaling more than 10 times in a 24-hour period, whether or not conversation ensues from making the telephone call or electronic contact, and the repeated telephone calls or electronic contacts are made to the workplace of an adult or fully emancipated minor who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or person with whom the person has a child or has had a dating or engagement relationship or is having a dating or engagement relationship.

(d) Any offense committed by use of a telephone may be deemed to have been committed where the telephone call or calls were made or received. Any offense committed by use of an electronic communication device or medium, including the Internet, may be deemed to have been committed when the electronic communication or communications were originally sent or first viewed by the recipient.

(e) Subdivision (a), (b), or (c) is violated when the person acting with intent to annoy makes a telephone call requesting a return call and performs the acts prohibited under subdivision (a), (b), or (c) upon receiving the return call.

(f) If probation is granted, or the execution or imposition of sentence is suspended, for any person or persons convicted under this section, the court may order as a condition of probation that the person participate in counseling.

(g) For purposes of this section, the term "electronic communication device" includes, but is not limited to, telephones, cellular phones, computers, video recorders, fax machines, pagers or synthetic telepathy devices.

Section 5. Assault and battery with an electronic or directed energy weapon Any person or persons who in the course of organized stalking and harassment, commits an assault upon the person of another with an unauthorized directed energy weapon shall be punished by imprisonment in a federal prison for two, three, or four years or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

For the purposes of this section the term directed energy weapon is defined as any device that directs a source of energy (including molecular or atomic energy, subatomic particle beams, electromagnetic radiation, plasma, or extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation) against a person or any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means of inflicting death or injury; or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, Page 4

mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person via land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; or by expelling chemical or biological agents in the vicinity of a person.

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Hon. P. Michael Sturla Hon. Scott W. Boyd 8 North Queen Street 852 Village Rd.,Municipal Hon. Matthew E. Baker Suite 1100 The Griest Building Bldg 115 Ryan Office Building Lancaster, PA 17603 P.O. Box 268 PO Box 202068 (717) 295-3157 Lampeter, PA 17537 Harrisburg, PA 17120-2068 Fax: (717) 295-7816 (717) 464-5285 (717) 772-5371 Fax: (717) 295-7817 Fax: (717) 705-1850 Hon. P. Michael Sturla 120 Main Capitol Building Hon. Scott W. Boyd Hon. Thomas R. Caltagirone, PO Box 202096 432 Irvis Office Building Judiciary , Chairman Harrisburg, PA 17120-2096 PO Box 202043 645 Penn Street, 2nd Floor (717) 787-3555 Harrisburg, PA 17120-2043 Reading, PA 19601 Fax: (717) 705-1923 (717) 783-6422 (610) 376-1529 Fax: (717) 787-7731 Fax: (610) 378-4406 Hon. Bryan Cutler 207 East State Street Hon. Katie True Hon. Thomas R. Caltagirone Quarryville, PA 17566 2938 Columbia Avenue 106 Irvis Office Building (717) 786-4551 Manor West Commons, Suite PO Box 202127 Fax: (717) 786-3645 501 Harrisburg, PA 17120-2127 Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 787-3525 Hon. Bryan Cutler (717) 295-5050 Fax: (717) 772-5401 147A East Wing Fax: (717) 295-5053 PO Box 202100 Hon. Ron Marsico Harrisburg, PA 17120-2100 Hon. Katie True Judiciary , Chairman (717) 783-6424 7 East Wing 4401 Linglestown Road, Suite B Fax: (717) 772-9859 PO Box 202041 Harrisburg, PA 17112 Harrisburg, PA 17120-2041 (717) 652-3721 Hon. John M. Perzel (717) 705-7161 Fax: (717) 652-6276 7518 Frankford Ave. Fax: (717) 705-1946 Philadelphia, PA 19136 Hon. Ron Marsico (215) 331-2600 Hon. Frank Louis Oliver, 218 Ryan Office Building Fax: (215) 708-3135 Health & Human Services , PO Box 202105 Chairman Harrisburg, PA 17120-2105 Hon. John M. Perzel 2839 West Girard Avenue (717) 783-2014 146 Main Capitol Building Philadelphia, PA 19130 Fax: (717) 705-2010 PO Box 202172 (215) 684-3738 Harrisburg, PA 17120-2172 Fax: (215) 235-4629 Hon. Camille Bud George, (717) 787-2016 Environmental Resources & Fax: (717) 783-7225 Hon. Frank Louis Oliver Energy , Chairman 34E East Wing 275 Spring Street Hon. Michael H. O'Brien PO Box 202195 Houtzdale, PA 16651 610 North 2nd Street Harrisburg, PA 17120-2195 (814) 378-6279 Philadelphia, PA 19123 (717) 787-3480 Fax: (814) 765-0609 (215) 503-3245 Fax: (717) 783-0684 Fax: (215) 503-7850 Hon. Camille Bud George Hon. Matthew E. Baker 38B East Wing Hon. Michael H. O'Brien Health & Human Services , PO Box 202074 107 East Wing Chairman 74 Main Street Harrisburg, PA 17120-2074 PO Box 202175 Wellsboro, PA 16901 (717) 787-7316 Harrisburg, PA 17120-2175 (570) 724-1390 Fax: (717) 783-8236 (717) 783-8098 Fax: (570) 724-2168 Fax: (717) 780-4787

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Hon. Scott E. Hutchinson, Jeffrey E. Piccola (R) Environmental Resources & Senate District 15 Energy , Chairman Dauphin (part) and York 302 Seneca Street (part) Counties. Oil City, PA 16301

(814) 677-6363 Senate Box 203015

Fax: (814) 676-1653 Harrisburg, PA 17120-3015 173 Capitol Building Hon. Scott E. Hutchinson (717) 787-6801 152 Main Capitol Building D.O. ADDRESS: PO Box 202064 916-B Park Plaza Harrisburg, PA 17120-2064 North River Road (717) 783-8188 Halifax, PA 17032 Fax: (717) 705-1945 (717) 896-7714 [email protected] :

Lloyd K. Smucker (R) http://www.piccola.org

Senate District 13 Lancaster (part) and York (part) Counties. Michael W. Brubaker (R) Senate District 36 Senate Box 203013 Chester (part) and Lancaster Harrisburg, PA 17120-3013 185 (part) Counties. Main Capitol Senate Box 203036 (717) 787-6535 Harrisburg, PA 17120-3036

D.O. ADDRESS: 16 East Wing

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Richmond council passes resolution supporting ban on space-based weapons

May 20, 2015 FacebookTwitterMore 9 comments The Richmond City Council passed a resolution Tuesday supporting a ban on space-based weapons after a lengthy discussion over whether individuals are being psychologically and physically harmed by exotic government-patented attacks from high in the sky. Councilmember Jovanka Beckles, a member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA), introduced the resolution, saying it begins to address concerns of a Richmond resident who claims she’s been targeted by “remote transmission” from space-based weaponry. Others claiming to have suffered physical and psychological attacks traveled from around the country to speak at Tuesday’s council meeting. One speaker claimed to have been zapped multiple times right before his testimony at council. The resolution supports the Space Preservation Act and Space Preservation Treaty permanently banning “space-based weapons,” even though the legislation first introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich in 2001 has never gained traction in Congress. It appears that Richmond is the first municipality in the U.S. to take up this lofty issue in more than a decade. In 2002, the City of Berkeley passed a similar resolution supporting the ban. Conspiracy theorists believe the resolution is a step toward ensuring secret weaponry such as chemtrails, which are trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft that supposedly emit a chemical or biological agent, can no longer target unwitting citizens. For RPA members on the council, the resolution is also an anti-war initiative. RPA members on council, Gayle McLaughlin and Eduardo Martinez, also voted in favor of the resolution. Vice Mayor Jael Myrick and Councilmember Nat Bates were the final two yes votes, although Bates claimed he was confused by the discussion. “I’m going to support the resolution for the simple reason that we have voted on a lot of

Page 8 dumb ideas,” Bates said. Mayor Tom Butt voted no, saying he believes the conspiracy theory behind space-based weapons is above the heads of city leaders and has taken time away from more pressing city matters such as the budget deficit, potholes, and crime. Butt has complained in the past about the RPA attempting to hijack council sessions to push a radical agenda regardless of whether the issues are important to Richmond residents. The mayor also pointed to a signed 1967 treaty banning the militarization of space. The other dissenting vote came from Councilmember Vinay Pimple, who pointed out that supporting a limitation on the ability of the U.S. to defend against attacks from long- range missiles might not be wise. Pimple disputed what he called “knee-jerk” reactions from RPA members who depicted President Ronald Reagan’s proposed space-based anti-missile program of 1983, known as the “Star Wars” initiative, as inherently evil. The Cold War initiative was intended to defend against USSR missiles during the Cold War and was shelved not for the project’s moral ambiguity but its perceived effectiveness, Pimple said. The idea behind Star Wars, Pimple said, “is you can knock out someone’s weapons long before they enter your air space. The U.S. used Patriot missiles to knock out Iraqi Scuds targeting Israel and Saudi Arabia, he added. RPA members, however, argued that this issue is not just about war but about the individuals in the U.S. who believe governments are using futuristic weapons in space for the purpose of inflicting pain and mind control. Martinez argued that they may very well be telling the truth. He recalled a science fiction novel he wrote a paper on during college that predicted truths 20 years in advance. “It’s easy for me to see that things which are wrong can happen because we have the wrong mindset,” Martinez said. Myrick said he supported the resolution because he doesn’t support war. “The weaponization of space…is something I think is extremely immoral and we should not be as a nation engaging in,” Myrick said. “Maybe some wars are unavoidable, that may be true. But whatever we can do to get our country away from that mindset…..that’s why I support this resolution.” Amy Lee Anderson, a “targeted individual” who brought the matter to Beckles’ attention, was thankful that the council took up the issue. “No where in the United States, no targeted individual can get this support,” Anderson said. “We just needed one person, one city. Because of that, you all our heroes. We are dying within because the technology is so sophisticated. It’s hard for someone who has no experience to fathom it, it’s so sophisticated.”

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Comments 1. C’mon Richmond Standard….your bias is showing!

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Project MKUltra From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "MKULTRA" redirects here. For other uses, see MKULTRA (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Edgewood Arsenal human experiments.

Project MKUltra — sometimes referred to as the CIA's mind control program — was the code name given to an illegal program of experiments on human subjects, designed and undertaken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual to force confessions through mind control. Organized through the Scientific Intelligence Division of the CIA, the project coordinated with the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Army's Chemical Corps.[1] The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and officially halted in 1973.[2] The program engaged in many illegal activities; [3][4][5] in particular it used unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy. [3](p74)[6][7][8] MKUltra used numerous methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.[9]

The scope of Project MKUltra was broad, with research undertaken at 80 institutions, including 44 colleges and universities, as well as hospitals, prisons and pharmaceutical companies. [10] The CIA operated through these institutions [11] using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA's involvement. Declassified MKUltra documents As the US Supreme Court later noted, MKULTRA was:

concerned with "the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior." The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA indirectly, many of the participating individuals were unaware that they were dealing with the Agency. [12]

Project MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the U.S. Congress, and a Gerald Ford commission to investigate CIA activities within the United States. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms' destruction order. [13]

In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to project MKUltra, which led to Senate hearings later that same year. [3][14] In July 2001, some surviving information regarding MKUltra was officially declassified.

Contents

1 Background 1.1 Precursor experiments 1.2 MKUltra 2 Goals 3 Experiments 3.1 Drugs 3.1.1 LSD 3.1.2 Other drugs 3.2 Electronics 3.3 Hypnosis 3.4 Canadian experiments 4 Revelation 5 1984 U.S. General Accounting Office report 6 Deaths 7 Legal issues involving informed consent 8 Extent of participation 9 Scientists involved 10 Notable subjects 11 Conspiracy theories 12 Aftermath 13 In popular culture 13.1 Books 13.2 Film 13.3 Television 13.4 Audio 14 See also 15 References

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Background

Precursor experiments

In 1945 the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip. The program recruited former Nazi scientists, [15] some of whom had been identified and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials.[16]

Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip. These projects included Project CHATTER (established 1947), and Project BLUEBIRD (established 1950), which was renamed Project ARTICHOKE in 1951. Their purpose was to study mind control, interrogation, behavior modification and related topics.

MKUltra

The project's intentionally oblique CIA cryptonym is made up of the digraph MK , meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency's Technical Services Staff, followed by the word Ultra (which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence). Other related cryptonyms include Project MKNAOMI and Project MKDELTA.

Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, the MKUltra project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles on April Dr. Sidney Gottlieb approved of an 13, 1953. [17] Its aim was to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet bloc, largely in response to alleged MKUltra subproject on LSD in this Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea. [18] The CIA June 9, 1953 letter. wanted to use similar methods on their own captives. The CIA was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques, [19] and would later invent several schemes to drug Fidel Castro. Experiments were often conducted without the subjects' knowledge or consent. [20] In some cases, academic researchers being funded through grants from CIA front organizations were unaware that their work was being used for these purposes. [21]

In 1964, the project was renamed MKSEARCH. The project attempted to produce a perfect truth drug for use in interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War, and generally to explore any other possibilities of mind control. Another MKUltra effort, Subproject 54, was the Navy's top secret "Perfect Concussion" program, which was supposed to use sub-aural frequency blasts to erase memory. However, the program was never carried out. [22]

Because most MKUltra records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then CIA director Richard Helms, it has been difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research sub-projects sponsored by MKUltra and related CIA programs. [23]

The project began during a period of what Rupert Cornwell described as "paranoia" at the CIA, when America had lost its nuclear monopoly, and fear of Communism was at its height. [24] James Jesus Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, believed that the organization had been penetrated by a mole at the highest levels. [24]

Goals

The Agency poured millions of dollars into studies examining methods of influencing and controlling the mind, and of enhancing their ability to extract information from resistant subjects during interrogation. [25][26]

Some historians have asserted that creating a "Manchurian Candidate" subject through "mind control" techniques was a goal of MKUltra and related CIA projects. [27] Alfred McCoy has claimed that the CIA attempted to focus media attention on these sorts of "ridiculous" programs, so that the public would not look at the primary goal of the research, which was developing effective methods of torture and interrogation. Such authors cite as one example that the CIA's KUBARK interrogation manual refers to "studies at McGill University", and that most of the techniques recommended in KUBARK are exactly those that researcher Donald Ewen Cameron used on his test subjects (sensory deprivation, drugs, isolation, etc.). [25]

One 1955 MKUltra document gives an indication of the size and range of the effort; this document refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering substances described as follows: [28]

1. Substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in public. 2. Substances which increase the efficiency of mentation and perception. 3. Materials which will cause the victim to age faster/slower in maturity. 4. Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol. 5. Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way so that they may be used for malingering, etc. 6. Materials which will cause temporary/permanent brain damage and loss of memory. 7. Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion during interrogation and so-called "brain-washing". 8. Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use.

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9. Physical methods of producing shock and confusion over extended periods of time and capable of surreptitious use. 10. Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc. 11. Substances which will produce a chemical that can cause blisters. 12. Substances which alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced. 13. A material which will cause mental confusion of such a type that the individual under its influence will find it difficult to maintain a fabrication under questioning. 14. Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts. 15. Substances which promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties, preferably without permanent effects. 16. A knockout pill which can surreptitiously be administered in drinks, food, cigarettes, as an aerosol, etc., which will be safe to use, provide a maximum of amnesia, and be suitable for use by agent types on an ad hoc basis. 17. A material which can be surreptitiously administered by the above routes and which in very small amounts will make it impossible for a person to perform physical activity.

Experiments

CIA documents suggest that "chemical, biological and radiological" means were investigated for the purpose of mind control as part of MKUltra. [29] A secret memorandum granted the MKUltra director up to six percent of the CIA research budget in fiscal year 1953, without oversight or accounting. [30] An estimated $10 million USD (roughly $87.5 million adjusted for inflation) or more was spent. [31]

Drugs

LSD

Early CIA efforts focused on LSD, which later came to dominate many of MKUltra's programs. Technical Services Staff officials understood that LSD distorted a person's sense of reality, and they felt compelled to learn whether it could alter someone's basic loyalties. [32] The CIA wanted to know if they could make Russian spies defect against their will and whether the Russians could do the same to their own operatives. [32]

Once Project MKUltra officially got underway in April, 1953, experiments included administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts and prostitutes, "people who could not fight back," as one agency officer put it. [33] In one case LSD was administered to a mental patient in Kentucky for 174 days. [33] LSD was also administered to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after World War II. The aim of this was to find drugs which would irresistibly bring out deep confessions or wipe a subject's mind clean and program him or her as "a robot agent." [34]

In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels in San Francisco, California to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with 1953 experiment record one-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and study. [35] In other experiments where people were given LSD without their knowledge, they were interrogated under bright lights with doctors in the background taking notes. The subjects were told that their "trips" would be extended indefinitely if they refused to reveal their secrets. The people being interrogated this way were CIA employees, U.S. military personnel, and agents suspected of working for the other side in the Cold War. Long-term debilitation and several deaths resulted from this. [34] Heroin addicts were bribed into taking LSD with offers of more heroin. [11]

The office of Security used LSD in interrogations but Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist who directed MKUltra, had other ideas: he thought it could be used in covert operations. Since its effects were temporary, he believed it could be given to high officials and in this way affect the course of important meetings, speeches etc. Since he realized there was a difference in testing the drug in a laboratory and using it in clandestine operations, he initiated a series of experiments where LSD was given to people in "normal" settings without warning. At first, everyone in Technical Services tried it; a typical experiment involved two people in a room where they observed each other for hours and took notes. As the experimentation progressed, a point was reached where outsiders were drugged with no explanation whatsoever and surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA operatives. Adverse reactions often occurred, for example an operative who had received the drug in his morning coffee, became psychotic and ran across Washington, seeing a monster in every car that passed him. The experiments continued even after Dr. Frank Olson, an Army scientist who had not taken LSD before, went into deep depression after a surprise trip and later fell from a thirteenth story window (it is unclear whether he committed suicide or was murdered). [36]

Some subjects' participation was consensual, and in these cases they appeared to be singled out for even more extreme experiments. In one case, seven volunteers in Kentucky were given LSD for 77 consecutive days. [37]

LSD was eventually dismissed by MKUltra's researchers as too unpredictable in its results. [38] They had given up on the notion that LSD was "the secret that was going to unlock the universe," but it still had a place in the cloak-and-dagger arsenal. However, by 1962 the CIA and the army had developed a series of superhallucinogens such as the highly touted BZ, which was thought to hold greater promise as a mind control weapon. This resulted in the withdrawal of support by many academics and private researchers, and LSD research became less of a priority altogether. [36]

Other drugs

Another technique investigated was connecting a barbiturate IV into one arm and an amphetamine IV into the other. [39] The barbiturates were released into the

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person first, and as soon as the person began to fall asleep, the amphetamines were released. The person would then begin babbling incoherently, and it was sometimes possible to ask questions and get useful answers.

Other experiments involved heroin, morphine, temazepam (used under code name MKSEARCH), mescaline, psilocybin, scopolamine, marijuana, alcohol, and sodium pentothal.[40]

Electronics

At least one subproject of the MK Ultra project was about the electronic control of human behaviour (subproject 119). Subproject 119 had the purpose to provide funds for a study to make a critical review of the literature and scientific developments related to the recording, analysis and interpretation of bio-electric signals from the human organism, and activation of the human behaviour by remote means. The survey encompassed five main areas: techniques of activation of the human organism by remote electronic means, bio-electric sensors, recording, analysis and standardization of data.

Hypnosis

Declassified MKUltra documents indicate hypnosis was studied in the early 1950s. Experimental goals included: the creation of "hypnotically induced anxieties," "hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter," studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations, "hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects," and studying "relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis." [41] Experiments were conducted with drug induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia while under the influence of such drugs.

Canadian experiments

The experiments were exported to Canada when the CIA recruited Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, creator of the "psychic driving" concept, which the CIA found particularly interesting. Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and reprogramming the psyche. He commuted from Albany, New York, to Montreal every week to work at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKUltra experiments there. These research funds were sent to Dr. Cameron by a CIA front organization, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and as shown in internal CIA documents, Dr. Cameron did not know that the money originated from the CIA. [42] In addition to LSD, Cameron also experimented with various paralytic drugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered permanently from his actions. [43] His treatments resulted in victims' incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents. [44] His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist William Sargant at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Surrey, who was also involved in the Intelligence Services and who experimented extensively on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage. [45] Donald Ewen Cameron c.1967 It was during this era that Cameron became known worldwide as the first chairman of the World Psychiatric Association as well as president of the American and Canadian psychiatric associations. Cameron had also been a member of the Nuremberg medical tribunal in 1946–47.[46]

Naomi Klein argues in her book The Shock Doctrine that Cameron's research and his contribution to the MKUltra project was actually not about mind control and brainwashing, but about designing "a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources.' In other words, torture." [47] Alfred W. McCoy writes that "Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Dr. Cameron's experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method," which refers to first creating a state of disorientation in the subject, and then second creating a situation of "self-inflicted" discomfort in which the disoriented subject can alleviate their pain by capitulating. [48]

Revelation

In 1973, with the government-wide panic caused by Watergate, the CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed. [49] Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MKUltra impossible. A cache of some 20,000 documents survived Helms' purge, as they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building and were discovered following a FOIA request in 1977. These documents were fully investigated during the Senate Hearings of 1977. [3]

In December 1974, The New York Times alleged that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. That report prompted investigations by the U.S. Congress, in the form of the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission that looked into domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI, and intelligence-related agencies of the military.

In the summer of 1975, congressional Church Committee reports and the presidential Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public for the first time that the CIA and the Department of Defense had conducted experiments on both unwitting and cognizant human subjects as part of an extensive program to influence and control human behavior through the use of Frank Church headed the psychoactive drugs such as LSD and mescaline and other chemical, biological, and psychological means. They also revealed that Church Committee, an at least one subject had died after administration of LSD. Much of what the Church Committee and the Rockefeller Commission investigation into the learned about MKUltra was contained in a report, prepared by the Inspector General's office in 1963, that had survived the practices of the US intelligence agencies. destruction of records ordered in 1973. [50] However, it contained little detail. Sidney Gottlieb, who had retired from the CIA two years previously, was interviewed by the committee but claimed to have very little recollection of the activities of MKUltra. [10]

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The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator Frank Church, concluded that "[p]rior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects". The committee noted that the "experiments sponsored by these researchers ... call into question the decision by the agencies not to fix guidelines for experiments."

Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject" and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission. Subsequent orders by Presidents Carter and Reagan expanded the directive to apply to any human experimentation.

In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to look further into MKUltra, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of records, consisting of about 20,000 pages, that had survived the 1973 destruction orders because they had been stored at a records center not usually used for such documents. [50] These files dealt with the financing of MKUltra projects and contained few project details, however much more was learned from them than from the Inspector General's 1963 report.

On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said:

The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers. [51]

1977 United States Senate report on In Canada, the issue took much longer to surface, becoming widely known in 1984 on a CBC news show, The Fifth MKUltra Estate . It was learned that not only had the CIA funded Dr. Cameron's efforts, but perhaps even more shockingly, the Canadian government was fully aware of this, and had later provided another $500,000 in funding to continue the experiments. This revelation largely derailed efforts by the victims to sue the CIA as their U.S. counterparts had, and the Canadian government eventually settled out of court for $100,000 to each of the 127 victims. None of Dr. Cameron's personal records of his involvement with MKUltra survived, since his family destroyed them after his death from a heart attack while mountain climbing in 1967. [52]

1984 U.S. General Accounting Office report

The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1984, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances.

The quote from the study: [53]

Working with the CIA, the Department of Defense gave hallucinogenic drugs to thousands of "volunteer" soldiers in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to LSD, the Army also tested quinuclidinyl benzilate, a hallucinogen code-named BZ. (Note 37) Many of these tests were conducted under the so-called MKULTRA program, established to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese advances in brainwashing techniques. Between 1953 and 1964, the program consisted of 149 projects involving drug testing and other studies on unwitting human subjects

Deaths

Given the CIA's purposeful destruction of most records, its failure to follow informed consent protocols with thousands of participants, the uncontrolled nature of the experiments, and the lack of follow-up data, the full impact of MKUltra experiments, including deaths, will never be known. [23][28][53][54]

Several known deaths have been associated with Project MKUltra, most notably that of Frank Olson. Olson, a United States Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, was given LSD without his knowledge or consent in November, 1953, as part of a CIA experiment and died under suspicious circumstances a week later. A CIA doctor assigned to monitor Olson claimed to have been asleep in another bed in a New York City hotel room when Olson exited the window and fell thirteen stories to his death. In 1953, Olson's death was described as a suicide that had occurred during a severe psychotic episode. The CIA's own internal investigation concluded that the head of MK ULTRA, CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, had conducted the LSD experiment with Olson's prior knowledge, although neither Olson nor the other men taking part in the experiment were informed as to the exact nature of the drug until some 20 minutes after its ingestion. The report further suggested that Gottlieb was nonetheless due a reprimand, as he had failed to take into account Olson's already-diagnosed suicidal tendencies, which might have been exacerbated by the LSD. [55]

The Olson family disputes the official version of events. They maintain that Frank Olson was murdered because, especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he had become a security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly classified CIA programs, about many of which he had direct personal knowledge. [56] A few days before his death, Frank Olson quit his position as acting chief of the Special Operations Division at Detrick, Maryland (later Fort Detrick) because of a severe moral crisis concerning the nature of his biological weapons research. Among Olson's concerns were the development of assassination materials used by the CIA, the CIA's use of biological warfare materials in covert operations, experimentation with biological weapons in populated areas, collaboration with former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip, LSD mind-control research, and the use of psychoactive drugs during "terminal" interrogations under a program code-named Project ARTICHOKE.[57] Later forensic evidence conflicted with the official version of events; when Olson's body was exhumed in 1994, cranial injuries indicated that Olson had been knocked unconscious before he exited the window. [55] The medical examiner termed Olson's death a "homicide". [58] In 1975, Olson's family received a $750,000 settlement from the U.S. government and formal apologies from President

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Gerald Ford and CIA Director William Colby, though their apologies were limited to informed consent issues concerning Olson's ingestion of LSD. [54][59] On 28 November 2012, the Olson family filed suit against the U.S. federal government for the wrongful death of Frank Olson. [60]

In his 2009 book, A Terrible Mistake , researcher H. P. Albarelli Jr. concurs with the Olson family and concludes that Frank Olson was murdered because a personal crisis of conscience made it likely he would divulge state secrets concerning several CIA programs, chief among them Project ARTICHOKE and an MKDELTA project code-named Project SPAN. Albarelli theorizes that Project SPAN involved the contamination of food supplies and the aerosolized spraying of a potent LSD mixture in the village of Pont-Saint-Esprit, France in August, 1951. The 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning resulted in mass psychosis, 32 commitments to mental institutions, and at least seven deaths. Albarelli writes that Olson was involved in the development of aerosolized delivery systems and had been present at Pont-Saint-Esprit in August, 1951. According to Albarelli, several months before resigning his position Olsen had witnessed a terminal interrogation conducted in Germany under Project ARTICHOKE. While most academic sources accept ergot poisoning, poisoning by mercury, mycotoxins, or nitrogen trichloride, as the cause of the Pont-Saint-Esprit epidemic, [61][62][63][64][65] others like paranormal author John Grant Fuller in The Day of Saint Anthony's Fire have reached conclusions similar to Albarelli's. [54][66]

On April 26, 1976, the Church Committee of the United States Senate issued a report, "Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operation with Respect to Intelligence Activities", [67] In Book I, Chapter XVII, p 389 this report states:

LSD was one of the materials tested in the MKUltra program. The final phase of LSD testing involved surreptitious administration to unwitting non-volunteer subjects in normal life settings by undercover officers of the Bureau of Narcotics acting for the CIA.

A special procedure, designated MKDELTA, was established to govern the use of MKUltra materials abroad. Such materials were used on a number of occasions. Because MKUltra records were destroyed, it is impossible to reconstruct the operational use of MKUltra materials by the CIA overseas; it has been determined that the use of these materials abroad began in 1953, and possibly as early as 1950. [68][69][70][71][72]

Drugs were used primarily as an aid to interrogations, but MKUltra/MKDelta materials were also used for harassment, discrediting, or disabling purposes. [68][69][70][71][72]

Legal issues involving informed consent

The revelations about the CIA and the Army prompted a number of subjects or their survivors to file lawsuits against the federal government for conducting experiments without informed consent. Although the government aggressively, and sometimes successfully, sought to avoid legal liability, several plaintiffs did receive compensation through court order, out-of-court settlement, or acts of Congress. Frank Olson's family received $750,000 by a special act of Congress, and both President Ford and CIA director William Colby met with Olson's family to apologize publicly.

Previously, the CIA and the Army had actively and successfully sought to withhold incriminating information, even as they secretly provided compensation to the families. One subject of Army drug experimentation, James Stanley, an Army sergeant, brought an important, albeit unsuccessful, suit. The government argued that Stanley was barred from suing under a legal doctrine—known as the Feres doctrine, after a 1950 Supreme Court case, Feres v. United States —that prohibits members of the Armed Forces from suing the government for any harms that were inflicted "incident to service."

In 1987, the Supreme Court affirmed this defense in a 5–4 decision that dismissed Stanley's case: United States v. Stanley .[73] The majority argued that "a test for liability that depends on the extent to which particular suits would call into question military discipline and decision making would itself require judicial inquiry into, and hence intrusion upon, military matters." In dissent, Justice William Brennan argued that the need to preserve military discipline should not protect the government from liability and punishment for serious violations of constitutional rights:

The medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable. The United States Military Tribunal established the Nuremberg Code as a standard against which to judge German scientists who experimented with human subjects... . [I]n defiance of this principle, military intelligence officials ... began surreptitiously testing chemical and biological materials, including LSD.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing a separate dissent, stated:

No judicially crafted rule should insulate from liability the involuntary and unknowing human experimentation alleged to have occurred in this case. Indeed, as Justice Brennan observes, the United States played an instrumental role in the criminal prosecution of Nazi officials who experimented with human subjects during the Second World War, and the standards that the Nuremberg Military Tribunals developed to judge the behavior of the defendants stated that the 'voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential ... to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal concepts.' If this principle is violated, the very least that society can do is to see that the victims are compensated, as best they can be, by the perpetrators.

In another lawsuit, Wayne Ritchie, a former United States Marshal, after hearing about the project's existence in 1990, alleged the CIA laced his food or drink with LSD at a 1957 Christmas party which resulted in his attempting to commit a robbery at a bar and his subsequent arrest. While the government admitted it was, at that time, drugging people without their consent, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel found Ritchie could not prove he was one of the victims of MKUltra or that LSD caused his robbery attempt and dismissed the case in 2007. [74]

Extent of participation

Forty-four American colleges or universities, 15 research foundations or chemical or pharmaceutical companies including Sandoz (now Novartis) and Eli Lilly and Company, 12 hospitals or clinics (in addition to those associated with universities), and three prisons are known to have participated in MKUltra. [75][76]

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Scientists involved

Harris Isbell [14] Donald Ewen Cameron Harold Alexander Abramson Louis Jolyon West

Notable subjects

Merry Prankster Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park while he was a student at nearby Stanford University. Kesey's experiences while under the influence of LSD inspired him to promote the drug outside the context of the MKUltra experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture. [77][78] Robert Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Along with Ken Kesey, Hunter was an early volunteer MKUltra test subject at Stanford University. Stanford test subjects were paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, then report on their experiences. These experiences were creatively formative for Hunter:

Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep- very-softly mist... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell-like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding bells... By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane. [79]

Cathy O'Brien, author, claims to have been subjected to the program since childhood. She names several prominent government participants in her book Trance Formation of America Candy Jones, American fashion model and radio host, claimed to have been a victim of mind control in the 1960s. [80] Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger volunteered for testing while in prison at USP Leavenworth in 1963. [81]

Conspiracy theories

MKUltra plays a part in many conspiracy theories due to its nature and the destruction of most records. [82]

Lawrence Teeter, attorney for convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, believed Sirhan was under the influence of hypnosis when he fired his weapon at Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Teeter linked the CIA's MKUltra program to mind control techniques that he claimed were used to control Sirhan. [83][84]

Aftermath

At his retirement in 1972, Gottlieb dismissed his entire effort for the CIA's MKUltra program as useless. [24][85]

Although the CIA insists that MKUltra-type experiments have been abandoned, some CIA observers say there is little reason to believe it does not continue today under a different set of acronyms. [49] Victor Marchetti, author and 14-year CIA veteran, stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducted disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MKUltra was abandoned a "cover story." [86][87]

In popular culture

Books

Bzrk , written by Michael Grant. Described in an artifact, an email, as, "Recent evidence suggests that MK-ULTRA also experimented with early versions of nanotechnology. When those efforts were frustrated by congressional budget cuts, the research was handed off to the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation and their weapons division. All records of AFGC's involvement have been expunged. A number of individuals involved have died under suspicious circumstances." [88]

Film

Conspiracy Theory : A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is. The Banshee Chapter : Anne investigates the links between her friend's disappearance, a secret government chemical and an odd radio broadcast with an unknown origin. The Killing Room : Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program. Pineapple Express : Bill Hader is unknowingly a participant in the project. "The Men Who Stare at Goats" American Ultra : A stoner — who is in fact a mind-altered "sleeper" government operative — is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle.

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Television

BYUtv's drama Granite Flats is a fictional dramatization of the implementation of MKUltra by a military hospital in Colorado.

In season 2, episode 19 of Bones , "Spaceman in a Crater", the character Jack Hodgins mentions that Frank Olson was an unwitting participant and committed suicide, but that an exhumation 45 years later proved he was murdered. [89]

In an episode of ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , "The Things We Bury", one of the characters makes a reference to MKUltra.

In season 2, episode 5 of Fringe , Walter Bishop briefly mentions his involvement with MKUltra

Audio

The song, MK Ultra, by British band Muse makes direct reference to this project in the title and uses lyrics to convey the effects of the project directly on a subject.

The song, "The 4th Branch" by Immortal Technique from his album "Revolutionary Volume 2", compares modern media to MKUltra, "controlling your brain".

The songs, "US Government" and "MK Ultra" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club make direct reference to the project, as well as more oblique references in the lyrics.

The Providence, Rhode Island-based hardcore punk band Violent Sons named a song "MK Ultra" on their 2013 full-length, Nothing as It Seems .

The song, "MK Ultra", by progressive metal band Periphery makes direct reference to the project in the title and speaks of the abuse children received from the CIA during the experiments.

Olympia-based band, Unwound, recorded a song named Mkultra off both 'A Single History: 1991-1997' and 'Rat Conspiracy' compilations.

Further reading

"U.S. Congress: The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence (Church Committee report), report no. 94-755, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1976), 394" (http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church /reports/book1/contents.htm). "U.S. Senate: Joint Hearing before The Select Committee on Intelligence and The Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. August 3, 1977" (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/index.htm). "The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences" (http://www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/lsd/marks.htm). Acid: The Secret History of LSD , by David Black, London: Vision, 1998, ISBN 1901250113. Later edition exists. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain, New York: Grove Press, 1985, ISBN 0802130623 The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA , by John Ranelagh, p208-210. 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time , by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalin, chapter 1, "CIAcid Drop". In the Sleep Room: The Story of CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada , Anne Collins, Lester & Orpen Dennys (Toronto), 1988. Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse , by Gordon Thomas, NY: Bantam, 1989, ISBN 0553284134 Operation Mind Control: Our Secret Governments's War Against Its Own People , by W H Bowart, New York: Dell, 1978, ISBN 0440167558 The Men Who Stare at Goats , by Jon Ronson, Picador, 2004, ISBN 0330375482 The Search for the Manchurian Candidate , by John Marks, W.W. Norton & Company Ltd, 1999, ISBN 0393307948 Storming Heaven: LSD and The American Dream , by Jay Stevens, New York: Grove Press, 1987, ISBN 0802135870

External links

Entire Four (4) CD-ROM set of CIA / MKUltra Declassified documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and DF archive of declassified MKUltra Project Documents (http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-mkultra-collection/), The Black Vault

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U.S. Supreme Court, CIA v. Sims , 471 U.S. 159 (1985) 471 U.S. 159 (http://laws.findlaw.com/us/471/159.html), Wikimedia Commons has Findlaw media related to MKUltra . U.S. Supreme Court, United States v. Stanley , 483 U.S. 669 (1987) 483 U.S. 669 (http://laws.findlaw.com/us/483 /669.html), Findlaw Mind Control and MKULTRA (https://web.archive.org/web/20060612210310/http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/gall.html) by Richard G. Gall Declassified MKULTRA Project Documents (https://web.archive.org/web/20120911185935/http://michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm) The Most Dangerous Game (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=independent_news&collectionid=tmdg) Downloadable 8 minute documentary by independent filmmakers GNN MKULTRA & CIA Mind Control Multimedia (https://web.archive.org/web/20060209122052/http://www.rinf.com/conspiracies/cia-mind-control.html) - Archive of MKULTRA and other CIA Mind Control projects. Results of the 1973 Church Committee Hearings, on CIA misdeeds, and the 1984 Iran/Contra Hearings (http://pw1.netcom.com/~ncoic /cia_info.htm#Project%20NKNAOMI) XXVII. Testing and Use of Chemical and Biological Agents by the Intelligence Community (https://web.archive.org/web/20050421233209/http: //www.mindcontrolforums.com/church-committee-drugtesting-report.htm) List of MKULTRA Unclassified Documents including subprojects (https://web.archive.org/web/20090307031543/http://www.nemasys.com/rahome /library/programming/mkultra.shtml)

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In Contravention of Conventional Wisdom

CIA “no touch” torture makes sense out of mind control allegations

By Cheryl Welsh January 2008

Cheryl Welsh was invited to speak about mind control allegations at a recent workshop on ethics and interrogations by the workshop director, Jean Maria Arrigo PhD. Dr. Arrigo commented on this article:

In “CIA ‘No Touch’ Torture Makes Sense Out of Mind Control Allegations,” Cheryl Welsh provides a valuable overview of methods common to neuroweapons research and torture interrogation. Her essay is informed by the multitude of self-identified, experimental targets of neuroweapons researchers whom she represents. Scholars and journalists who are only able to track neuroweapons research and interrogation methods through government documents have biased the consensus reality in favor of government authorities who deceive the public. We owe thanks to Cheryl Welsh and her colleagues for their pioneering efforts to penetrate government deception through the phenomenology of self-identified victims of neuroweapons.

Jean Maria Arrigo, PhD, is an independent social psychologist and oral historian whose work gives moral voice to military and intelligence professionals. See, for example, Arrigo, J.M & Wagner, R. (2007). “Torture Is for Amateurs”: A Meeting of Psychologists and Military Interrogators. [Special issue]. Peace and Conflict, 11 (4).

Dedicated to the courageous and kind-hearted Peggy Fagan of Houston, Texas, who is enduring the new scientific version of torture.

Table of contents

Introduction

I. A university professor uncovers CIA “no touch” torture

II. The beginnings of CIA “no touch” torture and how it spread

III. What is “no touch” torture?

IV. An example of “no touch” torture

V. The long history of U.S. torture

VI. CIA Cold War neuroscience-based mind control research

VII. CIA Cold War nonlethal weapons research

VIII. Why CIA “no touch” torture has been so successful

IX. All three programs are state tools for neutralizing the enemy without killing; for intelligence operations and counterinsurgency warfare

X. Mind control allegations by a Korean War POW, (prisoner of war), a Soviet political prisoner and Abu Ghraib detainees

XI. The banal and bizarre techniques of “no touch” torture

XII. The three key behavioral components of “no touch” torture

XIII. Torture as “a kind of total theater”

XIV. A comparison of “no touch” torture to mind control allegations

XV. The phenomenology of the torture situation

XVI. Comparing “no touch” torture techniques of sensory disorientation and self inflicted pain to mind control allegations

XVII. Conclusions: what everyone can agree on

Introduction

After the horrific pictures of prisoners being tortured at Abu Ghraib were displayed in front pages of newspapers around the world, the United States maintained that the U.S. government does not torture; Abu Ghraib was about a few bad officers. Evidence now proves that CIA “no touch” torture and worse were ordered by the executive branch and approved by top military officers. Surprisingly this scandal has much in common with another national security issue, neuroweapons, commonly referred to as mind control.

The field of neuroethics should begin now, according to bioethicist Dr. Jonathan Moreno in his 2006 book Mind Wars, Brain Research and National Defense . The influential book was reviewed in Nature and JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association ). Most neuroscientists agree that advanced neuroweapons are over a half century away but the ethics of the new weapons need more planning than occurred for the atomic bomb. Moreno began the first chapter of his book describing the growing numbers of allegations of illegal government mind control targeting. He immediately dismissed them as conspiracy theory nut cases. A 2007 Washington Post Magazine article, “Thought Wars” followed suit. So why should anyone read further given these credible and highly respected expert opinions?

Much of what the public should know about the issue has gone unreported or uninvestigated. For example, after over a half century of classified research, not one publicly known neurological weapon has been deployed. This raises more questions than it answers. Putting aside the major and undebated points of the consensus position, the mind control allegations do sound crazy and on this singular point, most people, including experts and news reporters refuse any closer examination. Clearly, understanding why the mind control allegations sound so crazy would have significant consequences.

Two analogies help clarify the major problems for the mind control issue, secrecy and the lack of a thorough, impartial investigation;

Excerpt of a 1970s congressional hearing uncovering illegal CIA activities; [Senator Frank] Church, ... persisted in blaming the plots [assassinations] on the CIA. The agency, he said, was a “rogue elephant on a rampage.” For proof, he pointed to the lack of documentary evidence that any president had ever approved an assassination. Former CIA director Richard Helms countered that it was absurd to expect to find such evidence. “I can’t imagine anybody wanting something in writing saying I have just charged Mr. Jones to go out and shoot Mr. Smith,” he testified. The Agency, he insisted, had simply carried out the wishes of the executive.

Even today, experts don’t understand how the U.S. secrecy system works. Similar to the torture scandal, until there is a national security scandal about neuroscience weapons, the public will remain uninformed about a serious public issue.

During a dairyman’s strike in 19th century New England, when there was suspicion of milk being watered down, Henry David Thoreau wrote; “Sometimes circumstantial evidence can be quite convincing; like when you find a trout in the milk.” Mind Wars and the Washington Post Magazine article examined the growing numbers of crazy sounding mind control allegations.

But unlike Thoreau’s account, the publications only reported the convincing circumstantial evidence of “finding a trout in the milk” and dismissed the suspicions without a fair or impartial investigation. As a result, the mind control allegations made no sense.

Update: In the 2008 book “The Commission, the Uncensored History of the 9-11 Investigation,” Philip Shenon explained that explicit, very classified “kill orders” are now put in writing. On page 254 Shenon wrote: “MONs [memorandum of notification] were top-secret orders prepared by the White House to authorize covert operations abroad by the CIA. ... there was an explicit, if highly secret, order given by Clinton to the CIA in late 1998 to kill bin Laden.”

I. A university professor uncovers CIA “no touch” torture

University of Wisconsin professor Alfred McCoy wrote the 2006 book, A Question of Torture, CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror . It’s a compelling account of McCoy’s search for understanding the CIA’s “no touch” torture techniques used in the war on terror and the Iraq War. McCoy shows how “information extracted by coercion is worthless” and makes the case for a legal approach, “long and successfully used by the U.S. Marines and the F.B.I.” McCoy documents why CIA “no touch” torture is a “revolutionary psychological approach” and is the first new scientific innovation after centuries of torture. “Interrogators had found that mere physical pain, no matter how extreme, often produced heightened resistance.” Of course, the old brutal forms of physical torture are still around, for example torture in Argentina in the 1970s described in the classic, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman.

McCoy pieced together what “no touch” torture is and how it was spread globally. The CIA’s new “no touch” torture works by attacking and destroying the basis of personal identity. McCoy found that the techniques were bizarre, simple, even banal and yet devastatingly effective. McCoy discovered that the techniques had been scientifically proven in decades of CIA cold war research. Evidence of several government manuals helped prove that the techniques were disseminated “from Vietnam through Iran to Central America.”

“No touch” torture techniques sound strangely similar to mind control allegations. A comparison of “no touch” torture to mind control allegations raised the possibility that mind control allegations could be based on the well researched psychological theory for “no touch” torture. Torture victims exhibit symptoms similar to psychotic processes and organic disorders and experts say this is not mental illness but an outcome of the psychological component of torture. Psychotherapist Otto Doerr-Zegers, who has treated Chilean victims tortured under General Augusto Pinochet stated; “ The psychological component of torture becomes a kind of total theater, a constructed unreality of lies and inversion, in a plot that ends inexorably with the victim’s self-betrayal and destruction. ...” This is similar to the technique of “street theater” that mind control victims described in the Washington Post Magazine article. As torture victims are not mentally ill, mind control victims would not be mentally ill but rather have undergone and are undergoing a traumatic situation comparable to torture, such as the alleged illegal targeting with government mind control weapons.

The UCDavis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA) and the UCDavis Center for Mind and Brain (CMB) further explain what psychological torture is and its effects on torture victims.

[CSHRA and CMB] have initiated a collaboration to investigate theneurobiology of psychological torture. ...Psychological torture (henceforthPT) is a set of practices that are used worldwide to inflict pain or suffering without resorting to direct physical violence. PT includes the use of sleep deprivation, sensory disorientation, forced self-induced pain, solitary confinement, mock execution, severe humiliation, mind-altering drugs and threats of violence—as well as the exploitation of personal or cultural phobias.

The psychiatric sequelae of PT are severe. They include delirium, psychosis, regression, self-mutilation, cognitive impairment, and anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder. Neuroscience research on these and related mental disorders continues to establish their neurobiological underpinnings, thus challenging the popular view that PT is not physical, not serious, and perhaps not even torture at all.

The CSHRA and the CMB launched their collaborative efforts by holding The First UCDavis Workshop on the Neurobiology of Psychological Torture. The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners from different specialties and research groups in order to set off a unified, long-term, research program on the ways in which PT affects the human central nervous system in an effort to understand it in relation to the more traditional forms of physical torture, and to establish clearly articulated ethical, legal, and medical descriptions of this set of practices. It is expected that these descriptions will help treat, document, and deter PT.

Supplemented by studies on the social, historical, and ethical ramifications of PT, the presentations made at The First UCDavis Workshop on the Neurobiology of Psychological Torture have been bound into The Trauma of Psychological Torture , a volume to be published by Praeger on June 30, 2008.

Please note that numerous torture experts, including CSHRA and CMB have completely shunned suggestions to investigate mind control allegations or to consider the issue. But this information may be helpful to the therapists of TIs (targeted individuals of mind control) who are coping with mind control targeting.

II. The beginnings of CIA “no touch” torture and how it spread

The science of psychological torture began because of fears of Russian brainwashing of defendants in the 1940s Moscow show trials and the Korean War POW (prisoners of war) brainwashing scare in the 1950s. The 2005 book, World as Laboratory, Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men by Rebecca Lemov described government psychological research for determining whether the Communists had developed new techniques of brainwashing. “Almost all [scientists] who were assigned to study the phenomenon of POW collaboration ended up in short order working for the CIA via one of its various ‘cut-outs,’ conduits, and false fronts, such as the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, the Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, and the Scientific Engineering Institute, or in one of its own laboratories.” (Lemov, 219) McCoy described the research behind “no touch” torture and how it spread globally;

From 1950 to 1962, the CIA became involved in torture through a massive mind-control effort, with psychological warfare and secret research into human consciousness that reached a cost of a billion dollars annually, a veritable Manhattan Project of the mind. ... If we trace a narrative thread through a maze of hundreds of experiments, the CIA research moved through two distinct phases, first an in-house exploration of exotic techniques such as hypnosis and hallucinogenic drugs, and, a later focus on behavioral experimentation by contract researchers, several of the most brilliant behavioral scientists of their generation ...

While this Agency drug testing led nowhere, CIA-funded behavioral experiments, outsourced to the country’s leading universities, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc., produced three key findings that contributed to the discovery of a new form of torture that was psychological, not physical, ... perhaps best described as “no-touch torture.” ( McCoy outline , 2)

Across the span of three continents and four decades, there is a striking similarity in U.S. torture techniques, both their conceptual design and specific techniques, from the CIA’s 1963 Kubark interrogation manual, to the Agency’s 1983 Honduras training handbook, all the way to General Ricardo Sanchez’s 2003 orders for interrogation in Iraq. ... Guantanamo perfected the three-phase psychological paradigm by attacking cultural identity and individual psyche. ( McCoy outline , 14)

III. What is “no touch” torture?

McCoy explained what “no touch” torture is;

The CIA’s psychological paradigm for “no touch” torture fused two new methods, “sensory disorientation” and “self-inflicted pain,” whose combination, in theory, would cause victims to feel responsible for their own suffering and thus capitulate more readily to their torturers. Refined through years of practice, sensory disorientation relies on a mix of sensory overload and sensory deprivation via banal procedures, isolation then intense interrogation, heat and cold, light and dark, noise and silence, for a systematic attack on all human stimuli. The fusion of these two techniques, sensory disorientation and self-inflicted pain, creates a synergy of physical and psychological trauma whose sum is a hammer-blow to the existential platforms of personal identity. ( McCoy outline , 4-5) In 2004, the Red Cross reported: “The construction of such a system. ... cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture.” ( McCoy outline , 9)

IV. An example of “no touch” torture

Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman interviewed journalist Jane Mayer about her August 8, 2007 New Yorker article, “The Black Sites: A Rare Look Inside the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program.” Mayer described detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his experience with “no touch” torture;

There, he [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] was subjected to a kind of a weird routine that someone described to me as kind of Clockwork Orange sort of thing, where he was put in goggles that blacked out the light and earmuffs of some sort that blocked out sound and deprived of any normal routine, such as meals or anything that would allow him to know what time of day it was or really have any kind of marker in his existence. And it’s a program that’s developed of sort of psychological terror, in a way, to kind of make people feel that they are completely dependent on other people, have no control over their lives, and it’s something that, the technique, that really comes out of the KGB days, way back in the Cold War. And apparently it’s something the CIA has put a lot of research into over time.

V. The long history of U.S. torture

The history of CIA torture runs parallel to CIA neuroscience-based mind control research and also CIA nonlethal weapons research. This is important because mind control allegations include descriptions of techniques that sound like all three CIA programs. It is possible that the related cold war CIA “no touch” torture, nonlethal weapons and neuroscience-based mind control programs have co-mingled for intelligence purposes. Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter and author Tim Weiner wrote the 2007 book Legacy of Ashes, History of the CIA . Weiner described the CIA torture programs and the U.S. secret detention centers around the world. This is a brief excerpt of the extensive programs;

The project dated back to 1948, when Richard Helms and his [American intelligence] officers in Germany realized they were being defrauded ... The agency had set up clandestine prisons to wring confessions out of suspected double agents. One was in Germany, another in Japan. The third, and the biggest, was in the Panama Canal Zone. “Like Guantanamo, ... It was anything goes.” ... (Weiner, 64-5)

Senior CIA officers, including Helms, destroyed almost all the records of these programs in fear they might become public. (Weiner, 66)

The agency, as Cheney said that morning, went over to “the dark side.” On Monday, September 17, President Bush issued a fourteen-page top secret directive to Tenet and the CIA, ordering the agency to hunt, capture, imprison, and interrogate suspects around the world. It set new limits on what the agency could do. It was the foundation for a system of secret prisons where CIA officers and contractors used techniques that included torture. One CIA contractor was convicted of beating an Afghan prison to death. This was not the role of a civilian intelligence service in a democratic society. But it is clearly what the White House wanted the CIA to do. ...

[The CIA] had participated in the torture of captured enemy combatants before, beginning in 1967, under the Phoenix program in Vietnam. ...

Under Bush’s order, the CIA began to function as a global military police, throwing hundreds of suspects into secret jails in Afghanistan, Thailand, Poland, and inside the American military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. It handed hundreds more prisoners off to the intelligence services in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and Syria for interrogations. (Weiner, 482)

VI. CIA Cold War neuroscience-based mind control research

Some CIA neuroscience-based mind control research is known to have continued into the 1970s and is still classified today. A January 29, 1979 Washington Post article entitled “Book Disputes CIA Chief on Mind-Control Efforts: Work Went on Into 1970s, Author Says,” reported;

Despite assurances last year from Central Intelligence Director Stansfield Turner that the CIA’s mind-control program was phased out over a decade ago, the intelligence agency has come up with new documents indicating that the work went on into the 1970s, according to a new book. John Marks, the author of the book, said the CIA mind-control researchers did apparently drop their much publicized MK-ULTRA drug-testing program. But they replaced it, according to Marks, with another super secret behavioral- control project under the agency’s Office of Research and Development.

The ORD program used a cover organization set up in the 1960s outside Boston headed by Dr. Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid, who acted as a “figurehead,” said Marks in his book. The project investigated such research as genetic engineering, development of new strains of bacteria, and mind control. The book identifies the Massachusetts proprietary organization headed by Land as the Scientific Engineering Institute. The CIA-funded institute was originally set up as a radar and technical research company in the 1950s and shifted over to mind-control experiments in the 1960s with the exception of a few scattered programs. According to Marks, however, the ORD program was a full- scale one and just as secret as the earlier MK-ULTRA project.

In a March 14, 1987, Nation magazine editorial, Louis Slesin, editor of the trade publication, Microwave News , wrote; “Experts agree that nonionizing electromagnetic radiation (NIER) can affect behavior, but the question is whether the radiation can be harnessed and used on people at a distance. With its MKULTRA program the CIA began looking for the answer in the early 1950s.” Slesin described that in the 1979 book, “Search for the Manchurian Candidate, The CIA and Mind Control” by John Marks, Marks filed a freedom of information act (foia) request. The CIA replied that “it had a roomful of files on electromagnetic and related techniques to alter behavior and stimulate the brain.” But, “[the agency] refused to release the papers, and they remain classified.”

VII. CIA Cold War nonlethal weapons research

Nonlethal weapons are another outcome of CIA behavior control research. Steven Aftergood wrote about the initial stages of nonlethal weapons in the September/October 1994 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ; “Details about programs to develop so called ‘non-lethal’ weapons are slowly emerging from the U.S. government’s secret ‘black budget.’ ... The concept of non-lethal weapons is not new; the term appears in heavily censored CIA documents dating from the 1960s.” Dr. Barbara Hatch- Rosenberg described nonlethal weapons on page 45,

“Non-lethal” weapons may violate treaties

Development of many of the proposed weapons described on these pages has been undertaken by NATO, the United States, and probably other nations as well. Most of the weapons could be considered “pre-lethal” rather than non-lethal. They would actually provide a continuum of effects ranging from mild to lethal, with varying degrees of controllability. Serious questions arise about the legality of these expensive and highly classified development programs. Four international treaties are particularly relevant ... The Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (also known as the Inhumane Weapons Convention).

Many of the non-lethal weapons under consideration utilize infrasound or electromagnetic energy (including lasers, microwave or radio-frequency radiation, or visible light pulsed at brain-wave frequency) for their effects. These weapons are said to cause temporary or permanent blinding, interference with mental processes, modification of behavior and emotional response, seizures, severe pain, dizziness, nausea and diarrhea, or disruption of internal organ functions in various other ways. In addition, the use of high-power microwaves to melt down electronic systems would incidentally cook every person in the vicinity.

Typically, the biological effects of these weapons depend on a number of variables that, theoretically, could be tuned to control the severity of the effects. However, the precision of control is questionable. The use of such weapons for law enforcement might constitute severe bodily punishment without due process. In warfare, the use of these weapons in a non-lethal mode would be analogous to the use of riot control agents in the Vietnam War, a practice now outlawed by the CWC. Regardless of the level of injury inflicted, the use of many non-lethal weapons is likely to violate international humanitarian law on the basis of superfluous suffering and/or indiscriminate effects.

In addition, under the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention, international discussions are now under way that may lead to the development of specific new protocols covering electromagnetic weapons; a report is expected sometime next year. The current surge of interest in electromagnetic and similar technologies makes the adoption of a protocol explicitly outlawing the use of these dehumanizing weapons an urgent matter.

VIII. Why CIA “no touch” torture has been so successful

McCoy explained;

CIA Paradigm: In its clandestine journey across continents and decades, this distinctly American form of psychological torture would prove elusive, resilient, adaptable and devastatingly destructive, attributes that have allowed it to persist up to the present and into the future. ...

1. Elusive: Unlike its physical variant, psychological torture lacks clear signs of abuse and easily eludes detection, greatly complicating any investigation, prosecution, or attempt at prohibition.

2. Resilient: Psychological torture is shrouded in a scientific patina that appeals to policy makers and avoids the obvious physical brutality unpalatable to the modern public.

3. Adaptable: In forty years since its discovery, the Agency’s psychological paradigm has proved surprisingly adaptable, with each sustained application producing innovations. ...

4. Destructive: Although seemingly less brutal than physical methods, the CIA’s “no touch” torture actually leaves searing psychological scars. Victims often need long treatment to recover from a trauma many experts consider more crippling than physical pain. ( A Question of Torture, 12)

These characteristics also apply to nonlethal weapons and neuroscience-based mind control. All three are emerging state tools of the future and can neutralize the enemy by controlling the behavior of the enemy. A 2005 book entitled, Torture, Does it Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK? was co- published with Human Rights Watch. Some general reasons for why governments use torture as a state tool include the following. Governments torture because it is a way to obtain coerced confessions. The confessions can be used for propaganda purposes. Torture serves a variety of state purposes: “to terrorize certain elements of the population, to instill a climate of fear in the public more generally, and to break key leaders and members of these groups, uncovering their networks.” Other purposes of torture are to “obtain intelligence by any means,” “annihilate subversives” and “eliminate the enemy.”

Counterinsurgency warfare is taking place in Iraq and major newspapers have reported on the many detainees that have consistently alleged being subjected to “no touch” torture techniques. As reported in the September 16th, 2007 Sacramento Bee , General David Petraeus co-wrote the Counterinsurgency Field Manuel-U.S. Army Field Manual on Tactics, Intelligence, Host Nation Forces, Airpower, which Newsweek said, is “highly touted as the basis upon which the surge of U.S. forces this year would be organized.”

The book Torture , also included a description of “counterinsurgency warfare, in which torture was a principal weapon” and was developed “during the French experience in Indochina and Algeria.”

[The] “genesis of this new kind of warfare is the idea that the enemy takes the form of an invisible political organization hidden among the civilian population. One can know its leaders and its structure only by waging a war of information: by arresting masses of civilian suspects, interrogating them, and, if necessary, torturing them. ... In the modern era, ... the science of torture and similar abusive treatment has developed to break the physical and mental resistance of subjects before they expire or go mad and thus become useless as sources of information. ... Torture is still about domination.”

IX. All three programs are state tools for neutralizing the enemy without killing; for intelligence operations and counterinsurgency warfare

By comparing mind control allegations to “no touch” torture techniques and the very classified nonlethal weapons program, the purpose of the bizarre sounding mind control allegations begins to make sense. Neuroweapons include the CIA’s still classified neuroscience-based mind control research, “no touch” torture and nonlethal weapons. All three are emerging state tools of the future that can reliably neutralize the enemy psychologically or without killing. The old, politically unacceptable methods of brutal physical torture and killing won’t be eliminated but surreptitious, scientifically proven, alternative methods are available to achieve an even greater national security advantage. All are ideal for counterinsurgency warfare, psychological operations and intelligence operations. The characteristics of “no touch” torture, nonlethal weapons and neuroscience-based mind control make them more inhumane than the atomic bomb.

X. Mind control allegations by a Korean War POW, (prisoner of war), a Soviet political prisoner and Abu Ghraib detainees

Three relevant examples out of the numerous available provide a general overview of the decades of mind control allegations and weapons. The details are compelling and rarely reported by mainstream press and illustrate why a comparison of “no touch” torture to mind control allegations is so applicable. The examples share the same Cold War history with CIA “no touch” torture, neuroscience-based mind control and nonlethal weapons programs.

1. The 1984 BBC TV documentary Opening Pandora’s Box described EMR [electromagnetic radiation] remote mind control developments and a claim of mind control by a Korean POW;

In the 1950s, intelligence agencies were interested in changing mental states. The theory is that brain waves can be tuned to a different EMR frequency and can change moods and character. ... A CIA memo stated that they were looking for behavior control to enhance consciousness.

The Soviets had realized the same thing. Dr. Ross Adey, famous EMR researcher at Loma Linda Veterans Hospital, examined the Lida machine, from the Soviet Union. It was described as a machine to “rearrange consciousness.” The Russians claimed to use it for treatment of emotional disorders in the 1950s. Dr. Adey stated that the Lida machine is now obsolete. It used coiled wire inside ear muffs which acted like an antenna and emitted 1/10 sec pulses of EMR. Dr. Adey demonstrated that excited animals rapidly quiet down when exposed to the Lida EMR frequencies. There was one account that the Lida machine was used during the Korean war for brainwashing American Prisoners.

2. An interview of an alleged Russian victim, Andre Slepucha, was reported in a 1998 ZDF German TV documentary. He described what seems to be the first reported victim of some type of “microwave hearing.” Slepucha stated;

In November 1954 I came into contact with what today is referred to as “Psychotronic Treatment” for the first time. Back then they took me out of the concentration camp where, under Stalin, I had been imprisoned as a political prisoner, and brought me into an isolation cell in the KGB prison which was located in the Lubyanka. After an approximately two week long continuous occupation of the cell I suddenly experienced in the morning strong sounds in the head, very strong acoustic and visual hallucinations.

On the CNN news broadcast, Special Assignment by Chuck DeCaro, “Weapons of War, Is there an RF Gap?” November 1985, Dr. Bill van Bise, electrical engineer, conducted a demonstration of Soviet scientific data and schematics for beaming a magnetic field into the brain to cause visual hallucinations. The demonstration on reporter Chuck DeCaro was successful. Dr. van Bise stated, “In three weeks, I could put together a device that would take care of a whole

town.” A December 13, 1976, Federal Times article, “Microwave Weapons Study by Soviets Cited” described the alleged Russian capability of microwave hearing;

The Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on heavy Communist research on microwaves, including their use as weapons. Microwaves are used in radar, television and microwave ovens. They can cause disorientation and possibly heart attacks in humans. Another biological effect with possible anti-personnel uses is “microwave hearing.” “Sounds and possibly even words which appear to be originating intracranially (within the head) can be induced by signal modulation at very low average power densities,” the report said. According to the study, Communist work in this area “has great potential for development into a system for disorienting or disrupting the behavior patterns of military or diplomatic personnel.”

3. Jon Ronson, author of the New York Times reviewed book, “The Men Who Stare at Goats” wrote about alleged mind control experiments on Iraqi detainees. In an interview on April 14, 2005 at the Politics and Prose book store in Washington DC., Ronson discussed his book. (Tape available from Cspan, Book TV at www.booktv.org. Videotape # 186334)

And from the former detainees from Guantanamo Bay that I’ve interviewed it seems exactly the same things are going on there. I said to a man called Jamal al- Harith how do you feel, you know how did you feel at Guantanamo Bay and he said “felt like a laboratory rat.” And he said, “I felt they were trying stuff out on me.” ...

And one example is with Barney the purple dinosaur. When it was announced a year ago that they were rounding up prisoners of war in Iraq and blasting them with Barney the purple dinosaur, it was treated as a funny story, because, by all the major news networks in America, you know... the torture wasn’t that bad. ... It was disseminated as funny because who wants to replace a funny story with, as Eric [Olson] once said to me, with one that’s not fun. ...

I was given seven photographs of a detainee who had just been given the Barney treatment as they called it. It was 48 hours of Barney with flashing strobe lights inside a shipping container in the desert heat. ...

... The current chief of staff of the Army is a man called General Pete Shoemaker. ... He’s well known to have an interest in these paranormal esoteric military pursuits. ... So now is the time when I know that these ideas go to the very top [levels of the military].

One of the things you spoke of, the one that I have knowledge of is the frequencies. You can follow a trail of patents like footprints in the snow and the patents sometimes vanish into the world of military classification. And there’s many patents bought up by a man called Dr. Oliver Lowry. ...

So we know that these patents have been bought up by the military. ... And the detainees of Guantanamo I’ve spoken to speak of being blasted withfrequencies, put inside music, high and low frequencies, masked with music.

...I think there’s no doubt they’re experimenting with this stuff. To add to that controversial suggestion. I think there’s a good chance that even though they’re trying this stuff out, it’s not necessarily true that it works. A lot of this stuff doesn’t work. This may or may not work. I don’t know.

XI. The banal and bizarre techniques of “no touch torture”

Psychological techniques used at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and secret prisons have included extremes of the following; manipulation of time, loud music, strobe lights, odd sounds, hooding, ear muffs, heat and cold, light and dark, isolation and intensive interrogation “and most importantly, creative combinations of all these methods which otherwise might seem, individually, banal if not benign.” As McCoy explains;

After a visit from the Guantanamo chief General Miller in September 2003, the U.S. commander for Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez, issued orders for sophisticated psychological torture. As I read from those orders, please listen for the combined sensory disorientation, self-inflicted pain, and attacking Arab cultural sensitivities.

Environmental Manipulation: Altering the environment to create moderate discomfort (e.g. adjusting temperatures or introducing an unpleasant smell) ...

Sleep Adjustment: Adjusting the sleeping times of the detainee (e.g. reversing the sleeping cycles from night to day).

Isolation: Isolating the detainee from other detainees. ... 30 days.

Presence of Military Working Dogs: Exploits Arab fear of dogs while maintaining security during interrogations ...

Yelling, Loud Music, and Light Control: Used to create fear, disorient detainee and prolong capture shock. Volume controlled to prevent injury ...

Stress Positions: Use of physical posturing (sitting, standing, kneeling, prone, etc.) (McCoy outline, 9)

XII. The three key behavioral components of “no touch” torture

McCoy described the principles underlying “no touch” torture;

Through covert trial and error, the CIA, in collaboration with university researchers, slowly identified three key behavioral components integral to its emerging techniques for psychological torture.

Discovery #1 Sensory deprivation In the early 1950s ...Dr. Donald Hebb found that he could induce a state akin to psychosis in just 48 hours. ...after just two to three days of such isolation [sitting in a cubicle ..with goggles, gloves and ear muffs on.] “the subject’s very identity had begun to disintegrate.”

Discovery #2 Self-inflicted pain ...Albert Biderman, Irving L. Janis, Harold Wolff, and Lawrence Hinkle, advised the agency about the role of self-inflicted pain in Communist interrogation. ...During the 1950s as well, two eminent neurologists at Cornell Medical Center working for the CIA found that the KGB’s most devastating torture technique involved, not crude physical beatings, but simply forcing the victim to stand for days at a time, while the legs swelled, the skin erupted in suppurating lesions, the kidneys shut down, hallucinations began.

Discovery #3 Anyone can torture ...Finally, a young Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, ...conducted his famed obedience experiments, asking ordinary New Haven citizens to torture on command and discovering that, in contravention of conventional wisdom, anyone could be trained to torture. ...[Milgram] did controversial research under a government grant showing that almost any individual is capable of torture, a critical finding for the agency as it prepared to disseminate its method worldwide. ( McCoy outline , 4, Question of Torture, 32-33)

By the project’s end in the late 1960s, this torture research had involved three of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century-Hebb, Milgram, and Janis, as well as several presidents of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. ( A Question of Torture, 33)

That notorious photo of a hooded Iraqi on a box, arms extended and wires to his hands, exposes this covert method. The hood is for sensory deprivation, and the arms are extended for self-inflicted pain. ... Although seemingly less brutal than physical methods, no-touch torture leaves deep psychological scars on both victims and interrogators. One British journalist who observed this method’s use in Northern Ireland called sensory deprivation “the worst form of torture” because it “provokes more anxiety among the interrogatees than more traditional tortures, leaves no visible scars and, therefore, is harder to prove, and produces longer lasting effects.” ( Question of Torture , 8-9)

McCoy explained how CIA “no touch” torture changes its victims;

Insights from the treatment of Chilean victims tortured under General Augusto Pinochet’ s regime offer a point of entry into this complex question. Psychotherapist Otto Doerr- Zegers found that victims suffer “a mistrust bordering on paranoia, and a loss of interest that greatly surpasses anything observed in anxiety disorders.” The subject “does not only react to torture with a tiredness of days, weeks, or months, but remains a tired human being, relatively uninterested and unable to concentrate.”

These findings led him to a revealing question: “What in torture makes possible a change of such nature that it appears similar to psychotic processes and to disorders of organic origin?” ( Question of Torture , 10-11)

XIII. Torture as “a kind of total theater”

Doerr-Zegers explained that techniques of torture work by creating deception, distrust, fear, disorientation, a “kind of total theater” that leaves the victim disoriented and “emotionally and psychological damaged.” The similarity of the explanation below to “street theater” found in mind control allegations is remarkable;

As Doerr-Zegers describes it, the psychological component of torture becomes a kind of total theater, a constructed unreality of lies and inversion, in a plot that ends inexorably with the victim’s self-betrayal and destruction.

To make their artifice of false charges, fabricated news, and mock executions convincing, interrogators often become inspired thespians. The torture chamber itself thus has the theatricality of a set with special lighting, sound effects, props, and backdrop, all designed with a perverse stagecraft to evoke an aura of fear. Both stage and cell construct their own kind of temporality. While the play both expands and collapses time to carry the audience forward toward denouement, the prison distorts time to disorientate and then entrap the victim. As the torturer manipulates circumstances to “maximize confusion,” the victim feels “prior schemas of the self and the world ... shattered” and becomes receptive to the “torturer’s construction of reality.”

Under the peculiar conditions of psychological torture, victims, isolated from others, form “emotional ties to their tormentors” that make them responsive to a perverse play in which they are both audience and actor, subject and object—in a script that often leaves them not just disoriented but emotionally and psychologically damaged, in some cases for the rest of their lives. ( A Question of Torture , 10)

XIV. A comparison of “no touch” torture to mind control allegations

The Washington Post Magazine article included interviews of several TIs, or targeted individuals of mind control, as some call themselves. Highly acclaimed author Gloria Naylor is most recognized for her novel Women of Brewster Place , starring Oprah in a 1980s TV mini-series. Naylor wrote the novel 1996, about her personal experience of mind control targeting and “street theater.” The article also included an example of drug-induced paranoia for comparison;

Like Girard, Naylor describes what she calls “street theater,” incidents that might be dismissed by others as coincidental, but which Naylor believes were set up. She noticed suspicious cars driving by her isolated vacation home. On an airplane, fellow passengers mimicked her every movement, like mimes on a street.

Voices similar to those in Girard’s case followed, taunting voices cursing her, telling her she was stupid, that she couldn’t write. Expletive-laced language filled her head. ...

Naylor is not the first writer to describe such a personal descent. Evelyn Waugh, one of the great novelists of the 20th century, details similar experiences in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold . Waugh’s book, published in 1957, has eerie similarities to Naylor’s. Embarking on a recuperative cruise, Pinfold begins to hear voices on the ship that he believes are part of a wireless system capable of broadcasting into his head; he believes the instigator recruited fellow passengers to act as operatives; and he describes “performances” put on by passengers directed at him yet meant to look innocuous to others.

Waugh wrote his book several years after recovering from a similar episode and realizing that the voices and paranoia were the result of drug-induced hallucinations.

The psychological terror and mistrust bordering on paranoia of torture victims is remarkably similar to the mind control alleged by Naylor and the drug-induced paranoia of Waugh. The “street theater” described by most TIs also appears similar to the paranoia of mental illness and most people think “street theater” sounds crazy.

The addendum of Naylor’s novel 1996 included this description of some of the most commonly reported mind control symptoms;

Victims are subjected to various kinds of harassment and torture, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for years on end. Most believe that some type of technology can remotely track, target, and control every nerve in their bodies. Heart and respiration rate can speed up and slow down, and stomach and bowel functions are regulated. Illnesses and all types of pain can turn on and off in an instant. Microwave burns are reported.

Sleep deprivation is common and dreams are manipulated. Victims say, “They [whoever is targeting them] can see through my eyes, what I see.” Sometimes victims describe seeing the images of projected holograms. Thoughts can be read. Most victims describe a

phenomenon they call “street theater.” For example, people around the victim have repeated verbatim, the victim’s immediate thoughts, or harassive and personalized statements are repeated by strangers wherever the victim may go.

Emotions can be manipulated. Microwave hearing, known to be an unclassified military capability of creating voices in the head, is regularly reported. Implanted thoughts and visions are common, with repetitive themes that can include pedophilia, homophobia and degradation. Victims say it is like having a radio or TV in your head. Less frequently, remote and abusive sexual manipulation is reported. Almost all victims say repetitive behavior control techniques are used and include negative, stimulus-response or feedback loops.

The counterintuitive and bizarre torture techniques are discernible within the mind control allegations. The mind control techniques seem to be psychological techniques to disorient the victim and cause him to feel completely controlled, dependent and at the mercy of his torturers. Similar to the “kind of total theater” for torture, “street theater” is almost certainly a part of the process of breaking one’s personality to gain behavior control over that person.

XV. The phenomenology of the torture situation

“What in torture makes possible a change of such nature that it appears similar to psychotic processes and to disorders of organic origin?” Doerr-Zegers found the answer lies in the psychological, not physical, “phenomenology of the torture situation;”

1. an asymmetry of power; 2. the anonymity of the torturer to the victim; 3. the “double bind” of either enduring or betraying others; 4. the systematic “falsehood” of trumped-up charges, artificial lighting, cunning deceptions, and “mock executions”; 5. confinement in distinctive spaces signifying “displacement, trapping, narrowness and destruction”; and 6. a temporality “characterized by some unpredictability and much circularity, having no end.” ...

Thus, much of the pain from all forms of torture is psychological, not physical, based upon denying victims any power over their lives. In sum, the torturer strives “through insult and disqualification, by means of threats ... to break all the victim’s possible existential platforms.” Through this asymmetry, the torturer eventually achieves “complete power” and reduces the victims to “a condition of total or near total defenselessness.” ( Question of Torture , 10-11)

In torture, a torture situation is created according to Doerr-Zegers. In mind control allegations, there is a similar phenomenology of a mind control situation. TIs describe this as “an electronic prison.” Doerr-Zegers described the torture technique, 1) an asymmetry of power. In torture, the torturer has complete power and the victim is completely powerless. Similarly, TIs are targeted

remotely and are completely powerless to stop the targeting. Doerr-Zegers described the torture technique, 2) the anonymity of the torturer to the victim. Torture victims do not know their torturer and similarly, there is the anonymity of the remote targeting in the mind control situation.

Most TIs described “street theater” or seemingly staged events which matches 3), 4) and 6). Doerr- Zegers described torture technique, 5) confinement in distinctive spaces signifying “displacement, trapping, narrowness and destruction.” Although TIs are not physically imprisoned, most victims describe the experience as very debilitating and compare it to “mental rape, an electronic prison, or total destruction of the quality of their lives.” Mind control poses a severe restriction on their former lives. Doerr-Zeger’s technique 6) a temporality “characterized by some unpredictability and much circularity, having no end” is also similar to sensory deprivation in mind control allegations. TIs routinely report the simple but extremely repetitive and negative, stimulus-response and feedback loops of their environment.

XVI. Comparing “no touch” torture techniques of sensory disorientation and self inflicted pain to mind control allegations

The psychological effects achieved by torture and alleged mind control are similar. Mind control targeting tactics described by most TIs seem to contain the underlying “no touch” torture techniques of sensory disorientation and self inflicted pain. For comparison, here is McCoy’s description;

To summarize, the CIA’s psychological paradigm fused two new methods, “sensory disorientation” and “self-inflicted pain,” whose combination, in theory, would cause victims to feel responsible for their own suffering and thus capitulate more readily to their torturers ... The fusion of these two techniques, sensory disorientation and self- inflicted pain, creates a synergy of physical and psychological trauma whose sum is a hammer-blow to the existential platforms of personal identity. (McCoy outline, 5)

The intended effect of sensory disorientation for torture would be similar for mind control; to create an environment of radical uncertainty to enhance the break down of the person’s will and personality. Most alleged cases of mind control describe the considerable repetition of seemingly innocuous and banal stimuli in the TIs environment, as if engineered by computer. The addendum of Naylor’s book included this description; “Almost all victims say repetitive behavior control techniques are used and include negative, stimulus-response or feedback loops.” For comparison, here is McCoy’s description;

The CIA’s “sensory disorientation” became a total assault on all senses and sensibilities, auditory, visual, tactile, temporal, temperature, and survival. Refined through years of practice, sensory disorientation relies on a mix of sensory overload and sensory deprivation via banal procedures, isolation then intense interrogation, heat and cold, light and dark, noise and silence, for a systematic attack on all human stimuli. ( McCoy outline , 4-5)

McCoy described the photos of the hooded detainee with “the arms extended for self-inflicted pain.” The torturer forces the prisoner to stand with arms extended and the prisoner has no control over his situation. The prisoner still has a sense of guilt at causing his own pain by his extended arms. This intended effect of self inflicted pain for torture seems to be similar to mind control. TIs who are remotely targeted with physical pain cannot escape. Although TIs go to extremes in trying to escape the physical targeting, they are unsuccessful. The psychological trauma is inflicted by the sense of causing one’s own pain. Many TIs report that the targeting causes TIs to become isolated from friends, families and in many cases TIs are unable to work. This common reaction to targeting seems to be a type of self-inflicted psychological pain.

Carole Sterling’s description of targeting is also found in the addendum of Naylor’s book and seems to illustrate the techniques of sensory disorientation and self-inflicted pain. It is a typical TI description;

In 1997, Carole Sterling wrote a letter to the editor of the Star Beacon . She described her alleged targeting with EMR weapons technologies that within months, led to her suicide.

Dear Star Beacon, I am writing about something that happened to me which goes back to December 1995. I went to a conference in Nevada. The day following the last night at the conference, I noticed that I had an injection mark on the base of my spine which was sore. Then the nightmare started three days after my return to Washington, D.C. ... It totally scrambled my brain, leaving me unable to think properly, simply functioning on sheer shock and horror, with total incomprehension of what was going on. It actually was debilitating. The room felt like a torture chamber. This forced me out of my home. I believe that the technology used, be it some type of a frequency assault, some sort of directed energy, in addition to whatever was injected in me, has caused damage to my brain. [I have] been living with this debilitating and excruciating pain for the last eight months so far.

TIs describe both psychological and physical targeting similar to torture. It seems logical to surmise that the successful psychological theories of “no touch” torture would cross over to more technically based remote, advanced mind control programs. This becomes a significant step forward in understanding the mind control issue. The mind control allegations are “the secret in plain sight.”

XVII. Conclusions: what everyone can agree on

Hard questions need to be asked of the experts. Who now controls the neuroscience weapons research and how advanced is it? As a result of U.S. secrecy, an educated guess is all that is possible. The public deployment of advanced remote neuroscience weapons will be a world changing event, affecting the lives of this generation and the next. The weapons involve national security, science, history, U.S. politics and geopolitics. Most importantly the weapons encompass human nature, good and evil and suffering. Most people are in agreement about one fact: unlike the atomic bomb, there has been a total lack of public input for neuroscience weapons and policy even though the research began in the 1950s and is still classified. Again, this raises more questions than it answers.

This article will be published in March 2008. See www.huntergatheress.com A special thank you to editor, Joan D’Arc for her encouragement and suggestions.

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French TV channel France 3 recently aired a documentary that covered an interesting episode in the long history of CIA abuse of innocent civilians. Although the incident and its context are highly disturbing, it is a testament to the persistence of a select few researchers that their findings are reaching a wider audience.

The show focuses on the 1951 "mass intoxication" case in the French village of Pont Saint Esprit. For one week in August that year, hundreds of villagers suffered from The small southeastern French an apparent attack of psychosis that included town of Pont Saint Esprit, subject to hallucinations. As a result, seven people died (two of a CIA bioweapon experiment in 1951. them by suicide) and some sixty were interned in psychiatric hospitals. Just one month after the events, the British Medical Journal explained it away as a case of poisoned bread by ergot mold (a psychedelic mold). However, investigative journalist Hank P. Albarelli Jr has convincingly argued in recent years that this was in fact an experiment carried out jointly by the CIA and the US Army, involving the deliberate use of LSD or a similar psychotropic substance.

The nightmarish scenes of the week that began on the 17th of August 1951 were described as follows :

A French newspaper at the time of the bizarre incident wrote, "It is neither Shakespeare nor Edgar [Allen] Poe. It is, alas, the sad reality all around Pont-St.- Esprit and its environs, where terrifying scenes of hallucinations are taking place. They are scenes straight out of the Middle Ages, scenes of horror and pathos, full of sinister shadows." A brief article in TIME magazine, then a major U.S. news journal, with extremely close ties to the CIA, stated, "Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were

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Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Learn more Got it described people throwing themselves from rooftops, women and men throwing their clothes off and running the streets naked, and children complaining that their stomachs were infested with coils of snakes.

The ergot mold explanation was largely based on the findings of biochemists who arrived from the nearby Sandoz Chemical Company in Basle, Switzerland. As it happens, one of them was no other than Albert Hofmann, the man credited with syntethizing the LSD molecule for the first time in 1938. According to the France 3 documentary, Hofmann initially identified the cause of the villager's madness as LSD, although later retracted his statement, possibly when he realised that his comment implicated both himself and the company For 7 decades, the French for which he worked. At the time, no more than a dozen government went along with the scientists even knew of the existence of LSD. Equally 'mouldy bread' explanation interesting is that, unbeknownst to the French authorities, Sandoz was secretly supplying the CIA with LSD. The aim was to explore possible defensive and offensive uses of LSD, which included secret experimentation in the US and Europe.

The death of Frank Olson

According to Albarelli ,

[T]he outbreak at Pont St. Esprit had actually been produced by a top-secret, joint Army-CIA experiment conducted as part of the Project MK/NAOMI , an adjunct project to the CIA's ultra-secret Projects Artichoke and MK/ULTRA . Indeed, the very unit that Dr. Frank Olson directed, the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, oversaw the experiment in France.

Here we find an interesting connection. Dr Frank Olson was a bacteriologist at the U.S. Army's top-secret biological warfare center at Fort Detrick, Maryland. He died after falling off the tenth floor of a hotel window in New York City in 1953. A suicide according to the police, the death has long been suspected of having been a murder.

Nine days before the fall, Olson's infamous boss Sidney Gottlieb (head of MK-ULTRA) and his deputy Robert Lashbrook took Olson and a number of CIA colleagues to a retreat at a lodge at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, and spiked their drinks with LSD. Olson had reportedly expressed moral qualms about the nature of his work and an intention to quit. Gottlieb was reportedly concerned about this. Presumably, the intention was to interrogate Olson under the influence of the drug and/or Frank Olson push him to a psychological breaking point. Upon returning from the lodge, he told his wife Alice he had made "a terrible mistake", although he did not provide any specifics.

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Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Learn more Got it Olson asked formally to be dismissed from the biowarfare program a week after the Deep Creek Lake retreat. Instead, the CIA asked him to see a doctor in New York City as he was suffering a nervous breakdown. The doctor, Harold Abramson, was in fact an allergist, who recommended having Olson interned in a mental institution. It was on his last night in the city that he "jumped" from the window of the Hotel Statler, apparently crashing through it , as it was closed. Adding to this bizarre detail, on entering Olson's room, the night manager of the hotel and the police found none other than Robert Lashbrook sitting on the toilet with his head in his hands.

Armand Pastore, the hotel manager, asked the telephone operator at the reception whether she had overheard any calls from that room.

Two, she said. In one, a voice had said, "He's gone." The voice on the other end replied, "That's too bad." Lashbrook admitted making two calls but has denied saying anything of the sort.

This was a strangely casual dialogue about the supposedly unexpected and shocking suicide of a colleague.

In 1994, Frank's son, Eric, had his father's body exhumed. A second autopsy was performed, which discovered a large hematoma on the left side of Olson's forehead and a large injury on his chest. Most of the team that performed the autopsy concluded that these injuries did not occur during the fall, but beforehand in the room. This appears to be consistent with Pastore's testimony about finding Olson on the pavement, still alive, his body facing up.

House of Horrors

From Pont Saint Esprit to LSD, Albert Hofmann and Frank Olson, to the CIA, Sidney Gottlieb and MK-ULTRA .

In 1974, the New York Times revealed that MK-Ultra was a CIA mind control program . In reaction to this news, the US Congress established a commission to investigate the activities of the CIA, but by that time the agency had already destroyed most of the public documentation on the program with the bulk of it remaining classified. We do know, however, that Mk-Ultra techniques included the use of drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, verbal and sexual abuse and torture. MK-ULTRA was officially closed down in 1973, although similar programs have evidently continued in secrecy, as we can deduce from the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that have been used more recently in the context of the war on terror. I n his interview with RT, Albarelli , mentions both Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld as being part of the Psychopathic Donald Ewen cover-up of the Olson case. Cameron, M.D.

To illustrate what mind control research is about, lets consider MK-ULTRA sub-project 68.

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Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Learn more Got it During the 1950's and 60's, the CIA funded Dr Donald Ewen Cameron , director of the Allan Memorial Institute in the Royal Victoria Hospital at McGill University in Montreal. Ostensibly, Dr Cameron was engaged in an effort to 'cure' mental illnesses by 're-patterning' abnormal behavior. In reality, the CIA was not interested in curing anything. They understood well that Dr Cameron's methods could prove useful in disintegrating and reshaping the personality of a subject. To be fair, Dr Cameron did not seem very interested in the recovery of his patients either. This veritable mad scientist was described as " ruthless, determined, aggressive, and domineering ... He seemed not to have the ability to deeply empathize with their [patients] problems or their situation ."

His 'therapy' consisted in techniques that amounted to torture:

Step 1: To prepare them for the de-patterning treatment, patients would be put into a state of prolonged sleep for about ten days using various drugs, after which they experienced an invasive electroshock therapy that lasted for about 15 days . But patients were not always prepared for re-patterning and sometimes Cameron used extreme forms of sensory deprivation as well.

Cameron described the experience: "there is not only a loss of the space-time image but a loss of all feeling that should be present ...in more advanced forms [the patient] may be unable to walk without support, to feed himself, and he may show double incontinence ."

Step 2: Following the preparation period and the de-patterning came the process of "psychic driving" or re-patterning, in which Cameron would play messages on tape recorders to his patients. He alternated negative messages about the patients' lives and personalities with positive ones; these messages could be repeated up to half a million times.

In 1963, the CIA compiled Dr Cameron's work into the Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Handbook - a torture manual. Is it a coincidence that during the occupation of Iraq, Iraqis in US prisons and in Guantánamo Bay were broken down by loud or annoying music (such as Barney the Purple Dinosaur's 'I love you' or Metallica's 'Enter Sandman') played repeatedly for several hours?

Equally chilling is the work of Dr Jose Delgado . Delgado was financed by grants from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Aero-Medical Research Laboratory, and the Public Health Foundation of Boston. Just a quick glance at the ideas that motivated this monster is horrifying:

Doctor Jose Delgado: " Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. " (Congressional Record, New York Times)

"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.

"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.

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Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Learn more Got it "Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain. "

These were the remarks of Dr. Jose Delgado as they appeared in the February 24, 1974 edition of the Congressional Record, No. 262E, Vol. 118.

As crazy as it sounds, Delgado made real progress towards achieving his goal. In the following video we see a charging bull stopped on his tracks at the push of a button on a remote control device:

Other programs related to MK-ULTRA include Project Paperclip which was designed to 'smuggle' Nazi scientists (some of whom were conducting human experiments in concentration camps) into the US, to let them continue their research undisturbed, under the auspices of a new boss.

Project Artichoke , previously known as Project Bluebird , sought to "get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation" aka a "Manchurian Candidate" or mind-controlled assassin. It has been alleged that such CIA projects were the work of 'a few bad apples' and that they were never successful in creating such mind-controlled slaves. There is evidence, however, to suggest otherwise. For example, Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Robert F. Kennedy, claims that to this day he cannot remember what he did, and according to professionals who have examined him, he is sincere. (For an amusing take on the apparent reality (and ease) of mind control, I recommend popular British hypnotist Derren Brown's 'experiment' on hypnotizing someone into becoming an assassin. Unless you conclude Brown's subject is a paid actor, the technique works and with relative ease!

Of course, human experimentation was not exclusive to the CIA. US Army Colonel and psychiatrist James S. Ketchum worked for the army at Edgewood Arsenal on the Chesapeake Bay between 1956 and 1976. His area of research was psychochemical warfare; the objective, in the words of a ranking officer, was to produce a " selective malfunctioning of the human machine. " He tested drugs on hundreds of military "volunteers" - if they can be called such given that they were routinely misinformed about the risks involved.

Other experiments included those conducted on unsuspecting civilian targets. The list is long

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[I]n 1950, to simulate bacteriological warfare, two aircraft flew over San Francisco and sprayed a large amount of powder containing the bacteria Serratia marcescens, causing many residents to contract pneumonia and die. These experiments with the bacterium Serratia marcescens continued until 1969. Was there any rationale behind such madness? By the time the In 1955 in Florida near Tampa Bay pertussis 'flower power' movement bloomed in bacteria were scattered , which immediately the US, the CIA had sold this caused a massive epidemic of the disease. At bioweapon to the population as a least 12 people died. 'mind-expanding recreational drug', just in time to dampen revolutionary In 1956 currents during the Vietnam War & and 1957 Civil Rights years in Georgia and Florida the CIA

CIA philosophy: "It's not personal, you understand, it's just that we own this country, which means that you all are our property, and what we do with and to you is none of your damn business."

implemented another secret operation, during which millions of mosquitoes infected with yellow fever and dengue fever were released.

From 1963 to 1969 within Shipboard Hazard and Defence Project (SHAD) several types of bacteriological and chemical weapons were released on US Navy ships, and the crews suspected nothing when they began to be inundated with sarin, VX gas, and cadmium salts.

In the late 1960s, during another secret US intelligence operation, called 'Study of the Vulnerability of Subway Passengers to Covert Attack with Biological Agents', hay bacillus bacteria were released into New York and Chicago subways.

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Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Learn more Got it A secret medical research of the government of the United States on the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands - 'Project 4.1 ′ is also well known: during the experiment people were exposed to radiation after the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. As a result of radioactive contamination, among women in the first five years after the tests the number of miscarriages and stillbirths doubled, and many of the newborns who survived soon developed cancer.

Another, possibly most infamous biomedical experiment on the residents of the United States in American history could be the study of syphilis in the city of Tuskegee, Alabama, which lasted from 1932 to 1972 and was conducted under the auspices of the US Public Health Service and was designed to investigate all stages of syphilis in African-Americans. During this 'study' American scientists hid the existence of penicillin from the subjects, and continued testing experimental materials, ostensibly in search medicine. As a result, many people were affected, some died of syphilis and infected their wives and children.

Recently, the US government was forced to apologize for a 1946-1948 "research study" in which people in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases by the US Public Health Service:

One wonders what other apologies the public might receive in sixty or seventy years when no one cares anymore.

A note on debunking

In looking into the background on the France 3 documentary about Pont Saint Espirt, I came across a web site that claimed to "debunk" the claim that the CIA deliberately spread whooping cough in Florida in 1955. The author of the page is unhappy that a Wikipedia entry on human experimentation offers three references for the alleged incident in Tampa Bay, and that two of them repeat the claim without specifying a further source, while the third refers to the following 1979 article:

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Our debunker complains:

So the entire story seems to be based on a propaganda campaign by the Church of Scientology. They did not even claim to have any direct evidence that anything was spray, simply some accounts of an unknown quantity of bacteria, and a bunch of unrelated things like animal cages. They noticed this was a year when the whooping cough cases were higher than the last year, so they tried to paint a picture.

So there's no really evidence of what did, or did not happen. But it's nowhere near as clear cut as the Wikipedia references claim.

The first sentence is unreasonably dismissive. For the purposes of finding the most probable truth about this case, it is irrelevant that the people who stole the documents (and who were convicted for it) were Scientologists or that they planned to use them for a "propaganda campaign".

We learn from the UPI article that the Scientologists had four solid clues: 1) a dramatic increase in whooping cough cases in Florida that year, 2) documents proving that the CIA bought whooping cough bacteria shortly before the outbreak, 3) receipts of equipment and animals consistent with a field experiment spreading a biological agent, and 4) evidence of CIA MK-ULTRA related activities in Florida between 1953 and 1955. Knowing what we know of the history of the CIA, it is therefore perfectly reasonable for the Scientologists to state that "while no direct, causative link has been found in the heavily-censored CIA material, there is a disturbing coincidence between activities cited in the file and a sharp outbreak of whooping

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For anyone seeking to learn the truth, this evidence and dot-connecting makes CIA criminality probable enough to make us want to get to the bottom of it, to find confirmation if possible, or to explore similar cases that will help us understand the bigger picture. Had our erstwhile "debunker" been interested in the truth or possessed of an unbiased perspective, he would have admitted that the whooping cough case, while not proven as far as the UPI article goes, is indeed possible and even probable given the larger context. He could have also sought to clarify why the other two references did not seem to offer a proper source, either by examining the texts or by contacting their authors, or he could have consulted alternative sources of his own.

The problem with debunkers is that they are not really interested in getting to the bottom of things. Their objective is only to "debunk" and they make no secret of it (notice the name of the site: Metabunk.org), so they satisfy themselves with picking single, isolated cases and claiming that there is no 'smoking gun', therefore 'winning the argument' and implying that the whole topic is merely paranoid thinking. In doing so, they ignore the cumulative evidence of hundreds of cases and the fact that the object of study, by its very nature, makes it unlikely that any 'smoking gun' evidence will be found - although such evidence does appear from time to time. Remember, the CIA works in secret and is highly motivated to keep things that way. For this reason, the fact that so much material has already come to light should give us a hint about what really happens behind the scenes.

The information is readily available

The difficulty in writing this article consisted in reading articles and watching clips on unbelievably sadistic and unethical human behavior. It is hard for me to imagine crimes more nightmarish than the ones exposed above. The good news is that finding the information was relatively simple. It is encouraging that mainstream TV programs are increasingly taking an interest in looking at the research and bringing it to a public audience. How are we to demand justice and prevent future horrors if we do not even know they exist?

The France 3 documentary can be watched here (in French):

You may also be interested in this National Geographic show:

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Make sure you do not miss Sott Talk Radio's interview with Dr Colin Ross:

And Sott Talk Radio's interview with Hank P. Albarelli Jr:

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Andrés Perezalonso has been a contributing editor for Signs of the Times in both its English and Spanish versions since 2007 and has been a member of the editorial board of the Dot Connector Magazine since 2010. He holds a PhD in Politics, an MA in International Studies, a first degree in Communication, and has a professional background in Media Analysis. He is passionate about understanding current global events and believes this can only be achieved through an interdisciplinary approach that dares to think out of the box. He was born and raised in Mexico and currently resides in the United Kingdom.

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Misled and betrayed: How US cover stories are keeping a Cold War weapon and illegal human testing secret

By Cheryl Welsh

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Published as the cover story in Torture, Asian and Global Perspectives , Volume 2, Issue 2, June-August 2013.

A thank you to Jo Easton for her time and advice with respect to the final draft of this paper.

Terms and definitions: For this paper, the term electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is used interchangeably with frequencies, radio-frequency (RF), radio signals, radio waves, microwaves, microwave signals, low- frequency, extremely low frequency (ELF), ELF frequencies, EM fields, beam weapons, directed energy weapons.

1. Introduction

The US atomic bomb exploded and the world discovered the existence of a formidable secret weapon. By contrast, this paper will illustrate that there is proof that neuroweapons (mind control weapons developed during the Cold War) are another formidable weapon. However, their power lies partly in keeping them secret so they can be used surreptitiously. In principle, the science is possible to target and influence a person remotely and governments have been conducting secret research to develop neuroweapons. Based largely on the science of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), such weapons could be used to stop a person or many people by influencing their behaviors by manipulating various physical and psychological parameters related to brain functions; this could change how wars are fought. Shrouded in secrecy, few people have even heard of neuroweapons. Nevertheless, their importance has often been compared to the atomic bomb 1 and a brief summary of the significant amount of obscure information is presented below.

The consensus is that neuroweapons are still science fiction and any allegations of unlawful human subject experiments involving neuroweapons are just elaborate conspiracy theories. This paper will argue that the consensus is wrong; showing that secret CIA mind control research began as far back as the 1950s with the science of physical and psychological torture being investigated in the US in response to fears that Russia and China had developed new, similar techniques. Professor Alfred McCoy, an expert on US no touch torture, described the CIA research as —a massive mind-control effort, with psychological warfare and secret research into human consciousness that reached a cost of a billion dollars annually, a veritable Manhattan Project of the mind.“ 2 In the mid-1970s, some CIA mind control programs, including nonconsensual human subject experiments with LSD and other drugs, were exposed in congressional hearings while other programs remain classified. 3

This paper will present emerging evidence supporting the argument that the consensus is based on misleading US government cover stories which have been presented as official explanations while actually concealing secret programs and activities. 4 Steven Aftergood, a highly regarded secrecy expert described the US Cold War secrecy system as a —poisonous legacy“: the excessive use of government cover stories was routine and secrecy manuals authorized active deception in order to promote believable cover stories. 5 This paper will present converging facts that strongly suggest two major cover stories concealed the existence of neuroweapons and illegal human testing, fooling nearly everyone for sixty years and counting. These cover stories should now be seen as obsolete with the evidence beginning to reveal that neuroweapons are likely to have already been developed. As mentioned above, the first cover story is that secret neuroweapons are still science fiction. The second cover story concerns the official US policy on EMR bioeffects; it being that there are no proven effects of EMR other than heating. 6 For example, most people know how a microwave oven works; the microwaves produce a thermal effect and heat or cook

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food as in a microwave oven.

1.1 Neuroweapons

Neuroweapons, no touch torture, and nonlethal weapons are three major US state tools that have emerged from the CIA‘s Cold War programs; all three are ideal for intelligence and psychological operations and counterinsurgency warfare. They are tools designed to neutralize the enemy without killing anyone but by influencing their behavior. All three programs represent a new form of weaponry which can be used on a large scale. The first of three US state tools, the CIA‘s no touch torture, has been described as a —revolutionary psychological approach“ and the first new scientific innovation after centuries of [physical] torture. 7 The second tool is the nonlethal weapon, which is a weapon designed to stop the enemy without killing. Nonlethal weapons include several types of weapons but this paper will only discuss nonlethal weapons based on EMR. In 1994, Aftergood reported that —programs to develop so called ”non-lethal‘ weapons are slowly emerging from the U.S. government‘s secret ”black budget.‘. . . The concept of non-lethal weapons is not new; the term appears in heavily censored CIA documents dating from the 1960s.“ 8 Few people are aware of the science research showing that EMR has significant bioeffects on humans other than just heating; this will be shown below.

For over half a century, the US and other governments have kept nonlethal weapons out of the public eye. A few examples illustrate the point. A 1991 London Guardian newspaper article described EMR crowd control weapons that do exist and were listed in the British Defense Equipment Catalogue until 1983 when the Ministry of Defense ordered any advertisements or mention of frequency weapons be removed. 9 A 1990 International Committee of the Red Cross Review article described directed energy weapons, weapons based on EMR that could target a person at battlefield distances. Some science seems to have confirmed modulated EMR can adversely affect brain function, although the research was heavily classified. 10

In 1976, a US Federal Times article described alleged Soviet microwave weapons which caused disorientation, to disrupt behavior and cause heart attacks. 11 (To be clear, the US government official EMR bioeffects policy is that there are no proven bioeffects other than heating and the US government considers the Soviet weapons research scientifically unproven .) Another device targeted a person with microwave hearing to cause voices in head of the person that only the targeted person can hear. 12 The microwaves were modulated like a radio signal to carry the sound of words or music that a person can hear. 13 Microwave hearing has been demonstrated on a subject with successfully encoded speech (the spoken digits from one to ten) in a pulsed microwave signal. 14 Perhaps it is not surprising that the one nonlethal weapon based on EMR that has been revealed is the microwave heat weapon which beams EMR to create a burning sensation on whomever the weapon is directed towards. 15

The third US state tool is the neuroweapons program; neuroweapons are considered a weapon of mass destruction. For example, in 2012, Russian president Vladimir Putin described a new military program to develop EMR weapons that target the nervous system: —Such high tech weapons systems will be comparable in effect to nuclear weapons, but will be more acceptable in terms of political and military ideology.“ 16 In 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader at the time, described EMR weapons that could be used as antipersonnel weapons, calling them —no less dangerous than mass strike weapons.“ 17 Gorbachev stated that the Soviet Union had not and would not test or deploy such weapons. Since the 1940s, the Soviet Union has been studying how EMR interacts with the human body and brain–called EMR bioeffects– and the US has monitored the research to find out if there was any possible advantage gained by the Soviets for espionage or weapons. 18

Additionally, negotiations by the US and the former USSR at the UN Disarmament Agency regarding EMR weapons from 1975 through 1985 were described in a UN Department for Disarmament Affairs book. 19 For example, the former Soviet Union submitted a 1979 UN Committee on Disarmament document. It consisted of a draft agreement for the prohibition of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of weapons. The document specifically listed weapons that use EMR to affect biological targets, with the likelihood of remote targeting within half a dozen years. 20 The document stated that weapons could target the brain and were scientifically possible, relying on international scientific literature. 21

US military research includes EMR neuroweapons similar to the Russian weapons. The US Air Force (USAF)

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is funding "Controlled Effects" research and USAF chief scientists stated: "With the advent of directed energy and other revolutionary technologies, the ability to instantaneously project very precise amounts of various types of energy anywhere in the world can become a reality." 22 Despite the decades of US government secrecy and interest in neuroweapons, the US, like Russia, denies any secret development of such weapons, the argument being that the US government interest in EMR neuroweapons could be a ploy to throw off the Russians into spending more money on science fiction weapons. 23 However, as shown below, further evidence seems to indicate much more is going on: an ongoing secret arms race over neuroweapons between US and Russia that began in the 1950s.

The goal of the US neuroweapons program is to develop the capability of remotely targeting, communicating with and influencing a person‘s brain. It is a weapon of surveillance, influence and control. US government publications on future weapons indicate that some neuroweapons are based on the science of EMR which allows for two main weapons capabilities, first; in principle, EMR can be utilized as the most likely method for remote human surveillance, similar to radar that utilizes EMR to track objects such as airplanes or cells phones. As shown below, in principle, this capability is possible 24 but it is not known in unclassified research.

Secondly, EMR bioeffects can cause symptoms such as nausea, disorientation or confusion. 25 In principle, this capability can also be developed to include precise mind control, including forcing someone to carry out certain specific tasks, however it is unreported in unclassified science. 26 For all of the above reasons, EMR technologies for surveillance and EMR bioeffects for influence and control would seem to be major areas of the science required for neuroweapons development. However, the consensus has completely dismissed the science of EMR and EMR bioeffects for neuroweapons as rudimentary in their level of development and thus science fiction. However, as shown below, the consensus left out critical information, and therefore its conclusion is highly questionable.

The deployment of the three major US state tools would not necessarily eliminate the old, politically unacceptable methods of brutal physical torture and battlefield maiming and killing, but alternative methods (especially if they remain secret and therefore covert) could be used against enemies. No touch torture has already proven to be highly successful as a tool of domination and control: several government manuals show that since the 1960s, the techniques have been disseminated —from Vietnam through Iran to Central America.“ 27 Likewise, nonlethal weapons continue to be secretly developed in several US programs. 28 It will be shown below that the neuroweapons program, the least known and arguably the most consequential of the three CIA Cold War programs has also been secretly expanding.

1.2 Alleged mind control victims

At the same time the CIA programs have been taking place, a large and growing number of victims from around the world have alleged they have been remotely targeted, tracked and suffered illegal human experimentation. Whether this is a coincidence or a cause and effect has remained an unanswered question. The claims of targeting seem to include physical and psychological torture with some features of advanced neuroweapons that the military claims have not yet been developed but that are included in future weapons plans. The claims include farfetched accounts of futuristic weapons that sound so bizarre, they have been dismissed as conspiracy theory or mental illness without further investigation. Most human rights groups and newspapers have received innumerable letters, calls or emails from victims with desperate pleas for help coupled with rambling accounts of crazy sounding mind control zapping and torture. 29 Some people may well be suffering from mental illness but without investigating the numerous claims, no one can be sure.

The 2006 Nature reviewed book Mind Wars, Brain research and national defense , and a 2007 Washington Post Magazine article, Thought Wars, covered the desperate victim accounts and raised issues of conspiracy theory and mental illness. 30 Although the publications included statements by scientists and military experts on secret government weapons programs, the interview statements supported that the symptoms and technologies described by victims were not scientifically possible based on unclassified research and therefore the victims must be conspiracy nuts or delusional. The statements were accepted at face value with only very general questioning, however as Aftergood noted above, secret military weapons programs can be cloaked in deceitful cover stories. Neither publication included independent investigation or recommended further evaluation.

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By contrast, this paper examines experts, weapons and technologies and looks beyond the commonly accepted information to reach the opposite opinion, that the victim allegations may be true. Despite the complete rejection of the claims by nearly everyone and finding no relief from the targeting, victims continue to publicly plead their case. For example, one activist group recently placed a Washington Post ad addressed to President Obama seeking an investigation of advanced technologies that illegally target the brain. 31

1.3 The consensus position and alleged mind control victim position

The core of the disagreement between the alleged victims and the consensus is the question; how advanced is the science of secret neuroweapons today? The alleged victims say the science is already developed, extremely advanced and highly classified. The consensus position disagrees: stating that although such weapons might be possible, they have not been researched or developed. It is agreed that neuroweapons with the capability of remotely targeting, communicating with and controlling the enemy‘s brain is the ultimate weapon that major nations would want to develop. Experts also agree that in principle, neuroweapons and the capability of direct access to the brain and advanced precise mind reading and influencing human behavior–even mind control--are scientifically possible. 32 However, the consensus is that such weapons are only science fiction. A number of reasons are given in support of this consensus. Firstly, it is true that there is no theory for how the brain works and technologies to remotely access the brain remain undeveloped. Also, ethicists have only just begun to alert the public to the current explosion of neuroscience progress and the likelihood of the development of controversial new technologies. It is argued that neuroscience is still at a rudimentary level of development and therefore the development of advanced neuroweapons is not possible today. So it is argued that although advanced neuroweapons are scientifically feasible, their development is only possible in the far future. Secondly, it is argued governments would not be able to keep such weapons secret for decades.

However, this paper will argue that the consensus is wrong for the following reasons. For decades, the US government prevented the science required for neuroweapons from developing in the unclassified realm; thereby allowing the US government to claim neuroweapons are science fiction, based on the best US science literature available. At the same time, secret neuroweapons research flourished and the US government employed extensive secrecy methods to disguise the fact that neuroweapons were scientifically possible not only in principle but were also proven with science experiments. Consequently, secret neuroweapons that are already developed are a serious threat but experts are not warning the public and they should be.

The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents a summary of the neuroscience required for neuroweapons. Section 3 presents the first of two cover stories; that neuroweapons are still science fiction. This cover story relies on the assumption that secret neuroweapons research would advance at a faster but similar development rate as unclassified neuroscience, therefore a brief chronology of the history of classified and unclassified neuroscience related to advanced neuroweapons is presented. The cover story and alternative position are compared before a brief analysis and conclusion are presented. Section 4 considers the second of the two cover stories for neuroweapons; that there are no proven EMR bioeffects except heating. The evidence that this cover story is obsolete is set out by presenting the science of EMR bioeffects related to neuroweapons and US military research based on EMR bioeffects, followed by a summarized history of their development. The cover story and alternative positions are again compared with a brief analysis and conclusion to follow. Section 5 briefly discusses one lesser known and extreme US secrecy method that was implemented to maintain the secrecy of a CIA domestic surveillance program uncovered with the CIA mind control programs in the 1970s, mentioned above. Section 6 presents conclusions and a recommendation for further investigation.

2. The science of neuroweapons

The public needs to know very basic neuroscience required for neuroweapons development. This does not require rocket science or a neuroscientist to understand it but it does require information that has been missing in the public forum. Generally speaking, the science requirements necessary to develop neuroweapons are as follows. It is thought that the science of neuroweapons would require a general theory for how the brain works and so far there is no unclassified theory and neuroscience is too rudimentary to form the basis of a classified theory. However, this ignores the fact that to a great extent,

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neuroscientists do not theorize in comparison to other fields of science, for example physicists build theories to be tested. 33 It is well known that neuroscience literature includes voluminous research but few theories to make sense of the data, as science writer John Horgan explained: —Unfortunately, no one has any idea how the brain integrates the output of all its disparate components to create what we think of as a mind, or self. . . . Neuroscientists have done a great job of breaking the brain into pieces, but they have no idea how to put it back together again.“ 34 Therefore, the lack of a brain theory could be because neuroscientists don‘t theorize, not because a general theory for how the brain works is not possible.

Furthermore, in his 2010 book, Creating modern neuroscience: The revolutionary 1950s , Gordon Shepherd, a prominent neuroscientist, wrote that the 1950s can be considered the greatest decade in biology and neuroscience because there were so many discoveries, breakthroughs and milestones. For example, in biology, the structure of DNA was discovered and this led to rise of molecular biology and the Human Genome Project, a US project that sequenced human DNA. 35 In neuroscience of the 1950s, the ionic hypothesis explained how brain cells utilize electricity to communicate 36 and the hypothesis was the basis for a 1963 Nobel Prize. A great number of similar breakthroughs in the 1950s laid the foundation for modern neuroscience. 37 Shepherd suggested that this exceptional scientific activity was unparalleled in neuroscience before or since and for the most part, a general theory of how the brain works could be based on 1950s revolutionary research. 38

Shepherd‘s book received favorable reviews; it has not been contested by neuroscientists; and it is the basis of two Yale University courses on neuroscience. The book won a 2010 International Society for the History of Neurosciences award. A reasonable speculation is that scientists conducting unclassified research would not have recognized a general theory for how the brain works as a result of being discouraged and prevented from researching critical areas of neuroscience required to develop neuroweapons, as shown below. At the same time, the utilitarian CIA mind control researchers would have recognized the potential for applying this knowledge to neuroweapons development. The US government would have classified any further critical neuroscience required to develop neuroweapons and would have utilized deceitful government cover stories, thus discouraging unclassified research in neuroscience that might reveal the scientific possibility of neuroweapons.

In addition to the requirement of a theory for how the brain works, developing neuroweapons requires knowledge of neuroscience. Neuroscience consists of —the collected multidisciplinary sciences that analyze the nervous system to understand the biological basis for behavior.“ 39 Consciousness is a branch of neuroscience research that is also defined as the study of the brain biology relationship. 40 Likewise, neuroweapons are weapons designed to influence and control the behavior of the enemy by controlling brain biology. Therefore, research on the brain biology and behavior relationship is essential for progress in both neuroscience and neuroweapons. However, as shown below, it is hard to believe but true; mainstream neuroscience did not include the study of the relationship between brain biology and behavior–the very basis of neuroscience and neuroweapons--until very recently.

2.1 The electrochemical brain

Solving how the electrochemical brain works and developing neuroweapons are both a physics problem and a biology problem. The study of electricity in biology, including the electrical properties of the human brain is called bioelectricity. Bioelectromagnetics, the study of electromagnetism in biology, is a branch of bioelectricity. Bioelectromagnetics includes the study of EMR bioeffects which is a critical area of science for neuroweapons, as shown below. Neuroscientists have established that the electricity of the brain communicates information between brain cells with electrical signals but much remains to be discovered and understood. Significantly, for the last sixty years, the basic science and technology requirements for solving how the brain works and likewise for developing neuroweapons have remained the same. Since the mid-twentieth century, neuroscientists have known that brain cells--including the most studied brain cells called neurons--communicate with electrochemical signals. This communication process translates into human activities such as dreams, thoughts, emotions, actions, hearing, seeing and more. Neuroscientists agree that the key to solving how the brain works is to decipher the language of the electrochemical signals, called the neural code. 41

John Chapin, a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) program manager explained that deciphering the neural code is a high research priority for neuroscience because it is one of three great

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scientific unknowns, along with the origin of the universe and of life on Earth. 42 Solving the neural code could lead to finally understanding the mind-brain problem, which is how the biology of the brain results in consciousness and human behavior. 43 It could lead to major advances in treating brain disorders and improving the capabilities of healthy people. 44 While neuroscientists agree that the brain is the most complex scientific problem today, 45 there is no agreement among neuroscientists on how to go about solving the neural code. Nevertheless, the brain can be divided into two fundamental components that the public can understand.

Neuroscientists often describe the brain as —the electrochemical brain“ because the brain consists of two essential and equally important properties–bioelectrical and biochemical. 46 Significantly, two critical facts to know about neuroweapons are that first, they are based on the bioelectrical properties of the brain, not the biochemical properties of the brain; and second, they require the development of technologies for remote communication and surveillance of the brain and only a bioelectrical approach--not a biochemistry approach--can lead to remote access to the electrochemical brain. Victor Chase authored a book on the importance of research on the electrical activity of the brain. Chase explained that —electrical signals provide the most efficient method of transmitting information within the body. No living creature could survive without electricity, because the body is, in essence, an electrical machine.“ 47 Neuroscientists still don‘t understand how the brain‘s electrical signals are transformed into human thought, actions, hearing, seeing and more. 48

There is no dispute that the electrochemical brain communicates with electrical, electromagnetic and magnetic signals as well as chemical signals. Additionally it is well established that electrical, electromagnetic and magnetic signals from outside sources can mimic, interfere with or directly communicate with brain cells. For example, neuroscientists have communicated with the brain by way of its electrical properties. Brain implants utilize electrical signals to affect or cause movements and actions, and to alter, influence, even control behavior. Jose Delgado, a Yale University neuroscientist, conducted research in the 1960s and 1970s which helped to establish that brain implants could be remotely controlled to electrically stimulate an animal's brain to control various complex behaviours, instincts and emotions. 49 Delgado stated: —A new technology . . . has proved that movements, sensations, emotions, desires, ideas, and a variety of psychological phenomena may be induced, inhibited, or modified by electrical stimulation of specific areas of the brain.“

It becomes highly relevant that research on the electrical properties of the electrochemical brain has lagged far behind research on the brain‘s biochemical properties. Progress on the electricity of the brain is still considered rudimentary. 50 Furthermore, since the 1960s, biochemistry is the area of research that mainstream neuroscience has completely focused on, at the expense of the equally important research on the bioelectrical properties of the brain. Consequently, it can be argued that bioelectricity, as one of two fundamental properties of the electrochemical brain, should be a major focus of neuroscience but for some reason it is not.

The second critical fact about neuroweapons is the requirement of the development of technologies for remote access to the brain. Notably, only a bioelectrical approach--not a biochemistry approach--can lead to remote access to the electrochemical brain. An example helps to clarify the difference between bioelectrical and biochemical brain technologies to access the brain. A cell phone caller makes a call and the cell phone transmits the voice message in the form of microwaves traveling through the airœin physics this is known as —action at a distance“--to the microwave cell phone tower. The cell phone tower then transmits the call in the form of microwaves to the cell phone of the person receiving the call which detects the microwaves and converts them back to a voice message. By contrast, action at a distance is not possible with biochemistry. For a chemical reaction to occur, such as two chemicals reacting in a solution to make a third chemical, physical contact is required. Likewise, biochemical brain technologies cannot communicate remotely with the brain, physical contact is required.

Because experiments with invasive technologies on healthy human subjects are unethical, technologies for remote or direct access to the brain are the preferred way to access to the brain rather than invasive technologies such as brain implants and surgeries. While neuroscientists have conducted some brain implant research, the concentration of research has been on indirect methods to access the brain, such as brain scanning technologies, for example, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). One possible reason for the

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lack of remote technologies to access the brain is that much of this area of research has been classified since the 1950s and has been off-limits to unclassified researchers. Since then, only the US government has been developing technologies for remote access of the brain to any significant extent.

To summarize, the following will be shown below. The four major areas of neuroscience that are essential for neuroweapons development have been largely missing from mainstream neuroscience research; first, the brain biology and behavior relationship; second, the still undeveloped and rudimentary bioelectricity research; third, bioelectromagnetics research on the brain which seems to provide a method to remotely communicate with, influence and perhaps even control the brain; and fourth, the bioelectrical technologies--not biochemical technologies–which allow for remote or direct access to the brain. The next sections are a chronology of the development of the basic science required to develop neuroweapons in classified and unclassified neuroscience research since World War II.

3. The development of bioelectricity in neuroscience

Bioelectricity in neuroscience has roots in the study of electricity in medicine and both have faced extreme controversy. Since the eighteen century, when Benjamin Franklin investigated electricity in medicine and concluded it was a charlatan‘s game; it has remained highly controversial. 51 In 1910, the Carnegie Foundation conducted a review of U.S. medical education and it dismissed the "unscientific'' use of electric devices--some but not all were of questionable medical value--and also any medical practice not based on the prevailing biochemical theory. 52 So all mentions of medical devices based on bioelectricity were driven from the classroom. 53 However, some medical electricity has been established as valid, as shown below. Although there was little intermingling between traditional biology and the study of electricity, Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi conducted research on solid state physics in biology and another type of electricity besides the ionic current in neurons described above, known as semi-conduction. For example, semi-conduction is found in most computers today; its importance in biology is that the current is small but it can carry information rather than energy and travel long distances. 54

In the early 1940s, Szent-Gyorgyi proposed an idea that was published in Science and Nature ; that proteins may be semiconductors and this might prove to be the basis of the phenomenon of life. 55 The paper created much excitement but the theory was rejected on theoretical grounds; the scientific community lost interest and the research lacked funding. Nevertheless, Szent-Gyorgyi‘s theory later proved to be valid, although there was no interest in pursuing the research. 56 In the late 1970s, Szent- Gyorgyi provided a possible explanation for why his research was never followed up in mainstream neuroscience: —To sum up, there are four dimensions with which the biologist must be concerned: macroscopic, microscopic, molecular, and submolecular or electronic. Biology readily followed physics into the first three, but took practically no cognizance of the fourth.“ 57

Szent-Gyorgyi understood that biology included a variety of electrical properties, however, most biologists have focused only on basic bioelectricity while concentrating most of their research on the many other areas of biology to be studied. Significantly, one of the founding fathers of neuroscience understood the importance of the many electrical properties of the brain. In the early 1960s, Francis Schmitt was instrumental in establishing the field of modern neuroscience. 58 In a journal article, Schmitt described promising future research that included bioelectricity with an emphasis on the electrical properties of the brain such as semi-conductivity, EMR bioeffects and electrostatic fields. 59 Significantly, Schmitt cited and recommended Szent-Gyorgyi‘s research as a promising area to pursue. However, Schmitt‘s recommendations on bioelectricity in neuroscience research have not been followed up to any significant extent.

Another example of the overall rejection of bioelectricity is the 1950s —biophysics bubble“ which burst in the 1960s. 60 For a short time, biophysics–which included bioelectricity–experienced a short biophysics boom in the 1950s which included multidisciplinary research by physicists and biologists on the study of nerve and brain function. Archibald Hill, Detlev Bronk and Schmitt, cited above, were all prominent neurophysiologists, scientific administrators and military advisors who promoted the importance of biophysics during and after World War II. 61 In the mid-1950s, Schmitt, a director in the US National Institute of Health, (NIH) unsuccessfully attempted to implement biophysics research as a major area of government research on the same footing as biochemistry or molecular biology. 62 However, government

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documents indicate that NIH biochemists rejected this approach in various ways. 63 In the late 1950s, biochemists included physical chemistry in their research and this seems to have contributed to the disappearance of biophysics research in the 1960s. 64

Significantly, since World War II, although most neuroscientists only study the brain through biochemical research, US government scientists conducting classified neuroscience research are known to have utilized EMR technologies and bioelectricity as well as biochemistry to study the brain. To explain, the 1940s led to the discovery of semiconductors, the invention of transistors and integrated circuits, and the invention of the computer. In the 1950s, quantum physics, electrical engineering and solid state physics led to classified research on radar, National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance capabilities and satellite reconnaissance. Radar, NSA surveillance and satellite reconnaissance required EMR technologies to develop the capability of remote sensing, detection of foreign communications signals and more. As Hill, the military advisor cited above explained, radar work would be —useful preparation for a career in biophysics.“ 65 In fact, the physiologist Alan Hodgkin, one of three men to become a 1963 Nobel laureate for the ionic hypothesis of neurons in the brain, discussed above, applied his secret World War II research on radar to constructing electronic equipment for detecting the tiny electrical signals of squid brains. 66 Hodgkin was one of the few scientists known to have applied his wartime physics research to unclassified neuroscience research, with great success.

A major portion of physics papers after World War II remain classified 67 and major areas of physics that could contribute to the development of research on the bioelectricity of the brain remain unavailable to unclassified researchers. Paul Forman, author of a journal paper on quantum electronics for national security stated: —During the 1950s the cumulative number of announced and available number of papers [that were] properly published in US physics journals [was]--about 50,000--but it was probably only some small percentage of the (unknown) number of security classified reports in physics and its technical applications prepared in that decade.“ 68 Furthermore, classified scientific war research, which concentrates on national security objectives, is different in style from unclassified peacetime research; —in war, research goals were set, deadlines were tight but resources were no problem; the only thing that mattered were the research goals.“ 69

As mentioned above, since the 1950s, only the US government has been developing technologies for remote access of the brain to any significant extent. In the 1980s, Richard Cesaro, deputy director for advanced sensors at DARPA stated that animal experiments in the 1960s and 1970s confirmed microwaves can penetrate the brain and with modulation may be able to carry information to influence the brain. 70 Classified research such as the DARPA EEG research is based on the bioelectrical properties of the brain which seem to allow for remote surveillance; in 1976, DARPA reported to Congress that mind-reading machines are beginning to decipher a person‘s brain waves or EEG. 71 Agency scientists stated that current technologies require electrodes placed on the scalp, however, they described magnetic brain waves that could be detected a few feet away and greater distances could be achieved in the 1980s. 72 It is not known whether the DARPA research on remote access to the brain was ever developed.

As Dr. Ichiji Tasaki wrote in his 1982 book, Physiology and electrochemistry of nerve fibers : —One of the difficulties encountered in writing this book has been that many students of biology and medicine are not sufficiently familiar with the basic concepts in thermodynamics and electrochemistry.“ It seems likely that neuroscientists do not study beyond the basic physics of their educational requirements. It becomes obvious that biophysics and bioelectricity could have but did not become a significant part of mainstream neuroscience research.

3.1 Bioelectricity and the neuron doctrine

Bioelectricity in neuroscience has been met with further opposition from an unlikely source, the neuroscientists themselves who do not want to look beyond established doctrines even though they have been shown to be lacking. The neuron doctrine is a fundamental tenant of modern neuroscience; it states that the neuron is the primary functional signaling unit of the brain and connects with other neurons.73 This is also the principle behind the so-called connectionist model; connectionism is an influential school of neuroscience thought, as will be shown below. The neuron doctrine is taught in every neuroscience textbook today, 74 however, it is considered incomplete and too simplistic to explain how brain biology is

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related to human behavior, without extending its principles. 75 This is not happening and some neuroscientists say that it should be. 76 The action potential which is made up of the ionic current of the neuron described in the Nobel Prize winning ionic hypothesis cited above, remains the most studied area of bioelectricity in neuroscience. However, bioelectricity is based on the laws of physics which state there is no electricity without electromagnetic and magnetic fields, including in the brain. Therefore, besides the action potential, bioelectricity of the brain also requires the study of interactions of electricity, magnetism and electromagnetism in the brain and measuring and studying how the brain communicates with electrical currents, electric signals, semi-conduction, direct and alternating currents, EMR, magnetic signals and more.

For decades, neuroscientists have known that brain electricity is much more than just ionic currents in the neuron. Nevertheless, the neuron doctrine prevailed throughout the twentieth century 77 and it had the effect of preventing any significant research on discoveries of additional methods of bioelectrical brain communication systems. In 1961, Robert Galambos, a neurophysiologist, wrote that the decades of research on the neuron and its action potential has not and will not provide an explanation for human behavior such as remembering a name. 78 The neuron doctrine and the neuron‘s action potential will never be able to explain how the brain works. 79 Theodore Bullock, another pioneering neuroscientist, echoed Galambos in a 1996 journal article, describing the neuron doctrine‘s grip over neuroscience as nearly absolute. 80 Regarding the electricity of the brain; little else but the neuron doctrine and the neuron‘s action potential are accepted as valid in mainstream neuroscience today. In a 2005 science magazine article, The Myth of Mind Control, Walter Freeman, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Berkeley, also explained that the focus on the neuron doctrine is misplaced and other bioelectricity approaches should be considered such as further study of EMR bioeffects. 81

Without a doubt, bioelectricity research remained rudimentary and narrowly focused on the neuron doctrine, ionic currents and action potentials. It is true that some neuroscientists have made significant progress on lesser known bioelectricity research other than the neuron doctrine, however, the research remains either a small part of neuroscience research as a whole, or it is side-lined and marginalized, with some of the research considered fringe science. 82

Now the limits that the neuron doctrine has placed on bioelectricity research seems to be extending to major areas of future neuroscience research funded by the US government. In his 2013 state of the union address, President Obama proposed a Brain Mapping Project which is based on the neuron doctrine and the connectionist model. 83 An interview of Columbia University‘s Raphael Yuste, included this description of the project: —By mapping circuit activity, Yuste thinks researchers can "discover patterns that are the physical representation and origin of mental states--of thoughts, for example, or memories." 84 Yuste explained that researchers want to chart a functional model of the brain by mapping each of the billions of neurons in the human brain and observing their actions. Neuroscientists acknowledge that Obama‘s brain project will take decades to complete.

It is also significant that Obama‘s Brain Mapping Project, which is now a part of the BRAIN Initiative85 has focused on developing invasive electronic technologies such as nanoprobes and wireless microcircuits that will float freely in the brain. The proposed technologies to access the brain involve physical contact, invasive procedures or bulky machines and cannot be done remotely. DARPA will have some influence on the BRAIN Initiative; the agency is funding 40 million of approximately 132 million of the start-up funding. It seems likely that the limits on bioelectricity research by the neuron doctrine will continue.

3.2 Three revolutions in science

As Shepard explained above, the revolutionary 1950s set the course for modern neuroscience. In the 1950s, three revolutions in science–the biology revolution, psychology‘s behaviorist revolution and the cognitive revolution–resulted in tumultuous changes for neuroscience. Unclassified neuroscience developed with a focus on molecular biology and biochemistry and a significant lack of both bioelectricity and also the study of the brain biology behavior relationship. 86 As described in the previous section, neuroscience since the 1960s has focused on biology and biochemistry over biophysics. This section will look at how neuroscience is defined as the relationship of brain biology to human behavior, however, neuroscientists in the 1960s and beyond have focused on behavioral approaches to the study of the brain with no study of its relationship to the biology or biochemistry of the brain. The 1950s was the beginning

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of the biology revolution. 87 The biology revolution in science and the cognitive revolution in psychology took off in the 1960s and since then, molecular biology, cognitive psychology and biochemistry have remained the dominant areas of research in neuroscience. 88 As explained above, the great interest in biophysics in the 1950s did not last through the 1960s. 89

Although the study of bioelectricity is equally as important as the study of biochemisty of the electromagnetic brain, in unclassified neuroscience research, bioelectricity was absorbed by biochemistry, and molecular biology. Today, the major areas of research that have dominated neuroscience are cellular and molecular biology, cognitive psychology and systems neuroscience, which developed into brain imaging. 90 For example, in 2012, there were 40,000 members of American Society for Neuroscience with —massive representation of molecular biology, cognitive psychology and brain imaging.“ 91 —[M]olecular biology is now expected to take the dominant role in the twenty-first century that physics played in the twentieth.“ 92

Additionally, since the 1950s, the behaviorist revolution has had the significant impact of preventing study of the relationship of brain biology to behavior, until the last few decades. From the early twentieth century through the 1960s, the behaviorism movement dominated psychology. Behaviorism included experiments utilizing for example, stimulus-response and observable behavior studies. Significantly, behaviorism excluded any study of biological factors and brain processes. In the 1950s, prominent scientists were also actively supporting the behaviorist approach in CIA mind control research. For example, Jolly West, a CIA scientist and the director of the University of California at Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute, was instrumental in promoting behaviorism. There were several CIA scientists including Harold Wolff and Ewen Cameron, and others who wittingly and unwittingly were receiving CIA funds for the research. 93 This had the overall effect of limiting research on the brain biology relationship.

In the 1960s, the inability of behaviorism to explain cognitive factors such as intelligence and personality led to its downfall. After the 1960s, its restricting effect on biological causes of behavior remained in evidence, for decades. One psychologist explained: —Advocates of biological approaches to psychological problems found little financial support, little academic encouragement, and few outlets in psychological publications.“ 94 The cognitive revolution replaced behaviorism; and by joining the biology revolution, cognitivists began to study mental processes in the brain, although primarily with indirect tools such as brain scanning technologies. Two major areas of cognitive psychology developed; molecular biology and systems biology, which is the study of —mapping elements of cognitive function onto specific brain areas.“ 95 The brain scanning technologies such as the PET scans and FMRI enabled research on systems biology to flourish. Although it is slowly starting to change, cognitive scientists have studied the mental processes but have ignored brain biology, instead taking a functionalist approach based on the belief that the functioning of a person can be studied independently of other factors. 96 The functionalist approach in neuroscience remained a significant influence, for example in connectionist research; 97 neuroscientists who focused their research on the biology of the brain have not embraced the connectionist approach, 98 for reasons such as the connectionist modeling did not usually match how the brain functions in reality. 99 Thus, both the cognitive revolution and also the connectionist approach have been slow to reduce the enormous gap between the study of brain biology and human behavior that began with behaviorism.

The study of consciousness, which is another area of study of the brain behavior relationship, has been subject to centuries old religious and philosophical debates. The scientific approach to the study of consciousness was considered heresy 100 and the study of consciousness was off limits in psychology and also neuroscience throughout most of the 20th century. 101 In the late 1980s, Francis Crick, a physical chemist and Nobel laureate for discovery of the structure of DNA, and Christof Koch, a neuroscientist, began to study and publish papers on consciousness, in spite of the complete rejection of such research by most of their peers. 102 The science of consciousness remains a relatively small area of neuroscience research today. 103 Benjamin Libet, a neuroscientist, described that the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) would not fund consciousness research. 104 At the same time, Libet stated that a large number of internationally prominent figures in neuroscience supported his consciousness research. 105 For decades, most neuroscientists did not believe anything could be found in the study of brain biology and behavior relationship. 106 Crick asked some of his peers in neuroscience why they think this way; reasons given included that the brain is so complicated, examining the brain closely

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won‘t result in significant progress. 107 Crick stated that he found this reasoning —most peculiar.“ 108

Brief analysis and conclusions of the first of two cover stories

It can be argued that the new evidence of a 1950s theory for how the brain works is compelling evidence that should be considered in any evaluation of whether neuroweapons are science fiction or science fact. The consensus that neuroweapons are science fiction is based on the assumption that secret neuroweapons research would advance at a similar development rate as unclassified neuroscience. Nevertheless, this position can now be shown to be significantly flawed. Missing from the consensus is the following information. Unclassified neuroscientists had no theory for how the brain works to guide them. The major areas of unclassified neuroscience research, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging research, which had their beginnings in the 1950s, remain the dominant areas of research in neuroscience today. At the same time, research on the bioelectricity of the brain--with the exception of the extensive research on the action potential of the neuron--has remained classified in the 1950s CIA mind control programs and DARPA programs to develop technologies for remote access to the brain. It can be argued that the extremely skewed development of neuroscience research described above may have come about in large part to allow only classified CIA scientists to develop neuroweapons and therefore maintain complete secrecy.

As a result, unclassified neuroscientists could only study the biochemistry of the brain, even less so because of the restrictions imposed by the neuron doctrine and the restrictions on the study of the brain biology and behavior relationship. Without tools based on bioelectricity to remotely access the brain, few human experiments can be done ethically and neuroscientists conducting unclassified research can only study the brain indirectly, for example with brain scanning technologies. At the same time, the evidence suggests that US government scientists conducting classified neuroweapons research had tremendous, almost unbelievable advantages. All of the requirements for the development of neuroweapons cited above were available: a 1950s theory for how the brain works, the study of both biochemistry and also bioelectricity of the brain, the brain biology and behavior relationship and more advanced technologies for remote access the brain.

A reasonable conclusion would seem to be that the development trends found in classified and unclassified neuroscience research are either an alarming coincidence or a strong indication that the science of neuroweapons have been well hidden and well known for decades--but only to US government scientists conducting secret research. Furthermore, unclassified research gives glimpses of what is possible: the expectation is that classified research into bioelectricity would be far more developed, as further shown in the next section.

4. The second of two cover stories; EMR bioeffects policy

Since the 1950s, the US government has endorsed an EMR bioeffects policy which states that there are no proven EMR bioeffects, only heating effects. This section presents the following. The science of EMR bioeffects is briefly summarized, then a summary of the science of EMR bioeffects for neuroweapons is described. Next, a brief chronology of some of the history of EMR bioeffects policy, including a brief history of bioelectromagnetics, the science of EMR bioeffects is presented. Additionally, it will be shown that there are strong indications that the US EMR bioeffects policy is consequential to the Cold War history of an ongoing secret arms race between the US and Russia over neuroweapons. A short analysis and conclusions are given.

4.1 Science of EMR bioeffects

In the nineteenth century, James Clerk Maxwell discovered that all physical phenomena, from energies to chemical and solid bodies are built on oscillations. With oscillation comes EMR. Maxwell discovered all waves are mathematically identical with relationships along a continuum known as the electromagnetic spectrum, for example microwaves, light and also the kilohertz oscillations by the neurons in the brain. 109 EMR bioeffects are based on the fact that electricity, magnetism and electromagnetism are interconnected phenomena, including in the human body and the brain. EMR bioeffects are based on the well-established fact that electrical currents, (including those in the brain) produce electromagnetic fields. The brain can also be influenced by external electricity and electromagnetic and magnetic fields. 110 An example of magnetic signals that can influence behavior is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a medical therapy

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that directs tiny magnetic signals at certain areas of the brain to relieve depression.

Alan Frey, a physicist, neuroscientist, and one of the founders of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, wrote that EMR is ubiquitous in biology and significantly, internal EMR signals are modulated with information like a radio for brain communication: —[L]iving beings are electrochemical systems that use very low frequency electromagnetic fields in everything from protein folding through cellular communication to nervous system function. To model how EM fields affect living beings, one might compare them to the radio we use to listen to music. . . . This is the model that much biological data and theory tell us to use.“ 111

The basic scientific concept behind EMR bioeffects is as follows: —Numerous independent experiments reported in the peer-reviewed journal research literature conclusively establish that nonthermal bioeffects of low-intensity EM fields do indeed exist. . . . Extremely weak EM fields may, at the proper frequency and site of application, produce large effects that are either clinically beneficial or harmful. Some specific frequencies have highly specific effects on tissues in the body, just as drugs have their specific effects on target tissues.“ 112 Significantly, a 1991 International Review of the Red Cross (ICRC) report on directed energy weapons described the same finding: “Research work has also revealed that pathological effects close to those induced by highly toxic substances could be produced by electromagnetic radiation even at very low power, especially those using a pulse shape containing a large number of different frequencies.“ 113

A 2010 review of EMR bioeffects literature concluded that although EMR bioeffects science remains unsettled, there is no doubt that biosystems can be affected by EMFs at several levels: —There is also little doubt that biosystems can be the source of EMFs. The main question at hand is whether biosystems use EMF for a purposeful interaction (communication) and if so at what level of the bio-organism will it happen? The amount of data that support the latter notion is rapidly mounting.“ 114 Most would agree that bioelectromagnetics is fundamental to human biology and yet other prevailing scientific viewpoints about EMR support the argument this research is still rudimentary: —Even though the body is basically an electrochemical system, modern science has almost exclusively been concerned with the chemical aspect.“ 115

4.2 EMR bioeffects for neuroweapons

Conventional neuroscience maintains that electricity is the primary communication system in the brain, based on the neuron doctrine. As noted above, the current state of EMR bioeffects research is the determination of whether the brain communicates information among the brain cells with electromagnetic waves that are given off and received by the brain cells. This is unsettled science, as much remains to be discovered and understood. This is the area of science that is also politicized, controversial, and classified. Nevertheless, in the 1980s, research had begun to establish both internal and also external sources of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) can communicate with the brain and alter behavior. 116

EMR bioeffects seems to be important for both future neuroweapons and for solving the brain's so-called neural code. 117 Lewis Slesin, editor of the trade publication Microwave News explained that the science for EMR and its effect on human behavior has been established and the CIA‘s mind control programs have explored whether EMR can target people at a distance. 118 The results of the CIA research are not known; the research remains classified. 119 As will be shown, the science of EMR seems to be extremely important to US national security because it provides the most viable method known for remote access to the brain. Therefore, a few examples of the science of EMR bioeffects research on the brain as it relates to neuroweapons is presented next. The research has held great weapons potential for decades and what little information that is available in unclassified research remains extremely rudimentary and speculative.

Robert Becker, one of the founders of the science of bioelectromagnetics in the 1960s 120 and twice nominated for a Nobel Prize for his bioelectromagnetics research, 121 described a major scientific principle of bioelectromagnetics:

The microwaves alone (unmodulated) have no effect. The two types of modulation that are biologically important are pulsed and amplitude. Modulation is the secret of transmitting information by means of electromagnetic fields. It appears that [like AM radio] the body also

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demodulates the signal when exposed to modulated radio-frequency or microwave fields; the biological effect is that of the low-frequency modulation. In this view, all biological effects are produced by ELF frequencies . This makes sense, because the body systems that pick up electromagnetic field are "tuned" to natural frequencies between 0 and 30 Hz. 122

In the 1980s, Becker described a military report that stated microwave pulses appeared to produce stimulation in the central nervous system. 123 Becker stated the stimulation was comparable to Jose Delgado‘s research, cited above, that found brain implants could be remotely controlled to electrically stimulate an animal's brain to control various complex behaviours, instincts and emotions. 124 In other words, the same precise behavioral effects produced by stimulation of brain cells by implants could be produced by EMR alone directed at the brain–without implants. However promising the research is, there has been no follow up in unclassified research.

The following classified CIA research plan was released under the Freedom of Information Act. This research has yet to be experimentally proven, however, if proven, precise mind control would be possible:

The experimenter, J.F. Schapitz, stated: "In this investigation it will be shown that the spoken word of the hypnotist may also be conveyed by modulated electromagnetic energy directly into the subconscious parts of the human brain-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. As a preliminary test of the general concept, Schapitz proposed recording the brain waves induced by specific drugs, then modulating them onto a microwave beam and feeding them back into an undrugged person's brain to see if the same state of consciousness could be produced by the beam alone. . . .

The second experiment was to be the implanting of hypnotic suggestions for simple acts, like leaving the lab to buy some particular item, which were to be triggered by a suggested time, spoken word, or sight. Subjects were to be interviewed later. "It may be expected," Schapitz wrote, "that they rationalize their behavior and consider it to be undertaken out of their own free will." 125

Significantly, as cited above, the ICRC and the report for the NIH also described EMR bioeffects that act like drugs. Additionally, in a 2002 US Department of Commerce, Converging Technologies For Improving Human Performance , Robert Asher of Sandia Laboratories proposed research on the effects of EMR on the brain: —This investigation may spawn a new industry in which the human is enhanced by externally applied electromagnetic pulses so shaped as to enhance specific biochemical changes within the body without drugs.“ 126

Michio Kaku, a physicist, explained how EMR could be utilized to develop the capabilities that are fundamental to neuroweapons: —In principle the brain is a transmitter over which our thoughts are broadcast in the form of tiny electrical signals and electromagnetic waves. ... Radio waves can be beamed directly into the human brain to excite areas of the brain known to control certain functions.“ 127 Kaku explained that in the 1950s, Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon found that if he used electrodes to stimulate the brain, his patients would report effects as hearing voices or seeing things that originated in their mind. 128 Today, Penfield‘s research remains rudimentary in its development, nevertheless Kaku made the following conclusion: —In the future it may be possible to beam electromagnetic signals at precise parts of the brain that are known to control specific functions." 129

In 2010, the prominent physicist Freeman Dyson speculated: —The essential facts that will make detailed observation or control of a brain possible“ are microwave signals and two tools; first microscopic radio transmitters and receivers; and second, a tool to convert neural signals into radio signals and vice versa. 130 Numerous further speculative examples of the rudimentary level of the unclassified science are available.

4.3 Chronology of EMR bioeffects policy

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first half of the twentieth century and has no scientific validity. 131 Physicians discovered that ionising EMR frequencies such as in x-rays could produce cancer and that non-ionising EMR frequencies below light did not seem to cause cancer. Therefore the general conclusion was that non-ionising EMR had no biological effects: —Classical concepts of physics simply did not allow for any meaningful interaction between any form of non-ionising electromagnetic radiation and living organisms.“ 132 In addition, since World War II, the Department of Defense (DoD) has heavily relied on radar and other EMR technologies. Some argue that to prevent lawsuits over possible health effects from exposure to EMR, the DOD maintain a policy that there are —no proven biological effects“ from EMR; only heating effects. 133 The electrical power line companies have also maintained that there are no proven EMR bioeffects. 134 In both cases, an EMR bioeffects policy avoids large legal pay outs for possible health effects from exposure to unhealthy levels of radar or from living near power lines. 135

For decades, the American Physical Society (APS) has maintained the policy that EMR does not interact with human biology including the brain and there are only heating effects. 136 The APS has stated that the scientific basis for the policy is that there is no proven physical mechanism to explain bioeffects of EMR so there can‘t be any EMR bioeffects except heating. 137 This reasoning has been criticized on the grounds that mechanisms to explain EMR bioeffects may exist even though physicists haven‘t discovered them yet. 138 Many experimental effects are shown in science without a theoretical background. For example, gravity remains an unexplained phenomenon although it obviously exists. Another example, scientists don‘t have a theory for how the brain works but all know that the brain does work.

More recently, some have argued that exposure to microwave radiation from cell phones and cell phone towers may be harmful to a person‘s health. In 2012, a report reviewed 1800 new studies on EMR. The report referred to radio frequency radiation and wireless technologies and concluded: —Overall, there is reinforced scientific evidence of risk where there is chronic exposure to low-intensity electromagnetic fields and to wireless technologies (radiofrequency radiation including microwave radiation).“ 139 Cell phone companies also seem to have an interest in maintaining the EMR bioeffect policy to avoid lawsuits from possible EMR health effects. 140

These prevailing scientific viewpoints have been firmly in place for decades, some since World War II, and likely contributed to the current consensus that there is no proven scientific basis establishing EMR neuroweapons could be a serious threat comparable to the atomic bomb. Despite the decades of funding for secret EMR neuroweapons research beginning with the 1950s CIA mind control experiments, the weapons are not considered a significant threat to national security today. This is highlighted by recent civilian reports and articles on neuroscience applications to national security only examining rudimentary directed energy weapons under development. 141 However, the next sections will highlight the reasons why the development of the science of EMR bioeffects has remained rudimentary.

4.4 The 1950s EMR bioeffects national security threat

In the 1950s, the US and former Soviet Union (USSR, called Russia for this paper) seemed to have discovered the weapons potential of EMR. In 1953, Russia began bombarding the US Embassy in Moscow with low level EMR and —five presidents kept it secret.“ 142 The CIA analyzed the bombardment of the US Embassy with microwaves and discovered it matched those microwave characteristics mentioned in published Soviet experiments involving behavioral effects in rats. 143 Milton Zaret was contacted by Samuel Koslov (the advisor to the President on this issue); Zaret had previously conducted research for the CIA which suggested it might be possible for microwaves to be used to create mind control weapons. Zaret‘s experiments for the CIA replicated Soviet rat experiments on the behavioural effects of microwaves which were —translated into the different scientific nomenclature used in the United States, like a microwave Rosetta Stone.“ 144 This is one of several indications that despite the prevailing scientific viewpoints on the lack of EMR bioeffects, some EMR bioeffects research was scientifically sound and it was also a significant national security concern. In 1965, Koslov, who also worked for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now known as DARPA), ran the Pentagon's Project Pandora; which secretly studied the behavioral and biological effects of low-level modulated microwaves. 145

Ross Adey (a pioneer of bioelectromagnetic medicine), Zaret and other bioelectromagnetics experts were consulted by US government agencies or conducted secret work on Project Pandora. 146 These experts

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found that EMR affected the nervous system; however Koslov later destroyed the Project Pandora documents 147 , reporting he did not have enough room to store them. 148 Koslov concluded, without explanation, that —the Moscow microwave beam was not an effective mind-control weapon“; 149 however, a recent Washington Post article stated that Project Pandora conclusions were uncertain: 'The results were mixed, and the program was plagued by disagreements and scientific squabbles.' 150 At the same time, CIA EMR mind control research was considered of primary importance to national security. 151 For example, at a 1977 US congressional hearing on CIA mind control programs, CIA medical doctor Sidney Gottlieb‘s testimony discussed CIA mind control programs, the possibility of mind control using radiowaves and the Embassy bombardment: —It was felt to be mandatory and of the utmost urgency for our intelligence organization to establish what was possible in this field on a high priority basis.‘ 152

4.5 1960s and 1970s; bioelectromagnetics research flourishes

As cited above, study of the neuron doctrine and the action potential seemed to restrict nearly all other possible methods of electrical brain communication in unclassified neuroscience research. At the same time, the EMR bioeffects research on the brain seemed to thrive in classified research and in Russia. For example, a 1961 Russian paper by Z. V. Gordon theorized that EMR led to changes in rat brain cells. 153 At that time, the US military controlled most of the EMR research funding and made the major policy decisions about EMR health exposure levels and other related matters. 154 The US military was concerned about the Russian EMR bioeffects brain research and as a result, US neuroscience studies involving EMR bioeffects were no longer funded in unclassified research and public discussions of EMR bioeffect research were discouraged. 155 As mentioned above, secret military research was increased to determine if the Russians were developing EMR based mind control for espionage or weapons purposes. 156 In the 1960s and 1970s, the electromagnetic aspect of neuroscience research was well funded and classified by the US government. 157 It seems clear that the US government was aware of the EMR research that suggested the weapons potential of EMR bioeffects.

Furthermore, a small number of scientists were instrumental in establishing the scientific basis for bioelectromagnetic medicine. 158 The bioelectromagnetics researchers found —truly remarkable interactions between electromagnetic fields and the brain“ but the —relevant experiments were hidden from view by the Cold War.“ 159 As a result of both secrecy and prevailing scientific thought, however, bioelectromagnetic research has remained underfunded and disregarded by the mainstream scientific community. 160 EMR bioeffects research has even been called junk science, however as Henry Lai, co-editor of Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine explained, the lack of funding means that researchers can‘t stay in the field for long 161 and consequently the research suffers. In the 1960s, Frey, cited above, tested microwave radiation on animals and found evidence that electricity seems to affect brain activity. 162 Frey stated that the Pentagon hired scientists who published research disputing Frey's findings while at the same time refusing to reveal their methodology and data. 163 Moreover, in the 1970s, his government contractors told him to cover up his research or they would terminate his contract. 164 Numerous bioelectromagnetics scientists reported similar treatment by the US government. 165 At that time, most researchers, including neuroscientists, still held the prevailing scientific viewpoints on the lack of proven biological effects of EMR. 166 Thus, the weapons potential of the bioelectromagnetics research remained out of the public view.

4.6 The 1980s; a turning point for bioelectromagnetics researchers

In the 1980s, bioelectromagnetics researchers felt that their research could lead to EMR weapons comparable to the atomic bomb; a further indication that the study of the electromagnetic aspect of the electrochemical brain seemed to be critical to national security. 167 These researchers discovered that when information was embedded onto a carrier EMR wave it —induced the widest variety of biological effects;“ although how this happened was not known. 168 Their experiments suggested —externally applied electromagnetic fields had a scientifically measurable effect on electromagnetic processes of transformation, transfer, coding, and storage of information in living systems; including in the brain.“ 169

In the 1980s, Cesaro, cited above, helped to make sense of this disregarded science. He stated that a microwave weapon based on successful human experiments would be —more powerful than the atomic bomb.“ 170 Several researchers felt that a letter should be written to the President about the emerging weapons potential of bioelectromagnetics research, similar to the 1939 letter written to President

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Roosevelt about the weapons potential of nuclear physics. 171 As noted above, Becker cited a military report describing microwave pulses with the capability of precise mind control without the need for implants 172 and in the mid-1980s, Becker recounted several researchers surmised such a weapon was a possibility. 173 Most would agree that if developed, such a weapon could be comparable to an atomic bomb.

Becker had witnessed decades of bioelectromagnetics research, the growing US and Russian interest in EMR weapons and excessive government secrecy including government deception and disinformation techniques. In conversation with another pioneer of bioelectromagnetics research (Professor A. R. Liboff), Becker always maintained the belief that both the US and Russian governments were very much involved in EMR mind control research. 174 Both Becker and Adey felt that electromagnetic mind control was inevitable. 175 On a 1984 BBC documentary on Project Pandora, Becker surmised that there could be a super-secret Manhattan Project to develop EMR weapons and that the best cover story, the official explanation for secret government research, would be that EMR weapons were not scientifically possible. 176 It seems that Becker‘s speculation was correct: the EMR bioeffects policy is a US government official science policy that denies EMR bioeffects and as shown below, the most prominent of experts have cited the EMR bioeffects policy to claim that EMR neuroweapons are not possible.

4.7 1990s and beyond; EMR neuroweapons and excessive secrecy

For decades, the military has officially endorsed the EMR bioeffects policy. The US seems to have gone to great lengths to keep EMR bioeffects science and its weapons potential out of the public eye. However, with the breakup of the Soviet Union, some in the US military threw out this fifty year old official policy. In 1997, the US military began providing new funding for the development of nonlethal weapons based on the biological effects of EMR. 177 Nevertheless, well established academic scientific organizations and officials, including the US Air Force, cited below, continued to endorse the EMR bioeffects policy.

Richard Garwin is a physicist and one of the founders of the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the agency that conducts secret satellite surveillance for national security purposes. In his 1999 Council on Foreign Relations, (CFR) report, Non-Lethal Technologies: Progress and Prospects, Garwin reported there were already established major classified programs that included psychological warfare, information warfare and nonlethal weapons. 178 In a 2004 Council on Foreign Relations report, Garwin recommended that skilled engineers and scientists work on directed energy, electromagnetic coupling, modeling and physiology. He described the ongoing inter-service conflicts, the problem of redundancy, a burdensome secrecy system and the lack of accountability for weapons. 179

In a 2005 —for the record“ email to this author, Garwin stated that has evaluated electromagnetic weapons for the US Defense Department several times, but —there are always ”compartments‘ to which even people with high-level security clearances do not have access.“ 180 Garwin cited the official EMR bioffects policy to unequivocally dismiss the possibility of EMR weapons that could target and control the brain. 181 The EMR bioeffects policy seems to reach to the highest levels of US government.

Perhaps the clearest example that EMR bioeffects are disregarded in mainstream neuroscience is the following. In 2001, a group of experts including Professor Kenneth Foster, wrote an article in the IEEE Spectrum , an academic electronic engineering journal: —Such technology [new rat implant technology capable of transmitting signals to a rat‘s brain from a distance] had nothing to do with the fantasies of mind control by electromagnetic fields, long a staple of science fiction and lately of conspiracy theory Web sites.“ 182 Today, most neuroscientists are convinced that EMR bioeffects on the brain are fringe science.

In 2004, The Lancet obituary for Adey described his research showing that brain tissue is sensitive to EMR. The obituary noted that some rejected Adey‘s controversial research by citing the EMR bioeffects policy, such as Foster, one of the authors of the IEEE Spectrum article above. However, others have confirmed Adey‘s research and the writer of the obituary opined that Adey‘s controversial research will some day prove to be true. 183 Foster may argue that the US government‘s EMR bioeffects policy has nothing to do with neuroscience, however, in light of the evidence presented in this paper, it can be argued that this would appear to be an example of the EMR bioeffects policy utilized as a US government cover story spread by experts. Foster‘s conclusions omit two main facts; first, the decades of highly politicized EMR bioeffects research; and secondly, the decades of US government monopoly over unclassified and classified EMR bioeffects research; this combination resulted in the nearly complete restriction of EMR

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bioeffects research. As explained above, EMR bioeffects seem to have a role in brain functions, however the unclassified research remains rudimentary in its development.

In 2007, the official USAF science policy stated that its EMR bioeffects policy is that there are no non-thermal effects of microwaves. 184 At the same time, Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, has described microwave attacks against the human brain as part of future warfare in a 2001 presentation to the National Defense Industrial Association about "Future Strategic Issues.“ 185 Recently the prestigious science journal Nature admonished the USAF in an opinion editorial for classifying EMR bioeffects research and stated that only weapons, not science should be classified. 186

4.8 Brief analysis and conclusions

It can be argued that the EMR bioeffects cover story is obsolete even as the US government continues to endorse official EMR bioeffects policy. Since World War II, scientists have had few options for conducting research on EMR bioeffects on the brain; the scientists who do conduct EMR bioeffects research face government discrediting tactics, loss of funding, ostracizing by the scientific community and more. As a result of the US government‘s dominance over EMR bioeffects research, the infrastructure that is necessary for an area of science to flourish are completely absent in the field of EMR bioeffects research including: consistent funding, the development of advanced technologies and adequate numbers of academic experts and consistent standards for EMR bioeffects academic literature. Most scientists have no way of challenging the US government policy of EMR bioffects. Nevertheless, EMR bioeffects research has a firm scientific foundation in the study of bioelectromagnetics. Rather than a fringe area of science, EMR bioeffects research remains extremely rudimentary and has been highly classified and politicized.

A reasonable speculation is that the utilitarian CIA mind control researchers would have recognized the potential of EMR as a likely method for remote surveillance of the brain and also EMR bioeffects research for influencing and controlling human behavior for use in neuroweapons development. It could be argued that the official EMR bioeffects policy was utilized to publically encourage the belief that EMR only had a thermal effect. At the same time, the US government continued secret research looking at other impacts such as the possibility of altering and influencing behavior–even mind control-- and also the possibility of EMR for remote surveillance and targeting of the brain.

The US government‘s reasons for implementing the EMR bioeffects may not be clearly established, however significant evidence suggests that the EMR bioeffects policy was instrumental in blocking nearly all EMR bioeffects neuroscience research for over sixty years. The science of EMR bioeffects on the brain continues to be marginalized, controversial, and mislabeled as fringe, even junk science.

5. An extreme US secrecy method

The consensus is that governments can‘t keep secrets for decades. However, as one expert, William Arkin explained, secrecy experts are in agreement that in the realm of national security secrets, vital or genuine national security secrets remain secret. 187 Recently, headline news reported the NSA‘s Prism program for clandestine mass surveillance data mining that was leaked by Edward Snowden, 188 but few people have heard of the more extreme secrecy method of constant surveillance of government employees in highly sensitive positions and also the constant surveillance of their families. For example, Professor Hugh Goodall described that his father worked for the CIA conducting domestic surveillance which took place much longer than the 1970s congressional committees uncovered. Goodall‘s father was scheduled to testify before the hearings but he died, his house was broken into and a moving van hauled away everything including his diary. 189 This happened to others including Bill Harvey who worked for the CIA and was involved in the attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro. 190

Goodall described growing up in a classified family; his mother told him that they were always being watched everywhere they went and in their home. 191 Their home was fitted with listening devices and even their sex lives were not secret. In the 1960s and 1970s, some classified families lived on military posts and vehicles with listening devices would constantly record their daily conversation. 192 Goodall stated:

We were told we were being watched for our own good as well as for the good of our

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country. We were told that it was important to be watched because my father worked in a sensitive position, and people in these positions had to be carefully observed, as well as their families and friends and associates, because you just never knew who might be spilling what to whom. 193

It seems unlikely that a vital national security secret such as the existence of secretly developed neuroweapons would be leaked given such extreme secrecy methods. Contrary to the consensus, it is plausible that neuroweapons which began in the 1950s CIA mind control programs could be kept secret.

6. Conclusions and recommendation

The new evidence in this paper suggests that two Cold War cover stories are now obsolete. It can be argued that the consensus, including nearly all of the prominent experts, overlooked significant information that has resulted in devastating consequences. Significant evidence supports that the unsettled areas of neuroscience--bioelectricity and bioelectromagnetics–are almost surely critical areas of science for neuroweapons development. US secrecy methods surrounding this research have included active deception, spreading disinformation, distorting and suppressing science research, covering up promising research and withholding funding from scientists with an interest in the area of research. By keeping the science from developing in the unclassified realm, the US government can cite mainstream science literature and claim neuroweapons are not possible, thus completely nullifying any opposing opinions. In this way, the US government breached its trust with the public by classifying and monopolizing whole areas of science as well as neuroweapons.

The two cover stories were based on the paradox between classified and unclassified neuroscience research that began in the 1950s. First, the revolutionary 1950s neuroscience research was the basis for a theory of how the brain works. Furthermore, the unparalleled decade of the revolutionary 1950s–and it can be argued, the 1950s CIA mind control programs--determined how modern neuroscience developed into the twenty-first century, a pattern of development with no foreseeable end in sight. Second, by both chance and design, unclassified neuroscience developed in an extremely skewed pattern with a focus on biochemistry, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging and a significant lack of bioelectricity research. Third, although the US government actively discouraged mainstream neuroscience from investigating bioelectricity, research on the electrical properties of the brain is not only scientifically possible in principle but also experimentally possible, although it remains rudimentary. Additionally, the US government implemented its official EMR bioeffects policy, thereby actively restricting the research. Nevertheless, a handful of researchers established the basic bioeffects science in principle and experimentally, although it remains rudimentary. Both the bioelectricity and also EMR bioeffects research suggest that neuroweapons development is scientifically possible.

Last, the study of the electrochemical brain has been divided into two entirely separate research approaches; first, unclassified research with its incomplete biochemical brain approach that can never solve how the brain works; and secondly, the classified research, complete with all four of the requirements for the development of neuroweapons. Thus, it is possible–given the secrecy surrounding vital national security secrets--neuroweapons research has flourished in complete secrecy since the 1950s.

It sounds absolutely impossible. How could so many have been misguided by neuroscience and the biophysics of neuroweapons for so long? As the saying goes, "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will see every problem as a nail." Likewise, for decades, prominent experts have overlooked obscure but critical information and thus have remained absolutely convinced that the science of neuroweapons is science fiction. This unwavering consensus remains firmly in place, however, today it can be shown that neuroweapons are not science fiction. This is why further research and investigation is called for; the alleged mind control victims deserve a fair and impartial hearing, as it is highly possible that secret US neuroweapons are more likely than not already successfully developed.

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Mind Games New on the Internet: a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that.

By Sharon Weinberger Sunday, January 14, 2007

IF HARLAN GIRARD IS CRAZY, HE DOESN'T ACT THE PART. He is standing just where he said he would be, below the Philadelphia train station's World War II memorial -- a soaring statue of a winged angel embracing a fallen combatant, as if lifting him to heaven. Girard is wearing pressed khaki pants, expensive-looking leather loafers and a crisp blue button-down. He looks like a local businessman dressed for a casual Friday -- a local businessman with a wickedly dark sense of humor, which had become apparent when he said to look for him beneath "the angel sodomizing a dead soldier." At 70, he appears robust and healthy -- not the slightest bit disheveled or unusual-looking. He is also carrying a bag.

Girard's description of himself is matter-of-fact, until he explains what's in the bag: documents he believes prove that the government is attempting to control his mind. He carries that black, weathered bag everywhere he goes. "Every time I go out, I'm prepared to come home and find everything is stolen," he says.

The bag aside, Girard appears intelligent and coherent. At a table in front of Dunkin' Donuts inside the train station, Girard opens the bag and pulls out a thick stack of documents, carefully labeled and sorted with yellow sticky notes bearing neat block print. The documents are an authentic-looking mix of news stories, articles culled from military journals and even some declassified national security documents that do seem to show that the U.S. government has attempted to develop weapons that send voices into people's heads.

"It's undeniable that the technology exists," Girard says, "but if you go to the police and say, 'I'm hearing voices,' they're going to lock you up for psychiatric evaluation."

The thing that's missing from his bag -- the lack of which makes it hard to prove he isn't crazy -- is even a single document that would buttress the implausible notion that the government is currently targeting a large group of American citizens with mind-control technology. The only direct evidence for that, Girard admits, lies with alleged victims such as himself.

And of those, there are many.

IT'S 9:01 P.M. WHEN THE FIRST PERSON SPEAKS during the Saturday conference call.

Unsure whether anyone else is on the line yet, the female caller throws out the first question: "You got gang stalking or V2K?" she asks no one in particular.

There's a short, uncomfortable pause.

"V2K, really bad. 24-7," a man replies.

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"Gang stalking," another woman says.

"Oh, yeah, join the club," yet another man replies.

The members of this confessional "club" are not your usual victims. This isn't a group for alcoholics, drug addicts or survivors of childhood abuse; the people connecting on the call are self-described victims of mind control -- people who believe they have been targeted by a secret government program that tracks them around the clock, using technology to probe and control their minds.

The callers frequently refer to themselves as TIs, which is short for Targeted Individuals, and talk about V2K -- the official military abbreviation stands for "voice to skull" and denotes weapons that beam voices or sounds into the head. In their esoteric lexicon, "gang stalking" refers to the belief that they are being followed and harassed: by neighbors, strangers or colleagues who are agents for the government.

A few more "hellos" are exchanged, interrupted by beeps signaling late arrivals: Bill from Columbus, Barbara from Philadelphia, Jim from California and a dozen or so others.

Derrick Robinson, the conference call moderator, calls order.

"It's five after 9," says Robinson, with the sweetly reasonable intonation of a late-night radio host. "Maybe we should go ahead and start."

THE IDEA OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE CONVINCED THEY ARE TARGETED BY WEAPONS that can invade their minds has become a cultural joke, shorthanded by the image of solitary lunatics wearing tinfoil hats to deflect invisible mind beams. "Tinfoil hat," says Wikipedia, has become "a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and is associated with conspiracy theorists."

In 2005, a group of MIT students conducted a formal study using aluminum foil and radio signals. Their surprising finding: Tinfoil hats may actually amplify radio frequency signals. Of course, the tech students meant the study as a joke.

But during the Saturday conference call, the subject of aluminum foil is deadly serious. The MIT study had prompted renewed debate; while a few TIs realized it was a joke at their expense, some saw the findings as an explanation for why tinfoil didn't seem to stop the voices. Others vouched for the material.

"Tinfoil helps tremendously," reports one conference call participant, who describes wrapping it around her body underneath her clothing.

"Where do you put the tinfoil?" a man asks.

"Anywhere, everywhere," she replies. "I even put it in a hat."

A TI in an online mind-control forum recommends a Web site called "Block EMF" (as in electromagnetic frequencies), which advertises a full line of clothing, including aluminum-lined boxer shorts described as a "sheer, comfortable undergarment you can wear over your regular one to shield yourself from power lines and computer electric fields, and microwave, radar, and TV radiation." Similarly, a tinfoil hat disguised as a regular baseball cap is "smart and subtle."

For all the scorn, the ranks of victims -- or people who believe they are victims -- are speaking up. In the course of the evening, there are as many as 40 clicks from people joining the call, and much larger numbers participate in the online forum, which has 143 members. A note there mentioning interest from a journalist prompted more than 200 e-mail responses.

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Until recently, people who believe the government is beaming voices into their heads would have added social isolation to their catalogue of woes. But now, many have discovered hundreds, possibly thousands, of others just like them all over the world. Web sites dedicated to electronic harassment and gang stalking have popped up in India, China, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Russia and elsewhere. Victims have begun to host support meetings in major cities, including Washington. Favorite topics at the meetings include lessons on how to build shields (the proverbial tinfoil hats), media and PR training, and possible legal strategies for outlawing mind control.

The biggest hurdle for TIs is getting people to take their concerns seriously. A proposal made in 2001 by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) to ban "psychotronic weapons" (another common term for mind-control technology) was hailed by TIs as a great step forward. But the bill was widely derided by bloggers and columnists and quickly dropped.

Doug Gordon, Kucinich's spokesman, would not discuss mind control other than to say the proposal was part of broader legislation outlawing weapons in space. The bill was later reintroduced, minus the mind control. "It was not the concentration of the legislation, which is why it was tightened up and redrafted," was all Gordon would say.

Unable to garner much support from their elected representatives, TIs have started their own PR campaign. And so, last spring, the Saturday conference calls centered on plans to hold a rally in Washington. A 2005 attempt at a rally drew a few dozen people and was ultimately rained out; the TIs were determined to make another go of it. Conversations focused around designing T-shirts, setting up congressional appointments, fundraising, creating a new Web site and formalizing a slogan. After some debate over whether to focus on gang stalking or mind control, the group came up with a compromise slogan that covered both: "Freedom From Covert Surveillance and Electronic Harassment."

Conference call moderator Robinson, who says his gang stalking began when he worked at the National Security Agency in the 1980s, offers his assessment of the group's prospects: Maybe this rally wouldn't produce much press, but it's a first step. "I see this as a movement," he says. "We're picking up people all the time."

HARLAN GIRARD SAYS HIS PROBLEMS BEGAN IN 1983, while he was a real estate developer in Los Angeles. The harassment was subtle at first: One day a woman pulled up in a car, wagged her finger at him, then sped away; he saw people running underneath his window at night; he noticed some of his neighbors seemed to be watching him; he heard someone moving in the crawl space under his apartment at night.

Girard sought advice from this then-girlfriend, a practicing psychologist, whom he declines to identify. He says she told him, "Nobody can become psychotic in their late 40s." She said he didn't seem to manifest other symptoms of psychotic behavior -- he dressed well, paid his bills -- and, besides his claims of surveillance, which sounded paranoid, he behaved normally. "People who are psychotic are socially isolated," he recalls her saying.

After a few months, Girard says, the harassment abruptly stopped. But the respite didn't last. In 1984, appropriately enough, things got seriously weird. He'd left his real estate career to return to school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was studying for a master's degree in landscape architecture. He harbored dreams of designing parks and public spaces. Then, he says, he began to hear voices. Girard could distinguish several different male voices, which came complete with a mental image of how the voices were being generated: from a recording studio, with "four slops sitting around a card table drinking beer," he says.

The voices were crass but also strangely courteous, addressing him as "Mr. Girard."

They taunted him. They asked him if he thought he was normal; they suggested he was going crazy. They

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insulted his classmates: When an overweight student showed up for a field trip in a white raincoat, they said, "Hey, Mr. Girard, doesn't she look like a refrigerator?"

Six months after the voices began, they had another question for him: "Mr. Girard, Mr. Girard. Why aren't you dead yet?" At first, he recalls, the voices would speak just two or three times a day, but it escalated into a near-constant cacophony, often accompanied by severe pain all over his body -- which Girard now attributes to directed-energy weapons that can shoot invisible beams.

The voices even suggested how he could figure out what was happening to him. He says they told him to go to the electrical engineering department to "tell them you're writing science fiction and you don't want to write anything inconsistent with physical reality. Then tell them exactly what has happened."

Girard went and got some rudimentary explanations of how technology could explain some of the things he was describing.

"Finally, I said: 'Look, I must come to the point, because I need answers. This is happening to me; it's not science fiction.'" They laughed.

He got the same response from friends, he says. "They regarded me as crazy, which is a humiliating experience."

When asked why he didn't consult a doctor about the voices and the pain, he says, "I don't dare start talking to people because of the potential stigma of it all. I don't want to be treated differently. Here I was in Philadelphia. Something was going on, I don't know any doctors . . . I know somebody's doing something to me."

It was a struggle to graduate, he says, but he was determined, and he persevered. In 1988, the same year he finished his degree, his father died, leaving Girard an inheritance large enough that he did not have to work.

So, instead of becoming a landscape architect, Girard began a full-time investigation of what was happening to him, often traveling to Washington in pursuit of government documents relating to mind control. He put an ad in a magazine seeking other victims. Only a few people responded. But over the years, as he met more and more people like himself, he grew convinced that he was part of what he calls an "electronic concentration camp."

What he was finding on his research trips also buttressed his belief: Girard learned that in the 1950s, the CIA had drugged unwitting victims with LSD as part of a rogue mind-control experiment called MK-ULTRA. He came across references to the CIA seeking to influence the mind with electromagnetic fields. Then he found references in an academic research book to work that military researchers at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research had done in the 1970s with pulsed microwaves to transmit words that a subject would hear in his head. Elsewhere, he came across references to attempts to use electromagnetic energy, sound waves or microwave beams to cause non-lethal pain to the body. For every symptom he experienced, he believed he found references to a weapon that could cause it.

How much of the research Girard cites checks out?

Concerns about microwaves and mind control date to the 1960s, when the U.S. government discovered that its embassy in Moscow was being bombarded by low-level electromagnetic radiation. In 1965, according to declassified Defense Department documents, the Pentagon, at the behest of the White House, launched Project Pandora, top-secret research to explore the behavioral and biological effects of low-level microwaves. For approximately four years, the Pentagon conducted secret research: zapping monkeys; exposing unwitting sailors to microwave radiation; and conducting a host of other unusual experiments (a sub-project of Project Pandora was titled Project Bizarre). The results were mixed, and the program was plagued by disagreements

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and scientific squabbles. The "Moscow signal," as it was called, was eventually attributed to eavesdropping, not mind control, and Pandora ended in 1970. And with it, the military's research into so-called non-thermal microwave effects seemed to die out, at least in the unclassified realm.

But there are hints of ongoing research: An academic paper written for the Air Force in the mid-1990s mentions the idea of a weapon that would use sound waves to send words into a person's head. "The signal can be a 'message from God' that can warn the enemy of impending doom, or encourage the enemy to surrender," the author concluded.

In 2002, the Air Force Research Laboratory patented precisely such a technology: using microwaves to send words into someone's head. That work is frequently cited on mind-control Web sites. Rich Garcia, a spokesman for the research laboratory's directed energy directorate, declined to discuss that patent or current or related research in the field, citing the lab's policy not to comment on its microwave work.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed for this article, the Air Force released unclassified documents surrounding that 2002 patent -- records that note that the patent was based on human experimentation in October 1994 at the Air Force lab, where scientists were able to transmit phrases into the heads of human subjects, albeit with marginal intelligibility. Research appeared to continue at least through 2002. Where this work has gone since is unclear -- the research laboratory, citing classification, refused to discuss it or release other materials.

The official U.S. Air Force position is that there are no non-thermal effects of microwaves. Yet Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, tagged microwave attacks against the human brain as part of future warfare in a 2001 presentation to the National Defense Industrial Association about "Future Strategic Issues."

"That work is exceedingly sensitive" and unlikely to be reported in any unclassified documents, he says.

Meanwhile, the military's use of weapons that employ electromagnetic radiation to create pain is well-known, as are some of the limitations of such weapons. In 2001, the Pentagon declassified one element of this research: the Active Denial System, a weapon that uses electromagnetic radiation to heat skin and create an intense burning sensation. So, yes, there is technology designed to beam painful invisible rays at humans, but the weapon seems to fall far short of what could account for many of the TIs' symptoms. While its exact range is classified, Doug Beason, an expert in directed-energy weapons, puts it at about 700 meters, and the beam cannot penetrate a number of materials, such as aluminum. Considering the size of the full-scale weapon, which resembles a satellite dish, and its operational limitations, the ability of the government or anyone else to shoot beams at hundreds of people -- on city streets, into their homes and while they travel in cars and planes -- is beyond improbable.

But, given the history of America's clandestine research, it's reasonable to assume that if the defense establishment could develop mind-control or long-distance ray weapons, it almost certainly would. And, once developed, the possibility that they might be tested on innocent civilians could not be categorically dismissed.

Girard, for his part, believes these weapons were not only developed but were also tested on him more than 20 years ago.

What would the government gain by torturing him? Again, Girard found what he believed to be an explanation, or at least a precedent: During the Cold War, the government conducted radiation experiments on scores of unwitting victims, essentially using them as human guinea pigs. Girard came to believe that he, too, was a walking experiment.

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remark he made to a Republican fundraiser about George H.W. Bush in the early 1980s. Later, Girard says, the voices confirmed his suspicion.

"One night I was going to bed; the usual drivel was going on," he says. "The constant stream of drivel. I was just about to go to bed, and a voice says: 'Mr. Girard, do you know who was in our studio with us? That was George Bush, vice president of the United States.'"

GIRARD'S STORY, HOWEVER STRANGE, reflects what TIs around the world report: a chance encounter with a government agency or official, followed by surveillance and gang stalking, and then, in many cases, voices, and pain similar to electric shocks. Some in the community have taken it upon themselves to document as many cases as possible. One TI from California conducted about 50 interviews, narrowing the symptoms down to several major areas: "ringing in the ears," "manipulation of body parts," "hearing voices," "piercing sensation on skin," "sinus problems" and "sexual attacks." In fact, the TI continued, "many report the sensation of having their genitalia manipulated."

Both male and female TIs report a variety of "attacks" to their sexual organs. "My testicles became so sore I could barely walk," Girard says of his early experiences. Others, however, report the attacks in the form of sexual stimulation, including one TI who claims he dropped out of the seminary after constant sexual stimulation by directed-energy weapons. Susan Sayler, a TI in San Diego, says many women among the TIs suffer from attacks to their sexual organs but are often embarrassed to talk about it with outsiders.

"It's sporadic, you just never know when it will happen," she says. "A lot of the women say it's as soon as you lay down in bed -- that's when you would get hit the worst. It happened to me as I was driving, at odd times."

What made her think it was an electronic attack and not just in her head? "There was no sexual attraction to a man when it would happen. That's what was wrong. It did not feel like a muscle spasm or whatever," she says. "It's so . . . electronic."

Gloria Naylor, a renowned African American writer, seems to defy many of the stereotypes of someone who believes in mind control. A winner of the National Book Award, Naylor is best known for her acclaimed novel, The Women of Brewster Place , which described a group of women living in a poor urban neighborhood and was later made into a miniseries by Oprah Winfrey.

But in 2005, she published a lesser-known work, 1996 , a semi-autobiographical book describing her experience as a TI. "I didn't want to tell this story. It's going to take courage. Perhaps more courage than I possess, but they've left me no alternatives," Naylor writes at the beginning of her book. "I am in a battle for my mind. If I stop now, they'll have won, and I will lose myself." The book is coherent, if hard to believe. It's also marked by disturbing passages describing how Jewish American agents were responsible for Naylor's surveillance. "Of the many cars that kept coming and going down my road, most were driven by Jews," she writes in the book. When asked about that passage in a recent interview, she defended her logic: Being from New York, she claimed, she can recognize Jews.

Naylor lives on a quiet street in Brooklyn in a majestic brownstone with an interior featuring intricate woodwork and tasteful decorations that attest to a successful literary career. She speaks about her situation calmly, occasionally laughing at her own predicament and her struggle with what she originally thought was mental illness. "I would observe myself," she explains. "I would lie in bed while the conversations were going on, and I'd ask: Maybe it is schizophrenia?"

Like Girard, Naylor describes what she calls "street theater" -- incidents that might be dismissed by others as coincidental, but which Naylor believes were set up. She noticed suspicious cars driving by her isolated vacation home. On an airplane, fellow passengers mimicked her every movement -- like mimes on a street.

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Voices similar to those in Girard's case followed -- taunting voices cursing her, telling her she was stupid, that she couldn't write. Expletive-laced language filled her head. Naylor sought help from a psychiatrist and received a prescription for an antipsychotic drug. But the medication failed to stop the voices, she says, which only added to her conviction that the harassment was real.

For almost four years, Naylor says, the voices prevented her from writing. In 2000, she says, around the time she discovered the mind-control forums, the voices stopped and the surveillance tapered off. It was then that she began writing 1996 as a "catharsis."

Colleagues urged Naylor not to publish the book, saying she would destroy her reputation. But she did publish, albeit with a small publishing house. The book was generally ignored by critics but embraced by TIs.

Embarking on a recuperative cruise, Pinfold begins to hear voices on the ship that he believes are part of a wireless system capable of broadcasting into his head; he believes the instigator recruited fellow passengers to act as operatives; and he describes "performances" put on by passengers directed at him yet meant to look innocuous to others.

Waugh wrote his book several years after recovering from a similar episode and realizing that the voices and paranoia were the result of drug-induced hallucinations.

Naylor, who hasn't written a book since 1996 , is now back at work on an historical novel she hopes will return her to the literary mainstream. She remains convinced that she was targeted by mind control. The many echoes of her ordeal she sees on the mind-control forums reassure her she's not crazy, she says.

Of course, some of the things she sees on the forum do strike her as crazy. "But who I am to say?" she says. "Maybe I sound crazy to somebody else."

SOME TIS, SUCH AS ED MOORE, A YOUNG MEDICAL DOCTOR, take a slightly more skeptical approach. He criticizes what he calls the "wacky claims" of TIs who blame various government agencies or groups of people without any proof. "I have yet to see a claim of who is behind this that has any data to support it," he writes.

Nonetheless, Moore still believes the voices in his head are the result of mind control and that the U.S. government is the most likely culprit. Moore started hearing voices in 2003, just as he completed his medical residency in anesthesiology; he was pulling an all-nighter studying for board exams when he heard voices coming from a nearby house commenting on him, on his abilities as a doctor, on his sanity. At first, he thought he was simply overhearing conversations through walls (much as Waugh's fictional alter ego first thought), but when no one else could hear the voices, he realized they were in his head. Moore went through a traumatic two years, including hospitalization for depression with auditory hallucinations.

"One tries to convince friends and family that you are being electronically harassed with voices that only you can hear," he writes in an e-mail. "You learn to stop doing that. They don't believe you, and they become sad and concerned, and it amplifies your own depression when you have voices screaming at you and your friends and family looking at you as a helpless, sick, mentally unbalanced wreck."

He says he grew frustrated with anti-psychotic medications meant to stop the voices, both because the treatments didn't work and because psychiatrists showed no interest in what the voices were telling him. He began to look for some other way to cope.

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"In March of 2005, I started looking up support groups on the Internet," he wrote. "My wife would cry when she would see these sites, knowing I still heard voices, but I did not know what else to do." In 2006, he says, his wife, who had stood by him for three years, filed for divorce.

Moore, like other TIs, is cautious about sharing details of his life. He worries about looking foolish to friends and colleagues -- but he says that risk is ultimately worthwhile if he can bring attention to the issue.

With his father's financial help, Moore is now studying for an electrical engineering degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio, hoping to prove that V2K, the technology to send voices into people's heads, is real. Being in school, around other people, helps him cope, he writes, but the voices continue to taunt him.

Recently, he says, they told him: "We'll never stop [messing] with you."

A WEEK BEFORE THE TIS RALLY ON THE NATIONAL MALL, John Alexander, one of the people whom Harlan Girard holds personally responsible for the voices in his head, is at a Chili's restaurant in Crystal City explaining over a Philly cheese steak and fries why the United States needs mind-control weapons.

A former Green Beret who served in Vietnam, Alexander went on to a number of national security jobs, and rubbed shoulders with prominent military and political leaders. Long known for taking an interest in exotic weapons, his 1980 article, "The New Mental Battlefield," published in the Army journal Military Review, is cited by self-described victims as proof of his complicity in mind control. Now retired from the government and living in Las Vegas, Alexander continues to advise the military. He is in the Washington area that day for an official meeting.

Beneath a shock of white hair is the mind of a self-styled military thinker. Alexander belongs to a particular set of Pentagon advisers who consider themselves defense intellectuals, focusing on big-picture issues, future threats and new capabilities. Alexander's career led him from work on sticky foam that would stop an enemy in his or her tracks to dalliances in paranormal studies and psychics, which he still defends as operationally useful.

In an earlier phone conversation, Alexander said that in the 1990s, when he took part in briefings at the CIA, there was never any talk of "mind control, or mind-altering drugs or technologies, or anything like that."

According to Alexander, the military and intelligence agencies were still scared by the excesses of MK-ULTRA, the infamous CIA program that involved, in part, slipping LSD to unsuspecting victims. "Until recently, anything that smacked of [mind control] was extremely dangerous" because Congress would simply take the money away, he said.

Alexander acknowledged that "there were some abuses that took place," but added that, on the whole, "I would argue we threw the baby out with the bath water."

But September 11, 2001, changed the mood in Washington, and some in the national security community are again expressing interest in mind control, particularly a younger generation of officials who weren't around for MK-ULTRA. "It's interesting, that it's coming back," Alexander observed.

While Alexander scoffs at the notion that he is somehow part of an elaborate plot to control people's minds, he acknowledges support for learning how to tap into a potential enemy's brain. He gives as an example the possible use of functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, for lie detection. "Brain mapping" with fMRI theoretically could allow interrogators to know when someone is lying by watching for activity in particular parts of the brain. For interrogating terrorists, fMRI could come in handy, Alexander suggests. But any conceivable use of the technique would fall far short of the kind of mind-reading TIs complain about.

Alexander also is intrigued by the possibility of using electronic means to modify behavior. The dilemma of

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the war on terrorism, he notes, is that it never ends. So what do you do with enemies, such as those at Guantanamo: keep them there forever? That's impractical. Behavior modification could be an alternative, he says.

"Maybe I can fix you, or electronically neuter you, so it's safe to release you into society, so you won't come back and kill me," Alexander says. It's only a matter of time before technology allows that scenario to come true, he continues. "We're now getting to where we can do that." He pauses for a moment to take a bite of his sandwich. "Where does that fall in the ethics spectrum? That's a really tough question."

When Alexander encounters a query he doesn't want to answer, such as one about the ethics of mind control, he smiles and raises his hands level to his chest, as if balancing two imaginary weights. In one hand is mind control and the sanctity of free thought -- and in the other hand, a tad higher -- is the war on terrorism.

But none of this has anything to do with the TIs, he says. "Just because things are secret, people tend to extrapolate. Common sense does not prevail, and even when you point out huge leaps in logic that just cannot be true, they are not dissuaded."

WHAT IS IT THAT BRINGS SOMEONE, EVEN AN INTELLIGENT PERSON, to ascribe the experience of hearing disembodied voices to government weapons?

In her book, Abducted , Harvard psychologist Susan Clancy examines a group that has striking parallels to the TIs: people who believe they've been kidnapped by aliens. The similarities are often uncanny: Would-be abductees describe strange pains, and feelings of being watched or targeted. And although the alleged abductees don't generally have auditory hallucinations, they do sometimes believe that their thoughts are controlled by aliens, or that they've been implanted with advanced technology.

(On the online forum, some TIs posted vociferous objections to the parallel, concerned that the public finds UFOs even weirder than mind control. "It will keep us all marginalized and discredited," one griped.)

Clancy argues that the main reason people believe they've been abducted by aliens is that it provides them with a compelling narrative to explain their perception that strange things have happened to them, such as marks on their bodies (marks others would simply dismiss as bruises), stimulation to their sexual organs (as the TIs describe) or feelings of paranoia. "It's not just an explanation for your problems; it's a source of meaning for your life," Clancy says.

In the case of TIs, mind-control weapons are an explanation for the voices they hear in their head. Socrates heard a voice and thought it was a demon; Joan of Arc heard voices from God. As one TI noted in an e-mail: "Each person undergoing this harassment is looking for the solution to the problem. Each person analyzes it through his or her own particular spectrum of beliefs. If you are a scientific-minded person, then you will probably analyze the situation from that perspective and conclude it must be done with some kind of electronic devices. If you are a religious person, you will see it as a struggle between the elements of whatever religion you believe in. If you are maybe, perhaps more eccentric, you may think that it is alien in nature."

Or, if you happen to live in the United States in the early 21st century, you may fear the growing power of the NSA, CIA and FBI.

Being a victim of government surveillance is also, arguably, better than being insane. In Waugh's novella based on his own painful experience, when Pinfold concludes that hidden technology is being used to infiltrate his brain, he "felt nothing but gratitude in his discovery." Why? "He might be unpopular; he might be ridiculous; but he was not mad."

Ralph Hoffman, a professor of psychiatry at Yale who has studied auditory hallucinations, regularly sees

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people who believe the voices are a part of government harassment (others believe they are God, dead relatives or even ex-girlfriends). Not all people who hear voices are schizophrenic, he says, noting that people can hear voices episodically in highly emotional states. What exactly causes these voices is still unknown, but one thing is certain: People who think the voices are caused by some external force are rarely dissuaded from their delusional belief, he says. "These are highly emotional and gripping experiences that are so compelling for them that ordinary reality seems bland."

Perhaps because the experience is so vivid, he says, even some of those who improve through treatment merely decide the medical regimen somehow helped protect their brain from government weapons.

Scott Temple, a professor of psychiatry at Penn State University who has been involved in two recent studies of auditory hallucinations, notes that those who suffer such hallucinations frequently lack insight into their illness. Even among those who do understand they are sick, "that awareness comes and goes," he says. "People feel overwhelmed, and the delusional interpretations return."

BACK AT THE PHILADELPHIA TRAIN STATION, Girard seems more agitated. In a meeting the week before, his "handlers" had spoken to him only briefly -- they weren't in the right position to attack him, Girard surmises, based on the lack of voices. Today, his conversation jumps more rapidly from one subject to the next: victims of radiation experiments, his hatred of George H.W. Bush, MK-ULTRA, his personal experiences.

Asked about his studies at Penn, he replies by talking about his problems with reading: "I told you, everything I write they dictate to me," he says, referring again to the voices. "When I read, they're reading to me. My eyes go across; they're moving my eyes down the line. They're reading it to me. When I close the book, I can't remember a thing I read. That's why they do it."

The week before, Girard had pointed to only one person who appeared suspicious to him -- a young African American man reading a book; this time, however, he hears more voices, which leads him to believe the station is crawling with agents.

"Let's change our location," Girard says after a while. "I'm sure they have 40 or 50 people in here today. I escaped their surveillance last time -- they won't let that happen again."

Asked to explain the connection between mind control and the University of Pennsylvania, which Girard alleges is involved in the conspiracy, he begins to talk about defense contractors located near the Philadelphia campus: " General Electric was right next to the parking garage; General Electric Space Systems occupies a huge building right over there. From that building, you could see into the studio where I was doing my work most of the time. I asked somebody what they were doing there. You know, it had to do with computers. GE Space Systems. They were supposed to be tracking missile debris from this location . . . pardon me. What was your question again?"

Yet many parts of Girard's life seem to reflect that of any affluent 70-year-old bachelor. He travels frequently to France for extended vacations and takes part in French cultural activities in Philadelphia. He has set up a travel scholarship at the Cleveland Institute of Art in the name of his late mother, who attended school there (he changed his last name 27 years ago for "personal reasons"), and he travels to meet the students who benefit from the fund. And while the bulk of his time is spent on his research and writing about mind control, he has other interests. He follows politics and describes outings with friends and family members with whom he doesn't talk about mind control, knowing they would view it skeptically.

Girard acknowledges that some of his experiences mirror symptoms of schizophrenia, but asked if he ever worried that the voices might in fact be caused by mental illness, he answers sharply with one word: "No."

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How, then, does he know the voices are real?

"How do you know you know anything?" Girard replies. "How do you know I exist? How do you know this isn't a dream you're having, from which you'll wake up in a few minutes? I suppose that analogy is the closest thing: You know when you have a dream. Sometimes it could be perfectly lucid, but you know it's a dream."

The very "realness" of the voices is the issue -- how do you disbelieve something you perceive as real? That's precisely what Hoffman, the Yale psychiatrist, points out: So lucid are the voices that the sufferers -- regardless of their educational level or self-awareness -- are unable to see them as anything but real. "One thing I can assure you," Hoffman says, "is that for them, it feels real."

IT LOOKS ALMOST LIKE ANY OTHER SMALL POLITICAL RALLY IN WASHINGTON. Posters adorn the gate on the southwest side of the Capitol Reflecting Pool, as attendees set up a table with press materials, while volunteers test a loudspeaker and set out coolers filled with bottled water. The sun is out, the weather is perfect, and an eclectic collection of people from across the country has gathered to protest mind control.

There is not a tinfoil hat to be seen. Only the posters and paraphernalia hint at the unusual. "Stop USA electronic harassment," urges one poster. "Directed Energy Assaults," reads another. Smaller signs in the shape of tombstones say, "RIP MKULTRA." The main display, set in front of the speaker's lectern has a more extended message: "HELP STOP HI-TECH ASSAULT PSYCHOTRONIC TORTURE."

About 35 TIs show up for the June rally, in addition to a few friends and family members. Speakers alternate between giving personal testimonials and descriptions of research into mind-control technology. Most of the gawkers at the rally are foreign tourists. A few hecklers snicker at the signs, but mostly people are either confused or indifferent. The articles on mind control at the table -- from mainstream news magazines -- go untouched.

"How can you expect people to get worked up over this if they don't care about eavesdropping or eminent domain?" one man challenges after stopping to flip through the literature. Mary Ann Stratton, who is manning the table, merely shrugs and smiles sadly. There is no answer: Everyone at the rally acknowledges it is an uphill battle.

In general, the outlook for TIs is not good; many lose their jobs, houses and family. Depression is common. But for many at the rally, experiencing the community of mind-control victims seems to help. One TI, a man who had been a rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard before voices in his head sent him on a downward spiral, expressed the solace he found among fellow TIs in a long e-mail to another TI: "I think that the only people that can help are people going through the same thing. Everyone else will not believe you, or they are possibly involved."

In the end, though, nothing could help him enough. In August 2006, he would commit suicide.

But at least for the day, the rally is boosting TI spirits. Girard, in what for him is an ebullient mood, takes the microphone. A small crowd of tourists gathers at the sidelines, listening with casual interest. With the Capitol looming behind him, he reaches the crescendo of his speech, rallying the attendees to remember an important thing: They are part of a single community.

"I've heard it said, 'We can't get anywhere because everyone's story is different.' We are all the same," Girard booms. "You knew someone with the power to commit you to the electronic concentration camp system."

Several weeks after the rally, Girard shows up for a meeting with a reporter at the stately Mayflower Hotel in Washington, where he has stayed frequently over the two decades he has traveled to the capital to battle mind control. He walks in with a lit cigarette, which he apologetically puts out after a hotel employee tells him smoking isn't allowed anymore. He is half an hour late -- delayed, he says, by a meeting on Capitol Hill.

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Wearing a monogrammed dress shirt and tie, he looks, as always, serious and professional.

Girard declines to mention whom on Capitol Hill he'd met with, other than to say it was a congressional staffer. Embarrassment is likely a factor: Girard readily acknowledges that most people he meets with, ranging from scholars to politicians, ignore his entreaties or dismiss him as a lunatic.

Lately, his focus is on his Web site, which he sees as the culmination of nearly a quarter-century of research. When completed, it will contain more than 300 pages of documents. What next? Maybe he'll move to France (there are victims there, too), or maybe the U.S. government will finally just kill him, he says.

Meanwhile, he is always searching for absolute proof that the government has decoded the brain. His latest interest is LifeLog, a project once funded by the Pentagon that he read about in Wired News. The article described it this way: "The embryonic LifeLog program would dump everything an individual does into a giant database: every e-mail sent or received, every picture taken, every Web page surfed, every phone call made, every TV show watched, every magazine read. All of this -- and more -- would combine with information gleaned from a variety of sources: a GPS transmitter to keep tabs on where that person went, audiovisual sensors to capture what he or she sees or says, and biomedical monitors to keep track of the individual's health."

Girard suggests that the government, using similar technology, has "catalogued" his life over the past two years -- every sight and sound (Evelyn Waugh, in his mind-control book, writes about his character's similar fear that his harassers were creating a file of his entire life).

Girard thinks the government can control his movements, inject thoughts into his head, cause him pain day and night. He believes that he will die a victim of mind control.

Is there any reason for optimism?

Girard hesitates, then asks a rhetorical question.

"Why, despite all this, why am I the same person? Why am I Harlan Girard?"

For all his anguish, be it the result of mental illness or, as Girard contends, government mind control, the voices haven't managed to conquer the thing that makes him who he is: Call it his consciousness, his intellect or, perhaps, his soul.

"That's what they don't yet have," he says. After 22 years, "I'm still me."

Sharon Weinberger is a Washington writer and author of Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld. She will be fielding questions and comments about this article Tuesday at washingtonpost.com/liveonline .

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