Mind Control Part 4
October 2001
Senator Frank Church, 1975 (1)
At 56, Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda had everything to live for. As Chief of Naval
Operations (CNO), he was at the
pinnacle of his career. Supported by a loving family and widely respected as "an officer of
legendary devotion to the Navy," why would the admiral suddenly and violently take his own
life?
On May 16, 1996, Boorda was found shot through the heart on a bench outside his official
residence in the Washington
Navy Yard. The police instantaneously diagnosed "suicide." But Boorda's recent advocacy of
suicide prevention cast an eerie shadow on the official story.
"Can the sailor commit suicide and not have the leader know that he or she was in
distress?" the admiral had asked in a
speech at the Annapolis Naval Academy the previous month. Answering his own query, he
continued, "No. We can't ignore things we must work on and if we hide them, we do everybody
a disservice." (2)
By all indicators, Boorda was not depressed. His wife and several admirals vouched for
his high spirits only hours before
his body was found. To intimates, it made no sense that he would destroy himself without
warning. Furthermore, as one woman on an Internet listserve so astutely observed, "People
who commit suicide by shooting do not do it in the chest."
(3)
Mike Boorda was an unlikely suicide candidate for another, more personal reason. He and
his wife Bettie were the main
support for their first-born son David, who is legally blind and severely handicapped by
congenital malformations. The Boordas raised him to adulthood in their own home while
rearing three other healthy children, two of whom are Navy officers. Known to be very
attached to David, the admiral had planned early retirement to spend more time with his
family. (4)Would a responsible and loving father suddenly opt
to leave his wife to care for their disabled son alone?
Midway into research for this series, a number of alleged mind control (MC) experimentees
began sharing their suspicions
that Admiral Boorda had been assassinated to prevent his speaking out against nonconsensual
human experimentation in military weapons research. Blanche Chavoustie referred me to a
sinister CIA document from the 1950s that entertains ways of "disposing" of experimental
MK-Ultra subjects and people "who cannot be trusted" to safeguard military secrets. Chemical
lobotomy, drugs, and "ultrasonics or some other radiating energy" were the methods suggested
as possible alternatives to an "ice pick" lobotomy or permanently locking the person away
someplace. (5) "Now, with new improved techniques,"
Chavoustie says, "victims such as Admiral Boorda have been known to self-destruct on their
lunch hour." (See Part 2 of this series, May/June 2000 Probe for Chavoustie's story.)
Two additional people told me Boorda could easily have been done in by one of the surefire
assassination methods the
Navy has finessed after 50 years of covert research and field testing. This little-known
secret slipped out on July 6, 1975 with an article in the London Sunday Times, "How the U.S.
Navy Brain-Trains Political Assassins." The Times quoted a speech by Navy Lt. Commander
Thomas Narut to a group of 120 psychologists at a NATO conference in Oslo, Norway. Narut
worked at the U.S. Regional Medical Center in Naples, Italy. He reported the Navy had been
programming "hit men and assassins" who would kill on command; some subjects were drawn from
the ranks of convicted murders serving time in military prisons.
The "damage control" boys soon moved in. Narut was flown to London and forevermore
silenced. The Navy issued a
statement in his name saying his remarks were merely "theoretical." Newspapers were told the
lieutenant commander was having "personal problems." Narut's loose lips reached the U.S.
only through the Chicago Sun Times (July 7, 1975). (6)
Corroboration for the existence of an operational MC assassination program can be found in
a declassified Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) document prepared by the U.S. Army in January 1972 (Author: J.
LaMothe); Part III is titled "Mental Suggestion and Controlled Behavior." Section B
elucidates how hypnosis can be used to create a multi-personality "super spy" assassin,
based on the writings of psychologist and Army consultant George Estabrooks. (Part 2 of this
series, May/June 2000 Probe documents the U.S. military's creation of Manchurian Candidates
going back to World War II.)
A 5/26/95 article in The Herald (Glasgow), "Brainwash killers 'still in use'," contains
information about a psychotronic
influence system developed in the 1970s in the former Soviet Union that creates programmable
"human weapons" through the use of hypnosis and high-frequency radio waves. The article
warns that this system "has found its way on to the free market, where mobsters and private
security firms are using it."
"Self-Initiated Execution"?
From the earliest days of the MK-Ultra program in the 1950s, the CIA has systematically
searched for execution methods
that could be disguised as suicide. All indications are that the macabre Doctor Deaths of
the military/intelligence world have succeeded, using untraceable electro-magnetic (EM)
technology to commit the "perfect crime."
In 1995 Perceptions, an independent magazine dedicated to environmental, political and
health issues, published a strange
and scary story titled "The Secret War Against Medford, Oregon." Author Mark Metcalf
revealed a 14-year-old conversation with Dr. David Fraser, former head of the Department of
Toxicology at the University of North Carolina. Now deceased, Fraser had assembled a
scientific team that traveled to Oregon to investigate an alarming cluster of suicides in
the City of Medford (Jackson County) in the early 1970s.
With a 1970 population of only 28,454, the city saw the number of suicides between 1970
and 1975 rise from 2 to 10; in Jackson County the number shot up from 13 to 24. Suicide
rates are calculated per 100,000 population and averaged in 5-year compilations. Although
the number of suicides in and around Medford do not meet the usual criteria for reliable
rate calculations, turning them into rates allows comparisons. In 1975 Medford's rate of 17
per 100,000 was higher than for Oregon (15.4) and for the USA as a whole (12.4). (7)
According to Metcalf, the scientists soon found that Medford was being bombarded with ultra
low frequency (ULF)
electromagnetic waves originating from a nearby military base. The commander of the
military base told the investigators that he knew about the radiation but claimed it was
caused by the Russians. However, the ULF bombardment mysteriously ceased the very next day
after this confrontation. After they returned to the east but before the researchers could
write up their report, Metcalf wrote, "Several men displaying CIA credentials arrived on
campus and said that the ULF waves beamed into Medford were a 'national security' matter.
They explicitly threatened to kill each of the researchers, including Dr. Fraser himself,
should anyone speak further about it. As far as I know, no one did."
(8)
On April 8, 1994, popular rock star/writer Kurt Cobain (of Nirvana fame) was found dead in
his own home. He appeared
to have been the victim of a shotgun blast to the head three days before. A deadly dose of
heroin (three times over) was found in his blood. His so-called suicide note did not
indicate he was going to take his own life. Many fans believe the evidence does not prove
suicide and that Cobain was more likely murdered. (9) But
why?
The answer may lie in a technical document purporting to reveal secrets of National
Security Agency (NSA) "psyops"
(psychological operations) and systematic MC. Posted on several Web sites in 1999, it was
provided by an engineer who claims he had worked as a consultant to the NSA and feared for
his own safety as a whistleblower (hence the author's anonymity).
MC literature on the World Wide Web constitutes the cutting edge of serious research
into radio frequency (RF) or directed-energy weapons (DEW). At the same time, one can
easily find writings laden with wild, unproven charges and undocumented speculation. It is
a daunting task to pluck the gems out of the confusion and purposeful disinformation, which
are plentiful. (10) After two years of wading through
bizarre personal testimonies, and filling up three file-drawers with scientific research,
hundreds of periodical articles, patents, interviews, correspondence, and muckraking pieces
that support the existence of powerful MC technologies, (11)
I find this particular document compelling and worthy of serious study.
Among several examples of "NSA self-initiated execution (suicide)," it claims Cobain was a
casualty of brainwashing who
was "terminated" for "writing clues" about his victimization into his songs. "Once the NSA
puts on the highest level of brainwashing pain, the subject expires quickly," this document
alleges. "Cobain used heroin to numb and otherwise slow the effect of the brainwashing." (12)
Rauni Kilde, MD, former Chief Medical Officer of Finland, lectures and writes about an NSA
MC system using radio
implants and microchips connected to satellites that is remarkably similar to what is
described in the "NSA psyops" document. "With electro-magnetic frequency (EMF) brain
stimulation fully coded," she writes, "pulsating electromagnetic signals can be sent to the
brain, causing the desired voice and visual effects to be experienced by the target. This
is a form of electronic warfare." Kilde warns that "connecting our brain functions via
microchips (or even without them, according to the latest technology) to computers via
satellites...poses the gravest threat to humanity." (13)
The Boorda Mystery
The Boorda mystery deepens when a whole range of facts gleaned from worldwide press
coverage of his shocking death is
integrated with the experiences of alleged MC experimentees. One woman told me that in
March 1996 the Air Force and the Navy had finally opened investigations into her claim that
she and about 500 other people were being tortured by remotely controlled,
neuro-electromagnetic (NEM) or RF weapons. Bizarre stories alleging surveillance,
electronic harassment and remotely controlled torture of people throughout the world are
posted on many Web sites. (14) The amply referenced
research of Cheryl Welsh, 1997 founder of Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse (CAHRA),
supports many of these claims, especially "Nonconsensual Brainwave and Personality Studies
by the U.S. Government," "The 1950s Secret Discovery of the Code of the Brain,"and the
Russian Book Translation Project. (15)
In an article published last year in Matrix 3000, Band 4, a German publication, Welsh
writes, "Heart attacks, suicides,
assassinations, blackmail, all can be done remotely leaving no trace of evidence to tie it
to the perpetrators."
Blanche Chavoustie is one of a number of allegedly targeted individuals who had contact
with Admiral Boorda's office
shortly before he died. She points out that burial of the Navy MC investigation followed
quickly upon the admiral's own interment; however the Air Force probe may still be open. (16)
The nagging suspicion that Boorda did not willfully self-destruct is bolstered by his
renowned toughness regarding media
attacks on the Navy and himself. Appointed by President Clinton in 1994 to overcome the
long-running legacy of the 1991 Tailhook sex scandal, Boorda soon made enemies within the
military. The "old guard" considered him a "political admiral" appointed to dismantle the
notoriously racist and sexist Navy culture. They were angered at decisions that halted the
career advancement of high-level male personnel and supported the promotion of Navy women
and ethnic minorities. (17)
But Boorda very publicly asserted he would not fall into the trap of feeling sorry for
himself. He was popular among rank
and file sailors. Eulogized as a "sailor's sailor," he was the only enlisted seaman to
rise to CNO in the nearly 200 years of Navy history. This made him an outsider, resented by
the blue-blood admiralty. As the Guardian of London aptly put it, "Admiral Boorda was short
(5 ft. 4 in.), Jewish, clever, gregarious, astute and knew his own mind. He was hardly the
Platonic role-model for the man to command the most WASP-ish and hereditary of the U.S.
armed services." (18)
The admiral's body was found just after 2 p.m., about one-half hour before he was to meet
with two Newsweek reporters at
Navy headquarters. In the official story, Boorda abruptly went home for lunch after being
informed by Rear Admiral Kendell Pease to expect accusations that he lacked authorization to
wear two Vietnam-era, bronze "V" pins (decorations that signify valor in battle).
Pease later told the press that Boorda had not appeared unduly upset at the prospect of
such questions and responded
matter-of-factly, "We'll just tell him the truth." Boorda had already removed the tiny pins
from his uniform the year before when questions were first raised about them. After lying
dormant for a year, the medals issue was suddenly pushed into public view as the most
plausible motivation for Boorda turning a pistol on himself. One of the two typed notes
found beside Boorda's home computer was addressed "to my sailors" and said, "I couldn't bear
to bring dishonor to you." (19)
An inch-thick report by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service was inconclusive as to
Boorda's motive for suicide. It
cited several unnamed people who insisted the admiral was not distraught in discussing the
medals query. Significantly, the autopsy report was never made public. A blacked-out
version was secured by the NYT under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), lending credence
to suspicions of a coverup. (20) If the autopsy
unambiguously substantiates a self-inflicted gunshot to Boorda's chest using the .38 handgun
given him by his son-in-law (as reported by the media), then why keep it secret?
Boorda & "Cognitive Warfare"
The Guardian reported on May 18, 1996, there was "another cruel twist to Admiral Boorda's
death" regarding a newspaper.
It revealed that Boorda had finally agreed to give "his first full interview" for a series
called "Bosnia: The Secret War." (21) Few Americans know of
the admiral's role as advisor to President Clinton during the controversial U.S.
intervention in Bosnia. From 1991 to 1994, Boorda was Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Naval
Forces in Europe and Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces in southern Europe, based in
Naples, Italy. Despite "his position," Boorda had agreed to speak to the London newspaper on
unspecified "highly controversial themes."
"The last years of Boorda's career were marked by his insistence that the US take a robust
line and intervene militarily in
the carnage of Bosnia-Herzegovina," the Guardian said. "This opinion became the admiral's
anthem, and both isolated and vindicated him within a Pentagon which was stubbornly
resistant to intervention." (22) Could military opposition
to Boorda's Guardian interview have played a role in his untimely and inexplicable
death?
In October 1996 the respectable, Paris-based Intelligence Newsletter alluded to "lurid
reports" that Boorda "was murdered
because he was about to reveal sinister undertakings by the Navy in mind control and brain
warfare." It disclosed that the admiral "was deeply involved in a study on the
possibilities of cognitive warfare, a form of mind control that uses acoustical, optical and
electromagnetic fields or a combination of the three to interfere with the biological
processes of an enemy." (23) This information provides a
compelling reason to see the medals controversy as a bogus motivation for suicide.
Corroboration for the existence of "cognitive warfare" can be found in New World Vistas, a
16-volume, 1996 Air Force
publication. The section on "biological process control" says that it is possible "to
create high fidelity speech in the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion
and psychological direction...[making it] possible to "talk" to selected adversaries in a
fashion that would be most disturbing to them." (24)
The Intelligence Newsletter reported that Boorda headed a secret body called the Strategic
Studies Group investigating
technologies for producing speech and "covert suggestions" in the "enemy's head." It said
further, "The same techniques, say the experts, could be used to prevent voluntary muscular
movements, control emotions and actions, produce sleep and interfere with short-term and
long-term memory."
Could it be mere coincidence that these same biological and psychological effects had been
reported by CAHRA members
to Navy and AF investigators in the months preceding Boorda's sudden demise? Many alleged
experimentees also say they hear artificial voices inside their heads or receive thoughts
that are not their own! Did Admiral Boorda find out about nonconsensual human
experimentation conducted by the Navy, raise ethical objections or even order them to cease,
thereby rendering himself too dangerous to live?
Questionable "suicide" of
Aussie Attache
If Boorda was "taken out" by means of MC technology that induces "suicide" by remote
control, he may be the highest
ranking official in recent years to have met this fate. But by no means is he the only such
suspected case of murder most foul.
On June 13, 1999, in the Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia, Mervyn Jenkins, the
North American attache for the
Australian Defence Intelligence Organization (DIO) was found hanged in the backyard of his
home a week before the Jenkins family planned to return to Australia. Jenkins, an expert in
covert action and electronic warfare, had been posted in Washington for a three-year
assignment. He had been stressed by bureaucratic infighting between two Australian
intelligence agencies over which documents could be shared with the CIA and the DIA. But
would this happily married father of three sons take his own life on his 48th
birthday? His diary showed detailed plans for his life in Australia 10 weeks into the
future.
On April 16, 2001, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) popular investigative
news show "Four Corners"
probed Jenkins' mysterious "suicide," which had produced a storm of criticism in Australia,
leading to a government investigation. Not satisfied with the results (the Blunn Report),
Jenkins' wife filed a lawsuit against the government. Both his wife and mother appeared on
the ABC broadcast, a transcript of which is posted online.
(25)
Betty Daly-King believes Jenkins was murdered to prevent him returning home with knowledge
that the Pentagon didn't
want him to bring back to Australia. Daly-King is a Western Australia peace and human rights
activist who claims she has been tortured with DEW in retaliation for 40 years of working
for alternative means of resolving conflicts that lead to war. Focused on ensuring peace in
the Indian Ocean region, she is responsible for peace studies professorships in two Perth
universities. Daly-King cites several other cases of DEW being used to silence scientists,
activists and writers, just in Western Australia alone.
According to the official story laid out by "Four Corners," Jenkins was caught in the
crossfire between U.S. and Australian
intelligence agencies over the issue of intelligence sharing. Daly-King believes that the
conflict centered on the Indonesion repression of East Timorese who had voted for
independence, with the U.S. backing the Indonesians and the Australians leaning toward the
East Timorese independence fighters. Influential Australian organizations such as the
Returned Servicemen's League have historically sympathized with the East Timorese because so
many had risked their lives to save Australians during World War II, she explains, and
people-to-people relationships have been maintained ever since.
(26)
"The USA would do anything to appease Indonesia to keep access through their straits to
get to and from Saudi's oil," she
wrote to me. "They were not amused at Australia being in the forefront of restoring East
Timor against perceived Indonesia and USA interests! All that lovely East Timor offshore
oil, too."
A map of the Washington area posted on the ABC Web site is chilling in its implications.
With large red dots, it visually
depicts the Jenkins home in Arlington surrounded on three sides by the Pentagon, the CIA,
the DIA headquartered at the Bolling Air Force Base, and the British, Canadian and
Australian embassies. (27)
Mysterious
Deaths in the British Defense Industry
An epidemic of unexplained deaths in England's defense industry occurred from 1982 to 1988
(totally blacked out of the
"free" U.S. press). Twenty-five British computer programmers and engineers working on
electronic warfare programs died in a rash of suspicious suicides, disappearances, and
bizarre accidents. They were the subject of British journalist Tony Collin's 1990 book Open
Verdict: An Account of 25 Mysterious Deaths in the Defence Industry. Five of these
scientists were talented computer programmers who worked for Marconi Underwater Systems (a
major contractor for the Reagan Administration's "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative or
SDI), or one of its subsidiaries. Many worked for the government or military installations
directly. Britain's nuclear arsenal is submarine-based. Most of the dead programmers were
working on top-secret simulator programs used in underwater submarine deception warfare. "In
the majority of cases, there were no eyewitnesses and the periods before their deaths could
not be explained," Collins writes (28)
Investigations began when two young men were found in Bristol, more than 100 miles from
their homes, where they had
no apparent connections. In 1986 Vimal Dajibhai, 24, was found under a bridge with an
unexplained puncture mark on his thigh and his pants down around the ankles. A few months
later Arshad Sharif, 26, alleged hanged himself by tying one end of a rope around his his
neck, the other end lashed to a tree, and accelerating his car until his neck snapped.
Family members interviewed by Collins said the two men were actively planning their futures
and had no motive for suicide. Shortly thereafter, PhD student Avtar Singh Gita, 26, who was
working on submarine warfare under a grant from the defense industry, disappeared from
Loughborough University. Singh Gita's thesis was titled "Underwater Signal Processing." He
was found in Paris months later, but could not recall why or how he got there. (29)
Several gifted scientists and programmers employed in other branches of the defense
industry died under suspicious
circumstances in 1987. Peter Peapell, 46, a simulator expert in stealth and EW, was found
underneath his car with the engine running. David Sands, 37, allegedly drove at high
velocity into a brick wall, after filling his car with cans of gasoline. Richard Pugh, 37,
was found dead in his home with a plastic bag over his head and his feet tied. Royal Air
Force computer specialist Mark Wisner, 25, was also found suffocated by a plastic bag. Dr.
John Brittan, 52, was found dead in his garage with the car running; he had been a computer
expert at the Royal Armaments Research and Develpment Establishment. In 1988 the body of
Russell Smith, 23, who worked for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in Harwell, was
found on a cliff. Family members of these deceased individuals indicated no motive for
suicide. (30)
Tony Collins concludes that "psychological engineering" of suicidal behavior is a possible
explanation for these
unexplained deaths. His conclusion is based on the experience of Australian engineer and
investigative journalist Joe Vialls who says he survived such macabre manipulations in 1983.
Vialls had become unwittingly involved in a Cold War espionage operation while working on a
sensitive oil drilling operation in India. He reports he suffered both microwave radiation
and post-hypnotic suggestions implanted electronically by unknown controllers, whom he
suspects were working for the CIA. Doctors who treated Vialls at the London-based Medical
Foundation for the Care of Torture Victims verified that he was susceptible to clandestine
hypnosis and post-hypnotic suggestions. Vialls, whose story can be found in Collins' final
chapter, has published a book and many articles on suspected Manchurian Candidate-type
assassinations as well as exposes of the U.S. military's Omega above- and underground
communication system, which he believes has the capacity for mind control operations
worldwide. (31)
Europeans Reject Invisible
Weapons
Warnings on the perils of electronic MC can be found in the European press. Scientists,
intellectuals and government
officials there have been banging the warning drums for several years about dangerous U.S.
surveillance and NEM technologies. (32) A 1997 editorial in
the British Medical Journal alerted the healing profession to "guard against its knowledge
being used for weapon development." Written by surgeon Robin M. Coupland, the editorial
warned that the new category of "non-lethal" (NL) weapons, including "devices generating
infrasound or electromagnetic waves, and devices for riot control," was not covered by
existing international treaties banning chemical and biological weapons. (33)
In 1998 a neuroscientist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris cautioned that "advances in
cerebral imaging" were "capable of
being used at a distance" and would "open the way for abuses such as invasion of personal
liberty, control of behavior and brainwashing." Another researcher at the French Atomic
Energy Commission said imaging techniques have reached the stage where "we can almost read
people's thoughts." (34) In 1998 the Scientific and
Technological Options Assessment (STOA) panel of the European Parliament "shocked European
leaders" with its voluminous report subtitled "Appraisal of Technologies of Political
Control." The CIA's mind control (MK-Ultra) program is fully referenced therein. (35)
On January 28, 1999, while Congress and the U.S. media were diddling with the impeachment
of President Clinton, the
European Parliament passed a resolution calling "for an international convention introducing
a global ban on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable any form of
manipulation of human beings." (36) And a 1999 UN-sponsored
conference on human consciousness passed an ethics resolution urging neuroscientists to
ensure their discoveries are used to serve "human welfare, never warfare." What is known as
the Tokyo Declaration declares, "Today, we have the intellectual, physical and financial
resources to master the power of the brain itself, and to develop devices to touch the mind
and even control or erase consciousness." (37)
Secret MC technologies have already been used by U.S. armed forces in Third World
interventions without any public
discussion. According to Judy Wall, editor of Resonance(newsletter of the Mensa
Bioelectromagnetics Special Interest Group), the EC-130E Commando Solo aircraft, built by
Lockheed at a cost of $100 million each, conducts psychological operations through
broadcasts "in the standard AM, FM, HF, TV and military communications bands." Wall
discovered that Commando Solo is equipped with Silent Sound Spread Spectrum, a MC technology
that can "entrain the listener's brainwaves into a preselected emotional state." (38) Commando Solo aircraft were used as far back as the 1983
U.S. military intervention in Grenada, and later in Panama, Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Iraq. (39)
The British ITV News Bureau reported that this technology was used in Operation Desert
Storm in 1991 to demoralize
Iraqi soldiers and instill "a perpetual feeling of fear and hopelessness." (40) In "Military Use of Mind Control Weapons," Wall exposes
how human brainwave patterns known as "emotion signature clusters" can be stored on a
computer, then piggybacked to Silent Sound carrier frequencies to "silently trigger the
occurrence of the same basic emotion in another human being." Voice commands can also be
used in subliminal messages attached to music. (41)
The U.S. military's secret strategy for post-cold-war conflicts "short of war" is called
"The Revolution in Military Affairs,"
a deceptively futuristic scenario based on an arsenal of grotesque psychotechnologies
unknown to the American taxpayers who fund their development. Among the new military-speak
one finds "strategic personality simulation," exactly the sort of neofascist MC that could
explain the bizarre harassment stories of many hapless civilians.
(42) Readers still skeptical about the existence of MC technologies are urged to
check out "The Mind has No Firewall," an article published in the Army journal Parameters
(Spring 1998). (43) Evidence of plans to incorporate mind
control in future wars is as unambiguous as it is repulsive.
Constructing
Thoughtforms to Order?
Former Navy engineer Eleanor White traces her victimization as an alleged involuntary NEM
experimentee to the spring of
1980 when she asked the Bureau of Naval Personnel to update her service record. The
harassment began later that year -- on the street, at work, and in six successive
apartments, she claims. "I just thought I was the unluckiest human being on the planet,
entirely unique and alone," she says, until 1996 when she found Ed Light's Mind Control
Forum on the Internet. (44) "The near-perfect congruence of
my effects with what others were experiencing was like entering a whole new life." This
sameness of "effects" is reported by hundreds of people throughout the world. Many are
well-educated and hold down responsible jobs; others are physically and psychological
disabled by torturous hospitalizations and years of abuse. The sheer volume of their highly
literate communications convinces me that every allegation of psychological-warfare
experimentation cannot be conveniently pigeon-holed as the paranoia of a disturbed
person.
Eldon Byrd has been similarly persuaded. A medical engineer, Byrd is retired from the
Naval Surface Weapons Center,
Office of Non-Lethal Weapons. A member of the U.S. Psychotronics Association (USPA), he has
published papers on the telemetry of brain waves (measuring them wirelessly from a
distance), (45) and the psycho-activity of extremely low
frequency (ELF) electromagnetic and scalar fields. After corresponding with White and other
alleged experimentees for several years, he concluded they were neither hallucinating nor
allergic to ELF waves. "You have convinced me that this is something going on that should
be investigated," Byrd wrote White. He affirmed that "images can be projected directly into
a human brain from a distance using the 'scalar' component of a weak magnetic field." But
he questioned who would be so evil as to inflict this technology on unsuspecting people? (46)
Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden, also a member of USPA, is a PhD scientist, nuclear engineer,
and proponent of "the new physics," which may be crucial to understanding the MC
technologies developed by the U.S. military-industrial complex. Bearden publishes SPECULA, a
magazine devoted to psychotronics and bio-energetics. (47)
His books include The Excalibur Statement, Analysis of Scalar Electromagnetics, and
Gravitobiology: A New Biophysics (Tesla Book Company). In a February 1991 interview
conducted by Michael Hutchison, editor of Megabrain Report, Bearden revealed that "scalar
electromagnetic phenomena" make it possible to construct "thoughtforms to order, and input
them directly into the mind and longterm memory." This can be done through "a hidden
channel to pipe in inputs" and it can be done "surrepticiously, from a distance and without
the knowledge and consent of the individual affected," he said further. Bearden calls this
"the ultimate mind control." (48)
On July 23, 2000, Byrd delivered a paper to the 26th annual conference of the USPA in
Columbus, Ohio, titled "Recent
Advances in Scalar Technologies." He told the audience that many people claiming they are
victims of remote MC devices appeared to be highly functional, and that there must be
something to their claims. He pointed to thousands of documented cases during the Cold War
of the U.S. government experimenting on citizens without their knowledge or consent.
He then cited a July 2, 1997 statement by Major General Sydney Schacknow of the Army's
Special Forces (Ft. Bragg,
North Carolina) that our military was "working on synthetic telepathy (the ability to read
people's intentions at a distance using a magnetic laser -- a maser operating at extremely
low frequencies," which can "alter behavior at a distance." In private conversation, Byrd
told one participant that Marines had been shown a device that projects images into the
brain from a distance, and that a Superconductor Quantum Interference Detector or SQUID
machine (a sophisticated EEG device) can detect the mysterious rays many people suspect are
causing them pain. (49) Byrd's paper at the 2001 USPA
meeting in Columbus, Ohio, July 20-23, is titled "Mind Control: Paranoid Delusions or
Frightening Reality?"
Synthetic Telepathy
"Synthetic telepathy is a term used to describe the beaming of words, thoughts, or ideas
into a person's mind by mechanical
means...some type of electromagnetic transmitter...operating in the microwave frequency
band," begins a May, 1995 article by Judy Wall in Resonance.
(50) The first known U.S. experiment in which audible voices were communicated
via pulsed microwaves was carried out in 1973 by Joseph C. Sharp and Mark Grove in Walter
Reed Army Institute of Research in the USA. Their success was based on biophysicist Allen
Frey's post-WWII experiments with "microwave hearing." (51)
Commenting on Sharp's "pulsed microwave audiogram" in his 1985 ground-breaking book,The
Body Electric, Robert O.
Becker, MD, points out, "Such a device has obvious applications in covert operations
designed to drive a target crazy with 'voices' or deliver undetectable instructions to a
programmed assassin." He also noted, "Nearly two-thirds of the $47-billion 1984 federal
research budget went for military work, and in the field of bioelectricity the proportion
was even higher." In denouncing "the buying of science by the military," Becker boldly
declared, "To call it a form of prostitution is an insult to the oldest profession." Becker
was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, but his career suffered because of his
condemnation of the military uses of bioelectric research.
(52)
Two years ago the career of SUNY-Albany Professor Kathryn Kelley also suffered a setback
because of her probes into the
mysteries of MC. In August 1999 Kelley's provocative research on the surgical implantation
of communications devices to read thoughts was suddenly shut down. She had delivered a
paper to a professional conference in Orlando, Florida, in which she described acoustic
implants in human beings called RAATS (short for radio wave, auditory, assaultive,
transmitting implants). Kelley wrote, "When (short-wave) operators transmit to or scan RAAT
implants in victims, they can talk to the victims remotely and anonymously, and hear the
victim's speech and thoughts." (53)
"The
Bionics of Man"
In 1962 Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev, an internationally known Russian physiologist, remarked
that "the discovery of the energy
underlying ESP [extrasensory perception] will be equivalent to the discovery of atomic
energy." (54) The word "psychotronics" was actually coined
by Czechoslovak researchers to legitimize parapsychology as a scientific discipline. The
Czech Manifesto adopted at the 1968 Moscow Parapsychological Conference declared,
"Psychotronics is, in essence, the bionics of man." (55)
In the 1950s Soviet researchers invented a medical device called the LIDA machine, which
uses modulated ELF waves to
induce a trance-like hypnosis in human beings. According to a 1993Defense Electronics
article, a Richmond, Virginia company called Psychotechnologies Corporation now holds the
LIDA patent, euphemistically called "psycho-correction technology."
(56)
The Soviets were also the first to use EEG machines to catch "the moment when telepathy
lights up in the brain."
However, the U.S. came in a close second. In 1959 secret ESP research on the U.S. atomic
sub Nautilus made headlines in France. Journalists asked the sensational question, "Has the
American military learned the secret of mind power?" (57)
The U.S. officially denied theNautilus experiments. But Carol Rutz remembers being taken
aboard this ship when she was 10 as part of a CIA MK-Ultra psychic assassination research
program. Rutz reports being trained to send psychic energy to a "certain high-placed
individual" to create a deadly aneurysm! (58) (See Part 3
of this series, July/August 2000 Probe for secret government experimentation using
children.)
To understand the progression of electronic MC technologies from the 50s through the 90s,
readers will benefit from
consulting two online timelines composed by Judy Wall and Cheryl Welsh, respectively; a Fact
Sheet with documentation on Nonconsensual Experimentation prepared by Welsh; and a
bibliography titled "Psychoactivity of Electromagnetic Fields."
(59)
"Zero-Evidence Weapons"
"For the first time in history," Eleanor White writes, "one human being, from hiding, at a
distance, can control the thoughts
and actions of another, by way of undetectable hypnosis, using still-classified electronic
technology. These devices have totally disabled the world's justice systems." A board
member of CAHRA, White has compiled the collective research of its members into a 136-page
report, "The State of Unclassified and Commercial Technology Capable of Some Electronic Mind
Control Effects." (60) She warns that anyone with knowhow
and enough money could assemble an arsenal from ordinary (but expensive) electronic
equipment and be totally immune from prosecution. "Zero-evidence weapons," she says, "make
revenge crimes routine and easy." In the March 2000 issue of The American Reporter, White
calls for debate and controls on all manufactured MC devices.
(61)
In the late 1980s, activists in the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp began experiencing
headaches, nausea,
vertigo, depression, disorientation and short-term memory loss. They were camped outside a
U.S. Air Force Base in Great Britain to protest nuclear weapons and global militarization.
Strong signals of non-ionizing radiation (microwave) up to 100 times the normal background
level were detected there. Women peace activists in Seneca, New York, experienced similar
harassment. (62)
Julianne McKinney, an ex-CIA case officer, believes she has been intentionally targeted by
EM weapons. The painful
harassment made her arms bleed, her gums rot and her teeth crack. In the early 1990s, she
conducted an Electronic Surveillance Project, an offshoot of the Association of National
Security Alumni. Her 22-page booklet, Microwave Harassment and Mind Control, published in
1992, documents many claims of NEM harassment. (63)
White has coined the term "voice-to-skull" (v2s) to describe an effect reported by hundreds
of people. But White herself
does not hear voices. "In my case and a few others," she says, "v2s is restricted to fake
alarm clocks ringing at 3 a.m, fake phone or pager ringing, and fake bird choruses when no
birds are around." In-home attacks include forced awakening and sleep deprivation, "hot
needles" in the flesh, sexual stimulation, body vibrations and itching, limbs jerking
wildly, and muscles manipulated remotely (vocal cords forced to produce sound against her
will). White says she also suffers apartment break-ins with items stolen and clothing
ripped. At work, she has experienced mind-blanking attacks and inexplicable computer
malfunctions. Although she acknowledges that "the actual weapons now in use are tightly
classified," she discovered through years of research that "the primitive weapons leading up
to the current crop are mostly unclassified and some are even commercially available." (64)
White's Web site, http://www.raven1.net, contains a storehouse of credible research on government-sponsored MC
experiments and technologies.
It is a magnet that draws in people from all over the world searching for answers to the
weird bio-electric phemonena experienced in their own bodies, homes, and communities.
Thanks to White's e-mail exchange depot, I have corresponded with many highly articulate
people from all walks of life, and have interviewed some by telephone. For example, I have
learned of several cases where people discovered through x-rays or MRIs that family members
had been implanted with biochips during minor surgery, without their knowledge or consent.
Biochips, now the size of an uncooked grain of rice, are easily implantable for beneficial
uses as well as for surrepticious
political control. Applied Digital Solutions is now testing and marketing its "Digital
Angel" technology, a biochip that makes possible the tracking of people using Global
Positioning Satellites. (65) British Professor Kevin
Warwick and his wife are being implanted with biochips to test whether they can read each
other's thoughts when separated by distance. (66)
DSM-IV: Diagnosis or Coverup?
CAHRA members complain about the knee-jerk reactions of U.S. physicians (especially
psychiatrists) to their suffering.
Some have had bouts with hospitalization where they were subjected to forced drugging and
electroshock. Many fear sharing their torments with family and friends lest they be labeled
"paranoid schizophrenic" because they hear voices, suspect they are under some kind of
surveillance, or suffer debilitating bio-electric attacks.
Many alleged experimentees felt somewhat vindicated, however, when they read the opening
words of a 1997 NYT
Magazine cover story, "For decades, those who claimed to be victims of clandestine radiation
experiments conducted by the United States Government were dismissed as paranoid." (67) The Clinton Administration exposes on radiation
experimentation using thousands of unsuspecting North Americans opened the door for alleged
MC experimentees to speak publicly about their claims.
The first three parts of this series have documented how past leaders of the American
Psychiatric Association (APA) were
secretly involved in military/CIA MC research using nonconsensual human subjects, especially
women and children in their care. Is it happenstance or coverup that many reported symptoms
of NEM weapons have been written into the diagnostic categories published in the APA's
Diagnostic Statistical Manual IV (DSM IV)?
One DSM IV criterion of "schizotypal personality disorder" is "belief in clairvoyance,
telepathy, or 'sixth sense.' Under
such a sweeping definition, the entire cabal of military/intelligence psychic experimenters
(including privatized, Pentagon-funded outfits like Psi Tech) could be labeled
"schizophrenic" for indulging in "remote viewing" (ESP) research for decades! (68) Significantly, a History Channel offering called
"Psychic Espionage," aired in September 2001, never ridiculed or cast "mental illness"
aspersions on any of the male scientists and CIA Stargate functionaries who were
interviewed.
Rauni Kilde believes that "psychiatrists working for U.S. intelligence agencies no doubt
participated in writing and
revising" what has become a worldwide psychiatrists' bible. "Victims of mind control
experimentation are thus routinely diagnosed, knee-jerk fashion, as mentally ill by doctors
who learned the DSM "symptom" list in medical school," she says.
(69)
N. Renay Tanner suggests that people who suspect they are targeted by electronic MC seek
legal remedies and medical
assistance through human rights organizations rather than the medical profession. A
Columbia University graduate student focused on psychiatry and human rights, Tanner is also
United Nations liaison for Support Coalition International, a human rights organization
devoted to eliminating abuses by the mental-health industry. Tanner believes the mental
health system functions for the purpose of social control top-down and that "ideologically
driven" psychiatrists who cannot admit to any evidence of fallibility will not help
ameliorate the stresses and trauma of nonconsensual experimentation.
Security Agency "Cutouts"?
CAHRA leaders bristle at suggestions that their pain may be caused by some condition other
than purposeful manipulation
by government-funded operators. They justifiably point to the MK-Ultra program and the
thousands of documented cases of nonconsensual experimentation.
(70) Still, most people offer no independent corroboration
for their claims other than
pointing out symptoms in common with other alleged victims and research proving that
anti-personnel, directed-energy weapons do indeed exist.
One has to be skeptical of unscientific, long-distance evaluations of individuals based
solely on uncorroborated verbal
reports, often communicated via the anonymity of e-mail. After all, many known physical
ailments such as electrical sensitivity and fibromyalgia
could produce similiar symptoms in
different people. (71) Some painful effects may also be due
to allergic reactions and EM pollution. Any number of people who corroborate each other's
symptoms could be suffering from what a recent New York Times magazine article called
"culturally specific" mental illness. (72) With suspicion
about unethical government-financed experimentation more the rule than the exception, and
widespread computer networking by people searching for answers to their problems, the stage
is set for an epidemic of self-diagnosed victims. How does one separate out genuine
experimentees from people whose symptoms may have physical or emotional causes not connected
with MC at all?
Some claims appear have more merit than others. And a few people have named their
perpetrators as connected to private
security services, Air Force personnel, or huge military contractors such as Raytheon
(likely involved in producing some of these weapons). For example, Pat Mougey's tormentors
appear to be recruited by a security agency located on the street where she lives. She
reports some harassers let her know she is under surveillance.
(73) She believes they use commercially available, through-the-wall radar to tape
everything that goes on in the privacy of her own home. (74)
Mougey says she even saw herself through a window on the television screen in the house
next door. I was skeptical about this until I saw NSA high-tech surveillance gadgetry on
display in the Hollywood movie, "Enemy of the State." A private detective knowledgeable in
surveillance devices confirmed that such gadgetry does exist in the real world and not just
in the imaginations of Hollywood writers.
"They have a device to control every part of the body, including the throat," says Mougey.
"I have been in the ER more
than once because my throat was closed up and I could not breathe." I became convinced there
may be truth in Mougey's claims by reading a 1987 report on the Attorney General's
Conference on Less Than Lethal Weapons. It revealed that "scientific knowledge of human
physiology is progressing to the point where it may soon be possible to target specific
systems with specific frequencies of electromagnetic radiation...sustained, extremely low
frequency (ELF) radiation [that] can produce nausea or disorientation..." (75)
But so long as human experimentation in weapons development remains subject to "national
security" restrictions, it is
impossible to know for sure whether specific individuals are experimentees in government or
privatized operations. We do know, however, that our government spent millions on
electronic MC research. One hundred thirty boxes (130 cubic feet) of classified documents on
"behavioral experiments" the CIA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) were located in
1978. They were found after John Marks (author of The Search for the 'Manchurian
Candidate') requested ORD files "on behavioral research, including...activities related to
bio-electrics, electric or radio stimulation of the brain, electronic destruction of memory,
stereotaxic surgery, psychosurgery, hypnotism, parapsychology, radiation, microwaves and
ultrasonics." (76)
Rogue Scientific
Groups
As I delved more into the scientific end of MC research, I became more convinced that the
U.S. military/industrial
complex probably has remote-control technology that can produce the torture Mougey and
others so vividly describe. A 1999 article by engineer Tom Bearden, "Mind Control and EM
Wave Polarization Transductions," corroborates my feeling:
"...rogue groups amongst Western clandestine mind control researchers will probably arise
if they have not already done
so. They will likely seek to increase their personal control and further isolate the
programs from orthodox government review and from government and legislative control. They
may even divert the research into highly illegal and unethical means, because it furthers
their own rogue agendas. That is how clandestine U.S. government research can sometimes go
sour, unless great care is exercised by the oversight committees in the House and the
Senate.
Sometimes when rogue groups do gain control and total secrecy of a given new technological
area, then what appears to be
"U.S. government operations" do start to encompass a criminal and unethical operations
[sic], hidden usually beneath the deep veil of high classification. Also, if it's
"scientific," no one is ever brought to justice, even if the "evil science actions" are
uncovered and publicly revealed." (77)
Those who doubt the existence of classified MC technology can draw their own conclusions
from several official
responses to requests for information on NEM weapons research. Margo Cherney received a
letter from the Air Force in 1999 in response to her request for material on a 1970s Air
Force project called "Communicating via the Microwave Auditory Effect." In denying her
request to declassify this material, the letter said "unauthorized dislosure of the
requested information could reasonably be expected to cause damage to national security." (78) Eleanor White received a letter from a member of the New
York Assembly in 1998 that said, "Unfortunately, information concerning what was referenced
in your letter is highly classified, and I am not at liberty to divulge such information to
the general public." (79)
In April 2000, White was able to discover a U.S. Navy contract for Ultrasonic Acoustic
Heterodyning Technology with American Technology Corporation. According to the company's
own publicity, hypersonic sound technology "can target selected individuals in a group or in
a noisy environment and deliver audio to that person." (80)
This technology makes possible some of the sound effects White and others experience.
For several years CAHRA founder Cheryl Welsh has been trying to organize a study of 500
alleged experimentees that
would include medical and psychiatric evaluations. Many in the CAHRA network are very
fearful of doctors because they have experienced terrible abuse in the medical system. Welsh
has struggled to convince them to join the study as she diligently networks with EM victims
in other countries and raises money to insure the scientific viability of what would become
a ground breaking study. People whose symptoms have other causes need to be properly
diagnosed and treated. Pretenders and disinformation purveyors among the hundreds of people
alleging EM targeting need to be exposed -- either by their refusal to participate in the
study or by the objective evaluations of scientific and medical investigators. (81)
Civilians Become "the Enemy"
Many CAHRA members report that their complaints to local police have not gotten serious
attention. In some cases this
could be explained by collusion between local law enforcement and federal authorities
testing NL weapons and surveillance systems in the community. Crusading Alaskan
environmentalist Nick Begich reports a secret agreement between the Department of Defense
and the Department of Justice to transfer NL weapons to local law enforcement through the
National Institute of Justice. (82)
Like an international Paul Revere, Begich has been circling the globe clanging alarm bells
to stimulate public debate on
civilian control of the military in the post-cold-war era:
"The weaving together of Department of Defense missions with civilian Department of Justice
missions is unprecedented.
Not since the civil war has the military machinery...been turned against United States
citizens...This raises serious questions regarding use of our Department of Defense for
domestic police actions, which may be a violation of constitutional law by being in conflict
with the narrowly-defined federal use of the military 'for the national defense." (83)
How did civilians become "the enemy" in peacetime? In a 5/12/99 interview on ABC News,
USPA member Lt. Col. John
B. Alexander was asked if he saw any domestic applications for NL weapons. "Absolutely," he
answered. "In the U.S. today, we have a very large disenfranchised population. The
potential for civil disorder is quite high, in my estimation. This is an area in which
non-lethal weapons can play a vital role in restoring order, protecting lives and
property..."
Alexander directed the Non-Lethal Weapons Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory in
the 1980s. He is the same
knowledgeable military man who wrote way back in December 1980 that "there are weapons
systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been
demonstrated....The psychotronic weapon would be silent, difficult to detect, and would
require only a human operator as a power source." (84)
Without any any public review process, a joint policy for NL weapons was adopted in 1995.
Highest priority was given to
developing unspecified technologies "most likely get dual use, i.e., law enforcement and
military applications." (85) A 1994 draft of the
government's NL policy authorized use of nonlethal weapons by our military in support of
domestic law enforcement. It chillingly replaced the Cold War concept of an external
"enemy" (requiring stringent national-security regulations) with the relatively benign term
"adversary," which could apply to anyone, domestic or foreign. "Adversary is used above in
its broadest sense," this document says, "including those who are not declared enemies but
who are engaged in activities we wish to stop." (86)
The confluence of NL and high-tech electronic weaponry can be gleaned from what little is
available in the media. The
July 7, 1997 issue of U.S. News and World Report reported that the Air Force alone plans to
spend more than $100 million by 2003 to research the "bioeffects" of what it called "exotic"
anti-personnel, NL weapons. The ghastly technologies acknowledged in this article include
blinding lasers (considered, but rejected for use in Somalia), acoustic or sonic weapons
modeled after the Nazi's "vortex" technology (causing nausea, "pain, spasms or even death"),
RF weapons that induce epileptic seizures, "undetectable" VLF devices that cause flulike
symptoms, nausea and weakness, and "tunable" microwave weapons that can "cook the enemy." (87)
In March 2001, the Pentagon went public with a portable people zapper euphemistically
called an "Active Denial System." Developed by Ratheon Corporation and other Pentagon
contractors for crowd dispersal, this so-called NL weapon "could cook a person's eyeballs"
if the operator so desired. (88) To its credit, CBS News
interspersed footage of huge anti-Vietnam War demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands
of Americans in its announcement of this weapon. Comic strip character Pogo's astute and
much quoted observation, "We have seen the enemy and they is us" was never more
applicable.
"It's war, Jim, but not as we know it," in the 8/3/97 issue of The Scotsman, offers the
following intriguing sentence:
"Progress on laser and acoustic technology has been rapid...and a number of weapons are now
off the design board and are being tested in secret."
Taxpayers footing the bill for this research have the right to ask: On whom are these
weapons being tested and are the
subjects protected under the Nuremberg Code, international laws and presidential executive
orders? (89) Eleanor White appropriately points out, "No
government agency will admit to being charged with ethical protection of military and other
government classified human test subjects." Could criminal, free-lance experimentation be
conducted by private enterpreneurs with security clearance and on-the-job knowledge of how
these weapons work?
In 1999 USA Today lifted the veil on a secret administrative court that grants security
clearances to employees of defense
contractors. "Felons gain access to the nation's secrets" was its provocative headline.
"Tens of thousands of military and contractor personnel are cleared each year," it reported.
In its study of 1500 decisions by the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals, the newspaper
found clearances were routinely bestowed on drug users, kidnappers, pedophiles, murders,
exhibitionists and other convicted sex offenders, chronic liars, and people with histories
of violence and/or convictions for criminal fraud involving millions of dollars. (90)
Psyops Field Testing on
Civilians?
Eleanor White believes the most bizarre harassment she experiences amounts to psychological
warfare. The unknown
perpetrators, she says, occupy a "shadow government" that includes some of the country's
biggest defense contractors and their intelligence operatives. "They are behavior
science-oriented," she explains, "in creating severe stress to test our limits." She
believes the perpetrators could be retired MK-Ultra employees "who set up shop in private
industry away from congressional scrutiny," their paid agents from private security outfits,
or even criminal groups who have secured the technology on the military black market. "The
original MK-Ultra military/intelligence experimenters were forced to share with the
corporate world," she says, "and the sharing has now quite a few branches."
In 1992, the first George Bush Administration added a little-known regulation to its
National Industrial Security Program
Operating Manual that reads, "Cover stories may be established for unacknowledged programs
in order to protect the integrity of the program from individuals who do not have a need to
know. Cover stories must be believable and cannot reveal any information regarding the true
nature of the contract. Cover stories for Special Access Programs must have the approval of
the PSO [Program Security Officer] prior to dissemination."
(91) This provision is quite alarming. It means that unscrupulous
"experimenters," hired by private companies with Pentagon connections, have a green light to
"lie by the book." They can easily cover up the abuse of innocent people without any
accountability to elected civilian authorities.
"There is no punishment for rogue scientific groups," writes Bearden. "Shockingly, the
U.S. government at the highest
level has shown...that mass crimes against U.S. civilians, perpetrated by portions of the
U.S. scientific community in direct conspiracy and in secret, will likely be condoned. The
perpetrators will not be indicted, tried, or convicted." (Emphasis in the original)
He says further that:
"...in the "Big Science community, there can be and there are rogue groups. Lots of them.
There is deep cover, deep
classification. And there is very probably advanced mind control research and testing, be
it legal or illegal. Hopefully, most of it is legal and constrained. However, some of it
is almost certain to be illegal and ill constrained."
(92)
As news of this series disseminated throughout the MC survivor network, academics and
independent MC researchers
phoned or wrote to offer useful information gleaned from their own research. One such
source is a doctoral student in physics whose interest in neuroscience spans the last
decade. I will call him Smith as he does not want his real name used.
Smith believes that covert field testing of NEM weapons is combined with classic
surveillance techniques perfected during
the Cold War. He directed me to a "spy/counterspy" Web site dissecting FBI methods used to
create fear, passivity and immobilization. (93) They
include constant harassment to build up stress, total discrediting of his/her experiences by
driving the target "crazy," then labeling the target as a "paranoid schizophrenic." The
intended outcome of this treatment is depression, withdrawal and the target's acquiescence
in being controlled. Smith cites the "learned helplessness model" of Martin Seligman, as
the operant conditioning used by MC experimenters whose identity is protected in "black"
programs. (94)
Smith suggests that some alleged experimentees are being used as the "prototypes" of a new
controlled life, victims of a
psychological warfare operation aimed, not at a foreign "enemy," but at our own citizenry.
"Operatives get to train their mind-control and harassment techniques on live prey," he
continued, "without fear of adverse consequences from a bungled operation."
He points out that some alleged experimentees, particularly women, are the "ideal
candidates" for this kind of operation:
"They live alone, are highly verbal (the more associative one is, the easier it would no
doubt be to drive her crazy),
individualistic, don't have good family relations, and have obedient relatives, often with
connections to the security services. It is easy for federal operatives with top-secret
security clearances to paint these people as lunatics in order to be able to torture them
with America's tax dollars. Indeed, after the cold war ended, there was a vacuum for
surveillance operatives who needed to be doing something useful in order to justify their
vast funding. What could be more desirable from a federal operative's point of view than to
torture in absolute safety and secrecy a few unfortunate "freaks" with the very latest in
black-budget technology?" (95)
Assassination Mysteries and Mind Control
Remote viewer David Morehouse exposed the existence of the CIA's Stargate "remote viewing"
program in his 1996 book
Psychic Warrior. (96) He revealed that Stargate was a
Special Access Program (SAP), which requires the highest level of security clearance for
Sensitive Compartmentalized Information. (97) NEM
technologies would come under the government's NL research apparatus and are probably
categorized as SAPs. Morehouse was persecuted as a whistleblower, including involuntary
hospitalization and severe psychiatric abuse. The public campaign to discredit him was led
by none other than John Alexander, the "father" of NL weapons.
(98)
Interestingly, Morehouse also told attorney William Pepper that a sniper team of low-level
CIA operatives in the U.S.
Special Forces was responsible for the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. (99) Earlier installments of this series have touched on how
mind control might have been the secret weapon used to commit and cover up the
assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Dr. King. A most provocative
and easily accessible article that links MC with these crimes (as well as the assassination
of John Lennon and the mass murders in Jonestown, Guyana) was written by Curt Rowlett. It
is titled "Project MKULTRA: Did the U.S. Government Actually Create Programmed Assassins?"
(100)
Was Admiral Boorda -- like the Kennedy brothers and Dr. King -- just the latest political
"adversary" marked for extinction
by undemocratic shadow institutions operating above and beyond the law?
More than 25 years ago, Senator Frank Church foresaw an abyss of no return. Today Thomas
Bearden, a military man who
most probably has seen the best and worst of human beings, warns that unregulated MC
technology could be the undoing of our civilization:
"Human beings are still human beings. All the good and evil is still there, regardless of
the group. The stage settings
change, but the cast of characters and the play never change.
It's sad, but 'twas ever thus. Hidden parts of our own governments -- and other
governments throughout the world -- are no
different from the old medieval groups, where nobles etc. were always plotting against the
king, or using the king's power for their own nefarious end. The rogue groups today are no
different from all the scheming and conniving groups that destroyed the Roman Empire. Great
empires fall from within, not usually from without!" (101)
(emphasis in original)
July 2001
Endnotes
1. NBC, "Meet the Press," 8/17/75 transcript. Quoted in Bamford, J., The Puzzle Palace, Houghton-Mifflin, 1982, p. 379. In 1975 Church headed the Senate Intelligence Committee that exposed many unlawful practices of the intelligence community, including MK-Ultra.
2. "Navy colleagues believe Boorda could have survived scrutiny," CNN, 5/17/96.
3. 5/23/96 posting of Linda Grant De Pauw to "Women and the Military": http: www.h-net.msu.edu/~minerva/archives/threads/temp/boorda.html . According to family and friends, Boorda did not exhibit any of the military's suicide warning signs: http://www.dtic.mil/afosi/news/1999_suicide.html .
4. USA Today, 11/25/96.
5. The CIA Papers: Bluebird, Artichoke, MK-Ultra. Volume 1 (pp. 126-129). Twenty thousand MK-Ultra documents are available for purchase on three CD-ROMs from the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act for $30.
6. Scheflin, A. & Opton, Jr., E.M., The Mind Manipulators. (Paddington Press, 1978), p. 470; Harry V. Martin & David Caul "The CIA and the Mafia Mind Control" ( http://www.visitations.com/mindcontrol/Hist-Mind.html ; see also London Times, July 13, 1975.
7. I consulted John L. McIntosh, PhD, chair of the Department of Psychology at Indiana University South Bend. McIntosh, past president of the American Association of Suicidology, who retrieved the suicide numbers and rates for Medford City and Jackson County for 1968 through 1995. Medford ranked 9th highest in the country in 1995.
8. Metcalf, Mark, "The secret war against Medford, Oregon." Posted at: http://www.diac.com/~ekwall2/info/t0001.shtm .
9. http://www.globalserve.net/~artnet/mu sicnet.htm ; http://www.globalserve.net/~artnet/dmdpt97f.html ; http://www.ethanrussell.com/_erdw/000006df.htm
10. For information on U.S. intelligence "cover and deception" programs, see the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy and Government Bulletin # 34, http://www.fas.org/. See also Army document on Psychological Operations: http://www.fas.org/man dod-101/army/docs/st100-3/c5/5sect9.htm .
11. See list of MC patents: http://www.trufax.org/menu/patents.html , and several lists of books, articles and links on Electromagnetic Mind Control: http://www.raven1.net/mcf/MCF/booklist.htm and http://www.raven1.net/nancbk3.htm
12. http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/mindcontrol/Abemarf_part_1.htm
13. Kilde, "Microchip Implants, Mind Control and Cybernetics," SPEKULA (3rd Quarter, 1999). SPEKULA is published by medical students and doctors in Northern Finland. Posted at: http://www.raven1.net/kilde2.htm.
14. http://www.multistalkerictims.org/mcf/MCF/victm-h m.htm;http://mindjustice.org/ginter.htm; http://www.konformist.com/1998/voices.htm ; Soviets organize against Psychotronic Weapons: http://multistalkerictims.org/mcf/MCF/welshsov.htm
15. Nonconsensual Brainwaves: http://mindjustice.org/brn-stdy.htm; Code of the Brain: http://mindjustice.org/book.htm ; Electromagnetic Radiation (emr) Weapons: http://mindjustice.org/emr13.htm ; Russian Book Translation Project: http://mindjustice.org/russian.htm
16. My source provided a copy of the AF letter opening an investigation; she destroyed a similar letter from the Navy after Boorda's death.
17. Boyer, Peter J., "Admiral Boorda's War," New Yorker, 9/16/96, pp. 68-86; Kotz, Nick,Washingtonian Magazine, December 1996; USA Today, 11/25/96; Daily Telegraph (London), 11/26/96; "Bits of metal carry a weighty message." Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/18/96, p. A1.
18. Rabinowitz, Dorothy, "Playing for the airwaves," Wall Street Journal, 6/10/96, p. A16; "Leader from the front: Obituary: Admiral Jeremy Boorda," Guardian, May 18, 1996, p. 32.
19. "Details of top admiral's suicide note disclosed," LA Times, 11/25/96, p. A10. The second note, addressed to Boorda's wife, has never been released. According to Joe Trento, bureau chief of the National Security News Service, one of the notes was "typed and dated" the day before the admiral's death. He interpreted this as evidence Boorda's suicide may have been caused by other issues than the meeting with Newsweek reporters. However, a typed, predated note could also be viewed as a forgery that was part of a murder coverup. See Washington Post, 6/8/96, p. A13.
20. "Navy Report Omits Suicide Notes," NYT, 11/2/96
21. This 6-part Guardian series, critical of U.S. policy in Bosnia, began 1/17/96 and ended 5/21/96.
22. Guardian, 5/18/96
23. "Getting Inside the Enemy's Head," Intelligence Newsletter No. 296, 10/3/96 (published by Indigo Publications of France, http://www.indigo-net.com, and indexed in Lexis-Nexis).
24. Excerpt from New World Vistas: Air and Space Power for the 21st Century, 1996, Ancillary Volume, section on "biological process control": http://www.multistalkerictims.org/mcf/MCF/usafbiol.htm. See also "U.S. Air Force looks to the battlefields of the future," Microwave News, Jan./Feb. 1997, p. 14.
25. http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/"Australian Aide Under Probe Dead in Apparent Suicide", Washington Post, 6/17/99. Transcript of "Caught in the Crossfire": http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s276564.htm
26. Background on the U.S./Australia military alliance can be found in two books by Desmond Ball, A Suitable Piece of Real Estate: American Intelligence in Australia (Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1980) and Richelson, J.T. & Ball, D., The Ties That Bind: Intelligence Cooperation Between UKUSA Countries -- the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (Allen & Unwin, 1985); details about Indonesia's intervention in East Timor can be found in William Blum's Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (Common Courage Press, 1995).
27. Map: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners mervjenkins/map/map.htm
28. Collins, OpenVerdict (Sphere Books, 1990), p. 244.
29. "Demand government explanation of deaths, disappearance," AP, 3/19/87; "Defence Scientists Mystery Deepens," Financial Times (London), 4/3/87.
30. "Open verdict on satellite scientist's car crash," Guardian (London), 4/23/87; "Mystery of the dead scientists: Coincidence or conspiracy?," AP, 2/6/88; "Britain baffled by deaths of 10 scientists involved in security," AP, 4/10/88; "Computer magazine says scientists' deaths don't add up," AP, 4/13/88; "Scientists' deaths 'not a plot'," Daily Telegraph, 2/13/89.
31. Vialls, Joe, Deadly Deception at Port Arthur, 2000: http://www.nutech2000.com.au/prod8.htm ; "The Port Arthur Massacre" (Tasmania): http://www.vialls.homestead.com/ ; "The 'Perfect' CIA Assassination," New Dawn magazine, 1994 special edition: http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/'Perfect'%20CIA%20Assassination.html (see also " 'U.S. involved' in death of WPC at Libyan Embassy, Guardian (London), 4/9/96); "Tesla's Electromagnetic Pyramids," 9/98: http://c3i.homestead.com/omega1.html
32. e.g., "Hidden messages: The use of subliminal texts in music," Financial Times (London), 3/30/95; "Hong Kong academic sues U.S. government for 'mind control,'" Agence France Press, 1/25/96; "Ban microwave and acoustic weapons: Statement by International Committee of the Red Cross," Reuters, 5/30/96; "Communicating with Thought Power" (bionic brain implants), BBC News, 10/15/98; ""And the Voice said..." (Voice-of-God psyops), New Scientist, 12/25/99-1/1/00
33. " 'Non-lethal' weapons: Precipitating a new arms race," Brit. Med. J., Vol. 315 (7/12/97).
34. Butler, Declan, "Advances in neuroscience 'may threaten human rights,'" Nature, 391, 1/22/98, p. 316.
35. STOA report "An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control," is posted at. http://www.uhuh.com/laws/europar3.htm
36. The "Resolution on the Environment, Security and Foreign Policy," #27: http://www.europarl.eu.int/plenary/default_en.htm?redirected=1 (search by date).
37. 1999 Tokyo Declaration: http://www.ndsu.ac.jp/~tokyo99/declartation.htm
38. Wall, Judy, "Military Use of Mind Control Weapons," Nexus magazine (Australia), October/November, 1998.http://www.multistalkerictims.org/mcf/MCF/military.htm.
39. Wall, Judy, "Aerial Mind Control: A Threat to Civil Liberties," Nexus magazine, October/November 1999. http://www.raven1.net/commsolo.htm. See also http://www.sightings.com/politics5/mindcontrols.htm.
40. "High tech psychological warfare arrives in the Middle East," British ITV, 3/23/91:http://www.raven1.net/silsound.htm
41. Wall, op. cit., "Military Use of Mind Control Weapons."
42. Metz, Steven & Kievit, James, The Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War, Strategic Studies Insitute, U.S. Army War College, July 25, 1994. Cited in Babacek, Mojmir, "The Psycho-electronic Threat to Democracy: The Secret Arms Race," http://www.multistalkerictims.org/mcf/MCF/babdoc.htm.
43. http://call.army.mil/fmso/fmsopubs/issues/firewall.htm. See also Bryce, Susan, "21st Century Warriers," New Dawn, #59 (March-April 2000) http://www.newdawnmagazine.com).
44. http://www.multistalkerictims.org/mcf/
45. "Telemetry is coming of age," by Dean C. Jutter, Wen H. Ko, & Thomas M. Spear, extract from Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, March 1983: http://www.raven1.net/telem1.htm.
46. Eleanor White correspondence, August 2000
47. Bowart, W.H. & Sutton, Richard, "The Invisible Third World War": http://www.davidicke.net/emagazine/vol21/research/wwar.html
48. http://www.cheniere.org/misc/interview1991.htm
49. Dr. Byrd's comments were privately communicated by a conference participant who does not want to be named. Contact http://www.psychotronics.org/ to order proceedings of meetings.
50. "Synthetic Telepathy": http://www.logicsouth.com/~lcoble/conspire/syn.txt.
51. Brodeur, Paul, The Zapping of America: Microwaves, Their Deadly Risk, and the Cover-up, Norton, 1977, pp. 295-296; Becker, Robert O. & Selden, Gary, The Body Electric: Electromagmetism and the Foundation of Life, Morrow, 1985, pp. 319. See also Possony, Stefan T., "Psy-War: Soviet Device Experiments," Defense and Foreign Affairs Daily, 6/7/83. Microwave hearing is documented in Lin, J.C., "The Microwave Auditory Phenomenon," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 68, January 1980, pp. 67-73 and "The future battlefield: a blast of gigawatts?, IEEE Spectrum, March 1988, pp. 54.
52. Becker, ibid., Chapter 15 and postscript, pp. 319, 333.
53. "Human Brain Implant Research Suspended at Major University," Albany Times Union, August 25, 1999.
54. Ostrander, Sheila & Schroeder, Lynn, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (1st ed.) (Prentice-Hall, 1970), p. 7. The second edition, with six additional chapters, was published in 1997 by Marlow & Co. See the video "Soviet KGB Paranormal Files," broadcast on the Fox Family cable channel in 1999, for elaboration of Soviet breakthroughs in MC over 50 years.
55. Ostrander, Ibid., p. 387-388.
56. Defense Electronics: http://www.waco93.com/defenseelectronics htm ;Virginia Mind Control: http://www.datafilter.com/mc/new weekNonlethal.html
57. Ostrander, op. cit., pp. 6, 21. The LIDA is patented in the U.S. (#3,773,049). See a partial transcript of a CNN Special Assignment (1985) video on Russian RF weapons: http://multistalkerictims.org/mcf/MCF/cnn-mc.htm. U.S. declassified documents on 1995 Russian TV show about mind control devices: http://www.raven1.net/russ.htm ; Russian Machine That Tranquilizes People: http://www.raven1.net/lida.htm . CAHRA is sponsoring a translation of the 1999 Russian book, Psychotronic War and the Security of Russia by V.N. Lopatin and V.D. Tsygankov: http://www.calweb.com/~welsh/rustrans.htm > .
58. Personal correspondence; see Carol Rutz's Web site: http://www2.dmci.net/users/casey/ . Her book, A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People will be available in 2001. Another recent book by child survivors of the MK-Ultra program is Secret Weapons: Two Sisters' Terrifying Story by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha (with Dale Griffis and Ted Schwarz), 2000.
59. Timelines by Wall ( http://www.raven1.net/jwalltil.htm ) and Welsh ( http://mindjustice.org/timeline.htm) Fact Sheet: http://mindjustice.org/facts t.htm . Bibliography by Robert C. Beck and Eldon A. Byrd: http://www.vxm.com/bib.doc.htm . See also Jason Jeffrey, "Electronic Mind Control: Brain Zapping," New Dawn magazine (Australia), Parts 1 and 2, #59 (April/May 2000) and #60 (May/June 2000): http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/current.ht l .
60. March 30, 2000. http://raven1.net./uncom.htm . White's subject44 index catalogs the latest MC research: http://www.raven1.net/ravsubjx.htm . See http://www.raven1.net/public1.htm for a diagram depicting how an early version of the technology might work.
61. "New Devices that 'talk' to minds need debate, controls." http://www.raven1.net/amrep1.htm.
62. Keeler, Anna, "Remote Mind Control Technology," In Keith, Jim (ed.). Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History, Feral House, 1993. Posted at http://www.spunk.org/library/altern/pub/keith/sp000435.txt; Bolman, Betsy, "The 'Zapping' of Greenham and Seneca," Peace and Freedom, January/February 1989 (monthly publication of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom available at the Swarthmore College library).
63. McKinney's story can be found in The Whistleblowers, edited by Elizabeth Russell Manning and Cheryl Welsh, Greensward Press, P.O. Box 640472, San Francisco, CA 94109 ($30.00). See also http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoi /coldwar/microwave.html and McKinney, "The Classic Mind Control Operation Revealed," http://www.profreedom.free4all.co.uk/classic_mind_control.html/ .
64. Results of White's survey of MC effects are posted at http://www.raven1.net/emresul2.htm. See surveillance devices available for sale in catalogs of Information Unlimited, http://www.amazing1.com/, "and Consumertronics Online Catalog, http://www.tsc-global.com/consumer.html .
65. Update: Applied Digital Solutions, 7/31/00: http://www.digitalangel.net/pr_7_31_00.htm; Cox News Service, 12/27/99: http://www.stockhelp.net/star/html .
66. Update: "Cyborg professor," Straits Times, 7/27/00, http://straightstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/sin16_0727.html ; "New Tech Joins Brains, Computers," Discovery News, 5/25/01, http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010521/flight.htm
67. "Atomic Guinea Pigs," NYT, 8/31/97. p. 38.
68. APA, Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV, Chapter 23, Table 23-2. Psi Tech: http://www.psitech.net/index.htm . See also, Paranormal Management Systems, http://www.fastnet.co.uk/pms/info.html. For a biting critique of the unscientific evolution of this manual, its sexist nature, and the corrupting influence of huge drug companies on the psychiatric profession, see Paula J. Caplan, They Say You're Crazy, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
69. Kilde, op. cit., Endnote #13.
70. "A History of Secret Human Experimentation: http://www.healthnewsnet.com/humanexperiments.html
71. Electrosensitivity: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/gen/sensitiv.htm. Fibromyalgia: http://www.futureone.com/~hunter/fms.htm and http://www.nih/gov/niams/healthinfo/fbrofs.htm
72. Osborne, Lawrence, "Regional Disturbances," NYT, 5/6/01, p. 98.
73. Mougey's story is posted: http://www.multistalkerictims.org/mcf/MCF/mcf1.tm#Mougey .
74. Through-the-wall devices are based on "millimeter wave" technology: http://www.millivision.com .
75. Sherri Sweetman, March 1987. Quoted in Begich, Nick & Manning, Jeane, Angels Don't Play This HAARP, Earthpulse Press, 1995, p. 171-172.
76. Marks, John, The Search for the 'Manchurian Candidate,' Times Books, 1979, p. 212.
77. Bearden, Explore (Vol. 9, No. 4), 1999. http://www.cheniere.org/explore%20articles/mind%20control3/p08.jpg
78. Cherney's Web page: http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/index.html
79. Letter from Joan K. Christensen: http://www.raven1.net/jkchrist.gif
80. U.S. Navy Contract: http://www.raven1.net/aegis.htm
81. Medical study: http://mindjustice.org/tudy_notice.htm
82. Begich, Nick & Roderick, Jim, Earth Rising The Revolution, Earthpulse Press, 1999, pp. 117-133; the DoD/DoJ Memorandum of Understanding signed by Janet Reno and John Deutsch, 4/20/94: http://www.pir.org/foia/mou01.html . See also "Urban guerilla warfare and non-lethal weapons,"Intelligence Newsletter #381, 5/4/00 (in Lexis database).
83. Begich & Manning, op. cit., pp. 175-176.
84. "The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up Spock," Military Review. For histories of NL weapons development, see Aftergood, Steven, "The 'Soft Kill' Fallacy," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 1994 (http://www.bullatomicsci.org/issues/1994/so94/so94Aftergood.html) and two articles by British journalist Armen Victorian: "Background on the Aviary," Nexus Magazine(Australia), 1995. (http://v-j-enterprises.com/nexusavi.html ) and "Non-Lethality: John B. Alexander, The Pentagon's Penguine," MindNet Journal, Vol. 1, No. 86 ( http://www.visitations.com/mindnet/MN186.HTM )
85. Begich, & Roderick, op. cit., p. 117.
86. Begich, & Manning, op. cit., pp. 175-176. It is unclear whether this language is included in the final version.
87. U.S. News & WR: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/ultra1753/usnews.htm . See also "Soon, 'Phasers on Stun'," Newsweek, 2/7/94:http://www.datafilter.com/mc/newsweekNonlethal.html and Bryce, Susan, "Totalitarian Technology: The Truth is Closer Than Fiction," New Dawn, #50 (September-October 1998):http://newdawnmagazine.com.au/ . See also Filterman, Marc, Les Armes de L'Ombre (Black Project Weapons), Editions Carnot, 1999, which covers secret and unknown weapons developed in the last two decades by the U.S., Soviets (Russians) and Europeans.
88. Lee, Martin A. "The Pentagon's people zapper," San Francisco Bay Guardian, 4/2/01. http://www.sfbg.com/reality/22.htm . Add other links.
89. See "Bioeffects of Radiofrequency Radiation" on the Web site of Brooks Air Force Base: http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedr/reports/bioeffects/87-3con.htm.
90. Pound, Edward T., 12/30/99; also ""How decisions and appeals are handled," 12/29/99 and "A few who got through," 12/29/99. http://www.usatoday.com/
91. Horgan, John, "Lying by the Book," Scientific American, October 1992. Posted at http://j_kidd.tripod.com/b/report68.html. Americans for Democratic Action is on record calling for public exposure and reclassification of all SAPs. Its resolution is posted at http://adaction.org/pubs/intact401.html .
92. Bearden, op. cit. Endnote #77
93. http://www.amnix.com/jedmartin/cs001.htm
94. A summary of Seligman's work, with bibliography, can be found athttp://www.uwinnipeg.ca/campus/uwsa/from.htm .
95. See the narratives of alleged MC experimentees:http://mindcontrolforums.com/MCF/victm-hm.htm
96. Psychic Warrior, St. Martin's. Also see "Paranormal ESPionage," an interview with W. Adam Mandelbaum, author of Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex, St. Martin's Press, 2000 in New Dawn magazine, #62 (September-October 2000): http://newdawnmagazine.com.au/ .
97. A "Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement" required of Defense Department contract employees is posted at http://jya.com/scinda.htm .
98. See Uri Dowbenko Interview with Morehouse: "The True Adventures of a Psychic Spy,"Nexus, October/November 1997 (http://www.nexusmagazine.com/psispy2.html )
99. Ibid.
100. Rowlett's article: http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/MKULTRA/MKULTRA.txt
101. Bearden, op. cit., Endnote #77