Microwave Mind Control Potential Admitted to by US Defense Intelligence Agency as Far Back as 1976

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Subject:     1976 Article mentions microwave hearing

The Associated Press: "Mind-Altering Microwaves:
Soviets Studying Invisible Ray"  LOS ANGELES HERALD
EXAMINER, Sec. A. Pg.  ?, 22 November 1976.

 A newly declassified US Defense Intelligence Agency
report says extensive Soviet research into microwaves
might lead to methods of causing disoriented human
behavior, nerve disorders, or even heart attacks.

 "Soviet scientists are fully aware of the biological
effects of low-level microwave radiation which might
have offensive weapons application," says the report,
based on an analysis of experiments conducted in the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

 According to the study, this research work suggests
"the potential for the development of a number of
antipersonnel applications."

 Microwave beams are the electronic basis of radar and
are widely used for relaying long-distance telephone
calls.  Other common sources of microwaves include
television transmitters.

 A copy of the study was provided by the agency to The
Associated Press in response to a request under the
Freedom of Information Act.  The Pentagon agency
refused to release some portions of the study, saying
they remain classified on national security grounds.

 The report made no direct mention of the Soviet
microwave bombardment of the US Embassy in Moscow,
where despite strong American protests, the radiation
continues, though at reduced levels.

 Up to now, the view most widely accepted among State
Department officials in Washington has been that the
Soviets appear to be using the microwave beams to foil
sophisticated US electronic intelligence-gathering
equipment at the embassy.

 The State Department issued an administrative notice
on Nov. 12 declaring Moscow "an unhealthful post", but
no link was officially drawn between this move and the
radiation situation.  Department spokesmen insist that
medical tests have found no adverse health effects
attributable to the microwaves.

 The Soviets have denied beaming any radiation at the
embassy, contending that the microwaves are simply part
of the normal background radiation found in any major
city.

 The Pentagon agency's report, distributed within the
government last March, said that one biological effect
which could offer antipersonnel uses is the phenomenon
known as "microwave hearing".

 "SOUNDS AND POSSIBLE EVEN WORDS WHICH APPEAR TO BE
ORIGINATING INTRACRANIALLY (WITHIN THE HEAD) CAN BE
INDUCED BY SIGNAL MODULATION AT VERY LOW AVERAGE POWER
DENSITIES", THE STUDY SAID.  IT ADDED THAT
"COMBINATIONS OF FREQUENCIES AND OTHER SIGNAL
CHARACTERISTICS TO PRODUCE OTHER NEUROLOGICAL EFFECTS
MAY BE FEASIBLE IN SEVERAL YEARS."

 The report concluded that Soviet research in this area
"has great potential for development into a system for
disorienting or disrupting the behavior patterns of
military or diplomatic personnel.  It could be used
equally as well as an interrogation tool."

 The report said that along with microwave hearing, the
Soviets have also studied various changes in body
chemistry and functioning of the brain resulting from
exposure to microwaves and other frequencies of
electromagnetic radiation.

 "One physiological effect which has been demonstrated
in heart seizure," the report said.

 It said that this has been accomplished experimentally
in frogs by synchronizing the pulses of a microwave
signal with the animal's heartbeat and the beaming the
radiation at the chest area.

 The document added that "a frequency probably could be
found which would provide sufficient penetration of the
chest wall of humans to accomplish the same effect" --
heart attacks.

 The report said that another potential antipersonnel
use of microwaves could be based on their effect on the
blood brain barrier, which regulates the exchange of
vital substances between brain cells and the
circulatory system.

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