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Excerpted from: 

Such Things Are Known

New York: Vantage Press Inc., 1982

By Dorothy Burdick.

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Chapter 10

   Recently, through TV and the news media, there has been an
effort toward making parapsychology respectable. A university in
Great Britain gives a Ph.D in the subject. The CIA has a program
of "disinformation" which may be a convenient cover for
scientists working on programs which seem to the uninformed to
border on the occult, such as bioplasma research and Kirlian
photography. Children are being trained to see auras when
exposed to a box containing electrodes. As the voltage increases
they see auras not generally visible to less sensitive adults.
The auras can be photographed using Kirlian photography. Kirlian
photography reveals electrochemiluminesence which surrounds all
living matter. It is named for the Russian electrical engineer,
Seymon Kirlian, who passed his hand through a high energy, high
frequency electromagnetic field and saw an aura around it.
Kirlian produced the first high energy cameras that could
photograph these auras. British biologist, Harvey Oldfield, has
produced a radio device that displays the phenomena on a screen.
British researchers are reported to be using high energy, high
frequency beam of radio signals to monitor organic diseases.
Hearts respond with radio signals in harmonic resonance which are
picked up by the Kirlian "gun" and displayed on an oscilloscope
screen. This instrumentation transposed to space could read
vital signs at a distance. The U.S. government had information
on this process in 1950 and released it to the CIA, Rand, the Air
Force and other government agencies.
   The CIA has advertised for people in psychological services
and they are known to do other things besides prepare statistics.
The combination of psychology, the basis for brainwashing, and
human behavior modification, known as conditioning, and electric
shock has long been a treatment for experimental animals and the
mentally ill humans.
   Various branches of the U.S. government are spending million
of dollars to finance Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. (MRU). The
goal of this corporation is mind control. MRU has done 
investigations of high frequency Kirlian effect photography, 
thought-controlled devices and psycho-kinetic switches. This is 
the device which permits a pilot to fire a missile by simply 
thinking "fire." Computers can be linked to the brain to 
recognize electrical patterns in the cortex word for word.
   MRU has a brochure describing its interests in the fields of
biophysics including "Geo-pathic Efforts on Living Organisms"
which are attempts to induce illness by changing the magnetic
nature of animal magnetic field geography. Another MRU field of
interest is behavioral science which includes the analysis and
measurement of human subjective states by computer analyzed EEGs
and biofeedback. MRU's pioneering use of computer analyzed EEG
probably led to CIA-sponsored Brain Research Labs at San Diego
Hospital, Columbia, Stanford and New York Universities.
   MRU has investigated the computer analysis of psychophysical
recordings including data obtained from EKG, EEG, GSR (galvanic
skin response) and the plethysmography used to measure blood
volume changes in the capillaries of fingers. These measurements
would be supplemented with a recently developed apparatus for
measuring electric field radiations from living bodies (System
Research Lab- oratories of Dayton, Ohio, patent No. 3,555,529 12
January 71).
   MRU facilities are located in seven states. In Mountain View
of Los Altos, California, MRU scientists have tested
psychoacoustical transmitters that produce sound patterns termed
"infra and ultrasonic" that interact with brain cells and erase
information. Studies have been done to develop software systems
to record and evaluate biological effects of special
environmental factors on plants, animals and humans.
   Extensive studies have been conducted in sleep research of
human unconscious behavior patterns whit sensors to determine the
effects of external phenomena on dreams. Interesting features of
this research are the use of electromagnetic recordings of EEGs,
ultra-violet and infra-red sensors, precise weight analysis, and
the correlation of these technical factors with electromagnetic
field, moon and planetary positions, and barometric changes.
   C.G. Jung connected depth psychology  with theoretical physics
and the natural sciences. An examination of what he and others
have had to say about synchronicity leads the scientifically
trained mind to the conclusion that synchronicity is a trickster.
 The clown theme appears in the folklore of many cultures and is
generally connected to a belief in the occult or supernatural
forces.
   UFO activity, analyzed by computer, seems to be some kind of
scheduled reinforcement. If it is scheduled reinforcement who is
causing it? Such reinforcement may have been the purpose of the
odd aircraft activity which I observed or it may have been to
make me sure that humans only were involved. Most likely they
were relay stations which have to get close enough to read the
electromagnetic field given off by the human brain and body.
When the CIA says that they cannot read Russian minds, it may be
because they can't get near enough to do so. UFOs may act as
relay stations getting close enough to position the subject, read
signals and transmit them.
   Left to himself, an individual may truly be said to be free
except for his early childhood conditioning, and the values of
his own which he has developed through trial and error which
either negatively or positively reinforce his beliefs and
behavior. Panic or emotionally upsetting conflicts can be evoked
by stimulating conflicting drives. Under ordinary conditions,
when two drives are unequal, the stronger suppresses the weaker.
The manipulation of living creatures becomes possible when the
means exists to activate and combine two different drives or
cause confusion. Ordinary stimuli might be music and alcohol, and
the added artificially-induced drive might be sexual stimulation
with high frequency microwave energy. The automobile and the home
can be invaded with messages from phone or satellite. Traffic
control by aircraft is common. Why not mind control or directed
thinking?
   Laser-projected Voices tell me, "You are doing what you want
to do," but I am never free of their broadcast stimuli which I
can feel, and microwave or ultrasonic frequencies of which I may
be totally unaware. I cannot be sure that I am not really in pain
due to natural causes. I only feel unaccountable changes in mood
such a depression, euphoria or relief.
   As long as I was unaware of what was going on, I could delude
myself that my spontaneous activity was the result of the
continual shifting and interplay of forces and ideas in my
central nervous system. When I became aware that my environment
was partially controlled, there were a whole new set of variables
with which to cope. For me the price has been a complete turn-off
of sexual fantasy affecting my sex life, and heightened,
unpleasant nervous tension. I cannot pray, dream or aspire
privately. There is no escape from the mundane, continuously
present flat line of con- trolled or directed thinking. It gives
me present and unpleasant, nightmarish, repellent, at times
falsely seductive, intimate, existentialist quality. One is
traveling mentally from nowhere to nowhere. You exist in a
funnyhouse world with distorting mirrors. The reflections are
partly real, partly exaggerated and partly transitional. My
greatest strength has been a sense of humor and proportion. To
fall below the flat line of directed thinking results in
depression.
   The physical pain which can be inflicted, and the depression
evoked are the greatest strengths of the operators at the other
end of the beam. I cannot quite imagine how they measure the 
distortion they cause except from a reading of verbal thought,
spoken words and unusual physical actions. At the very least they
can immobilize or neutralize to the point of death through the
inhibition of natural physical processes, the use of pain, and
disruption of mental activity. The amount of mental activity
blocked by depression is hard to gage. Since the process began I
have not often had a free choice about what I wanted to think and
even when I did, I was aware that someone was reading my thoughts
either directly through computer printout or indirectly at a
later time and doing programmed bugging. In any case, the human
urge to think, dream, love and create have been frustrated.
   One of the beauties of the situation for the perpetrators is
that the victim has no records, tapes or pictures except those
subjectively stored, written or spoken. The subject is in a
classical neurotic, no-win situation. There are few dates, people
or facts to report. Only a limited number of people in 
electronics, and our Federal government, can fit the fragments of
circumstantial evidence together. Those who monitor equipment,
simply monitor equipment. The blips, numbers, tapes and film
clips that might result, are too removed from the flesh and
blood, and transmitted over too great a distance to have any
emotional meaning for the operators. They may not even know what
they are transmitting. The only individuals to whom the object
might be at all human would be a psychological behavioral
results.
   If my premises are true, the United States government is 
involved in a program to control behavior through biophysics and
electrochemical control. In July 1977, The New York Times
reported a fourteen-year program by the CIA intelligence services
to control human behavior with drugs, electric shock, radiation,
ultrasonics, psychology and psychosurgery. As reported in Time,
August 17, 1977, Admiral Stanfield Turner, testifying on CIA
activity said that there had been no drug testing since 1973. He
did not say that the use of ultrasonics, microwave and
electrochemical energy had been discontinued. It never will be
because it is the technology of both now and the future.
   It is encouraging that there were difficulties finding 
psychiatrists to conduct experiments for the CIA. One memorandum
reported that a particular psychiatrist might not care to
corporate in certain more "revolutionary" phases of the project.
Another psychiatrist was described as having no ethical
compunctions about being completely cooperative in the program
regardless of how bizarre it might be.
   The CIA investigated bioplasma fields or weak electromagnetic
fields surrounding both human and inanimate objects and monitored
the bioplasma fields of agents, according to The New York Times.
I am inclined to think that they were training agents in
receiving laser messages and trying out the reading of unspoken
thoughts formulated into words mentally. They also worked with
trained seals and otters in the well-researched field of
ultrasonics. Humans hear in a range of 15-20,000 cycles per
second of hertz. Any frequency higher than this is ultrasonic,
and cannot be consciously perceived.
   Newspaper accounts based on actual occurrences or unethical
experiments show a procession of unpalatable events exposed due
to the persistence of individuals in freedom-loving
organizations. Attempts have been made to present human
experiments in a favorable light. Our scientific journals are
replete with limited, but existing tales of experiments in which
the individual was too incompetent due to mental capacity or
age to protest being used as a human guinea pig. The fact is that
there are people in this country who have been subjected to
experimentation both willingly and inadvertently.
   In 1950, Army reports show that a cloud of bacteria was
sprayed over the San Francisco Bay area resulting in cases of
pneumonia. In 1956, the CIA and the Army sprayed an unknown
substance in New York City streets and the Holland and Lincoln
Tunnels as part of their MK-Ultra program. Between 1949 and 1969,
a period of twenty years, test were carried out with simulated
bacteriological substances in the United States, Alaska and
Hawaii. These are facts, not fiction involving Dr. Strangelove.
   Under the Freedom of Information Act, a Church of Scientology
group uncovered documents released by the CIA which showed that
someone in this agency signed out a specimen of whooping-cough
bacteria, Hemophilus pertussis, from the Army's biological
warfare center in Fort Deterick, Maryland, on January 26, 1955
for testing. Florida state medical records show that the
whooping cough outbreak killed twelve persons in the mid-1950's.
The whooping cough bacteria was used in tests in Tampa Bay and
near Sebring, Florida. Records show that whooping cough cases
jumped in 1954 from 339 with one death, to 1080 and twelve deaths
in 1955, an increase of over two hundred percent. Tampa Bay was
one of the three places that showed a sharp increase. The CIA now
says that most of its chemical and biological files were
destroyed in 1973 by order of Director Richard Helms.
   In December, 1980, the wife of a member of the Canadian
Parliament and four other Canadians sued the U.S. government for
five million dollars in U.S. District Court charging that a
Montreal psychiatrist conducted CIA-financed brainwashing 
experiments on them between 1957 and 1963. During this time they 
were given LSD and massive electroshock treatments to wipe out 
past behavior patterns. (The government track record on LSD is 
well known through the publicized suicide of a U.S. government
scientist and the ensuing, successful suit of his family twenty
years later.) The Canadians were subjected to continuously
played tape messages to induce new brain patterns. The plaintiffs
contended that their mental health remains impaired as a result.
   During Project Dork, the Army released a powerful
hallucinogenic drug, BZ, ten to one hundred times more potent
than LSD, in clouds during tests in Utah in 1964. Between 1960
and 1969, 362 people were involved. The tests were supposed to
prove that enemy soldiers could be incapacitated by inducing
delirium. The effects were measured at a distance of a thousand
yards. The volunteer subjects experienced an increase in heart
rate and blood pressure, increased blood flow or flushing, dry
mouth and loss of appetite, hyperactive peristaltic sounds,
weakness or tightness in legs, persistent blurred vision and
urinary frequency. Except for the visual difficulties, the other
symptoms were at least found to be reversible with adequate
physostigmine treatment. Three dozen individuals who underwent
the tests still complain of aftereffects including the birth of
abnormal children who are mentally deficient. The volunteers
themselves suffer memory lapses, hallucinations and, not
surprisingly, emotional problems.
   Federal snoops have used one-way mirrors to investigate and
record sexual activity in San Francisco. Both the FBI and the CIA
have been used in covering up and disseminating false
information.
   Functions of the FBI or the local police who are responsible
for protecting all Federal installations have been performed by
the CIA, a violation of their CIA charter and resulting in
actions against American citizens. CIA directors have always worn
two hats as heads of the intelligence community and as heads of
their own agency. The supra-directorship of the American
Intelligence Community was enhanced by President Ford on paper
when he made the CIA Director overall head of the intelligence
community. At that time the Director would tell the Secretary of
Defense what to do with his intelligence agencies. Military
intelligence, including the Defense Intelligence Agency, the
National Security Agency and the intelligence arms of the three
services have more than five times as many people, and more than
ten times the budget of the CIA and State Department intelligence
service combined.
   You should not delude yourself that Cabinet Officers appointed
by the President have any real power. Commenting on his official
title as Assistant Secretary for Defense for Public Affairs,
Thomas B. Ross said, "I'm in charge of 300-plus people inside the
building (Pentagon) and 3000 public information people worldwide
and a budget of $50 million, yet I can fire exactly two people,
my civilian deputy and my secretary." What we get for $50
million is debatable.
   The CIA's Science and Technology Directorate's annual budget
was one hundred million dollars per year. The Directorate of
Science and Technology of the CIA includes the Office of
Electronics, the Office of Special Projects and the Office of
Computer Services. Overruns are funded largely by the Air Force
which underwrites the national overhead reconnaissance effort for
the entire U.S. intelligence community. The projected FY 81
budget included a research and development figure for the
Department of Defense of $16.565 billion, forty-six percent of
the total national Research and Development budget. Obviously
with this kind of funding, many universities and industrial
scientists work for the Department of Defense. Many of our
officer cadre have Ph.D.'s. They represent a
technological-military elite and work with the university, 
industry and think tank personnel, many of them who have security
clearance and are not allowed to talk to you or me. Our armed
services have sufficient money and instrumentation for national
defense, and unlimited snooping, at home and abroad.
   Several hundred satellites in space give us most of our 
early-warning detection of an enemy attack. Much of our 
communications intercept capabilities, our ability to intercept 
exotic new radars in space are also relayed by satellite. A 
hundred percent of our ability to predict the weather is now in 
space. Most of our ability to navigate submarines and ships and 
aircraft will soon be based there. Theoretically the satellites 
make it almost impossible for secret war preparations and thus 
keep the peace. This lack of privacy between nations extends to 
individuals.
   The U.S. has more than a dozen satellites watching the Soviet
activities, taking high resolution pictures, collecting 
communications signals and penetrating darkness and camouflage
sensing heat and color variations. A world-wide network of
antennae eavesdrops on Russian communications ranging from
telephone calls to sensitive military radio messages. Giant
radars follow test flights of missiles and photograph reentry
vehicles as they land in the Pacific or on the Kamchatka
Peninsula.
   It has become difficult to know weather national defense is a
defense or an offense. The National Reconnaissance Office, one of
our country's most expensive and sensitive intelligence 
organizations is likely to be reviewed by the Reagan 
administration. NRO is known as a black organization; that is, 
none of its work is subject to public scrutiny.
   Despite a program lasting many years, U.S. intelligence 
complains that the Soviet Union might be ahead technologically 
and that the Soviets already have land-based laser capable of
shooting down low-orbiting U.S. spy satellites. They fear that if
the Soviets get their projected 11-ton space station aloft that
they could put such a weapon in space.
   As a result of this the Defense Department awarded a $58.7
million contract for its own ASAT program to Vought Corporation
of Dallas. The U.S. plan was not to use anything so crude as
radar or infra-red, but to put into space hunter-killer
satellites by the mid-1980s armed with lasers that could vaporize
metal in twenty billionths of a second.
   Navstar Global Positioning Systems (GPS) will tell anyone who
tunes in exactly where he is anywhere in the world. It has been
speculated that GPS can eventually be used on anything that
floats, flies, runs, walks, crawls, or slithers. This is a method
which could be used now by any intelligence agency to bug an
individual. 
   Another method of person-to-person communications through
space without any intervening wires became possible when Elliot
Gruenberg at IBM came up with a retro-directive oscillating loop
for communications instead of a conventional transmitter
receiver. Called Synapz and manufactured by Broad-Com, Inc. of
Cos Cob, Connecticut, its electronic mirrors in the form of
antennas send a microwave signal back where it came from and
leads to two-way TV without cable. Retro-directive arrays across
the country would use atmospheric electronic noise to maintain a
radio link with each other and to send messages from any point in
the system to any other. Such a system, fixed on a human MEG
could account for automatic feedback, plus visualization of any
kind. Engineers reviewing Synapz for NASA say that it appears
promising, and claim that even the experts are not entirely sure
how it works. It was demonstrated to the Department of Defense
and is to be used as a space link and alternative to the
technology proposed by the Bell System to expand use of mobile
telephone service nationwide. Somebody evidently understands
very well how it works.
   At one time radiotelescopes and optical telescopes were not
the same thing. Now we have optical interferometers using laser
which combine listening and optical ability, plus lenses that see
any wave length of the electromagnetic spectrum including
infrared for night vision and smog, gamma rays, ultra-violet,
etc.
   Honeywell advertises their manufacture of everything form
thermographic (meaning heat sensitive) body scanners to optical
interferometers. The use of halogen compounds which have broad
transmission capabilities for all types of things from satellite
weather monitoring to infrared night-vision systems through
laser-assisted nuclear fusion for the conversion of energy.
Honeywell's research is partially funded by the Department of
Energy and the Department of Defense. Honeywell advertises that
their scientists worked with both university and commercial
instrumentation experts to develop a holographic and shearing
interferometer system. They say that combined with their
previously developed video digitization/fringe analysis system
this new interferometer provides a unique system for non-contact
optical evaluation.
   Using an electronically powered radiotelescope you have a
machine optimized to detect extremely weak signals. Recently
GEODSS (ground based electro-optical deep space surveillance) was
completed two years ahead of schedule. GEODSS uses three
powerful, miniaturized telescopes to scan the skies. The images
they convey are focused onto sensitive photoimaging tubes rather
than film. Using an outgrowth of military night-vision devices,
these tubes convert the faintest flickers of light into
electronic impulses fed into computers. GEODSS photographs
rapidly several electronic snapshots. Moving objects between
exposures are recorder by computer. Images that remain the same
are erased. The information can be relayed by microwave and
satellite to NORAD's master computers. GEODSS is an optical
digital computer using laser, not integrated circuits to carry
and process signals. It preforms in microseconds tasks that
occupied photogrammetricians for hours, and can spot a soccer
ball 25,000 miles up.
   Magnetic observations by the Stanford Solar Observatory can
detect magnetic intensities to a few hundredths of a gauss. The
MEG (magnetoencephalogram) which records the magnetic field
surrounding the human head is measured in gauss. It is not to
hard to imagine that somewhere there exists a holographic
interferometer specially developed to read the magnetic waves of
the human brain at a distance.
   Since 1973, the Advanced Research Project Agency of the
Defense Department has utilized the combined efforts of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, the
University of California at Los Angeles and the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center at
Moffett Field in California to read minds at a distance by
deciphering the brain's magnetic waves. The Pentagon denied the
project was secret although a reporter was ousted from a meeting
on the subject by someone identified as a member of the CIA.
   The MEG (magnetoencephalogram) is many times more sensitive
than EEG (electroencephalogram). MEG was originally reported in
1968. A computer search of the current literature reveals little
published on MEG because it is undoubtedly classified in ARPA's
(Advanced Research Projects Agency) computer network. ARPA
controls and funds a computer network, ARPANET, which connects
various educational and research institutions across the country.
In 1972, twenty-seven institutions were joined by leased lines
capable of handling data at a rate of fifty kilobits a second.
   Searching for help and information, I approached an
acquaintance who unknown to me had been a former member of RAND
and a designer of ARPANET. He represented to me that ARPANET was
a benign activity. He even has a computer terminal in his house
connected to it. ARPA research information is stored in this
"locked computer" and unavailable. Access to "Host" computers
is controlled by an IMP (interface message processor). ARPANET is
also linked to NORSAR (Norwegian Seismic Array) and SDAC (Seismic
Data Analysis Center) in Alexandria, Virginia. A satellite link
transmits NORSTAR real-time data to SDAC. There it is combined
and correlated with data from other non-secret global arrays to
achieve a composite picture and made available to selected
ARPANET users including the NSA (National Security Agency) with
whom it maintains a direct link. Somehow "benign" is not a word I
would use to describe the activity of this computer network.
   All graduations of feeling and action of which we are capable
are provided by variations in the frequency of nerve impulses and
by the number of nerve cells stimulated. The brain signal is even
simpler than Morse code because it uses only dots. All
information can be translated by the number of dots, and the
manner in which they are grouped. Communications engineers call
this system pulse frequency modulation. The cerebral cortex is a
resonator that encodes frequencies. To convert measurable brain
signals or nerve signals to digital code for computer is
extremely easy.
   The computer can recognize approximately sixty-four phonemes
into which the English language has been divided. It is
reasonable to deduce that the computer is capable of recognizing
the patterns these phonemes produced in any human brain.
   Unlike the EEG, the MEG records signals primarily from a small
area of the cortex free of the smearing effects of bone. This
helps scientists pinpoint the source of electrical signals from
the brain and to study the activities of the cortex. The MEG
reads only the magnetic fields produced by nerve fibers close to
the skull which are in the cortex. Any difference between EEG and
MEG signals mean that the source is deep in the brain and not
cortical in nature. Both are necessary for the interpretation of
thought and action of the human being. The MEG provides a map of
the sensory homunculus or Broadmann's cortical areas through
which the human anatomy can be targeted. All parts of the face,
hands, legs, foot, trunk, shoulder, mouth and intra-abdominal
area can be stimulated by electrical contact with the cortex. 
   Under ordinary conditions nobody around you is able to hear or
understand your thoughts, but unbeknownst to you, every action,
thought, and emotion, can result in the driving of the muscles
involved in vocalization. The nerve impulses that activate them
produce paths of electric potentials in the brain and muscles.
The nerve impulse or electric potential is a miniature
electrochemical explosion that travels along outside the nerve
fiber as a vortex ring of negative ions.
   The Departments of Neurometrics at Stanford and New York
University have brought the EEG to a new degree of sophistication
by using computers to remove artifacts such as sixty cycle hum,
and eye and body movements to compute the wave shape of the AER
(average evoked response) to a particular stimulus.
   Brain waves of volunteers have been analyzed as they look at
photographs and are presented with true or false questions. The
computer attempts to determine in the volunteer recognizes a
specific photograph or is thinking true or false. Researchers
claim they can determine when a volunteer recognizes another face
by analyzing that volunteer's brainwaves.
   At Stanford scientists are attempting to reverse this process
and are attempting to transmit thoughts and instructions by
playing previously recorded brain waves; thus, "You are
programming yourself." The human brain and eye are also being
studied with computers so that photographic process can be
understood. "We are seeing through your eyes."

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   The difficulties involved in reading these microwaves became
surmountable with the deployment of SQUID (super conducting
quantum interference device) which uses niobium coils in liquid
helium. It is a circuit capable of measuring minute quantities of
magnetic field or flux, quantum by quantum. It makes possible the
measurement of the smallest magnetic fields. With modern
electronic techniques, environmental magnetic noise is almost
completely eliminated. By using a holographic interferometer
(acoustic telescope) optimized to detect weak signals it would be
possible to read the microwave print of any human brain, since
brain prints are as distinctive as fingerprints. Each individual
has his own characteristic pattern of shifts in frequency and
size. Thus brainwaves of one individual can be distinguished from
those of another.
   Electronic devices use ultrasonic waves to store and recognize
electronic signals for use at a later time, perform operations
that usually requires a computer, and separate one signal from
another. They also amplify weak electrical signals using
ultrasonic waves. It is possible to do things with acoustic
surface waves that are difficult to do with simple electronic
components, i.e. recognize a signal of known form. Laser is so
sensitive that it can actually "hear" and record the electrical
potentials or nerves as they are transmitted. 
   The interdigital transducer converts the electrical signal
into an acoustic surface wave and reconverts the acoustic wave
back into an electrical signal. Acoustic surface wave devices can
be made precisely and uniformly by photolithographic reproduction
techniques and are programmable. Such a device recognizes any
desired code or signal from among other digital codes even in the
presence of considerable "noise" responding strongly to the
programmed signal and weakly to all others. This kind of device
is used in radar technology enabling air-traffic controllers to
accurately pick out the unique identification signal of each
aircraft as it comes within range.
   Another silicon chip, IOSA (integrated optic spectrum
analyzer) uses surface acoustic waves to convert processed radar
signals into sound waves. The sound waves interact with light
from a tiny solid state laser and cause the beam to bend toward a
detector array made of charge couple devices. This amount of
deflection indicates the frequency of the radar signal. This
device is part of a telemetry or remote measuring system which
involves picking up signals, transmitting them to a distant
location for conversation into displays, recordings or
comparisons with other data. Automated reaction to information
received directly or indirectly may be programmed.
   Wave analyzers deal with the complex oscillations of the brain
in somewhat the same way that a prism separates the colors of a
beam of light. The components of this complex wave are isolated
by electronic circuits tuned to several frequencies. A
statistical average can be determined from many readings. From
this information, the versatility of the brain under
investigation can be assessed, as well as its repertoire of
adaptive strategems.
   If mind reading is to take place, this technique must be
applied to all parts of the brain at once involving many
analyzers. Problems for researchers used to be found in the fact
that frequency analysis of tactics might come too late to be of
immediate value. In the past, frequency analysis did not give
information on how rapidly changing signals from different parts
of the brain related, or which of suggested meanings would be the
correct choice. Now, via computer, all this can be instantly
known.
   Suppose it is true, as some officials insist, that the MEG
cannot really be read at a distance. What would make one believe
that one's mind was read? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been
developing over a period of at least twenty years. Many scientist
have been engaged in making it seem that the computer can think.
At a 1980 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Robert Wilensky of the University of California at
Berkeley was asked if his program, PAM, had intelligence. PAM
incorporates a sense of how people analyze and reason.
   Does the computer augment human intelligence instead of 
interpreting and repeating it? To do this the computer must deal 
with a massive volume of data and requires selectivity or the 
ability to decide what is or is not relevant. To the group of 
programmers at the meeting, the human brain is theoretically 
existent proof against computers. Perhaps they do not talk to 
bioengineers.
   The Cray, a large computer, has twenty to one hundred times
the capacity of the smaller ones. It is different from machines
that simply keep track of facts. It is specially designed for
problem solving and can carry out biomedical experiments with the
computer simulating the human effects. The Cray does one hundred
million calculations a second. The human brain can only process
five thousand bits of information per second. What kind of match
for the Cray would you be?
   The computer works by using an acoustic processor to sample
the wave patterns of the speaker's voice at least 20,000 times a
second. The information in the sample is digitized. A thousand
samples are collected at a time and put through the procedure
called discrete Fourier transform which involves adding, 
subtracting and integrating waveforms to produce a useful 
synthesis of the information over time. This yields 
characteristic patterns known as spectral time samples, one 
hundred of them every second. The computer compares these with 
prototypes stored in the processor's memory. The processor 
classifies the time samples according to the sounds of the 
original word. As the acoustic processor puts them out, a 
linguistic decoder matches the sound patterns to the most 
probable sentence pattern they seem to fit.
   Current "injection logic" circuits, (Josephson junctions)
operate at temperatures so low that metal loses resistance to
electric current. The less resistance, the faster the current
flows and the faster the computer works. Invented by Tushar
Gheewals at IBM, the circuits operate in as little as 13 
picoseconds, or trillionth of a second. Roughly, a picosecond 
is to a second what a second is to thirty years. This is about 
the same as the speed of light.
   Suppose you are observed over a long enough period of time for
analysis of your thoughts, speech, prejudices, view-points,
sexual peculiarities, and likes or dislikes of both people and
things. What kinds of words would make you happy or unhappy if
they were programmed by an artificial intelligence expert with
the help of a psychologist or psychiatrist? "Bizarre," you say.
"Possible," I say, psychological analysis has been a hobby for a
long time.
   Let's take it a little further, and let's assume the computer
program is out to make you as uncomfortable as possible in the
privacy of your own home or anyplace else. "Really, impossible,"
you say. Stop and think a while. It takes a little getting used
to. There will be many things in your life that upset you or make
you unhappy. You may have expressed yourself aloud to close
friends in person or on the phone. You may have blown your stack
at work or been talked about. In our society the walls literally
have ears. Anything that vibrates can be read at a distance, even
your vocal cords. Assume that for some reason you come to the
attention of someone in security, either national or
international. You could do this very easily by making an
overseas phone call or a trip, or you could have a relative who
is involved with someone in whom the U.S. government is
interested.
   Originally, when harassment began, I wondered if the
repetition of my thoughts were bounced back by a tape recorder.
Later I realized that only a fast computer could transmit them
back, and that no human could read back so quickly over space.
Human comment, however, might be inserted by an observer reading
some kind of visual display if he was close enough.
   Properly programmed, the Cray can project to you in any voice
selection on the basis of the structure of your sentenced
thought, which will reach it before you have really formulated
it, and select either a suitable programmed answer or read back
to you what you have been thinking. Thus, you may really be
programming yourself. It may even seem to anticipate your
answers. 
   What I am saying is that you have to transform the thoughts in
your mind verbally but silently. Although they are unspoken, the
muscles that drive speech formulate the words in advance, and can
form an electric potential track in your brain that can be read
at a distance by telemetry. Each nerve impulse causes a sound 
imperceptible to the human ear which can be picked up by laser.
   A trained observer or observers can insert speech if they read
what you are about to think or say. There is a lag time between
the formation of the words in your brain and the formed thought
which gives the computer time to read part or all, or guess to a
fair degree of accuracy what you think and return an appropriate
or inappropriate answer depending upon how you feel about it. At
times they may even seem funny. Your electric potentials will
always anticipate you a little.
   The feeling that your mind is being read can be produced by a
thought being verbally introduced at a subliminal level. At that
threshold you are not aware that it is presented, but because
your brain resonates, the thought is received and you become
"conscious" of it. It is designed to be intense enough to
influence the mental processes of behavior of the individual. It
literally "crosses your mind." Next, at a higher sound level a
Voice repeats the thought you just received without knowing it,
thus consciously producing the sensation of mind-reading in the
receiver. You think, "they must be reading my mind!" What they
are really doing is presenting an acceptable idea in your
phraseology that you are most likely to be thinking while you 
are involved in a particular kind of activity.
   Subliminal aural suggestion presented in a manner typical of
your habits of thought and speech is hard for the receiver to
distinguish from the original thought -- original in that it
really started in the mind of the receiver and wasn't suggested
to him. Just how hard is it to differentiate between the two,
the original idea and the suggested idea, is hard to estimate.
You really have to be paying strict attention to yourself and
what you are doing. You still might not be certain, because the
presented idea might by typical of your mind set so that you
could accept or go along with it. Should the idea just "pop" 
into your head and not be part of a train thought you might be
suspicious. Unfortunately, with this kind of thing, an idea can
be "slipped" in. If it seems logical or fits your mood or mode of
thought, you would not question it. Often it would not matter
but while using machinery, driving a car, or piloting a plane it
could become fatal.
   Suppose you forget something and suddenly were reminded at a
subliminal level. You could not be sure that you yourself 
remembered or whether it was called to your attention by an 
outside mind keeping track of your activity. You could be 
writing something and thinking as you wrote and suddenly write 
the wrong word. On rereading you would realize that as you wrote 
it, it was "introduced." You might misdial a phone number and not 
be sure whether you made a natural mistake or that one that was
inflicted at a subliminal level.
   When you finally realize what is really going on you are
certainly going to be upset, at the very least. High verbals are
natural prey for this kind of situation especially if they can be
observed. They express themselves well, often aloud in writing.
Their thought patterns and methods of arriving at conclusions or
solutions, their modi operandi, can be predicted if they are 
observed over time.
   It is extremely debilitating, nightmarish situation to be in.
For instance, during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep when you are
dreaming, ideas are verbally suggested to you at a subliminal
level thus controlling or influencing your dream content. With a
combination of subliminal, aural presentation of ideas plus the
introduction or infliction of bizarre physical effects, real
hallucinatory images and effects could be produced. The more
emotionally upset you are, the more effective this kind of
psychological technique is likely to be.
   We used to worry about just being observed in our homes. In
George Orwell's 1984, every home had a watching monitor. It is
now only 1981. The monitor has been around since the fifties in
one form or another. The ultimate in mind control has become
possible. We have the technology, the psychological techniques
and the people willing to use them. It is not preventable at
present. Fortunately we still have time to protect ourselves
from government experimentation if we are aware of it because
only the U.S. government has the technology, manpower and
material to mount such an effort.
   Once you are a victim you become aware of the possibility of
suggestions to people you meet casually, your friends, relatives
your immediate family. There is no one who cannot be reached in
this way. You are never absolutely positive that what they say or
do is suggested, but you may have strong suspicions when
something they do seems atypical or out of context or something
you have been forced to listen to before involuntarily.
   In the future we may all have to go around wearing some
protective device on our heads to prevent our resonating
cortexes from receiving unwanted messages. My brother's
suggestion of putting a bucket over my head was not too far off.
The only problem with his suggestion was that a bucket is not
sophisticated enough.
   You know your cortical signals are read because you receive
obnoxious stimuli to various parts of your anatomy through the
electrical stimulation of the cortical layer or your brain. The
cortex has been mapped and stimulation of the proper section of
cortex will make you salivate, sneeze or jump with muscle spasm,
twitch or jerk. This sounds like a grade B movie, but the script
is programmed by the U.S. intelligence service with your tax
money.
   Cray II was in the works in early 1979, and the prediction was
that it would do 500 million calculations a second, not just 100
million. A third, even faster computer, was taking shape in
Seymour Cray's mind beyond this. At Livermore's fusion computer
center a scientist said, "There's no machine that Seymour Cray
can conceive that would be too fast for us." When it comes
through his bedroom door some night he may change his mind.
Perhaps with his security clearance he won't have to worry, and
will be able to ask it to leave, with the people who are
operating it.
   Now, I know from talking to others that you are going to say,
"But it would take an awful lot of money and manpower to mount
such an effort. Who would be interested in you, or me or anyone?"
The other very human reaction is "Who would be so mean that they
would do such a thing to you?"
   Both of these arguments ignore the facts. We have unlimited
material and manpower on duty twenty-four hours a day. The second
response about mean people is the most naive. Read the newspapers
about what we still do to our Blacks, the reactions of Blacks and
Chicanos to unresponsive government, or the treatment of women by
the military when they have the temerity to enlist. You can still
read about WW II concentration camp victims and operators.
Current European court cases are testimony forty years later to
just how "mean" man can be.
   You should not be optimistic about civil liberties in an age
when you are carefully examined by the Department of Education,
the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service,
the Department of Motor Vehicles, labor unions, medical insurance
companies, credit companies, banks, employers, and all these
facts are carefully stored in some computer to be regurgitated
either by accident, or on purpose, when you least expect it and
for the flimsiest of excuses. Add to this money from the LEAA
(Law Enforcement Assistance Administration) for the police
enforcement, intelligence and so-called crime fighting, and you
will find that it is only a short step from your police
department to your bedroom if some nosy Nellie of either sex
decides to make life hot for you. Our society isn't open, it is
wide open. If anything else is to be done about harassment and
the preservation of privacy, then people must be made aware of
what is possible now, incredible though the facts may seem.
   Among acknowledged gadgets are a police crowd control device
consisting of a high frequency sound generator which produces
about twenty-five to thirty-five hertz coupled to a high
efficiency tweeter and some concentrating baffles. This machine
is something like a bull horn. The beam produces severe nausea,
pain, the desire to urinate and defecate, but more especially to
get out of range. There is no reason why these symptoms cannot be
produced from space.
   In the home sonic cushions that contain transducers which emit
low frequency musical vibrations directly into the body of the
person sitting against them are becoming familiar. The cushion
has a separate power amplifier that hooks to any music system.
Recently a popular magazine suggested that sitting upon such a
cushion produced pleasurable sexual sensations. Teddy bears
similarly equipped are used to lull babies to sleep.
   Hearing aids are available which fit the eyeglass frames to
send vibrating waves through the bone structure at the back of
the ear so that the deaf may hear. This hearing aid is the result
of miniaturization involving an ultra-small microphone and
amplifier. It contains transducers that transmit vibrations
directly into the body of the person in contact with it. The
whole device fits into the stem of the eyeglass frame.
   Such microminiaturization in which a microscope has to be used
to etch or photograph a circuit on a silicon chip is relatively
easy for the layperson to grasp. Not so easy is micromeasurement
and sensing. One type of light sensor or photosensitive matrix is
a composite of 10,000 minute silicon light sensors on a chip
about a quarter of an inch square. Reflected light is focused
onto the matrix. The result pattern of lighted and unlighted
sensors is fed into circuitry for conversion into measurements of
area, height, width, etc., which in turn are converted into a
seven digit code. Field effect transistors calibrate to
infinitesimal accuracy. Small built-in computers convert data
into an audio signal or print. Recorded data can then be
transmitted over ordinary telephone lines to a computer bank.
Some TVs are equipped with a decoder to convert sound to print
for the deaf.
   Much of the technology that we are now using has been under
development over a long period of time. The prototype of the
modern mindreader was developed in 1947 and called the Toposcope.
It was similar to twenty-two small television or radar sets.
   Research on the human brain has been made possible by some of
the newer machines. The Sono Chromoscope is currently being
evaluated at the National Institutes of Health to identify tumors
and abnormalities. Cheaper than X-ray, it is absolutely safe and
permits continuous recording of tissue at work. Computer 
technology converts one kind of signal into another to produce 
an accurate diagnostic color picture of the human interior. High
frequency sonar is transmitted in blue, while low frequency may
be a red dot.
   NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) tomography can map the
progress of chemicals injected into the brain. The Gamma Ray
camera, consisting of 254 scintillation detectors, each
collimated to scan approximately one square centimeter of brain
cortex is connected to a small digital computer. This, in turn,
is connected to TV where the blood flow level is shown in
specific colors indicating what areas of the brain are active.
   The whole body can be placed in a magnetic field of 450 gauss
exciting body atoms with radio waves. Subsequent measurement of
the intensity of the waves emitted over time gives information
about the chemical composition of the subject's tissues. The time
it takes for the atoms to "relax" after radio wave bombardment
gives some indication of the cell's general nature. NMR employs
no ionizing radiation and therefore seems safer that conventional
techniques like x-ray.
   The PETT (position electron tracking tomogram) tracks 
radioactive chemicals and forms a computerized image, providing 
the first direct glimpse of the brain at work, plus a more 
superior estimate of its condition than CAT (computer assisted
tomography). The computer reconstructs abstract measurements
into images played out in color on a TV screen. PETT scan can be
photographed or videotaped while an individual is walking,
talking, reading or thinking.
   FOCUS (flexible optical control unit simulator) projects
hallucinatory images directly on the retina of the eye. When the
images are projected the subjects show the same bodily responses
that they would by taking a drug. The subjects cannot tell the
machine images from reality. FOCUS was developed at UCLA's 
Neuropsychiatric Institute by Ron Siegel, an experimental
psychologist, who eventually hopes to control retrieval of
imagery information at will including that of daydreams, sleep
and hallucinations.
   There is a common wiring and a correspondence of chemical and
electrical properties in the human brain. Fever, delirium,
epilepsy, syphilis, photostimulation, sensory deprivation,
extreme hunger, cold, thirst, crystal gazing, swinging in the
witch's cradle, hypoglycemia and a variety of drug intoxications
make the brain respond in patterns that are definable,
predictable and explainable in terms of where they come from and
how they were produced. This universal experience is probably
what Jung meant by the collective unconscious and typified by
symbols like the mandala. 
   Body functions tend to synchronize around stimuli that match
them in frequency. Baselines from normal individuals have been
established through measurements with the EEG 
(electroencephalogram). The EEG shows brain waves in both 
periodic and pulse mode. At normal frequencies, eight to twelve 
alpha waves occur per second. Breathing, heart rate and the 
rhythm of alpha waves can be controlled to some extent both by 
the individual himself and the external stimuli such as lights 
and microwaves.
   Radio-scientist Anthony Fraser-Smith has shown that the third
rail of San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit and Washington
D.C.'s Metro expose people up to 160 kilometers away to
broadcasts of ultra-low frequency radiation from ten hertz to
.001 hertz. Studies have shown that human reaction time
increases at 0.2 hertz. These frequencies make people feel
drowsy and produce changes in their blood.
   With this in mind it is easier to comprehend that brain
control by electronic stimulation is possible in much the same
way that a heart pacer is used to regulate the heart beat. Both
seen and unseen, heard and unheard wave frequencies can affect
the brain and nervous system.
   Some researchers show that theta waves predominate when an
individual is involved in memory storage and learning. They also
seem to occur in times of reverie, annoyance or anxiety. Animals
which retain training best, show the highest levels of theta
waves during training. Ross Adey, however, has shown that he can
increase the rate of learning and memory retention in primates
and cats by using a frequency range similar to the alpha and beta
waves of the brain.
   During hypnotism, synchronization of breathing, heartbeat and
alpha waves takes about ten minutes in a willing subject, and is
associated with feelings of well-being. A simple gadget like a
hypnotism wheel with a special strobe pattern produces a falling
illusion and produces a so-called trance states. These can also
be produced by sound waves. Frequency rates of these biological
signals are reduced during a trance-inducing procedure. As the
mind becomes fixed it becomes more susceptible to suggestion.
Relaxation, resting and sleep are also helpful in inducing a
hypnotic trance. While hypnosis can be a helpful technique, it is
also part of mind control.
   Other brain waves have individual, identifiable frequencies.
Beta, delta and theta brain waves can be separated in any brain
reading because they all have different frequencies. Recently an
N400 wave has been identified, so named because it occurs 400
milliseconds after a sentence had been heard in which there is a
high level of expectancy about its completion, and this
expectancy is violated. The P300 wave occurs in response to a
sudden alarm or flashing light and occurs 300 milliseconds after
the stimulus. A P300 wave comes not from the cortex, but from the
limbic system where feelings originate and occurs only as an
emotional response.
   It is my belief that all these brain waves or electrical
signals can be read at a distance, and that the human brain can
be both a resonating transmitter and receiver. Further I am
saying that I am being harassed by unknown parties with whom I
have been in constant contact for about three years consciously,
and I am not sure how long before that, while base lines of
various kinds were being established.
   I have chosen a time in our national history to protest that
the National Security Agency is undoubtedly experimenting with
some of its more exotic toys on an unsuspecting civilian
population, when we are in the process of giving back to the CIA
and similar agencies some of the powers that had temporarily
been taken away from them due to Watergate. Our Congress is in
disarray, revealed by the FBI to be both gullible and venal. Our
country's petrochemical supply is being threatened by
communist, and in the mist of all this, I come up with the idea
that civil liberties and individual privacy are at stake in ways
that seem inconceivable. Even in the best of times I would have
difficulty getting a hearing for this kind of story.
   Our present electronic laws are constructed to prosecute after
the fact. There seems to be no successful method of proving
harassment with this type of technology because there is no hard
evidence. One of the reasons that it is impossible at present to
prove that no one will admit publicly that the possibility
exists. Despite the fact that William Colby mentions it on a TV
show and that a newspaper reporter was thrown out of a meeting in
which well known Ph.D.s from UCLA, MIT, NYU, NASA and ARPA was
specifically discussing a machine to read minds from a distance
by deciphering the brain's magnetic waves and the specific goal
of which is to exercise control over the brain, nobody will admit
that it can be done. The so-called experts have their jobs and
families to protect. Security agency employees are bound by
secrecy oaths as are many academicians. The professors say,
"That's an area outside my expertise." Paul said, "I am not into
lasers." Very few people have the kind of education necessary to
understand the innate possibilities and dangers of current
technology.
   Anonymous phone calls are something for which we are beginning
to find a cure. Anonymous broadcasts are something else, 
especially if only one person can hear. This is possible via 
laser. It is so precise that a whole new body of measurement is 
mandatory and possible. 
   Your most private and intimate bodily routines become forced
performances and are commented on as they unfold. Your mentally
verbalized fantasies become public property. You can be
questioned at the subliminal level and started on a whole new
train of thought. Thus the inserter of the question would have a
very good clue as to what you were thinking about. You could also
be made to change or modify your course of action, in other words
"your mind."
   The worst element in all this is subliminal suggestion with
its inherent capability of conditioning and direct thinking, and
through this control or direction of individual behavior both now
and in the future. Young and unformed minds are going to be most
susceptible. The emotionally upset and unstable will be next.
Americans need education and information to defend against this
kind of technocracy. Most of all they need to be told the truth.
   I can keep silent and avoid embarrassment, ridicule and 
disbelief. A policeman told me to ignore it. A security man told 
me that my life could be made hell on earth. The main inventor, 
a physicist, told me it was impossible. The whole thing may be
simply a combination of laser communication and AI, which I
doubt. Regardless of what it is, all Americans can be reached
anywhere at anytime doing anything without attachments and wires.
Communications have come at least that far.
   Currently on planet Earth stone-age man and spaceman coexist.
We have been coming out of an ancient jungle and have stumbled
into a technological battle zone. What man imagines he will
develop and continue to develop.
   Although you cannot see them, only sense them, the largest
unseen monsters are unchanged. They are ignorance, fear and
superstition. The biggest question for our time is: How do we
best adapt to this recent step in communications, and at the same
time preserve the values we cherish?