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    Military Use of Mind Control Weapons

    Judy Wall 1998

    PSY-OPS WEAPONRY USED IN THE PERSIAN GULF WAR

    See also another article on this site.

    For years, rumours have persisted that the United States Department
    of Defense has been engaged in research and development of
    ultra-sophisticated mind- altering technology. Confirmation of this
    came to me recently in the form of two ITV News Bureau Ltd (London)
    wire service bulletins.[1]

    The March 23, 1991 newsbrief, "High-Tech Psychological Warfare
    Arrives in the Middle East", describes a US Psychological
    Operations (PsyOps) tactic directed against Iraqi troops in Kuwait
    during Operation Desert Storm. The manoeuvre consisted of a system
    in which subliminal mind-altering technology was carried on
    standard radiofrequency broadcasts. The March 26, 1991 newsbrief
    states that among the standard military planning groups in the
    centre of US war planning operations at Riyadh was "an unbelievable
    and highly classified PsyOps program utilising 'silent sound'
    techniques".

    The opportunity to use this method occurred when Saddam Hussein's
    military command-and-control system was destroyed. The Iraqi troops
    were then forced to use commercial FM radio stations to carry
    encoded commands, which were broadcast on the 100 MHz frequency.
    The US PsyOps team set up its own portable FM transmitter,
    utilising the same frequency, in the deserted city of Al Khafji.
    This US transmitter overpowered the local Iraqi station. Along with
    patriotic and religious music, PsyOps transmitted "vague, confusing
    and contradictory military orders and information".

    Subliminally, a much more powerful technology was at work: a
    sophisticated electronic system to 'speak' directly to the mind of
    the listener, to alter and entrain his brainwaves, to manipulate
    his brain's electroencephalograph ic (EEG) patterns and
    artificially implant negative emotional states-feelings of fear,
    anxiety, despair and hopelessness. This subliminal system doesn't
    just tell a person to feel an emotion, it makes them feel it; it
    implants that emotion in their minds.[2]

    I noticed that the ITV wire service was from outside the United
    States.  Readers of Resonance may recall that in the
    Electromagnetic Weapons Timeline in issue no. 29, reference is made
    to the documentary video, Waco: The Big Lie Continues, which
    contained video footage of three EM weapons. This segment of the
    film was from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). I
    wondered if there was any significance to this.

    At the library I pulled up back issues of my local newspaper for
    the same time-period of the Gulf War to see what the American wire
    services had said, if anything, about the use of this special
    PsyOps weapon. There was nothing said about it directly, but three
    news articles seemed related. In a news release from Associated
    Press during the same timeframe of the Gulf War truce, I read:

    "The American pilot who shot down the second Iraqi warplane in 48
    hours said Friday that continued Iraqi flights suggested that US
    warnings were not filtering down to Iraqi pilots… He said he hopes
    Saddam gets the message now.  'It's really too bad that these
    people have to die for their unwillingness to heed our warnings...
    What I really think is, they don't communicate down to the people,'
    he said. 'If they have a communications problem, I suggest they fix
    it.'"[3]

    That may have been coincidence but two earlier news articles, dated
    March 1, 1991, apparently have a common origin with the ITV news
    bulletin. The first article[4] tells us that approximately 100
    members of the US 101st Airborne Division, fluent in Arabic, talked
    the enemy into surrendering. These soldiers rode in the Apache
    helicopter gunships that were involved in the longest
    helicopter-borne assault in history. They told the Iraqi troops
    that they would be slaughtered if they didn't give up.

    "They got the point," one soldier is quoted as saying.

    This all sounds very unremarkable, except when you read the
    editor's note: "The following dispatch was subject to US military
    censorship." Now why would they want to censor such a mundane
    tactic, except out of embarrassment that the US Army fighting
    forces had fallen to the level of a cheer-leading squad?
    ... in which case they would have nixed the thing entirely.

    But upon re-reading the article, we may pick out certain key
    phrases (emphasised in italics):

    "He [the soldier interviewed] was one of dozens of Arabic speakers
    that played a key role in the allied ground attack against Iraq,
    and part of an attempt by the US Army to use finesse, intelligence
    work and tactics to complement brute strength."

    If we fill in the missing blanks with such descriptions as "the
    megaphone was used to direct psychoacoustic frequencies that
    engaged the neural networks of the enemy's brain, causing him to
    think any thought and feel any emotion that the Americans chose to
    lay on him", then it starts to make sense. And it would no longer
    seem so surprising that one soldier could talk 450 enemy soldiers
    into surrendering. The possibilities are there, and, as the next
    article[5] documents, that is exactly what happened. Iraqi troops
    gave up en masse.

    We quote: "They were surrendering in droves, almost too fast for us
    to keep up with..."; "...two Iraqi majors, both brigade commanders,
    who gave up their entire units..."; and "...one of them gave up to
    an RPV [remotely piloted vehicle). Here's this guy with his hands
    up, turning in a circle to give himself up to a model airplane with
    a camera in it."

    Irrational? Not if there was also a voice being beamed into his
    head from that little flying toy, saying, "Give up, give up!"
    Otherwise, how do we account for the editor's note at the beginning
    of the article: "The following is based on pool dispatches that
    were subject to military censorship." Without that note, we could
    smugly think that the Iraqi soldiers were cowards or crazy, but why
    censor that idea?

    MIND CONTROL WITH SILENT SOUNDS

    The mind-altering mechanism is based on a subliminal carrier
    technology: the Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), sometimes
    called "S-quad" or "Squad". It was developed by Dr Oliver Lowery of
    Norcross, Georgia, and is described in US Patent #5,159,703,
    "Silent Subliminal Presentation System", dated October 27, 1992.
    The abstract for the patent reads:

    "A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the
    very low or very high audio-frequency range or in the adjacent
    ultrasonic frequency spectrum are amplitude- or frequency-modulated
    with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or
    vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the
    use of loudspeakers, earphones, or piezoelectric transducers. The
    modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may
    be conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic, or
    optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the
    listener."

    According to literature by Silent Sounds, Inc., it is now possible,
    using supercomputers, to analyse human emotional EEG patterns and
    replicate them, then store these "emotion signature clusters" on
    another computer and, at will, "silently induce and change the
    emotional state in a human being".

    Silent Sounds, Inc. states that it is interested only in positive
    emotions, but the military is not so limited. That this is a US
    Department of Defense project is obvious.

    Edward Tilton, President of Silent Sounds, Inc., says this about
    S-quad in a letter dated December 13, 1996:

    "All schematics, however, have been classified by the US Government
    and we are not allowed to reveal the exact details... ... we make
    tapes and CDs for the German Government, even the former Soviet
    Union countries! All with the permission of the US State
    Department, of course... The system was used throughout Operation
    Desert Storm (Iraq) quite successfully."

    The graphic illustration, "Induced Alpha to Theta Biofeedback
    Cluster Movement", which accompanies the literature, is labelled
    #AB 116-394-95 UNCLASSIFIED" and is an output from "the world's
    most versatile and most sensitive electroencephalograph (EEG)
    machine". It has a gain capability of 200,000, as compared to other
    EEG machines in use which have gain capability of approximately
    50,000. It is software-driven by the "fastest of computers" using a
    noisenulling technology similar to that used by nuclear submarines
    for detecting small objects underwater at extreme range.[6]

    The purpose of all this high technology is to plot and display a
    moving cluster of periodic brainwave signals. The illustration
    shows an EEG display from a single individual, taken of left and
    right hemispheres simultaneously.  Ile readout from the two sides
    of the brain appear to be quite different, but in fact are the same
    (discounting normal leftright brain variations).

    CLONING THE EMOTIONS

    By using these computer-enhanced EEGs, scientists can identify and
    isolate the brain's low-amplitude "emotion signature clusters",
    synthesise them and store them on another computer. In other words,
    by studying the subtle characteristic brainwave patterns that occur
    when a subject experiences a particular emotion, scientists have
    been able to identify the concomitant brainwave pattern and can now
    duplicate it. "These clusters are then placed on the Silent
    Sound[TM] carrier frequencies and will silently trigger the
    occurrence of the same basic emotion in another human being!"

    SYSTEM DELIVERY AND APPLICATIONS

    There is a lot more involved here than a simple subliminal sound
    system. There are numerous patented technologies which can be
    piggybacked individually or collectively onto a carrier frequency
    to elicit all kinds of effects.

    There appear to be two methods of delivery with the system. One is
    direct microwave induction into the brain of the subject, limited
    to short-range operations. The other, as described above, utilises
    ordinary radio and television carrier frequencies.

    Far from necessarily being used as a weapon against a person, the
    system does have limitless positive applications. However, the fact
    that the sounds are subliminal makes them virtually undetectable
    and possibly dangerous to the general public.

    In more conventional use, the Silent Sounds Subliminal System might
    utilise voice commands, e.g., as an adjunct to security systems.
    Beneath the musical broadcast that you hear in stores and shopping
    malls may be a hidden message which exhorts against shoplifting.
    And while voice commands alone are powerful, when the subliminal
    presentation system carries cloned emotional signatures, the result
    is overwhelming.

    Free-market uses for this technology are the common self-help
    tapes; positive affirmation, relaxation and meditation tapes; as
    well as methods to increase learning capabilities.

    In a medical context, these systems can be used to great advantage
    to treat psychiatric and psychosomatic problems. As a system for
    remediating the profoundly deaf, it is unequalled. (Promises,
    promises. This is the most common positive use touted for this
    technology over the past 30 years. But the deaf are still deaf, and
    the military now has a weapon to use on unsuspecting people with
    perfectly normal hearing.)

    OFFICIAL DENIALS

    In fact, the US Government has denied or refused to comment on
    mindaltering weapons for years. Only last year, US News & World
    Report ran an article titled "Wonder Weapons"basically a review of
    the new so-called 'non-lethal' or 'less-than -lethal' weapons.' Not
    one word about S-quad, although the technology had been used six
    years earlier!

    Excerpts from the article read:

    "Says Charles Bernard, a former Navy weapons-research director: 'I
    have yet to see one of these ray-gun things that actually works…";
    and

    DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has come to us
    every few years to see if there are ways to incapacitate the
    central nervous system remotely,' Dr F. Terry Hambrecht, head of
    the Neural Prostheses Program at NIH, told US News, 'but nothing
    has ever come of if,' he said. 'That is too science-fiction and
    far-fetched."'

    It may sound "science fiction and far-fetched" but it is not.
    However, that is just what the powers-that-be want you to believe,
    so as to leave them alone in their relentless pursuit of...what?

    The idea behind non-lethal weapons is to incapacitate the enemy
    without actually killing them, or, in the case of riot control or
    hostage situations, to disable the participants without permanent
    injury, preferably without their knowing it. The electromagnetic
    mind-altering technologies would all fall into this class of
    weapons, but since they are all officially non-existent, who is to
    decide when and where they will be used?

    And why should selected companies in the entertainment industry
    reportedly be allowed access to this technology when the very fact
    of its existence is denied to the general public?

    As recently as last month [February], this stonewall approach of
    total denial or silence on the subject still held fast, even toward
    committees of the US Congress!

    - The Joint Economics Committee, chaired by Jim Saxton (R-NJ),
    convened on February 25, 1998 for the "Hearing on Radio Frequency
    Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy".
    Invited testimony included statements by several authorities from
    the military:

    - Dr Alan Kehs, of the US Army Laboratories, discussed the overall
    RF threat.

    - Mr James O'Bryon, Deputy Director of Operational Testing and
    Director of live fire testing for the Office of Secretary of
    Defense at the Pentagon, discussed the role of Live Fire Testing
    and how it plays a role in testing military equipment with RF
    weapons.

    - Mr David Schriner, Principal Engineer of Directed Energy Studies
    with Electronic Warfare Associates and recently retired as an
    engineer with a naval weapons testing facility, talked about the
    difficulty in building an RF weapon and about the terrorist threat.

    - Dr Ira Merritt, Chief of Concepts Identification and Applications
    Analysis Division, Advanced Technology Directorate, Missile Defense
    and Space Technology Center, Huntsville, Alabama, discussed the
    proliferation of RF weapons primarily from the former Soviet Union.

    Although these statements gave information of technical interest,
    they are perhaps more important for the information they did not
    give: information on the existence of radiofrequency weapons that
    directly affect the human brain and nervous system.

    KGB PSYCHOTRONICS

    This technology did not spring up overnight. It has a long history
    of development and denials of development-by the US Government and
    probably half of the other governments of the world as well.

    We know that the former Soviet Union was actively engaged in this
    type of research. In a previous article we reported that during the
    1970s the Soviet KGB developed a Psychotronic Influence System
    (PIS) that was used to turn soldiers into programmable 'human
    weapons'. The system employed a combination of highfrequency
    radiowaves and hypnosis. The PIS project was begun in response to a
    similar training scheme launched in the US by President Carter,
    according to Yuri Malin, former security adviser to USSR President
    Gorbachev.[8]

    In my Electromagnetic Weapons Timeline[9] I covered a period of 60
    years of interest and development in EM weapons—information
    gathered from the many articles and news clippings sent in by
    readers of Resonance. In my article on synthetic telepathy[10] I
    traced the development of the 'voice in your head' technology
    dating back to 1961, all my references coming from the open
    scientific literature.

    POWER OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

    Jan Wiesemann has written an apt description of the situation which
    now exists in the United States, about the 'forces that be' and how
    the situation came about:

    "During the Cold War the United States not only engaged in a
    relatively open nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, but also
    engaged in a secret race developing unconventional weapons. As the
    intelligence agencies (which prior to the Second World War had
    merely played a supporting role within the government) continued to
    increase their power, so did the funds spent on developing
    techniques designed to outsmart each other.

    "And as the US intelligence community began to grow, a secret
    culture sprang about which enabled the intelligence players to
    implement the various developed techniques to cleverly circumvent
    the democratic processes and institutions...

    "Like many other democracies, the US Government is made up of two
    basic parts the elected constituency, i.e., the various governors,
    judges, congressmen and the President; and the unelected
    bureaucracies, as represented by the numerous federal agencies.

    "In a well-balanced and correctly functioning democracy, the
    elected part of the government is in charge of its unelected
    bureaucratic part, giving the people a real voice in the agenda set
    by their government.

    "While a significant part of the US Government no doubt follows
    this democratic principle, a considerable portion of the US
    Government operates in complete secrecy and follows its own
    unaccountable agenda which, unacknowledged, very often is quite
    different from the public agenda. "[11]

    Jan goes on to quote one of the United States' most popular war
    heroes: Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served as Supreme Commander of
    Allied Forces during World War II and was later elected 34th
    President of the United States. In his farewell address to the
    nation in 1961, President Eisenhower said:

    "...we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry
    of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men
    and women are directly engaged in the defence establishment. We
    annually spend on military security more than the net income of all
    United States corporations.

    "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large
    arms industry is new in the American experience. The total
    influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every
    city, every state house, every office of the federal government. We
    recognise the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not
    fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and
    livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our
    society.

    "In the councils of government, we must guard against the
    acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
    by the military -industrial complex. The potential for the
    disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must
    never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or
    our democratic processes."

    INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS OVER NEW WEAPONS

    The United Nations was established in 1945 with the aim of "saving
    succeeding generations from the scourge of war". In 1975 the
    General Assembly considered a draft first proposed by .the Soviet
    Union: "Prohibition of the Development and Manufacture of New Types
    of Weapons of Mass Destruction and New Systems of Such Weapons".

    In 1979 the Soviet Union added a list of some types of potential
    weapons of mass destruction:

    1) Radiological weapons (using radioactive materials) which could
    produce harmful effects similar to those of a nuclear explosion;

    2) Particle beam weapons, based on charged or neutral particles, to
    affect biological targets;

    3) Infrasonic acoustic radiation weapons;

    4) Electromagnetic weapons operating at certain radio-frequency
    radiations which could have injurious effects on human organs.[12]

    In response, the US and other Western nations stalled. They gave a
    long, convoluted reason, but the result was the same.

    In an article entitled "Non-Lethal Weapons May Violate
    Treaties",[13] the author notes that the Certain Conventional
    Weapons Convention[14] covers many of the non-conventional
    weapons—"those that utilize infrasound or electromagnetic energy
    (including lasers, microwave or radiofrequency radiation, or
    visible light pulsed at brainwave frequency) for their effects".

    Harlan Girard, Managing Director of the International Committee
    Against Offensive Microwave Weapons, told me he believes the
    strategy behind the government's recent push for less-than-lethal
    weapons is a subterfuge. The ones that are now getting all the
    publicity are put up for scrutiny to get the public's approval. The
    electromagnetic mind-altering technologies are not mentioned, but
    would be brought in later under the umbrella of less-than- lethal
    weapons.

    These weapons were recently transferred from the Department of
    Defense over to the Department of Justice. Why? Because there are
    several international treaties that specifically limit or exclude
    weapons of this nature from being used in international warfare.

    In other words, weapons that are barred from use against our
    country's worst enemies (notwithstanding the fact that the US did
    use this weapon against Iraqi troops!) can now be used against our
    own citizens by the local police departments against such groups as
    peaceful protestors of US nuclear policies.

    TOWARDS GLOBAL MIND CONTROL

    The secrecy involved in the development of the electromagnetic
    mind-altering technology reflects the tremendous power that is
    inherent in it. To put it bluntly, whoever controls this technology
    can control the minds of men-all men.

    There is evidence that the US Government has plans to extend the
    range of this technology to envelop all peoples, all countries.
    This can be accomplished, is being accomplished, by utilising the
    nearly completed HAARP project[15,16] for overseas areas and the
    GWEN network now in place in the US. The US Government denies all
    this.

    Dr Michael Persinger is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
    at Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada. You have met him before
    in the pages of Resonance where we reported on his findings that
    strong electromagnetic fields can affect a person's brain.

    "Temporal lobe stimulation," he said, "can evoke the feeling of a
    presence, disorientation, and perceptual irregularities. It can
    activate images stored in the subject's memory, including
    nightmares and monsters that are normally suppressed."[17]

    Dr Persinger wrote an article a few years ago, titled "On the
    Possibility of Directly Accessing Every Human Brain by
    Electromagnetic Induction of Fundamental Algorithms".[18] The
    abstract reads:

    "Contemporary neuroscience suggests the existence of fundamental
    algorithms by which all sensory transduction is translated into an
    intrinsic, brain-specific code. Direct stimulation of these codes
    within the human temporal or limbic cortices by applied
    electromagnetic patterns may require energy levels which are within
    the range of both geomagnetic activity and contemporary
    communication networks. A process which is coupled to the narrow
    band of brain temperature could allow all normal human brains to
    be. affected by a subharmonic whose frequency range at about 10 Hz
    would only vary by 0. 1 Hz."

    He concludes the article with this:

    "Within the last two decades a potential has emerged which was
    improbable, but which is now marginally feasible. This potential is
    the technical capability to influence directly the major portion of
    the approximately six billion brains of the human species, without
    mediation through classical sensory modalities, by generating
    neural information within a physical medium within which all
    members of the species are immersed.

    "The historical emergence of such possibilities, which have ranged
    from gunpowder to atomic fission, have resulted in major changes in
    the social evolution that occurred inordinately quickly after the
    implementation.  Reduction of the risk of the inappropriate
    application of these technologies requires the continued and open
    discussion of their realistic feasibility and implications within
    the scientific and public domain."

    It doesn't get any plainer than that. And we do not have open
    discussion because the US Government has totally denied the
    existence of this technology.

    Acknowledgements

    I would like to give special thanks to: Jan Wiesemann for sending
    the Silent Sounds[TM] statement and patents which were the keystone
    of this article; Mike Coyle, whose computer search turned up many
    more related patents; Harlan Girard, who has provided numerous
    official government documents; and to the many who have provided
    newsclippings and articles, moral and financial support to
    Resonance, without which we'd have ceased publication long ago.

    About the Author:

    Judy Wall is Editor and Publisher of Resonance, the Newsletter of
    the Bioelectromagnetics Special Interest Group.  pp.11--13,15-16