## Harlan Girard

## Human Subjects Testimony

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Testimony before the Human Subjects Subcommittee
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Washington DC October 19, 1997

Published by International Committee
for the Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons,
P.O. Box 58700, Philadelphia, PA 19102-8700

Copyright C Harlan Girard, 1997

See also Harlan Girard's documents in Archives

> Girard: I'd rather stand up. Is this mike working up here? Hello... Good...Good...It helps me relax, to stand up.

> In l982, an obscure (government) office (called the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future) published a study called "Future Agenda". The theory of the obscure Chairman of the obscure Clearinghouse was that Congress is always running around putting out fires and that the Clearinghouse on the Future should take a look at the future by polling all the Subcommittees in the House of Representatives and asking them what would be burning issues before their Subcommittee in their area of oversight "ten" years in the future. Just a ten year horizon.

> Now, in two places in that report, "Future Agenda", the words 'offensive microwave weapons' are used, and in one place the word 'offensive microwave weapons' is linked with the words 'and mind-control mechanisms'. Now, I've never seen the words offensive microwave weapons used in any other governbment report. We've never had the discussion of offensive microwave weapons which should have occuered by l992. They're out there. They're in Special Access Programs. They've been used on women's groups like the Greenham Common Women (and) The Women's Encampment for a Future Peace and Justice at Seneca Army Depot in New York. They've been used on a women's group I've been told, (I have no first hand knowledge of it) at the Pantex Facility, down in Amarillo, Texas I believe.

> I'm essentially here to talk about mind-control mechanisms. Because of my interest in the technology, I am contacted from time to time (by) people who believe they are being assaulted with microwave weapons by the government. Someone at the last meeting suggested there ought to be an 800 number for people to call who become victims of human experi- mentation that they don't like. It seemed like a simple-minded idea but sometimes the most simple ideas are the soundest. I am doing the government's work for it. I am doing your work for you bedcause I am accepting and interviewing and listening for hours upon hours to people to try to separate out the cases that are credible from the cases that are people who want to be victims of government research. And paranoids, there are a few.

> Now, I want to tell you why I use the word offensive microwave weapons as the title of my Committee..because that obscure Chairman of the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future is now the Vice President of the United States, Albert Gore, Jr. So we know at the highest level of government, people are aware of mind-control mechanisms and offensive microwave weapons.

> Now, I want to point out that we have an unblemished history of human experimentation now dating sixty-five years without relief. From my research I'd say that if there (are) any gaps in that record they may have occurred when William Colby was Director of Central Intelligence. But, in general, the record is intact. Sixty-five years of crimes against humanity which hve gone unpunished and, for the most part, unacknowledged. Unremarked upon, certainly.

> I want to tell you, you'll be happy to know, the government is no longer experimenting on the poor and vulnerable. I's now experimenting on nice middle-class people like yourselves. Psychologists, engineers, social workers, Black, White, Asian; Christian, Jews, Buddhists - it's an equal opportunity killer. (The one glaring exception, which requires a lot more thought, is that of the more than a hundred cases that I find credible, there aren't any homosexuals in what I call the Electronic Concentration Camp System). There's a regular profile: single, lives alone, weak family support. Highly verbal people, very intelligent people, preferably diarists, because the idea of experimenting on involuntary human subjects is to get feedback. You can't get feedback out of a monkey. And these people have no known political connections. They've never been dissidents. They've never marched against the government, but they are all in the Camp anyhow.

> I'd be happy to come back. The last time I spoke in public I had overhead transparencies. I have government documents. It took me about ninety-two minutes to finish what I had to say. Allowing five minutes to talk about a problem afflicting, a matter in which probably thousands of Americans have died already, this Electronic...it's called biological process control 1 . It's so pervasive that it's no longer considered mind-control. I've brought along for you an Air Force essay in which biological process control is characterized as science fiction. Something to come. I can only tell you that all the symptoms, all the effets that are noted as hypothetical and possible in the future have been reported to me now since l990, when I began to get calls and appeals for help.

> Childress: Youi're past your five minutes. If you make a couple of concluding sentences...And we would welcome your materials. I can't imagine our having ninety minutes for sessions but we'd welcome the materials to be submitted to us and we would circulate to all the members, not only in our subcommittee, who are here right now, but also the whole National Bioethics Advisory Commission.

> Girard: Yes, certainly I'll conclude. I don't have any confessions by Vice President Gore or anyone else who's been in on the inside of these experiments. I only have documents which I can string together with some comments and remarks.

> I just wanted to tell you that aside from the 800 number, the one thing that people come to me for, more than any other, aside from "How do I stop this, how do I mitigate the effects of these electronics?" is legal counsel. Everyone feels that there is some legal way to end this, and all the attorneys I have spoken with say electromagnetic radiation leaves no legal evidence. You have no legal basis. We can file a case, (but) it will be thrown out in discovery. And although there are many humanitarian groups in Washington, even (the) National Lawyer Guild, there is no one, despite the history of the subject, that will take on anyone claiming that they've been victimized in a mind-control experiment.

> Thank you. Thank you.

> 1. The technology used in the protracted extra-judicial killing of persons held prisoner in the Electronic Concentration Camp System is called biological process control. [return to text reference]