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## Timeline: Electromagnetic Weapons
by Judy Wall, Editor, Resonance Newsletter

Electromagnetic (EM) weapons are of recent invention. They utilize the various frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum to disable or kill the target.

Today a new type of weapon is being touted, the "non-lethal" weapon. The idea behind this is to spare human life without actually losing the war. These weapons are also earmarked for use in civil disorders in which the goal is simply crowd control rather than annihilation. Some EM weapons fall in this category. However, even though these weapons are labelled "non-lethal" does not mean that they are not harmful, or cannot be lethal under certain conditions.

Paul Bartch mentioned in his letter "Non-Hertzian Waves ...", written in 1992, that there was nothing mentioned in the report on non-lethal weapons about the Low Frequency EM weapons. Small wonder. The government has been keeping these weapons to itself in top secrecy classification. Only recently have they been brought into the public spotlight.

The following is an overview of the development of electromagnetic research as relevant to weapons, as best we are able to put together, considering the cloak of secrecy that surrounds these weapons.

### ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS TIMELINE

    1934 "A method for Remote Control of Electrical Stimulation of the
    Nervous System", a monograph by Drs. E. L. Chaffee and R. U. Light

    1934 Experiments in Distant Influence, book by Soviet
    Professor Leonid L. Vasiliev

    Vasiliev also wrote an article, "Critical Evaluation of the Hypogenic
    Method" concerning the work of Dr. I. F. Tomashevsky on experiments in
    remote control of the brain.

    1945 After World War II, the Allies discovered the Japanese had been
    been developing a "death ray" utilizing very short radio waves focussed
    into a high power beam.  Tests were done on animals.  The Japanese denied
    ever testing it on humans.  (From the Strategic Bombing Survey,
    Imperial War Museum, London.  Cited with photocopies in "Japanese Death
    Ray", by Peter Lewis, Resonance #11, pp 5-9)

    1950 The French conducted research on infrasonic weapons.  (From
    "The Road From Armageddon", by Peter Lewis, Resonance #13,
    pp 9-14)

    1953 John C. Lilly, when asked by the director of the National
    Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to brief the Central Intelligence
    Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security
    Agency (NSA), and the various military intelligence services on his work
    using electrodes to stimulate directly the pleasure and pain centers in
    the brain, refused.

    He said, "Dr. Antione Redmond, using our techniques in Paris, has
    demonstrated that this method of stimulation on the brain can be applied
    to the human without help of the neurosurgeon ... This means that anybody
    with the proper apparatus can carry this out covertly, with no
    external signs that electrodes have been used in that person.  I feel that
    if this technique got into the hands of a secret agency, they would have
    total control over a human being and be able to change his beliefs
    extremely quickly, leaving little evidence of what they had done."  (From
    "Mind Control and the American Government", by Martin Cannon in Lobster
    #23, pp 2-10.  Cannon quites Lilly from his book, The Scientist,
    Berkeley, Ronin publishers, 1988, also Bantam Books 1981.  Research by
    Peter Lewis.)

    After a statement like that of Dr. Lilly's, how long do you think it would
    take the agencies, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. to contact Dr. Redmond in Paris?

    1958, 1962  The U.S. conducts high-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
    (EMP) bomb tests over the Pacific.  (From "The Road From Armageddon" by
    Peter Lewis.)

    1960 Headlines read "Khrushchev Says Soviets Will Cut Forces a Third;
    Sees 'Fantastic Weapon' ".  (From article of same title, by Max Frankel,
    New York Times, Jan. 15, 1960, p 1 as cited in "Tesla's Electro-
    magnetics and Its Soviet Weaponization", paper by T. E. Bearden.)

    1965 A "Death Ray" weapon was developed by McFarlane Corporation,
    described as a modulated electron gun X-ray nuclear booster, could be
    adapted to communications, remote control and guidance systems, EM
    radiation telemetry and death ray.  McFarlane claimed NASA stole the
    patent in 1965.  Reported hearings before the House Subcommittee on
    Department of Defense Appropriations, chaired by Rep. George Mahon (Dem. -
    Texas).  (From "Hearing Voices" by Alex Constantine, Hustler, Jan.
    1994, pp 102-104, 113, 120, 134.  Research by Harlan Girard.)

    1965 "A project in the U.S. called  Project Pandora ... was undertaken
    in which chimpanzees were exposed to microwave radiation.  The man who
    was in charge of this project said, 'the potential for exerting a degree
    of control on human behaviour by low level microwave radiation seems to
    exist' and he urged that the effects of microwaves be studied for 'possible
    weapons applications' ".  (From "Electromagnetic Pollution: A Little Known
    Health Hazard. A new means of control?" by Kim Besley, Great Britain,
    p 14.  Research from Woody Blue.)

    1968 Dr. Gordon J. F. MacDonald, science advisor to President Lyndon
    Johnson, wrote, "Perturbation of the environment can produce changes in
    behavioural patterns."  He was referring to low frequency EM waves in the
    ionosphere affecting human brain wave patterns.  (From his book, Unless
    Peace Comes, a Scientific Forecast of New Weapons, cited in "New World
    Order ELF Psychotronic Tyranny", a paper by C. B. Baker.)

    1970 Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security
    Directo, said in his book, Between Two Ages, weather control was a
    new weapon that would be the key element of strategy.  "Technology will make
    available to leaders of major nations a variety of techniques for conducting
    secret warfare..."  He also wrote "Accurately timed, artificially excited
    electronic strokes could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce
    relatively high power levels over certain regions of the Earth ... one
    could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance
    of a very large population in selected regions over an extended period."
    (Cited in Baker's "ELF Psychotronic Tyranny" paper.)

    1972 The Taser, first electrical shock device developed for use by law
    enforcement, delivers barbed, dart shaped electrodes to a subject's body,
    and 50,000 volt pulses at two millionths of an amp ove 12-14 seconds time.
    (From "Report onthe Attorney General's Conference on Less Than Lethal
    Weapons", by Sherry Sweetman, 1987, p 4, which cites "Non-Lethal Weapons
    for Law Enforcement:  Research Needs and Priorities.  A Report to the
    National Science Foundation by the Security Planning Corporation, 1972.
    Research by Harlan Girard.)

    1972 "A U.S. Department of Defense document said that the Army has
    tested a microwave weapon.  It was an extremely powerful 'electronic
    flamethrower'. "  (From "Electromagnetic Pollution")

    1972 "A study published by the U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Research
    and Development Center, titled 'Analysis of Microwaves for Barrier Warfare'
    examines the plausibility of using radio frequency energy in barrier counter-
    barrier warfare ... The report concludes that (a) it is possible to field
    a truck-portable microwave barrier system that will completely immobilize
    personnel in the open with present day technology, (b) there is a strong
    potential for a microwave system that would be capable of delaying or
    immobilizing personnel in vehicles, (c) with present technology, no method
    could be identified for a microwave system to destroy the type of armoured
    material common to tanks."  (From "Electromagnetic Pollution" by Kim Besly,
    p 15, quoting The Zapping of America by Paul Brodeur.)

    The report further documents the ability to create third-degree burns on
    human skin using 3 Gigahertz at 20 watts/square centimeter in two seconds.

    1972 Dr. Gordon J. F. MacDonald testified before the House Subcommittee
    on Oceans and International Environment, concerning low frequency research:
    "The basic notion there was to create between the electrically charged
    ionosphere in the higher part of the atmosphere and conducting layers of the
    surface of the Earth this neutral cavity, to create waves, electrical waves
    that would be tuned to the brainwaves ... about ten cycles per second ...
    you can produce changes in behavioural patterns or in responses."  (From
    Baker's "ELF Psychotronic Tyranny" paper.)

    1973 Sharp and Grove transmit audible words via microwaves [EW: That is,
    voice to SKULL] (See "Synthetic Telepathy" in this issue of Resonance

    [EW: On my web site, the relevant paragraphs of Judy's source article are
    transcribed in:  v2succes.htm ]

    1975 - 1977 "Unpublished analyses of microwave bioeffects literature were
    disseminated to the U.S. Congress and to other officials arguing the case for
    remote control of human behavior by radar."  (From the Journal of Microwave
    Power, 12(4), 1977, p320.  Research by Harlan Girard.)

    1978 Hungarians presented a state-of-the-art paper on infrasonic weapons
    to the United Nations, "Working Paper on Infrasound Weapons", United Nations
    CD/575, 14 Aug 1978.  (From "The Road From Armageddon" by Peter Lewis.)

    1981 - 1982 "Between 1981 and September 1982, the Navy commissioned me to
    investigate the potential of developing electromagnetic devices that could be
    used as non-lethal weapons by the Marine Corp for the purpose of 'riot
    control', hostage removal, clandestine operations, and so on."  Eldon Byrd,
    Naval Surface Weapons Center, Silver Spring  MD.  (From "Electromagnetic
    Pollution" by Kim Besly, p 12.)

    1982 Electromagnetic weapons for law enforcement use in Great Britain:

    A 10-30 Hz strobe light which can produce seizures, giddiness, nausea, and
    fainting was developed by Charles Bovill of the now defunct British firm,
    Allen International.  Addition of sound pulses in the 4.0 - 7.5 Hz range
    increases effectiveness, as utilized in the Valkyrie, a "frequency" weapon
    advertised in British Defense Equipment Catalogue until 1983.

    The squawk box or sound curdler uses two loudspeakers of 350 watt output
    to emit two slightly different frequencies which combine in the ear to
    produce a shrill shrieking noise.  The U.S. National Science Foundation
    report says there is "severe risk of permanent impairment of hearing."

    (From "Electropollution" by Kim Besley, citing the Manchester City Council
    Police Monitoring Unit document.)

    1982 Air Force review of biotechnology:

    "Currently available data allow the projection that specially generated
    radiofrequency radiation (RFR) fields may pose powerful and revolutionary
    antipersonnel military threats.  Electroshock therapy indicates the ability
    of induced electric current to completely interrupt mental functioning for
    short periods of time, to obtain cognition for longer periods and to
    restructure emotional response over prolonged intervals.

    "... impressed electromagnetic fields can be disruptive to purposeful
    behavior and may be capable of directing and/or interrogating such
    behavior.  Further, the passage of approximately 100 milliamperes through
    the myocardium can lead to cardiac standstill and death, again pointing to
    a speed-of-light weapons effect.

    "A rapidly scanning RFR system could provide an effective stun or kill
    capability over a large area."

    (From Final Report on Biotechnology Research Requirements for
    Aeronautical Systems Through the Year 2000.  AFOSR-TR-82-0643, vol 1,
    and vol 2, 30 July 1982.  See below.)

    1986 "The Electromagnetic Spectrum in Low-Intensity Conflict" by
    Captain Paul Tyler, MC, USN quotes the above passage and further elaborates
    on the theme.  (Published in Low Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology
    Lt. Col. David J. Dean, USAF, ed., Air University Press, Maxwell AFB, AL.
    Research by Harlan Girard.)

    1983 Nikolai Khokhlov, a Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West in
    1976, interviews recently arrived scientists and reports:  "The Soviet mind-
    control program is run by the KGB with unlimited funds."  (From The
    Spectator, Feb 5, 1983, reported in "New World Order Psychotronic
    Tyranny" by C. B. Baker.)

    1984 "USSR:  New Beam Energy Possible?", possibly associated with early
    Soviet weather engineering efforts over the U.S. (From "Tesla's
    Electromagnetics and Its Soviet Weaponization" by T. E. Bearden.)

    1985 Women in the peace camps at Greenham Common began showing various
    medical symptoms believed to be caused by EM surveillance weapons beamed at
    them.  (See "Zapping:  The New Weapon of the Patriarchy", Resonance
    #13, pp 22-24.  Research by Woody Blue.)

    1986 Attorney General's Conference on Less Than Lethal Weapons.  Reviews
    current weapons available, most date back to 1972:  the Taser, the Nova
    XR-5000 Stun Gun (can interrupt a pacemaker); the Talon, a glove with an
    electrical pulse generator; the Source, a flashlight with electrodes at the
    base.  These devices are useful only at close range, except for the Taser,
    and are generally restricted to correctional institutions.

    Photic driving strobe lights tested by one conference delegate on 100 subjects,
    produced discomfort.  Closed eyelids to not block the effect.  Evidence that
    ELF produces nausea and disorientation.  Suggestion to develop fast acting
    electrosleep inducing EM weapon.

    Discusses problem of testing weapons on animals and human "volunteers".
    (From "Report on the Attorney General's Conference on Less Than Lethal
    Weapons", by Sherry Sweetman, March 1987, prepared for the National Institute
    of Justice.  Research by Harlan Girard.)

    How many of you will volunteer to get zapped by 50,000 volts from this little
    Taser gun we're testing?

    1988 The Pentagon is ordered by courts to cease EMP tests at several
    locations due to a lawsuit filed by an environmental group.  (From The
    Washington Post, May 15, 1988, see "US and Soviets Develop Death Ray",
    Resonance 11, p 10.  Research by Remy Chevalier.)

    1992 December.  "The U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and
    Engineering Center is conducting a one-year study of ACOUSTIC BEAM
    TECHNOLOGY ... the command awarded the one year study to Scientific
    Applications and Research Associates of Huntington Beach CA.  Related
    research is conducted at the Moscow based Andreev Institute."   (From "U.S.
    Explores Russian Mind Control Technology", by Barbara Opal, Defense News,
    Jan 11-17, 1993.  Research by Harlan Girard and others.)

    1993 The Russian government is offering to share with the United States
    in a bilateral Center for Psychotechnologies the Soviet mind-control technology
    developed during the 1970s.  The work was funded by the Department of
    Psycho-Correction at the Moscow Medical Academy.

    "Acoustic psycho-correction involves the transmission of specific commands
    via static or white noise bands into the human subconscious ...".  The Russian
    experts, among them former KGB General George Kotov, present in a paper a list
    of software and hardware available for $80,000.  (From Opal article, "U.S.
    Explores Russian Mind Control Technology".)

    [EW Comment:  Circa 1996, I came across an advertisement by way of a Yahoo
    search on mind control for "A genuine mind control device, $80,000, FOB
    Singapore, from Gunderson International."  Ring any bells?  Could not get the
    ad to display again.]

    1993 February 28, beginning of 51 day siege on the Branch Davidians at
    Waco Texas, which ended in the death of more than 80 people.

    Until this incident, the electromagnetic weapons had kept a very low profile.
    But in the documentary video, "Waco: The Big Lie Continues", footage from the
    British Broadcasting (BBC) shows at least three EM weapons used by
    U.S. government agents.  First, the noise generators used against the
    Davidians.  Second, a powerful strobe light, shown during a nighttime sequence.
    And the third was the Russian psychoacoustic weapon, considered, but agents
    deny use of this weapon against the Waco people.  FBI agents met with Dr.
    Igor Smirnov in Arlington VA to discuss the possiblility of using the weapon
    against the Davidians.  (From "A Subliminal Dr. Strangelove", by Dorinda
    Elliot and John Barry, Newsweek, Aug 22, 1994)

Note (EW): "ELF" frequencies, as we know now, are not the most invasive weapons-capable frequencies. Doses of ELF can act as either sedatives or stimulants, entraining the target's EEG as with the Russian LIDA machine. Weapons which can transmit hypnotic commands silently and untraceably, over distance and through walls, can cause a far wider spectrum of effects. In other words, victims, don't assume that "ELF" is the only form of electromagnetic signal which can do damage.

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