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

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    Subject:     1976 Article mentions microwave hearing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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