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## Russian Machine That Tranquilizes People

Associated Press (82/83)
(See also a statement by Dr. Eldon Byrd below)

http://www.stress.org/adey.htm, an article on the life and work of Dr. Ross Adey

U.S. patent #3,773,049, covering the technology used in the LIDA machine. (Personal opinion: The LIDA is probably not used now due to concerns about exposure to significant amounts of radio signals.)

    Associated Press
    (Exact date not shown on copy but tests took place 1982/83)
    Loma Linda
    San Bernardino County

    A Soviet device that bombards brains with low-frequency
    radio waves may be a replacement for tranquilizers and their
    unwanted side effects, says a researcher, but it's use on
    humans poses ethical and political questions.

    [Eleanor White's note:  More recent stories state that the
    same brain rhythm entrainment can be done with much higher
    carrier frequencies as well.  It is the biorhythm pulse
    rate that creates the effects.]

    The machine, known as the LIDA, is on loan to the Jerry L.
    Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital through a medical exchange
    program between the Soviet Union and the United States.

    Hospital researchers have found in changes behaviour in
    animals.

    "It looks as though instead of taking a valium when you want
    to relax yourself it would be possible to achieve a similar
    result, probably in a safer way, by the use of a radio field
    that will relax you" said Dr. Ross Adey, chief of research
    at the hospital.

    [Missing one line on the photocopy] ... manual shows it
    being used on a human in a clinical setting, Adey said.
    The manual says it is a "distant pulse treating apparatus"
    for psychological problems, including sleeplessness, hyper-
    tension and neurotic disturbances.

    The device has not been approved for use with humans in this
    country, although the Russians have done so since at least
    1960, Adey Said.

    Low frequency radio waves simulate the brain's own
    electromagnetic current and produce a trance-like state.

    Adey said he put a cat in a box and turned on the LIDA.

    "Within a matter of two or three minutes it is sitting there
    very quietly ... it stays almost as though it were transfixed"
    he said.

    Tho hospital's experiment with the machine has been underway
    for three months and should be completed within a year,
    Adey said.

    Here are some clips, not the best video quality but still viewable,
    of a 1985 CNN report on electromagnetic weapons.  The Lida machine
    is featured among these clips:

    cnn1985.rm, Real Player version
    cnn1985.wmv, Windows Media player version

    ** Activists:  RIGHT click on the above to save to your hard drive.

    Below is a statement from Dr. Eldon Byrd, neuro-electromagnetic
    researcher, under contract to the U.S. Navy, who funded Dr. Adey's
    work with the LIDA machine:

    "The LIDA machine was made in the 1950's by the Soviets.  The CIA
    purchased one through a Canadian front for Dr. Ross Adey, but
    didn't give him any funds to evaluate it.

    "I provided those funds from my project in 1981, and he determined
    that the LIDA would put rabbits into a stupor at a distance and
    make cats go into REM.

    "The Soviets included a picture with the device that showed an
    entire auditorium full of people asleep with the LIDA on the
    podium.  The LIDA put out an electric field, a magnetic field,
    light, heat, and sound (of course light and heat are
    electromagnetic waves, but at a much higher frequency than the low
    frequencies of the electric and magnetic fields mentioned above).

    "The purported purpose of the LIDA was for medical treatments;
    however, the North Koreans used it as a brain washing device
    during the Korean War.  The big question is:  what did they do
    with the technology?  It could have been improved and/or made
    smaller.  It is unlikely that they abandoned something that
    worked.

    "Direct communication with Ross Adey:  While he was testing the
    LIDA 4, an electrician was walking by and asked him where he got
    the "North Korean brain washing machine".  Ross told him that is
    was a Russian medical device.

    "The guy said he had been brain-washed by a device like that when
    he was in a POW camp. They placed the vertical plates alongside
    his head and read questions and answers to him.  He said he felt
    like he was in a dream.  Later when the Red Cross came and asked
    questions, he responded with what had been read to him while under
    the influence of the device.  He said he seemed to have no control
    over the answers.

    "The LIDA is PATENTED IN THE US.  Why?  They are not sold in the
    US--the only one I know that exists is the one that was at Loma
    Linda Medical Center where Adey used to work.  Eldon"

    LIDA patent, U.S. #3,773,049

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    Cheryl Welsh, Davis CA, provided text from a clipping from an
    article by Dr. Ross Adey but without complete bibliographic
    references:

    "Soviet investigators have also developed a therapeutic device
    utilizing low frequency square wave modulation of a radiofrequency
    field.  This instrument known as the Lida was developed by L.
    Rabichev and his colleagues in Soviet Armenia, and is designed  for
    "the treatment of neuropsychic and somatic disorders, such as
    neuroses, psychoses, insomnia, hypertension, stammering, bronchia
    asthma, and asthenic and reactive disturbances".

    It is covered by U.S. Patent # 3,773,049.  In addition to the
    pulsed RF field, the device also delivers pulsed light, pulsed
    sound, and pulsed heat.  Each stimulus train can be independently
    adjusted in intensity and frequency.

    The radiofrequency field has a nominal carrier frequency of 40 MHz
    and a maximum output of approximately 40 Watts.  The E- field is
    applied to the patient on the sides of the neck through two disc
    electrodes approximately 10 cm in diameter.  The electrodes are
    located at a distance of 2-4 cm from the skin.

    Optimal repetition frequencies are said to lie in the range from 40
    to 80 pulses per minute.  Pulse duration is typically 0.2 sec.  In
    an 8 year trial period, the instrument was tested on 740 patients,
    including adults and children.  Postivive therapeutic effects were
    claimed in more..." can't read the rest.   Cheryl

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