# U. of Albany NY Suspends Implant Research

## Albany Times-Union

### Wednesday, August 25, 1999

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While implants are often older, unclassified technology, this article shows that some groups at least, probably those without access to current-day perp technology, are using them. The reader should remember that a large number of current-day psycho-electronic victims claim they have no implants, and that small implants using conventional radio signals have severe power and range limits for tracking and two way communication with a target's brain and nervous system.

    UALBANY SUSPENDS IMPLANTS RESEARCH

    Albany Times Union, August 25, 1999

    Professor whose work is at issue has focussed on surgically inserted mind
    control devices.

    By:  Andrew Bronstein, Staff Writer

    The University of Albany has shut down the research of a psychology
    professor probing the "X-Files" world of government surveillance and
    mind control.

    At conferences, in papers over two semesters, professor Kathryn Kelley
    explored claims of those who say they were surgically implanted with
    communications devices to read their thoughts.

    According to colleagues, Kelley has privately claimed the university is
    violating her academic freedom.  She declined to discuss this matter with a
    reporter.

    Kelley's research and the controversy surrounding it echoes the experience
    of John Mack, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist.

    [snip]

    According to three sources -- two faculty members and a graduate student --
    the school's Institutional Review Board, which monitors human research,
    closed the project when a student complained late last spring.  The student,
    sources said, was NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE A LECTURE THAT WAS PART OF KELLY'S
    EXPERIMENT.  Refusal to allow a subject to leave an experiment violates
    National Science Foundation guidelines.

    Despite the inquiry, Kelley, a fully tenured professor who earned $67,000
    last year, is slated to teach two graduate courses in the fall.

    The department became aware of Kelley's theories as early as the spring of
    1998, when a note on her office door announced a lecture called "The
    Psychology of Invading the Self".

    The note described implant research funded by the National Security Agency
    and the Department of Defense with an annual budget of $2 BIllion.  The
    "UNINFORMED, UNCONSENTING SUBJECTS" of these devices were typically
    "FEDERAL PRISONERS AND POLITICAL DISSIDENTS," the note said.

    At the same time, Kelley won approval from the review board to conduct
    research on "advances in technology that affect interpersonal communication."
    In a 16 page outline to the board, Kelley said she wanted to look at the
    USES OF TECHNOLOGY FOR "MONITORING AND CONTROL."  She proposed presenting
    a lecture to research subjects and then having them respond to 60 questions
    about how the case study she would describe affected their views.

    [snip]

    Gregory George, a graduate student who has since left the university, said
    he was part of a research team assigned to lay the factual foundation for
    the implants research.

    To his astonishment, he found several firms had developed "trans-tympanic
    transducers," instruments that function as mini-telpehones, sending voice
    messages to the inner ear.  Companies decided to market the product for
    fear of bad transmissions causing deafness, he said.

    [snip]

    In a more detailed treatment she gave at a conference earlier this month
    in Orlando, Fla., Kelley lent more credence to the phenomenon.  She
    described how a subject be implanted with the device during anesthesia,
    perhaps leaving tiny stitches visible in the ear.  She called the devices
    RAATs, short for RADIOWAVE, AUDITOR, ASSAULTIVE, TRANSMITTING IMPLANTS.

    "When short-wave operators transmit to or scan [receive from] RAAT implants
    in victims, THEY CAN TALK TO THE VICTIMS REMOTELY AND ANONYMOUSLY, AND
    HEART HE VICTIM'S SPEECH AND THOUGHTS,", Kelley wrote.

    [EW:  There would be SEVERE limits on distance and unshielded line of sight
    requirements for this to work using unclassified technology.]

    The perp noted that the National Institutes of Health denied any govern-
    mental role in such research.

    [snip]

    The current investigation into Kelley's work is considered highly
    sensitive at the university, coming four years after A GUNMAN WHO CLAIMED
    THE GOVERNMENT PLANTED MICROCHIPS IN HIS BODY HELD A CLASS OF 37 STUDENTS
    HOSTAGE AND SHOT ONE DURING A STRUGGLE.  Ralph Tortorici, the gunman,
    recently hanged himself in his state prison cell.

    Without commenting on specifics, sociology professor David Wagner,
    outgoing chair of the review board, said that shutting down a professor's
    research was "quite rare".

    Some faculty members said the last time they remember the board making
    such a move was in the early 1970s.