    - The Joint Economics Committee, chaired by Jim Saxton (R-NJ),
    convened on February 25, 1998 for the "Hearing on Radio Frequency
    Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy".
    Invited testimony included statements by several authorities from
    the military:

    - Dr Alan Kehs, of the US Army Laboratories, discussed the overall
    RF threat.

    - Mr James O'Bryon, Deputy Director of Operational Testing and
    Director of live fire testing for the Office of Secretary of
    Defense at the Pentagon, discussed the role of Live Fire Testing
    and how it plays a role in testing military equipment with RF
    weapons.

    - Mr David Schriner, Principal Engineer of Directed Energy Studies
    with Electronic Warfare Associates and recently retired as an
    engineer with a naval weapons testing facility, talked about the
    difficulty in building an RF weapon and about the terrorist threat.

    - Dr Ira Merritt, Chief of Concepts Identification and Applications
    Analysis Division, Advanced Technology Directorate, Missile Defense
    and Space Technology Center, Huntsville, Alabama, discussed the
    proliferation of RF weapons primarily from the former Soviet Union.

    Although these statements gave information of technical interest,
    they are perhaps more important for the information they did not
    give: information on the existence of radiofrequency weapons that
    directly affect the human brain and nervous system.

    KGB PSYCHOTRONICS

    This technology did not spring up overnight. It has a long history
    of development and denials of development-by the US Government and
    probably half of the other governments of the world as well.

    We know that the former Soviet Union was actively engaged in this
    type of research. In a previous article we reported that during the
    1970s the Soviet KGB developed a Psychotronic Influence System
    (PIS) that was used to turn soldiers into programmable 'human
    weapons'. The system employed a combination of highfrequency
    radiowaves and hypnosis. The PIS project was begun in response to a
    similar training scheme launched in the US by President Carter,
    according to Yuri Malin, former security adviser to USSR President
    Gorbachev.[8]
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