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    Does it follow that an EEC modulated carrier frequency can he
    used to enhance human avoidance learning? You bet, provided
    the same careful procedures are followed with humans as were
    with animals, the same result would accrue. Recall again the
    goals of Pandora to discover whether a carefully constructed
    electromagnetic signal could direct the mind.

    The obvious question becomes how many and with how much accuracy
    can behavioral states or "frames of mind" be intentionally
    imposed, that is, apart from the certain technological capability
    to promote disorganization and degradation of perception and
    performance through use of the fields. In fact many components of
    warning or conditioning including affect (i.e. feeling or
    emotional states) can be imposed through use of the fields from a
    distance e.g. behavioral arousal orienting reflex, subliminal
    stress (alarm reaction without realization of the contextual
    significance) so-called levels of consciousness, inhibition of
    Cerebral function which would render one more susceptible to
    suggestion or influence and so on. All components necessary to
    produce behavioral conditioning, including ways to provide
    contextual significance can be applied from a distance (i.e.
    without direct brain contact, as was necessary in older behavior
    modification experiments.).

    Another indication that the government entertained notions of
    behavior control through use of fields and sound is a 1974
    research proposal by J.F. Schapitz. To test his theory his plan
    was to record EEG correlates induced by various drugs and then
    to modulate these biological frequency on a microwave carrier.
    "Could the same behavioral states be produced by imposing these
    brain wave frequencies on human subjects?" His plan went
    further and included inducing hypnotic states and using words
    modulated on a microwave carrier frequency to attempt to
    covertly condition subjects to perform various acts." The plan
    as released (through the Freedom Of Information Act) seems less
    part of a careful recipe for influence than Adey's and other
    DOD scientists' work, and may have been released to mislead by
    lending an "information beam" science fiction-like quality to
    the work.

    The end of Project Pandora may have signified the end of research
    into the cause of effects of the varying frequencies registered
    at the American embassy in Moscow, some known to be due to CIA
    and National Security Agency equipment but interest in microwave
    and biological frequency weapons did not wane. Indeed there are
    indications of applications. As we have seen research that began
    in response to a security concern, transformed almost overnight
    into a search for weapons applications, while cloaked in
    disinformation about the Soviets. What types of weapons?

    There Are Three Possibilities:

    (1) That microwaves, perhaps modulated with low biological
    frequencies are used from a distance to cause performance
    decrements and disorganization by interfering with
    neuro-electric function; or by causing Central nervous system
    effects subjective feelings of ill health or health syndrome
    associated with periodic exposures at intensities below 10,000
    microwatts/cm2.

    (2) That microwaves are used to create organ specific effects,
    e.g., tissues with less blood circulation like the gall bladder
    lens of the eye, etc., can compensate less to increased heating;
    heart disfunctions can be caused; lesions or necrosis of
    internal tissues can be induced without a subject necessarily
    feeling heat and symptoms might manifest later at certain
    frequencies. Slight heating or hot spots can be created at the
    center of the head; there is an ongoing Navy contract to find
    parameters to disrupt human metabolic functions; or

    (3) That they are used in an interdisciplinary approach to
    remote conditioning by creating information processing effects,
    as Dr. Adey's work shows, or to induce "feeling" or "emotional"
    elements of cognition such as excitatory reactions, subliminal
    stress, behavioral arousal, enhanced suggestibility by
    inhibition of higher functions, or various other EEG or
    behavioral effects. There are strong indications that
    microwaves have been used to cause the decrements. There is no
    question but that the U.S. military and the CIA  know the
    behavioral or psychoactive significance of applied biological
    rhythms and other frequencies, as this was part of the thrust
    of their work during Pandora. Inducing emotion or feelings
    through use of electromagnetic fields, and then synchronizing
    the feelings with words (symbolic of ideas) would be an
    effective way to induce preferences or attitude change, because
    it would mirror natural thought processes. The question seems
    less whether conditioning through use of covert technology is
    possible, than whether there has been a policy choice to use
    it. If the results of their research are used as part of a
    system that can condition behavioral responses from a distance,
    it is a secret that they hold close like a baby.

    Richard Helms wrote of such a system in the mid-1960s while he
    was CIA Plans Director. He spoke of "sophisticated approaches to
    the 'coding' of information for transmittal to population
    targets in the 'battle for the  minds of men' ..." and of "an
    approach integrating biological, social and
    physical-mathematical research in attempts ... to control
    behavior." He found particularly notable, "use of modern
    information theory, automata theory, and feedback concepts ...
    for a technology for controlling behavior ... using information
    inputs as causative agents." Due to Project Pandora, it is now
    known that applied biological (and other) frequencies
    can also be used as direct "information inputs" (e.g., of
    feeling or emotion) and to reinforce brain rhythms associated
    with conditioning and information processing. One way to get
    such a signal into a human may be through use of a high
    frequency carrier frequency. Results of research into
    information processing, unconscious processes, decision making,
    memory processes, and evoked brain potentials would likely be
    exploited or integrated in an interdisciplinary system.

    Covert technological influence is not so foreign to the American
    way of life as one may think.

    It was reported in a 1984 U.S. House of Representatives
    hearing that high frequency audio transmissions are applied, for
    instance, in some department stores to prevent theft (one East
    Coast department store chain was reported to have saved $600,000
    over a nine-month period), and in some grocery stores with the
    result that employee induced cash shortages significantly
    decreased and employees are better mannered.

    In other words, as Helms wrote of, verbal messages are
    delivered at frequencies above human hearing. Technology for
    commercial applications is relatively sophisticated (one studio
    uses a "layered" approach and 31 channels in preparing tapes;
    some employ a "dual coding" approach, integrating scientific
    knowledge of information processing modes of the two brain
    hemispheres, and others use techniques where a consumer is
    spoken to as a three year old child). There is no U.S. law
    specifically regulating these types of transmission (over radio
    and TV a Federal Communication Commission "catch all" provision
    might apply).

    If industry uses undetectable audio transmissions to meet
    security concerns, it seems that the military and CIA would
    exploit the same technology and would have developed much more
    sophisticated technology for applications. The public's
    conception of "subliminal" [programming] is naive compared to
    capabilities.

    The military has studied and considered for usefulness in a
    warfare and psychological warfare context a wide range of
    biological or pharmacological substances. In the memo referred
    to above, Helms wrote that the U.S. is five years ahead of the
    Soviets in pharmacological agents producing behavioral effects.
    Some of these substances would increase susceptibility to
    influence if incorporated in the multi-disciplinary approach he
    wrote of.

    A side effect of lowered resistance to sub-threshold stimulus
    might be that, some would become aware of illicit influence
    (even under normal circumstances there is a wide variation in
    sensitivity among individuals to sub-threshold stimulus; normal
    individuals whom psychology terms "reducers" are much more
    sensitive in this way; actually, most schizophrenics are
    extreme reducers, and therefore, much more aware of stimulus
    that others aren't cognizant of). Convenient to the agencies
    involved in covert influence, is that among primary symptoms
    of schizophrenia or mental illness are ideas that one is
    being influenced by transmission" (e.g. radio frequencies),
    "voices" or even telepathy; unless complaints about covert
    psychological weapons are well organized, they would lend to be
    discounted as indicative of mental imbalance.

    There are many ways to create temporary or permanent states that
    increase receptivity to suggestion and/or conditioning. It is
    interesting to note that Scientific studies have correlated
    exposure to electromagnetic fields alone with mental hospital
    admissions and worsening of symptoms of mental patients, even as
    an etiological factor in the onset of mental illness. (A marker
    disease for exposure to microwaves is damage behind the lens of
    the eyes; a disproportionate number of persons so damaged also
    suffer from mental disease or neurological impairment.)

    Specific Targets

    Weapons against whom? Safe to say, in order to enlist the aid
    of scientists, the military and CIA would act true to form,
    that is, to motivate and overcome reluctance due to dictates of
    conscience, they would evoke a serious Security risk during
    initial phases of development. In fact, on the "unclassified"
    face of it, a number of reports have openly suggested use of
    "microwave against "terrorists."

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, now under supervision of
    University of California, prepared a report for Federal Emergency
    Management Agency (FEMA) setting forth that use of microwave
    radiation on terrorists could kill them, stun them or at least
    modify their behavior by changing their Perceptions." At this
    point the cloak is donned, and the report continues: "There are
    reports of Eurasian communist countries performing research with
    combined fields of signals from several different microwave
    frequencies to produce at least perceptual distortions in
    humans."

    Cable News Network recently aired a report on electromagnetic
    weapons and showed an official document that was a contingency
    plan to use electromagnetic weapons against terrorists. It
    wasn't made clear who the terrorists were or what the
    contingency was. Prior to the news show however, reports had
    surfaced, the source a DOD medical engineer, that in the content
    of conditioning, microwaves and other modalities had regularly
    been used against Palestinians.

    Greenham Common

    When DOD develops a weapon it can be said with certainty that it
    will be  tested and, if possible, where it would be useful to
    meet their goals. Women peace activists have kept an ongoing
    vigil at the periphery of the U.S. Air Force base at Greenham in
    England Since 1981. They are protesting build-up of nuclear
    weapons. The U.S. cruise missiles, which are nuclear warheads
    small enough to be mounted on the back of a truck called a
    launcher vehicle, arrived at the base in March, 1984. Since then
    the women in the encampment and number of the Cruisewatch
    network have ensured that when the launcher vehicle and its
    convoy taken out into the British countryside, the "dispersal
    exercises" aren't as secret as the military intended them to be.
    The women of the network, non-violent activists, have been
    Subjected to intense harassment in an effort to be rid of their
    presence.

    In the Fall of 1984, things changed dramatically; many, if not
    most of the women began suffering illness; and, simultaneously,
    the massive police and military presence at the base virtually
    disappeared, and new and different antenna were installed at the
    base. In a report prepared by Rosalie Bertell, commissioner for
    International Commission of Health Professionals for Human
    Rights, a non-governmental organization based in Geneva,
    Switzerland, the unusual patterns of illness ranged from "severe
    headaches, drowsiness, menstrual bleeding at abnormal times of
    post-menopausal, to of temporary paralysis, faulty speech
    coordination and in one case apparent circulatory failure
    requiring hospitalization."

    Other symptoms documented by peace activist Kim Bealy, who
    coordinates investigations into reports of illness at Specific
    places around the base, included; vertigo, retinal bleeding,
    burnt face (even at night), nausea, sleep disturbances and
    palpitations. Psychological symptoms included lack of
    concentration, disorientation, loss of memory, irritability,
    and a sense of panic in non-panic situations. The symptoms
    have virtually all been associated in medical literature with
    exposure to microwaves and most listed can be induced through
    low intensity or non-thermal exposures.

    Measurement were taken around the base by members of
    Electronics for Peace and by others. Strong signals, up to one
    hundred times the normal background level were detected on a
    number of occasions. In fact, signals ten times stronger than
    those felt to be emanating from normal base transmitting
    systems were found.

    The strongest signals generally appeared in areas where the
    women said that they suffered ill effects. For instances, they
    were found to cover the women's encampment near the "green gate"
    (gate to the base are designated by color), but stopped abruptly
    at the edge of the road leading to the gate. The strength of the
    signals were also found to reflect the activity of the women;
    e.g., they increased rapidly when the women started a
    demonstration. Visitors to the encampment, both men and women,
    reported experiencing same types of symptoms and the same
    pattern of variation as the Greenham women.

    In a review prepared by National Bureau of Standards, Law
    Enforcement Standard Laboratory, for Nuclear Defense Agency,
    Intelligence and Security Directorate, use of low intensity
    microwaves was considered for application as a "psychological
    deterrent." The report stated, "...microwave radiation has
    frequently been cited as being responsible for non-thermal
    effects in integrated central nervous system activity. The
    behavioral consequences most frequently reported have been
    disability, listlessness and increased irritability." The
    report fails to mention just as frequently cited low intensity
    microwave health effects as chromosome damage; congenital birth
    defects; autonomic nervous system function; brain damage and
    other neurological abnormalities, including leaks in the blood
    brain barrier and depletion of some neurotransmitter; among a
    host of other health impairments. As activist Kim Bealy put it,
    "It would now appear that we are protecting the missiles by
    killing people slowly."

    It is not necessary that the transmission take place from
    equipment in the vicinity of a target (although the Greenham
    women seemed to be suffering from transmission made from within
    the base.)

    Propagation of microwaves has been very well studied and is
    very sophisticated, e.g., a two inch beam can be sent from a
    satellite point to point, to a receiving disk on earth; and, it
    was reported in 1978, that the CIA had a program called
    Operation Pique, which included bouncing radio signals or
    microwaves off the ionosphere to affect the mental function of
    people in selected areas, including Eastern European nuclear
    installation.

    In the U.S., at this time, there is no legally enforceable
    microwave standard. There never has been an enforceable standard
    for the public or the workplace. Microwaves at intensities within
    the suggested "guideline" have finally been shown, even by U.S.
    research, to cause health damage.

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