Sudden-Onset Ailments - Criminal Activity?

Has high tech era crime begun to influence health?
If so, how?

Fatigue has been reported by some medical doctors
as the most common complaint heard from their
patients.  Inability to concentrate is another
common complaint.

These ailments can have many causes.  Often they
are long term chronic.  Interestingly, they also
happen to be symptoms of elevated exposure to
microwave radio signals.

In recent years, evidence has been mounting that
proximity to cell phone towers and other sources
of radio frequency signals is a likely causative
factor for some people.

Some people, however, report a SUDDEN onset of
symptoms, like fatigue and inability to concentrate,
without being close to antenna installations or
having moved.  With all the health activism 
"noise" being made about cell phone towers, sudden
onset microwave exposure symptoms haven't attracted
much attention.

Except for Dr. Reinhard Munzert of Erlangen, Germany.

Dr. Munzert has been paying considerable attention
to sudden onset microwave exposure symptoms, and
has presented what he has learned on this web
site:

http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/english/index.htm

Dr. Munzert has come to the shocking conclusion
that some sudden onset microwave symptoms are the
result of CRIMINAL use of microwave technology.

Let me quote a couple of paragraphs from Dr. 
Munzert's site, describing the criminal uses of 
microwave technology:

"Not only the good guys can apply non-lethal 
weapons: '...there is mounting evidence that 
home-brew HPM weapons are being used to attack 
people...The latest research and finding on this 
horrific trend in Europe is quite frightening' 
(News from Infowar, Volume I Number 6, 
August 28, 2002).

"[snip] ... Through the illegal usage of innovative 
high-tech weapons, people are not 'shot', rather 
their living quarters are bathed in (high frequency) 
electromagnetic waves. A high tech-gang in Germany 
is using and testing HPM-weapons that supply 
continous or pulsed waves over long periods of time. 

"The effects of the HPM-beam on the victims include 
headache, irregular heartbeat, painful testes, 
burned skin, eye damage and cancer."

Readers can be forgiven for responding, "Oh, well, 
that kind of thing doesn't happen in my neighbourhood", 
or, "My neighbours have trouble changing light bulbs - 
they certainly don't know how to build high-tech 
weapons" or "Oh, that kind of thing only happens
in military test labs."

Dr. Munzert captured a screen shot of an amazon.com 
description of a book titled "The Poor Man's Ray Gun" 
by David Gunn.  At the time Dr. Munzert captured the 
blurb about this 24 page book, which describes 
construction of a microwave weapon using microwave 
oven parts, this sentence was posted on the amazon.com 
site:

"The author shows in complete detail, and with plenty 
of photographs and diagrams, how to build a ray gun 
that is capable of setting fire to a piece of plywood 
at 500 feet made from only parts of a microwave oven."

(That sentence isn't on the current amazon.com site;
not hard to wonder why!)

Let me comment that in terms of creating sudden onset 
symptoms, a tightly focussed "ray gun" would not be 
useful to a criminal wishing to target someone, because 
along with symptoms it would heat the walls of a 
targeted home, setting them on fire, thus exposing the 
criminal act.  The reason David Gunn's ray gun creates 
fires, and not subtle physiological symptoms, is the 
tightness of focus.

Far more relevant to the question of criminal activity 
causing sudden onset symptoms would be the simple 
NON-focussed, door-removed microwave oven.  By removing 
the door, and of course, bypassing the interlock switch 
that shuts the oven off when the door is opened, a wide, 
not tightly focussed microwave beam is emitted.

Well within the capability of the average teenager.

This form of a weaponized microwave oven would not 
cause fires, and used through, say, an apartment wall, 
might not produce enough heating of a person on the 
other side of the wall to be directly noticeable.

But other rather serious side effects of exposure to 
non-burning microwave radiation - headache, irregular 
heartbeat, fatigue, inability to concentrate, painful 
testes, eye damage and cancer - can devastate a target
of a simple door-removed microwave oven.

Dr. Munzert's site claims there are targets of criminal
use of microwave radiation in Germany.  To date, this
writer is not aware of a single case where a court has
acknowledged the criminal use of microwave signals
anywhere in the world.

Does that mean it's not happening?  Does that mean
we don't need to worry about that, "... thank God?"

Good question.  This writer has heard one report,
indirectly, from a close friend who lives in central
Texas, that one instance of use of a microwave oven
to harass students in a university dorm did occur.
Unfortunately, proof in the form of a police report
and/or mainstream media article hasn't come to light.

And of course, there's that January 2004 report from
the U.S. Department of Justice titled "Report to 
Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the 
USA PATRIOT Act", section III. Civil Rights and Civil 
Liberties Complaints, in which 720 complaints were
received in a 6-month period, curiously labelled
"unrelated."

A footnote explains what "unrelated" means:

"Examples of this category include complaints that 
the government is broadcasting harmful electronic 
signals to individuals, claims that the government 
is intercepting dreams, and allegations that the 
government is using subliminal messages to force 
people to engage in certain acts."

720 complaints acknowledged by a major federal
justice agency in 6 months is more than just a few.

And, "harmful electronic signals" - could that be
the use of weaponized microwave ovens?

Is it possible the targets alleging "government"
is targeting them with harmful electronic signals
are doing so because of the now obvious
misapprehension that harmful signals exist only
in military laboratories?  Dr. Munzert's site
shows that is certainly no longer true, and hasn't
been true for as long as microwave ovens have been
available.

This writer doesn't have firm answers to these
questions.  However, let me share some other 
things that have been done with radio signals and
are also capable of penetrating walls, at least
non-conducting walls.

Let's look at a really ancient medical device, the
Russian-designed "Lida" machine.  This machine was
originally designed as a drugless sedation device.
It carries a U.S. patent number, 3,773,049.

One of these units was obtained from the Soviet
Union and studied by Dr. Eldon Byrd and Dr. Ross
Adey, at the Loma Linda Veterans Hospital, Research
Unit.  The earliest known sighting of a Lida 
machine was in a North Korean prisoner of war camp
by a repatriated POW, captured during the Korean
War.

The Lida doesn't use microwave, although there is
more recent literature indicating that microwave
frequencies can also be used.  The basic method of
the Lida machine is very much like biofeedback -
except instead of the commonly used sound feedback,
the Lida transmits simple pulses of radio signal
at rates matching relaxed brain activity.

The original Lida machine transmitted in the medical
equipment band at 40 megahertz, at a power level of
40 watts.

Drs. Byrd and Ross are on record as verifying that
the unit works on animals, but this writer hasn't
seen literature on human testing.  It is likely
that concerns about medical effects of exposure
to radio frequency radiation have prevented this
technology from coming into general use.

The process of inducing brain activity to change speed
by applying pulsed radio signals is called 
"entrainment."  Listening to certain sounds can 
accomplish the same thing, though sounds are 
consciously perceived, while the Lida principle could, 
in theory, be applied through walls to cause someone 
to be forced into a state of drowsiness without their
understanding why.

Would the use of a Lida-like machine in the workplace,
without the target being aware, constitute criminal
causation of sudden onset symptoms?  Well, overwhelming
fatigue on the job has been reported by some of those
720 people complaining to the U.S. Department of
Justice.

Perhaps even more invasive, what would be the outcome
of setting the pulse rate of a Lida-like device a bit
higher, into the WIDE AWAKE brain activity speed
range?  What if such a signal were aimed at the 
bedroom of a target, either through an apartment wall,
or, with tighter focus, from a neighbouring house?

Would keeping someone wide awake at night, with very
little chance they could figure out how or why, be
sudden onset symptoms caused by criminal activity?

Here again, some of those 720 people complaining to
the Department of Justice do indeed complain of
heavy sleep deprivation, lasting years.

And pulsing radio transmitters are easily available
to those who would like to "settle a beef" with a
neighbour and who has the skills to set up and
operate the equipment.

Already, we have seen that quite a range of disabling
symptoms can be caused by microwave signals and 
radio signals in general, and the U.S. Department
of Justice registered 720 complaints of this nature
over just six months.  It's becoming clear that there
actually are criminals at work.

Among those complaining about radio frequency
harassment, many report that police deny such crimes
are possible, even though both microwave ovens and
Lida technology have been available, not classified,
for some decades now.

Are there any other radio frequency technologies
which are available to criminals?  The answer is
emphatically, yes.

Next on the list are the now popular airport luggage
and cargo scanners, some of which operate at the top
of the microwave frequency range.  Several years ago,
this writer phoned a Massachusetts maker of these
scanners, and the salesman told me I could have a
unit, no questions asked, if I handed over something
like $100,000.  I stressed that I was in no way
connected with any law enforcement agency, and that
was "no problem."

The reader probably doesn't need help imagining how
"through wall radar" scanners might be used by those 
of criminal inclination.

Interesting too, that those who have complained 
about electronic harassment report noises from
neighbours, especially in apartment settings, which
are perfectly synchronized with the actions of the
targeted person.  One target complains that for
years, every time she would start to urinate, the
water in the downstairs bathroom would be turned on,
and kept on, and turned off when the target's urine
stream stopped.  Every time.

By now some readers will be thinking, there can't
be any more, can there?  Unfortunately for society,
yes, there is more.

In World War II, radar came into being. Technicians
standing near energized antennas discovered that
the radar signals, which are streams of very short,
powerful microwave pulses, cause a buzzing sound
to be heard, as if it were originating within or
behind the skull.

Simply, one short pulse of microwave signal causes
one click in the hearing sense of someone standing
in line with a moderately powerful signal.

We don't hear ordinary microwave communications
signals because they aren't short pulses.  It's the
pulsing that acts like tapping a nail with a hammer,
to force sound into the hearer's hearing sense.

In 1974, at the University of Utah, the successful
transmission of VOICE into the skull of a test
subject, using only a pulsed microwave signal, with
no special implants or other artificial aids, was
announced.  The experimenter was Dr. Joseph Sharp,
then affiliated with the Walter Reed Army Institute
of Research, using a pulsed microwave transmitter
supplied by Dr. Joseph Lin of the University of
Chicago.

Dr. Sharp used a simple algorithm to convert a
smooth voice wave form into a string of "clicks",
with each click being sent at the test subject
as a short microwave pulse.

Sharp's success was published in the official
journal of the American Psychological Association,
"American Psychologist", in their March, 1975 issue.

And not unexpectedly, the U.S. Air Force announced
an updated version of "voice to skull" with better
fidelity than Joseph Sharp's original, in 1994.

A moderately powerful radar set can produce a
buzzing sound in the skull of someone in direct
line with the antenna.  A couple of hundred watts
will do, and that's not huge piece of equipment.

A criminal wanting the ultimate "revenge weapon"
need only co-opt the services of a radar technician,
to modify the set so that Joseph Sharp's voice
conversion method would control the pulsing.  The
criminal can then, from hiding, through non-conducting
walls, force a target in the next apartment or house
to hear things, including voices, involuntarily.

A little pricey, but not out of reach of the upper 
middle class.  Not at all.

By now, you can probably guess, YES, many of the
720 people complaining to the Justice Department
also hear various strange sounds, including voices.

But for 33 years, it has been no secret that this
can be done by equipment, and is not a guaranteed
indication that the hearer is mentally ill.  
Unfortunately, just as most police officers deny
radio frequency crimes are possible, so do most
psychiatrists, resulting in false diagnoses, and
heaping considerable trouble on already struggling
targets of radio frequency crimes.

As of the date of writing, those are the proven
beyond doubt, through wall, radio frequency 
weapons available to the sophisticated criminal.
But there is one little encore item, called
"Silent Sound."  Silent Sound carries U.S. patent
#5,159,703.

Know about those telephone voice changers?  Which
can take a deep male voice and move it up into
a high female frequency range to disguise the
caller?  Well, "Silent Sound" uses a similar 
technology to raise a speaker's voice a little
higher, up near the upper limit of hearing.

At frequencies around 14,500 Hertz, a voice sounds
mostly like a faint "ringing in the ears."

Someone hearing "Silent Sound", which isn't truly
silent, just hears a faint ringing, and can't 
make out any words.  So what use is "Silent Sound?"

Proponents claim it makes for dandy subliminal
messages.  Much better, they say, than the older
"time slice" subliminal method in which every so
many frames of a movie would show goodies available
at the snack counter.

And "subliminals" are basically "lite" hypnosis.  How
well they work depends on the ability of the hearer
to be hypnotized.  Statistically, it's been reported
that something like 4 out of 5 people can be
hypnotically influenced to some degree.

All that's needed is some means of CONVEYING the
"Silent Sound" to the target, such as pulsed
microwave "voice to skull" technology, and not only
can you force your neighbour to listen to you through
his or her non-conductive walls, but you may be able
to play "hypnotic tricks" on your target!

Best of all, for the revenge artist, the target
can't even talk about what he or she hears without
instantly being labelled a nut case.

There are more sophisticated versions of "Silent
Sound" where the later patents deal with how to
control volume level in stores, but the basic technology
has been reported as effective in reducing shoplifting
according to department stores using subliminals.

At this point, reader, you are probably wondering
about the folks complaining about electronic harassment.
Yes, they DO, once again, report "ringing in the ears" 
quite often!

A final point to ponder.  Unknown to many, organized
groups of over-zealous "law and order" groups of 
citizens have been quietly forming and operating 
throughout the U.S. and Canada.  These groups have
been documented as harassing people who are "not
liked" for various reasons - going well beyond simply
watching out for genuine criminal activity.

(Search for "Cause Stalking" on amazon.com, or google,
for a book on this topic.)

Is it possible such groups have taken notice of the
technologies described here?

[Eleanor White is a retired engineer and has been
a ham radio operator since the 1950s.]

