Microwave Harassment and Mind
Control Experimentation
Julianne McKinney Whither the KGB?
In February 1974, Georgetown University's Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted discussions on the
plight of dissenters in the Soviet Union, and on a means by which the
U.S. Government might most effectively intervene. highlights of these
discussions are reported in "Understanding the Solzhenitzyn Affair:
Dissent and its Control in the USSR," (CSIS, 1974).
KGB strategies were addressed in some detail during
these discussions. It was noted that the KGB's success depended on the
extensive use of informant networks and agent provocateurs; and,
following Brezhnev's rise to power, on the use of drugs and
psychiatrists for further purpose of manipulation and control.
Shadowing, bugging, slandering, blacklisting and other related tactics
were also cited as serving KGB purpose. Participants in the conference
agreed that the KGB's obvious intent was to divide and isolate the
populace, to spread fear, and to silent dissenters.
Agencies of our own government are on record as having
employed precisely these same tactics on a recurrent basis. The Church
and Rockefeller Committee Hearings in the mid-70's purportedly put an
end to these practices. Based on recent developments, it would appear
that the CIA's and FBI's Operations MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO
(the focus of these Senate Committee and Vice-President-level
Hearings) were instead merely driven underground. We are now in
contact with a total of 25 individuals, scattered throughout the
United states, who firmly believe they are being harassed by agencies
of the U.S. Government. Others have been brought to our attention whom
we will be contacting in the future. The majority of these individuals
claim that their harassment and surveillance began in 1989.
The methods reportedly employed in these harassment
campaigns bear a striking resemblance to those attributed to the CIA
and FBI during Operations MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO. The only
difference now is that electronic harassment and experimentation also
appear to be (more blatantly) involved.
The Berlin Wall is down, Communism is in the midst of a
death rattle, and the KGB no longer poses the threat which purportedly
served to justify the U.S. Government's resort to such operations as
MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO. The KGB, since 1989, has been reduced
to an increasingly distant memory.
Reactivation of surveillance/harassment/mind-control
operations in this country suggest that the KGB, as an institution,
was never the real threat. A KGB "mentality," which is underlying
pragmatic contempt for civil liberties, appears, instead, to have been
the driving force behind MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO, and the
operations now being reported to us.
The KGB "mentality" is a matter of personal
predilection, not ideology. Its objective is power and control,
regardless of human cost. It is a corrupting, cancerous influence,
which feeds on fear, conformity and government funding.
Four months ago, when this Project commenced, we
approached these complaints of government harassment and
experimentation with an admitted "high degree of caution." We are no
longer skeptical. The growing numbers of independent complaints and
the similarities between those complaints cannot be ignored. Under the
circumstances, the KGB should be proud of itself. As a "mentality,"
the KGB appears to be accomplishing more in "burying this country"
from within, than it could ever have hoped to have achieved as an
institution. It would appear that this country has a serious problem
on its hands which needs to be resolved.
Part I of this report, which is reprinted from the
June-July edition of the association's publication, Unclassified,
preliminarily addresses the complaints brought to our attention as of
July 1992. Our objective, as noted, was to weigh the legitimacy of
those complaints in terms of the directed-energy technologies
reportedly involved. Part II discusses the overt and covert patterns
of harassment identified as a result of our
investigations, to date. A part of our objective, here, is to
limit the success of such operations in the future, by according
them widespread publicity.
In Part II, we do not identify individuals by name, both
to honor their privacy and because our investigations have not been
completed. Part II, like Part I, is a preliminary finding. Our focus
is on the similarities of the complaints being received --
similarities which Federal and State legislators, the courts, the FBI,
local law enforcement agencies, the medical and psychiatric
professions, and organizations such as the ACLU and Amnesty
International have so far chosen to ignore.
We frankly find it curious that more attention and
creditability is being accorded purported victims of UFO experiences
and spectral visitations, than to persons who complain of systematic
harassment and experimentation by the U.S. Government, involving
technologies which the U.S. Government is only now grudgingly
admitting to possess. These complaints require investigation. In due
course (and provided financial support is obtained), we hope to be
able to acquire the technology and supportive medical expertise to
substantiate the claims being made. We also hope to alter the
institutional mindset that U.S. Intelligence can be trusted. History,
repeatedly, has proven otherwise.
PART 1 - THE PROBLEM SURFACES
[Reprinted from the June-July 1992 edition of
UNCLASSIFIED (Vol. IV, No. 3), published by The Association of
National Security Alumni, Washington, D.C.]
The August-September 1991 issue of UNCLASSIFIED reviewed
Hamline University's "Public Administration" report on the resolution
of MKULTRA cases in 1988. Although the shocking details of medical
ethics abuses by the U.S. and Canadian governments were amply
detailed, Washington and Ottawa -- citing national security and
government privilege -- stalled for so long that cases never came to
trial. the surviving victims settled for a pittance in an out-of-court
settlement.
Since no individuals or agencies were held legally
accountable, the door was left open for possible resumption of similar
"mind-control" activities.
In the context of that article, we mentioned briefly
that some half-dozen people had contacted us with appeals for
assistance in ending what they believe to be electronic harassment and
mind-control experimentation, possibly involving the CIA. We decided
to take a closer look at the situation.
We are now in touch with approximately a dozen
individuals throughout the United States who appear to be targets of
harassment and mind-control experimentation involving directed-energy
technologies. [By mid-November 1992, the number had increased to 25.]
Typically, persons who complain of being "zapped by
radio waves" and of "hearing voices" are stigmatized as psychotic,
delusional or schizophrenic. Being mindful of this, as well as aware
of the treatment accorded UFO and psychic phenomena "freaks," we
approach this subject with a high degree of caution. Based on our
preliminary investigation, including interviews with the affected
individuals, we conclude that the matter is serious and should be
pursued further.
The Existing Directed-Energy Arsenal
Our first step was to determine what, if any technology
exists which might be used for electronic harassment. The information
was found in a "white paper" published in 1991 by the U.S. Global
Strategy Council -- a Washington-based organization, under the
chairmanship of Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA, who
maintains very close ties with the U.S. Intelligence community. The
"white paper" describes the foreign and domestic uses foreseen for
laser weapons, isotropic radiators, infrasound, non-nuclear
electromagnetic pulse generators, and high-powered microwave emitters.
The term, "non-lethal," used to describe this technology
is misleading. the energy emitted from all of these weapons can kill
people when appropriately amplified. At lower levels of amplified,
they can cause extreme forms of physical discomfort and debilitation.
The Department of the Army (DA) identifies these same
weapons as "non-conventional." They were so identified in an exhibit
at a DA-sponsored symposium on "The Soldier As A System," in Crystal
City, VA, on June 30, 1992. Beta wave incapacitators were separately
mentioned during the symposium as being particular interested to the
U.S. Marine Corps.
We discussed these "non-conventional" directed-energy
weapons with Mr. Vernon Shisler, manager of the exhibit and the Army's
delegate to NATO in matters pertaining to "The Soldier As A System."
Mr. Shisler acknowledged not only that directed-energy weapons are in
the Dod's arsenal, but also that the American soldier will remain
vulnerable to their effects, should they be employed in the
battlefield.
The U.S. Global Strategy Council recognizes the issue of
vulnerability, as well, and urges ongoing research into effective
countermeasures.
Interested readers may want to send for the U.S. Global
Strategy Council's complete project proposal on this subject: (Title:
Nonlethality: Development of a National Policy and Employing Nonlethal
Means in a New Strategic Era, prepared by Janet Morris). A number of
references in this Proposal to unidentified, elusive "enemies" of the
U.S. Government and the potential domestic applications of this
"non-lethal" technology invite serious consideration by the public at
large.
The Council's address is 1800 K Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20006, (202) 466-6029.
BIOEFFECTS OF MICROWAVE RADIATION
Research into biological and psychological effects of
exposure to microwave radiation is voluminous. The U.S. public has
been led to believe that the former Soviet Union leads in this
research. The fact is, the CIA and DoD [Department of Defense] have
jointly pursued precisely the same research since commencement of
Project Pandora in the 1950's. The current primary users of this
research appear to be the CIA, DoD, the National Security Agency (NSA)
and the Department of Energy (DoE).
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) has
participated in this research since Project Pandora. In 1973, WRAIR
discovered that externally-induced auditory input could be achieved by
means of pulsed microwave audiograms, or analogs of spoken words'
sounds. The effect on the receiving end is the (schizophrenic)
sensation of "hearing voices" which are no part of the recipients' own
thought processes.
The experiment prompted the following comment in "The
Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life," by Robert
O. Becker, M.D., and Gary Selden (Wm. Morrow & Company, NY, 1985):
"Such a device has obvious applications in covert operations designed
to drive a target crazy with 'voices' or deliver undetected
instructions to a programmed assassin."
This research has continued, and the results are
published in various publicly available scientific and technical
journals. Interested readers might consult, for example: Lin, James
C., Electromagnetic Interaction With Biological Systems (Plenum Press,
NY, 1989). Professor Lin, then with the Department of Bioengineering,
University of Illinois, Chicago, has published a number of books and
articles on this subject. [He has more recently informed us that he
had designed the experiment referred above in Dr. Becker's book.]
WRAIR has more recently been studying the biological
effects of exposure to high power microwave radiation. WRAIR presented
a paper on this subject to a DoD-sponsored symposium on "MW
[microwave] Weapons" at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA,
in mid-1989.
A matter of interest to us is why WRAIR should be
experimenting with auditory effects of pulsed microwave audiograms.
Also, recent statements by an Army psychiatrist assigned to the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) suggest that WRAIR may be
experimenting upon select psychiatric inpatients with microwaves.
This, too, is a matter to us.
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT
The Government's past record of abuses in the area of
civil rights is well documented. Within the past 30 years alone, we
have witnessed the effects of Operations MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and
COINTELPRO.
Primarily because of MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO,
Executive Orders and implementing regulations were published which
prohibited military and CIA domestic covert intelligence operations.
Experiments on involuntary human subjects, and the
surveillance of/collection of personal information on U.S. citizens,
except under strictly regulated conditions were also prohibited.
Congressional committees were created to oversee
compliance with these (quasi-) legal prohibitions. We have evidence
that this is not being done. Moreover, where there are laws and, in
this case, no laws enacted, there are loopholes, as well as individual
and institutions who deliberately capitalize upon the existence of
loopholes. Iran-Contra is one of the more blatant recent examples.
Loopholes are also found in government resort to "black" intelligence
and weapons programs, in the use of contractors, and in the absence of
clear definitions of such terms as "national security" and "national
security risk."
Executive Orders and regulations which currently limit
U.S. Intelligence activities do not extend to non-intelligence
government agencies or to their contractors. If fact, Executive Order
12333 specifies that government contractors do not need to know that
their services support U.S. Intelligence objectives.
In its report of July 8, 1992, the Senate Subcommittee
on Oversight of Government Management addresses the problem of
tracking funds granted to government-contracted research and
development (R&D) centers. The report notes that the problem is
compounded by DoD's penchant for creating hard-to-monitor "shell"
contractors as disbursement centers for funding programs.
Neither shell contractors nor their subcontractors are
directly accountable to Congress. Being beyond Congressional
oversight, they have the license to operate as Government surrogates
in intelligence operations about which, "officially" they know
nothing.
In this context, a publication disseminated at DA's "The
Soldier As A System" symposium noted that the Army's Research and
Technology Program sponsors 42 laboratories and R & D centers,
employing approximately 10,000 scientists and engineers. The annual
budget of $1.3 billion is only a small part of overall DoD research
spending.
Weapons research, which includes the development and
testing of "non-lethal" weapons, is not governed by laws restricting
the activities of U.S. Intelligence agencies, though it may be
presumed that these agencies contribute to and benefit from such
research.
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
1.) The technology exists for the types of harassment
and experimentation reported to us.
2.) About a dozen U.S. citizens have informed us of
continuing experiments with effects which directed-energy weapons are
designed to produce.
3.) U.S. Government-sponsored research into the
bioeffects of exposure to microwave radiation is extensive and
continuing.
4.) The U.S. Government has a past record of having
engaged in mind-control experimentation; and various agencies of the
Government have a record of circumventing legal
restrictions upon their activities.
5.) Neither Congress nor the courts appear willing to
look closely into "black" intelligence and weapons procurement
programs.
6.) A number of U.S. Government agencies might have
interest in testing directed-energy technologies on U.S. citizens
under non-clinical/non-controlled circumstances -- DoD, to test ranges
and degrees of "non-lethality"; DoE, to explore "safety" limits; CIA,
to test "mind-control" capabilities, and NSA, for technological
refinement.
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Director, Electronic Surveillance Project
Association of National Security Alumni
December 1992