Biological Process Control
Looking 50 years into the future is extremely easy and, at the same time, exceedingly difficult. Easy, since I will not be around to catch the flak for being wrong. Difficult, since it is really presumptuous to pretend that you have the vision to see the future. Nonetheless, you asked for it and here goes.
As we look forward to the future, it seems likely that this nation will be involved in multiple conflicts where our military forces increasingly will be placed in situations where the application of the full force capabilities of our military might cannot be applied. We will be involved intimately with hostile populations in situations where the application of non-lethal force will be the tactical or political preference. It appears likely that there are a number of physical agents that might actively, but largely benignly, interact or interfere with biological processes in an adversary in a manner that will provide our armed forces the tools to control these adversaries without extensive loss of life or property. These physical agents could include acoustic fields, optical fields, electromagnetic fields and combinations thereof. This paper will address only the prospect of physical regulation of biological processes using electromagnetic fields.
One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be pulsed, shaped, and focused, that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements, control emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both short-term and long-term memory, produce an experience set, and delete an experience set. New weapons that offer opportunity of control of an adversary without resorting to a lethal solution or to collateral casualties can be developed around this concept. If successful, one can envision a weapon that would render an opponent incapable of taking any meaningful action involving any higher motor skills, (e.g. using weapons, operating tracking systems.)
It would also appear possible to create high fidelity speech in the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion and psychological direction. When a high power microwave pulse in the gigahertz range strikes the human body, a very small temperature perturbation occurs. This is associated with a sudden expansion of the slightly heated tissue.
This expansion is fast enough to create an internal acoustic field in the 5-15 kHz range, which is audible. Thus, it may be possible to "talk" to selected adversaries in a fashion that would be most disturbing to them.
In comparison to the discussion in the paragraphs above, the concept of an experience set is highly speculative, but nonetheless, highly exciting. Modern electromagnetic scattering theory raised the prospect that ultrashort pulse scattering through the human brain can result in reflected signals that can be used to construct a reliable estimate of the degree of central nervous system arousal. The concept behind this "remote EEG" is to scatter off of action potentials or ensembles of action potentials in major central nervous system tracts. Assuming we will understand how our skills are imprinted and recalled, it might be possible to take this concept one step further and duplicate the experience set in another individual. The prospect of providing a "been there-done that" knowledge base could provide a revolutionary change in our approach to specialized training.
New World Vistas, United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Ancillary Volume, 1996, pp. 89-90.
"Non-lethal" Weapons May Violate Peace Treaties
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Program of the Federation of American Scientists, writes about electromagnetic weapons:
"These weapons are said to cause temporary or permanent blindness, interference with mental processes, modification of behavior or emotional response, seizures, severe pain, dizziness, nausea and diarrhea, or disruption of internal organ functions in various other ways."
"In addition, under the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention, international discussions are now underway that may lead to the development of specific new protocols covering electromagnetic weapons. The current surge of interest in electromagnetic technologies makes the adoption of a protocol explicitly outlawing the use of these dehumanizing weapons an urgent matter."
Hatch Rosenberg, Barbara, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Sept-Oct 1994, p. 44.
The Learning Channel featured Dr. Michael Persinger of Laurentian University, Canada. He described weapons using "psycho or influence technology" and electromagnetic frequencies to control what people think, for psychological purposes.
Learning Channel, Weapons of War, Sept. 21, 1997.
The book, The Mind Manipulators, is an account written by Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr. Mr. Scheflin taught at Georgetown University and Mr. Opton is a graduate of Yale, Duke and UC Berkeley. The book jacket states:
Ten thousand pages of formerly top secret U.S. Army and C.I.A. documents prove that for twenty-five years the United States government agencies undertook the most extensive mind-manipulation program in the history of the world. Every conceivable method for molding the mind was explored and refined, many of them tested on unwitting American citizens.
Psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, prison officials, scientists, lawyers and politicians have, for decades, been involved in mind- control research in hospitals, laboratories, universities, mental institutions, medical offices, prisons and schools.
Thoughts can be read remotely and played back; another person will repeat exactly what the victim just thought. Brainwashing and personality breaking techniques are used. Microwave hearing, the hearing of voices beamed into the victim's head via microwaves, is reported in most cases. There are many articles in the open literature discussing "microwave hearing." Dr. Robert Becker wrote the book Body Electric in 1985 and reported that "in 1973 Dr. Joseph Sharp of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research heard and understood spoken words beamed to him in an echo-free isolation chamber via a pulsed microwave audiogram (an analog of the word's sound vibrations) beamed into his brain. Such a device has obvious applications in a covert operation designed to drive a target crazy with "voices" or undetectable instructions to a programmed assassin."
Victims also allege that dreams and memories are manipulated. Movements and consciousness, heart rate and many bodily functions are reportedly monitored and controlled. These and other symptoms can be correlated to the past well documented mind control research and the extrapolation to the highly likely fact that the mind control research is continuing and is as classified as a Manhattan Project.
Scheflin, Alan W., Opton Jr., Edward M., The Mind Manipulators, Paddington Press Ltd., 1978.
The Pentagon's exotic weapons programme, led by the Air Force, is cloaked in ultra-secrecy which forbids any public comment by scientists.
Electromagnetic radiation - basically waves below radio frequencies - was found to prompt human or animal brains to release chemicals that affect behavior. "We could put animals into a stupor," he explained, adding that it would probably be possible to create flu-like symptoms and nausea in humans. Such work continues. In 1995 Air Force generals reviewed more than 1,000 proposed exotic weapons projects. One was called "Put the enemy to sleep/Keep the enemy from sleeping." Another project approved for more research involved brain-wave manipulation.
According to Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News, the effort is practical. He says such exotic weapons are merely the next logical step to the variety of radio beams used to knock out the electrical systems of aircraft or missiles. "Once you are into these anti-material weapons, it is just a short jump to anti-personnel ones." In effect, humans are also just electro-chemical systems that can be disrupted.
Dettmer, Jamie, It's War, Jim, But Not As We Know It, Scotsman Publications Ltd., Scotland on Sunday, Lexis-Nexis, Aug. 3, 1997, p. 5.
G. Harry Stine foresaw a near future in which men could become like gods through the use of "intelligence amplifiers" implanted in the brains.
Stine wrote that, very soon, intelligence amplifiers - tiny microchip devices either implanted in humans or capable of being temporarily connected to the human brain and sensory channels - will actually allow others to "get inside a person's head." With such devices, we will possess the astonishing ability to hear the thoughts of others.
Researchers have made rapid progress to bring [implantable biochips] to reality. An eye-opening article in Science News reported that, "New electronic techniques are being developed to eavesdrop on the brain."
According to Science News, "The techniques, under study at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in AT&T labs, and elsewhere, will allow outsiders to direct a person's brain cell conversations and talk directly to the individual's brain neurons. The article also said that current research centers on the eventual employment of integrated circuit chips that can be either implanted in the brain or overlaid with brain cells."
...Stine, an optimist who believes that man will not allow the abuse of these capabilities, nevertheless warns: "It also contains the seeds of unimaginable evil: the actual control of human minds by other humans. Not brainwashing. Not propaganda. Not any of the ancient and well-proven means of mentally or physically imposing one person's will by police action or torture, But the actual control of the human mind."
Marrs, Texe, Project L.U.C.I.D., Living Truth Publishers, 1996, pp. 100-101.