Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have

a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades. Part 1 of 2

It would also appear possible to create high fidelity speech in the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion and psychological direction... Thus, it may be possi ble to "talk" to selected adversaries in a fashion that would be most disturbing to them.1 US Air Force, New World Vistas: Air and Space Power for the 21st Century1

by Nick Begich, MD 2005

Earthpulse Press, Inc. PO Box 201393 Anchorage, Alaska 99520, USA Website: http://www.earthpulse.com Extracted from Earth Rising II: The Betrayal of Science, Society and the Soul (2003)

he idea that the brain can be made to function at a more efficient and directed level has been the subject of research by scientists, mystics, health practitioners and others for as long as mankind has contemplated such matters. In the last decade, advances in the science of the brain have begun to yield significant results. The results of the research are startling, challenging and, if misused, will be frightening. The certainty to be expected from the research is that it will continue to proceed. The idea that people can be impacted by external signal generators which create, for example, pulsed electromagnetic fields, pulsed light and pulsed sound signals is not new. The following information demonstrates some of the possibilities and gives hints of the potentials of the technology. On the positive side, researchers in the field of light and sound are making huge progress in a number of areas, including working with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, stroke recovery, accelerated learning, drug/alcohol addiction and enhanced human performance. The research has shown that certain brain states can be influenced in a way which causes changes within the brain itself. These changes allow individuals the possibility of influencing specific conditions in the mind and body otherwise thought beyond our direct control. The military and others interested in such things have also focused a large amount of research into this area for the purpose of enhancing the performance of soldiers while degrading the performance of adversaries. What is known is that great strides in the area of behaviour control are now possible with systems developed and under development by most sophisticated countries on the planet. These new technologies represent a much different approach to warfare which our government is describing as part of the "Revolution in Military Affairs". While these new technologies offer much for military planners, they offer even more to citizens generally. Their potential use in military applications and "peacekeeping" creates the need for open debate of this new realm of intelligence-gathering, manipulation and warfare. The most basic ethical questions regarding use of these technologies have not been adequately addressed. At the same time that defence and intelligence-gathering capabilities are being sought, independent researchers are fully engaged in seeking positive uses for the technology. The potentials of the technology, like all technology, are great as both a destructive or constructive force for change. The idea of enhancing physical and mental performance while bypassing what heretofore was a long and arduous road to achieve the same results is exciting. Maintaining the research in the open literature and ensuring that constructive uses are encouraged is critical. I began looking into technologies for stimulating brain performance about fifteen years ago. At the time, there were limited tools available compared to what is now possible. Now it is possible to obtain light and sound, electrocranial and biofeedback tools for use in this exploration. Moreover, there are audio materials also available for use with most of these tools. These audio materials can be used for learning languages, behaviour modification or enhanced performance. The biofeedback side of the new technology is being used to train people to reach specific desired brain states for optimum performance. The use of light and sound devices for stimulating brain activity which is conducive to
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accelerated learning and relaxation is a growing area of interest to security officers first noticed that the Soviets were bombarding the many people. Moreover, the use of these tools in conjunction with US embassy in Moscow with microwave radiation, the US governbiofeedback has been the subject of quickly evolving research. The ment still has not determined conclusivelyor is unwilling to combined technologies of brain state inducement and biofeedback revealthe purpose behind the beams". 3 The US government did offer exciting possibilities. It has been found with the combination know what was happening. The Soviets had developed methods for that a person, in a matter of several weeks, can learn to modify purdisrupting the purposeful thought of humans and were using their posefully his/her brain activity in a way which would have taken a knowledge to impact diplomats in the United States embassy in Zen master twenty years to accomplish. It has been shown that Moscow. some children with attention deficit disorders can be taught to reguIn 1994, a report concerning the MKULTRA program was late their brain activities so that they can learn efficiently without issued, containing the following information: chemicals. It has been demonstrated that recovering stroke victims "In the 1950s and '60s, the CIA engaged in an extensive program can more rapidly recover when working with brain-biofeedback of human experimentation, using drugs, psychological, and other practitioners and these new tools. means, in search of techniques to control human behavior for counThe research is also teaching us a good deal about our sugterintelligence and covert action purposes. gestibility in terms of influences which have an impact on our "In 1973, the CIA purposefully destroyed most of the behaviour. The underlying message that comes with the new techMKULTRA files concerning its research and testing on human nology is the necessity of providing safeguards against misuse. behaviour. In 1977, the agency uncovered additional MKULTRA Additionally, recognition of the everyday files in the budget and fiscal records that were stimulation we all get and the effect of these not indexed under the name MKULTRA. information inputs on our learning processes These documents detailed over 150 subprojects becomes more clear. The suggestibility of that the CIA funded in this area, but no The 1980s and 1990s humans, particularly when in a fatigued condievidence was uncovered at that time tion, has been exploited by terrorists, cults and were focused on building concerning the use of radiation. others in pursuit of their own aims. The pasand effect up the physical body. The of "The CIA did investigate the useresponse to sive suggestibility of radio and television as microwaves on human beings in 21st century will see a we weave in and out of the semi-sleep states is a Soviet practice of beaming microwaves on for the most part not even recognised. The the US embassy. The agency determined that focus on building the passive learning situations become even more this was outside the scope of the Advisory mind and optimising relevant when we consider how we "receive Committee's purview. the news" in our daily lives. The ability to "...The Church Committee found some mental performance. influence thinking, behaviour and perforrecords, but also noted that the practice of mance is indeed a two-edged sword. MKULTRA at that time was 'to maintain The idea of merging the The 1980s and 1990s were focused on no records of the planning and approval building up the physical body. The 21st of test programs'. ...MKULTRA itself new technologies into century will see a focus on building the was technically closed out in 1964, but education is interesting mind and optimising mental some of its work was transferred to the and also calls into performance. The idea of merging the Office of Research and Development new technologies into education is (ORD) within the DS&T under the name question who will decide interesting and also calls into question MKSEARCH and continued into the what is to be learned. who will decide what is to be learned. In 1970s. the interim, the possibilities are "The CIA worked closely with the incredible for those interested in such Army in conducting the LSD experipursuits. The control of our mental ments. This connection with the Army is function is no different than the control significant because MKULTRA began at of the muscles in our bodies. Learning to the same time that Secretary of Defense control or coordinate the activity of our minds will propel our Wilson issued his 1953 directive to the military services on ethical bodies through a much more productive and fuller life. The new guidelines for human experiments. tools may offer just such opportunities. "Throughout the course of MKULTRA, the CIA sponsored On the other side of the issue is the potential for misuse and numerous experiments on unwitting humans. After the death of exploitation of the science. Military planners, law enforcement one such individual (Frank Olson, an army scientist, was given officials and others are now seeking the covert use of these techLSD in 1953 and committed suicide a week later), an internal CIA nologies for controlling the ultimate "information processor"the investigation warned about the dangers of such experimentation. Human Being. The CIA persisted in this practice for at least the next ten years. After the 1963 IG [Inspector-General] report recommended termination of unwitting testing, Deputy Director for Plans Richard MK-ULTRA "Dr Gottlieb, born August 3, 1918, was the CIA's real-life 'Dr Helms (who later became Director of Central Intelligence) continStrangelove'a brilliant bio-chemist who designed and headed ued to advocate covert testing on the ground that 'positive operaMK-ULTRA, the agency's most far-reaching drug and mind-control tional capability to use drugs is diminishing, owing to a lack of realprogram at the height of the Cold War. Though the super-secret istic testing. With increasing knowledge of state of the art, we are MK-ULTRA was ended in 1964, a streamlined version called MKless capable of staying up with the Soviet advances in this field'. SEARCH was continuedwith Gottlieb in chargeuntil 1972."2 ...Helms attributed the cessation of the unwitting testing to the high During this period, substantial interest in mind control was stimurisk of embarrassment to the Agency as well as the 'moral problem'. lated by Soviet use of microwaves. In 1988, "thirty-five years after He noted that no better covert situation had been devised than that
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ogy, especially weapons accuracy, have constrained us to waging serial war. This changes almost everything. "Biological Process Control: 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 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 Mind Wars "For the first time in some 500 years, a scientific revolution has property. These physical agents could include acoustic fields, begun that will fundamentally change the world as much as the optical fields, electromagnetic fields, and combinations thereof. Renaissance and Enlightenment did. A handful of extraordinary This paper will address only the prospect of physical regulation of new advances in science are taking humans quickly and deeply into biological processes using electromagnetic fields. areas that will have profound implications for the future."5 "Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of One of these areas is control of the human mind. The issues surknowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a rounding behaviour modification, mind control and information clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really warfare become crystal clear as the facts unfold. controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be The following is taken from a current military document, "The manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision the Information Revolution and the Future Air Force" by Colonel John development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of A. Warden III, USAF, which clarifies which can be pulsed, shaped, and their position in the emerging area of focused, that can couple with the research, taking a much different direchuman body in a fashion that will tion than the one described above: allow one to prevent voluntary "In the past, communications "We're currently experiencing, on an muscular movements, control and weapons technology, unprecedented global basis, three emotions (and thus actions), produce simultaneous revolutions, any one of sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere especially weapons accuracy, which would be more than enough to with both short-term and long-term have constrained us to waging shock and confound us. The first revomemory, produce an experience set, lution, a geopolitical revolution, sees a and delete an experience set. This will serial war. This changes single dominant power in the world for open the door for the development of almost everything." the first time since the fall of Rome. some novel capabilities that can be The opportunities that are inherent in used in armed conflict, in this situation are extraordinary, as are terrorist/hostage situations, and in the pitfalls. Unfortunately, there is no training. New weapons that offer the one around that has first hand experience in how to deal with that opportunity of control of an adversary without resorting to a lethal kind of single power dominant world. situation or to collateral casualties can be developed around this "The second revolution, and there's a lot of discussion about this concept. This would offer significant improvements in the so far, is the information revolution. As other people have mencapabilities of our special operation forces. tioned, it is following inexorably in tandem behind Moore's law of "Initial experimentation should be focused on the interaction of computing power. Attendant to it, though, is not the creation of electromagnetic energy and the neuromuscular junctions involved new ideas and technologies, but also an exponential growth in the in voluntary muscle control. Theories need to be developed, velocity of information dissemination, and for us that is of extraormodeled, and tested in experimental preparations. Early testing dinary importance. A key part of this information revolution has an using in vitro cell cultures of neural networks could provide the awesome impact on competition. The business that introduced a focus for more definitive intact animal testing. If successful, one new product ten years ago could count on probably five years could envision a weapon that would render an opponent incapable before it had to look seriously at potential competitors based overof taking any meaningful action involving any higher motor skills seas. Today, you're lucky if you can count on five months or even (e.g., using weapons, operating tracking systems). The prospect of five weeks before you are facing the overseas competitor. In a weapon to accomplish this when targeted against an individual today's world, success simply demands rapid introduction of suctarget is reasonable; the prospect of a weapon effective against a cessively new products or military systems. Success now goes to massed force would seem to be more remote. Use of such a device the organization which exploits information almost instantly, while in an enclosed area against multiple targets (hostage situation) may failure is the near certain fate of the organization which tries to husbe more difficult than an individual target system, but probably band or hide ideas. Real simpleuse it or you're going to lose it. feasible. "The third revolution, which is a little bit more complex, is the "It would also appear to be possible to create high fidelity speech military/technological revolution, or in some places called the revoin the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion and lution in military affairs. I'm convinced that this is the first military psychological direction. When a high power microwave pulse in technological revolution ever because we now have, for the first the gigahertz range strikes the human body, a very small temperatime, a conceptually different way to wage war. We can wage war ture perturbation occurs. This is associated with a sudden expanin parallel now. In the past, communications and weapons technolsion of the slightly heated tissue. This expansion is fast enough to
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which had been used, and that 'we have no answer to the moral issue'."4 They did have the answers to the moral questions on human experimentation but chose to ignore them, destroy the records, hide the truth and still continue in their efforts. Nothing has changed as each participating organisation, using national security laws, avoids disclosure and accountability. The records which were destroyed contained the evidence necessary perhaps to send some participants to jail for society's version of behaviour modification. Once again, there was no accountability and no recognition of the rights of the individuals damaged by these experiments.

produce an acoustic wave. If a pulse stream is used, it should be mainstream of military think-tanks after the Korean War when possible to create an internal acoustic field in the 515 kilohertz returning prisoners of war exhibited significant behavioural range, which is audible. Thus, it may be possible to 'talk' to selectchanges. In 1956, the following was written into the United States ed adversaries in a fashion that would be most disturbing to them. Congressional Record: "In comparison to the discussion in the paragraphs above, the "Reports of the treatment of American prisoners of war in Korea concept of imprinting an experience set is highly speculative, but have given rise to several popular misconceptions, of which the nonetheless highly exciting. Modern electromagnetic scattering most widely publicized is 'brainwashing'. The term itself has theory raises the prospect that ultrashort pulse scattering through caught the public imagination and is used, very loosely, to describe the human brain can result in reflected signals that can be used to any act committed against an individual by the Communists. construct a reliable estimate of the degree of central nervous system Actual 'brainwashing' is a prolonged psychological process, arousal. The concept behind this 'remote EEG' is to scatter off of designed to erase an individual's past beliefs and concepts and to action potentials or ensembles of action potentials in major central substitute new ones. It is a highly coercive practice which is irrecnervous system tracts. Assuming we will understand how our skills oncilable with universally accepted medical ethics. In the process are imprinted and recalled, it might be possible to take this concept of 'brainwashing', the efforts of many are directed against an indione step further and duplicate the experience set in another individvidual. To be successful, it requires, among other things, that the ual. The prospect of providing a 'been theredone that' knowledge individual be completely isolated from normal associations and base could provide a revolutionary change in our approach to speenvironment."10 cialized training. How this can be done or even if it can be done are The ethical considerations have not changed, but the military's significant unknowns [sic]. The impact of success would boggle position on the ethics has changed as it has gained significant the mind!"6 capabilities in these areas. "Psychological warfare is becoming The above report was a forecast for the year 2020. However, the increasingly important for US forces as they engage in reality is that these technologies already exist and there are a numpeacekeeping operations. 'In the psychological operations area, ber of patents in the open literature which clearly show the possibilwe're always looking to build on our existing technologies, so much ities. This research is not new but of this is evolutionary,' [military goes back to the 1950s. planner] Holmes said. 'It is critically "A new class of weapons, based on important that we stay ahead of the The "data" the body receives electromagnetic fields, has been technology curve."11 The temptation to from external sources, such as added to the muscles of the military dabble in this area has now overcome organism. The C3I [Command, the ethical considerations. electromagnetic, vortex or acoustic Control, Communications and A Russian military article offered a Intelligence] doctrine is still growing energy waves, or creates through its slightly different slant to the problem, and expanding. It would appear that declaring that "humanity stands on the own electrical or chemical stimuli, the military may yet be able to combrink of a psychotronic war" with the can be manipulated or changed, pletely control the minds of the civilmind and body as the focus.11a These 7 just as the data in any hardware ian population." "psychotronic" weapons aim to control The targeting of civilian populaor alter the psyche, or to attack the varsystem can be altered. tions by the military is a significant ious sensory and data-processing sysdeparture from its history. In the past, tems of the human organism. In both the military has used persuasion cases, the goal is to confuse or destroy through real information rather than using deliberate deception and the signals that normally keep the body in equilibrium. mind manipulation to win populations over. According to a US Department of Defense directive (S-3600.1, "A decoy and deception concept presently being considered is to December 9, 1996), "information warfare" is defined as "an remotely create the perception of noise in the heads of personnel by information operation conducted during time of crisis or conflict to exposing them to low power, pulsed microwaves. When people are achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or illuminated with properly modulated low power microwaves the adversaries". An "information operation" is defined in the same sensation is reported as a buzzing, clicking, or hissing which seems directive as "actions taken to affect adversary information and to originate (regardless of the person's position in the field) within information systems". These "information systems" lie at the heart or just behind the head. The phenomena occurs [sic] at average of the modernisation effort of the US armed forces and manifest power densities as low as microwatts per square centimeter with themselves as hardware, software, communications capabilities and carrier frequencies from 0.4 to 3.0 GHz. By proper choice of pulse highly trained individuals. characteristics, intelligible speech may be created. Before this techInformation warfare has tended to ignore the role of the human nique may be extended and used for military applications, an underbody as an information or data processor in this quest for domistanding of the basic principles must be developed. Such an undernance, except in those cases where an individual's logic or rational standing is not only required to optimize the use of the concept for thought may be upset via disinformation or deception... Yet, the camouflage, decoy and deception operations but is required to propbody is capable not only of being deceived, manipulated or misinerly assess safety factors of such microwave exposure."8 formed but also shut down or destroyedjust as any other dataActual testing of certain systems has proven "that movements, processing system. The "data" the body receives from external sensations, emotions, desires, ideas, and a variety of psychological sources, such as electromagnetic, vortex or acoustic energy waves, phenomena may be induced, inhibited, or modified by electrical or creates through its own electrical or chemical stimuli, can be stimulation of specific areas of the brain. These facts have changed manipulated or changed, just as the data (information) in any hardthe classical philosophical concept that the mind was beyond ware system can be altered. If the ultimate target of information experimental reach."9 warfare is the information-dependent process, "whether human or The first widespread interest in the subject of mind control hit the automated", then the definition implies that human data-processing
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of internal and external signals can clearly be considered an aspect display within the video image according to the position of information warfare.12 information."17 On a much grander scale, the use of mind control was contem"This invention is a combination of a subliminal message generaplated as far back as 1969 by a former science adviser to President tor that is 100% user programmable for use with a television receivJohnson. "Gordon J. F. Macdonald, a geophysicist specializing in er. The subliminal message generator periodically displays user problems of warfare, has written that accurately timed, artificially specified messages for the normal television signal for [a] specific excited strokes 'could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce period of time. This permits an individual to employ a combination relatively high power levels over certain regions of the earth... In of subliminal and supraliminal therapy while watching television."18 this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair The above points may seem a bit complicated; however, they can the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions be summarised. These patents are designed to provide a way to over an extended period...'" 13 This capability exists today through hide messages in video or audio formats, masking any suggestions the use of systems which can stimulate the ionosphere to return a that the programmer wishes to convey. These kinds of messages pulsed (modulated) signal which, at the right bypass the conscious mind and are acted upon frequency, can override normal brain funcby the person hearing them; they are not tions. By overriding the natural pulsations of sorted out by the active mind. Although these The capability exists the brain, chemical reactions are triggered technologies are being developed for personal which alter the emotional state of targeted use and as security measures, consider the today through the use populations. possibilities for abuse by commercial interests of systems which can where the messages might be "buy, buy, buy", "drink more, don't worry", or some other selfSubliminal Messages and Commercial stimulate the ionosphere serving script. Should these systems be Uses to return a pulsed signal regulated? By whom and under what One of the areas where this new technology is being used is in systems to dissuade conditions? which, at the right shoplifters, using sound below the range of frequency, can override New Standards for What is a Memory hearing. "Japanese shopkeepers are playing CDs with subliminal messages to curb the "Nevada is currently the only state to allow normal brain functions. impulses of the growing band of witness testimony of a person who has shoplifters. The Mind Control CDs undergone hypnosis. As of October 1, By overriding the natural have sound-tracks of popular music or 1997, courts hearing both civil and crimocean waves, with encoded voices in inal cases can take a hypnotically pulsations of the brain, seven languages...warning that anyone refreshed testimony, as long as the witchemical reactions are caught stealing will be reported to the ness, if a minor, has had the informed police."14 consent of parent or guardian, and the triggered which alter the A number of devices have been person performing the hypnosis is any of emotional state of developed to influence behaviour in this the following: a health care provider, a way, and patents have been awarded. clinical social worker licenced in accortargeted populations. The following summations are taken dance with 641B of Nevada Revised from some of these patents dealing with Statute, or a disinterested investigator."19 both audio and video programming This issue will surely become more only this time, we are the program: complex as technology advances in "An auditory subliminal programterms of evidence. When the day arrives ming system includes a subliminal message encoder that generates that it is possible to change or alter memory completely, as suggestfixed frequency security tones and combines them with a sublimied earlier by military officers, what then? How will we separate the nal message signal to produce an encoded subliminal message sigreal from the unreal? What will be the impact on the burden of nal which is recorded on audio tape or the like. A corresponding proof in courts as it relates to "reasonable doubt"? subliminal decoder/mixer is connected as part of a user's convenAgain, the emergence of the technology has first to be recognised tional stereo system and receives as inputs an audio program selectas real before laws can be constructed and systems established for ed by the user and the encoded subliminal message."15 controlling misuse. Think how long it has taken the courts even to "Ambient audio signals from the customer shopping area within a recognise hypnotherapy as valid science. We are hopeful that we store are sensed and fed to a signal processing circuit that produces will not have to wait so long for legislative bodies to take the initiaa control signal which varies with variations in the amplitude of the tive to address these issues. sensed audio signals. A control circuit adjusts the amplitude of an auditory subliminal anti-shoplifting message to increase with Auditory Effects increasing amplitudes of sensed audio signals and decrease with The questions which this section raises are profound. Is it possidecreasing amplitudes of sensed audio signals. This amplitude conble to transmit a signal to the brain of a person, from a distance, trolled subliminal message may be mixed with background music which deposits specific sounds, voice or other information which and transmitted to the shopping area."16 can be understood? Is it possible to transfer sound in a way where "Data to be displayed is combined with a composite video signal. only the targeted person can hear the "voice in the head" and no one The data is stored in memory in digital form. Each byte of data is else hears a thing? Is it possible to shift a person's emotions using read out in sequential fashion to determine: the recurrence display remote electromagnetic tools? The answer to each of these quesrate of the data according to the frame sync pulses of the video tions is a resounding "Yes!" The state of the science has passed signal; the location of the data within the video image according to even the most optimistic predictions, and the capabilities are here the line sync pulses of the video signal; and the location of the data now.
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Military literature suggests that this is possible. A series of The development of the technology followed a very traceable experiments, patents and independent research confirm that this history which began in the early 1960s at the height of the Cold technology exists today. While giving testimony to the European War. In 1961, Dr Allen Frey wrote: "Our data to date indicate that Parliament in 1998, I demonstrated one such device to the astonishthe human auditory system can respond to electromagnetic energy ment of those in attendance. This particular device required physiin at least a portion of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Further, cal contact in order to work and was nearly forty years old. This this response is instantaneous and occurs at low power densities, area of research is one of the most important because it points to the densities which are well below that necessary for biological ultimate weapon of political control: the ability to place informadamage. For example, the effect has been induced with power tion directly into the human brain, bypassing all normal filtering densities 1/60 of the standard maximum safe level for continuous mechanisms. exposure."23 In 1995, the US Department of Defense put forward the contract, This observation had incredible ramifications because it meant "Communicating via the Microwave Auditory Effect; Awarding that within certain ranges RF could create a sound within the brain Agency: Department of Defense; SBIR Contract Number: F41624of a person at energy concentration levels considered too small to 95-C-9007". The description of this technology, which would be be significant. used for direct communications with military personnel, is written Later that year, a patent was issued to Henry K. Puharich and as follows: Joseph L. Lawrence which stated in part: "Title: Communicating via the Microwave "The present invention is directed to a means Auditory Effect for auxiliary hearing communication, useful "Description: An innovative and revolufor improving hearing, for example, and tionary technology is described that offers a relates more specifically to novel and means of low-probability-of-intercept Radio improved arrangements for auxiliary hearing This area of research Frequency (RF) communications. The feasicommunications by effecting the transmission bility of the concept has been established of sound signals through the dental structure is one of the most using both a low intensity laboratory system and facial nervous system of the user."24 This important because it and a high power RF transmitter. Numerous crude device produced a signal which could military applications exist in areas of search be heard in the brain by inducing a vibration points to the ultimate and rescue, security and special operations."20 which was transferred through the bone into The feasibility was not only demonstrated the inner ear, where it was then carried to the weapon of political in the laboratory but also in the field using a brain via the nervous system. Puharich concontrol: the ability to radio-frequency carrier. In the case of the tinued researching along this line, gaining an Gulf War, we had always suspected that additional patent in 1965. 2 5 Both of place information the reason the Iraqis gave up in mass these inventions required physical condirectly into the human was not because of the heavy tact with the head of the subject. bombardments but because they were By 1962, Dr Allan Frey had advanced brain, bypassing all being hit with new "non-lethal" systems his work and was able to create sound at normal filtering which created fear and perhaps even a distance from the subject, using a worse. Our research uncovered reports pulsed (modulated) radio transmitter. mechanisms. which now confirm our suspicions as "Using extremely low average power fact. densities of electromagnetic energy, the "What the 'Voice of the Gulf' began perception of sounds was induced in broadcasting, along with prayers from normal and deaf humans. The effect the Koran and testimonials from wellwas induced several hundred feet from treated Iraqi prisoners, was precise the antenna the instant the transmitter information on the units to be bombed was turned on, and is a function of each day, along with a new, silent psycarrier frequency and modulation."26 chological technique which induced thoughts of great fear in each What was occurring in this research were the first attempts to soldier's mind..."21 "tune" into the brain of a human in the same manner as "tuning" This makes a great deal of sense today, given what has become into a radio station. The same energy was being used; it was just at increasingly known about mind-control weapons. a different frequency with a slight vibration (modulation) on the "According to statements made by captured and deserting Iraqi carrier wave which delivered the signal. soldiers, however, the most devastating and demoralizing programIn 1968, G. Patrick Flanagan was issued a patent for a device ming was the first known military use of the new, high tech, type of which also required physical contact with the skin of the subject. subliminal messages referred to as ultra-high-frequency 'Silent "This invention relates to electromagnetic excitation of the nervous Sounds' or 'Silent Subliminals'."22 system of a mammal and pertains more particularly to a method and The use of these new techniques, we believe, went well beyond apparatus for exciting the nervous system of a person with electrothe injection of fear and may have involved more powerful signal magnetic waves that are capable of causing that person to become generators which caused the other symptoms which the world conscious of information conveyed by the electromagnetic observed, including head pain, bleeding from the nose, disorientawaves."27 tion and nauseaall possible with so-called non-lethal weapons. This invention was much different than what others had created The questions which now remain: Are they still using the techby that time, because this device actually sent a clear, audible signal niques like an electronic concentration camp in order to control the through the nervous system to the brain. population? Is this part of the way in which modern governments Continued on page 78 will suppress rogue nations?
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Mind Control: The Ultimate Brave New World

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About the Author:

Nick Begich, MD, serves as Executive Director of The Lay Institute on Technologies, Inc., a Texasbased non-profit corporation (his research abstracts and references can be found at http://www.layinstitute.org). He is also the publisher and co-owner of Earthpulse Press Inc., based in Alaska. Dr Begich is the eldest son of the late US Congressman from Alaska, Nick Begich Sr, and political activist Pegge Begich. He is well known in Alaska for his own political activities, and was twice elected president of both the Alaska Federation of Teachers and the Anchorage Council of Education. He has been pursuing independent research in the sciences and politics for most of his adult life. Begich received his doctorate in traditional medicine from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines in November 1994. He has also worked as both a Tribal Administrator and Village Planner for the Chickaloon Village Traditional Council, a federally recognised American Indian Tribe of the Athabascan Indian Nation based in Alaska. With Jeane Manning he co-authored Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology (see NEXUS 3/01). With (the late) James Roderick he co-wrote Earth Rising The Revolution: Toward a Thousand Years of Peace (7/03) and Earth Rising II The Betrayal of Science, Society and the Soul (10/05). His new book on mind control is to be published in early 2006. Dr Begich has published articles on science,

The device could be placed anywhere on the body, and a clear voice or music would appear in the head of the subject. This was a most unbelievable device which had actually been invented in the late 1950s. It had taken years to convince patent examiners that it worked. The initial patent was only granted after the dramatic demonstration of the device on a deaf employee of the US Patent Office. In 1972, a second patent was issued to G. Patrick Flanagan after being suppressed by the military since 1968. This device was much more efficient in that it converted a speech waveform into "a constant amplitude square wave in which the transitions between the amplitude extremes are spaced so as to carry the speech information".28 What this did is establish the code of modulation or timing sequences necessary for efficient transfers into the nervous system where the signals could be sent to the brain and decoded as sound in the same way that normal sound is decoded. The result was a clear and understandable sound.

politics, health and education and is a well-known lecturer, having presented throughout the USA and in 19 countries. He has been featured as a guest on thousands of radio broadcasts reporting on his research activities including new technologies, health and Earth science related issues. He has also appeared on dozens of television documentaries and other programs throughout the world including BBC-TV, CBC-TV and TeleMundo. Dr Begich has served as an expert witness and a speaker before the European Parliament, for the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) and for many other groups. He has also been a speaker at NEXUS conferences in Amsterdam and Brisbane and has contributed articles to NEXUS, his first being an expos on the HAARP facility in Alaska (vol. 2, no. 22). Dr Begich is married to Shelah Begich-Slade and has five children. He resides just north of Anchorage in the community of Eagle River, Alaska, USA. He can be contacted via his website, http://www.earthpulse.com. Endnotes 1. US Air Force, New World Vistas: Air and Space Power for the 21st Century Ancillary Volume, Scientific Advisory Board (USAF), Washington, DC, Document #19960618040, 1996, pp. 89-90. EPI402 2. Foster, Sarah, "Cold War legend dies at 80: Famed as CIA's real-life 'Dr Strangelove'", Worldnetdaily, March 9, 1999. EPI279 3. Reppert, Barton, "The Zapping of an Embassy: 35

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