U.S. Explores Russian Mind Control Technology
Washington-The Russian government is perfecting mind-control technology developed in the 1970s that could be used to hone fighting capabilities of friendly forces while demoralizing and disabling opposing troops.
Known as acoustic psycho-correction, the capability to control minds and alter behavior of civilians and soldiers may soon be shared with U.S. military, medical and political officials, according to U.S. and Russian sources.
The sources say the Russian government, in the spirit of improved U.S.-Russian relations, is beginning to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the technology.
The Russian capability, demonstrated in a series of laboratory experiments dating back to the mid-1970s, could be used to suppress riots, control dissidents, demoralize or disable opposing forces and enhance the performance of friendly special operations teams, sources say.
Pioneered by the government-funded Department of Psycho-Correction at the Moscow Medical Academy, acoustic psycho-correction involves the transmission of specific commands via static or white noise bands into the human subconscious without upsetting other intellectual functions. Experts said laboratory demonstrations have shown encouraging results after exposures of less than one minute.
Moreover, decades of research and investment of untold millions of rubles in the process of psycho-correction has produced the ability to alter behavior on willing and unwilling subjects, the experts add.
In an effort to restrict potential misuse of this capability, Russian senior research scientists, diplomats, military officers and officials of the Russian Ministry of Higher Education, Science & Technology Policy are beginning to provide limited demonstrations for their U.S. counterparts.
Further evaluations of key technologies in the United States are being planned, as are discussions aimed at creating a frame-work for bringing the issue under bilateral or multilateral controls, U.S. and Russian sources say.
An updated paper by the Psychor Center, a Moscow-based group affiliated with the Department of Psycho-Correction, a Moscow academy, acknowledges the potential of this capability.
The Russian experts, including George Kotov, a former KGB general, now serving in a senior government ministry post, present in their report a list of software and hardware associated with their psycho-correction program that could be procured for as little as $80,000.
"As far as it has become possible to probe and correct psychic contents of human beings despite their will and consciousness by instrumental means; results having been achieved can get out of control and be used with inhumane purposes of manipulating psyche," the paper states.
The Russian authors note that "World opinion is not ready for dealing appropriately with the problems coming from the possibility of direct access to the human mind." Therefore, the Russian authors have proposed a bilateral Center for Psycho-technologies where U.S. and Russian (?) restrict the emerging capabilities.
Janet Morris, of the Global Strategy Council, a Washington-based think tank established by Ray Cline, former Central Intelligence Agency deputy director, is a key U.S. liaison between Russian and U.S. officials.
In a Dec. 15 interview, Morris said she and the Richmond, Va-based International Healthline Corp. have briefed senior U.S. intelligence and Army officials about the Russian capabilities, which Morris said could include hand-held devices for purposes of special operations, crowd control and anti- personnel actions.
Barbara Opall, U.S. Explores Russian Mind-Control Technology, Defense News, January 11-17, 1993.
Time magazine reported on Mike Koernke, of the Michigan Militia, who believes that there are "Americans enslaved and implanted with microchips." This is a plausible claim as the government-funded behavioral control research in the 1970s, which included implanting electrodes to control violence by a Harvard Medical School professor and others.
There is much more plausible evidence of governmental implants and microchips. In the Southern California Law Review, Feb. 1974, Vol. 47, No. 2, Michael Shapiro wrote the article Legislating the Control of Behavior Control. On page 239 he quotes P. London, Behavior Control 4-5, 1969:
"Means are being found in all the crafts and sciences of man, society and life, that will soon make possible precise control over much of people's individual actions, thoughts, emotions, moods, and wills..."
"...Electronic miniaturization and improvements in surgery increasingly exploit discoveries of the exact locations in the brain where various behavioral functions are managed."
"...Radio remote controls over epileptic seizures, sexual desires, and speech patterns are already operational."
Time, June 26, 1995.
"Directed-energy weapons currently being deployed include, for example, a microwave weapon manufactured by Lockheed-Sanders and used for a process known as "Voice Synthesis" which is remote beaming of audio (i.e., voices or other audible signals) directly into the brain of any selected human target. This process is also known with the U.S. government as "Synthetic Telepathy." This psychotronic weapon was demonstrated by Dr. Dave Morgan at the November, 1993 non-lethal weapons conference.
Nexus, Oct-Nov, 1994.
"As former science- fiction writers, [Janet and Christopher Morris, leading proponents of nonlethal weapons] the couple speak with zeal about a coming age in which the enemy will be disoriented by very low frequency sound waves, dazzled by isotropic radiators, imprisoned by invisible magnetic fields."
"After his retirement, [Ray] Cline, the leading biographer of the CIA, had taken charge of a privately funded Washington think-tank called the U.S. Global Strategy Council. A world authority, he soon became the Morrises' mentor and their introduction to the murkier reaches of the Pentagon."
"The Morrises even talk admiringly about a technology that would enable two different acoustic beams to plant a voice in a dictator's head, convincing his subordinates that he had suddenly gone mad."
Bone, James, Stick'em Up, The Times, Sept. 21, 1996.
"Many individual Soviet citizens also attended, seeking help in redressing grievances against the Soviet system after decades of lawlessness and arbitrary administration of justice. Complaints ranged from unjustified loss of employment and placement in psychiatric hospitals to subjection to space-based rays launched and maintained by Soviet security organs. The U.S. delegation was able to do little more than listen to these individuals and forward their complaints to the Soviet delegation or the relevant republican authorities, suggesting to the Soviet delegation that it address the problems of these individuals."
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 102nd Congress First Session, The Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 10 Sept. - 4 Oct. 1991, p. 9.
In his autobiography, The Scientist, John C. Lilly records a conversation he had with the director of the National Institute of Mental Health--in 1953. The director asked Lilly to brief the CIA, FBI, NSA, and the various military intelligence services on his work using electrodes to stimulate directly the pleasure and pain centers in the brain. Lilly refused, noting, in his reply: "Dr. Antoine Remond, using our techniques in Paris, has demonstrated that this method of stimulation of the brain can be applied to the human without the help of the neurosurgeon; he is doing it in his office in Paris without neurosurgical supervision. This means that anybody with the proper apparatus can carry this out on a person covertly, with no external signs that the electrodes have been used on that person. I feel that if this technique got into the hands of a secret agency, they would have total control over a human being and be able to change his beliefs extremely quickly, leaving little evidence of what they had done."
Cannon, Martin, The Controllers, 1980.
"There is, according to the best resources, a real threat in the electronic manipulation of the human mind. The possibility arose from research that attempted to explain telepathy electromagnetically. Unfortunately, although researchers did not discover, as they sought, that thoughts could influence long-range electromagnetic radiation, they did discover that long- range electromagnetic radiation might influence the mind. According to Barbara Honegger (who was on the Reagan White House staff), "the fundamental reason for the increased interest" in psychic warfare, and the area where Pentagon spends most of its estimated 6-million-dollar annual budget for psychic or related research, "is initial results coming out of laboratories in the United States and Canada that certain amplitude and frequency combinations of external electromagnetic radiation in the brain-wave frequency range are capable of bypassing the external sensory mechanism of organisms, including humans, and indirectly stimulating higher-level neuronal structures in the brain. This electronic stimulation is known to produce mental changes at a distance, including hallucinations in various sensory modalities, particularly auditory."
McRae, Ron, Mind Wars, St. Martin's Press, 1984.
Scientific American reported that Janet E. Morris and her husband Christopher C. Morris "have been involved in promoting a 'psycho-correction' technology, developed by a Russian scientist, that is intended to influence by means of subliminal messages embedded in sound or visual images."
Scientific American, April 1994.