"There are weapon systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated... the ability to heal or cause disease can be transmitted over distance thus inducing illness or death for no apparent cause...The application of large-scale ELF (extra low frequency) behavior modification could have horrendous impact...mind-to-mind thought induction techniques are also being considered."
The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up, Spock, Military Review, Dec. 1980.
Dr. Frazer, adjunct professor of pharmacology, University of Texas, Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, was featured as a weapons expert on CNN's Special Report, 1985, and discussed his ten year Air Force career and electromagnetic effects. His conclusion that "radio frequency weapons could be the wild card in the arms race."
"The nonthermal effects of electromagnetic radiation on living cells offer clues as to what is life, as well as to understanding Soviet research on the possibility of controlling human thought and emotional experience."
Frazer, James W. PhD, Frazer, Joyce E., How Radiofrequency Waves Interact with Living Systems, Mar-Apr 1988.
David Brinkley stated, "It is known the Russians are working hard on controlling the human mind by remote electronic means." On the same show he interviewed Dr. William Van Bise, a radio engineer, who investigated the Russian Woodpecker radio signal broadcast across the United States in the 1970s. Dr. Van Bise had evidence that the Russian radio signal was "at a frequency that the human body sort of operates at - 10 Hz is right in the range of biologic frequencies." In reply to a question, Bise stated that the easiest way to disrupt the mental process would be with microwaves."
David Brinkley New Program No. 47592, July 16, 1981.
On May 20, 1983 US newspapers printed an Associated Press story from the Veteran's Hospital and Loma Linda, California that the Soviets developed a device, called Lida, to bombard human brains with radio waves. The radio beams are expected to serve as a substitute for tranquilizers, and to treat sleeplessness, hypertension, and neurotic disturbances.
It is not yet determined whether Lida affects the immune and endocrine systems. Lida is reported to change behavior in animals. At the present, the device is on loan to Dr. Ross Adey, chief of research at Loma Linda. Adey started testing the machine three months ago, and hopes to complete his investigations within a year.
According to Dr. Adey, who repeatedly visited the USSR, the Soviets have used the machine on people since at least 1960. The machine is technically described as "a distant pulse treatment apparatus." It generates 40 megahertz radio waves which stimulate the brain's electromagnetic activity at substantially lower frequencies.
Dr. Adey was quoted as saying: "Some people theorize that the Soviets may be using an advanced version of the machine clandestinely to seek a change in the behavior in the United States through signals beamed from the USSR." No reference was made to the protracted microwave bombardment several years ago of the US Embassy in Moscow.
On April 29, 1983, Associate Editor Dr. Stefan Possony, addressing the Defense 83 meeting sponsored by Defense & Foreign Affairs, reported on Dr. Adey's work and on the work by Dr. A.S. Davydov of the Ukranian Academy of Sciences. Davydov discovered how the blood-brain barrier can be penetrated by low frequency beams and directly affect cells in the brain. Possony's remarks were delivered to a panel studying psychological warfare.
In the US research on direct brain waves has scarcely begun, and the USSR has a lead of approximately 25 years. Once it is matured the new technology will be extraordinarily significant in medicine. It may also have major impacts on communications, intelligence, and psychological operations, and permit deliberate physiological impairment.
The KGB is known to be interested in the program. It is not known whether the US and other governments are trying to determine whether their countries have become targets of clandestine brain wave beamed from the USSR. Nor are there indications that work on countermeasures is being contemplated, except perhaps in the USSR.
Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily, June 7, 1983.
Microwave News reported, in November 1993, a three day top-secret non- lethal weapons conference which took place in the Applied Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. 400 scientists gathered at the university to discuss their work in developing non-lethal weapons technologies, including radio-frequency radiation (RF), electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons, ELF, lasers and chemical weapons. In the invitation to this conference we read: "The purpose of this conference is to bring together industry, government and academia to explore the potential of non-lethal defense weapon systems. Industry, particularly, will benefit from a more precise understanding of requirements and operational constraints regarding non-lethal defense technologies. All attendees will have the opportunity to embrace a new perspective in international relations."
Among the subjects covered at the conference were: "Radio- Frequency Weapons, High Powered Microwave Technology, Acoustic Technology, Voice Synthesis and Applications of Extreme Frequency Electromagnetic Fields to Non-Lethal Weapons."
Col. John B. Alexander, program manager for Non-Lethal Defense, Los Alamos National Laboratory, served as conference chairman.
Microwave News, Nov-Dec 1993.
At the 1979 U.S. Psychotronic Association conference, Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden provided additional information about Soviet usage of ELF for mind control. In 1968, Litisitsyn, who happens to run the documentation center (in the U.S.S.R.) which has all the medical information there, wrote a paper reporting that the U.S.S.R. had 'succeeded in controlling the induction of images and sensations into another biological system -- a human being.' Litisitsyn received his PhD in highly esoteric, non-linear, mathematical brain-wave theory. Litisitsyn's paper reported that the Soviets broke the genetic code of the human brain. They worked out 23 EEG band wave lengths, 11 of which were totally independent. So if you can manipulate those 11, you can do anything to that living system it normally can do itself --anything at all. This is all from a paper in the U.S.S.R. Defense Documentation Center -- 1968, translation from the Soviet Union.
"The relationship between Soviet ELF signals and the Litisitsyn paper was described in a 1978 documentation packet on ELF issued by the Planetary Association for Clean Energy. The P.A.C.E. documentation continued: "Litisitsyn also reported that the Soviet scientists have also developed and fitted a theory to actual brain wave measurements, and could insert material on electromagnetic carriers, directly into the brain and could control whether or not the process stimulated conscious awareness of the individual." The monitoring of time coherent and phase-locked psychoactive modulations suggests strongly the following: The psychoactive modulation effectively locks -in the multiple carrier frequencies (say 11 to 23). On these locked-in multichannels, brain-coded information is inserted, feeding it directly into the captured target-brains. "Potentially, almost anything could be inserted in the target brain/mind systems, and such insertions would be processed by the biosystems as intercranially-generated data/effects. Words, phrases, images, sensations, and emotions could be directly inserted and experienced in the biological targets as internal states, moods, emotions, thoughts, and ideas."
Baker, C.B., Electronic Mind-Control, 1984 (?)
(AP) A newly classified US Defense Intelligence Agency report says extensive Soviet research into microwaves might lead to methods of causing disoriented human behavior, nerve disorders, or even heart attacks.
"Soviet scientists are fully aware of the biological effects of low-level microwave radiation which might have offensive weapons applications," says the report, based on an analysis of experiments conducted in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
According to the study, this research work suggests the potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel applications.
Microwave beams are the electronic basis of radar and are widely used for relaying long-distance telephone calls. Other common sources of microwaves include television transmitters.
A copy of the study was provided by the agency to The Associated Press in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act. The Pentagon agency refused to release some portions of the study, saying they remain classified on national security grounds.
The report made no direct mention of the Soviet microwave bombardment of the US Embassy in Moscow, where despite strong American protests, the radiation continues, though at reduced levels.
Up to now, the view most widely accepted among State Department officials in Washington has been that the Soviets appear to be using the microwave beams to foil sophisticated US electronic intelligence-gathering equipment at the embassy.
The State Department issued an administrative notice on Nov. 12 declaring Moscow "an unhealthful post" but no link was officially drawn between this move and the radiation situation. Department spokesmen insist that medical tests have found no adverse health effects attributable to the microwaves.
The Soviets have denied beaming any radiation at the embassy, contending that the microwaves are simply part of the normal background radiation found in any major city.
The Pentagon agency's report, distributed within the government last March, said that one biological effect which could offer antipersonnel uses is the phenomenon known as "microwave hearing."
"Sounds and possibly even words which appear to be originating intracranially (within the head) can be induced by signal modulation at very low average power densities," the study said. It added that "combinations of frequencies and other signal characteristics to produce other neurological effects may be feasible in several years."
The report concluded that Soviet research in this area "has great potential for development into a system for disorienting or disrupting the behavior patterns of military or diplomatic personnel. It could be used equally well as an interrogation tool."
The report said that along with microwave hearing, the Soviets have also studied various changes in body chemistry and functioning of the brain resulting from exposure to microwaves and other frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum.
"One physiological effect which has been demonstrated is heart seizure," the report said.
It said that this has been accomplished experimentally in frogs by synchronizing the pulses of a microwave signal with the animal's heartbeat and then beaming the radiation at the chest area.
The document added that "a frequency probably could be found which would provide sufficient penetration of the chest wall of humans to accomplish the same effect" -- heart attacks.
The report said that another potential antipersonnel use of microwaves could be based on their effect on the blood-brain barrier, which regulates the exchange of vital substances between brain cells and the circulatory system.
Mind-Altering Microwaves: Soviets Studying Invisible Ray, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Sec. A, Nov. 22, 1976.