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In a third test the subjects were to be given two personality tests.
Then different responses to certain questions would be repeatedly sug-
gested, and nonpathological personality changes would also be sug-
gested, both to be evaluated by new testing in a month. In some cases
the subjects were to be prehypnotized into talking in their sleep, so the
microwave programmer could gear the commands to thoughts already in
the brain. Finally, attempts would be made to produce the standard
tests of deep hypnotic trance, such as muscular rigidity, by microwave
beams alone.
Naturally, since this information was voluntarily released via the Free-
dom of Information Act, it must be taken with a pillar of salt. The
results haven't been made public, so the work may have been inconclu-
sive, and the plans may have been released to convince the Soviets and
our own public that American mind-control capabilities are greater than
they actually are. On the other hand, the actualities may be so far ahead
of this research plan that it was tame enough to release in satisfying
FOIA requirements.
How many of the EMR weapons possibilities have actually been de-
veloped and/or used? Those not privy to classified information have no
way of knowing. There are plenty of rumors. Boris Spassky claimed he'd
lost the world chess championship to Bobby Fischer because he was
being bombarded with confusion rays. I recall hearing about one secret
American experiment in which a scientist was supposedly set up with
invitations to three conferences to give the same presentation each time.
The first one went fine, but at the last two he was irradiated with ELF
waves, reportedly to induce Adey's calcium efflux, and he became con-
fused and ineffective.
Another FOIA release from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1976
may be revealing. Prepared by Ronald L. Adams and E. A. Williams
of Battelle Columbus Laboratories, it's entitled "Biological Effects of
Electromagnetic
Radiation
(Radiowaves
and
Microwaves),
Eurasian
Communist Countries." The pages released merely recount Allen Frey's
discoveries without mentioning his name, implying instead that only
the Reds would be so dastardly as to investigate such things for use as
weapons. Immediately after mention of the blood-brain barrier leak phe-
nomenon, a paragraph was deleted, followed by the tantalizing sentence,
"The above study is recommended reading material for those consumers
who have an interest in the application of microwave energy to weap-
ons." Even without this document, considering the relentless pace of
arms development, we would have to be very naive to assume that the
United States has no electromagnetic arsenal.