The note of the translator: The text, as it is presented, shows a lot of jugglery around the possible reality of psychotronic weapons. At least to one of the authors, Georgij Gurtovoj, should have, as a pupil of S. IA. Turlygin, very clear idea of how far the research of psychotronic weapons reached the production stage. S. IA. Turlygin carried out experiments with the effects of electromagnetic fields on human psyche already in the thirties.( Mojm¡r Babacek)
Cherkina - Zelenogradskaya Gazeta
(Gurtovoi - page 45 - 51)
Lunacy of Senseless Democrats?
"The newspaper Zelenogradskaza Gazeta" appearing in the city of Zelenograd near Moscow , on June 10, 1991, in the section dedicated to discussions, published an interesting material. It is entitled " The Science in the Service of KGB or the Lunacy of Senseless Democrats".
The material is introduced by the following note written by the newspaper staff: "The problem we want to dicuss may provoke among raders conflicting reactions. What we are going to dicuss is the use of the latest scientific discoveries for political terrorism, the use, by the secret services, of technical means for dealing with alternatively thinking individuals or simply experiments on unwitting citizens. This is the opinion of the authors of publications scarcely appearing in our as well as foreign press, this is the opinion of the authors of letters reaching "Zelenogradskaya Gazeta", who are trying to understand what is happening to them and around them. To closer define the topica we publish two letters which have in common the above introduced subject."
The author of one of the letters, entitled "Underground Genocide", is E. C. Chirkova, the national deputy of the city council of the city of Zelenograd, the member of the Comission on Human Rights. The authors of the second letter, entitled "Appartment Ecology", are Moscowers O. Lavrova and N. Kroschkina.
"As a member of the Comission on Human Rights of the City Council of Zelenograd, engaged in the research of contactless terrorism - one of the dangerous latent crimes - writes E.S. Chirkova- I want to draw the attention of general public to the continuation of the use, by the KGB, of methods of the Gestapo. But this is no more the 1937. This is much more horrible. The victims are "tortured" secretly right in their house, from behind the walls of neighboring rooms and appartments or neighboring houses by special services of KGB.. The arsenal of secretly perfected KGB weapon is unbelievable. It is using the latest discoveries of physics, electronics, biology etc. I am in touch with the victims from different districts of Moscow, different cities of the Soviet Union.
I have got many declarations - 20 from the citizens of Zelenograd. I will give real examples. I, myself, E. S. Chirkova. after taking part in the study of declarations, fell under the directed "fire" of the sadists, practically deprived of normal life, conditions for the activities of a deputy.
The first one to address us was E.V. Kirilov, the retired candidate of technical sciences. The similar effects and anomalies pertaining to the health of citizens appear practically in all microregions of Zelenograd. "
The authors of the second letter describe the same specific problems of the "apartment ecology", they write "Amongst the methods how to do away with social activists . one is in prevalence - the irradiation in appartments. This is secret method and rather impossible to prove. The sources of irradiation may be situated in the neighboring rooms of appartment houses or in the houses across the street."
There are two more materials refering to this subject.
"One sixth of the World - the Hall Number 6"
(Molodost Sibiri - The Youth of Siberia - , 1991, Number 6) and the Appeal of victims of psychoterrorism to the Parliament of Russia (Golos Vselenoi - The Voice of the Space -, 1991, number 6 and 7).
In the first material it is communicated that few years ago, under the auspices of International Organization for Human Rights, a Committee for Social Defense was established, with the objective to disclose the "persecution of citizens by methods of distant manipulation of the brain by means of ultrasound, microwaves, laser beams and as well computers..extrasensors and telepaths". The representatives of the committee "declare that it is necessary to form the centers for the defense of personality outfitted with the equipment capable to register the effects on human beings from outside, operated by independent personel and that it is necessary to enact legislation to this effect."
The members of the Committee are victims of experiments with those weapons.
In the Appeal by Victims of Psychoterrorism to the Parliament of Russia the necessity is proclaimed "to ban and destroy in Russia all bioenergetic weapons capable to affect at distance the activity of human psyche and reason . immediately stop the psychoterror performed by government organizations and scientific mafia" and "the ban of psychotronic and leptonic weapon at the territory of Russia" and also they demand the legislation "defining the punishment for the use of psychotronic and leptonic weapons at the territory of Russia".
L. Petrov comments in Zelenogradskaya Gazeta the first two letters, saying that if such unlawfull events indeed took effect in Russia, then the only effort the government and its executive branches would make, would consist of the effort to hide their crimes against their defenseless citizens from the nation.
Short Comments
20+ Russian articles corroborate Lopatin and Gurtovoj books
The first article, Jan 11-17, 1993 Defense news article "U.S. Explores Russian Mind Control Technology" is a milestone document for the following reasons.
Mind control is a legitimate term according to Russian and U.S. government experts. Both sides state that the government technology exists and is not sci-fi.
Both Russia and the U.S. state that the technology should be placed under international control.
"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 say."
The Russian and U.S. sources in this article speak for their governments and are very trustworthy and believable. The government representatives state that mind control technology exists and is an arms control issue. International controls on mind control technology are and will be classified, making the information in this compilation a unique look into classified mind control weapons.
The next series of articles discuss Dr. Igor Smirnov. Newsweek and Moscow News reported on Dr. Smirnov and his consultations with the FBI about using his psychocorrection equipment on David Koresh. Also see ZDF section in this compilation, in which Smirnov is described as 'one of the most important Russian psychiatrists".
Moscow News, 3-25-94 reported that Igor Smirnov has 80 scientific publications and 17 discoveries. "a long time ago it was hammered home that psychotronic weapons were being created "in the basements of the CIA." And it was clear that the USSR would not sit idle waiting for a surprise." "...the [Smirnov] lab has been assailed by tough guys wanting its personnel on their pay-roll. Smirnov says no.
The 7-16-94 Moscow News stated, "The search for funding has taken the scientists who have developed an "Americanized" version of the program, to the United States. Smirnov said his firm is in "commercial discussions" with Psychotechnologies Corp., a Richmond Virginia-based firm."
The 1992 Defense Electronics article corroborated the series of Smirnov articles and further stated, "There was a strong interest among the intelligence agencies because they had been tracking Smirnov for years ...and because we know there is evidence the Soviet Army's Special Forces used the technology during the conflict in Afghanistan." " ...Officials from the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the Advanced Research Projects Agency were also present,... The memo went on to note that meeting attendees were also interested in whether 'psycho-correction detection, decoding and counter-measures programs should be undertaken by the U.S."
This information originates from the intelligence community and it can be concluded that mind control technology has been explored at least as long as Smirnov's work was being monitored.
The next article on Igor Smirnov that reveals how his work on mind control was classified. The FBI consulted with Dr. Smirnov and private U.S. companies are investing in his technology. The FBI brought him to the U.S. and only turned down the offer to use his technology on Koresh because Smirnov could only guarantee a 70% certainty that it would work on Koresh. Therefore, Dr. Smirnov's information is very believable.
Moscow News 3-25-94. Medics, who dabbled in psychodiagnostics and psychocorrection for purely scientific interest, became objects of attention by the defense industry and the security service. They were not apprehended, but their steps were closely followed. The laboratory, [Smirnov's laboratory of Psychocorrection at the Moscow Medical Academy] its personnel (out of the same scientific interest the physicians came to need physicists and programmers) and all of its projects were classified and publications banned."
The U.S. scientific community would have to have a similar classified system.
The July 16, 1994 Moscow Times article stated, "Smirnov declined to talk about the early days, although he said that the state program was a large one and that the scientists had all the resources they needed. ...but the days of generous state funding for such projects are over. ...The search for funding has taken the scientists who have developed an "Americanized" version of the program to the United States."
Moscow Times, 7-16-94 described the capabilities of Dr. Smirnov's technology.
"Psychiatrists at the Moscow Medical Academy's Department of Psycho-Correction believe they have the answer. By using a system of computerized psychoanalysis that relies on subliminal stimuli, the psychiatrists say they can understand a person's subconscious and even change a person's personality. ...the method works roughly like this: Electrodes that register the electrical activity of the brain are put on a patient's head. The patient is then given aural and visual stimuli-words flashed quickly on a screen or voices manipulated into a code that sounds like white noise- that can only be understood on a subconscious level. A computer program then coordinates the reactions of the brain with the specific stimuli and assembles the data into a graph that can be analyzed to determine a patient's subconscious attitudes to different concepts. Smirnov calls it a kind of "truth detector." ..."Our machine reveals hidden information that sometimes is not realized by the person himself." In the next stage, the patient listens repeatedly to a tape of specific messages that have also been coded and will be understood subconsciously."
The 1985 CNN video featuring Dr. Rauscher and Dr. Bise demonstrated "technology from Russian literature"
in which visual disturbances were caused by small electromagnetic signals to the brain of the reporter, Chuck DeCaro, (See International Campaign paper on CAHRA [now Mind Justice] website) The unclassified technology describes microwave hearing, visual hallucinations, sending subliminal messages to the subconscious, causing health effects from Radio Frequency Sickness, causing nausea, heating of the skin, etc. Not surprisingly U.S. and Russian victims are experiencing symptoms which reflect much more sophisticated and classified mind control technology. Several independent facts from several different sources over several years indicate that mind control technology is more classified than the Manhattan Project.
Top Kremlin officials and Russian journalists confirm the use of Russian mind control weapons.
The next two articles on General Georgy Gorgyevich Rogozin are worth exploring and further research is needed.
The 1995 Washington Times and the 1995 European newspaper reported that Gen. Rogozin works in the Kremlin and that there are numerous reports of his surveillance techniques on them. Gen. Rogozin's background describes his KGB work form 1989-1991 as chief scientist dealing with security problems. He pursued a program which included mind-reading from a distance and control of the subconscious by telepathy. "Ludmila Pikhova, an experienced presidential aide and speech writer who is known for her iron strength of character and calm temperament, turned on Rogozin during a recent story Kremlin meeting, dragging him outside a conference room and screaming: "Don't you try to control my subconscious ever again." Sergei Parkhomenko, the Russian journalist for Sevodnya newspaper has put together a dossier of the strange goings-on, "... everybody I talk to at the Kremlin confirms the nightmare. ... Members of the Russian Parliament question what kind of influence is being wielded by this former KGB officer with his projects and what proportion of state funds are being squandered on black magic. ...A highly placed officer of the electronic surveillance service FAPSI warned: "It cannot be permitted that parquet (desk-bound)generals from the Kremlin guard are allowed to usurp power in this country...."
Emilia Cherkova and Psychotronic Victims Groups
Next are three articles on Emilia Cherkova and her human rights work to help victims of psychtronic experiments. As in the above articles, the references to scientists and top public officials discussing mind control and the resolution in the CSCE, i.e. more government documents, is substantial evidence. Here are the highlights from the articles.
Delovoi Mir, 2-15-92 Press reports that Ruslan Khasbulatov, Speaker of the Russian parliament, had to move from his flat, one possibility listed was the high level electromagnetic radiation felt in his flat. During the August coup General Kobets warned publicly that pscyhotropic generators might be used against the White House defenders. June 1991, a group of Zelenograd deputies sent an appeal signed by 150 people to President Yeltsin, demanding an investigation into the use of bio-electronic weapons.
Stolitsa, 11-2-92. Victor Sedletsky, a scientist from Kiev stated that "As an expert and a juridical person, I assert that mass production of psychotronic biogenerators and their testing is underway in Kiev."
Academician V. Kaznacheyev from Novosibirsk does not rule out military uses or the development of plans for a "psychic war" which, in his view, is more dangerous than any other kind of warfare. The military may use ESP to paralyze the will of other people, "turning them into obedient slaves," the scientist writes. Kaznacheyev therefore insists on placing this kind of research under international control.
The international seminar on human rights held last year in the framework of the CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension passed a resolution, according to which the health Ministry and the KGB were requested to provide official information on the use of various means of influencing human behavior."
Moscow Times, 7-11-95. Journalist Yury Vorobyovsky has been investigating the top secret program of "psychotronic" brainwashing techniques developed by the KGB and the Ministry for three years.
Emilia Cherkova claims that there are over a million victims. Her group, Ecology and Living Environment has filed damages against the Federal Security Service or FSB. The newspaper reports, "there is strong evidence that some kind of psychotronic warfare program did exist in the Soviet period, and that the technology may be falling into the wrong hands.
Lopatin calls for legislation, which would "bring Russia into line with Bulgaria, the only other country to outlaw such equipment specifically." Lopatin concludes the article, "of course this project is surrounded with a lot of hysteria and conjecture. ...Something that was secret for so many years is the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories."
Dr. Yakov Kudakov used to work in a Defense Ministry psychotronic research laboratory and built a machine using powerful electromagnets. Dr. Rudakov claimed that psychotronics were used on Spetsnaz troops in Afghanistan."
Intelligence Agency reports of Russian mind control capabilities, 1976
The next two 1976 U.S. articles discuss the DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency report on Russia's deep involvement in researching ways to use microwaves to induce disease and control minds.
Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 11-22-76. "A newly declassified U.S. 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 application," says the report, based on an analysis of experiments conducted in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe."
The article discussed the Soviet microwave bombardment of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. "The [State] department spokesmen insist that medical tests have found no adverse health effects attributable to the microwaves."
The article also discussed microwave hearing. "Sounds and presumably 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. "The report concluded that Soviet research in this are "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 as well as an interrogation tool."
The Paul Bannister Enquirer article quoted Dr. Zaret [a scientist consulted by the U.S. intelligence agencies for Project Pandora work to find the reasons for the microwave bombardment of the Moscow Embassy] on microwave hearing, "You could drive somebody mad with this." "Research in Russia, according to the report, has established that microwave radiation can induce such effects as "headaches, fatigue, perspiring, dizziness, menstrual disorders, irritability, tension, drowsiness, sleeplessness, depression, forgetfulness and lack of concentration."
The importance of this declassified 1976 DIA document is that it is a US government document discussing Soviet athermal emr research for weapons development. The DIA report was based on Soviet research. It becomes clear that both the Soviets and the U.S. were developing weapons based on the athermal effects of emr. For further details on this DIA report, refer to the Paul Brodeur book, "Zapping of America". Broduer pointed out that the DIA report failed to mention scientist Allan Frey's work on microwave hearing beginning in the 1960s in the U.S.
Looking at the report over 25 years later, given the 1990s unveiling of the nonlethal emr weapons, it can now be verified that the U.S. did have a very classified emr program going back decades. The U.S. knew about the Russian emr weapons program and also developed an emr arsenal. The nonlethal weapons revealed in the 1990s were capable of causing symptoms which microwaves can induce as stated in the 1976 report.
This 1976 DIA report is also important for documenting that the U.S. State Department is on the record for lying to embassy employees about the finding of "no adverse health effects attributable to microwaves. The U.S. government has lied about scientific facts and risked the health of the Embassy employees and utilized the National Security Act to do so. The rights of U.S citizens are usurped by the National Security Act. The laws in this regard need to be changed so that the U.S. government is held accountable for illegal government experiments.
A.E Akimov's mind control work, possible cover story?
The next informative article is from Fate Magazine by Paul Stonehill, Feb. 1994. The article discussed the controversial A.E Akimov's mind control work, see Tsygankov's citation of Mr. Akimov above. This excerpt is almost verbatim.
July 4, 1991, a month before the Aug. 1991 coup in the Soviet Union, a document known as "Resolution 58 of the Committee for Science and Technologies of the Former Soviet of the USSR came from the Kremlin. The resolution condemned the "depraved practice" of financing pseudoscientific research with State funds. Particularly, it was the research into the so-called spinor torsionnic or microleptonnic fields. The research was tied to the creation of an unusual organization in the Soviet State Committee for Science and Technologies. It became known as the Center for Non-traditional Technologies (CNT); its former director was Mr. A.E. Akimov. The research work had been going on for over 30 years. The research was based on assertions that there had been an unprecedented discovery in the science of physics. It had to do with a new class of physical fields and particles, and the influence exerted by such fields upon biological objects. The resolution stated that the Soviet science officialdom knew nothing of such discoveries, either through open publications, or closed channels. Regardless of the quasi-scientific terminology used in such reports, the information was unsubstantiated, illogical, and scientifically unfounded. The CNT itself was created without the necessary expertise.
Later, the research undertaken was legitimized by support given it by the State Committee. Because of such support, the USSR Ministry of Defense and other state agencies had enough grounds to create a special research center, VENT. Akimov became its general director. Millions of rubles had been spent as the projects of VENT received state funding. Akimov states that just the USSR Ministry of Defense had spent 23 million rubles, an impressive amount. The resolution states that the investigative committee took the conclusions of the Department of General Physics and Astronomy of the Academy of Sciences, USSR, under consideration. These conclusions qualified the research work in the areas of spinor and microleptonnic fields and their applications, as a recurrence of anti-scientific activity. One month later, the Soviet Union as shaken to its foundations and began to fall apart.
Yet the Sept 9, 1991 Komosomolskaya Pravda published an article by Mr. Volkov, and revealed what it was that the CNT had actually researched. His source was a report from the CNT "Main Directions of Research" The CNT was involved in study of remote medical and biological influences on the armed forces and people exposed to torsionnic radiation; remote influence on the armed forces and people from the same radiation"
Further information on A.E. Akimov is needed in order to draw any firm conclusions. At the least, Dr. Akimov was able to obtain very impressive state funding for mind control research and is cited by V.D. Tsygankov in the book, "Psychotronic War and the Security of Russia". VENT is mentioned in the 11-2-92 Stolita article, "The firm conducting most of the research and development in this field [mind control] is the Vent" technical center [previously called the Center for Non-traditional Technologies at the USSR Committee for Science and Technology]. As much as 500 million rubles was allocated for its project." This wording is the same as the Fate Magazine article on Resolution 58.
One side says that mind control technology was being developed at VENT by Akimov, as the general director. The government Resolution states that at least some of the research conducted there was pseudo-science. And the Internet article quoted the findings of the Commission at the Russian Academy of Sciences and stated that A.E. Akimov's science was unreliable. Both sides say that an large amount of money was spent. The controversy may be part of a mind control cover story. The Tsygankov scientific information in the Lopatin book needs to be evaluated further and contacting Tsygankov would be beneficial. There could be some truth to the VENT Akimov mind control research with the government trying to discredit the work and cover it up. Maybe the torsion field fraud is a front for mind control programs, just like the athermal/ thermal controversy was for emr weapons. Maybe this allows the scientists to continue their work and for the Russian government to discredit them, so that the extent of the mind control research will be kept out of the public eye.
Scientific summary of emr weapons corroborates 50 years of evidence
The final article is "Electromagnetic -Effect Weapons: The Technology and the Strategic Implications", 1988. This article cites a "recent'" book, no title written "under the auspices of Znanyia, a cadre organization headed by top Soviet military scientist N.D.Basov. The book discussed Delgado's magnetic field experiments. The article mentions the history of emr research in Russia and names of scientists such as Alexander Gurvich and the very famous V.I. Vernadsky whom Gurvich followed. Vernadsky's famous ideas are mentioned in the Lopatin book and from this information, the unclassified development of emr and classified Russian development of emr weapons can be traced. Here is just one excerpt on the scientist A. Gurvich who is also cited by the Lopatin book.
"Another member of the Gurvich school, Alma Ata biophysicist Inyushin, wrote an article in the Red Army paper Krasnayz Zvezda in 1984 declaring that breakthroughs of "revolutionary significance" were being made in the optical biophysics field. Since then, Inyushin's name completely dropped out of Soviet scientific literature, indicating that he is now working in a top secret program. Indeed almost the entirety of the huge Soviet effort in biophysics of the Gurvich-Vernadsky variety has "gone underground" since 1983-84."
Overall conclusions
1. The value of the Russian information to U.S. victims is in its power to argue convincingly that the U.S. would have to be developing mind control weapons also. The Russian evidence of mind control weapons is substantial in quality and quantity. Each independent source in the 20+ article verifies the other. Although there is a definite limit to the Russian mind control technology discussed and the articles all state basically the same thing, it is revealing. There is nothing comparable in the U.S, nothing even close to this Russian body of evidence. The break up of the Soviet Union has been a unique opportunity to gather declassified evidence of a very large, very black mind control program. As the facts above show, the U.S. was aware of this program and no doubt has a comparable classified mind control program of its own.
2. Credible, independent sources are stating that Russian mind control weapons exist, are being illegally used and laws are needed to protect Russian citizens.
Numerous public officials, including scientists, journalists and lawyers stated that mind control technology exists and needs to be controlled. Emilia Cherkova was discussed in the Gurtovoj book and three Russian newspapers.
Dr. Kaaznacheev, who was mentioned in the Gurtovoj book in the Fetzer Foundation letter and Emilia Cherkova are saying that mind control weapons exist and are in the hands of the military and government.
The scientist from Kiev, Sedletsky and Cherkova say there are experiments on Russian citizens.
Lopatin acknowledges the existence of mind control technology and even states that it was "secret for so many years". He dismisses the paranoid and conspiracy label on the allegations and instead takes mind control weapons very seriously, calling for legislation to ban their illegal use.
Dr. Kudakov built the equipment and states that similar equipment was used in Afghaniztan, as does the Defense Electronics article above. The Russian journalist Vorobyovsky has studied this story for three years. A complaint was filed with the CSCE.
3. U.S. victims can use this very powerful information as a group and approach Congress, human rights groups The Russian evidence validates the claims made by victims of U.S. government mind control experiments. U.S. and Russian victims can now combine their claims which date back to the 1950s and make a strong case.
Here are a few of the articles in full length.
Copyright 1995 Independent Press
The Moscow Times
July 11, 1995
SECTION: No. 750
LENGTH: 1134 wordsHEADLINE: Report: Soviets Used Top-Secret ' Psychotronic' Weapons
BYLINE: By Owen Matthews
BODY:
There may be a scientific explanation for the rigid-faced inflexibility of Soviet-era border guards and soldiers, after all. Reports have emerged of a top secret program of "psychotronic" brainwashing techniques developed by the KGB and the Ministry. The techniques, which include debilitating high frequency radio waves, hypnotic computer-scrambled sounds and mind-bending electromagnetic fields, as well as an ultrasound gun capable of killing a cat at fifty meters, were originally developed for medical purposes and adapted into weapons, said journalist Yury Vorobyovsky, who has been investigating the program for three years.
"Ecology and Living Environment," an environmental and civil liberties group which claims a membership of 500 people in Moscow, has set up an association of "Victims of Psychotronic Experimentation," who have filed damages claims against the Federal Security Service, or FSB, and the government. Unfortunately, since by definition many of the victims are psychologically disturbed, there is a problem of verification.
"The Health Ministry and the FSB are doing medical experiments on over a million innocent people," said Ecology and Living Environment President Yemilia Cherkova, an ex-member of Zelenograd's local council. Cherkova wears a lead helmet in bed to protect herself against the rays she says the government beams into her flat. "They put chemicals in the water and use magnets to alter your mind. We are fighting to prove to the authorities that we are not mad." Despite these somewhat far-fetched testimonies, there is strong evidence that some kind of psychotronic warfare program did exist in the Soviet period, and that the technology may be falling into the wrong hands.
Official confirmation was first hinted at in the 1991 Soviet budget, which mentioned that 500 million rubles of the state security budget had been spent on "psychological warfare technology" over an unspecified period of years, said Vorobyovsky. Former state security and interior minister General Viktor Barannikov, sacked for supporting the 1993 coup attempt, warned in an Interior Ministry memorandum earlier that year that he had information that the mafia had got hold of the technology, though little concrete evidence has been found by police.
"We have no evidence that our local mafia has psychotronic weapons; they have enough ordinary ones," said Gennady Melnik of the Moscow Police Department. "They are not the most technologically advanced mafia in the world. It must be cheaper just to use guns." Nevertheless, the State Duma is taking the matter seriously enough to draft a law on "security of the individual," which will include regulation of subliminal advertising and pseudo-religious sects, as well as imposing state controls on all equipment in private hands which can be used as "psychotronic weaponry." The legislation brings Russia into line with Bulgaria, the only other country to outlaw such equipment specifically.
"The law is pre-emptive," said Vladimir Lopatkin, chairman of the drafting committee. "The equipment that now exists in laboratories must be very strictly controlled to prevent it from being sold to the private sector." Vorobyovsky has filmed several laboratories which are using powerful electro-magnets of the sort experts believe can be used as weapons to supposedly cure private patients of various aliments. One, the Biovolna clinic in Zelenograd, near Moscow, went private after its funding from the Defense Ministry was discontinued. The clinic has "treated" more than 7,000 people, despite not having a Health Ministry license. One of Vorobyovsky's film crew volunteered to be subjected to rays from a similar machine built by Dr. Yakov Rudakov, now a general practitioner who used to work in a Defense Ministry psychotronic research laboratory. He described feeling dizzy, lethargic and confused after exposure to certain frequencies.
The dissident writer Vladimir Voinovich described in his memoirs how the KGB used a cocktail of drugged cigarettes and electromagnets to sap his energy and induce disorientation and confusion.
"One could call this 'Black Science.' Research scientists whose funding has been cut have resorted to putting equipment costing millions of rubles to any use that will pay," said Vorobyovsky.
Another program Vorobyovsky filmed was a sound studio at the Interior Ministry's research laboratory where officers were played bursts of computer-scrambled messages encouraging them to be more decisive and fearless. Dr. Rudakov claimed that this technique was used on Spetsnaz troops in Afghanistan. The danger, says Vorobyovsky, is that similar messages can be transmitted over the telephone, television or radio to influence whoever hears them.
"Of course this project is surrounded with a lot of hysteria and conjecture," said Lopatkin, of the Duma committee. "Something that was secret for so many years is the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories."
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Reprinted from the Lexis Nexus computer database in whole except for the bold lettering in paragraphs 2 and 3.
Mind-Altering Microwaves
Soviets Studying Invisible Ray
November 22,1976NOTE: SEVERAL INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES ARE DEVELOPING ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY FOR ANT-PERSONNEL USE.
Mind-Altering Microwaves
Soviets Studying Invisible RayA newly declassified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report say-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 the low-level microwave radiation which might have offensive weapons application," say 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 U.S. 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 U.S. electronic intelligence gathering equipment at the embassy.
The State Department issued an administrative source on Nov. 12 declaring Moscow "an unhealthy 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 biological effects which could alter anti-personnel 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 as well as an interrogation tool.
...Soviets have also studied various changes in body chemistry and functioning of the brain resulting from exposure to microwaves and other frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.
One physiological effect which has been demonstrated is heart seizure. It said that this has been accomplished experimentally in frogs by synchronizing the pulses of a microwave signal with the animals heart beat and 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. ...microwaves could be used to effect the blood-brain barrier, which regulates the exchange of vital substances between brain cells and the circulatory system.
From Delovoi Mir, pp. 1,9 February 15, 1992 "Mind Control"by Ivan Tsarev
"Brainwashing techniques still being used in Russia, claims member of human rights commission."
"Psychological warfare is still being used by state security agents against people in Russia even after the abortive August coup, said Emilia Chirkova, a Deputy of the Zelenograd Soviet and member of the Human Rights Commission. She recalls the sandal surrounding the alleged bugging equipment installed close to Boris Yeltsin's office. KGB agents admitted then that the directional aerial in the equipment was designed for transmission, not for reception. She believes it was part of an attempt to affect the health of the Russian Pesident using high frequency electromagnetic radiation. The Human Rights Committee, Chirkova said, had warned Yeltsin about such a possibility."
"She cited several further instances of the use of similar devices. Microwave equipment had been used in 1989 and 1990 in Vladivostok and Moscow prisons, in a mental hospital in Oryol and in the Serbsky Institute in Moscow [also a mental hospital], she said. during his exile in gorky, Andrei Sakharov noticed the presence of a high tension electromagnetic field in his flat. It was reported recently in the press that Ruslan Khasbulatov, Speaker of the russian parliament, had had to move from his flat to another district of Moscow. High level electromagnetic radiation has been included among the possible couses of the discomfort he felt in his flat. During the August coup General Kobets warned publicly that psychotropic generators might be used against the White House defenders."
Purported victims of psychological warfare have writen to the papter. From Voronezh comes this letter: "They controlled my laughter, my thoughts, and caused pain in various parts of my body... It all started in October 1985, after I had openly criticized the first secretary ofthe City Committe of the Communist Party. Sometimes voices can be heard in the head from the effect of microwave pulse radiation which causes acousstic oscillations in the brain," explained Gennady Shchelkunov, a radio electronics researcher from the Istok Association. Numerous sufferers from this alleged manipulation have set up a public movement."
"In June 1991, a group of Zelenograd deputies sent an appeal signed by 150 people to President Yeltsin, demanding an investigation into the use of bio-electronic weapons. Non-official sources say that a commission charged with investigating possible use of such weapons is being set up at the Russian Government."
In two articles, Jonathan Tennenbaum describes development of Soviet electromagnetic weapons and the physics and biology behind the weapons.
Electromagnetic-Effect Weapons: The Technology and the Strategic Implications. Wiesbaden Federal Republic of Germany Jan. 16, 1988. Executive Intelligence Review.(Executive Intelligence Review Special Report. 317 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., 2nd Floor. Washington, DC 20003 (202) 544-7010. Pg. 7. Michael Liebig.
..."This Special Report is meant to sketch the gestalt of this newly emerging Soviet threat, the dimensions of which the Western public is most dangerously unaware. There is barely any understanding in the West of the revolutionary transformations in technology and strategy associated with electromagnetic effect weapons."
Tennenbaum, Jonathan.(1988, Feb). Some ABCs of Electromagnetic Anti-Personnel Weapons. Executive Intelligence Review.Executive Intelligence Review Special Report. 317 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., 2nd Floor. Washington, DC 20003 (202) 544-7010. Pg. 9.
Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum is on the Board of Directors of Fusions-Energie-Forum in the Federal Republic of Germany, and an editor of its magazine, Fusion.
"Often referred to by the misleading name, "radio-frequency weapons," The most sophisticated new type of anti-personnel weapons now being perfected by the USSR for use by its Spetsnaz and regular forces, uses pulses of electromagnetic energy to disorient, paralyze, and kill human targets. Such electromagnetic pulse (EP) weapons can take a variety of forms, including the following: ...
Electromagnetic pulse anti-personnel weapons have many scientific and technical features in common with the laser weapons under development in the American and Soviet anti-missile defense programs. Both use electromagnetic radiation, propagating at 300,000 kilometers per second, to achieve their destructive effect. Both require compact power sources, generators of electromagnetic radiation (e.g., lasers, magnetrons, gyrotrons, etc.), beam radiator and focusing apparatus (e.g., optics for lasers, wave guides and phased-array antennas for microwave weapons), and computerized control systems In both cases also, the maximum effect of these weapons is obtained by "tuning" or "tailoring" the output to the characteristics of the target.
The chief peculiarity of EP anti-personnel weapons lies in their exploitation of highly non-linear effects of electromagnetic radiation upon living organisms. Typically, these weapons employ complicated pulse shapes and pulse trains, involving several frequencies and modulations which can range over a wide spectrum from extremely low frequencies (ELF) into the hundred gigahertz range. Thus, although state-of-the-art technology permits construction of mobile systems of extremely high output power (up to 10 megawatts average power, peak pulsed powers of many gigawatts), it is not the high power per se which determines the lethality of the system, but rather its ability to "couple" the output effectively into the target and to exploit non-linear biological action. While high output power may be used to obtain range and breadth of effects and penetration into enclosures and defenses, the minimum lethal "dose" on target will typically be orders of magnitude less than that which would be required to kill by mere heating, in the manner of a microwave oven.
The closest analogy to a sophisticated EP anti-personnel weapon is provided by powerful chemical weapons, such as nerve gases having rapid, fatal effects at extremely low concentration. In the latter case, the effect is mediated by molecules which enter nerve synapses and other critical areas and disrupt normal functions without massive destruction of tissue. The poison acts on the higher levels of organization of living process. Furthermore, it should be understood that molecules themselves are nothing but electromagnetic configurations. That is, the molecules (e.g., of the nerve gas) act via electromagnetic fields, by exchange of electromagnetic energy with other molecules. Hence, it should hardly be surprising to discover that the same effects can be induced by electromagnetic radiation alone-without the presence of the molecules! In principle it suffices to identify the precise geometrical characteristics of the electromagnetic action associated with the given substance, and then just "mimic" the molecular action by a carefully "tailored" signal. Once this principle is understood, biophysical research can define the most appropriate pulse forms for weapon applications, independently of any specific chemical "model." That this is by no means a mere theoretical possibility is proven by a wide variety of experiments on the biological effects of "tailored" electromagnetic radiation, carried out in the West and East over the last 40 years. For obvious reasons, experiments involving lethal effects are mostly classified. To illustrate some of the relevant research areas, we present a couple of examples of well-documented non-lethal effects.
Since the 1950s much scientific attention has been paid, in the East and West, to effects on the brain of 1) psychotropic drugs (LSD, depressants, stimulants, etc.) and 2) electrical stimulation of specific areas of the brain by implanted electrodes. Among other things, experiments showed that minute currents induced by electrical stimulation could evoke profound changes in brain function, similar to those obtained by psychotropic drugs, the latter often at extremely low concentrations. This work reveal some "deep secrets" of the physiological organization of the brain, secrets having potentially far-reaching military implications. Since the early 1970s a number of published experiments have shown that similar, profound neurological effects can be induced without the "substantial" intervention of drugs or electrodes, by electromagnetic fields applied from outside the experimental subject. Typical of these are those of Dr. Jose Delgado and Dr. Ross Adey. Delgado applied a slowly modulated weak magnetic field(several Gauss, pulsed at less than 100 Hz) to the heads of monkeys via external coils. Depending upon the precise modulation frequency used, specific effects were induced. Thus, one frequency caused the animals to fall asleep, and another triggered aggression, each time with very specific neurophysiological effects on specific areas of the brain. Adey and others have obtained similar neurophysiological effects with a modulated, low-power, radio-frequency field, with modulation frequencies in the range of the internal "brain waves" (EEG). Absorbed power levels were very low- on the order of a thousandth of a watt per square centimeter.
Related experiments have shown that internal EEG waves can be entrained and modified, demonstrating the possibility of direct information transfer to the brain via modulated radio-frequency (RF) fields. Thus, below the threshold of lethal effects, a certain potential for subtle psychological manipulation by means of "tailored" electromagnetic signals cannot be excluded.
Lethal effects have been obtained at power levels not very much higher than in behavior modification experiments. Again, it is not so much the net power as the exact form of the applied series of pulses, which makes the difference. One laboratory device, used in brain research, kills experimental animals with a single microwave pulse of 1/6 second duration.
While the neurological effects of modulated RF and microwave radiation have long been a high-priority area for Soviet research, this field has tended to be played down or even suppressed in the West. For example, Delgado's magnetic field experiments have gone nearly unnoticed in the Western scientific literature, but are a featured subject in a recent Russian book, published under the auspices of Znanyia, a cadre organization headed by top Soviet military scientist N.D. Basov.
While we have concentrated here on the brain as a key target of EP weapons, this is by no means the only target. The central nervous system more generally, and vital organs, especially the heart, are all possible targets. Moreover, a very insidious deployment of EP would be to degrade the overall health of persons in a certain area by long-term, low-level irradiation. There is evidence that the latter has already been tried by the Soviets in a number of cases.
Much more could be said about non-linear biological effects exploitable by EP weapons. In this short introduction, however, we want to move on to another key problem of these weapons; how to generate and deliver the destructive action to the target.
This Special Report presents some details on high-power RF and microwave generators, an area of highest priority in Soviet research and development. There are two essential types of devices which can be used in EP weapons; oscillators using beams of electrons or plasmas, and solid-state devices.