Boosting The Human Brain
The embassy constructed protective screens. Radiation was later measured at only two-tenths of a microwatt per centimeter.
Just before President Carter went to Vienna to meet Brezhnev, the microwave bombardment stopped suddenly, on April 27, 1979. It was resumed some three months later, in mid-July, just as the two leaders were beginning their meetings in the Austrian capital. A spokesman for the embassy in Moscow said that “during the week ending July 15, a microwave signal was active, although at a low level.”
Two main hypotheses have been applied to the mysterious Moscow microwaves: that (a) they were used to make tracking-down of Soviet listening devices within the embassy difficult or impossible, or (2) they were designed to jam U.S. electronic eavesdropping equipment operated by intelligence agents in the embassy’s basement. Another hypothesis is Soviet use of radiation to effect mind-changes in embassy personnel; or that they were used to “read minds” by tuning microwaves to the level of brain waves, possibly amplifying their intensity, then effecting a “feedback” that could range from remote monitoring of brain wave activity to recording emotions, images, or thoughts.
The persistence with which the Soviet government continued this radiation, despite protests from Washington, testified to usefulness of these techniques. The potential of microwave technology in intelligence-gathering and brain manipulation is, literally, unimaginable. Thus, the possibility that, during the Vienna SALT II conference, President Carter might have been subjected to some esoteric form of mind manipulation cannot be ruled out.
Use of microwave technology has expanded enormously during the past two decades. Telephone conversations relayed by satellites all over the world can easily be monitored. After the first major grain deal leading to the purchase of large quantities of U.S. wheat by the Soviet Union, it was assumed that the Soviet negotiators had eavesdropped on telephone conversations between American grain dealers, enabling them to drive a particularly advantageous bargain.
As most long-distance telephone calls within the United States are transmitted by satellite, by these two methods, they are relatively easily intercepted – not only by the agents of a foreign power, but also by business and financial interests, including criminal enterprises. Shortly after President Gerald Ford took office following the resignation of President Nixon, the National Security Agency advised him that Soviet agents were “plucking” information from the air by tuning in on longdistance telephone conversations between U.S. government agencies and private corporations.
The report was specific in pinpointing monitoring stations within the continental United States: the Soviet Embassy in Washington, which is being relocated to a new, elevated, and relatively static-free location; the USSR office of the United Nations delegation in New York; vacation residences of Soviet diplomats in Long Island and Maryland; and a high-rise residential compound of Soviet officials and their families in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, in New York City. Cuba also provides a major military and civilian signal-monitoring base.
President Ford was given initial information in a memorandum on “telephone espionage,” dated June 30, 1975, prepared by John M. Eger, then acting director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, a relatively new office within the NSA. The Eger memorandum said that “the potential for such monitoring raises concerns related not only to our national security, but also to the privacy and confidentiality of personal affairs and business dealings, and effective functioning of our economy.”
Later that year, Thomas C. Reed, then director of Telecommunications and Command and Controls Systems in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, told an audience in Sacramento, California, that interception of domestic long-distance telephone conversations represented “a simple and straightforward matter for the underworld organizations, blackmailers, terrorists, or foreign powers.” He explained that “modern computer techniques make it possible to sort through that traffic and target conversations fairly easily.”
The kind of computer that can alert its users to key words used in an intercepted series of telephone talks would have to be located in the Soviet Union itself, in Cuba, or in an Eastern European center, such as East Berlin. It is possible that the transmissions, from a Soviet monitoring station in the United States to a screening computer, could themselves be intercepted by NSA or an equivalent agency in West Germany.
President Carter in 1977 approved the rerouting of confidential telephone communications, through underground cables circling among Washington, New York, and San Francisco. At the same time, the then CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner told a Chicago audience that “hijackers, gangsters, foreign intelligence operatives and industrial spies” might all be engaging in electronic surveillance of long-distance telephone calls. The U.S. government alerted private corporations to this risk, encouraging them to make their telephone connections more secure.
Efforts to monitor human brain activity, by means of some form of super-telepathy, should be seen in the context of just such technological means as microwave techniques offer today. Biocommunication, from cells within one human body to cells in another or in several persons, can be seen as a biological parallel of sophisticated electronic equipment. Certain aspects of psychotronics, those concerned with extremely low levels of energy, electromagnetism, photons, bioplasma, and similar categories, are the electro-biological equivalent of communication and interception techniques that utilize advanced electronic technology.
