Counter-personnel Effects on DoD Wish List

The PowerPoint slide at left clearly lists the "non-lethal counter-personnel capabilities" that the United States Department of Defense wants to acquire in the next 10 to 20 years.

This slide has been taken from a presentation given in November 2001 by the commander of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, entitled "To The Future: Non-Lethal Capabilities Technologies in the 21st Century." Excerpts of the presentation may be found at the website of the Sunshine Project, on their "Non-Lethal Weapons Online Document Clearinghouse" page:

http://www.sunshine-project.org/incapacitants/jnlwdntar.pdf

The outline indicates that the DoD foresees development of counter-personnel weapons that "will attack a target's senses or cognitive/motor capabilities," namely the person's ability to smell, taste, feel, hear and see. The check-box clearly includes "emotion" and "motor skills" on the shopping list.

Perhaps most interesting about this list is the prediction of "accurate, long-range payload delivery along with a non-lethal delivery means." The editors at the Sunshine Project assume this must be a reference to "non-lethal" chemical weapons, delivered as mortar rounds. But could this also be a reference to the use of space-based vehicles and directed energy weapons?

The research and development of space-based psychotronic weapons would fit this wish-list admirably.

Effects Reported by Targeted Individuals

The illustration at right, found at the mindjustice.org website, lists many of the effects reported by voice hearers and those individuals who believe themselves to be targeted by psycho-electronic weapons.

They bear a remarkable resemblance to the negative Human Effects envisioned by the U.S. Air Force in 1996, notably: disrupting a person's effectiveness or mission accomplishment through sleep induction, sleep deprivation, subliminal suggestions, manipulation of emotions, forced memory loss, and creation of false perception (see the last post).

A detailed list of "Psycho-Electronic Weapon Effects," found at the Synthetic Telepathy website below, exactly parallels the effects listed by the illustration at right. They are apparently from the same source, a "targeted individual" describing her personal experience. The list has been modified and altered for the sake of clarity.

The effects described appear to be a combination of Non-Lethal Weapons effects mixed with subliminal hypnosis, behavior modification and classic PSYOP harassment.

http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/synthtele/synthtele.html

Many TIs have reported experiencing all or some of these effects:

Invasive At-a-Distance Body Effects (including mind):

Sleep deprivation and fatigue:

--Silent but instantaneous application of "electronic caffeine" signal, forces awake and keeps awake
--Loud noise from neighbors, usually synchronized to attempts to fall asleep
--Precision-to-the-second "allowed sleep" and "forced awakening," far too precise and repeated to be natural
--Daytime "fatigue attacks" can force the victim to sleep

Audible Voice to Skull (V2S):

--Delivered by at-a-distance radio signal
--Made to appear as emanating from thin air
--Voices or sound effects only the victim can hear

Inaudible Voice to Skull (Silent Sound):

--Delivered by at-a-distance radio signal;
--Manifested by sudden urges to do something/go somewhere
--Silent (ultrasonic) hypnosis presumed
--Programming hypnotic "triggers" - i.e., specific phrases, catchy songs, verbal hooks or other cues cause specific involuntary actions

Violent muscle triggering (flailing of limbs):

--Leg or arm jerks to violently force awake and keep awake
--Whole body jerks, as if body had been hit by large jolt of electricity
--Violent shaking of body; seemingly as if on a vibrating surface but where surface is in reality not vibrating

Precision manipulation of body parts (slow, specific purpose):

--Manipulation of hands and feet
--Slow bending almost 90 degrees backward of one toe at a time or one finger at a time
--Direct at-a-distance control of breathing and vocal cords, including involuntary speech
--Spot blanking of memory, long- and short-term

Reading said-silently-to-self thoughts:

--Engineered skits where your thoughts are spoken to you by strangers
--Real time reading sub-vocalized words, as while the victim reads a book

Direct application of pain to body parts:

--Hot-needles-deep-in-flesh sensation
--Electric shocks (no wires whatsoever applied)
--Powerful and unquenchable itching, often applied precisely
--"Artificial fever," sudden, no illness present
-- Sudden racing heartbeat in a relaxed situation

External Stress-Generating "Skits":

--Participation of strangers, neighbors in harassment
--Rudeness for no cause
--Tradesmen always have "problems," block your car, etc.
--Purchases delayed, spoiled, or lost at a high rate
--Unusually loud music, noise, far beyond normal

Break-ins/sabotage at home:

--Shredding of clothing
--Destruction of furniture
--Petty theft
--Engineered failures of utilities

Sabotage at work:

--Deletion/corruption of computer files
--Planting viruses which could not have come from your computer usage pattern
--Spreading of rumors, sabotage to your working reputation
--Direct sabotage and theft of completed work

SUMMARY OF EFFECTS

To the Brain:

--Microwave hearing of voice(s) that are not one's own
--Manipulation of emotions and attacks on self-esteem
--External induction of inappropriate thoughts
--Reading, echoing, broadcasting and scrambling thoughts
--Forced memory blanking and induced erroneous actions
--Induced changes to hearing
--Sleep prevention each night, at exactly the same time (for weeks)
--Sleep induction, often at inappropriate times
--Vivid controlled dreams, with sense of dream being forced or narrated
--Ultra-vivid forced images, as if a cartoon or photograph forced on visual field

To the Face:

--Manipulation of facial expressions
--Forced movement of jaw and clacking of teeth
--Manipulation of airways
--Externally controlled forced speech
--Artificial tinnitus (ringing in ears)

To the Body:

--Wilding racing heart without cause
--Heart palpitations without cause
--Remotely induced itching (sudden and violent, with no rash)
--Forced nudging of arm during delicate or messy work causing injury or spills
--Jolting, forced convulsions, and forced "muscle quaking"
--Forced precision manipulation of hands, sometimes synched to the forced waking visions
--Special attention to genital area: itching, forced orgasm, intense pain, "hot needles"
--Intense general pain in the legs, like stings.

Human Effects Testing and Body Modelling

At right, one may see an illustration of Human Effects testing and computer characterization, as described in 2002 by Lt. Gen. Buck Bedard in a PowerPoint presentation on "The U.S. Department of Defense Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program."

This illustration also represents what many Voice Hearers or "targeted individuals" describe feeling: As if they were wrapped in a cocoon of electromagnetic energy, with holographic images of another person's body being projected upon them. The TIs often interpret this as a form of astral projection, in which a ghost, evil spirit or demon is attempting to "possess" their body.

However, the phenomenon might also be described as an advanced form of body mapping. It's as if a 3D hologram of one person's body were projected or superimposed on the body of another person. The result would be more than simple verbal telepathy: It would feel disturbingly as if another person were inside one's own skin.

When irradiated from a distance, it is possible that a highly sophisticated data collection program (similar to the facial recognition programs used at airports) could "electronically photograph" the body of a human target, eventually building an extremely accurate, computer-generated 3D model, much like the ones shown in the photo above. A similar model could be created for the assailant. A computer could then be used to merge the two body maps.

The result would be an extremely powerful means for imposing sensory hallucinations on the target: Think of it as a form of 3D "voodoo doll" into which pins could be stuck. Such computer models would also provide a powerful means of modelling and measuring the "bioeffects" of different stimuli delivered by remote radiation or beam weapons.

A commercial version of 3D body modelling software (called "Poser") is now available on the market for less than $300. It is widely used by digital artists and graphic illustrators:

http://www.e-frontier.com/go/poser

What we are describing here would be much more sophisticated, but certainly not outside the reach of military weapons labs. In fact, the Air Force Research Laboratory has developed a body modelling system for "realtime feedback of human effects and behavior effects" when testing Non-Lethal Weapons. It is called the Advanced Total Body Model (ATBM) system. A website and brochure describing ATBM may be found at this site:

http://www.iatbm.net/

While this certainly does not constitute proof that the Air Force is, in any way, testing out the "human effects" of Artificial Telepathy weapons on innocent civilians, or beaming voices into the heads of human targets, or using 3D holographic models to "virtually rape" and torture people, it suggests that the technology to do so may actually exist.

Certainly the Air Force has expressed an interest in mind control in the past. The following quote may be found at the mindjustice.org timeline, listed under the year 1996:

http://mindjustice.org/timeline.htm

From USAF Scientific Advisory Board, New World Vistas Air and Space Power for the 21st Century, Ancillary Volume, p89.

"Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be pulsed, shaped, and focused, that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements, control emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both short-term and long-term memory, produce an experience set, and delete an experience set. This will open the door for the development of some novel capabilities that can be used in armed conflict, in terrorist/hostage situation, and in training . . . "

The Air Force Research Laboratory, in particular, has a very strong interest in testing Human Effects of pulsed weapons on human behavior for the reasons stated below.

http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Sept02/HE0209.html

"The Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force report on Non-lethal Technologies concluded that a major uncertainty in the use of non-lethal weapons is the question of human effects. The Center for Strategic and International Studies reported "The significant value of strategic applications on non-lethal technologies ...was predicated on the assumption that the weapons can be made to work as advertised. It is currently not known if they can."

"Although there is a sense of urgency to field NLWs today, the need to demonstrate that weapon payloads are effective against human targets and do not cause unintended harm is critical to mission success.

"The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWP) began in 1996 as a Congressional initiative to provide warfighters with a family of NLW systems that have a range of optional non-lethal capabilities across the full spectrum of threats and crises. NLWs are defined as 'weapons that are explicitly designed and primarily employed so as to incapacitate personnel or materiel, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment.'

"The Master Plan for the JNLWP states, 'The successful use of NLWs is grounded in the user's level of confidence that consequences of their employment will decrease rather than increase the level of confrontation. To achieve this level of confidence, the health effects of the NLWs must be completely understood. Commanders in the field, when faced with the decision of which NLW to employ in a given scenario, must be able to confidently predict the most probable effects on people.' Human effects are fundamentally crucial elements of non-lethal weapons development and employment.

"Establishing an NLW human effects capability has been on a fast track over the last few years. First, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons (JNLW) Integrated Product Team chartered the Human Effects Process Action Team (HEPAT). Then, the HEPAT briefed the concept for the JNLW Human Effects Center of Excellence (HECOE) to the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD). The HEPAT subsequently recommended that the DoD should establish a DoD NLW HECOE to serve as the centralized resource to ensure human effects of NLWs are adequately addressed as early as possible in the development and acquisition cycle and throughout the life cycle of the weapon system.

"AFRL and the JNLWD signed an historic Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on June 7, 2001 at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, that launched a new era in NLW development and established the HECOE . . . . The JNLWD selected the Human Effec-tiveness Directorate to manage the new HECOE based on the strength of its many contributions to non-lethal technologies effectiveness research during the last decade.

"NLW bioeffects has been a research competency for AFRL and its predecessors for over ten years. AFRL is one of many resources available to carry out JNLW-funded human effects research identified by the HECOE. The MOA between the JNLWD and AFRL provides the foundation for tapping scientific expertise throughout AFRL.

"Human effects are widely recognized as the "long-pole-in-the-tent" for most aspects of NLW operational utility, technical feasibility, and policy acceptability. The HECOE is the human effects "one-stop-shop" resource for NLW program managers, ensuring they have the data needed to make informed and educated decisions.

"Among other duties, the HECOE is developing a central repository of human effects data. The HECOE will analyze human effects for NLW program managers and recommend research to fill identified data gaps, coordinate human effects modeling and research efforts, and maintain a listing of qualified agencies capable of conducting research, testing, and analyses.

"Colonel George Fenton, JNLWD Director, emphasizes characterizing human effects as a foundation and core element of the JNLW program. The level of risk of injury or lethality to targets and the probability that a weapon will be effective against a spectrum of targets is important information for the weapon developer and the users in the field.

"To provide a solid foundation for characterizing the target response effects and the risks of unintended effects, the HECOE brought together a panel of world-class experts on risk assessment, medicine, and decision analysis who worked with DoD NLW subject matter experts, materiel developers, and program managers. This very successful workshop produced a report on risk characterization framework.

". . . . The HECOE published human effects evaluations on four candidate NLWs and is assessing data on stingball blunt impact and TASER® electroshock. NLW program managers are establishing working relationships with the HECOE, and management of the associated human effects research programs is currently on a reimbursable basis. "

Close Up: Dr. Michael Murphy, Chief of the Human Effects Directorate's Radio Frequency Radiation Bioeffects Branch, Air Force Research Lab

Dr. Michael R. Murphy works at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Radio Frequency Radiation Branch (HEDR) at Brooks-City Air Force Base, near San Antonio, TX. He has "an extensive research career in radio-frequency (RF) bioeffects research and international collaboration for RF bioeffects," according to AFRL's Human Effectiveness Directorate Newsletter for November, 2006.

Dr. Murphy is apparently an associate of the Dr. Kenneth Boff, the Chief Scientist of the Human Effectiveness Directorate in 1998.

See: http://www.tokyo.afosr.af.mil/ASL/asl18.html

Biographical notes are scanty, but some information can be gathered from the following source:

http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=9224223

He earned a BS in psychology from Occidental College, Los Angeles, and a PhD in neuroscience from MIT. In 1982 he returned to his home town for a position with the U.S. Air Force, first working on prophylactics/treatments for chemical warfare agents, and then moving to radio frequency bioeffects in 1992. From 1994-2004 he was Chief or the USAF Radio Frequency Radiation Branch. He is a member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, the Directed Energy Professional Society, the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, and the IEEE Standards Board. He is active is the IEEE International Committee for Electromagnetic Safety, for which he serves as International Liaison.

http://www.he.afrl.af.mil/A04_ScienceAndTech/HE_Media/NewsLetter/Newsletter_Summer60.pdf
The photograph of Dr. Murphy (above right) and the biographical information (below) are taken from the announcement of the Air Force Science and Engineering award he received in 2003:

http://www.afrl.af.mil/successstories/2003/awards_and_recognition/03-he-26.pdf

Accomplishment

"The United States Air Force presented Dr. Michael R. Murphy, Chief of the Human Effects Directorate's Radio Frequency Radiation Bioeffects Branch, the U.S. Air Force 2002 Science and Engineering Annual Award for Achievement in Areas of Exploratory or Advanced Technology Development. Dr. Murphy directed efforts to document human effects data in support of Non-Lethal Weapons (NLWs) and is the Chair of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Technology Group on the Human Effects of Non-Lethal Technologies.

"Dr. Murphy provided Air Force capabilities and expertise in support of the Department of Defense (DoD) Executive Agent for NLWs through the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD). Dr. Murphy led research and risk communication efforts in support of the human effects of a unique microwave-based, anti-personnel, non-lethal weapon called an Active Denial System (ADS).

". . . . Due to his technical expertise and support of expanded human effects research of non-lethal weapons, his group earned the designation and funding as the Joint Non-Lethal Human Effects Center of Excellence in the DoD."

In October, 2004, Dr. Murphy spoke at the "75th Shock and Vibration Symposium" hosted by SAVIAC, the Shock and Vibration Information Analysis Center.
http://www.saviac.org/75th_Symposium/preliminary_program.htm

He is listed as an employee of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, which suggests he left AFRL. However, Dr. Murphy apparently still occupies a post of some importance at the HECOE. In August 2006, he was granted a fellowship award, one of AFRL's "highest honors."

http://www.afrl.af.mil/news/aug06/features/afrl_fellows.pdf

As recently as November 2, 2006, he spoke at the Ninth Annual Directed Energy Symposium of the Directed Energy Professional Society. See:

http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/DEsymp06.html

The list of corporate sponsors for this event reads like a "Who's Who" of defense contractors with an interest in people-zapping:

http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/sponsors.html

http://www.deps.org/DEPSpages/extLinks.html

Close Up: Ms. Susan J. Thornton, Director of the Directed Energy Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory

Relevance to Artificial Telepathy: Artificial Telepathy may be defined as a "Non-Lethal Weapon Program" and the Air Force Research Laboratory appears to be one of the premiere labs serving the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program at the U.S. Department of Defense. As stated in Ms. Thornton's biography, below, the AFRL's Directed Energy Directorate serves the entire DoD community, and it specializes in the research of exotic laser, millimeterwave, infrared and microwave weapons.

Source: http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/Biographies/thornton.html

Ms. Susan J. Thornton is the director of the Directed Energy Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The Directorate, with more than 800 military and civilian scientists, engineers, contractors and support people and an annual budget exceeding $300 million, provides pervasive, world-class directed energy and imaging research and technologies for users across the United States Air Force and the Department of Defense.

Selected for the Senior Executive Service in January 2007, Ms. Thornton came from the Airborne Laser Program, Aeronautical Systems Center, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, where she was the director of engineering. She served as the principal technical advisor to the system program director on designing, building, and testing the Air-borne Laser weapon system, a $7 billion program focused on destroying ballistic missiles in the boost phase.

EDUCATION:

1981 Bachelor of science, electrical systems engineering, Wright State University, Ohio
1990 Master of science, aeronautical engineering, University of Dayton, Ohio
1998 Master in public administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2000 Advanced Program Manager’s Course, Defense Systems Management College, Ft Belvoir, Virginia

CAREER CHRONOLOGY:

1981 - 1984, project engineer, Propulsion System Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
1984 - 1986, lead engineer for engine monitoring systems, Propulsion System Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
1986 - 1990, lead engineer for the F119 engine, F-22 System Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
1990 - 1993, lead propulsion engineer, Special Operations Forces Program Office and Aircraft System Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
1993 - 1994, chief engineer for CV-22 Osprey, Special Operations Forces Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
1994 - 1997, chief engineer for MC-130H Combat Talon II, Special Operations Forces Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
1997 - 1998, student, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cam-bridge, Massachusetts
1998 - 1999, chief, technical and acquisition policy, Systems Engineering Division, En-gineering Directorate, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
1999 - 2001, chief, Plans and Program Branch, Systems Engineering Division, Engineering Directorate, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
2001 – 2007, director of engineering, Airborne Laser Program, Aeronautical Systems Center, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico

MAJOR AWARDS AND HONORS:

1986 Air Force Association Junior Engineer of the Year
1986 Air Force Systems Command Certificate of Merit
1989, 1999 Notable Achievement Award
1998 Lucius N. Littauer Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2003 Aeronautical Systems Center Chief Engineer of the Year

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS:

Affiliate Societies Council of Dayton
Innovations in Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government and Ford Foundation
Directed Energy Professional Society

Close Up: Dr. William L. Baker, Chief Scientist of the Air Force Research Lab's Directed Energy Directorate

Dr. William L. Baker, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is Chief Scientist, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

Source: http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=4591

Regarding Artificial Telepathy, see Dr. Baker's article on Controlled Effects -- the effects that directed energy weapons may have on the minds of human beings.

http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Jun04/DE0401.html

With an annual budget of more than $300 million, the AFRL's Directed Energy Directorate is responsible for all Air Force research and development of laser and high-power microwave technologies. The directorate conducts advanced technology research to support major directed energy applications such as the airborne laser, advanced tactical laser and active denial system.

The Chief Scientist is the directorate's primary adviser on scientific and technical matters, and the primary authority for the technical content of the science and technology portfolio.

Dr. Baker was born in Columbus, Ohio. He began his career in the Air Force in 1969 as a nuclear research officer at Kirtland AFB. In 1973 he became a civilian scientist at the base's Air Force Weapons Laboratory, where he performed and directed research and development efforts to advance pulsed power and plasma technology for nuclear weapons effects simulation. He became internationally known for developing intense plasma implosion X-ray sources. He subsequently initiated, performed and directed major directed energy weapons research and development efforts on high-energy particle beams, high power microwaves and high energy lasers.

Dr. Baker has written more than 50 publications in nuclear physics, plasma physics, pulsed power and directed energy.

EDUCATION

1965 Bachelor of Science degree in physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus
1967 Master of Science degree in physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus
1969 Doctor of Philosophy in nuclear physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus

CAREER CHRONOLOGY

1. 1969 - 1973, nuclear research officer, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

2. 1973 - 1977, scientific adviser, X-ray Simulation Branch, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

3. 1977 - 1984, Chief, Advanced Technology Management Office, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

4. 1984 - 1985, Chief, Simulators and Advanced Concepts Branch, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

5. 1985 - 1989, Chief, Advanced Technology Division, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

6. 1989 - 1991, Chief, High-Power Microwave Program Office, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

7. 1991 - 1994, Technical Director for High-Power Microwaves, Air Force Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

8. 1994 - 1994, acting Director, Advanced Weapons and Survivability Directorate, Air Force Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

9. 1994 - 1995, Technical Director, Advanced Weapons and Survivability Directorate, Air Force Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

10. 1995 - 1996, Air Force Senior Scientist for High-Power Microwaves, Air Force Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

11. 1996 - 1997, Chief Scientist, Advanced Weapons and Survivability Directorate, Air Force Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

12. 1997 - 2000, Senior Scientist for High-Power Microwaves, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

13. 2000 - present, Chief Scientist, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M.

AWARDS AND HONORS

1965 Phi Beta Kappa
1977 Science and Technology Award, Air Force Systems Command
1986 Commander's Award for Excellence, Air Force Weapons Laboratory
1988 Technical Manager of the Year, Air Force Weapons Laboratory
1997 Peter Haas Pulsed Power Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1997 Directed Energy Award, Association of Old Crows
1998 Exemplary Civilian Service Award, U.S. Air Force
1999 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1999 Distinguished Civilian Service Award, Department of Defense
2003 Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award
2006 Distinguished Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

American Physical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Board member, Directed Energy Professional Society
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

(Current as of November 2006)

Focus On: The Air Force Research Lab

Headquartered at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) was "formed in October 1997 as the product of an organizational consolidation that integrated previously separate Air Force laboratories (Armstrong, Phillips, Rome and Wright-Patterson) with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research," according to the AFRL website.

http://www.afrlhorizons.com/About/

The AFRL employs more than 9,600 people and consists of 10 directorates, situated across the country. (For a list of the directorates see the link above.) They oversee the Air Force's $1.2 billion annual Science & Technology (S&T) program. AFRL is considered one of the best, if not the best, research lab run by the Department of Defense.

According to the AFRL's "Mission & Vision" statement, "We defend America by unleashing the power of innovative science and technology"

An advertisement recently placed at usajobs.com echoes AFRL's obsession with lasers, phasers, satellites and other James Bond-like weapons: "The men and women of AFRL are creating the Air Force of the future -- turning science fiction into science fact."

Is this just the empty verbal posturing of an Air Force recruiter trying to make a ho-hum lab job sound exciting? Or could it be true?

In the last few posts, we saw evidence that AFRL plays a lead role in the DoD's efforts to develop "Artificial Telepathy" weapons, under cover of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. Specifically, the chief scientist of the AFRL's Directed Energy Directorate (the "people zapping" unit) has stated that

"By studying and modeling the human brain and nervous system, the ability to mentally influence or confuse personnel is also possible. Through sensory deception, it may be possible to create synthetic images, or holograms, to confuse an individual' s visual sense or, in a similar manner, confuse his senses of sound, taste, touch, or smell."

See Dr. William L. Baker's article at the AFRL website:
http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Jun04/DE0401.html

The Directed Energy Directorate and the Space Vehicles Directorate are both located at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., at the site of the former Phillips Laboratory. The fact that they are located right next to each other clearly implies that both directorates share a common mission: using space vehicles to zap people on Earth.

Both of these directorates are linked to a third, and very important, AFRL facility: AMOS, The Air Force Maui Optical & Supercomputing Site. AMOS has a two-fold mission: First, it conducts R&D using the Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC). Second, it oversees operations at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). See http://www.maui.afrrc.af.mil/about.html

AMOS has a unique capablity: "the capability of projecting lasers into the atmosphere, which is unusual at astronomical sites." Those among the tin-foil-beanie crowd who believe that the government is beaming voices into their heads will find very little comfort in this fact. Given that people-zapping seems to be one of AFRL's favorite hobbies, why not look upon AMOS with some discomfort? Modelling the effects of beam weapons upon a human brain would certainly require supercomputers, and that's exactly what the military scientists at AMOS possess.

In the last post, we examined the command and control structure of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWP), and it clearly indicates that AFRL plays a lead role in the JNLWP's study of Human Effects or Bioeffects, that is, the controlled effects that directed energy beams may have upon human minds and human behavior.

In fact, AFRL has an entire directorate, based at Wright Patterson AFB, devoted to the study of Human Effects (HE). They explore such research topics as "Three-Dimensional Audio Technology," "Microwave Research on Memory Loss," "Non-Lethal Weapons Human Effects," "Auditory Distance Perception of Speech," and "Three-Dimensional Auditory Localization of Nearby Sources."

http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/he.html

The HE directorate oversees a secretive "Warfighter Training Research Division" at Mesa, AZ and the Human Effects Center of Excellence (HECOE) located at Brooks-City AFB, San Antonio, TX. HECOE operates a "Directed Energy Bioeffects Division, Radio Frequency Radiation Branch," which did the "Microwave Research on Memory Loss" mentioned above.

See: http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Aug04/HE0302.html

Nearby neighbors in the San Antonio region include:

The Joint Information Operations Warfare Command (JIOWC) at Lackland AFB, and
The Air Force Information Warfare Battlelab (AFIOC), also at Lackland AFB.

JIOWC, is "responsible for planning, integrating and coordinating the information operations core capabilities of electronic warfare, operations security and military deception, and integrating psychological operations in support of Joint Force Commanders."

See Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Information_Operations_Center

AFIOC is "engaged in a myriad of activities supporting its role as the Air Force's information warfare executive agent. It integrates information warfare tactics, training and technology for combatant commanders. The center is comprised of about 1,000 military and civilian members trained in the areas of operations, engineering, operations research, intelligence, radar technology and communications and computer applications."
http://www.aia.af.mil/units/afioc/index.asp

The data gathered by AFIOC, which is run by the Air Intelligence Agency, is most likely shared with another branch of the Air Intelligence Agency: The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. (You may recall that the Air Force Research Laboratory is also headquartered at Wright Patterson).

See NASIC's home page at:
http://www.aia.af.mil/units/nasic.asp

NASIC is "the primary Department of Defense producer of foreign aerospace intelligence" and it operates a "Behavioral Influences Analysis (BIA) Division." The BIA employs a variety of "analytical tools for Behavioral Influences Operations" and integrates these Behavioral Influence Operations with the DoD's overall PSYOP planning.

Translation: AFRL's Human Effects lab in San Antonio is running in tandem with the DoD's premiere "Information Operation" centers in San Antonio, and together they are all serving DoD's PSYOP (mind control) planners.

Those who believe that the U.S. Department of Defense does not engage in mind control operations are cordially invited to read the definition of Influence Operations (IO) contained on Air University's "Cyberspace and Information Operations" page:

http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/influence.htm

According to this website, the Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC) employs social scientists and engineers to develop "influence" models and methodologies. The Defense Intelligence Agency's Human Factors Analysis Center (HFAC) performs "the analysis of key national leaders and the analysis of key systems operators." The Joint Information Operations Center in San Antonio, TX, acts as a "Precision Influence Cell."

All of this PSYOP technology is most certainly employed as a weapon. See, for example, the article "Mapping the Minds in Iraq's Regime" by William M. Arkin in the Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2002.

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/results.html?QryTxt=mapping+the+mind

Does the U.S. government use "influence" operations and PSYOP strategies against foreign civilians? Well, yes, but they don't call it PSYOP. When dealing with civilians, they prefer to use the term "Perception Management." The following definition is rather enlightening:

perception management - (DOD Dictionary) Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator's objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations. See also psychological operations.

For some sobering reading on perception war and perception operations, see:

http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/perception.htm

Given the powerful suite of psychological weapons and tools available to the Department of Defense, is it so difficult to believe that government officials at the top of the command chain would use the same tools when trying to "manage" the perceptions of U.S. citizens?

Given the AFRL's intense interest in studying the "human effects" of directed energy weapons on the human mind, is it so difficult to believe that they might want to test their fun new toys on the minds of innocent civilians?

How else are such weapons to be tested in a real-world environment?

Who Runs the Program, Part III: Overall Outline and Links

Here's the overall outline of the Command Structure that controls Artificial Telepathy weapons, from the President of the United States down to the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program. The chain of command ends at the point where agents are fielded.

An effort has been made to put names and faces on everyone in the command structure.


THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Photo of President George W. Bush:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:George-W-Bush.jpeg

History and Organization of the Office of the President:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Executive/EOP.shtml

Photos of President Bush's Cabinet members:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html


THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (NSC)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/index.html

Vice President Richard B. Cheney
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/

Asst. to the President for National Security Affairs Stephen J. Hadley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hadley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_to_the_President_for_National_Security_Affairs

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/rumsfeld-bio.html

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
http://www.state.gov/secretary/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace, USMC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff

Director of National Intelligence (nominated) Adm. John M. "Mike" McConnell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_McConnell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence
http://www.odni.gov/

Former Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzalez

Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
http://www.treasury.gov/organization/bios/paulson-e.html

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Robert J. Portman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Portman

Chief of Staff to the President Joshua B. Bolten
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/bolten-bio.html

Counsel to the President Fred F. Fielding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fielding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Counsel

Asst. to the President for Economic Policy Allan Hubbard
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/hubbard-bio.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/blahous-bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Economic_Council


THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (OSD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/osd/

Photos and bios of Top Officers:
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/


THE SENIOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (SEC)

The Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/depsecdef_bio.html

The Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey
http://www.army.mil/leaders/leaders/sa/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Army

The Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/leadership/ldrDisplay.asp?m=325
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy

Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James T. Conway
http://www.marines.mil/cmc/33cmc.nsf/cmcmain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marines

The Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7919
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Air_Force

Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics (AT&L) Kenneth J. Krieg
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/krieg_bio.html

Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Robert Andrews
http://www.defenselink.mil/Bios/BiographyDetail.aspx?BiographyID=117


THE JOINT NON-LETHAL WEAPONS PROGRAM (JNLWP)

JNLWP: PRINCIPLE OVERSIGHT

The Under Secretary of Defense for AT&L Kenneth J. Krieg
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/krieg_bio.html
http://www.acq.osd.mil/

JNLWP: POLICY OVERSIGHT

The Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric S. Edelman
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/edelman_bio.html
http://www.dod.mil/policy/
http://www.dod.mil/policy/sections/leadership/index.html

JNLWP: EXECUTIVE AGENT

The Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps (CMC): Gen. James T. Conway
https://www.jnlwp.com/Organization.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Conway
http://www.usmc.mil/cmc/34cmc.nsf/cmcmain


JNLWP: OVERARCHING INTEGRATED PRODUCT TEAM (JIPT)

Provides guidance, reviews and approves JNLWP budget, arbitrates any service concerns

Chairman: Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps for Plans, Policies, and Operations PPO (DC USMC PPO)

Lt. Gen. Emil "Buck" Bedard, USMC
http://www.usmc.mil/genbios2.nsf/biographies/0F06C979DBDFE9488525680200562D2C?opendocument
http://www.afrl.af.mil/news/june01/features/center_opens.pdf
Power point presentation: http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2002nonlethdef/Bedard2.pdf

Lt. Gen. Jan Huly, USMC
http://www.usmc.mil/genbios2.nsf/biographies/53F675980C8B68A18525680800493CFE?opendocument

Lt. Gen. Richard F. Natonski (Nov. 2006 to present)
https://138.156.230.184/GOSA/biographies/rptBiography.asp?PERSON_ID=7&PERSON_TYPE=General
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Natonski

JIPT Army Rep
JIPT Navy Rep
JIPT Marines Rep
JIPT Air Force Rep
JIPT Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Rep
JIPT Coast Guard Rep

JIPT Non-Voting Members:
JIPT Joint Staff reps
JIPT Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) reps
JIPT Combatant Commander reps
JIPT DOS rep
JIPT Department of Justice (DOJ) rep
JIPT Department of Energy (DOE) rep

JNLWP: JOINT COORDINATION AND INTEGRATION GROUP (JCIG)

This is steering group subordinate to the Joint Integrated Product Team, made up of
O-6 Level Representatives assigned by the JIPT members.

Chairman:
Director, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) Col. Kirk W. Hymes, USMC

Group Members:

Army Chief
Navy Chief
Marines Chief
Air Force Chief, Col. John W. Passey
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2002nonlethdef/Passey.pdf
Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Chief
Coast Guard Chief

JNLWP: THE JOINT NON-LETHAL WEAPONS DIRECTORATE

Serves as focal point for technical and programmatic guidance of current and projected Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW) technologies. Combines civilian and military personnel tasked to implement the NLW program. Acts as the inter-service representative for the Executive Agent (EA). Acts as liason to foreign entities, Joint Staff, Services, DoD and government agencies, academia, commercial vendors

Location: Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps Plans, Policies and Operations, Marine Corps Base, Quantico, VA
http://www.hqmc.usmc.mil/hqmcmain.nsf/frontpage

Directors of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate:

Col. Kirk W. Hymes (present)
No photo or bio available
See Article: "Military Shows Off New Ray Gun" AP, Jan 25, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ray_gun

Col. David P. Karcher, USMC
http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/pp&o/BIOs/Col_Karcher_bio.htm
Col. Karcher spoke at a 2005 Non-Lethal Weapons conference chaired by
the notorious John B. Alexander: http://www.usindefense.org/usd/U028/U028.pdf

Col. George P. Fenton, USMC
Photo: http://www.afrl.af.mil/news/june01/features/center_opens.pdf
http://www.dau.mil/pubs/pm/pmpdf02/July2002/lev-ja2.pdf
See Article: "The Pentagon's People Zapper" http://www.govexec.com/features/0501/0501s4s2.htm

Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate Science & Technology Division

Chief: David Law
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/events/18959.html
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2006/feb/LaserSeen.htm
Project Sheriff: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68152-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1

Deputy Director: Susan D. Levine (levinesd@jnlwd.usmc.mil)
http://www.dau.mil/pubs/pm/pmpdf02/July2002/lev-ja2.pdf


Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate Human Effects Branch

HE Strategy coordinator
HE Research coordinator
HE Reviews coordinator

Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate Human Effects Review Board (HERB)

Joint Service Board of Medical & Safety Officers
Army Surgeon General's Office rep
Navy Surgeon General's Office rep
Marines Surgeon General's Office rep
Medical Officer of the Marine Corps
Air Force Surgeon General's Office rep

Human Effects Safety, Training, Experimentation Guidance Dept

Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate Legal, Treaty & Policy Review Board
-- SME reps

Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate Human Effects Advisory Panel (HEAP)

-- Non-government board of consultants on bioeffects, SMEs


JOINT NON-LETHAL WEAPONS HUMAN EFFECTS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (HECOE)

Specialty: Design and modelling of next-generation non-lethal technologies
http://www.jnlwp.com/Technology.asp
http://www.afrl.af.mil/news/june01/features/center_opens.pdf

Location: Frank M. Tejeda Directed Energy Bioeffects Laboratory,
Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks City Base, San Antonio, TX
http://www.brooks.af.mil/

Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/CC):
Brig. Gen. Paul D. Nielsen
photo: http://www.afrl.af.mil/news/june01/features/center_opens.pdf

Director, Human Effectiveness Directorate (AFRL/HE):
Lt. Col. Dennis M. Scholl
photo: http://www.afrl.af.mil/news/june01/features/center_opens.pdf

Chief, Directed Energy Bioeffects Division (AFRL/HED):
Dr. Michael Murphy
Quoted: http://www.afrl.af.mil/news/june01/features/center_opens.pdf

Assoc. Chief: Dr. B. Jon Klauenberg

Directed Energy Portfolio (research) Manager
Blunt Impact Portfolio (research) Manager
Acoustics Portfolio (research) Manager
Bio Portfolio (research) Manager
HE Knowledge Base, Consultative Expert(s)
HE Modeling Analysis Program (HE-MAP)
-- Advanced Total Body Model Project (ATBM)
HE Risk Characterization Expert(s)
HE Milestone Direction Authority

JOINT NON-LETHAL WEAPONS FIELD AGENT PROGRAM MANAGERS

Names, organization and command structure not know.

At this point, when technology is ready for testing "Human Effects" in the field, description of the command chain evaporates. The reason is simple: It is illegal to conduct human experimentation on U.S. citizens without their consent. That does not mean that DoD is not conducting experiments on humans without their consent. On the contrary, it makes sense to field-test these weapons on humans in realistic "urban enviornments."

If such HE programs do exist, they are highly classified. Officially they don't exist at all.

FIELD AGENTS: Organization not known. However, we can deduce reasonably that they are drawn heavily from military police units of all Services, especially the Special Operations Command (SOCOM). We also know one of the schools where they train (below).

INTERSERVICE NON-LETHAL INDIVIDUAL WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR COURSE (INIWIC)
U.S. Marine Corps Detachment, Fort Leonard Wood, MO

Graduates more than 300 students annually, from all Services and several allied nations.
Teaches close-range subject control techniques and provides scenario/situational training exercises.

See website: http://www.iniwic.net/

Who Runs The Program, Part II

In the last post we examined the highest levels of U.S. military command structure: The Office of the President, the National Security Council, The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. These are the people who are definitely responsible for making the policy decisions that put secret weapon programs into place.

For photos and biographies of the "Top Leaders" in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) see:

www.defenselink.mil/osd/topleaders.aspx

The org chart (above) gives a nice overview of the Department of Defense command structure. A good PDF version of the org chart may be found here:

http://www.dod.mil/odam/omp/pubs/GuideBook/Pdf/DoD.PDF

It's important to understand each component. Additional articles may be found at:

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=198
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_the_United_States_Armed_Forces

In the next few posts, we will examine key players who oversee Artificial Telepathy weapons, which have been developed under cover of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program.

Because the JNLWP is a Joint Program, the officers in charge of oversight include: The Deputy Secretary of Defense, The Secretary of the Army, The Secretary of the Navy, The Secretary of the Air Force, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, The Under Secretary of Defense for AT&L, The Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology (S&T), and the commanders of the Special Operations Command (SOCOM).

On paper the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are all working together with the Combatant Commands and with the Under Secretaries as a team. But in fact there are some huge egos at this command level and tremendous rivalries between the services. Each department competes fiercely with the others for funding and each looks for ways to surpass or outperform the others in the field.

The top managers are fully aware of these rivalries, and the budget for the DoD's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons program is therefore divided between all these competing services and departments, just as one would divide the pieces of a pie.

We will have to profile and examine each entity within the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in order to understand fully the Pentagon's secret Artificial Telepathy program. It's a highly complex, system-wide program, that draws from almost every service, agency, lab, college and command in the DoD.

For now, let it suffice to say:

1) What we are calling "Artificial Telepathy" seems to fall under the general DoD heading of Non-Lethal Weapons

2) The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program is headquartered at Quantico, VA

3) As a Joint program, all of the services play a role: Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines and Special Ops Directorate

4) DARPA probably runs technology transfer from a large number of civilian universities

5) Each military service has their own set of research labs and war colleges doing additional R&D
6) The Battle Labs and Research Labs of the DoD cooperate to design the final weapon systems

7) The Army War College, Naval War College, Air War College, etc. provide doctrinal training to users

8) Doctrine falls under the headings of Perception Management, Information Ops, PSYOP, Cognitive Systems, Cognitive Engineering, Personnel Effects, Human Effects and Electronic Warfare systems

9) Field agents may be recruited from specialty DoD branches and the U.S. Intelligence Community

10) After selection, field training may be conducted by Special Operations Command

11) All methods used are highly classified and security is extremely tight

12) Legal cover for domestic operations must be provided by FBI or local law enforcement

13) Targeted individuals are carefully profiled, and may live near research labs

14) Targeted individuals may be used as guinea pigs for "Human Effects" research

15) Results data are fed back into the research community for further refinement of hardware, doctrine

16) Sanitized product may be shared system-wide among Defense Agencies and Intelligence Community

Who Runs the Program, Part I

So far we have we have presented abundant evidence that Artificial Telepathy exists, and that the U.S. government has pursued research and development of psychotronic weapons since the 1950s. The question arises whether this research has resulted in production of an actual weapons program, and, if so, who runs the program?

In the last post few posts, we have seen evidence that the United States has certainly continued to research and develop mind control technology, and we have examined reasons why the resulting weapons systems are most probably hidden under cover of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWP).

The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program needs to be examined in much closer detail. But first we need to step back and take a look at the big picture. Only by understanding who runs the U.S. Department of Defense and who has ultimate control over all DoD weapons programs can we begin to understand who controls psychotronic weapons.

In this post we will examine the overall command structure of the Defense Department, from the top down. As we gain a better understanding of how the DoD and the U.S. Intelligence Community entertwine with local law enforcement agencies, we will begin to understand just how daunting a task lies before anyone who wishes to challenge the legality of a single U.S. military weapons program.

Artificial Telepathy weapons are most likely entertwined with many different weapons systems developed by the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, and sorting out the "good" technology from the "bad" technology may prove very difficult indeed.

Certainly the following officers are responsible for preventing the "bad" or illegal and illegitimate use of any weapons system:

The President of the United States

As the Commander-in-Chief (CINC) of all U.S. military forces and head of the nation's Executive Branch, the President of the United States manages and oversees all military and intelligence programs. If one wants to find someone to blame for anything that the U.S. military or the U.S. intelligence community have done, he makes an easy target. In the end, he bears responsibility for the decisions made on his watch and for all the National Security Defense Directives signed on his desk. The buck stops there. And he knows it.

The Office of the President will therefore most likely be very hostile to any public exposure of an "intelligence gathering method" that allows the President to peek inside the minds of his enemies and political opponents. Artificial Telepathy is a secret weapon that the President would like to keep secret -- especially if he signed any documents authorizing development or use of the weapon.

Congressional Oversight

The Legislative Branch of government also plays an important role in military and intelligence oversight. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) authorize appropriations for each program, and they carry out oversight investigations and inquiries as required. If the president or any of his subalterns have failed to inform these Congressional committees of the existence of a secret weapons program, or the domestic use of such weapons in a secret intelligence operation, then they have broken the law.

See: http://www.intelligence.gov/1-relationships.shtml

In theory, any complaint about the use of Artificial Telepathy weapons on U.S. citizens could be brought before the SSCI or the HPSCI. Whether a complaint would get that far is another question.

The National Security Council (NSC)

Directly beneath the president are his advisors on the National Security Council. The president is the chairman of the National Security Council, which meets in the White House Situation Room. The NSC includes: The Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. The president almost always asks other advisors to be present, including the Attorney General, the Counsel to the President, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence.

For more information, see: http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/

We are most interested in the command structure that governs covert use of secret weapons, and so we will focus here on the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Director of National Intelligence.

The Secretary of Defense

Among the three presidential advisors just mentioned, The Secretary of Defense carries the most clout.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) may speak for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, but he and the other generals and admirals on the JCS are all subordinate to the Secretary of Defense.

Likewise, the Director of National Intelligence may oversee the entire Intelligence Community. But about 85 percent of the intelligence budget goes to agencies that fall under the heading of the DOD. The National Security Agency (NSA), The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and several other military intelligence branches all answer to the Secretary of Defense.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) carries immense sway in the intelligence world, and beneath the OSD aegis operate an entire bevy of very busy bees: The Assistant Secretaries of Defense and the Undersecretaries of Defense.

For an overview of the OSD, see: http://www.defenselink.mil/osd/

The worker bees at the Pentagon, especially the Undersecretary of Defense for Science and Technology, are probably the people with the most hands-on knowledge of secret weapons programs. They are the ones who will "take a bullet" and resign if any major scandal erupts before the Congressional oversight commitees.

They therefore have a strong personal interest in seeing that secret weapons programs remain entirely secret.

The Director of National Intelligence

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) oversees 15 different intelligence agencies, known collectively as the U.S. Intelligence Community.

For a 40-page PDF Overview of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), see this link:

http://www.dni.gov/who_what/061222_DNIHandbook_Final.pdf

The home page of the ODNI can be found here: http://www.dni.gov/index.htm

An especially helpful organization chart showing the command structure of the ODNI can be found here: http://www.dni.gov/aboutODNI/organization.htm

Because our focus in the present post is on the command structure of the Department of Defense, we will come back to the ODNI and the U.S. Intelligence community later. It is sufficient here to note that the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense are very tightly interlocked. In fact, Congress created the office of the Director of National Intelligence specifically to put an end to all the rivalries between competing intelligence agencies.

The goal is the fusion and integration of all intelligence agencies under one management structure. Whether that goal will be met remains to be seen.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

According to Wikipedia, The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) "is a group comprising the chiefs of service of each major branch of the armed services in the United States armed forces . . . . After the 1986 reorganization of the military undertaken by the Goldwater Nichols Act, the Joint Chiefs of Staff do not have operational command of U.S. military forces. Responsibility for conducting military operations goes from the President to the Secretary of Defense directly to the heads of the Unified Combatant Commands, and thus bypasses the Joint Chiefs of Staff completely."

See the original Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff

Although their role now is strictly advisory, the Joint Chiefs still constitute "the second highest deliberative body for military policy, after the National Security Council."

If there is such a thing as a top secret plan to build Artificial Telepathy weapons, and if the program is anywhere near as large as the Manhattan Project, the four-star generals on the JCS certainly know about it.

If such a weapons system exists and they don't know about it, there is going to be hell to pay.

A Top Secret Program Hidden in Plain Sight

Was Artificial Telepathy developed by the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, Homeland Security, NASA or the U. S. military?

This question unreasonably assumes that a single agency or laboratory could research and develop such an exotic weapon all alone. It’s much more reasonable to assume that all of these agencies have combined forces. They’ve probably hidden their secret weapon in plain sight: Under the aegis of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program.

See the JNLWP’s home page at:
https://www.jnlwp.com/

For a brief history of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, see:
http://www.iniwic.net/

For several articles on Non-Lethal Weapons, see:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/non-lethal.htm


The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program would provide perfect cover for an Artificial Telepathy program for several reasons.

First, an Artificial Telepathy weapon would naturally fall into the category of Non-Lethal Weapons. Artificial Telepathy is a weapon, but it does not kill. In fact, Artificial Telepathy is a perfect match for several of the core mission applications of Non-Lethal Weapons, namely: Counter-Personnel Operations, Crowd Control, Operations Other Than War (OOTW), Electronic Warfare, Information Operations, and Psychological Operations.

See: http://www.unh.edu/ntic/why.shtml

Second, as a weapons system, Artificial Telepathy requires the combination of Directed Energy Weapons (weapons that direct laser, microwave, millimeter wave and infrared energy at targets), high-tech sensors, space-based platforms and supercomputers capable of simulating the behavior of a human brain. The laboratories that serve JNLWP provide all of that. For an overview of the jaw-dropping capabilities of the labs that support the JNLWP, see the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Links page at:

https://www.jnlwp.com/Links.asp

Third, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program brings together weapons scientists from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and all branches of the U.S. military – Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. The JNLWP is headquartered at Quantico, VA, home of the FBI training academy. What better place to base an inter-service mind control program?

Fourth, as a joint military-civilian program, the JNLWP provides the perfect means for sharing military weapons technology with law enforcement agencies. The military has no legal right to perform domestic surveillance operations, but the Department of Justice (which oversees the FBI) does. With the help of the FBI and other law enforcement intelligence units, the JNLWP can take military personnel from the Special Operations Division, "sheepdip" them (that is, put them in civilian clothes with valid law enforcement credentials) and send them to work zapping people under the guise of counterintelligence or counterterrorism operations.

Finally, evidence from the open literature suggests that those military scientists most strongly associated with the research of Artificial Telepathy are also very strongly associated with Non-Lethal Weapons. For example, Lt. Col. John Alexander, a man notorious for his telepathy experiments at Psi-Tech, was until 1995 Los Alamos National Laboratory’s manager of non-lethal defense research. He has also been instrumental in organizing three Non-Lethal Weapons conventions. Likewise, Dr. William L. Baker, Chief Scientist at the Directed Energy Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, NM has reported that his lab plans to build anti-personnel weapons based on "cognitive engineering." The result may be a wide range of Non-Lethal Weapons with human effects similar to those associated with Artificial Telepathy.

See David Hambling’s article "Air Force Plan: Hack Your Nervous System" at:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002152.html

See Dr. Baker's description of "Controlled Personnel Effects" here:
http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Jun04/DE0401.html

"For the Controlled Personnel Effects capability, the S&T panel explored the potential for targeting individuals with nonlethal force, from a militarily useful range, to make selected adversaries think or act according to our needs. . . . By studying and modeling the human brain and nervous system, the ability to mentally influence or confuse personnel is also possible. Through sensory deception, it may be possible to create synthetic images, or holograms, to confuse an individual' s visual sense or, in a similar manner, confuse his senses of sound, taste, touch, or smell."

Dr. Baker’s laboratory, the Air Force Research Laboratory, serves as one of the core research facilities used by the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate. See their home page:

http://www.afrl.af.mil/

AFRL controls a vast array of exotic laser and microwave weapons, and it has its very own Space Directorate and satellite system. The AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate has a budget of more than $300 million per year.

In other words, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program could certainly ask AFRL to launch an Artificial Telepathy program, and AFRL has the capabilities to do so.

Artificial Telepathy: A "Non-Lethal" Weapon?

Artificial Telepathy machine cannot possibly be advertised and sold on the open market for obvious reasons: they would utterly destroying the privacy of many, many people. "Peeking" into the lives of others would quickly pervert itself into stalking, mind rape, privacy violation, identity theft and information theft on a massive scale.

Public sale of Artificial Telepathy technology would inevitably result in the stealing of bank account numbers, PIN numbers, passwords, trade secrets, etc., which in turn would inevitably translate into actual theft. The damage to the economy could be catastrophic, and the sudden disappearance of privacy – all privacy – might literally cause society as we know it to melt down.

For all of these reasons, Artificial Telepathy may be rightly called a "non-lethal" H-Bomb. The damage done to society by release of such technology would be nightmarish. See for example the dystopian film Strange Days (1995, starring Ralph Fiennes) in which dream thieves use a technology called "SQUID" to jack into the minds of people, record their experiences, and sell those experiences on disc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)

See also the film "Artificial Telepathy" (Dir. Mitchell Cox), from which the movie poster (above) is taken:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~visualaffects/vault/details/15196.html

No one would die as a direct result of the Artificial Telepathy’s use. It is a "non-lethal weapon."
But nothing would ever be the same again.

Most scientists and lawyers understand this. Indeed, if the maker of an Artificial Telepathy weapon tried to sell the product on the open market, the number of people who would line up to sue that manufacturer would probably circle the Earth.

Third in line would be a lawyer representing every voice-hearer and human rights advocate in the Western hemisphere. That’s a large number of people.

Second in line would be a lawyer bringing a massive class-action suit joined by every paranoid corporation that has a trade secret to hide. That is, almost every corporation in the world.

First in line would be the United States government. Every copy of the machine, its blueprints, and its patent documents, would be immediately seized and locked away on the grounds of national security.

The miltary reasons for grabbing up this technology and suppressing it are obvious: With Artificial Telepathy, there is no such thing as a surprise attack. And without the element of surprise, war becomes impossible. Artificial Telepathy machines could potentially put every single G.I. Joe at the DOD out of work. And as far as the Department of Defense is concerned, any technology that puts them out of work is a weapon of mass destruction.

Even if it doesn’t kill anyone.

Translation: No one gets one of these weapons but Uncle Sam. The United States Department of Defense has no objections to weapons of mass destruction. It just objects to anyone else owning one.

Although any government would strictly forbid public ownership of such technology, every government would certainly want to use the Artificial Telepathy machine itself. Far from destroying such a weapon, most military service branches would probably compete for possession of one, as would every law enforcement organization and every intelligence agency under the sun. Some would argue that the machine ought to be destroyed, but others would find that the lure of knowing exactly what the "enemy" is thinking is far too intoxicating to pass up.

An Artificial Telepathy weapon is, after all, a spy agency’s dream.

Conclusion: If or (more properly) when an Artificial Telepathy machine is developed, it will certainly be classified as a weapon – specifically a "Non-Lethal Weapon." It will never be released on the public market. The public will be given no clue that it exists, and the military branches of different countries will fight fiercely among themselves for possession of this cool new toy.

Within the U.S. military branches, the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines will probably squabble with the intelligence community, law enforcement and the Department of Justice for possession and control, then finally settle on a scheme for sharing control among themselves. Most likely they will combine forces (and budgets) to build and manage new weapons based on the first Artificial Telepathy technology. If the weapons work, everyone will claim to be the proud Papa. If the cover is blown, and Congress launches a massive investigation, the program will be orphaned. Everyone can back off and point fingers at each other.

Joining forces means everyone wins, and nobody is to blame.

Given this conclusion, we can now ask ourselves a simple question: Where would the military hide its deep-black research program into Artificial Telepathy, if such technology exists?

Answer: They would hide Artificial Telepathy under cover of a Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program.

Question: Does such an organization exist? Answer: Oh yes. See the next post.

The Militarization of Neuroscience

When military scientists begin to combine "cognitive engineering" and neuroscience with genetic engineering, we could see a nightmarish new generation of biological weapons and nerve agents that radically alter the minds, emotions, memories and beliefs of everyone on earth.

That's the opinion of Mark Wheelis and Malcolm Dando, authors of "Neurobiology: A Case Study of the Imminent Militarization of Biology" published September 30, 1995 in the International Review of the Red Cross. See this site for a PDF of the full article:

http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/review-859-p553


Abstract: The revolution in biology, including advances in genomics, will lead to rapid progress in the treatment of mental illness by advancing the discovery of highly specific ligands that affect specific neurological pathways. The status of brain science and its potential for military application to enhance soldier performance, to develop new weapons and to facilitate interrogation are discussed. If such applications are pursued, they will also expand the options available to torturers, dictators and terrorists. Several generic approaches to containing the malign applications of biology are shown, and it is concluded that success or failure in doing so will be significantly dependent on the active involvement of the scientific and medical communities.

Translation: The medical community has got to stop sitting on its duff and get some international legislation passed prohibiting the development of these bioweapons NOW.

I would add: An equally serious effort needs to be made to block military application of EM weapons to the human brain. The pretence that such weapons are "less than lethal" is a serious misunderstanding of the immense threat that they pose to the privacy and civil liberties of every man, woman and child on the face of the globe.

1990s: The Decade of The Brain

The military's early mind control research has already been documented in this blog. However, a very important period in the chronology of Artificial Telepathy needs more attention: The 1990s.

Recent efforts by voice-hearers to prove that they are the victims of Artificial Telepathy and other exotic voice-to-skull (V2K) technologies go largely unheeded by the public because most people remain blissfully unaware of the quantum leaps that neuroscience made during the 1990s.

In 1989, President George H.W. Bush declared the 1990s to be the "Decade of the Brain." See:

http://www.loc.gov/loc/brain/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_of_the_Brain


Just as the United States brought the full force of its scientific community to bear on the problems of splitting the atom in the 1930s and 1940s, so too did the U.S. bring its full force to bear on the problem of penetrating the inner sanctum of the human mind during the 1980s and 1990s. The motive for both research thrusts was much the same: breakthroughs in quantum theory indicated that an extremely important threshhold in our understanding of the way the world works had been reached, and the United States wanted to be the first to cross that threshhold.

For some interesting Wikipedia article on the revolutionary new theories of Quantum Mind and Quantum Brain Dynamics, see these links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_brain_dynamics

Overtly, Quantum Brain theory was presented to the public as an exciting field of investigation, pursued by brilliant professors at various universities, whose goal was to develop "pure and theoretical" knowledge that would be published in the open literature for the benefit of all mankind. Benevolent applications of the resulting neurotechnology might include cures for Alzheimers, epilepsy, schizophrenia, cerebral palsy and Parkinson's. With an amazingly accurate computer map and Quantum model of the brain, the deaf could be made to hear, the blind could be made to see, the mute might be able to talk, and the lame could be helped to walk. New breakthroughs could lead to some amazing medical miracles.

But covertly, the military and its contractors saw in Quantum Brain theory, neural networks and Artificial Intelligence the potential for developing some incredibly powerful and devastating super-weapons. As with most technologies, the resulting neurotechnology could be "dual use." Highly accurate brain maps and supercomputer models that could help and heal people might also be used to control, manipulate and destroy them.

It doesn't take a superbrain to see how much military power lies in the ability to seize remote control of another human's mind.

Controlled Personnel Effects and "Cognitive Engineering"

In his article "Air Force Plan: Hack Your Nervous System", David Hambling provides an interesting overview of how the military plans to use its new brain models for "Active Denial Systems" and "Controlled Personnel Effects." See his article at DefenseTech.org

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002152.html

The article provides a link to an article titled "Controlled Effects" written by scientists working for the the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate (which Hambling refers to as the Air Force "people zapping" unit).

http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Jun04/DE0401.html

The Air Force Science & Technology (S&T) panel makes the following statement:

"By studying and modelling the human brain and nervous system, the ability to mentally influence or confuse personnel is also possible. Through sensory deception, it may be possible to create synthetic images, or holograms, to confuse an individual's visual sense or, in a similar manner, confuse his senses of sound, touch, taste or smell. Through cognitive engineering, scientists can develop a better understanding of how an individual's cognitive processes (pattern recognition, visual conditioning, and difference detection) affect his decision-making processes. Once understood, scientists could use these cognitive models to predict a person's behavior under a variety of conditions with the potential to affect an adversary's mission accomplishment via a wide range of personnel effects."

The Air Force S&T panel suggests this technology will be available by 2020. Voice Hearers are saying that it's here now, and it's being used, today. They consider themselves to be the guinea pigs on which these mind-bending weapons are being tested.

If true, this means the U.S. government has deliberately chosen to target and torture its own citizens. The implications are chilling.

In fact, if supercomputer models of the Quantum Brain were combined with "cognitive engineering" and the proper space-based sensors, these weapons offer the power to influence and control the minds of vast numbers of people, both individually and collectively. The political systems and economies of entire countries could be tampered with.

If the same scientists perfect a method to read thoughts remotely, patents and intellectual property could be stolen on a massive scale. No PIN number, account number or secret password would be safe.

The mood of crowds and entire cities could be changed and manipulated. An entire army could potentially be blinded and stopped in its tracks, paralyzed. War plans, orders of battle, and secrets held in the minds of enemy generals and spies could be monitored and plucked with incredible ease, perhaps scrambled or even altered and replanted.

People could be made to walk in front of buses. Normal law abiding citizens could be hypnotized and programmed as assassins. By simply seizing control of the mind of a single man at the control panel of a nuclear missile silo . . . .

Put bluntly: neuroweapons are more powerful than atomic weapons. They threaten to punch a hole in the shield that protects our entire nuclear weapons network. Even nuclear launch codes are not safe from intrusion.

Apparently the Pentagon decided in the 1980s and 1990s that it was imperative that the U.S. military understand "cognitive engineering" and build a new generation of "controlled personnel effects" weapons, before anyone else did. In parallel with the open and overt research performed at universities across the nation, the Defense Department began its own highly classified, covert weapons program, based at military weapons labs and linked to the university system through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

These neuroweapon engineers immediately ran into a problem: how could they get professors and some of the star researchers in the public sector involved? They needed to push the entire field of neuroscience to work faster, they needed a public relations front, and they needed to hook some of the best minds into a new network that would help them siphon off the best research. Result:

The Decade of the Brain.

In early 1989, the United States Congress, by House joint Resolution 174, designated the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the "Decade of the Brain" and it authorized and requested President George Herbert Walker Bush to issue a proclamation in observance of this occasion.

Joint Resolution 174 became Public Law 101-58, and on 17 July 1989, President Bush issued his proclamation, which launched one of the most massive build-ups in brain research ever undertaken by mankind. The president's proclamation can be found at this link:

http://www.neurolab.jsc.nasa.gov/presproc.htm

Comparing this one-decade, all-out push for brain research to the Manhattan Project or the Apollo space mission to reach the Moon would be very apt. The expenditure was that enormous, and the results of a one-decade effort were indeed amazing. Yet the program received none of the press attention lavished on the Atomic Bomb or the Moon landing, and it fell far short of its stated goal of "conquering brain disease." Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Epilepsy, Huntington's Disease, Muscular Dystrophy and other nervous disorders are still very much with us.

What did result from this intensive, one-decade research project?

The public record indicates that several important research programs and networks were established and funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH). Among the key players:

The Human Brain Project
The International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM)
The Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI)
The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), and
The Charles A. Dana Foundation

The publicly funded and nonclassified research appears to have been funneled into military labs through the following organizations:

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
DARPA's Brain-Machine Interface program
NASA's Neurolab Program, and
The Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Each of these military programs represents an entire network of laboratories, and they will be examined in future posts.

These research programs seem to interconnect in interesting ways with several other organizations strongly associated with telepathy research and the development of exotic technologies:

The Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
The Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL)
Psi-Tech

We will take a closer look at each of these players in future posts to this blogs. The advances in brain mapping achieved by the Human Brain Project are especially worthy of careful attention.

If the testimony of voice-hearers can be believed, the "Decade of the Brain" resulted in weapons with some very, very frightening capabilities.