Dr. Lawrence Pinneo at the Stanford Research Institute
also discouraged the idea of a conspiracy to create a
"psycho-civilized," mind-controlled society. When asked if
there weren't a real and present danger of government
control of the thoughts of citizens posed by brain-computer
technology, Pinneo told a San Francisco reporter, "Anything
is possible. But government could lock us all up today,
so this sort of thing doesn't really change that possibility.
It is really up to us to be vigilant against misuse."7
Typically, the scientists have not been vigilant enough,
for the cryptocracy already has developed remote-controlled
men who can be used for political assassination
and other dangerous work, as is the cyborg in the "Six Million
Dollar Man"—but for less noble purposes. Cyborgs—
altered and controlled humans—are far less expensive
than fully mechanical robots. Due to the high cost of technology
men are cheaper than machines, and much more
expendable. can be made to perform acts that he will have no memory
of ever having carried out. In a manipulated kind of kamikaze
operation where the life of the 'sleeper' is dispensable,
RHIC processing makes him particularly valuable because
if he is detected and caught before he performs the act
specified . . . nothing he says will implicate the group or
government which processed and controlled him."1
Mr. Lawrence used as evidence the official Russian records
that Oswald had been admitted to the hospital in
Minsk at 10 A.M. on March 30, 1961. The records state
that he was admitted with complaints about suppuration
from the right ear and a weakening in hearing. Lawrence
said that this was a cover-up for "the real reason for Oswald's
stay—but there was one slight oversight. He was
hospitalized for eleven days for an 'adenoid' operation.
Eleven days for an adenoid removal is, or course, preposterous.
In austere Soviet Russia it was particularly ridiculous!"
What really happened, according to Lawrence, was that
during the operation a small electrode was implanted inside
Oswald's mastoid sinus. The electrode responded to a radio
signal which would make audible, inside Oswald's head,
certain electronic commands to which he had already been
posthypnotically conditioned to respond. (The autopsy report
in Dallas noted that there was a small scar on the
mastoid sinus behind Oswald's ear.)
In 1967 the idea sounded utterly preposterous. Mr.
Lawrence's book, Were We Controlled?, found only a minuscule
audience. Lawrence, on the other hand, may have
had much more evidence than he was allowed to present.
His credentials indicated that he had been "working in liaison
with the department of defense."
In 1975 the RHIC-EDOM story surfaced again. This
time a Tennessee journalist said he had been given topsecret
documents by two former CIA officials whom he
would not identify. The journalist, James L. Moore, said
that the papers in his possession described the details of "a
military technique of mind-control called Radio-Hypnotic
Intra-Cerebral Control—Electronic Dissolution of Memory."
Moore described the RHIC-EDOM file as a 350-page
scientific report, which was prepared by the CIA immediately
after the murder of President John F. Kennedy. He said it described a way of turning men into electronically
controlled robots programmed to kill on command.
According to Moore, in the initial (RHIC) stage of programming
the prospective killer is put into a deep hypnotic
trance, and conditioned to go into trance at the sound of a
specific tone. "A person may be placed under this control
with or without his knowledge, programmed to perform
certain actions and maintain certain attitudes" whenever he
hears the tone. "Effective for a lifetime," Moore said, "control
may be triggered weeks, months, or even years after
the first 'hypnosis' and programming."
"Medically," Moore continued, "these radio signals are
directed to certain parts of the brain. When a part of your
brain receives a tiny electrical impulse from outside
sources, such as vision, hearing, etc., an emotion is produced—
anger at the sight of a gang of boys beating an old
woman, for example. This same emotion of anger can be
created by artificial radio signals sent to your brain by a
controller. You could instantly feel the same white hot anger
without any apparent reason."
The second part of the process, electronic dissolution of
memory (EDOM), Moore said, is more complex. "In the
brain is a chemical called acetylcholine, which carries
electrical impulses from the eyes, ears, nose, nerve endings,
etc., to the part of the brain where memory is located.
Memory is nothing more than the recording of these electrical
impulses, and acetylcholine is the path (or 'wire') that
connects the inner brain to the nerves of your eyes and
ears . . . By electronically jamming the brain, acetylcholine
creates static which blocks out sights and sounds. You
would then have no memory of what you saw or heard;
your mind would be a blank."
Moore said that according to CIA documents, this
method can be used either to block the memory completely,
or to slow it down so that events seem to have
happened later than they actually have. "According to a
knowledgeable CIA source, this is what happened in Dallas
and later in Los Angeles," Moore stated.
Moore quoted his unidentified source as saying, "That
was the first thought to hit us at CIA. It's pretty obvious
that Ruby was programmed to kill Oswald, even by Ruby's
own words . . . As for Sirhan, there is no other explana tion; it's a proven fact that his memory has been completely
erased."
"The assassination of John Kennedy," Moore said "was
carried out by disgruntled CIA and FBI personnel, using
Mafia and Cuban exile flunkies.'"
The claims of James L. Moore would sound fantastic
were it not for the abundance of information to support the
possibility of their validity.
The Helms memo to the Warren Commission mentioned
something called "biological radio communication." Although
the term was not fully explained, Helms related it
to ESB: "Current research indicates that the Soviets are
attempting to develop a technology for control in the development
of behavioral patterns among the citizenry of the
USSR in accordance with politically determined requirements
of the system. Furthermore, the same technology can
be applied to more sophisticated approaches to the 'coding'
of information for transmittal to population targets in the
'battle for the minds of men.'"
It seems entirely possible that the "radiomagnetic waves"
Moore referred to and the "biological radio communication"
Helms referred to may be one and the same. Both
terms probably describe waves radiated in the electromagnetic
spectrum. Both sound waves and radio waves have
been studied for their coercive effect on the mind. Ultrasonics
are sound waves, traveling in a medium different
from the radio medium.
A 1951 MKULTRA CIA memo also described what
could be related to RHIC-EDOM. "There is no reason to
believe that Russia and some of the satellites have not investigated
the effects of ultrasonics on man, perhaps to the
extent of its possible use in the future for interrogation purposes.
We have no reports which indicate past use of ultrasonics
on prisoners for this purpose, but its possible use
should be taken into consideration."
Meanwhile, ultrasonics research was underway. Drs. W.
Fry and R. Meyers of the University of Illinois used focused
ultrasonic waves to make brain lesions of a very controlled
size. Their research, conducted in 1961, demonstrated
the great advantage of ultrasonics over the psychosurgical
techniques which implanted electrodes in the
brain. By using low-energy sound beams, Fry and Meyers stimulated or destroyed neural tissue at the point of focus
of the beams without cutting or drilling into the brain.
A few years later Dr. Peter Lindstrom at the University
of Pittsburgh used a single unfocused sonic beam to destroy
fiber tracts without damaging the nerve cells next to them.
Lindstrom used this "prefrontal sonic treatment" as a substitute
for lobotomy, to destroy fiber tracts in the frontal
lobes of patients who had either untreatable pain or severe
psychiatric disorders.
The cryptocracy's secret funds and guidance directed a
number of research projects into the effects on the brain of
various vibrations beyond the perception of ordinary human
senses. In one experiment recommended by Norbert
Wiener, a sheet of tin was suspended from the ceiling and
connected to a generator working at ten cycles per second.
When large field strengths of one or two volts per centimeter
(a very minute amount) were oscillating at the alpha
frequency of the human brain, extremely unpleasant sensations
were reported by the volunteer subjects.
Scientists at the Brain Research Institute of the University
of California took up the investigation of the effects of
oscillating fields on human behavior. They experimented
with field strengths of not more than a few hundredths of a
volt per centimeter. After fifteen minutes of exposure to
such oscillating fields, subjects showed measurable degeneration
in performance of simple tasks.
These and other experiments led the cryptocracy to
study the effects of very-low-frequency sound (VLF)—the
opposite of ultrasonics—as an instrument of war. Research
revealed that there is a natural wave guide between the
ionosphere and the earth which could be used to propagate
very-low-frequency radiation and guide it to selected locations
on the earth. Studies showed that this low-frequency
sound subtly affected the electrical behavior of the brain in
much the same way that Dr. Adey's studies had shown.
The alpha-wave frequency of the human brain is from
eight to twelve hertz (cycles per second). The ionospheric
wave guide oscillates at eight hertz, making it a good harmonic
carrier of low-frequency sound (LFS) waves. These
are such long waves that they are virtually impossible to
detect. Pentagon reports apply LFS to demobilizing the
productive capacity of a civilian population in time of war. Dr. Frank Barnaby, Director of the Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute, suggested what the cryptocracy
already knew: "If methods could be devised to produce
greater field strengths of such low-frequency
oscillations, either by natural (for example, lightning) or
artificial means, then it might become possible to impair
the performance of a large group of people in selected regions
over extended periods."3
Since Anton Mesmer's early experiments with animal
magnetism, Western scientists have known that monotonous
rhythms produce drowsiness and open the individual
to hypnotic induction. Scientists found that flashing a
strobe light at a certain frequency could induce epileptics
to have seizures. Subjected to ultrasonic or very-lowfrequency
sound in harmony with alpha rhythms, an entire
population might be lulled into a state of drowsiness by the
unperceived waves, and radio and television—the normal
channels of mass hypnosis—could implant suggestions to
control the behavior of entire nations.
Soviet scientists have used electronic fields applied outside
the head to induce and enhance the qualities of sleep.
Their most widely publicized device is the "electrosone." It
permits low-frequency pulses to be applied to the cerebral
cortex through mild electrical stimulation—electrical current
sent through electrodes placed on the eyelids and behind
the ears. The Soviets claim that this technique, called
electronarcosis, can give the benefits of a full night's sleep
in only two or three hours. The sleep is induced rapidly
and is so deep that the subject wakes up as fully refreshed
and invigorated as if he had slept an entire night.
Radiation has also leapt into the vanguard of mindcontrol
technology. The Soviets have been studying the effects
of microwave radiation since 1933. They have found
that, among other things, microwaves can affect the central
nervous system. They have also discovered that microwave
radiation, even of low intensity, can seriously alter the normal
rhythm of brain waves, causing hallucinations and
drastic perceptual changes, including a loss of the sense of
time. In biological studies, they found that exposure to microwaves
causes changes in protein composition and in
white blood cells. A number of endocrine responses are
also altered by microwave radiation, including the activities
of the thyroid and other glands. And, lastly, microwaves can cause maternal lactation to cease and, in some cases,
male sterility.
In 1962 when the CIA discovered that the U.S. Embassy
in Moscow was being irradiated with microwaves, the
cryptocracy reacted with silence. For years the U.S. government
knew about the Russian research but appeared to
ignore it. Perhaps they feared that any claim that microwave
radiation could affect human behavior would bring
great restrictions on the use of radar, microwave relays,
and on booming microwave oven sales. But a less obvious
reason suggests itself: the cryptocracy did not want to draw
attention to its own use of radiation in mind control.
In May, 1968, General Electric announced that it was
recalling 90,000 color TV sets which were emitting excessive
amounts of dangerous X-rays. This set the gears in
motion for Senate hearings on the problem of radiation effects.
But the cryptocracy still protected its interests; the
Defense Department sent two high-ranking medical officers
from each branch of the armed forces to assure the senators
that safeguards to military-sponsored research into the biological
effects of radiation had been adequate. They testified
that nobody in the armed forces was being exposed to hazardous
amounts of radiation.
Meanwhile, the microwave bombardment of the U.S.
embassy continued, and the CIA acted as if it knew nothing
at all about radiation effects, denying that there was
even a problem.
Yet in 1964, when Dr. Milton Zaret, an ophthalmologist
at New York University's Bellevue Medical Center, published
a paper reporting that there were harmful biological
and behavioral effects to micro-radiation, the CIA immediately
came around to ask Zaret some questions.
They wanted to know whether he thought that electromagnetic
radiation beamed at the brain from a distance
could affect the way a person might act. Dr. Zaret told the
CIA that from what he'd read in the Soviet literature on
the subject it seemed quite conceivable that microwaves
could produce behavioral changes. On another occasion,
Zaret said, a CIA doctor inquired of him if he thought that
microwaves could be used to "facilitate brainwashing."
In early 1965 the CIA informed Dr. Zaret that the Russians
had been irradiating the American embassy. Later
Zaret was called to attend a special meeting at the Institute for Defense Analysis in Arlington, Virginia. There he met a
number of people from the Defense Department's Advanced
Research Projects Agency who were also working
on the problem of radiation.
Subsequently Dr. Zaret and others set out to duplicate
the conditions of micro-radiation in the embassy. "I remember
that in one experiment we succeeded in replicating
a Czechoslovakian study of behavioral effects in rats, but
also observed some unique convulsions in these animals
prior to death." When Dr. Zaret relayed that information
to Washington he received a telegram from the CIA ordering
him not to pursue the investigation any further.'
In May, 1972, Jack Anderson broke the "Moscow Signal"
story, which had been kept secret for ten years: the
Russians were bombarding the American embassy in Moscow
with micro-radiation. Anderson speculated that the
CIA had been trying to cover up the fact that the Russians
were trying to brainwash American diplomats by microwave
bombardment. He implied (probably correctly) that
the CIA had created the cover-up to protect its own secrets
of mind control by irradiation.
After the disclosure, Anderson came under heavy attack
from representatives of both the military and industry.
There were loud protests from the microwave oven manufacturers,
but no one refuted the brainwashing angle of
micro-radiation. The story lay dormant until June of 1977,
when it was announced that teams of scientists at the University
of Utah and the University of Washington had received
grants from the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences to study the effects of chronic low-level
microwave exposure. Dr. Om P. Gandhi, professor of
electrical engineering and bioengineering at Utah, said,
"Most U.S. scientists are still quite skeptical of the Soviet
studies."
As hypnotists had done over the years, many scientists
express doubt that electronic, sonic, or radiation techniques
would ever be used for such purposes.
"The reports of new technical developments for brain
stimulation have led to a concern that it will be used as the
basis of an 'electroligarchy' where people could be virtually
enslaved by controlling them from within their own brains
. . . there is actually little foundation for the belief that
brain stimulation could be used as a political weapon," Dr. Elliot S. Valenstein said. "It doesn't make sense. Anyone
influential enough to get an entire population to consent to
having electrodes placed in its head would already have his
goal without firing a single volt."6
Dr. Willard Gaylin agreed, saying, "Electrode implantation
or surgical ablation of brain sections as a direct means
of political control seems unlikely—much less a threat, for
example, than drugs. Such an individualized and dramatic
procedure hardly seems suited to the enslavement of populations
or the robotization of political leaders. Drugs, brainwashing
by control of the media, exploitation of fears
through forms of propaganda, and indoctrination through
the sources of education, particularly if preschool education
or neonatal conditioning . . . becomes an approved practice,
all seem more likely methods of totalitarian control."6
The British biochemist Dr. Steven Rose issued a similar
objection: "Unlike ancient maps marked 'here be monsters,'
there will not be . . . brains transplanted into bodies
or bottles, thought, memory or mind control, telepathic
communication or genetic engineering, artificial intelligence
or robots . . . I believe them impossible—or at
least improbable; more importantly because scientific advance
and its attendant technology only comes about in
response to social constraints and social demands. Because
there are at present no or few social demands in the direction
of these lurid potential developments, they do not represent,
in a world beset with crises and challenges to human
survival, serious contenders for our concern.'"
Of course, when science is developed in a piecemeal,
compartmentalized fashion, as it is under the direction of
the cryptocracy, then no social constraints come into play.
Where the public is kept ignorant, and where scientists
themselves are manipulated by the grant system, the balance
upon which Dr. Rose relies is absent.
On the other hand, for every scientist who denies that
mind control exists or will ever exist, there is one who sees
it as a desirable form of social control. Social psychologist
Kenneth B. Clark appears to be one of those men.
Expressing the fear of the nuclear age, and the group
Paranoia of the Cold Warriors, Clark said, "Given the urgency
of the immediate survival problem, the psychological
and social sciences must enable us to control the animalistic,
barbaric and primitive propensities in man and subordi nate these negatives to the uniquely human moral and ethical
characteristics of love, kindness, and empathy . . . We
can no longer afford to rely solely on the traditional prescientific
attempts to contain human cruelty and destructiveness."
Clark suggested that behavior control requirements be
imposed on all "power-controlling leaders," and even those
who aspire to such leadership. He would require them to
accept and submit to "biochemical intervention which
would assure their positive use of power and reduce or
block the possibility of using power destructively.
"It would assure," Clark said, "that there would be no
absurd or barbaric use of power. It would provide the
masses of human beings with the security that their leaders
would not sacrifice them on the altars of their personal
ego."8
But if there were a mind-controlled President in the
White House, what guarantee would we have that the cryptocracy
would not use such access for purely selfish motives?
Obviously, submission to any form of mind control
by politicians could lead to Clark's "masses of human
beings" being sacrificed not on the altars of personal ego
but on the altars of national security.
There seems to be a good deal of cultural momentum
leading toward a cybernetic anthill society. If we can draw
any inference from the numerous predictions made by men
of accomplishment in our society, it is that direct braincomputer
interface, the cyborg, and the resulting mass
mind control are on the horizon.
D. G. Brennan, member of the Hudson Institute, mathematician,
and expert on national security problems, predicted:
"Computers as sophisticated as the human brain
will be small enough to be carried in a shoe box."8
Arthur C. Clarke, science-fiction writer, predicted: "The
first intelligent computer will be the last machine man will
need to make—and quite possibly the last that he'll be permitted
to make."10
Gerald Feinberg, professor of physics at Columbia University,
predicted: "It will be possible to tinker with the
brain—to make the human memory more reliable and
accessible at the expense, say, of breadth in sensory
responses."11
Olaf Helmer, founding member of Institute for the Future, predicted: "Slave robots are likely to appear. It may
also be possible to devise a way for a disembodied brain to
be kept alive so that it can give instruction to a robot
which will act as its body."12
Stephen Rosen, a research scientist at IBM, predicted
the unification of physical medicine (like drugs and organ
transplants) with behavioral techniques (like biofeedback,
cybernetic learning, and psychology).
And there is Jose Delgado, who predicted—among other
things—the coming of a psycho-civilized society. Delgado
also said that the fundamental question of the future would
be "who is going to exert the power of behavior control?"
And even Delgado, a true believer in ESB, issued a warning
that in the future the cryptocracy would have to be
curtailed. "It is . . . essential that relevant information
not be restricted to a small elite, but be shared by all."13
Whether created by the use of hypnosis, drugs, behavior
modification, electronic or sonic brain stimulation, or
through a combination of these tools of psycho-science, the
cyborg is stalking us in our dreams. And just as life imitates
art, men live out their dreams in their waking state.
The dream, expressed by the prophetic visions of men
from all walks of life, is of a time when the machine or
the drug will take over and relieve man of his difficult burden
of self-responsibility. For better or worse, selfresponsibility—
where each individual acts consciously, and
accepts the consequences of his own actions—is the stuff of
which freedom is made.
The prophecies of poets, writers, scientists, and futurists
express what can be considered a regressive, devolutionary
myth. Sprung from the complexity of technological life,
where self-responsibility is largely directed by propaganda
and indoctrination, where an ignorant rather than an enlightened
public is desired, the majority of responsibile actions
can result only in cultural disaster. This, in turn, adds
to the frustration of the individual who, weighing all the
facts—or what were presented as facts—thought he had
made the best choice possible. When these decisions, based
on false information, are shown to result in negative effects,
the frustration of the individual grows. Weariness eventually
sets in, and the individual becomes willing to surrender
his self-responsibility and eagerly awaits his liberation by
some authoritarian figure. In the past such people as Hitler, Lenin, or Mao Tse-
Tung were high-profile father figures who inspired trust
and surrender by the masses. In the modern technological
miasma, a nameless, faceless cryptocracy is manipulating
world politics.
The cryptocracy supports only those foreign and domestic
leaders who are sycophants of secrecy. Of necessity
keeping a low profile, the cryptocracy can inspire neither
the allegiance nor the surrender which was inspired by the
previous exploiters of the cult of personality. Thus, with no
human image representing benevolent authority, the masses
embrace a substitute father figure—technology. The dream
of test tube babies, genetically engineered children, and
electronically controlled parents visits the collective unconscious
and manifests itself in the way we see the future and
in the mysticism of the day.
Even Uri Geller, the Houdini of parapsychology, seems
to be expressing this very myth. His supposedly occult
powers, he says, come from contact with beings who present
themselves as "deliverers" from outer space. With superior
intelligence, they manifest all forms of telepathy, telekinesis,
and teleportation, and have told Mr. Geller that
they are pure mind, maintained throughout eternity by machines
which traverse the universe and transcend time and
space.
As the psychologist Erich Fromm said, "A specter is
stalking in our midst whom only a few see with clarity. It is
not the old ghost of communism or fascism. It is a new
specter: a completely mechanized society, devoted to maximal
material output and consumption, directed by computers;
and in this social process, man himself is being transformed
into a part of the total machine, well fed and
entertained, yet passive, unalive, and with little feeling.
With the victory of the new society, individualism and privacy
will have disappeared; feelings toward others will be
engineered by psychological conditioning and other devices,
or drugs."14
Fromm is talking about the new myth, which anticipates
a time when the machine or the drug will manipulate the
human mind and relieve man of his difficult burden of freedom.
From the new mythology comes the public tolerance
of the cryptocracy as well as the hero worship of such fig ures as James Bond, the Six Million Dollar Man, and the
Bionic Woman. Everywhere in modern literature and art,
and in the mass entertainment media, one can see the
expressions of the modern myth of techno-eroticism and
the dark shadow of the priesthood of secrecy. There is so
much of it in the media, in fact, one has to suspect that the
American public is deliberately being desensitized to the
concept of mind control and the "psycho-civilized" society.
The cryptocracy has gone to absurd lengths to develop
remote-controlled beings. Victor Marchetti revealed that
the CIA had once tried to create a cyborg cat. He said that
the Agency wired a live feline for sound in an attempt to
use the pet for eavesdropping purposes. The cat was first
altered electronically so that it would function as a listening
device in areas where potential enemy agents would be discussing
covert plots.
But problems developed, Marchetti said, and the cat had
to be rewired. The cat would wander away from its target
area, as cats will, looking for food. The CIA fixed that by
inserting wires directly into the hunger center of the cat's
brain. The wires were attached to a radio receiver which
would suppress the hunger pangs by remote control. But
once that problem was solved, the CIA found that the kitty
needed more circuitry in its brain to control its natural
urges. After the hunger center was turned off the cat still
would wander away, this time following the sex instinct.
The CIA planted more electrodes into the sex center of the
cat's brain.
After the electronic feline was at last ready for its assignment,
it was turned loose on the street and was followed by
a CIA support van loaded with electronic monitoring gear.
Before any conversations could be picked up, however,
Marchetti said, "the poor thing got run over by a taxicab."
The future should come as no surprise, now that Science
Digest has reported that as of 1976 there has been a robot
Population explosion in the United States, with some 6,000
mechanical humanlike machines performing simple human
tasks. According to the publication, within the next thirty
years there will be more robot than human workers in
America.
The typical state of robotdom is still very expensive. Today
the average robot costs about $50,000. Most use tele vision to "see" and to review their work. A number of the
6,000 robots in service are busy building other robots. A
Robot Institute of America is already in existence.
Even situation comedies such as the television show
about the robot cop Holmes and Yoyo embody the myth
and condition the individual to accept the day when wires
will enter his brain—wires hidden inside the skull: clandestine
circuitry for covert cyborgs. The myth of surrender to
control by technology is being glorified as the highest aim
of the twentieth century version of the American Dream.
The American Dream is turning into a cybernetic nightmare.
As poet Richard Brautigan said, trying to find hope
in their myth, one day we may all be "watched over by
machines of loving grace."

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