Somehow I missed this excellent Washington Post feature from a couple weeks ago about individuals who claim that the US government uses secret technology to get into their heads. The author, Sharon Weinberger, wrote the book Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld. From the article, titled “Mind Games”:
The callers (on a mind control victim telephone support group) frequently refer to themselves as TIs, which is short for Targeted Individuals, and talk about V2K — the official military abbreviation stands for “voice to skull” and denotes weapons that beam voices or sounds into the head. In their esoteric lexicon, “gang stalking” refers to the belief that they are being followed and harassed: by neighbors, strangers or colleagues who are agents for the government…
Concerns about microwaves and mind control date to the 1960s, when the U.S. government discovered that its embassy in Moscow was being bombarded by low-level electromagnetic radiation. In 1965, according to declassified Defense Department documents, the Pentagon, at the behest of the White House, launched Project Pandora, top-secret research to explore the behavioral and biological effects of low-level microwaves. For approximately four years, the Pentagon conducted secret research: zapping monkeys; exposing unwitting sailors to microwave radiation; and conducting a host of other unusual experiments (a sub-project of Project Pandora was titled Project Bizarre). The results were mixed, and the program was plagued by disagreements and scientific squabbles. The “Moscow signal,” as it was called, was eventually attributed to eavesdropping, not mind control, and Pandora ended in 1970. And with it, the military’s research into so-called non-thermal microwave effects seemed to die out, at least in the unclassified realm.
But there are hints of ongoing research: An academic paper written for the Air Force in the mid-1990s mentions the idea of a weapon that would use sound waves to send words into a person’s head. “The signal can be a ‘message from God’ that can warn the enemy of impending doom, or encourage the enemy to surrender,” the author concluded.
(via Victoria Alexander’s The Devil’s Hammer)
Previously on BB:
• World’s Worst Excerpt: The Maddest Mad Scientist Link
• MIT study on aluminum foil hats Link
• MKULTRA-related lawsuit dismissed Link
UPDATE: At Defense Tech, Sharon Weinberger wrote two blog entries with more information about her investigation into mind control. Got comments? That’s where to post them. Link and Link (Thanks, Noah Shacthman!)