ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars Over the past six months I have been given a large (and still growing) pile of documents about extremely low frequency electromagnetic radiation, or ELF for short. This is not really Lobster territory, nor am I scientifically equipped to synthesise this material. However, this subject seems to me to be of major importance and I offer this sketch in the hope that some readers will be sufficiently interested to pursue it. I suspect this is the biggest development in military technology since the splitting of the atom.
The idea that electromagnetic radiation is more harmful to humans than had been thought is now commonplace, if not yet accepted by the world’s governments. I am writing this at a VDU, which gives off low-level radiation which has been linked to damage in foetuses, cancers and so forth. People and animals living under overhead power lines are affected by them. Much of this material was examined in a Channel 4 series, ‘Opening Pandora’s Box’, first shown about 5 years ago, and repeated since. A great many taken-for-granted electrical devices give off low-level radiation which has hitherto been assumed to be harmless, but about whose actual environmental consequences we know almost nothing. And as you would expect, this ‘damage potential’ has become of interest to military researchers East and West. It is the military potential of this area which is scary.
Item 1: Microwave News (November/December 1989) carried this short report on p14.
‘The KGB signal…Boris Yeltsin, the populist politician who swings in and out of favour in the Soviet Union, has told a reporter that the KGB has an ELF device that can stop a human heart from beating. In an interview with Radio Liberty, a U.S.-backed shortwave radio station in West Germany, Yeltsin said that KGB agents told him that they have a device which emits a powerful 7-11 Hz signal which can stop the heart. According to Yeltsin, the KGB agents said that “If emergency medical aid isn’t close at hand, its all over.”‘
The radio interview was reported by the Baltimore Sun on October 20. The sources for this story do not give me confidence about its veracity. Radio Liberty is a CIA-funded propaganda station; and the Baltimore Sun has some kind of role in the Pinay Circle’s disinformation operations. (See Lobster 18 p. 22, column 2) It is entirely possible that Boris Yeltsin gave no such interview, that we are dealing here with a classic disinformation operation. But this does not matter. Would it be less interesting to discover that some NATO disinformation source wants us to believe that the KGB has a killer ELF device? (Microwave News, incidentally, appears to be the one essential journal in this field.)
Item 2: Ex- Newsweek journalist, Larry Collins, published a novel in 1989, Maze (Grafton, London 1989), whose central theme is the Soviet (KGB) possession of ‘mind machines’, including ELF devices. The book is subtitled ‘Today’s thriller of tomorrow’s mind war’.
Item 3: In the summer 1984 the women camped around the U.S. base at Greenham Common were surprised to find that the military and police personnel who had been facing them across the wire had disappeared. In the months that followed the women began to suffer a wide variety of ill-health, with symptoms including disruption of their menstrual cycles, panic, swollen tongues, bleeding gums, headaches, vertigo, burns (even at night) etc etc. These effects coincided with the appearance of new aerials on the base buildings. The women concluded that they were being ‘zapped’ with some kind of rays, the story made the British press briefly, then disappeared. (See Guardian March 10 ’86.) Similar phenomena have more recently affected the women’s peace camp at Seneca, in the United States. (The British woman who is coordinating the research into this for the Greenham women has had both her car and her house shot at.)
Item 4: In 1983, a retired playwright and inspector for the Good Food Guide, Anthony Verney, and his wife, retired to a secluded cottage in Kent. They were subjected to months of electronic bombardment, some of which was audible, and has been recorded. (I have heard the tapes.) Both become seriously ill and Mrs Verney almost died. Their complaints produced no official action, but did trigger the rash of burglaries, letter opening and strange visits which plague people who become entangled with the British state. They moved out and sold their home. Eight years and 37 requests to the British state authorities for an inquiry later, nothing has been done.
Item 5: As I was finishing off Lobster 18 I received a visit from a man who had been shuttling round the London media trying to get them interested in ELF. He seemed to have been given the bum’s rush all the way down the ladder to Lobster. He told me a very strange story about his persecution by the CIA using ELF devices. My scepticism was modified by knowing of Anthony Verney’s experience, but I found it difficult to decide if my visitor was a genuine victim of something ghastly or a nut-case (or a mixture of both). Nonetheless he had a suitcase full of documents on ELF. A part of his story explains why the major media have so far been sniffy about this area. My visitor claimed he was talked to, telepathically, by the CIA (as well as being bombarded with the ‘standard’ range of illness-producing rays). ‘Voices in the head’, of course, is one of the classic symptoms of some kinds of mental illness. So my visitor was a nut? Would that things were so clear-cut. One of the things that some of the Greenham Common women reported was ‘voices in the head’; and I have a 1976 US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report, ‘Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation’ which notes (p. 2): ‘The potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel applications is suggested by the research published in the USSR, East Europe and the West. Sounds and possibly even words which appear to be originating intracranially can be induced by signal modulation at very low average-power densities.’
Item last: There is a very good, reasonably accessible summary of this area, with notes on some of the literature, available in the United States. A paper called ‘Remote Mind Control Technology’ by Anna Keeler, has been published by Full Disclosure, Box 8275, Ann Arbor, Mi 48107, USA. Don’t write to me, write to them.