MEDIUM RARE – Jim Rarey - March 21, 1999
CHINESE STEAL EMP WEAPONS SECRETS – HUH?
In an otherwise masterful performance at his hour long press conference Friday (the first in almost a year), President Clinton was obviously flustered by a question from Wendell Goler of Fox News.
Earlier in the conference, the President (in response to question about Chinese espionage at the Los Alamos nuclear research lab) had emphasized that there had been no reports of any secrets being stolen during his presidency, that the espionage had occurred in the 1980’s.
Goler stunned the over two hundred journalists present, as well as President Clinton, by asserting that Fox News had information that the Chinese had stolen secrets about "Electro-magnetic Pulse (EMP) weaponry" from four of the eleven secret laboratories the government maintains. He further stated that their sources said the administration knew of the thefts (which occurred during the President’s first term) and that the Chinese have successfully tested the weapons.
When the President regained his composure, he repeated the assertion that no such stealing of weapons secrets had been reported to him. The exchange left most of the other journalists looking around at each other as if to say, "what the h___ is Electro-Magnetic Pulse weaponry?"
EMP weaponry is probably the nation’s most closely guarded secret, even more so than nuclear technology. It derives from the findings and inventions of a brilliant European scientist and inventor named Nikola Tesla (who was a contemporary of Thomas Edison). He experimented with the transmission of very high and low frequencies of electricity. The enormous potential application of his theories was first brought to public attention in a 1995 book, "Angels Don’t Play This HAARP" by Nick Begich and Jeane Manning. The acronym HAARP stands for "High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program" being conducted at a top-secret installation in Gakona, Alaska.
What first started out as a benign technology to produce cheap electricity transmitted without wires, and use to beneficially modify weather, has been (over the last decade) commandeered by the military in the U.S. and Russia (USSR) and developed into an array of weapons with staggering applications.
Those applications include:
Creating Weather "anomalies," e.g. storms, tornadoes, floods, in specific regions of the earth.
Disrupting communications while simultaneously being used for communication.
Disabling airplanes and missile guidance systems.
Non-lethal "psychotronic" weapons that can be used against small groups as well as large regions of civilian populations to produce severe physical disruption and perceptual distortion or disorientation.
Produce nuclear-size explosions without radiation.
At the time the 1995 book was published, there were six other such installations known (other than the one in Alaska). Three were in the (former) USSR, two in Norway and one in Puerto Rico. Those six, however, were of very low magnitude compared to the one in Alaska.
The HAARP installation in Alaska (in 1995) could transmit frequencies of 500 million watts, ten thousand times more powerful than the strongest commercial radio station.
A decade or so ago the military proposed such an installation in Michigan. It was, however, shot down because of, among other reason, potential damage to the environment. The stated use for the "extremely low frequency" (ELF) system proposed was to communicate with U.S, submarines, one of the uses of HAARP technology.
The alleged theft of this technology by the Chinese will be, or at least should be, of even greater concern than the alleged theft of nuclear secrets. The potential for its use, not only by China, but also by Russia and the U.S. is mind-boggling.
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