The mind-altering mechanism is based on a

subliminal carrier technology: the Silent

Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), sometimes

called "S-quad" or "Squad". It was developed

by Dr Oliver Lowery of Norcross, Georgia,

and is described in US Patent #5,159,703,

"Silent Subliminal Presentation System",

dated October 27, 1992. The abstract for the

patent reads:

"A silent communications system in which

nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high

audio-frequency range or in the adjacent

ultrasonic frequency spectrum are amplitude-

or frequency-modulated with the desired

intelligence and propagated acoustically or

vibrationally, for inducement into the brain,

typically through the use of loudspeakers,

earphones, or piezoelectric transducers. The

modulated carriers may be transmitted

directly in real time or may be conveniently

recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic,

or optical media for delayed or repeated

transmission to the listener."

According to literature by Silent Sounds, Inc.,

it is now possible, using supercomputers, to

analyse human emotional EEG patterns and

replicate them, then store these "emotion

signature clusters" on another computer and,

at will, "silently induce and change the

emotional state in a human being".

Silent Sounds, Inc. states that it is interested

only in positive emotions, but the military is

not so limited. That this is a US Department

of Defense project is obvious.

Edward Tilton, President of Silent Sounds,

Inc., says this about S-quad in a letter dated

December 13, 1996:

"All schematics, however, have been

classified by the US Government and we are

not allowed to reveal the exact details... ... we

make tapes and CDs for the German

Government, even the former Soviet Union

countries! All with the permission of the US

State Department, of course... The system

was used throughout Operation Desert Storm

(Iraq) quite successfully."

The graphic illustration, "Induced Alpha to

Theta Biofeedback Cluster Movement",

which accompanies the literature, is labelled

#AB 116-394-95 UNCLASSIFIED" and is an

output from "the world's most versatile and

most sensitive electroencephalograph (EEG)

machine". It has a gain capability of 200,000,

as compared to other EEG machines in use

which have gain capability of approximately

50,000. It is software-driven by the "fastest of

computers" using a noisenulling technology

similar to that used by nuclear submarines for

detecting small objects underwater at extreme

range.[6]

The purpose of all this high technology is to

plot and display a moving cluster of periodic

brainwave signals. The illustration shows an

EEG display from a single individual, taken of

left and right hemispheres simultaneously. Ile

readout from the two sides of the brain

appear to be quite different, but in fact are the

same (discounting normal leftright brain

variations).

CLONING THE EMOTIONS

By using these computer-enhanced EEGs,

scientists can identify and isolate the brain's

low-amplitude "emotion signature clusters",

synthesise them and store them on another

computer. In other words, by studying the

subtle characteristic brainwave patterns that

occur when a subject experiences a particular

emotion, scientists have been able to identify

the concomitant brainwave pattern and can

now duplicate it. "These clusters are then

placed on the Silent Sound[TM] carrier

frequencies and will silently trigger the

occurrence of the same basic emotion in

another human being!"

SYSTEM DELIVERY AND

APPLICATIONS

There is a lot more involved here than a

simple subliminal sound system. There are

numerous patented technologies which can be

piggybacked individually or collectively onto a

carrier frequency to elicit all kinds of effects.

There appear to be two methods of delivery

with the system. One is direct microwave

induction into the brain of the subject, limited

to short-range operations. The other, as

described above, utilises ordinary radio and

television carrier frequencies.

Far from necessarily being used as a weapon

against a person, the system does have

limitless positive applications. However, the

fact that the sounds are subliminal makes

them virtually undetectable and possibly

dangerous to the general public.

In more conventional use, the Silent Sounds

Subliminal System might utilise voice

commands, e.g., as an adjunct to security

systems. Beneath the musical broadcast that

you hear in stores and shopping malls may be

a hidden message which exhorts against

shoplifting. And while voice commands alone

are powerful, when the subliminal

presentation system carries cloned emotional

signatures, the result is overwhelming.

Free-market uses for this technology are the

common self-help tapes; positive affirmation,

relaxation and meditation tapes; as well as

methods to increase learning capabilities.

In a medical context, these systems can be

used to great advantage to treat psychiatric

and psychosomatic problems. As a system for

remediating the profoundly deaf, it is

unequalled. (Promises, promises. This is the

most common positive use touted for this

technology over the past 30 years. But the

deaf are still deaf, and the military now has a

weapon to use on unsuspecting people with

perfectly normal hearing.)

OFFICIAL DENIALS

In fact, the US Government has denied or

refused to comment on mindaltering weapons

for years. Only last year, US News & World

Report ran an article titled "Wonder

Weapons"basically a review of the new

so-called 'non-lethal' or 'less-than -lethal'

weapons.' Not one word about S-quad,

although the technology had been used six

years earlier!

Excerpts from the article read:

"Says Charles Bernard, a former Navy

weapons-research director: 'I have yet to see

one of these ray-gun things that actually

worksÖ"; and

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency) has come to us every few

years to see if there are ways to incapacitate

the central nervous system remotely,' Dr F.

Terry Hambrecht, head of the Neural

Prostheses Program at NIH, told US News,

'but nothing has ever come of if,' he said.

'That is too science-fiction and far-fetched."'

It may sound "science fiction and far-fetched"

but it is not. However, that is just what the

powers-that-be want you to believe, so as to

leave them alone in their relentless pursuit

of...what?

The idea behind non-lethal weapons is to

incapacitate the enemy without actually killing

them, or, in the case of riot control or hostage

situations, to disable the participants without

permanent injury, preferably without their

knowing it. The electromagnetic mind-altering

technologies would all fall into this class of

weapons, but since they are all officially

non-existent, who is to decide when and

where they will be used?

And why should selected companies in the

entertainment industry reportedly be allowed

access to this technology when the very fact

of its existence is denied to the general

public?

As recently as last month [February], this

stonewall approach of total denial or silence

on the subject still held fast, even toward

committees of the US Congress!

- The Joint Economics Committee, chaired by

Jim Saxton (R-NJ), convened on February 25,

1998 for the "Hearing on Radio Frequency

Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact

on the Economy". Invited testimony included

statements by several authorities from the

military:

- Dr Alan Kehs, of the US Army

Laboratories, discussed the overall RF threat.

- Mr James O'Bryon, Deputy Director of

Operational Testing and Director of live fire

testing for the Office of Secretary of Defense

at the Pentagon, discussed the role of Live

Fire Testing and how it plays a role in testing

military equipment with RF weapons.

- Mr David Schriner, Principal Engineer of

Directed Energy Studies with Electronic

Warfare Associates and recently retired as an

engineer with a naval weapons testing facility,

talked about the difficulty in building an RF

weapon and about the terrorist threat.

- Dr Ira Merritt, Chief of Concepts

Identification and Applications Analysis

Division, Advanced Technology Directorate,

Missile Defense and Space Technology

Center, Huntsville, Alabama, discussed the

proliferation of RF weapons primarily from

the former Soviet Union.

Although these statements gave information of

technical interest, they are perhaps more

important for the information they did not

give: information on the existence of

radiofrequency weapons that directly affect

the human brain and nervous system.

KGB PSYCHOTRONICS

This technology did not spring up overnight. It

has a long history of development and denials

of development-by the US Government and

probably half of the other governments of the

world as well.

We know that the former Soviet Union was

actively engaged in this type of research. In a

previous article we reported that during the

1970s the Soviet KGB developed a

Psychotronic Influence System (PIS) that was

used to turn soldiers into programmable

'human weapons'. The system employed a

combination of highfrequency radiowaves and

hypnosis. The PIS project was begun in

response to a similar training scheme

launched in the US by President Carter,

according to Yuri Malin, former security

adviser to USSR President Gorbachev.[8]

In my Electromagnetic Weapons Timeline[9]

I covered a period of 60 years of interest and

development in EM weaponsóinformation

gathered from the many articles and news

clippings sent in by readers of Resonance. In

my article on synthetic telepathy[10] I traced

the development of the 'voice in your head'

technology dating back to 1961, all my

references coming from the open scientific

literature.

POWER OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL

COMPLEX

Jan Wiesemann has written an apt description

of the situation which now exists in the United

States, about the 'forces that be' and how the

situation came about:

"During the Cold War the United States not

only engaged in a relatively open nuclear

arms race with the Soviet Union, but also

engaged in a secret race developing

unconventional weapons. As the intelligence

agencies (which prior to the Second World

War had merely played a supporting role

within the government) continued to increase

their power, so did the funds spent on

developing techniques designed to outsmart

each other.

"And as the US intelligence community began

to grow, a secret culture sprang about which

enabled the intelligence players to implement

the various developed techniques to cleverly

circumvent the democratic processes and

institutions...

"Like many other democracies, the US

Government is made up of two basic parts the

elected constituency, i.e., the various

governors, judges, congressmen and the

President; and the unelected bureaucracies, as

represented by the numerous federal

agencies.

"In a well-balanced and correctly functioning

democracy, the elected part of the

government is in charge of its unelected

bureaucratic part, giving the people a real

voice in the agenda set by their government.

"While a significant part of the US

Government no doubt follows this democratic

principle, a considerable portion of the US

Government operates in complete secrecy and

follows its own unaccountable agenda which,

unacknowledged, very often is quite different

from the public agenda. "[11]

Jan goes on to quote one of the United States'

most popular war heroes: Dwight D.

Eisenhower, who served as Supreme

Commander of Allied Forces during World

War II and was later elected 34th President of

the United States. In his farewell address to

the nation in 1961, President Eisenhower said:

"...we have been compelled to create a

permanent armaments industry of vast

proportions. Added to this, three and a half

million men and women are directly engaged

in the defence establishment. We annually

spend on military security more than the net

income of all United States corporations.

"This conjunction of an immense military

establishment and a large arms industry is

new in the American experience. The total

influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is

felt in every city, every state house, every

office of the federal government. We

recognise the imperative need for this

development. Yet we must not fail to

comprehend its grave implications. Our toil,

resources and livelihood are all involved; so is

the very structure of our society.

"In the councils of government, we must

guard against the acquisition of unwarranted

influence, whether sought or unsought, by the

military -industrial complex. The potential for

the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists

and will persist. We must never let the weight

of this combination endanger our liberties or

our democratic processes."

INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS OVER

NEW WEAPONS

The United Nations was established in 1945

with the aim of "saving succeeding

generations from the scourge of war". In 1975

the General Assembly considered a draft first

proposed by .the Soviet Union: "Prohibition of

the Development and Manufacture of New

Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and

New Systems of Such Weapons".

In 1979 the Soviet Union added a list of some

types of potential weapons of mass

destruction:

1) Radiological weapons (using radioactive

materials) which could produce harmful

effects similar to those of a nuclear explosion;

2) Particle beam weapons, based on charged

or neutral particles, to affect biological

targets;

3) Infrasonic acoustic radiation weapons;

4) Electromagnetic weapons operating at

certain radio-frequency radiations which

could have injurious effects on human

organs.[12]

In response, the US and other Western

nations stalled. They gave a long, convoluted

reason, but the result was the same.

In an article entitled "Non-Lethal Weapons

May Violate Treaties",[13] the author notes

that the Certain Conventional Weapons

Convention[14] covers many of the

non-conventional weaponsó"those that utilize

infrasound or electromagnetic energy

(including lasers, microwave or

radiofrequency radiation, or visible light

pulsed at brainwave frequency) for their

effects".

Harlan Girard, Managing Director of the

International Committee Against Offensive

Microwave Weapons, told me he believes the

strategy behind the government's recent push

for less-than-lethal weapons is a subterfuge.

The ones that are now getting all the publicity

are put up for scrutiny to get the public's

approval. The electromagnetic mind-altering

technologies are not mentioned, but would be

brought in later under the umbrella of

less-than- lethal weapons.

These weapons were recently transferred

from the Department of Defense over to the

Department of Justice. Why? Because there

are several international treaties that

specifically limit or exclude weapons of this

nature from being used in international

warfare.

In other words, weapons that are barred from

use against our country's worst enemies

(notwithstanding the fact that the US did use

this weapon against Iraqi troops!) can now be

used against our own citizens by the local

police departments against such groups as

peaceful protestors of US nuclear policies.

TOWARDS GLOBAL MIND CONTROL

The secrecy involved in the development of

the electromagnetic mind-altering technology

reflects the tremendous power that is inherent

in it. To put it bluntly, whoever controls this

technology can control the minds of men-all

men.

There is evidence that the US Government has

plans to extend the range of this technology to

envelop all peoples, all countries. This can be

accomplished, is being accomplished, by

utilising the nearly completed HAARP

project[15,16] for overseas areas and the

GWEN network now in place in the US. The

US Government denies all this.

Dr Michael Persinger is a Professor of

Psychology and Neuroscience at Laurentian

University, Ontario, Canada. You have met

him before in the pages of Resonance where

we reported on his findings that strong

electromagnetic fields can affect a person's

brain.

"Temporal lobe stimulation," he said, "can

evoke the feeling of a presence,

disorientation, and perceptual irregularities. It

can activate images stored in the subject's

memory, including nightmares and monsters

that are normally suppressed."[17]

Dr Persinger wrote an article a few years ago,

titled "On the Possibility of Directly Accessing

Every Human Brain by Electromagnetic

Induction of Fundamental Algorithms".[18]

The abstract reads:

"Contemporary neuroscience suggests the

existence of fundamental algorithms by which

all sensory transduction is translated into an

intrinsic, brain-specific code. Direct

stimulation of these codes within the human

temporal or limbic cortices by applied

electromagnetic patterns may require energy

levels which are within the range of both

geomagnetic activity and contemporary

communication networks. A process which is

coupled to the narrow band of brain

temperature could allow all normal human

brains to be. affected by a subharmonic

whose frequency range at about 10 Hz would

only vary by 0. 1 Hz."

He concludes the article with this:

"Within the last two decades a potential has

emerged which was improbable, but which is

now marginally feasible. This potential is the

technical capability to influence directly the

major portion of the approximately six billion

brains of the human species, without

mediation through classical sensory

modalities, by generating neural information

within a physical medium within which all

members of the species are immersed.

"The historical emergence of such

possibilities, which have ranged from

gunpowder to atomic fission, have resulted in

major changes in the social evolution that

occurred inordinately quickly after the

implementation. Reduction of the risk of the

inappropriate application of these technologies

requires the continued and open discussion of

their realistic feasibility and implications

within the scientific and public domain."

It doesn't get any plainer than that. And we do

not have open discussion because the US

Government has totally denied the existence

of this technology.

Acknowledgements

I would like to give special thanks to: Jan

Wiesemann for sending the Silent

Sounds[TM] statement and patents which

were the keystone of this article; Mike Coyle,

whose computer search turned up many more

related patents; Harlan Girard, who has

provided numerous official government

documents; and to the many who have

provided newsclippings and articles, moral

and financial support to Resonance, without

which we'd have ceased publication long ago.