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“Overcoming these constraints to make a RMA in conflict short democracy, national self-determination and international law to of war would require fundamental changes in the United States— — which the United States is publicly committed."’* an ethical and political revolution may be necessary to make a In 1992, an Association sub-group known as the Electronic military revolution."" Surveillance Project published a preliminary investigative report, The authors then declare that, rather than being limited by "con- entitled “Microwave Harassment. & Mind-Control straints and countermeasures", "there is another alternative: we Experimentation", which detailed the covert deployment and test- could deliberately engineer a comprehensive revolution, seeking ing of emerging behaviour-modifying directed-energy technolo- utter transformation rather than simply an expeditious use of new _ gies on US citizens against whom the United States Government technology." has no legitimate legal or moral claim. The initial study investi- Have the opening moves of such a revolution already been ~ gated the claims of 12 alleged victims of covert harassment and played? Is the American national security establishment already experimentation. By mid-1993 the Association had been contact- at war with its own citizens (and those of other ‘civilised’ nations) | ed by approximately 72 victims, and at the time of this writing has in order to coerce them to accept the formerly unacceptable by _ been approached by over 200 such individuals.'* means of “the manipulation of images, beliefs, attitudes, and per- In a 1993 supplement to the original report, written by Julianne ceptions", that is, psychological warfare? Once again, the reader McKinney, Director of the Electronic Surveillance Project and is left with little doubt that the answer to this author of the initial report, if states: question is a resolute YES. "While the majority of these ‘experi- The authors write that to achieve a “there is another mentees’ reside in the United States, a num- “Revolution in Military Affairs", the Arm ‘ ber of virtually identical complaints have must fully recognise that psychological tech, alternative: we could also been received from England, Canada, nology is of much greater importance than deliberately engineer a and Australia. It would appear that these strike technology: * activities are also ongoing on the European “Ways must be found to use emerging comprehensive continent, and in the former Soviet Union. technology, including advanced artificial revolution, seeking utter | Connections between this global pattern of intelligence and information dissemination : oe ° : activity and the objectives of the so-called systems, to help military strategists develop, transformation rather New World Order remain to be determined. implement, and continually improve meth- 7 "The categories of types of complaints ods of influencing opinion, mobilizing pub- than simply ” being received by this Project have also lic support, and sometimes demobilizing expeditious use of new changed since publication of this report. it."* it Survivors of certain satanic cults (alleged to technology. : protect the interests of government and mili- THE RECIPE = er tary ‘political satanists’ in this country), for- The Association of National Security Alumni is a Maryland- mer Vietnam-era programmed assassins’, prison inmates, and so- based organisation composed primarily of former US national called 'UFO abductees’ are now reporting an array of experiences security establishment employees who oppose the use of covert (and symptoms) which are remarkably similar to those addressed operations. The Association's letterhead declares their credo: in this report. Experimental drugs, induced auditory input, vicious ",...Covert actions are counterproductive and damaging to the overt harassment, attempted psychiatric discrediting (unless the national interest of the United States. They are inimical to the experimentee dutifully claims to be a UFO abductee), and an operations of an effective national intelligence system and corrup- extremely painful array of externally-induced symptoms are tive of civil liberties, including the functioning of the judiciary and _ included in this shared panoply of experiences." a free press. Most importantly, they contradict the principles of McKinney later states: “It has been suggested that the long-term objective of all this experimentation is to develop a system by which all (surviving) citizens of this country may be monitored and tracked by a sophisticated, perhaps satel- lite-based cybernetics system. Certainly some of the research being dedicated to ‘mapping of the brain’ shows this potential. We are in receipt of preliminary information which points to magnetic resonance imaging as being critical to this process.""” Upon reading the Strategic Studies Institute paper, "The Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War", McKinney wrote to the authors, Steven Metz, Ph.D., and LTC James Kievit, to cri- tique its content. In the letter, McKinney writes: "First, I noticed a rather curious omission in your paper; namely, the impact of a 'revo- lutionized' military upon the rights of US cit- izens as they might be inferred to exist under Article IX of the United States Constitution. A 32 ¢ NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1995