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Looking at the other patents which built on the work of a Texas E-Systems is one of the biggest intelligence contractors in the physicist named Bernard Eastlund, it becomes clearer how the world, doing work for the CIA, defence intelligence organisations military intends to use the HAARP transmitter. It also makes gov- _and others. US$1.8 billion of their annual sales are to these organ- ernmental denials less believable. The military knows how it _ isations, with US$800 million for black projects—projects so intends to use this technology, and has made it clear in their docu- _ secret that even the United States Congress isn't told how the ments. The military has deliberately misled the public through. money is being spent. sophisticated word games, deceit and outright disinformation. E-Systems was bought out by Raytheon which is one of the The military says the HAARP system could: largest defence contractors in the world. In 1994 Raytheon was * give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse _listed as number 42 on the "Fortune 500" list of companies. effect of atmospheric thermonuclear devices (still considered a Raytheon has thousands of patents, some of which will be valu- viable option by the military through at least 1986); able in the HAARP project. Twelve patents are the backbone of * replace the huge Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) submarine the HAARP project, and are now buried among the thousands of communication system operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with _ others held in the name of Raytheon. a pew and more compact technology; Bernard J. Eastlund'’s US Patent #4,686,605, "Method and * be used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system that was Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, once planned for the current location of HAARP, with a more —_ Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere", was sealed for a year under a flexible and accurate system; government secrecy order. * provide a way to wipe out communications over an extremely The Eastlund ionospheric heater was different» the radio fre- large area, while keeping the military's own communications sys- quency (RF) radiation was concentrated and focused to a point in tems working; _ the ionosphere. This difference throws an unprecedented amount * provide a wide-area Earth-pene- trating tomography which, if com- bined with the computing abilities of EMASS and Cray computers, would {| make it possible to verify many parts of nuclear nonproliferation and peace agreements; * be a tool for geophysical probing to find oil, gas and mineral deposits over a large area; * be used to detect incoming low- level planes and cruise missiles, making other technologies obsolete. The above abilities seem like a What would this technology be good idea to all who believe in worth to ARCO, the owner of the sound national defence and to those patents? They could make enormous concerned about cost-cutting. However, the possible uses which _ profits by beaming electrical power, without wires, from a power- the HAARP records do not explain; and which can only be found _house in the gas fields to the consumer. in US Air Force, Army, Navy and other federal agency records, For a time, HAARP researchers could not prove that this was are alarming. Moreover, effects from the reckless use of these one of the intended uses for HAARP. In April 1995, however, power levels in our natural shield—the ionosphere—could be cat- | Begich found other patents connected with a 'key personnel’ list of energy into the ionosphere. The ~ Eastlund device would allow a con- centration of one watt per cubic centimetre, compared to others only able to deliver about one millionth of one watt. This huge difference could lift and change the ionosphere in the ways necessary to create futuristic effects described in the patent. According to the patent, the work of Nikola Tesla in the early 1900s formed the basis of the research, aclysmic, according to some scientists. for APTI. Some of these new APTI patents were indeed a wire- One Alaskan puts it bluntly. A founder of the "NO HAARP" _ less system for sending electrical power. movement, Clare Zickuhr, says: Eastlund's patent said the technology can confuse or completely The military is going to give the ionosphere a big kick and see _ disrupt airplanes’ and missiles’ sophisticated guidance systems. what happens. Further, this ability to spray large areas of Earth with electromag- The military failed to tell the public that they do not know what __ netic waves of varying frequencies—and to control changes in exactly will happen, but a Penn State science article brags about those waves—makes it possible to knock out communications on that uncertainty. Macho science? The HAARP project uses the —_ land or sea as well as in the air. The patent said: largest energy levels yet played with, by what Begich and Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented Manning call "the big boys with their new toys". It is an experi- amounts of power in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations ment on the sky, and experiments are done to find out some- and to maintain the power injection level, particularly if random thing not already known. Independent scientists told Begich and —_ pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better con- Manning that a HAARP-type ‘skybuster’ with its unforeseen trolled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly effects could be an act of global vandalism. by detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at various alti- tudes... HAARP HISTORY . .uit is possible not only to interfere with third party communica- The patents described below were the package of ideas which _ tions but to take advantage of one or more such beams to carry were originally controlled by ARCO Power Technologies out a communications network even though the rest of the world's Incorporated (APTI), a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company, communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is used to one of the biggest oil companies in the world. APTI was the con- disrupt another's communications can be employed by one knowl- tractor that built the HAARP facility. ARCO sold this subsidiary, edgeable of this invention as a communication network at the the patents and the second phase construction contract to E- same time. Systems in June 1994. ..large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unex- HAARP HISTORY The patents described below were the package of ideas which were originally controlled by ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI), a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company, one of the biggest oil companies in the world. APTI was the con- tractor that built the HAARP facility. ARCO sold this subsidiary, the patents and the second phase construction contract to E- Systems in June 1994. 18 ¢ NEXUS DECEMBER 1995 - JANUARY 1996