© CNNDr. Bill van Bise, electrical engineer, conducting a demonstration of Soviet scientific data and schematics for beaming a magnetic field into the brain to cause visual hallucinations.
The race to put man on the Moon wasn't enough of a battle for the global super powers during the Cold War.
At the time, the Soviet Union and the United States were in an arms race of a bizarre, unconventional kind - that has been exposed
in a new report.Beginning in 1917 and continuing until 2003, the Soviets poured up to $1 billion into developing mind-controlling weaponry to compete with similar programs undertaken in the US.
While much still remains classified, we can now confirm the Soviets used methods to manipulate test subjects' brains.
The paper, by Serge Kernbach, at the Research Centre of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science in Stuttgart, Germany, details the Soviet Union's extensive experiments, called "psychotronics". The paper is based on Russian technical journals and recently declassified documents.
© News.com.auStill from Secret Russia: Moscow The Zombies of the Red Czar, a German TV documentary, 1998.
The
paper outlines how the Soviets developed "cerpan", a device to generate and store high-frequency electromagnetic radiation and the use of this energy to affect other objects.
"If the generator is designed properly, it is able to accumulate bioenergy from all living things - animals, plants, humans - and then release it outside," the paper said.
The psychotronics program, known in the US as "parapsychology", involves unconventional research into mind control and remote influence - and was funded by the government.
With only limited knowledge of each other's mind-bending programs, the Soviets and Americans were both participating in similar secret operations, with areas of interest often mirroring the other country's study.
© B. B. KazhinskiyThe original scheme of transmitting and receiving bio-circuitry of the human nervous system.
The psychotronics project draws similarities to part of the controversial program
MKUltra in the US. The CIA program ran for 20 years, has been highly documented since being investigated in the 1970s and was recently dramatised in the movie
The Men Who Stare at Goats.
© SmokehouseThe Men Who Stare at Goats.
Scientists involved in the MKUltra program researched the possibility of manipulating people's minds by altering their brain functions using electromagnetic waves. This program led to the development of pyschotronic weapons, which were intended to be used to perform these mind-shifting functions.
The illegal research subjected humans to experiments with drugs, such as LSD, hypnosis and radiological and biological agents. Shockingly, some studies were conducted without the subject's knowledge.
© Australian Associated Press A US Marine Corps truck carries an Active Denial System. It is a nonlethal weapon that uses directed energy and projects a beam of waves up to 1000 metres. When fired at a human, it delivers a heat sensation to the skin and generally makes humans stop what they are doing and run.
on the Soviet Union's psychotronics program fails to mention one thing - the results. He also doesn't detail whether there are ongoing programs in this area in the US or Russia, which became the successor state of the
Russian SFSR following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, but there are suspicions.
Putin made mention of futuristic weaponry last year in a presidential campaign article.
"Space-based systems and IT tools, especially in cyberspace, will play a great, if not decisive role in armed conflicts. In a more remote future, weapon systems that use different physical principles will be created (beam, geophysical, wave, genetic, psychophysical and other types of weapons). All this will provide fundamentally new instruments for achieving political and strategic goals in addition to nuclear weapons,"
he wrote.
© News.com.auExample of a generator from the psychotronics program.
The newly declassified information outlined in the
report only touches on the Soviet psychotronics program and the bizarre experiments undertaken. With so much information still classified, will we ever know the whole truth?
Comment:
With so much information still classified, will we ever know the whole truth?
Well, at least the Russians have come clean.
The US, on the other hand, as part of its 'crazy-making' operations, funds the same scientists involved in all this and more to write papers and books that ridicule those who research their disgusting schemes.
Despite the paucity of declassified CIA files, they nevertheless make it clear that their 'assassin' programs were a success (see
CIA Doctors by Dr. Colin Ross and
A Terrible Mistake by Hank Albarelli Jr.). However, the way this technology has been applied in practice is different from how they portray it in the movies: what they do, time and time again, is place their mind-controlled patsies 'on location' in order to roll out the pre-scripted cover story, but the actual shooting is done by professional killers (see JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, and the mass shootings and 'terrorists' in recent decades). Their subjects generally aren't reliable enough to pull the trigger, but they can be relied on confess to anything.
Shockingly, some studies were conducted without the subject's knowledge.
Again, whatever the Soviet Union did, the US did way more of. Hundreds of thousands of Americans were subjected to radiation poisoning experiments, drug experiments, and other biological and chemical warfare experiments since the 1940s.
America's history of chemical weapons 'experiments' against its own people: Over 4,000 radiation experiments killed or poisoned hundreds of thousands of citizens
Beginning in 1917 and continuing until 2003, the Soviets poured up to $1 billion into developing mind-controlling weaponry to compete with similar programs undertaken in the US.
If the Soviets 'poured' $1 billion into such projects, the US figure could well be in the trillions.
Comment: Well, at least the Russians have come clean.
The US, on the other hand, as part of its 'crazy-making' operations, funds the same scientists involved in all this and more to write papers and books that ridicule those who research their disgusting schemes.
Despite the paucity of declassified CIA files, they nevertheless make it clear that their 'assassin' programs were a success (see CIA Doctors by Dr. Colin Ross and A Terrible Mistake by Hank Albarelli Jr.). However, the way this technology has been applied in practice is different from how they portray it in the movies: what they do, time and time again, is place their mind-controlled patsies 'on location' in order to roll out the pre-scripted cover story, but the actual shooting is done by professional killers (see JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, and the mass shootings and 'terrorists' in recent decades). Their subjects generally aren't reliable enough to pull the trigger, but they can be relied on confess to anything. Again, whatever the Soviet Union did, the US did way more of. Hundreds of thousands of Americans were subjected to radiation poisoning experiments, drug experiments, and other biological and chemical warfare experiments since the 1940s.
America's history of chemical weapons 'experiments' against its own people: Over 4,000 radiation experiments killed or poisoned hundreds of thousands of citizens If the Soviets 'poured' $1 billion into such projects, the US figure could well be in the trillions.