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May 28 1993
NONLTHL.ASC
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This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Ray Berry.
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Originally posted on Fido UFO echo (5978) -- Sun 16 May 93 9:11
By: Walter Bartoo
To: ALL
Re: Mind Control, Nonlethal Weapons 1\3
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The following was taken from the Monday, January 4, 1993, "Wall
Street Journal" entitled
"Nonlethal Arms, New Class of Weapons Could Incapacitate
Foe Yet Limit Casualties - Military Sees Role for Lasers,
Electromagnetic Pulses, OtherHigh-Tech Tricks - Sticky Roads,
Stalled Tanks",
by Thomas B. Ricks
If the U.S. eventually intervenes in the former Yugoslavia, says
Col. Jamie Gough, the Air Force's deputy director of planning, its
arsenal "absolutely" will includea new class of devices: nonlethal
weapons.
Without killing people, such weaponry would disrupt telephones,
radars, computers and other communications and targeting equipment,
he says. Other defense officials say the damage would be inflicted
by a new electromagnetic "pulse" generator that disables equipment
without hurting people.
They say the U.S. also could deploy "combustion inhibitors" that
stop the engines of moving vehicles, as well as chemicals that
crystallize and destroy certain kinds of tires. These new type of
weapons are only a tiny fraction of the current defense budget of
$274.3 billion, but they are rapidly gaining favor.
At least two dozen projects exploringnonlethal technologies are
under way at defense laboratories. Several of the U.S.'s 10
regional commanders-in-chief within the past 18 months have sent the
Joint Chiefs classified "mission needs statements" asking for
nonlethal weapons. Les Aspin, President elect Clinton's nominee
for Secretary of Defense, has also expressed interest innonlethal
weaponry.
So sorry - If the Gulf War made "smart" weapons familiar to the
world, the next U.S. conflict is likely to introduce "nicer" weapons
- in what could be a noteworthy step in American military strategy.
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By devising ways to stop an adversary without killing its soldiers
or devastating their hardware, advocates say, the U.S. could
greatly widen its range of potential military responses to threats
abroad. Proponents of nonlethality say it may be best suited to
Somalia and other "peacemaking" missions the U.S. military may take
on in the post-Cold War world. Marines in Mogadishu may soon wish
they had stun guns or other nonlethal means of disarming 14-year-
olds toting AK-47s, notes one fan of the new weaponry.
Despite the name, nonlethal weapons are hardly gentle, and in a few
instances, they could even make war more grotesque. For example,
powerful lasers designed to destroy an enemy tank's optics could
also explode a soldier's eyeballs. Portable microwave weapons being
field-tested by the U.S. Special Forces can quietly cut enemy
communications but also can cook internal organs.
"I don't know that nonlethality is all that humane," concludes Myron
L. Wolbarsht, a Duke University ophthalmologist and expert on laser
weapons. Backdoor Nuke?
What's more, the quiet U.S. move into nonlethality could pry open a
Pandora's box of chemical, biological and nuclear weaponry that
diplomats have spent much of the 20th century trying to keep closed.
The U.S.Central Command, the unified command for the Middle East
that formerly was headed by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, has told the
Joint Chiefs of Staff that it wants a wide-area-pulse capability -
that is, the ability to fry enemy electronics by detonating a
warhead outside the atmosphere.
The Central Command's statement didn't expressly say so, but only a
nuclear explosion would be powerful enough to do the job. "You're
probably talking about a few tens of kilotons," says Earl Rubright,
science adviser to the Central Command. He contends that the Iraqi
army invading Kuwait in 1991 could have been stopped nonlethally
with one such pulse blast.
Even in its less controversial forms, nonlethality has been caught
up in the debate about the U.S. role in the post-Cold War world.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell argues that the U.S. should use
its military only when it can apply decisive and overwhelming force.
Nonlethality lowers that hurdle by making it easier to invoke the
military in a crisis. "It gives you more options, but there's a
danger of illusions that these things can be done more quickly and
precisely," says a senior Air Force officer.
Practical Considerations - Many officers also wonder how the exotic
new weapons would work on the battlefield. Disabling equipment
could require better targeting intelligence than the U.S. gathered
in the Gulf War. And once a platoon of advancing tanks had been,
say, pulsed or "lasered" into submission, how would a commander know
which ones really had lost their targeting mechanisms and which were
playing possum?
A bigger worry is that nonlethal weapons someday may be aimed at
U.S. forces. Because the U.S. military is increasingly high-tech,
"it's perhaps more vulnerable to disabling measures than many
potential adversaries," an Army paper warns. But nonlethality also
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has many military advocates, especially among defense intellectuals
who see it redefining modern warfare.
What took 9,000 bombs to destroy in World War II, and 300 bombs in
Vietnam, theoretically required only a single smart bomb in the Gulf
War.
In the next war, with precise targeting abilities and nonlethal
weapons, they ask whether we need a bomb at all. These boosters see
nonlethal armaments as part of the transition from industrial-era
wars of direct-fire attrition to information-age wars in which the
emphasis is on paralyzing the adversary, not necessarily destroying
him.
Rather than replace artillery and explosives, the new nonlethal
weaponry would be mixed into the old arsenal. For instance, a 40mm
laser cartridge has been developed to fit into a standard grenade
launcher, Milton Finger, director of the Advanced Conventional
Weapons program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, predicts
that nonlethal weapons will become "an important adjunct to the
common instruments of war."
"They're all real," says retired Army Lt.Gen. Richard Trefry, a
former military assistant to President Bush and a fan of
nonlethality. "But you're bordering on classified stuff here."
To figure out how to use the new weapons, the Army's Training and
Doctrine Command in September circulated to the military's top
commanders a 34-page draft statement on nonlethal weapons. "A wide
range of disabling measures, technologies and applications now
exists," it states. "This was not true 10 years ago. "One major
reason they do exist now is that about a decade ago, John Alexander
began thinking about them. An Army Special Forces veteran of
Vietnam, he led ethnic Cambodian irregulars in the Mekong Delta. He
went on to study near-death experiences with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
Then in 1980 he published an article in Military Review magazine
about "the new mental battlefield," which he said could involve
telepathy or weapons that interferred with the brain's own
electrical activity. That caught the attention of two senior Army
generals, who encouraged him to pursue what were then called
"softkill' technologies.
In 1988, Col. Alexander left the military and joined Los Alamos
National Laboratory, where he is attached to the special
technologies group. Meanwhile, his interest in parapsychology led
him to collaborate on a book on mind-training techniques with Janet
Morris, a science-fiction writer interested in counterterrorism.
She enlisted Ray Cline, a well-connected former deputy director of
the Central Intelligence Agency, who was able to open doors at the
White House and Pentagon. "A U.S. lead in nonlethal technologies
will increase our options and reinforce our position in the post-
Cold War world, "Paul Wolfowitz, under secretary of defense for
policy, wrote to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney after the Gulf War.
"Our R&D efforts must be increased."
Roach Motel - A Pentagon strategy group called together after the
war was entranced by the possibilities. One lesson of the Gulf War
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was that U.S. high technology worked; another was that global media
coverage could quickly turn heavy casualties, even among the
adversary, into a political issue. By using technology to reduce
casualties,
Nonlethality heeds both lessons. The strategists envisioned that in
a subsequent crisis, nonlethal weapons could first be used in
concert with economic sanctions.
For example, roads leading into an embargoed nation could be dusted
with crystallizing powder that would destroy truck tires. Fuel
tankers going into the area could be clandestinely treated with a
microbe that jellifies gasoline.
Aircraft runways in the area could be closed by spraying them with
super-sticky "Roach Motel" polymers. Railroad tracks could be
rendered useless by super-slick antitraction polymers and
lubricants. Bridges could be quietly weakened with supercaustic
acids so that refugees could cross, but not trucks.
People moving into restricted zones, such as border crossings, could
be trapped by quick-setting "hard" foam, or deterred from entering
by acoustic generators that could be fine-tuned to be anything from
mildly irritating to organ-bursting. As the hypothetical crisis
escalated, the Pentagon strategists dreamed, other nonlethal weapons
could come into play.
What, they asked, if the U.S. could pre-emptively disable the
other side's "trump card" weapons? Secret low-orbit satellites
could neutralize the launch sites of a state threatening chemical or
nuclear blackmail, or even pulse out the electronic triggers on
those weapons. Meanwhile, Special Forces operators could daub
aircraft wings with embrittling chemicals, while drone aircraft
could cripple enemy weapons by spraying them with metal-eating
microbes. If war did occur, potent microwaves could be deployed to
detonate enemy ammunition dumps before the munitions could be used.
Enemy communications could be fried by microwaves or by small pulses
produced by non-nuclear devices. Enemy troops might be greeted with
lasers that blinded their targeting devices. Their tanks and
personnel carriers might stall as they hit clouds of combustion
inhibitors and short-circuiting metal fibers. Then the nonlethal
weapons designed to affect people might be deployed.
"The anti-personnel stuff is extremely desirable but extremely
difficult," says retired Col. Alexander, the Los Alamos specialist.
Among the concerns: Some applications might violate treaties
governing war practices. In addition, notes Harvard biochemist
Matthew Meselson, nonlethal tactics, especially those involving
chemicals, could escalate into lethal ones. Notwithstanding these
worries, anti-personnel nonlethal devices are being researched
intensively.
Lawrence Livermore lists a half-dozen potential ways of temporarily
incapacitating combatants, such as dazzling them with lasers,
putting them to sleep with calmative chemicals and even confusing
them with holographic projections in the clouds above them - perhaps
images of Muslim martyrs telling them to go home. Some research is
spilling into the civilian sector, too.
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The Justice Department's research arm is piggybacking several
projects and expects within a few years to test foam and light
immobilizers for use against everything from ordinary domestic
disturbances to prison riots.
Repairing the Damage - In military use, a big advantage of nonlethal
weaponry comes after the shooting and pulsing is over.
Reconstruction would be far easier if, say, electrical
infrastructure could be restored by replacing a few blown-out
switches and wires. "Say there's a war in Korea," says one Air
Force bomber pilot. "You want it won, but the day the war's over,
you want to reunify them,and not have to spend five years rebuilding
it." The Pentagon's nonlethal study group came away so enthusiastic
that it not only recommended a major push into nonlethal weapons,
but also suggested that President Bush announce a public initiative
akin to President Reagan's unveiling of his Strategic Defense
Initiative, or "Star Wars."
That idea drew fire. Taking nonlethality public "would have the
effect of spurring our adversaries to look into this," says one
Pentagon policy maker. Other experts thought that a presidential
declaration might make further development prone to political
meddling. So Pentagon policymakers decided to intensify the
nonlethality effort but do it even more secretly than previously.
They also seem to have cut out Janet Morris and Ray Cline, who were
perceived within the Pentagon as meddlesome and uncontrollable
outsiders. To make nonlethality even less visible, policy makers
decreed that it henceforth would be referredto as "disabling
systems" technologies. But the next time the U.S. goes to war, it
almost certainly will deploy some kinds of nonlethal weapons. It
may well face them, too.
By the end of this century, Prof. Wolbarsht predicts in a new book,
laser weapons "will find their way into armies all over the world.
"Nonlethal Weapons: A Selection -Taken from "Operations Concept for
Disabling Measures (Draft)," U.S. Army Training and Doctrine
Command, September 1992.
Laser Weapons: "Resembling conventional rifles, low-energy laser
rifles withpower packs can flash-blind people and disable optical
and infrared systemsused for target acquisition, tracking, night
vision and range finding.
"Infrasound: "Very low frequency sound generators could be tuned to
incapacitate humans, causing disorientation, nausea, vomiting, or
bowel spasms. The effect ceases as soon as the generator is turned
off, with no lingering physical or enviornmental damage."
Supercaustics: "Supercaustics can be millions of times more caustic
than hydofluoric acid. A round that delivers jellied superacids
could destroy the optics of heavily armored vehicles, penetrate
vision blocks or glass, or be employed to silently destroy key
weapons systems or components."
Antitraction Technology: "Using airborne delivery systems or human
agents, we can spread or spray Teflon-type, environmentally neutral,
lubricants on railroad tracks, grades, ramps, runways, even stairs
and equipment, potentially denying their use for a substantial
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period, because such lubricants are costly and time-consuming to
remove."
Roach Motels: "Polymer adhesives, delivered by air or selectively
on the ground, can 'glue' equipmentin place and keep it from
operating."
Combustion Alteration: "Internal combustion engines can be disrupted
through special chemical compounds. These chemical compounds would
temporarily contaminate fuel or change its viscosity to degrade
engine function."
Computer Virus Technology: "This technology focuses on computer
systems which control fire support systems, data transmission, fire
control systems, avionics, etc. It involves the covert intrusion of
a computer virus, logic bomb, or worm which may remain hidden until
the system is used or meets specific parameters."
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(ADDED NOTE from Walter Bartoo/Kortron of Spirit BBS)
So there you have it! Does this make mush out of some of the
scientific skeptics on this echo? I hope so, because this post is
but a fraction of what is going on and posted to inform those not
yet aware that things are far beyond what most consider reality.
Also in the banned book Operation Mind Control, our secret
governments war against its own people. W.H. Bowart claims in the
seventies that it was possible to control people from cradle to
grave. Sound outragious? Well folks welcome to the new age because
it is taking place unbeknownst to everyone. This statement is just
my opinion after going through a huge amount of constant incoming
info that makes me think its happening. If you want more proof.
Here is a source. Julianne Mckinney, Director Electronics
Surveillance Project Ass. Of National Security Alumni. Silver
Spring, Maryland. 20911-3625 Phone: (301) 608-0143 Julianne and I
had an hour long conversation on these topics and she stated she was
once an Army intelligence officer that was under this type mind
control. Her story needs telling and she is fighting this type
control and is in a growing effort to educate the public. She needs
your help and you hers if you are under any of this type control and
its influence. She presently helps over fifty six individuals who
are under this debilitating influence. Hope this post opens some
eyes and adds some creditability to our newsletter here at Orvotron.
Peace and Love Walter (Kortron).
--Glenda Stocks - via ParaNet node 1:104/422UUCP: !scicom!paranet!
User_NameINTERNET: Glenda.Stocks@f15.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG
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