DEFENSE NEWS - U.S., RUSSIA HOPE TO SAFEGUARD MIND-CONTROL TECHNIQUES

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• Publication Date: January 17, 1993
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-U.S., Russia Hope To Safeguard Mind-Control Techniques
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ng George Kotov, a
former KGB general now serving
in a senior government ministry
post, present in their report a list
of software and hardware associ-
ated with their psycho-correction
program that could be procured
for as little as $80,000.
"As far as it has become possi-
ble to probe and correct psychic
contents of human beings despite
their will and consciousness by
instrumental means ... results
having been achieved can get out
of [our] control and be used with
inhumane purposes of manipulat-
ing psyche," the paper states.
The Russian authors note that
"World opinion is not ready for
dealing appropriately with the
problems coming from the possi-
bility of direct access to the hu-
man mind." Therefore, the Rus-
sian authors have proposed a
bilateral Center for Psycho-tech
nologies where U.S. and Russian
authorities could monitor and re-
strict the emerging capabilities.
Janet Morris of the Global
Strategy Council, a Washington-
based think tank established by
Ray Cline, former Central Intelli-
gence Agency deputy director, is
a key U.S. liaison between Rus-
sian and U.S. officials.
In a Dec. 15 interview, Morris
said she and the Richmond, Va.-
based International Healthline
Corp. have briefed senior U.S. in-
telligence and Army officials
about the Russian capabilities,
which Morris said could include
hand-held devices for purposes
of special operations, crowd con-
trol and antipersonnel actions.
Healthline Corp. is evaluating
Russian health care technologies
and will underwrite Russian dem-
onstrations in the United States.
"We talked about using this to
screen and prepare special oper-
ations personnel for extremely
difficult missions and ways in
which this could be integrated
into doctrine for [psychological
specific details.
U.S. sources said government
officials and leaders from the
business ,and medical communi-
ties will consider Russian offers
to place the mind-control capabil-
ity under bilateral controls.
At least one senior U.S. sena-
tor, government intelligence offi-
cials and' the U.S. Army's Office
for Operations, Plans and Force
Development-are interested in re-
viewing the Russian capabilities,
U.S. sources said.
In addition, International
Healthline Corp. is planning to
bring a team of Russian special-
ists here within the next couple
of months to demonstrate the ca-
pability, company President Jim
Hovis said in a Dec. 2 interview.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Army's Ar-
mament Research, Development
& Engineering Center is conduct-
ing a. one-year study of acoustic
beam technology that may mirror
some of, the effects reported by
the Russians.
Army spokesman Bill Harris
said Dec. 3 the command award-
ed the one-year study contract to
Scientific Applications & Re-
search Associates of Huntington
Beach, Calif. Related research is
being conducted at the Moscow-
based Andreev Institute, U.S. and
Russian sources said.
Despite the growing interest in
a capability traditionally reserved
for science fiction novels and cin-
ema, industry and academic ex-
perts are ' cautious and skeptical
about its potential battlefield use.
"This is not something that
strikes me as requiring high-level
attention," Raymond Garthoff, a
defense and ;intelligence analyst
at the Washington-based Brook-
ings Institution, said in a Dec.2
interview.
Morris contends that the capa-
bility has been demonstrated in
the laboratory in Russia and
should be placed under interna-
tional restrictions at the earliest
possible opportunity.
operations]," Morris said.
She said Army officials were
concerned about the capability
being directed against armored
systems and personnel through
electronic communications links.
Ground troops, she said, risk ex-
posure to bone-conducting sound
waves that cannot be offset by
earplugs or, other current protec-
tive gear. Morris added that U.S.
countermeasures could include
sound cancellation, a complex
process that involves broadcast-
ing oppositely phased wave
forms in precisely matched
frequencies.
Maj. Pete Keating, a U.S. Army
spokesman, said senior Army of-
ficials had expressed interest in
reviewing Russian capabilities
but that repeated plans to sched-
ule visits to the former Soviet
Union were rejected by Donald
Atwood, deputy secretary of de-
fense. Keating said he was unfa-
miliar with the mind-control tech-
nology and could not discuss
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