MOSCOW MICROWAVES: NO HARM SEEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040014-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2008
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: November 21, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Thomas O'Toole ce11 count," ..J ?!;. James Tonascia, '_'.:.l:1 fdcl ;r.,d the John:, Volsci
w s shineton PD$t stalt Writ es
RALTI:-IOIIE--Personnel working
-at-tile American embassy in Moscow
between 1953 and 1976 suffered ro ap-
parer:l ill effects from the Soviet Un-
inn's rr.!crowave bombardment of the
embassy- during those 23 years.
That was the conclusion of the
Johns Moulins University School of
Public Health. where more than IQ
people spent more than two years in
an exhaustive study of the hcal!h of
the more than 2.000 Americans who
wor::eo at ti:e U.S. C1:.:7a:!:.v in .11os-
cov- f:G:n 15163. to 1976 :risen the Soviet
secret l:r,iiLe beamed microwave!! at
the building to tap telephones and in-
ter:cre with U.S. ttaepho]r and _able
"ttith very few exceptions, there
T:cr,ds,y,,Vo:?rntbcr?I, .'4;3 jr 1r_i5'siI\!;! U1 Lc7J'J*
whn helped i. direct the John S Hop- St'.:c_, w..s the Most e::h:.Uitive staikk
c
::1:1s study. .1t the same zarlo, the Cal . uJ' cver ear'icd c.tt on the
'?'.losce:r group showed a il:ch degree iect', of iriara,wr_:e ratiiation on h
of nervousness. an:: sty. loss r.{ mem- ..`d it i:re~lred the scar
_or:? rind sleep w; ich ria could in no of n:: -re than. 150,04 rcor:ls of Sta
.: .? tic in with the of ects of micrcl? , ep;, tmc.nt per::an^ci. thousands of
?v.tl'.,. rudiration. ".:laybe it was the r;ti '6+::]moires ann.:ek:iii;or,c calls to
rs5111t of the publicity givart file MI- ; who had moved four and rL','C
ci-oware h cid ent or the stress of 1:Y- t:-1L - around the w0r'd.
~1:7y it. .mI;.SCC]r:' "('l r hardest gob was finding people
Nonetheless, the Johns Hopkins :tip o ad long it: It :Gs co l,' Li:ienfeld
:tUCiy team reCA!':rnended that State said. "L'akicv'e it or rot, nobody at
.D'parti tent ] j C::i:;: persofl? Gtat ! kee.m records of 1]CGpto who
milel who ser:ed in the embassy in .10s- nave: hoe+n there." STAT
SLOW. cspccinli;? :ileac M'ihli Nor:A
ed e,
there in 1977 .:rd _9-.6 ?:hen Cie Soy" In its st::::y of c: _`:a.s:;? aer