REPORTS OF BIOELECTRONIC WEAPONS TESTING IN 1970(S) AND 1980(S)

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August 13, 1992
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"A proved Fo Frel a e'20-0070$I A9AFF P 96=0075280'00$0 BT SEQUENCE NR: CSB92534204 USER- ID: 16334-92AUG13/09.52.42/A01 TITLE: REPORTS OF BIOELECTRONIC WEAPONS TESTING IN 1970(S) AND 1980(5). STRASHNEYE ATOMNOY BOMBY SG1J DOC REF: TRUD (TRUDA), 911227, NR 298, 4 INF CTY: USSR (UR) INF DATE: 911227 COSATI: BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES (06); BIOTECHNOLOGY (FORMERLY PART OF COSATI CODES 05 AND 06) (23) CLASSIF: UNCLASSIFIED RELEASE: NONE (XX) TEXT: EXTRACT. THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE FEBRUARY 3, 1992 ISSUE OF THE DAILY SNAP. LONG AGO, GENNADIY PETROVICH SHCHELKUNOV, A SPECIALIST IN THE FIELD OF RADIO ELECTRONICS AND AN EMPLOYEE OF THE SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION ISTOK, CALCULATED AND SUBSTANTIATED AN EFFECT OF LONG DISTANCE COMMUNICATION WITHOUT THE AID OF EQUIPMENT. THIS EFFECT CONSISTS ESSENTIALLY OF EXCITATION, IN CEREBRAL FLUID, OF ACOUSTIC VIBRATIONS WHICH REACH AUDITORY NERVES. THESE VIBRATIONS ARE EXCITED BY PULSED MICROWAVE RADIATION. SHCHELKUNOV DID NOT ATTEMPT TO CARRY OUT HIS DISCOVERY IN PRACTICE, BUT HE CONSIDERS IT QUITE FEASIBLE FROM THE TECHNICAL STANDPOINT. IN A SCRAPBOOK WHICH I LEAFED THROUGH, THERE WAS A SHORT CLIPPING WHICH READ: I, IVAN SERGEYEVICH KACHALIN, AND (THE NAME OF ANOTHER INVENTOR FOLLOWED) MADE A DISCOVERY, A METHOD OF INDUCING ARTIFICIAL SLEEP AT A DISTANCE BY MEANS OF RADIO WAVES, IN THE SOVIET UNION. GENERAL COLONEL OF AVIATION VLADIMIR NIKITOVICH ABRAMOV RENDERED PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE IN FORMALIZING THIS DISCOVERY. MARSHAL OF AVIATION YEVGENIY YAKOVLEVICH SAVITSKIY SUPERVISED THIS WORK. DOCUMENTS STATE THAT A PAPER BY THE AUTHORS OF AN INVENTION, THE ACTION OF MODULATED ELECTRIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES ON BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, WAS PRESENTED AT THE BIOELECTRONICS LABORATORY OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES' INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS (IRE). IN 1973, THE FIRST RADIOSON (RADIOSLEEP) UNIT WAS DEVELOPED AT MILITARY UNIT 71592 OF THE CITY OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND PRELIMINARY TRIALS WERE CONDUCTED, ETC. THIS REPORT BEARS THE SEAL OF AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTE AND SIGNATURES, INCLUDING THOSE OF ACADEMICIAN YU. KOBZAREV AND DOCTOR OF SCIENCES E GODIK. AND, BY THE WAY, THE BLOCK DIAGRAM OF THE RADIOSON UNIT INCLUDES THE SAME MICROWAVE GENERATOR WHOSE PULSES, ACCORDING TO G. SHCHELKUNOV, CAN ALSO EVOKE ACOUSTIC VIBRATIONS IN THE BRAIN. WE WERE ABLE TO MEET WITH A SECOND INVENTOR. IVAN ANTONOVICH (HE REQUESTED THAT HIS LAST NAME NOT BE USED), AN ASSOCIATE OF AN INSTITUTE OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SAID YES, WE HAVE UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 2 Approved For Release 2000/08/09 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600450002-1 * * SG1J *Approved Oor Ftelease*ldod/OA A~SIA,;qbp*gd'-06752kobotob4tobo1-I * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SEQUENCE NR: CSB92534204 USER- ID: 16334-92AUG13/09.52.42/AO1 DEVELOPED THE RADIOSON UNIT AND HAVE CONDUCTED NOT JUST ONE, BUT SEVERAL SUCCESSFUL TESTS BOTH ON OURSELVES AND ON VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. BUT PROLONGED CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COMMITTEE ON INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES DIDN'T PRODUCE ANY RESULTS. THEY DEFERRED CONSIDERATION OF OUR CLAIM, WHICH WAS REGISTERED AS EARLY AS 1974, UNDER A TOTALLY UNCONVINCING PRETEXT. PERHAPS, BECAUSE SUCH DEVICES ALREADY EXISTED? NO, AT THAT TIME, THIS WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION. WE GAVE SOME REPORTS AT VARIOUS INSTITUTES, INCLUDING IRE IN 1982. SAVITSKIY ARRANGED A MEETING FOR US WITH SPECIALISTS OF A MILITARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE. THEY LISTENED WITH INTEREST, BUT EVERYTHING DISAPPEARED AS INTO A MORASS, ETC. THE TOTAL INDIRECT EVIDENCE MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO CONCLUDE: PSI WEAPONS ARE TECHNICALLY ENTIRELY FEASIBLE, PROTOTYPES OF THEM WERE TESTED AS EARLY AS THE 1970(5) AND 1980(S), AND THIS MEANS THAT THEY MAY ALSO EXIST NOW. PFN INFORMATION: PART 001 RELATES: GENNADIY PETROVICH SHCHELKUNOV IS A MEMBER OF NPO ISTOK. PERSON: SHCHELKUNOV, GENNADIY PETROVICH PERS CTY: USSR (UR) FACILITY: NPO ISTOK FACL CTY: USSR (UR) RELATES: YU KOBZAREV AND E GODIK ARE MEMBERS OF IRE (AN SSSR). PERSON: KOBZAREV, YU PROTITLE: ACADEMICIAN PERS CTY: USSR (UR) PERSON: GODIK, E PROTITLE: DOCTOR PERS CTY: USSR (UR) FACILITY: IRE SUPERIOR: AN SSSR FACL CTY: USSR (UR) FSUBORD: FACILITY SUBORDINATION DATA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UNCLASSIFIED PAGE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Approved For Release 2000/08/09 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600450002-1 Approved for l elease 2`00/0 A q 96-00792R000600450002-1 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SEQUENCE NR: CSB92534204 USER ID: 16334-92AUG13/09.52.42/A01 PFN INFORMATION: PART 003 SG1J RELATES: THE RADIOSON RADIO SLEEP UNIT WAS TESTED AND DEVELOPED BY IVAN ANTONOVICH SNU. IVAN ANTONOVICH SNU IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN SSSR. AN SSSR IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RADIOSON RADIO SLEEP UNIT. PERSON: SNU, IVAN ANTONOVICH PERS CTY: USSR (UR) FACILITY: AN SSSR FACL CTY: USSR (UR) NOMN: RADIOSON RADIO SLEEP UNIT NOMN CTY: USSR (UR) PFN INFORMATION: PART 004 IVAN SERGEYEVICH KACHALIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH IRE (AN SSSR). PERSON: KACHALIN, IVAN SERGEYEVICH PROTITLE: INVENTOR PERS CTY: USSR (UR) FACILITY: IRE SUPERIOR: AN SSSR SUBORD: LAB BIOELEKTRONIKI FACL CTY: USSR (UR) FSUBORD: FACILITY SUBORDINATION DATA PFN INFORMATION: PART 005 NIKOLAY IVANOVICH ANISIMOV IS ASSOCIATED WITH MEZHDUNARODNYY NEZAVISIMYY TSENTR PO PSIKHIATRII. PERSON: ANISIMOV, NIKOLAY IVANOVICH PERS CTY: USSR (UR) PERS LOC: NOVOSIBIRSK FACILITY: MEZHDUNARODNYY NEZAVISIMYY TSENTR PO PSIKHIATRII FACL CTY: USSR (UR) PFN INFORMATION: PART 006 PERSON: ABRAMOV, VLADIMIR NIKITOVICH * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 4 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Approved For Release 2000/08/09 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600450002-1 * A lSroved or F "elease*2d0d/0b jt so~g-W94-Ob7J2*tZ600*60*04*50*00*2-* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SEQUENCE NR: PROTITLE: PERS CTY: PERSON: PROTITLE: PERS CTY: PERSDATA: PERSON: PROTITLE: PERS CTY: CSB92534204 USER ID: 16334-92AUG13/09.52.42/A01 COLONEL GENERAL USSR (UR) SG1J SAVITSKIY, YEVGENIY YAKOVLEVICH HERO SOVIET UNION, AIR MARSHAL USSR (UR) AWARD DATA KOBETS, FNU GENERAL USSR (UR) PFN INFORMATION: PART 007 RELATES: KOMITET PO DELAM IZOBRETENIY I OTKRYTIY IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RADIOSON RADIO SLEEP UNIT. THE RADIOSON RADIO SLEEP UNIT WAS DEVELOPED AT VOYSKOVAYA CHAST 71592. FACILITY: KOMITET PO DELAM IZOBRETENIY I OTKRYTIY FACL CTY: USSR (UR) FACILITY: VOYSKOVAYA CHAST 71592 FACL CTY: USSR (UR) FACL LOC: NOVOSIBIRSK NOMN CTY: USSR (UR) NOMN CTY: USSR (UR) PFN INFORMATION: PART 008 FACILITY: KOMITET GOSUDARSTVENNOY BEZOPASNOSTI FACL CTY: USSR (UR) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 5 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Approved For Release 2000/08/09 CIA-RDP96-00792R000600450002-1