The European Parlaiment has a number of reports that address both directly, and hint at, technologies developed by the US military, that fall under the non-lethal catagory, but are based on research into neurological sciences, behavioral manipulation.
The EU Parlaiment has identified HAARP as a system constructed for military purposes, and has asked for disclosure concerning implications that may effect the environment, as well as human organisms. That report is A4-0005/99 linked here: ( see pg. 5 for mention of HAARP and technologies to effect human behavior): http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:1999:128:0092:0096:EN:PDF
From
European Parliament CROWD CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES (An appraisal of technologies for political control)
Final Study Luxembourg, June 2000 PE 168.394/FinSt. (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/publications/studies/19991401a_en.pdf)
- Important for purposes of this writer is the paragraph (found on page 69) using two words, ”psychotronic weapons” (made bold below)
- EU Parliament acknowledges the following, to quote ”Radio Frequency or Directed Energy Weapons that can allegedly manipulate human behaviour in a variety of unusual ways. ( in EU doc linked above/quoted below, pg. 69 )
Source: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/publications/studies/19991401a_en.pdf
QUOTE from pages 68 - 69
6.3.4 Directed Energy Weapons - These weapons have created the most heated debate. Some variants such as isotropic radiators have come on to the market as omni-directional _laser bright_ rounds, where precision targeting is impossible. They are being promoted as cheap dazzle devices against people and optics but little has emerged in the way of technical data. Other more directional lasers have been used as dazzle devices for example the USAF Saber 203 laser dazzle system, prototypes of which were used by the US Marines in Somalia.345 Blinding laser weapons are banned by the blinding laser convention,346 nevertheless, even after this treaty, their use is still being promoted for law enforcement.347 A recent development has been using a UV laser which can ionize the air sufficiently for it to conduct an electric charge. This enables an electric shock to be delivered over some distance to create muscle paralysis or tetanization. 348 A fully working prototype is still some way off but the principle has been successfully tested using a Lumonics Hyper-X 400 excimer laser at the University of California at San Diego.349
Other Directed Energy Weapons are being explored. For example in 1997, Edward Scannel of the US Army Laboratory identified a Vortex Ring Gun which is a combustion Ring Gun creating vortices for impulse or chemical delivery and a range of high powered acoustic technology.350 The literature talks of acoustic bullets, beams and blastwave projectors. Comments on acoustic weapons have suggested they can be tunable radiating a directed energy beam of 90-120 decibels to provide anything from extreme levels of annoyance and distraction through to 140-150 decibels for _strong physical bodily trauma and damage to tissues_ to shockwave levels of more than 170 decibels _producing instantaneous blastwave like trauma_ which could be lethal.351 The current leader in acoustic technology in the US is a small company in Huntington Beach, California called Scientific Applications and Research Associates which is reported to have made vortices which are capable of providing an area denial function.352
However, despite the claims of powerful infra-sound weapons capable of making people sick and causing involuntary defecation, a presentation by Jurgen Altman of the University of Dortmund at the 1999 Jane_s conference, _Fielding Weapons for the New Millennium said such claims were based on Physics not as we know it. In a more detailed technical study Altman provides a tightly argued case for doubting the technical workability of such weapons over longer distances. At shorter distances with explosive driven strong sound blast waves there would be a case for including such weapons within the SIrUS criteria of banning weapons which target a particular aspect of human anatomy.353..
The most controversial _non-lethal_ crowd control and anti-materiel technology proposed by the US are so called Radio Frequency or Directed Energy Weapons that can allegedly manipulate human behaviour in a variety of unusual ways. Some microwave systems have been proposed which can raise body temperature to between 105 to 107 degrees F, to provide a disabling effect in a manner based on the microwave cooker principle. However, the greatest concern is with systems which can directly interact with the human nervous system. There are many reports on so called psychotronic weapons which are beyond the brief of this study but one comment can be made.354 The research undertaken todate both in the US and in Russia can be divided into two related areas: (i) individual mind control and (ii) crowd control. That the US has undertaken a variety of _mind control programmes in the past such as MkULTRA and MkDELTA is a matter of public record and those using electromagnetic radiationsuch as PANDORA have been the focus of researchers in para-politics for many years.355 More recently, authors such as Begich and Roderick have alleged significant breakthroughs in the ability of military high frequency electromagnetic technologies to manipulate human behaviour.356
What is admitted by the military authorities in the US is that research programmes using so called directed energy weapons for anti-personnel and anti-material purposes are proceeding into prototype stages357. The military utility of these weapons is that they provide a tunable or rheostat ability a _need_ that is emerging as part of the new US military intervention doctrine of so called _layered defence._ Thismeans in practice an _onion style_ of risk where anyone coming into contact with the outer shell may be sickened, paralysed. Entering subsequent levels may lead to being physically harmed, disabled or permanently maimed whilst the core of the zone is protected by lethal technology, contact with which is fatal. END QUOTE
source page 68-69 on the following: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/publications/studies/19991401a_en.pdf
