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

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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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