Microwave Weapons Are Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers

Americans live under constant propaganda from their own government, deployed by their own mainstream newspapers and TV media. Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' is an eye opening look into the continuous war/regime change drum that's beating inside the USA.

This is just more the same, NY Times writing anti-Cuban articles as propaganda, with no evidence to back up their nonsense claims.

«In a mid-western university town of over 50,000 population, a strange case of "gas poisoning" occurred on a Wednesday morning early in March, 1972. Approximately thirty-five female workers at the University's data processing center were exposed to a mysterious gas "from an unknown source" that caused dizziness, vomiting, nausea, and fainting among a number of the employees. So severe were the symptoms that 10 of the workers were taken to the University's Medical Center for emergency treatment; all of the employees at the Data Center were evacuated.

The Center was temporarily closed allowing for a group of environmental specialists to examine the building. During the remainder of that day and into the night, samples of the air obtained from the building were tested. Extensive blood and urine tests of affected workers were conducted in order to locate traces of the noxious "gas." Although traces of the substance could not 'be found, several workers again became ill upon returning to work Thursday morning. The Data Center was closed and evacuated for the second time. Additional environmental ;and physiological tests were conducted; still no physical reason for the episode could be located.

When the Center resumed operation on Friday a group of specialists from the University met with the workers to explain that they thought an "atmospheric inversion" was the cause of their symptoms. This explanation was calculated to reduce the high level of anxiety that had surrounded the activities of the two previous days; the explanation seemed to meet its objective. The incident was "closed" as far as both the workers and the scientists were concerned despite the fact that traditional biomedical explanations had failed to explain the events.»

See more at https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/2136925

"A score in the bottom 5% would typically mean there is a problem. But Shura pointed out that the diplomats were found to be “impaired” if they scored in the bottom 40% in any one of the tests. In their letter, the doctors said it was “inappropriate” to conclude that any of the patients were impaired. "

If someone were trying to sour US-Cuban relations, then it would make sense that only Americans in Cuba were targeted.

It seems highly unlikely that 21 diplomats with the same symptoms (plus those in China) were afflicted with an innocuous medical condition. None of the doctors who wrote letters of dissent physically examined the patients. Though the specific nature of the cause may be up for debate, I highly doubt there was no adversary here.

> For all helmets, we noticed a 30 db __amplification__ at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz, regardless of the position of the antenna on the cranium. In addition, all helmets exhibited a marked 20 db attenuation at around 1.5 Ghz, with no significant attenuation beyond 10 db anywhere else.

Full electromagnetic shielding of the entire building perhaps? Like those at the NSA headquarter. It should give you a heavy attenuation on the microwave frequency.

BTW, why don't the intelligence agencies install a software-defined radio in suspected US embassies to log the entire microwave spectrum? It will definitely yield something.

In my limited experience with RF (from ham radio, which includes microwave work though I haven't done any personally) it's very easy to block radio signals even inadvertently, let alone when you really put your mind to it.

They say that some experts in somewhat related field now agree that the previous speculations based on non-evidence might be somewhat plausible. You’re going to need some military grade tin foil hat for that.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant]

IEEE Spectrum did a series of articles on this; I thought the mostly likely explanation was ultrasound jammers and intermodulation distortion. Aka defective gear; which is why the same thing seems to have happened in China as well as Cuba.

In 'Auditory Response to Pulsed Radiofrequency Energy - Elder (2003)'

URL: http://www.beperkdestraling.org/images/stories/Wetenschap/Ti... Auditory_Response_to_Pulsed_radiofrequency_energy.pdf

Two salient points crop up:

1) 'The fundamental frequency of RF induced sounds is independent of the frequency of the radiowaves but dependent upon head dimensions.'

2) 'RF hearing has been reported at frequencies ranging from 2.4 to 10 000 MHz (see Table 1). Although Ingalls [1967] mentioned 10 000 MHz as an effective frequency, other investigators found that lower frequencies (8900 and 9500 MHz) at very high exposure levels did not induce RF sounds

In Table 2 the experimental frequency range appears to have been 900MHz to 3GHz so C-band at 4 – 8 GHz (7.5 – 3.75 cm) may have be a too short a wavelength to elicit the effect. - but ham radio operators should be worried :-)

Like laptops, cellphones not working. Sparks from coke cans. Chocolate bars melting in pockets. I'd think the fire risk would be too great to attempt this in an uncontrolled public space.

>There is a microwave hearing effect that occurs at very low power densities and a skull vibration effect that occurs when very high energies are applied to the head. There is some confusion in the literature because the vibration effect has often been referred to as a microwave hearing effect, but it is not the same phenomena.

And, quoting from a different page:

>In fact, Frey and Hackett said the microwave hearing effect does not occur with millimeter waves (which range from 3 to 300 GHz).

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>"On the other hand, if your millimeter waves have enough energy density, are powerful enough, there are other phenomena where you could cause sort of a concussion kind of effect which could conceivably be heard by bone conduction. It would transfer through skin to bone and bone into the inner ear," Frey said. He said it might be possible to modulate such energy to create the perception of some intelligible sounds. "But off hand, I can't tell you what kind of power levels you might need to do that," he said. Hackett dismissed the idea of transmitting intelligible sounds to the head with MMWs as pure speculation.

Note how the mythbusters episode where they 'busted' that myth seems like an (unintentional) sham:

They used a 9.4 GHz radar dish (courtesy of the DoD) with ultra short impulses spread out over long periods. That fits NEITHER of the above.

Someone, on, OF FUCKING COURSE, /r/conspiracy, quite a while ago, pointed out something related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/77v6t1/reddit_d...

Which points out that the boxspring mattresses used in many Hotels might strongly amplify the ability to induce tissue damage, which would explain this part:

"The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room."

From https://www.apnews.com/697536f065e6470eaa5ccfc35061e7ce

Of course, back then, almost everyone dismissed this. Or did they? (Insert dramatic music here)

Here, some more quotes from Allan H. Frey, via http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32648/...:

>For example, after my colleagues and I published in 1975 that exposure to very weak microwave radiation opens the regulatory interface known as the blood brain barrier (bbb), a critical protection for the brain, the Brooks AFB group selected a contractor to supposedly replicate our experiment. For 2 years, this contractor presented data at scientific conferences stating that microwave radiation had no effect on the bbb. After much pressure from the scientific community, he finally revealed that he had not, in fact, replicated our work. We had injected dye into the femoral vein of lab rats after exposure to microwaves and observed the dye in the brain within 5 minutes. The Brooks contractor had stuck a needle into the animals’ bellies and sprayed the dye onto their intestines. Thus it is no surprise that when he looked at the brain 5 minutes later, he did not see any dye; the dye had yet to make it into the circulatory system.

Some more points:

https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.... From 1975 presumably what Frey refers to in the above paragraph, entitled "NEURAL FUNCTION AND BEHAVIOR: DEFINING THE RELATIONSHIP"

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15368378209040347 here, a review from 1982, very much related to the previous quote, entitled "Microwaves and the Blood-Brain Barrier: A Review"

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/15368378309040355 and here is a letter correcting that review, sort of. Unfortunately, this letter never got cited in the scientific literature, while the above review did.

For more bibliographical information, one might also wish to examine this email by Allen L. Barker from 2002:

https://archive.fo/V3r0Y (THEORETICALLY also available here, but the domain behind this, http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/, is unreachable from large parts of the internet from what I can tell: http://www.bio.net/mm/neur-sci/2002-May/048366.html)

Of course, EVERYTHING surrounding this (but NOT the subject matter ITSELF) involves a hell of a lot of: * conspiracy theory * fringe science (aka protoscience) * pseudoscience

levels of insanity, as you can likely tell from some of the above. This makes it extremely hard to filter through any of this. The EU did a large report on RF safety a while ago:

https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/scientific_co...

If you check it, Frey's papers on this remain oddly absent from it.

Oh and... We could likely find a lot more existing discussion on this, but unfortunately, the emf-bio archives got expunged from ftp://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/usenet/bionet/emf-bio without explanation. If anyone at the University of Indiana wants to go digging into backup tapes, I'd appreciate it.