MOSCOW STILL BEAMING MICROWAVES, U.S. SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120030-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 28, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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~ ~' 'WASHINGTON, June 2T (AP}-The
Russian are still- beaming microwave
The Russians have been~aimingmi=,
rzdietion at the United States Embassy
in Moscow,but tests of Americans who
used to work there have shown no harm-
fal health effects, the. Statb Department
said today: ? _ . _ ~ - ; r~ - _
Dr. Herbert Pollack, a.~ physician "and j
~overnment~-consultant. said, however, l
that about a thud of one group of State
Department employees studied showed a'
slight, apparently- harmless, change in
their blood composition_ ~
'"There have been no medical ill effects
observed in individuals whose .iym-
phecyte taunts have been elevated," Dr.
Pollack said in testimony before a Senate
Commerce subcommittee. `The condition.
disanoears after departure from `ios-'
ctowave radiation at the United States
Embassy since the early I950's, Dr. Pol-
lack said, but in 1915 the signal was in-
tensified and there were fears that the
radiation might reach clearly harmful
levels.~Since then-the beaming has de-
clined. lic~said,. but the-radiation at t'he
embassy', measures above the standard the
Russiansltave setfor themselves as being
safe.; The U.S. standard is many.- times
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