THE INVISIBLE THIRD WORLD WAR

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The Invisible Third Worlawar
by Walter H. Bowart and Richard Sutton
Editor's note: Walter Bowart's Opera-
tion Mind Control caused a furor in the
United States intelligence commun-
ity when it was first published in
1975. Bowart's research on the sub-
ject of. government agency involve-
ment in dangerous and often life-
threatening human experimentation
on unwitting citizens paved the way
for a new era in exposure of such
unconstitutional' practices. As a re-
sult, many such experiments were
halted, and the responsible govern-
ment agencies were forced to release
information which had previously
been hidden from the general public.
Bowart continued his research into
the horrifying, mind-crippling effects
of government exploitation of its own
citizens in mind control experimenta-
tion. What he uncovered is more
incredible than any science fiction
novel.
In the as-yet unpublished manu-
script, The Invisible Third World War,
Bowart and co-author Richard Sut-
ton reveal that the world is already
locked in deadly, invisible warfare,
fighting for the ultimate prize - the
mind of man.
When the first atomic bomb was
detonated at Alamogordo, New Mex-
ico, in 1944, the warriors of the mod-
ern world experienced a flath,of in-
sight that changed the nature of war
forever. The men who built the bomb
realized that civilian populations were
now unavoidable targets, and that
conventional war had now become a
dangerous trigger which could cata-
lyze an earth-destroying retaliation
with nuclear weapons.
Such old-fashioned methods of war-
fare as gunpowder, employed by revo-
lutionaries fighting protracted con-
flicts, were suddenly perceived as
potential threats which could ignite
the nuclear holocaust.
The only safe way to wage war, the
warriors realized, was to wage it
silently.
Invisible Warfare - or IW, as it
came to be known - became a
necessity.
By the end of World War II, IW
research had begun in earnest, and in
the ensuing decades, modern war-
riors developed a number of insidious
methods of subduing enemy popula-
tions without their ever knowing
that a war had even begun.
Secret, invisible weapons now pose
a more ominous threat to life than
even thermonuclear holocaust. Not
only have these weapons been devel-
oped without the knowledge of their
intended victims, but, worse, they
cannot even be detected at the very
moment they are murdering or rob-
otizing civilian populations.
Only if the veil of secrecy is lifted
will the free people of the world have
any hope of surviving long enough to
liberate themselves from the bleak,
unlivable future promised by the tech-
nology of Invisible War.
Chemical and Biological Warfare
The Secret Plagues
Governments do experiment on
their own citizens.
In the Soviet Union, the victims
never get a chance to talk about it.
But in a supposedly free society - if
they are left in good enough shape to
remember that they have been vic-
timized - citizens can not only talk
about it, they can even sue their
government.
A wide range of Invisible Warfare
experiments conducted on unwitting
citizens by the United States govern-
ment has already been exposed.
In a number of experiments, a secret
CIA-Army team infected Americans
with deadly germs from 1949 to 1969.
Equipped with nasal filters and other
protective gear, these clandestine
agents targeted civilian populations
in Hawaii, Alaska, New York, Florida
and California with experimental bio-
logical weapons.
Using trick suitcases and a 1954
Mercury equipped with dual mufflers
and extended tailpipes, the spooks
cast their clouds of plague along four
New York City turnpikes and through
the commuter-choked Lincoln and
Holland tunnels.
Attacks on Florida were followed
by an epidemic of whooping cough
in which 12 persons died.
In 1950, a secret biological warfare
weapon launched from a Navy vessel
blanketed San Francisco Bay. Thirty
years later, on learning of the exper-
iment, victims responded with angry
lawsuits against the government.
Government agents have injected
thousands of unsuspecting Americans
with germs such as syphilis, and sim-
ilar incidents have occurred in Britain
and the Soviet Union.
Now that formerly secret biologi-
cal warfare documents have been
released after nearly 30 years, at least
part of the grisly story can be told.
What we can learn from the docu-
ments which the government is will-
ing to release is just the tip of the
invisible iceberg. The fact that inno-
cent civilians have been victimized by
their own governments, however,
makes clear the threat posed by
today's invisible technologies of war.
Microbiological Holocaust
WarriorsJiave been busy develop-
ing biological warfare weapons since
the prehi'storic days, when shamans
first poisoned their enemies.
The memory of the political use of
disease during the Crusades and the
Inquisition may have been too fresh
in Hitler's mind to allow him to un-
leash the vast arsenal amassed by
Nazi scientists.
The Japanese, however, had no
such compunctions. After World War
II, germ warfare trials were held
which convicted a number of their
war criminals. Those trials, even more
sensational than the Nuremberg trials,
got little attention from the press of
the day.
Biological warfare was next used
during the Korean War, and then it
was used in Vietnam.
Perhaps the most hideous story is
that of the leakage of anthrax germs
from weapons in the remote, secret
city of Semipalatinsk in the Soviet
Union. There, just a few years ago,
hundreds died in horrible agony from
anthrax germs created for the pur-
pose of biological warfare.
Current genetic developments in
what is called "Recombinant DNA"
threaten to unleash mutant biological
warfare strains from which the world
may never recover. Despite an inter-
national treaty forbidding the use of
biological warfare, some nations today
are cheating, using it anyway. Accord-
ing to recently released Pentagon
documents, the Soviets may well have
used both chemical and biological war-
fare weapons in Afghanistan.
Rocky Mountain Plague
When the news of secret, leaking
Army "Weteye" nerve gas canisters
in Denver, Colorado, was released, it
sent shivers through the citizens of
the Mile High City. Would Denver be
America's first Semipalatinsk?
A controversy over how to dispose
of the nerve gas bombs has raged
over the past few years in Utah and
Colorado.
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The U.S. government wanted to
ship the bombs to a remote location in
Utah, since the task of neutralizing
the bombs seemed impossible. The
government announced that they
would load the bombs on airplanes
and fly them from Denver to the
remote Utah location.
No one wanted leaking bombs flown
over the countryside, however, and a
loud protest arose. Today, those nerve
gas bombs sit in a storage depot near
busy Stapleton International Airport
in Denver, oozing their toxic con-
tents while legislators of Colorado
and Utah battle Pentagon bureaucrats
over the life-and-death question of
what to do with unwanted nerve
gas.
lawing germ and nerve gas weapons.
Chemical warfare development
overlaps that of biological warfare
and the growth of the new science of
genetic engineering, which poses an
even greater danger through its in-
visibility than does well-known and
already-predicted nuclear holocaust.
Mind Control
The CIA-Nazi Connection
Clandestine wizards of the "Cold
War" have searched for new technol-
ogy to forcibly control the human
mind for more than 40 years.
At the close of World War 11, when
the leaders of Nazi and U.S. intelli-
gence agencies joined forces to con-
struct an allied intelligence network,
the Nazi spy chief Reinhard Gehlen,
the OSS's William Donovan, and the
FBI's J. Edgar Hoover all conspired to
develop mind control weapons.
Hoover and Donovan, like their
Nazi counterparts, commissioned lead-
ing psychiatrists in their nation to
come up with an automaton-making
technology.
Nazi research into mind control,
which began during the 1920s at the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, inspired the
concentration camp atrocities of the
infamous Josef Mengele and others.
American research in the years fol-
lowing World War 11 victimized con-
valescing World War 11 veterans.
The Nazi inspiration for the CIA's
mind control operations has recently
been documented with the declassifi-
cation of a project code-named Paper-
clip.
Paperclip evolved into a series of
CIA projects using unsuspecting ci-
vilian guinea pigs- - these included
such code names as Bluebird, Arti-
choke, Midnight Climax, and the
now-infamous MKULTRA. Docu-
ments related to these projects have
revealed that America's most respect-
ed, influential psychiatrists conspired
to unleash mind control weapons on
unsuspecting Americans - and suc-
ceeded.
American Frankenstein
Since the days of ancient China's
legendary warlord, Sun Tzu, mind
control has been the most sought-
after military weapon. Mind control
techniques were developed and re-
fined through the succeeding civiliza-
tions of India, China, Egypt, the May-
an Empire, Greece, Rome, Medieval
Europe, Nazi Germany, Soviet Rus-
sia, Red China, and, finally, the Unit-
ed States.
Some of the more widely used
methods of mind control have in-
cluded sexual manipulation, drug-
hypnosis, behavior modification, and
assorted other methods which con-
trol an individual's freedom of
thought.
L
Wizards of Death
Like biological warfare, chemical
warfare was first developed in ancient
times, and it has been used in World
Wars I and 11, in the Korean War, and
in Vietnam.
Disguised as a "herbicide" during
Vietnam, the chemical warfare weap-
on Agent Orange, for example, poi-
soned thousands of American GIs.
Today, those GIs suffer from the
aftereffects of the weapon, unable to
receive adequate compensation from Uncle
Sam, who continues to minimize the
dangers of Agent Orange.
In 1980, the Soviet Union attacked
Afghan rebels with deadly ? man."
nerve gas, mocking every trfuty on
the books.
According to It. Gen. Nikolai Cher-
nov, the Soviets equip every division
of the Army with TMS-65decontam-
inant trucks. Soviet-led Warsaw Pact
troops regularly conduct nerve gas
war games using "live" weapons and
deploying 100,000 chemical and bio-
logical warfare specialist troops.
The United States maintains three
million convulsion-causing "sarin"
artillery shells, several thousand "sar-
in" bombs, and hundreds of thou-
sands of gas land mines. Nerve gas
weapons comprise two-thirds of the
150,000 tons of poison gas in the
American arsenal.
As they did with biological warfare,
the CIA tested chemical warfare
weapons on U.S. citizens, attacking
hundreds of unsuspecting GIs with
BZ, a hallucinogen 100 times more
powerful than LSD. It was difficult
for the BZ victims to complain of
aftereffects of the tests, however,
since BZ left the victims with amnesia.
CIA intelligence expert John Stock-
well resigned in horror after revela-
tions of chemical warfare atrocities
by the agency. Despite the protests of
Stockwell and other men of con-
science, a powerful lobby today de-
mands repudiation of all treaties out-
Despite earlier denials, the CIA did
successfully brainwash Americans.
Psychiatry
Institutional psychiatry has become
an instrument of civilian control of
the modern state.
Mind control police tactics have
completely replaced the criminal jus-
tice system in the Soviet Union. Be-
hind the Iron Curtain, where intoler-
able conditions would otherwise spark
revolt, psychiatric techniques have
turned the Soviet population into a
herd of terrified and apathetic autom-
atons, with high technology Soviet
mind control employed against politi-
cal dissidents to silence them perma-
nently. .
In the United States, the mental
health industry has been operating
for many years on Soviet-type plans
to replace the American justice sys-
tem with mind control operations.
Electromagnetic Mind Control
The Moscow Signal
Protected by the general public's
unwillingness to believe that such
things can actually happen, Soviet
forces have been beaming invisible
microwave radiation at Americans
for more than 20 years, mysteriously
triggering cancer, heart problems, cat-
aracts, and emotional stress.
The bizarre Soviet zapping of the
U.S. embassy in Moscow, an incident
which has been known as "the Mos-
cow Signal," may well have been the
opening volley of the Invisible War of
electromagnetic weaponry.
In 1962, while sweeping the em-
bassy for bugs, American security
personnel detected a microwave beam
aimed straight at the embassy. Nat-
urally, the Pentagon and the intelli-
gence community became alarmed at
the possibility of neurological and
behavioral effects on diplomatic per-
sonnel.
While keeping the knowledge of
the microwave beam secret from the
suffering embassy staff for 12 years,
the CIA launched a project code-
named Pandora, which was aimed at
understanding the Soviet's motives
for the microwave attack.
Pandora personnel discovered that
the Soviets had been conducting ex-
tensive microwave research opera-
tions for years, and that they had
concentrated their studies on the
emotional and mental effects of mi-
crowaves.
By the summer of 1965, a Pentagon-
affiliated think tank called the Insti-
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tute for Defense Analysis convened a
special task force to replicate Soviet
experiments and analyze the problem.
The Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) then began
experimenting on rhesus monkeys
with microwaves at Walter Reed Army
Research Institute. The results are
still classified Top Secret, but from
recent duplicate studies we learn that
microwaves cause profound effects
on the central nervous system and
change behavior of rhesus monkeys.
At a summit meeting at Glassboro,
New Jersey, during June 1967, Presi-
dent Lyndon Johnson asked Soviet
Premier Aleksei Kosygin to halt the
Moscow Signal.
In 1969, leading microwave scient-
ists gathered at the University of
Virginia Medical College at Richmond
for a three-day symposium on Biolog-
ical Effects and Health Implications of
Microwave Radiation.
Microwave authority Dr. Karel
Marha of Czechoslovakia declared
that microwave bioeffects included
pains in the head and eyes, fatigue
and overall weakness, dizziness and
vertigo, poor night sleep, irritability,
fear, hypochondria, tension, depres-
sion, inhibition of intellectual func-
tions, and decreased memory.
Yet, most of those at the sympo-
sium ignored the dangers of human
bioeffects.
Research biophysicist Dr. Allen H.
Frey was more than interested, how-
ever. Frey had determined that hu-
mans could actually hear pulsed mi-
crowaves at frequencies ranging from
300 to 3,000 megahertz.
The News Starts to Leak
It was not until syndicated colum-
nist Jack Anderson broke the "Mos-
cow Signal" story in 1972 that the
public began to learn the truth.
Several months after Anderson's
microwave column ran, the Soviets
accused the U.S. of irradiating chess
wizard Boris Spaasky with electronic
devices, causing him to lose a cham-
pionship match to Bobby Fischer.
On February 7, 1976, The Los Angeles
Times quoted U.S. Ambassador Wal-
ter J. Stoessel Jr. as telling his staff
that the microwaves could cause leu-
kemia, skin cancer, cataracts, and var-
ious forms of emotional illness. Stoes-
sel himself was reportedly suffering
from a mysterious illness resembling
leukemia, which caused nausea and
bleeding in the eyes. Two of his
predecessors at the embassy died of
cancer.
According to National Security Ad-
visor Zbigniew Brzezhinski, U.S. em-
bassy personnel in Moscow suffer
the highest cancer rate in the world.
Today, despite a brief respite, the
bombardment of the embassy con-
tinues, while much of the evidence
gathered by U.S. intelligence agen-
cies remains classified.
However, raising the lid on Project
Pandora has uncovered a box full of
secrets about microwave effects.
The Eugene Wavelength
"A powerful radio signal that may
be affecting human health has been
monitored in several Eugene locations
and in the air three thousand feet
above the city," proclaimed The Eugene
Register-Guard on March 26, 1978. "The
source of the radio signal is unknown."
Thus did Eugene, Oregon, become
the first major population center to
suffer the effects of electromagnetic
biohazards.
Shortly before the Register-Guard
printed the story, a middle-aged Eu-
gene man named Walter Deposkey
came down with symptoms remark-
ably similar to those attributed to
microwave sickness.
He noted a strange vibration ema-
nating from within his home. He
heard voices. He could not sleep. He
suffered burning of his cornea.
University of Oregon industrial
hpgienjst Marshall van Ert, called
upon to investigate Deposkey's com-
plaints, found that he suffered the
same symptoms while in the man's
home. Disturbed, van Ert recruited
several local engineers to investigate.
The engineers measured an unusual
radio signal which they determined
to be capable of producing potential
biohazards.
After unsuccessfully dogging pub-
lic health agencies to investigate the
matter further, van Ert broke the
story in the papers.
The Eugene Signal was described
as a radio frequency pulse at 4.75
megahertz. It was recorded within at
least two local homes and at 3,000
feet above the city. The signal's
strength was rated at 500,000 watts
- 10times the Federal Communica-
tions Commission (FCC) radio li-
censed limit. The signal extended as
far away as the next town, Corvallis.
After receiving 150 documented
complaints about the signal, Gover-
nor Bob Straub, Senator Mark Hat-
field, and Congressman Jim Weaver
were prompted to demand an Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency (EPA)
investigation.
A data analysis by the State Health
Department's Radiation Control Sec-
tion determined that there was "prob-
able cause" linking the complaints to
the strange frequency.
Said Clifford Shrock, a Textronix,
Inc. radio frequency analyst who had
written electronics manuals for the
CIA and the National Security Agency
(NSA), "I was surprised. I'd ~er
seen anything like it before."
Reactions to the story flooded in
from around the world. Calls came in
from people who had similar stories
to tell about their own distant areas.
Several calls came in from technicians
offering their hypotheses about the
signal, suggesting a possible link to
secret weapons radiation.
The people of Eugene began to
learn about Electromagnetic Radia-
tion (EMR) biohazards in a hurry.
No one, however, could get to the
bottom of Eugene's problem. The
FCC's Enforcement Division assistant
chief, Richard Smith, flatly attributed
the frequency to a naval transmitter
at Dixon, California, nicknamed the
"Dixon Duck."
Van Ert and others disputed this
conclusion.
The Navy denied that the Dixon
Duck was responsible.
When the EPA technicians finally
arrived, however, they proclaimed
that the mysterious signal did not
exist at all.
Van Ert, Shrock and others who
had felt the signal and measured it
strongly disagreed with them.
But the EPA investigators held a
press conference at which they dis-
credited the reports of the strange
Eugene Signal and promptly returned
to their Las Vegas headquarters,
where they refused to speak to
reporters.
After this, the investigation folded
altogether.
The Eugene Signal remains an offi-
cial mystery.
Although the people of Eugene
didn't know it, both the U.S. and
Soviet military had been working for
years to perfect the use of electro-
magnetic frequencies as lethal psy-
chological weapons.
Similar symptoms reported in such
places as Timmons and Kirkland Lake
in Canada were traced to a notorious
Soviet radio broadcast dubbed by ama-
teur radio operators "the woodpecker."
These effects bear a strong resem-
blance to the biohazards inherent in
invisible weapons like the Electro-
magnetic Pulse (EMP) under devel-
opment by the Pentagon.
"The Woodpecker"
On October 14, 1976, radio com-
munications throughout the globe
were disrupted by powerful radio
waves emanating from the Soviet
Union. The broadcasts appeared irreg-
ularly and varied between very high
and very low frequencies.
When the U.S., Canada, Great Brit-
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ain and the Scandinavian countries
protested the broadcast, the Soviets
apologized, blaming the disturbance
on "experiments."
After this, the nature of the wave-
lengths changed, and huge electro-
magnetic standing waves formed, thou-
sands of miles long, penetrating the
earth and extending into the iono-
sphere.
Because of its characteristic sound,
the signal was dubbed "the wood-
pecker." The sound which ham radio
operators heard all over the world
sounded like the tapping of a pencil
on a table at between eight and four-
teen times a second.
The wavelength was traced to
alleged experiments in the Soviet cit-
ies of Riga and Gomel. The standing
waves accompanying these experi-
ments stretched down both coasts of
North America and along the Eastern
frontier of the Soviet Union.
"The woodpecker" has been blamed
for subsequent shifts in weather pat-
terns resulting from altered trade
winds. The change of winds created a
drought in the western United States,
with severe effects on farming and
the U.S. economy.
Several agencies fear that such stand-
ing waves might well have caused the
disintegration of ships - including
oil tankers - in the Atlantic.
But the potential effect of these
standing waves on human beings is
cause for much greater concern.
Just as the human body's nervous
system operates electromagnetically,
so the earth has an electromagneto-
sphere which, scientists claim, can be
altered to produce dramatic weather
shifts.
In fact, the earth's ionosphere oscil-
lates at approximately the same fre-
quency as human brain waves, mak-
ing it a perfect "carrier" off of which
electromagnetic radiations - in the
brain wave range - can be bounced
without any change of frequency.
The relationship between the elec-
tromagnetosphere and the electro-
magnetic basis of the human body
can be exploited as a strategic
weapon.
Everyone has experienced mental
and emotional shifts during changes
of weather. Imagine the power open
to those who, by flicking a switch,
could control the earth's atmosphere
and change not only the weather but
the brainwaves of entire populations.
Both the U.S. and Soviet govern-
ments know that a strong pattern
exists correlating geophysical phe-
nomena and political disturbances,
health, and mood swings. For these
reasons "the woodpecker" signal a-
larmed the U.S. intelligence com-
munity.
Operation Mind Control went out of
print" almost as soon as it appeared in the
bookstores. Not only did this phenomenon
happen in the U.S., it happened to editions
published in the United Kingdom, France,
Holland and Japan as well. Photocopies of
Operation Mind Control can be obtained
for $17.00 from Aries Books, P.O. Box
1107, Aptos, California 9500'1.
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