Known as acoustic psycho-correction, the capability to control minds and alter behavior of civilians and soldiers may soon be shared with U.S. military, medical and political officials, according to U.S. and Russian sources.

Pioneered by the government funded Department of Psycho-Correction at the Moscow Medical Academy, acoustic psycho-correction involves the transmission of specific commands via static or white noise bands into the human subconscious without upsetting other intellectual functions. 

Moreover, decades of research and investment of untold millions of rubles in the process of psycho-correction has produced the ability to alter behavior on willing and unwilling subjects, the experts add.

... At least one senior U.S. senator, government intelligence officials and the U.S. Army’s Office for Operations, Plans and Force Development are interested in reviewing the Russian capabilities, U.S. sources said.

... Meanwhile, the U.S. Army’s Armament Research, Development & Engineering Center is conducting a one-year study of acoustic beam technology that may mirror some of the effects reported by the Russians."

... China and Russia, in addition to studying hardware technology, data processing equipment, computer networks and ‘system of systems’ developments, have focused considerable attention on several nontraditional targets of the information weapon, to include the mind.

... This article examines China's psychological warfare and knowledge concepts (including the impact of the information age on China's strategic culture) and ‘new concept’ weapons (variants of nonlethal weapons); and Russia's development of information-psychological operations, reflexive control or ‘intellectual IW’ stratagems and human behavior control mechanisms. 

... Russian IW modelers try to foresee the application and utility of information weapons. They study an information model of the psyche of a person and then attempt to simulate the interaction between people, social groups and other factors. The formation of methods to ensure moral-psychological stability is important to Russian modelers. They want to counter the influence of information weapons that aim to suppress the will to resist, ‘zombify’ the psyche through manipulation and reconfigured thinking, reprogram human behavior and demoralize and psychologically degrade people

... The Russian armed forces are studying a host of unusual subjects, almost all of which center on how information or electronic waves affect the mind. 

... In other words, the Russians are exhaustively exploring what makes the mind tick and how to manage it."

... Lida is reported to change behavior in animals.  

... According to Dr. Adey, who repeatedly visited the USSR, the Soviets have used the machine on people since at least 1960. The machine is technically described as ‘a distant pulse treatment apparatus.’  It generates 40 megahertz radio waves which stimulate the brain's electromagnetic activity at substantially lower frequencies.

Dr. Adey was quoted as saying: ‘Some people theorize that the Soviets may be using an advanced version of the machine clandestinely to seek a change in the behavior in the United States through signals beamed from the USSR.’  No reference was made to the protracted microwave bombardment several years ago of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

... In the U.S. research on direct brain waves has scarcely begun, and the USSR has a lead of approximately 25 years. Once it is matured the new technology will be extraordinarily significant in medicine. It may also have major impacts on communications, intelligence, and psychological operations, and permit deliberate physiological impairment.

The KGB is known to be interested in the program. It is not known whether the U.S. and other governments are trying to determine whether their countries have become targets of clandestine brain wave beamed from the USSR. Nor are there indications that work on countermeasures is being contemplated, except perhaps in the USSR."

... Soviet researchers, studying controlled behavior, have also examined the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans and have applied these techniques against the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. 

... Researchers suggest that certain low-frequency (ELF) emissions possess psychoactive characteristics. These transmissions can be used to induce depression or irritability in a target population. The application of large-scale ELF behavior modification could have horrendous impact."

‘Soviet scientists are fully aware of the biological effects of low-level microwave radiation which might have offensive weapons applications,’ says the report, based on an analysis of experiments conducted in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

According to the study, this research work suggests the potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel applications.

... A copy of the study was provided by the agency to The Associated Press in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act. The Pentagon agency refused to release some portions of the study, saying they remain classified on national security grounds.

The report concluded that Soviet research in this area ‘has great potential for development into a system for disorienting or disrupting the behavior patterns of military or diplomatic personnel. It could be used equally well as an interrogation tool.’

... The report said that along with microwave hearing, the Soviets have also studied various changes in body chemistry and functioning of the brain resulting from exposure to microwaves and other frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum."