| I. |
In the past the U.S. Federal Government engaged in
unethical and involuntary human experimentation for the development of
technologies thought critical to U.S. national security.
| A. |
This occurred during the Cold
War. |
| B. |
The U.S. Federal Government continued to conduct
unethical and involuntary human experiments even after the Cold War
was over. |
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| II. |
Members of the U.S. Congress have publicly stated that
current safeguards in U.S. federal law and U.S. federal policies do not
provide sufficient protection for human research subjects and do not
prohibit involuntary human research. Although legislation has been
introduced to correct these problems, the legislation has not been
ratified. These problems continue to exist.
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| III. |
During the Cold War, the U.S. Federal Government
conducted research into behavioral control. It was judged to be critical
to U.S. national security that the U.S. acquire capabilities in this area,
in order to maintain parity with, and to develop counter-measures against,
believed advances that had been made in this field by the USSR and China.
It was thought to be impossible to make substantial progress in behavioral
control research without using unwitting human test subjects. The agency
conducting the research justified the ethical and legal violations
involved in using unwitting human test subjects by the impossibility of
otherwise making progress and by the critical importance the sought after
capabilities had to U.S. national security.
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| IV. |
The U.S. Federal Government is again conducting research
into behavioral control. In this current research, bio-effects of EM
fields and beamed energy are used to directly affect the central nervous
system, with the goal of influencing human behavior.
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| V. |
As with past behavioral control research, there are
indications that acquiring capabilities to influence human behavior using
the bio-effects of EM fields and beamed energy is considered critically
important to U.S. national security:
| A. |
As stated in ‘IV.’ above, the U.S. Federal
Government is currently conducting research in this
area. |
| B. |
Former U.S. defense department officials have
publicly stated that behavioral control technologies based on
bio-effects of EM fields and beamed energy are of potentially
revolutionary military importance. |
| C. |
Research efforts by competing foreign powers in
applying bio-effects of EM fields and beamed energy to influencing
human behavior have been reported in the U.S. news media with alarm,
including in recent years. |
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| VI. |
Currently, as in the past, it is hard to see how
research into obtaining behavioral control in unwitting or uncooperative
targets can be conducted using informed and consenting human test
subjects.
This must be combined with the past history of the
U.S. Federal Government of conducting unethical and involuntary human
research, as well as with the lack of sufficient protection for human
research subjects in U.S. federal law and policies.
Therefore, a considerable probability exists that
national security needs are again being cited to justify the use of
unwitting and involuntary human test subjects in behavioral control
research.
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| VII. |
Additional factors support the possibility that
unethical and involuntary human subject research is currently taking place
in the U.S. in support of non-lethal weapons and behavioral control
research:
| A. |
The World Organization Against Torture, in its
1998 report "Torture in the United States", stated allegations of
these unethical human research procedures being made by United
States activist groups are credible enough that they should not be
dismissed without an impartial investigation. |
| B. |
A number of experts have stated they believe it is
possible that such involuntary human research is currently being
done in the U.S. |
| C. |
The CNN documentary TV program "American Edge",
shown on June 18, 1997, reported that the non-profit group CAHRA
(Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse) networks with over 500 alleged
victims, and that other groups say thousands are
targeted. |
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