Pentagon is developing a stun gun

November 8, 2010 2

It sounds incredible and even crazy, but the US military is developing tools that should "degrade the effectiveness of the enemy through chemical effects on the brain." In simple words: to force the enemy to "grow stupid" and to be unable to use the creative potential of the brain in armed or other struggle. At the same time, real experiments, apparently, are beyond the scope of the study of chemical preparations only, and include various types of effects, including remote sensing using directional radiation.

At the end of last month, the 711-wing of the US Air Force Research Laboratory, which deals with human capabilities (711th Human Performance Wing), updated the scientific research competition for the program "Advances in Biological Sciences for Increasing Pilot Performance".

The program is already six years old, and she has spent 49 million dollars on the introduction of advanced advances in neurology and biotechnology in military affairs. Unlike many similar scientific programs of the Pentagon, it concerns the very sensitive areas of brain control and behavior control.

One of the projects of the program, for example, offers the use of "external stimulation technology, so that the pilot can fully concentrate on the performance of aerospace tasks, as well as perceive and process large amounts of operational information." Another proposes the creation of brain sensing technology, so that special forces can isolate those who represent a threat from a crowd of people.

However, among the multitude of such ideas, the strangest and most alarming are projects that offer the use of chemical agents to "reduce productivity and artificially suppress the enemy's cognitive abilities", as well as "develop technologies for predicting, detecting, tracking and correcting intentions and physiological state person anywhere and anytime. "

These statements look incredible, but in fact they do not go beyond the current trends of the American military machine. For years, the US army and intelligence services have been conducting experiments on the manipulation of minds. It is rumored that during the Cold War, the CIA and the military were testing dozens of psychoactive substances on prisoners to find a means of mind control. Recently, work in this direction, most likely only intensified. So, in 2008, Pentagon’s scientific advisers warned that the enemy could develop technologies to “improve their cognitive abilities ... and thus create a threat to US national security.” In turn, the National Research Council and the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense insist on "pharmaceutical tactics" of weakening enemy forces. It is difficult to say what this formulation means: spraying certain drugs over the enemy's territory, introducing "vaccines", changing the chemical structure of the brain with radiation or something else.

In recent months, the Pentagon has begun funding a number of projects to optimize the mental activity of its military personnel, protection from brain injury, a preventive assessment of vulnerability to traumatic stress, and even remote control of brain activity using ultrasound.

One way or another, the United States Air Force warns potential researchers that the projects and theories proposed for the defense program to control behavior require strict secrecy. So, most likely, the public will not know about the specific results of strategic programs.