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From: wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Human jamming...
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 13:34:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 13:34:25 1985
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> Is it possible to direct radio waves towards a particular
> location some distance away, in order to affect the behavior
> of a person at that location? Is any research done on
> questions like this? I would expect the Soviets would
> have experimented with this kind of thing ...
>    -Tom (tedrick@berkeley)

	If you expect the Soviets would do research on using radio
	against humans, you should also expect that the Americans
	(you know, US) would do the same research.

	I worked for a company that did a number of military
	contracts (mostly electronic counter-measures to protect
	planes from missile attack).  One of my coworkers with
	Secret clearance mentioned experiments to see if humans
	could be jammed by radio.  He didn't go as far as saying
	what the experiments showed but I got the impression that
	there was no useful effect.

	One sure way of effecting humans at a distance is to fry
	them with microwaves... either with a big radar or a
	high power maser.  The costal early warning systems (that
	track planes hundreds of miles away) are designed to send
	radar pulses at small private planes only every tenth scan 
	to keep from cooking the pilot.  Someone at Raytheon was 
	telling me about a missile control system that would bounce a
	powerful microwave source off a target to give the missiles
	something to home in on.  He said that even if the 
	missiles missed, the pilot would be cooked (probably an
	exaggeration... but maybe not).

		-John A. Wasser

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