Such Things are Known

Dorothy Burdick
New York: Vantage Press Inc., 1982
1. Prologue
Reading minds at a distance by deciphering the brains magnetic waves has been a project of the
Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA] of the Defense Department for some time. Many
educational and research institutions have contributed to its success with government funding.
Published information indicates that DARPA scientists have learned to identify specific thought
patterns through the interpretation of brain waves. These patterns reveal with up to ninety percent
accuracy whether a person is: (1) puzzled or uncertain, (2) has made a decision, (3) is paying
attention, (4) is observing colors or patterns, or (5) has lost concentration due to fatigue or
boredom.
Thought processes have been linked to the computer through Artificial Intelligence [AI]. The
autocorrelated Cray, which does one hundred million calculations a second, is specifically
designed for problem solving and can carry out biomedical experiments with the computer
simulating the human effects. It takes only fifty billionths of a second for an element of data to
enter and leave its memory.
Using psychological interviewing techniques. AI has come up with programs which lead the
intelligent human to believe that he is talking to another person, when he is actually carrying on a
dialogue with a computer. Properly programmed, computers have the capacity to make
judgments based on previous performance or experience, predict observed behavior, speech
patterns and idiosyncrasies of thought. Computers also convert many types of signals to signs,
codes, sound, music and video. Twenty years were spent by Russell Kirsch at the National
Bureau of Standards Artificial Intelligence Laboratory teaching machines to make judgments
called image pattern recognition. A well-instructed machine can look at variegated images like
brain waves and make decisions concerning them. The marriage of computer programming and
brain mapping has been published. To accomplish the wiring and plotting of the functions of the
human brain was an incredibly complex task that could only have been accomplished by the
invention of the computer itself.
It is known that enough work has been done with large computers and wave averaging on the
transmission of neural messages in the brain so that neural activity associated with the word no
and the word yes can be identified whether it is said aloud or not. Near the speech center in the
brain is an area that prepares neural messages that drive the muscles associated with speech.
Actions of the tongue and mouth and other muscles involved in speech are quite different for
these two words. The patterns of nerve signals that go out to make these two words are also
unalike. The patterns are formed long before words reach the vocalizing level, and can be read
and interpreted in advance of speech by a computer. Pattern recognition computers will read an
answer even in a completely uncooperative subject, or specifically read his mind if the thought is
mentally put into unspoken words.
Speech is a motor activity which creates electrical signals traveling along neurons. With a
computer, these weak signals can be read at a distance by a superconducting quantum
interference device (SQUID), which almost completely eliminates environmental noise while
magnifying the signal one thousand times over that read by previous technology.
To read the mind, wave analyzers must deal with the complex oscillations of the brain in
somewhat the same way that a prism separates the colors of a beam of light. The components of
this complex wave are isolated by electronic circuits tuned to several frequencies. Statistical
averages can be determined from many readings of the mind under investigation. From this
information its versatility and repertoire of adaptive stratagems can be assessed and plotted. This
frequency analysis of tactics can now be instantly known and evaluated by computer faster than
men can think.
Optical and electronic subsystems for spacecraft and artificial intelligence have been under
development since 1955. Sophisticated biomedical sensors have been developed to use on
animals at a distance without physical contact. The same equipment has been used to test
environmental factors on human sensory organs. Laser is used in biomedical displays to pick up
brain signals and convert them to sound and color or even music. With current laser techniques
verbal and aural communication is possible between any two points on earth with video and via
satellite.
The human head is a target which gives off a magnetic field. Suppose that it is capable of being
picked up and locked onto at a distance by a supersensitive sensor many times amplified by
optics. Depending upon the kind of ray directed at the head the symptoms and sensations of the
subject will vary.
The carotid artery and the hypothalamus are easily reached through the thin wall of the ear drum
by sonic and ultrasonic radio waves. Stimuli to this area can raise and lower blood pressure and
body temperature. Sensations in other parts of the anatomy are similar to those caused by
diathermy depending upon which brain signals are played upon. The subject is literally an
instrument who may experience numbness, pain, pleasure, muscle jerks, spasm and stimulation
of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.
It is known that thoughts can be pulsed into the mind through the nervous system by microwaves.
This has nothing to do with the auditory nerves. Scientists who have submitted themselves to this
process report temporary loss of memory and disorganization of thinking processes.
A subtle method of communication, laser, is used to deliver messages unheard by those close to
the receiver. Depending upon the verbal messages received concurrently with physical
stimulation, these technological developments become powerful tools combined with
psychological techniques to shape, modify, direct, prevent and control human thought and
behavior through interference with all known diurnal physiological patterns. Additionally, verbal
messages may be delivered at the subliminal level during consciousness and during sleep, so that
the subject is unaware that he is receiving them or that his dream sleep is being influenced.
Words are emotional triggers. When the subjects emotional triggers are analyzed he is put in the
position of having his thoughts and actions controlled by other individuals. This is mind control.
For at least the last four years every minute of my conscious and unconscious life had been
invaded by investigators using state of the art technology. Recently on the Today Show,
William Colby said that the CIA investigated a device which could read Brezhnevs mind on his
way to work. It is my contention that they not only investigated it but that they made it work.
People have asked me, What do these voices say? They say, We want to be your friends. As
in brainwashing they confuse the issue, and truth becomes obscure. Falsehoods seem reasonable.
Indoctrination techniques resemble some techniques used in hypnosis. Like hypnosis they have a
soporific effect, reiterating and repeating the same monotonous phrases.
What you do is up to you. Youve got to believe in yourself. This remark is made until you are
not really certain whether you know what you want or can rely upon your own opinion.
Pavlov said that a conditioned reflex can be worked out for every stimulus. In brainwashing,
brain-changing results. Damage is done to the mind through drugs, hypnotism and other means,
so that a memory of what actually happened can be wiped out and a new memory of what never
happened inserted. The Voices, by interfering with sleep in a subliminal mode are able to stir up
old memories and influence REM Sleep by vocal suggestion. They interfere with normal sleep
patterns by inducing physical symptoms which result in jerks, cramps, irritation of the intestinal
tract and skin, and in sexual arousal or sudden and unwanted awakening when rest is needed. All
the subject is aware of is pain, discomfort, nightmares, unaccountable physical symptoms, fatigue
and depression. At other times, he is euphoric with relief.
As in brainwashing, the Voices try to install a feeling of personal satisfaction by making the
individual feel that he is needed in some way. The message is combined with physical
reinforcement.
We want you to feel good about yourself. They specialize in uncertainty. You are always on an
up staircase that is going down.
Dorothy, we dont know what we are going to do with you. This comes after occasions of
rebuttal, rebellion and general recalcitrance. It may be accompanied by good humor or very
unpleasant remarks and physical symptoms.
In the beginning, although one is not incarcerated except mentally and environmentally, the
subject feels dreadfully tired and worn out. Returning POWs describe it as being like an
automaton or going about in a daze.
The Voices use suggestive interrogation with desired answers implied in the wording. They
alternate this with a barrage of denunciation and accusation to make you cringe. The more tired
you are, the more it upsets you. They excavate the psyche for areas of sensitivity involving social
attitudes, sex, marital and family relationships and feelings about self. Any vulnerability will do,
and all the time, fatigue both physical and mental, is working for them. The more sensitive and
reasonable the individual, the more vulnerable they are. Pushovers for indoctrinators are very
intelligent but uneducated, especially the indecisive minds that always see some valid point in the
other sides argument.
The victims feeling is that his thinking is being directed. The brainwasher has been called a
corticovisceral psychiatrist, able to interfere with the normal path that every human follows in
life. Such a Voice directs or suggests to the subject a new route leading off in an entirely new
direction. Conflicts arise in anyone between known emotional responses and those of which he is
unaware and which are suppressed. No one actually knows or realizes what is going on in his
own subconscious mind. The Brainwasher Voice is trained to increase such conflict and to
manipulate these responses.
A great effort is made to arouse guilt feelings. Failures to meet a standard of achievement or
conduct are used frequently as guilt stimuli. A decided effort is made to uncover normal failings
and to take advantage of them in order to hammer them into a guilt complex. No matter how
guilt arises, it is necessary to the Voice Indoctrinator for projection purposes.
The Brainwasher Voice continually attempts to sow doubt in the mind of the subject. Regardless
of the strength of conviction of the individual so attacked, the moment doubt clouds the mind, it
leads to tension. Tension is related to fear, and guilt also produces fear.
They asked me, What do you want lo do? My answer was that I wanted to survive. Fear itself
is an expression of unsatisfied need for survival and security. First reactions are nervousness,
tension, apprehension and depression. They make the need for security and self-protection even
more acutely felt.
Fortunately for me none of this was done in a really controlled environment, yet my privacy in all
things was gone and I was isolated from human intercourse because nobody could believe that
the Voices I heard were anything but inventions of my subconscious.
As a result of these artificially induced pressures including chronic fatigue, I was deprived of
strength to combat repetitious suggestions and started to doubt my own thoughts and convictions.
Suppose in this condition that ideas are suggested at a subconscious level, not positive
suggestions used in department store tapes to prevent stealing, but destructive behavioral ideas
that will result in a poorer self-image, lowered confidence, both physical and mental, and atypical
behavior. The suggestions assume a symbolic significance to the individual. Suppose the assault
on the mind, body and nervous system is continual over a twenty-four hour period seven days a
week. In this state one begins to live in a realm of fantasies and false beliefs. In the hands of
Brainwasher Voices and technologists with Space Age Tools, anyone is malleable. An illusory,
surreal, invisible environment is created, real only to the victim.
In a prison camp one can make up ones mind not to listen. There are other prisoners. As a laser
receiving station in your own home and environment one has to listen involuntarily and still try
to act normally, perform tasks, drive a car and do routine things as much as possible. The
incarceration is real, but unseen.
The tools of mind attack include suggestion, mockery, fear, fatigue, deception and manipulation.
As in brainwashing, the Voice sometimes begins with ideas and ideals with which the recipient
can agree. The only relief from tension in this insidious process is laughter or drugs like sleeping
pills and alcohol. The receiver forgets that he is the one who is suffering from fear, uncertainty,
browbeating and the invasion of privacy in sex, toilet and social relationships. When he most
fears for public performance and they let up, he feels grateful for no reason at all.
All these things are known to government psychiatrists and psychologists. The government in
question is the government of the United States of America. The events I recount began on a May
weekend in 1978.