This page contains information about devices which can be implanted into a human body and used as part of a mind control operation. As the page will make clear, such devices exist right now in commercial form and have been researched for decades. This page also contains items related to nanotechnology.
This article describes a prototype of a new product, the audio tooth implant. It is a cell phone that is implanted in a back molar, which sends clear sound to the person by vibrations.
Applied Digital Solutions will soon begin marketing an implantable tracking chip for humans. The company calls its product Digital Angel, Another implantable identification chip called the VeriChip is also being marketed. More information can be found by searching WorldNetDaily (or the internet) for articles related to Digital Angel and VeriChip. In Oct., 2002, the FDA controversially approved [*] human implantation of the VeriChip for identification purposes.
These excerpts from the report Individual Rights and the Federal Role in Behavior Modification, written by the staff of a committee headed by Senator Ervin in 1974, provide some solid data on open-source implant technology and its planned uses in the early 1970s. There is even a brief discussion and footnote about having computers monitor and control implanted parolees, rather than human monitors.
The Transponder News page has introductory articles and news about recent developments in transponder technology.
NASA's Sensors 2000! (S2K!) program is developing biotelemetry devices for use in space and other applications. [Here is a copy of the S2K! biotelemetry page from the Google cache, and here are some other related NASA sites .]
These are excerpts from the book Journey Into Madness by Gordon Thomas. The excerpts describe research into implants, and in particular some American war crimes in Vietnam involving brain surgery and implants on prisoners of war. In a closed-off compound at Bien Hoa Hospital, the Agency team set to work with three Vietcong prisoners who had been selected by the local station. Each man was anesthetized and the neurosurgeon, after he had hinged back a flap in their skulls, implanted tine electrodes in each brain.When the prisoners regained consciousness, the behaviorists set to work. The prisoners were placed in a room and given knives. Pressing the control buttons on their handsets, the behaviorists tried to arouse their subjects to violence.
Nothing happened.
For a whole week the doctors tried to make the men attack each other. Baffled at their lack of success, the team flew back to Washington. As previously arranged in the case of failure, while the physicians were still in the air the prisoners were shot by Green Beret troopers and their bodies burned.
This article from The Washington Post, from Jan. 25, 2001, gives an idea of how much information current brain implant technology can provide about an animal and its environment. The article is by Rob Stein and is titled, "Sleeping Rats May Dream of Maze." [*] Scientists can correlate with high accuracy the hippocampal brain patterns of sleeping rats with those patterns measured when the rats were running a maze. They conclude or infer that the rats are dreaming about the previous experience. The rats showed a distinctive pattern. "That pattern is only generated when the animal runs on that maze. It's a unique signature for that experience. It's like having a movie of the experience we can record. Then the trick is to look for instances of that pattern while the animal is asleep," Wilson said.The same pattern often appeared when the animals entered REM sleep, Wilson and his colleagues reported in today's issue of the journal Neuron. In fact, the pattern was so precise the researchers could actually chart where the rats were in the maze in their dreams and whether they were running or standing still.
This New Scientist article by Duncan Graham-Rowe, "'Smart dust' could soon be spying on you," [*] describes dust-sized nanodevices currently in development which can contain sensors and communicate data.
Here is an article from ABC News about smart dust. [*] The article is by Jack Smith and is from Nov. 1999. The particular application being discussed involves minute airborne particles, which the article reports might communicate information using small lasers. Researchers at the University of California have built a prototype the size of a matchbox that contains temperature, barometric pressure and humidity sensors, and has the same computing power as an IBM desktop did 15 years ago.
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The new prototype is about the size of an aspirin tablet and will get even smaller."In the time frame of a year," Kahn predicts, "we should have out first working prototypes that are the size of a grain of sand."
This article in the IBM Systems Journal describes personal area networks [*] which allow data to be sent through the body. For example, the authors describe "the business card handshake" whereby skin contact between two people could automatically transfer data between their personal data devices. While this is not specifically implant technology, the technique could be used for data I/O between an implanted device and other devices.
The home page of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Neural Prosthesis Program. See especially the page of progress reports.
See Jose Delgado's article "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording in Completely Free Patients" described on the Nonconsensual Human Experimentation page.
Here are some excerpts from the book As Man Becomes Machine, The Evolution of the Cyborg [*] by David Rorvik, written in 1973. They are online at Peter Grafstrom's site. The excerpts contain descriptions of experiments in electronic stimulation of the brain (ESB) as well as some of Rorvik's speculations on the future uses and abuses of such technology.
This link (described on the Operational Mind Control Systems page) provides details of The UCLA Violence Project from the early 1970s and plans for implanting and monitoring citizens in California. See also the article by Peter Breggin on that page, "Campaigns Against Racist Federal Programs by the Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psycholology."
Here is one of the implant articles by Kathryn Kelley, before her reseach was shut down. (See the article at the end of this page for more information about that). The paper is titled "Case Studies of Destabilization and Delusions Described as Radio-wave Transmitted: Behavioral Implications." It is from an internet source no longer accessible, and I do not currently know the date or publication reference. Despite the sound of the title, it reads as taking seriously people's claims that groups of harassers are tormenting them by remote voice-to-skull.
This brief article appeared in Technology Review, May-June 2000. It mentions research into using laryngeal nerve signals to control an electrolarnyx.
This page at the Whitaker Foundation describes a thought-controlled neuroprosthesis [*] which combines implanted muscle stimulators with a computer to analyze brain waves. It allows a handicapped person to, for example, open his or her hand by simply thinking the command "open."
These are some excerpts from the book Wildlife Radio Tagging: Equipment, Field Techniques, and Data Analysis, Academic Press, 1987. Even though the technology involved is typically not the latest cutting edge, the book is interesting because tagging and tracking techniques for animals are openly discussed, whereas applications of those techniques to humans tend not to be. (No one is surprised or doubtful when a scientist devotes himself or herself to monitoring animals 24 hours a day to study their behavior -- and gets funding for it.)
In this WorldNetDaily article, Geoff Metcalf interviews scientist Charles Ostman [*] on the topic of implanted chips. Behavioral modification is a serious topic and probably one of the scary ones that I personally have some thoughts about....
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I actually served on a financial impact study for this multi-agency committee that just facilitated $625 million for the first-ever national nanotechnology policy directorate. Essentially, we are now financing a program kind of like NASA but for nanoscale technology -- and it is going to be applied as we are speaking today.See also Remote Sensing and Thought Inference and Operational Mind Control Systems.