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Regime Guinea Pigs?

Investigating the Claims of 'Targeted Individuals' Who Insist They're Being Stalked, Tortured

June 2021

BY KIM WHITING

Jack arrived at my office looking like the Hollywood version of a scientific discipline professor. He was in his late 40s, with slightly unruly, longish hair, a buttoned-upwardly shirt with a pen in the pocket, jeans, and well-made leather shoes.

I asked for his level of education and he told me that he had a PhD in engineering. He went on to say that he'd invented some highly classified technology for a U.South. Department of Defence force contractor. He as well told me he'd been put on pause several months prior, due to excessive drinking.

The contractor that had suspended him was paying for his therapy sessions with me and with his psychiatrist. I assumed that his bosses hoped he'd get the assist he needed and be able to return to work. If he had indeed invented highly classified technologies, they'd manifestly be concerned about his drinking, considering he might divulge information while under the influence.

Jack (not his real name) talked well-nigh his passion for technology-related projects, and the discussion was fascinating—and plausible—until he told me that he believed the U.S. government was monitoring his every move, via satellite.

He said that's why he had to stay drunk, to numb his brain against the regime's mental torment.

When I asked Jack what made him believe the government was tracking or surveilling him, he said a government official, who had taken a liking to him, had leaked information technology to him.

The year was 1988, and I was fresh out of graduate school in the first months of my job as a psychotherapist. But it didn't take a keen professional eye to see that Jack was dealing with more alcohol corruption problems.

Even so, where did the facts end and the fantasies begin? Did he actually work on technology that was sensitive enough to warrant the government's attention? I causeless, equally virtually of u.s.a. would, that Jack'due south belief that he was under surveillance was a mirage, as was the "government official" whistleblower who supposedly exposed the hole-and-corner.

Simply could I be wrong?

The U.S. regime spends a mind-blowing amount of money on the development of applied science and weaponry designed to protect our state and put us alee in "the game." Perhaps Jack and other inventors like him really were being monitored, to ensure they weren't leaking secrets or working for the "other side."

Within a calendar month of his intake, Jack was on antipsychotic medication and said he no longer felt and so tormented. He did continue to believe that he was beingness watched, however. While on medication, he described the alleged monitoring as an unpleasant, just not unbearable aspect of working in a highly classified environs.

Yet, Jack didn't e'er accept his medication. When off his meds he again felt as if he was being tortured by surveillance and now believed that his psychiatrist and I were in on the conspiracy—that we were medicating him in social club to make him susceptible to the authorities's spying. At these times he would most potable himself into a stupor, cease upwardly in a psychiatric hospital where he'd once again exist stabilized on medication, and and then repeat the bike.

Jack was a good man, an intelligent human who was ofttimes so tormented that he wanted to die, and who never rose higher up discomfort. My heart hurt for him.

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When I've worked with clients like Jack, I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, because sometimes it seems there'south a very thin line between sanity and insanity.

Jack'south claims were similar to people today who phone call themselves "Targeted Individuals," or "TIs." It'south believed that in that location are thousands of TIs across the globe. They include people from all walks of life—doctors, lawyers, engineers, military service personnel, artists, housewives—potentially anyone.

In the past couple of decades, many have found solace and solidarity by sharing their stories in online support and chat groups. (This, despite the fact that many TIs also claim they're being monitored via computer.) They post videos on YouTube and have self-published dozens of books, with titles like My Life Inverse Forever and Tortured in America. Some believe "the regime" or "the military"is behind their predicament. Others blame aliens, strangers,or whatever number of other sinister culprits.

Despite the significant number of TIs, there are few noun studies on the discipline. Those that take been done conclude that TIs are nigh likely paranoid, delusional, psychotic. In terms of studies on TIs, there is little to exist found that gives their stories of mind control and harassment any credence.

According to many of those writing in TI blogs, "the government" engages in invasive mental torture for the purpose of enquiry that will non only requite it the upper hand in war, just ultimately give it total mental control of the masses. They say they're being fed harmful, hurtful and painful thoughts to make them appear delusional—so that no 1 will give their claims brownie and conclude they're simply crazy.

Taking a deeper wait into the claims of TIs is similar traveling down Alice in Wonderland's rabbit hole—a disruptive, sometimes fantastical ride in which information technology's often hard to discern truth from conspiracy theories, facts from fiction. Plausible governmental motives, historical governmental misbehaviors, and documented atrocities that make heed control seem possible can be constitute. There is stiff evidence of technological advances that, in the wrong hands, could truly impairment and dispense individuals, likewise every bit large swaths of the general population.

Karen is a middle-aged White woman living in the Midwest, a married female parent who's had a long, successful career in public relations. Her case first came to my attention several years ago. She would appear to exist "normal" to anyone she passes on the street, or with whom she might engage in superficial pleasantries. Simply Karen (not her real proper noun) besides believes the government is stalking and mentally torturing her via an assortment of techniques. She believes she's simply a modest role of a much broader clandestine program, i that involves what she calls the U.S. government's ongoing "victimization" of innocent and unknowing citizens.

"I've been under surveillance past the NSA [National Security Agency] for at least a yr, and perhaps longer" she says. "More than frightening than that is the fact that the electricity in my apartment has been tampered with, causing me depression-level shocks. I'm also beingness burned at night by what I believe to be 1 of the new directed-free energy weapons or DEWS." Karen says DEWS  are "invisible, soundless weapons, such as radiations, that emit highly focused energy, transferring that free energy to a target to harm information technology."

Karen says that i of the residents in her edifice is a military contractor specializing in electronics. "For at least a year, he was the simply person to have access to the empty unit of measurement next to mine," she claims. "That's where I believe the surveillance and harassment is taking place."

She believes her email address was included on a undercover list that supposedly identified WikiLeaks' fiscal supporters. "I recall I gave a total of $150 to them," she says. "My crime is that I proficient what I believed were my Beginning Amendment rights. It's terrifying knowing that I'm being targeted considering of this."

Karen says she's written to numerous members of Congress and civil liberties groups—all to no avail. "Why won't they investigate these claims?" she asks. "The state of affairs is escalating. I fear for my future and my family's hereafter."

Karen points to data published past the American Civil Liberties Union several years ago, in which the ACLU essentially acknowledges the claims of targeted individuals.

It reads, in part, "In response to a Freedom of Information Deed lawsuit filed past the ACLU and Yale Law School'south Media Liberty and Information Access Clinic, the CIA has released a slew of documents concerning CIA surveillance."

Some highlights from the documents include:

* A cardinal CIA regulation—titled AR 2-2—governs the behave of the CIA'south activities, which include domestic intelligence collection.

* AR 2-2, which has never been publicly released earlier, includes rules governing a wide range of activities, including surveillance of U.S. persons, human experimentation, contracts with bookish institutions, relations with journalists and staff of U.S. news media, and relations with clergy and missionaries."

"Of form, no 1 believes me," Karen says. "My husband wants desperately for this to be a mental wellness upshot instead of reality," she continues. "He says, 'Y'all can exercise something if it'due south mental disease—what options do you have if it's not?' He's ready to run—and a part of me wants him to because he refuses to believe me! I am nigh concerned for my children. They're the most of import things to me and I fear being hurt and having them lose their mother."

Karen has taken dozens of photos to prove that her claims are true.  A few of them evidence overnight shipping labels on boxes, sent to ane of her neighbors. She says she's traced the origin of the boxes to government and armed forces websites.

Another photograph, she says, is of a fume detector that was installed in her apartment edifice "about the fourth dimension I started to be shocked." One picture, she says, "clearly shows electrical coil being fed through a hole in the ceiling and added to the electrical box of my unit."

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Every bit was the case with Jack, Karen's stories brand me wonder. On one hand, everything she says seems straight out of a spy novel—or the movie A Beautiful Listen. All the same she comes beyond every bit coherent and cocky-aware. And while it's not unheard of for people to develop mental affliction later in life, it'south far more mutual to encounter the onset of delusional symptoms in the late teens and early 20s.

A major life stressor is often the reason for the onset of mental disease as 1 ages. Karen, however, can't cite a major event or calamity before her TI experiences began. And my client Jack, who was in his tardily 40s, reported a relatively depression-stress life before his symptoms emerged.

A woman with a warm and sunny demeanor, Sue (not her existent name), is a 67-year-old White married woman. Before retiring several years ago to intendance for her ailing mother, Sue worked within various departments of a Westward Declension state authorities for near 30 years. She and her husband have been together 26 years.

In 2018, in her early on 60s, Sue says she began experiencing what she describes as "gang-stalking surveillance" and, like Karen, reports feeling equally if her trunk is existence "burned." Sue calls the sensation "direct energy weapon torture" and she believes those responsible for this harassment are Native American tribal entities, in league with the U.South. Department of Homeland Security.

Like Karen, Sue describes being surveilled and and so tortured. For Sue, she says information technology began with a well-dressed human being (with a patch on his jacket that she recognized as the name of a motorcycle gang) who approached her at a concert. She explains, "I was dressed casually and shouldn't have stood out, but apparently I did. My husband said, 'That human is circling y'all like a shark.'"

Sue says the man eventually touched her on the shoulder, leaned in, and demanded that she speak to him alone. "I ignored him and turned back around. Simply he didn't leave. He must have followed us abode, because nosotros afterwards realized he knew where nosotros lived."

Sue says she and her husband started seeing the man at a nearby golf course, or revving his motorcycle in front of their firm. She says, "He'd never say anything to us, he'd but be at that place."

Soon, Sue reports, there were other foreign men loitering in her presence. "They used drones around our house, sending them right outside our large back windows," she explains. "They burned out some of our appliances. They controlled our air-conditioning, turning information technology on and off, and they turned the volume on our idiot box up or downwards. Anything electrical, they can do."

Sue says her married man has been "very supportive throughout this ordeal." And he backs her upwardly.

Says her husband, "It'southward been terrible because there's nothing I can do nigh it. I come across the burns on her body. They're there all the fourth dimension, all over her body. She's also got little pinpoint burn down marks on her. She'll weep out in pain at times."

He continues, "When this started, I began seeing guys in vehicles or on motorcycles. The guys on motorcycles would rev their engines in forepart of our house. I didn't see the people in the cars, but I'd see the same cars repeatedly. And there were men who looked into our business firm, almost 100 yards away on the golf class behind our house, and they'd stay at that place for 5-vi hours. We chosen the police, simply they said at that place really wasn't annihilation they could practice about it. They've burned out the master circuit lath on the refrigerator, our microwave, and mayhap our dryer. They cause our lite circuits to go brighter or dimmer–any smart lightbulb they can manipulate remotely."

"I meet Sue's sleeplessness," her husband explains. "It'due south every night. And our furniture noticeably vibrates in the dark. Sometimes it'due south bad enough that she cries in pain. Her tongue gets swollen several times throughout the day and nighttime. Her right chest also got smaller over the course of a few months."

Sue continues, "Ane twenty-four hours I was raped electronically. This is an experience that many TI females written report, which involves beingness electronically burned and 'stabbed' vaginally. They started using directed energy on me on a regular ground. They burn the bottom of my feet and when they direct energy at my stomach, information technology feels like a called-for volcano and my stomach swells. When directed at my caput, I feel like it'southward got a vise on it, and it burns. I well-nigh continuously have marks on my body that look like burns. What they're doing to me makes my ankles swell and disfigure and I oftentimes have sores on the soles of my feet. Sometimes I'm attacked not-stop. They dismantle your physical being. My mental country is strong because that's who I am, but someone not as potent would fall apart. They effort to make people crazy."

Sue says she and her husband tried moving abroad, but discovered at that place was no escape. "They tin can get to you wherever you go," says her husband.

"My tormentors work in shifts," Sue claims, "so for well-nigh 15 minutes every 8 hours, I'm complimentary from attack. Also, when I'grand with friends I often feel some relief. Just sometimes it happens fifty-fifty then. One twenty-four hours I was with my best friend and we were standing in our kitchen and I said, "They're attacking right now' and she said, 'How do y'all know?'  I pointed out that the counter top was vibrating. She felt the counter and said, 'I tin feel it, as well!'"

Sue and her married man both believe that the government lures people into this torture with coin and other compensation, like paid vacations. Like many TIs, their theory is that the tormentors coordinate through a massive jail cell phone network and employ those aforementioned phones to direct microwave free energy. According to them (and many Tis), cars tin as well be adjusted with directed energy weapons.

When asked why she believes that she's being attacked, while her husband is not, Sue says, "The vast bulk of TIs are women who are 50 or older. I think this is because older females are easier to break down. They are physically more vulnerable and often  more socially isolated because many are no longer in the workplace."

What comes beyond most clearly in both Karen and Sue's stories is their suffering. Their despondency at not being believed seems to be almost as painful every bit the "burns" they depict

Many of the websites and blogs Karen and other TIs recommend are created or written by people who claim to be scientists, doctors and mental wellness professionals—but many (if not most) espouse ideas and information that seem to exist rooted in science fiction and conspiracy theories, every bit opposed to bodily scientific research and hard prove. Many are difficult to follow or empathize. In TI chat rooms, there are hundreds of posts, near of which (once more) seem, in my professional person opinion, delusional—and also total of pain.

Hither are excerpts of some of the more coherent posts:

* I'chiliad a Targeted Individual. The way they piece of work, they use mind reading and virtual technology. Through the listen reading they hear everything you're thinking. Through virtual technology they come across everything you call back. Virtual technology tin can torture and create illusions, so when you hear somebody talking about y'all it could exist illusions.

* Anybody on the planet ought to read the volume by ex-CIA consultant Dr. Robert Duncan entitled Project: Soul Catcher. My bizarre symptoms matched what he describes in the first few pages. These are: (high decibel) swishing sounds, flickering in my vision, pulsing tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Other things I'm 100 percent sure about: ane) I was microwaved like a piece of meat…and forced to sleep. 2) I was exposed to radiation for months iii) I was gang-stalked. 4) The perps surrounded my flat past moving into adjacent apartments.

* I've been targeted since 2007 and I've lost everything, except my relationship with my girl. I do believe they choose people who already are dealing with emotional difficulties and who are struggling through life. Simply near of what I'm reading is that they go after people who are very successful in their called fields.

* All they want is to get you to kill yourself or hurt someone. We are their entertainment except we don't get money or fame. A lot of the things that go incorrect in our lives could exist just life, or it could be them. In the finish there really isn't annihilation we tin do correct now to finish them.

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Still struggling to make sense of how TIs come up to think and believe as they do, I looked farther into Karen'southward case.

"I've learned how corroded our government is," she says. "It's performing widespread experimentation on U.South. citizens with neuro-weapons that are comprised of energies on the radio moving ridge spectrum—microwaves, electromagnetic fields. There are many writings about this, only none in mainstream media."

Karen claims to take "numerous Bio-MEMS implants that track/torture me." She says that "telemetry wires" accept been inserted into her breast unbeknownst to her, "when I was put under for a different minor surgery." She had an X-ray image taken of her breast and she says information technology reveals some kind of foreign obstruction most her rib cage. "These devices give off radio waves that are activated several times a day," she claims, explaining that the waves could then "relay biological information on me."

"I'm basically a DARPA lab rat," she continues. "I've been shocked, burned, radiated and poisoned." She has images purporting to show "unsafe radiation levels in my domicile" and even says she has "an RFID scrap in me" that allows military satellites to follow her for a "blackness ops campaign."

Karen referenced many terms I was unfamiliar with, and then I did some research to amend empathize what she was talking about, and here's what I plant:

Black Ops is short for "blackness operation" and defined every bit a covert operation by a government, a government agency, or a military system.

Bio-MEMS tin be used to refer to the scientific discipline and engineering science of operating at the micro-scale for biological and biomedical applications, which may or may non include electronic or mechanical functions.

Telemetry is an automated communications process by which measurements and other data are collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring.

RFID stands for radio frequency identification and is a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects. There are several methods of identification, but the most common is to shop a serial number that identifies a person or object, and perhaps other data, on a microchip that is attached to an antenna. RFID have many tracking uses, but a well-known utilize is the locator chip that can be implanted in pets.

DARPA is the Pentagon's research arm, the Defense force Avant-garde Research Projects Agency, which has made public in recent years that it's developing encephalon implant chips and computer-to-brain communication applied science with the aim to "develop an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the brain and the digital world."

DARPA also aims to develop and test "a wireless, fully implantable neural-interface medical device for human clinical utilize. The device would facilitate the formation of new memories and retrieval of existing ones in individuals who have lost these capacities every bit a upshot of traumatic encephalon injury or neurological illness."

And DARPA's "Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3)" program aims to develop a "safe, portable neural interface organisation capable of reading from and writing to multiple points in the encephalon at once. Whereas the virtually advanced existing neurotechnology requires surgical implantation of electrodes, N3 is pursuing high-resolution engineering science that works without the requirement for surgery."

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has taken brain-car interface technology inquiry to the private sector with his Neurolink company. In a 2019 CNet article, Musk said they'd adult a system to feed thousands of electric probes into a encephalon, and hoped to commencement testing the technology on humans. Said Musk, "And information technology'south working already in animal tests. A monkey was able to play a computer game with his encephalon." In August of 2020, Neurolink livestreamed footage of brain activeness in pigs as they received brain fleck implants. Neurolink awaits authorities approving to test the engineering science on humans.

And so, it could exist argued, the technologies that some TIs claim are existence used on them do indeed exist, to a degree, or are beingness heavily researched. Their proponents say they're beingness developed for noble and worthwhile purposes. Notwithstanding, it'due south too truthful these advancements could become exceedingly dangerous in the wrong hands, or if used for less than honorable purposes.

Karen, meanwhile, describes some of her more contempo experiences equally an alleged TI:

"I've started getting dizzy while sitting at my figurer," she explains. "I've started hearing buzzing, knocking, and whistling sounds in my left ear. I never once doubted that they were coming from a source outside my caput."

Karen says she searched for answers on the internet and discovered information about "the microwave auditory consequence," something she describes as "the whistling, knocking and pinging in the skull that occurs when someone is extremely close to microwave signals."

Karen says she keeps seeing "beat up onetime cars with out-of-state license plates" parked direct in front of her apartment. "When they're there, I'grand awakened by the sensation of beingness cooked. My bones injure; my eyes deject, and it didn't take long to figure out that I was being striking with some new kind of directed-free energy weapon (DEW)."

Karen says she chosen 911 and demanded the cars be removed. "I explained they were serving as platforms for directed-free energy weapons. The operators bounced me around to dissimilar departments in some sort of twisted game of telephone tag, repeating my request to each new dispatcher in a mocking way. I kept my cool and repeated my request. After existence transferred for a third or 4th time, I hung up, but those cars were never there over again."

Karen likewise says she hears "someone crawling between the floorboards at night," followed by "heightened electrical currents" that fill her apartment. She believes some of the residents in her apartment complex are government agents and "involved in the conspiracy." Other neighbors, she claims, are "just greedy slobs who want money, tickets to sporting events and household upgrades in exchange for spying and enabling the torture of me. This realization was sickening. My neighbors have become accessories to my attempted murder."

Karen says the "most extreme abuse happens when I'yard lonely. I get electrocuted with what I've come to realize are manipulated cable, telephone and electric lines." After repeatedly hearing "static noise" on her telephone land line, she says a technician told her that her line was "testing constantly busy" and appeared to have a "recorder" on it. Karen says she disconnected both her phone and computer line as a issue.

"They always find another manner to reroute the fire in," Karen explains. "Plainly they call information technology being 'boxed in.' I learned that phrase when I went to an electrical supply store and the guy on duty told me his begetter worked for the CIA. He said I'one thousand being boxed in and burned by radio waves created from electromagnetic fields. And obviously this wire in my chest acts as an amplifier to the radio waves."

Karen continues, "Information technology'due south what they did to Myron May, the attorney in Florida who shot three people at a university in a drastic effort to make the media pay attention to what's going on. But the state's media is hypnotized or drugged or under the spell of—I don't know what. God bless Mr. May's soul."

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Myron May

I looked up Myron May. Simply as Karen said, in Nov 2014, 31-year-old May shot and wounded three students (leaving ane paralyzed) with a .380 semiautomatic pistol inside a Florida Country University library. Daring the responding Tallahassee police officers to kill him, he fired in their direction—and they shot him dead.

An attorney and Florida State graduate, May described himself as a Targeted Private on social media and told others that he believed government stalkers were harassing and using a directed-free energy weapon to hurt him. Police said May was in a paranoia-fueled "state of crunch" at the time of the shootings.

Soon before his rampage, he sent an email that said, "I've been getting hit with the direct free energy weapon in my chest all evening. Information technology hurts really bad right now." He left a voice postal service that said, "I am currently beingness cooked in my chair. I devised a scheme where I was going to expose this in one case and for all." May also fabricated several posts on a Facebook page for Targeted Individuals, including 1 that asked, "Has anyone hither ever been encouraged by your handler to kill with a promise of freedom?"

I found at that place were other cases, eerily similar to that of Myron May.

Aaron Alexis

In September 2013, when 34-year-former Aaron Alexis killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard in southeast D.C., he left backside documents in which he claimed the Navy had been attacking his encephalon using "extremely low frequency" electromagnetic waves. "And to be perfectly honest, that is what has driven me to this," he wrote. He was killed in a shootout with police.

Gavin Long

And and then there was 29-year-onetime Gavin Long, a former Marine who ambushed law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in July 2016, killing three and injuring three others. Long, who was also killed in a police shootout, had written online that he, as well, was a TI and claimed the regime had been watching him for 11 years. He appeared to fixate on police force enforcement as his persecutors.

Long, Alexis, and May are all Black men, almost the same age, claiming to be victims of electronic attacks by the authorities (or in Long'due south case, police), who say they killed people because of the effects of those attacks. Their crimes were committed within a period of less than three years. Did coverage of Alexis' attack, along with his claims of government torture, feed the paranoid delusions and impulses of the other two men? Did internet TI groups feed their delusions—or do their claims of electronic attacks have some merit?

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"I at present fix off metal detectors when I'chiliad not wearing metal," Karen explains. "I feel pain in my upper left arm at certain odd times. My wrist has developed a permanent swelling. I worked up the nervus to get to a walk-in clinic for an X-ray of my arm. Afterwards seeing my x-ray, a radiologist said, "You have something in your arm."

Karen continues, "Information technology all sounds crazy, I know. But you should expect up "COINTELPRO" or "MK-ULTRA" before discounting my experiences."

So, in that location was more inquiry to exist done. Here's what I found:

MK-ULTRA is listed in the Central Intelligence Agency Library under "MK-ULTRA mind command experiments." According to info I institute on that site, "MK-ULTRA came to public low-cal in 1977 as a result of hearings conducted by a Senate commission on intelligence. The operation began in 1953 and was officially halted in 1974. During that time, hundreds of unwitting Americans and Canadians were subjected to LSD, extreme electro-shock therapy and other drug therapy in research undertaken at fourscore institutions, including 44 colleges and universities, as well as hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies."

According to a 1984 MK-ULTRA segment on CBS-Idiot box'due south 60 minutes, "unwitting subjects were subjected to heed command experiments that left them crippled for life."

In CIA v. Sims 471 U.S. 159 (1985), the Supreme Court summarized MK-ULTRA as "the enquiry and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in underground operations to command human being behavior."

MK-ULTRA reminded me of an experiment (constitute in near university psych textbooks) conducted in the 1960s by Stanley Milgram, a professor at Yale Academy. In his studies, a volunteer who was designated as the "teacher" read out strings of words to his partner, "the learner," who was hooked up to an electric-shock machine in the other room. Each time the learner made a mistake in repeating the words, the teacher was to deliver a daze of increasing intensity, starting at 15 volts (labeled "slight shock" on the automobile) and going all the manner up to 450 volts ("danger: severe shock"). Some people stopped the experiment early and wouldn't comply with the supervisor's urging to go on, but others continued up to 450 volts, even when the learner screamed in pain. In the most well-known variation of the experiment, a full 65 percent of people went all the mode. Participants didn't know that the shocks and cries of hurting weren't real until subsequently the experiment. Milgrim'south theory was that people, under the direction of an authority figure, would obey just about whatsoever guild they were given, even to torture—and that is precisely what they did.

Milgram's experiment makes me wonder, "Would government employees, nether the management of 'higher ups,' follow instructions to use technology, even to inflict torture?"  The MK-ULTRA experiments point to an reply of "yes."

Equally for COINTELPRO, it stands for Counter Intelligence Program, and was a series of covert projects conducted by the FBI commencement in 1956, aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting American political organizations—groups like the Communist Political party of the United States, the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panthers. So-FBI Manager J. Edgar Hoover ordered FBI agents to betrayal, misdirect, neutralize or eliminate the activities of these movements, and particularly their leaders, such as Martin Luther King and Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Marking Clark, who were shot by Chicago police during what is believed by some to take been an FBI orchestrated performance. According to the FBI website, all COINTELPRO operations ended in 1971.

While these programs and enquiry don't direct support Karen and other TIs' claims of governmental heed surveillance and torture, they practise show the U.Southward. as capable of engaging in operations that are underhanded, illegal and tortuous.

In January 2007, The Washington Post tackled the bailiwick with an in-depth commodity entitled, "Mind Games New on the Internet: a community of people who believe the authorities is effulgent voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that tin can do just that."

The Mail service wrote: "In 1965, according to declassified Defense Department documents, the Pentagon, at the behest of the White House, launched Projection Pandora, top-undercover research to explore the behavioral and biological effects of low-level microwaves. For approximately iv years, the Pentagon conducted hush-hush research: zapping monkeys; exposing unwitting sailors to microwave radiation; and conducting a host of other unusual experiments (a sub-projection of Project Pandora was titled Project Bizarre). The results were mixed, and the programme was plagued by disagreements and scientific squabbles and Pandora ended in 1970. And with it, the military's enquiry into so-chosen non-thermal microwave effects seemed to die out, at to the lowest degree in the unclassified realm.

The article continued: "But in that location are hints of ongoing enquiry: An bookish newspaper written for the Air Strength in the mid-1990s mentions the idea of a weapon that would use sound waves to ship words into a person's caput. 'The point can…warn the enemy of impending doom, or encourage the enemy to surrender,' the author ended.

"In 2002, the Air Force Research Laboratory patented precisely such a applied science," the Postal servicearticle connected, "using microwaves to send words into someone'due south head…In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed for this article, the Air Force released unclassified documents surrounding that 2002 patent—records that note that the patent was based on human experimentation in October 1994 at the Air Force lab, where scientists were able to transmit phrases into the heads of human subjects, albeit with marginal intelligibility. Inquiry appeared to go on at least through 2002. Where this piece of work has gone since is unclear — the research laboratory, citing nomenclature, refused to hash out it or release other materials."

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The more than I investigated, the more than I concluded that some of what Karen and Sue claimed to be experiencing was, if not actually existent, and so perhaps at to the lowest degree plausible.

I returned to Karen'south descriptions of her ordeal:

"I'one thousand in an electronic prison and my jailers know me better than any person alive. They watch me bathe, salve myself, fissure bad jokes and dance while I'grand alone. They read my listen, for God's sake. They know I'm not violent and that after two and a one-half years of torture, I still happily conversation with strangers, try to stay positive, stop my machine to tend to a dying chipmunk. They know better than anyone that I'm a skillful person.

"I oasis't heard from my brother for a year because he says he just can't wrap his encephalon effectually what I'm telling him. My sister says, 'Y'all're just an boilerplate, everyday Jane Doe. Why would they do this to you? I hateful, why YOU?'

"Dr. Robert Duncan, who claims to take been involved in developing these technologies for the CIA, says these programs are carried out in "game theory"— meaning to the target's death. Supposedly, there is no mode out for me."

This was the second time Karen had brought up Dr. Robert Duncan. Many of the Targeted Private blogs pointed to Duncan equally the source of their noesis almost secret research and applied science. He's the author of books like How to Tame a Demon: A Short Applied Guide to Organized Intimidation Stalking, Electronic Torture and Listen Control and Project Soul Catcher: Secrets of Cyber and Cybernetic Warfare Revealed.

Robert Duncan, and his books

Duncan claims to have worked on projects for the Department of Defense and the CIA related to bogus intelligence and neuroscience.

When I contacted him for an interview, he thanked me for my interest in Targeted Individuals, only said that he was very busy and only had time for a few very cursory questions.

I first asked him nigh the purpose and intended employ of the technology that he says he worked on with the CIA. He responded, "[It's for] accelerated learning and mayhap a weapon to intermission the psychology of the enemy."

Duncan told me that he'south personally talked with around five,000 Targeted Individuals. When asked what led him to believe that TIs are experiencing something other than paranoid delusions, he told me, "If you have worked on the technologies and studied the corruption of them on the public as long equally I take, the patterns go obvious. Many of the TIs' minds accept been trained to get paranoid schizophrenics. In fact, any mental affliction can exist induced. The weaponized version is chosen a 'mind virus.'"

At that point, Duncan said he was besides busy to speak further, and when I after emailed him hoping to get answers to a few follow up questions he replied, "Sorry, I'thou working on helping to convalesce their suffering. No fourth dimension for interviews this yr."

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In 2008, WIRED Magazine reported that the Un was also taking thepossibility of electromagnetic terrorism against people seriously. The article cited a European Symposium that included a session on thesocial implications of non-lethal weapons, with specific reference to "privacy-invasive remote interrogation and behavioral influence applications. Those who believe they are being targeted are getting a flake of official recognition."

In a 2009 WIRED article entitled "Courtroom to Defendant: End Blasting That Man's Heed!", the magazine reported, "Tardily concluding yr, James Walbert went to court to stop his sometime business associate from blasting him with mind-altering electromagnetic radiation. Walbert told the Sedgwick County, Kansas panel that Jeremiah Redford threatened him with 'jolts of radiations' afterward a disagreement over a business concern deal. Later, Walbert said he began feeling electrical shock sensations, hearing electronically generated tones, and getting popping and ringing sounds in his ears. On December 30th, the courtroom decided in Walbert'due south favor and issued a showtime-of-its-kind order of protection, banning Redford from using 'electronic means' to further harass Walbert."

The WIRED article continued, "In some legal, policy, and business organisation circles, electromagnetic brain assaults are being taken seriously. Walbert'due south crusade is supported by Jim Guest, a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He's working on proposed legislation to accost electronic harassment, including a bill against theforced implantation of RFID chips."

(This pecker appears to have made it to a rules commission in Missouri but no further action was always taken by lawmakers. Still, a narrower ban on forcing implants as a condition of employment was afterwards passed in the country.)

Walbert maintained that a medico, experienced in reading MRIs, confirmed to him that a foreign body—most likely a micro-scrap—was present in his body. That doctor, Dr. John Hall, is an anesthesiologist in San Antonio, Texas, and he confirmed that assertion when contacted past The Reporters Inc.

"Many TIs think they've got chips in their bodies," Hall says. "But fries aren't necessary, and newly targeted individuals will waste product a lot of fourth dimension and money trying to go people to find fries in them." He adds, "The regime can conduct the torture without chips."

In 2014, Hall authored a volume entitled Guinea Pigs: Technologies of Control . The synopsis reads, in part, "For years the federal government has sought to remotely command human behavior…the American public has been unwitting republic of guinea pigs in a multitude of non-consensually performed experiments that have continued into the 21^st century."

John Hall, and his books

Hall believes that, over the course of the last 15 years, there has been a abrupt ascent in the number of people coming forward with complaints of this experimentation, specifically with electromagnetic weapons. He maintains these weapons are designed to target a man being's primal nervous organisation.

In fact, Hall says that because so many people effectually the world now claim to be victims of this experimentation, it can no longer exist attributed only to delusional disorders, schizophrenia, or whatsoever other mental illness.

Hall says the safeguards and laws confronting experimenting on United States citizens without their consent, referred to in the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects ('Common Rule') are lacking, and the policy contains several loopholes for the allowance of non-consensual experimentation, generally past intelligence agencies.

Hall told The Reporters Inc., "The root reason for this is experimentation is more than than likely for the authorities to ultimately have control of the states all, because about none of these people have reason to exist targeted. A few take been sometime whistleblowers, simply most are normal everyday folks."

Hall continued; "Over the grade of a decade I accept examined a couple thou targeted individuals and every morning there are probably about 10 new victims on my voicemail. I at present discourage them from coming into my office for that issue because my office is for anesthesia, pain management and stem cell piece of work and my schedule is full. If I were treatment targeted private cases every bit well, it would be unmanageable."'

Hall reports that virtually all targeted individuals study the same pattern:

* They say they're existence stalked

* They merits to hear voices that audio like they're from an outside source

* The believe they're being internally burned

Hall believes the burning sensation is a direct result of remotely-controlled electrical waves. In his experience, the bulk of people challenge to exist TIs are over 35-years- old, female, and unmarried or divorced.

Every bit for the medical experts who insist TIs are simply mentally ill, Hall counters, "If I hadn't been presented with thousands of the aforementioned complaints, I would have idea the same thing. But most people suffering from schizophrenia show signs of being somehow 'off' earlier in life and develop full diddled symptoms by early adulthood. By contrast, targeted individuals are, for the most function, high functioning, educated, have never been diagnosed with a mental illness, and they tin can pinpoint the moment when things started to change."

Hall continues, "I'm a doctor and see things scientifically. If at that place were ten of these cases reported in Texas, I would say, "In that location are 10 people suffering from a similar mental illness in Texas.' But when you have 1,000 loftier functioning middle-anile people say that they've heard something like 'She'south walking into the front m I'm going to zap her' and then claim to feel a burning in their chest, or head or labia, there'due south something going on. The story of why they think they're existence targeted varies, merely all study the same concrete progression."

In addition, "The voices TIs written report hearing are often similar a whisper coming out of vibrations in the room," Hall explains, "similar hearing voice patterning in an aquarium pump or box fan. As they focus, the voices become clearer and draw who they are, what they are, and what they're going to practise to the person. It's not like hearing something in your caput, it's an external sound and at that place has to be a vibratory source that enhances it."

Only couldn't other people effectually the TI hear the voices as well? Hall says no. "The voices are directed and individualized then that someone right next to the TI can't also hear it—and this makes the TI seem crazy."

Not surprisingly, Hall says a TI'due south family and friends almost never believe their claims. "Information technology's hard for them to believe something is really going on, even if they're watching their loved one wincing in hurting, because they themselves don't hear or experience a thing," he says, calculation, "About family members exercise report that the victim was high functioning and and then suddenly had complaints."

Hall says that near TIs mutter of stalking slightly before the burning attacks. "Information technology's a psychological thing," he says. "I would call information technology harassment. They park in front of your house in plain sight or stand there. It'southward usually 24/7 stalking." But Hall believes the primary goal of the stalking is to get biometric and GPS parameters in club to "direct the burn."

Hall was first introduced to the world of TIs when his former fiancé began being tormented. "I had known her for fifteen years before the attacks began. She wasn't a druggie or alcoholic or mentally ill and so suddenly she said that she was hearing voices and beingness burned."

Hall's account of his fiancé'due south experiences of supposed stalking by neighbors and tampering of electrical wiring, is eerily like to Karen's experiences, only I couldn't help merely wonder if this was simply because the flames of TI tales are being fanned by social media and online stories—that they all bounciness effectually in the same information (or disinformation) echo chambers.

Hall says "terror techniques" were used on his fiancé to go along her in line. "She said to me, 'They're threatening my parents with decease if I don't comply, so I have to go along with it.'" He says that after he'd filed police reports and tried to intervene, he besides was followed and intimidated. At ane signal, he claims, the hood on his machine flew upward and he discovered parts inside of it had been removed. At that signal, he says he reluctantly decided he needed to break upwardly with his fiancé, in part because she believed his presence in her life was causing her tormentors to torture her all the more.

Hall says he then hired a private investigator and discovered that his now ex-fiancé's apartment manager and the edifice's security guard were involved in her torture. This private investigator also supposedly discovered that a dissimilar private investigator, who Hall says had once been employed by the CIA, was heading up the torture scheme.

Hall says he brought all of the private investigator'due south findings to the attention of regime in San Antonio, but was told by constabulary that there was zippo they could practice. "Texas stalking laws were very weak at the time," Hall claims, "and they couldn't go afterwards a quondam CIA agent for stalking when that was what he did for a living. They told me, 'He'due south a individual detective, stalking is his job!'"

Hall wrote of these experiences in particular, in his 2009 book, A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America, and is now working on a film based on the aforementioned story. He speaks extensively about it hither in a 2022 YouTube post.

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Every bit Hall readily points out, the descriptions of his fiancé's experiences, besides as those of Karen and Sue, also seem similar to the serial of and then-called "health attacks" on personnel at the American Embassy in Cuba in belatedly 2016, now known as the "Havana Syndrome."

Equally described in a December 2020 report by the National Academies of Sciences, the American personnel in Cuba experienced "a sensation of head pressure or vibration, dizziness, followed in some cases past tinnitus, visual problems, vertigo, and cerebral difficulties." It continued, "Other personnel attached to the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China reported like symptoms and signs to varying degrees, beginning in the following yr. As of June 2020, many of these personnel continue to suffer from these and/or other health problems." As for the cause, the report stated that, "directed, pulsed radio frequency free energy appears to be the almost plausible mechanism in explaining these cases."

A 2022 study of 40 of those regime personnel in Republic of cuba concluded that they had been exposed to "uncharacterized directional phenomena of unknown etiology, manifesting as pressure level, vibration, or sound." The study likewise revealed "significant differences in whole brain…affair" in comparison to people with "healthy" brains and concluded "the clinical importance of these differences is uncertain."

The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba

According to a May 23, 2022 Associated Press written report, at least 130 cases of similar Havana Syndrome attacks across the U.S. government are now nether investigation, including two new cases in Washington D.C.—1 of them just steps from the White House.

A day later, on May 24, 2021, The New Yorker published an investigation headlined "Are U.S. Officials Under Silent Attack?", in which it reported top officials in the Biden administration at present privately suspect that Russia is responsible for the Havana Syndrome. They believe agents of the GRU, the Russian armed services's intelligence service, "have been aiming microwave-radiations devices at U.S. officials to collect intelligence from their computers and cell phones."

On June 9, 2021, NBC news reported that the victims' resulting health issues may initially accept been an unintentional byproduct of the "intense electromagnetic energy waves"—but at that place is at present fright the tactic has been weaponized.

The NBC report stated, "Though inflicting impairment may non have been the original intent, U.S. officials increasingly believe that whoever may be responsible is at present well aware that the devices tin cause debilitating symptoms and will seek to utilize them to target and physically damage individuals, a weapon that is difficult to trace."

On June 10, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, "We are in the midst, at the president's management, with the National Security Council in the lead, of analogous a regime-wide review, including the intelligence community, the State Section, the Defense Department, to try to get to the bottom of what caused them."

Eight days earlier, The Guardian published a piece revealing that "portable microwave weapons capable of causing the mysterious Havana Syndrome brain injuries in U.Due south. diplomats and spies take been adult by several countries in recent years."

According to the commodity, a U.S. company called WaveBand made a prototype of such a weapon in 2004. The weapon, code-named Medusa, was intended to exist portable, and "be able to switch from crowd to private coverage, cause a temporarily incapacitating effect, have a low probability of fatality or permanent injury, cause no damage to property, and take a low probability of affecting friendly personnel."

The Guardian interviewed "the leading U.Southward. potency on the biological impact of microwave free energy" who said the directed energy engineering science could create a "thermoelastic pressure wave" that travels through the brain, causing harm to soft tissue.

And WaveBand's erstwhile president and CEO, Lev Sadovnik, stated that the immediate effects of its prototype were disorientation and the impression of hearing sounds. He said of the engineering science, "It's quite believable that you can hibernate information technology in a car or in a van, but it would not work over a long altitude," he said. "You lot tin do information technology through a wall, say, if you are in the next room in a hotel."

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Increasingly desperate for help, Karen says she found and hired a "countermeasures skilful" to run "bug sweeps" and other tests inside her apartment. "Only he canceled on me twice, afterwards I'd paid him $7,000. He refuses to return the coin," she says.

Did Karen fall for a scam?

The July 2009 WIRED article independent this tidbit, "For some, this opens up a new business opportunity. In that location are already quite a few companies out there offering Technical Surveillance Counter Measures, or sweeps, to determine if you are the victim of electronic harassment. As well every bit detecting the usual bugging devices, they can check if you are being covertly bombarded by microwaves which may be the cause of 'headache, eye irritation, dizziness, nausea, skin rash, facial swelling, weakness, fatigue, pain in joints and/or muscles, buzzing/ringing in ears.' Much of this trade may come up from people with symptoms caused by something less exotic than high-tech military hardware. Merely companies will no doubt be willing to sell them expensive protection measures, anyway."

Sue says she, as well, has been taken reward of past someone claiming to be able to assistance. "This source told me that he knew the night web, and people who could become me off the government'southward terrorist list," she explains. "They said I was the nigh challenging type of case because I am on the 'Level 4' list, which I believe is truthful. They had us stay out of boondocks for a week while they did their 'TI inspect' for the expanse. They promised that if it didn't work out for me, they'd refund all the coin, merely that was a lie. They had me recruit other TIs and I had to repent to everyone afterward, letting them know they were scammers. I fell for information technology and lost over $100,000."

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My deep dive down the Targeted Private "rabbit hole" brought a few definitive conclusions but, ultimately, more questions than answers.

Having learned that technology enabling the remote torture and control of people exists, I'chiliad sure there are those prone to abuse it. Even so, as someone who'south worked professionally with people suffering from delusions, I tin hands understand how paranoid individuals could easily latch onto and adopt the stories and claims of the online TI customs as their ain.

Merely as someone with a myriad of concrete or psychological symptoms tin can notice an disease that matches those symptoms on sites like WebMD (whether it's an accurate diagnosis or non), cyberspace tales might convince some mentally ill individuals that they, too, have become TIs.

What's more, simply equally finding a WebMD diagnosis provides a person with courses of activeness to take, and possible remedies, when delusional people identify themselves every bit TIs they become part of an entire customs of activists, and already established action plans, bent on eradicating the supposed torture. They get hope.

And once a person who'due south delusional has decided that his or her symptoms are caused by government torture, read dozens of blogs and hundreds of posts in support of this belief, and received sympathy and back up from a big online community, it's very unlikely that they're going to believe they have a mental illness, or that their suffering can be alleviated with medication.

And yet, once more, there are indications that the experiences of some TIs autumn inside the realm of possibility and plausibility.

I think dorsum to my 1980s customer, Jack. Nearly eighteen months subsequently his intake session, Jack was officially diagnosed as "chronically mentally ill" and "disabled." He was suffering from paranoid delusions and transferred to case managers who could more adequately help with his day-to-24-hour interval back up needs. Jack was also cycling through near-death booze employ and wasn't expected to resume his previous level of performance.

Withal today, in light of everything I've at present learned about TIs, those tiny doubts creep back in and I wonder if in fact in that location was some truth to his claims of beingness under regime surveillance.

Sue says her situation has worsened. "We're surrounded on all four sides by gang stalkers," she says. "They take a national cellphone network that they utilize to organize. They also employ their jail cell phones to brand directed microwave energy attacks."

Every bit for Karen, she insists, once again, that she isn't crazy. "The weapons existence used are radio waves in all their various forms—microwave cable dishes, prison cell phone towers, electromagnetic fields created with the employ of oscillators and commingled electric lines, lasers, scalar waves shot from drones," she says. "Because audio waves are invisible, and considering these weapons frequently require the target's prior implantation of military technology by complicit medical personnel working with the DOD and CIA, this is a highly covert and widespread program that requires thorough research and investigation."

Karen and Sue would also be considered, by most professionals, to be suffering from some form of mental disease. Withal while each has differing theories about who's harming her and why, it's definitely curious that both women describe similar symptoms.

Granting their claims even the slightest chip of credence means that still more than questions—key and crucial questions—must exist answered:

* If what they're experiencing is a existent byproduct of some external source, is the crusade intentional perpetration, or something environmental (in this highly electronic and technological earth) that adversely affects those who are sensitive.

* If the government, or a private visitor, has the technology to control minds (either now or in the futurity), will it only exist used for noble purposes?

* And finally, and perhaps most perplexingly, if listen command applied science can indeed be tested on unsuspecting people, doesn't it simply make sense that these victims would exist made to appear crazy—then that nobody ever looks likewise securely into the matter?

My mind spins.

Kim Whiting tin exist reached at

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