Maxwell's Silver Hammer 321
ing to see if you could hypnotize somebody easier if he was standing in a
radio beam."
Hypnotists often use a strobe light flashing at alpha-wave frequencies
to ease the glide into trance. It seems for over thirty years the Commu-
nist bloc nations have been using an ELF wave form to do the same
thing undetectably and perhaps more effectively. Ross Adey recently lost
most of his government grants and has become a bit more loquacious
about the military and intelligence uses of EMR. In 1983 he organized a
public meeting at the Loma Linda VA hospital and released photos and
information concerning a Russian Lida machine. This was a small trans-
mitter that emitted 10-hertz waves for tranquilization and enhancement
of suggestibility. The most interesting part was that the box had an
ancient vacuum-tube design, and a man who'd been a POW in Korea
reported that similar devices had been used there during interrogation.
American interest in the hypnosis-EMR interaction was still strong as
of 1974, when a research plan was filed to develop useful techniques in
human volunteers. The experimenter, J. F. Schapitz, stated: "In this
investigation it will be shown that the spoken word of the hypnotist
may also be conveyed by modulated electromagnetic energy directly into
the subconscious parts of the human brain—i.e., without employing
any technical devices for receiving or transcoding the messages and with-
out the person exposed to such influence having a chance to control the
information input consciously." As a preliminary test of the general con-
cept, Schapitz proposed recording the brain waves induced by specific
drugs, then modulating them onto a microwave beam and feeding them
back into an undrugged person's brain to see if the same state of con-
sciousness could be produced by the beam alone.
Schapitz's main protocol consisted of four experiments. In the first,
subjects would be given a test of a hundred questions, ranging from easy
to technical, so they all would know some but not all of the answers.
Later, while in hypnoid states and not knowing they were being irradi-
ated, these people would be subjected to information beams suggesting
answers for some of the items they'd left blank, amnesia for some of
their correct answers, and memory falsification for other correct answers.
A new test would check the results two weeks later.
The second experiment was to be the implanting of hypnotic sugges-
tions for simple acts, like leaving the lab to buy some particular item,
which were to be triggered by a suggested time, spoken word, or sight.
Subjects were to be interviewed later. "It may be expected," Schapitz
wrote, "that they rationalize their behavior and consider it to be under-
taken out of their own free will."