Ronald
Regan is re-elected.
The Boland
Amendment - The last of a series of Boland Amendments is passed. These
amendments have reduced CIA aid to the Contras; the last one cuts it off
completely. However, CIA Director William Casey is already prepared to
"hand off" the operation to Colonel Oliver North, who illegally continues
supplying the Contras through the CIA's informal, secret, and self-financing
network. This includes "humanitarian aid" donated by Adolph Coors and
William Simon, and military aid funded by Iranian arms sales.
In January,
Apple computer introduces the "Macintosh ¨" the first even remotely inexpensive
GUI-based computer with a mouse.
In England,
British Telecom is 'privatized.'
"USSR:
New Beam Energy Possible?", possibly associated with early Soviet
weather engineering efforts over the U.S. (From "Tesla's Electromagnetics
and Its Soviet Weaponization" by T. E. Bearden.)
According
to former Reagan aide Barbara Honneger,
"the fundamental reason for the increased interest
[in psi research] is initial results coming out of laboratories in the
United States and Canada that certain amplitude and frequency combinations
of external electromagnetic radiation in the brain-wave frequency range
are capable of bypassing the external sensory mechanism of organisms,
including humans, and directly stimulating higher-level neuronal structures
in the brain. This electronic stimulation is known to produce mental changes
at a distance, including hallucinations in various sensory modalities,
particularly auditory." (McRae, Ronald, Mind Wars,
St. Martin's Press, 1984, pg 136)
[Hambone
writes in regard to the above]
The overlap between these two fields can be described as:
Mis-identification
Some ELF
mind-control studies have been discussed under the heading of psychotronics.
Many, myself included, don't agree with this label, as there is no psychic
component in the study of the effects of electromagnetic radiation on
the central nervous system.
Coincidental
Findings:
As in
most scientific fields, research that is tangential for one project
may be central to another. Navy studies in ELF communications included
a portion on possible health effects. When these findings were revealed,
the possibilty of using ELF as a weapon arose, and studies were continued
in that direction. However, we can't say that all of the Navy's research
into ELF radio was a front for mind-control, as they have a definite
interest in communication with their submarines.
The same may be true for remote-viewing studies.
Studies at SRI and elsewhere measured and analyzed subject's brain waves, and also
studied the effects of ELF waves as a possible carrier for telepathic
information.
Tech
Enhanced Psi:
Some studies,
especially those involving dolphins,
tried to use technology to enhance psychic phenomena. Most of this is
pure bunk, including most of the inventions I've seen created by the
Russians and the US
Psychotronic Association. Some of it resembles telepathy simulated
by technology, such as the attempt to carry signals from dolphins to
humans via the Neurophone. This would seem to to fit better under misidentification.
Cover:
Remote
viewing, like UFOs, has been postulated by some researchers as being
used as a cover story for covert mind-control experiments. This plan
would convince the victims that the "voices" or sensory data they were
unnaturally receiving was due to channeling, telepathy, or remote-viewing.
It would also have the "high-weirdness" factor, which would preclude
a serious treatment of the subject by the mainstream media. However,
I'm hesitant to lump the entire spectrum of government interest in psi
in this category.
Cutting
Edge:
Both psychic
ability and things like non-lethal
weapons are considered to be on the "cutting edge" of military theory.
This is an alternative explanation as to why individuals like John
Alexander and David
Morehouseare interested in both fields.
The degree
to which these cross-overs apply to specific cases are dealt with individually,
and to this subject as a whole in the conclusions.