Project Lucid, page 17
The Puzzle Palace, by James Bamford. Signals intelligence; most advanced computers in the early sixties.
The US Intelligence Community. Glossary terms at National Security Archives: Radiation Intelligence (information from unintentionally emanated electromagnetic energy, excluding radioactive sources).
The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” by John Marks. Electrical or radio stimulation to the brain; CIA R&D in bioelectrics (p. 227).
Secret Agenda, by Jim Hougan. National security cult groups.
Crimes of the Intelligence Community, by Morton Halperin. Surreptitious entries; intelligence agents running operations against government workers.
War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. NSA computer supremacy, complete control of information.
Alternate Computers, by Time-Life Books. Molecule computers.
The Mind, by Richard Restak, M.D. EEG Systems, Inc.; decoding brain EM emanations; tracking thoughts on a computer (p. 258).
MedTech, by Lawrence Galton. Triggering events in the brain, direct to auditory cortex signals.
Cyborg, by D. S. Halacy, Jr,1965. Brain-to-computer link research contracts given out by the US Government.
Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control, by Harvey M. Weinstein, M.D. Dr. Cameron; psychic driving; ultraconceptual communications.
Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, by Gordon Thomas. Intelligence R&D; Delgado; psychic driving with radio telemetry (pp. 127, 276, 116, 168-69).
Mind Manipulators, by Alan Scheflin and Edward M. Opton. MKULTRA brain research for information-gathering.
The Brain Changers, by Maya Pines. Listening to brain EM emissions (p. 19).
Modern Bioelectricty. Inducing audio in the brain with EM waves; DoD cover-up; EM wave ESB; remote EEGs.
Magnetic Stimulation in Clinical Neurophysiology, by Sudhansu Chokroverty. Magnetophosphenes; images direct to the visual cortex.
The Mind of Man, by Nigel Calder. US Intelligence brain research.
Neuroelectric Society Conference, 1971. Audio direct to the brain with EM waves; two-way remote EEGs.
Brain Control, by Elliot S. Valenstein. ESB; control of individuals.
Towards Century 21, by C. S. Wallia. Brain stimulation for direct-to-brain communications (p. 21).
Mind Wars, by Ron McRae (associate of Jack Anderson). Research into brain-to-brain electronic communications; remote neural EM detection (pp. 62, 106, 136).
Mind Tools, by Rudy Rucker. Brain tapping; communications with varying biomagnetic fields (p. 82).
US News & World Report, Jan 2,1984. EM wave brain stimulation; intelligence community high tech (p. 38).
Ear Magazine. Article on extremely low frequency radio emissions in the natural environment; radio emissions from the human body.
City Paper, Washington, DC, Jan 17, 1992. Article on FCC and NSA “complete radio spectrum” listening posts.
Frontiers in Science, by Edward Hutchings, Jr, 1958 (p. 48).
Beyond Biofeedback, by Elmer and Alyce Green, 1977 (p. 118).
The Body Quantum, by Fred Alan Wolf.
Cloning: A Biologist Reports, by Robert Gilmore McKinnell. Ethical review of cloning humans.
Hoover’s FBl, by former agent William Turner. Routines of electronic surveillance work (p. 280).
July 20, 2019, by Arthur C. Clarke. LIDA; neurophonics; brain-computer link.
MegaBrain, by Michael Hutchison. Brain stimulation with EM waves; CIA research and information control (pp. 107, 108, 117, 120, 123).
The Cult of Information, by Theodore Rosnak, 1986. NSA Directive #145; personal files in computers; computer-automated telephone tapping.
The Body Shop. 1968 implantation of an electrode array on the visual cortex for video direct to the brain; other 1960’s research into electronically triggering phosphenes in the brain, thus bypassing the eyes.
Evoked Potentials, by David Regan. Decoding neuroelectric information in the brain.
Appendix 2: World Surveillance Headquarters
The report that follows, originally entitled, “National Surveillance,” was written by Australia’s Peter Sawyer and published in Inside News (P.O. Box 311, Maleny Queensland 4552, Australia). It first came to my attention when it was printed in the U.S. by LtCol Archibald E. Roberts’ Bulletin, the newsletter of the highly respected Committee to Restore the Constitution (P.O. Box 936, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522). This article caused a flurry of activity and a round of vigorous denials, admissions, coverups, and more denials by Australian political leaders. The article contends that (I) America’s National Security Agency (NSA) is world surveillance headquarters, arid (2) Australia has its own secret “computer centre” facility, linked with the NSA via satellite, which illegally watches aver Australia’s citizenry.
On a fateful fall day in America, on November 4th, 1952, a new United States government agency quietly, and without fanfare, was brought into existence through presidential decree. Few people in America took much notice; they were in the middle of their elections. It is doubtful any ordinary person in Australia knew anything about it at all, or if they did, placed any significance in the matter. Which is a pity; the birth of the National Security Agency (NSA) on that day so long ago, heralded the beginning of the world’s most sophisticated and all encompassing surveillance system, and the beginnings of the greatest threat to individual liberty and freedom not only Australia, but the entire planet, will ever see.
The NSA grew out of the post war “Signals Intelligence” section of the U.S. Defense Department. It is unique amongst government organizations in America, and indeed, most other countries, in that there are NO specified or defined limits to its powers. The NSA can (and does) do just about whatever it wants, whenever, and wherever it wants. Administration of the organization is by the Office of Communications, better known as “COMSEC.” COMSEC is a board of directors consisting of: the Secretary of State; the Secretary of Commerce; the Secretary of the Treasury; the Attorney General; and the Secretaries of each of the Armed Services. The Chairman is the Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defence for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence.
Although little known in both the U.S. and elsewhere, the NSA is quite literally the most powerful organization in the world. By comparison, the much better known CIA is but a minor “police arm” of its parent, the NSA. Not limited by any law, and answerable only to the U.S. National Security Council through COMSEC, the NSA now controls an information and surveillance network around the globe that even Orwell, in his novel, “1984,” could not have imagined. Most people believe that the current “computer age” grew out of either the space programme or the nuclear weapons race; it did not. ALL significant advances in computer technology over the last thirty years, from the very beginnings of IBM, through to the super computers of today, have been for the NSA. In fact, the world’s very first “super computer,” the awe-inspiring CRAY, was built to specification for the NSA and installed in their headquarters in 1976. The entire, twentieth century development of computer technology has been the result of the NSA’s unquenchable thirst for ever bigger, ever faster machines on which to collect, collate, and cross-reference data on hundreds of millions of honest, law-abiding, and totally unsuspecting individuals. And not only in America, but in many other countries as well. Including, as we shall see, Australia.
World Surveillance H.Q.
Fort Meade, Washington
The NSA’s headquarters are at Fort Meade, Washington. Built in 1954 specifically for the NSA, Fort Meade is the second largest building in Washington, overshadowed only by the Pentagon itself. Fort Meade is the hub of an information gathering octopus whose tentacles reach out to the four corners of the earth. The principal means of communicating this information is by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) satellite communications system, which most people erroneously think exists primarily for the space programme. It does not. The satellites, indeed NASA and the entire American Space Programme, exist largely to supply the NSA with its telecommunications system. This is why the bulk of its operations are officially declared “secret.” Everything else, from astronauts on the moon, to nonstick, teflon frying pans, are mere “spinoffs” of a monstrous plan to be able to monitor every aspect of every person’s life in the entire Western world. This effort to build the ultimate “Big Brother” machine, for the ultimate Fascist State, even has an official name, “Project Platform.” The European version of Fort Meade is based at Brussels, and the Soviets have a similar computer-surveillance system for the people of the Eastern-Bloc countries. These centres of people control are, in turn, interlinked to each other.
Although the NSA was officially formed in 1952, it grew out of an International Agreement signed in 1947. Officially termed the “UKUSA PACT,” this was an agreement between Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, all the NATO countries, Japan, and Korea. The UKUSA PACT was, quite simply and bluntly, an agreement between these countries to collect and collate information on their respective citizens and to share this information with each other and pass it on to Fort Meade. In order to facilitate this, the agreement laid down a set of common standards for equipment, terminology, intercept procedures, and so-on.
When I first broke the story on the UKUSA PACT in December 1988, there were politicians who publicly stated that such an agreement did not, and never had, existed. Many of these “informed” representatives continue to make this claim even today, despite the fact that the UKUSA PACT has been mentioned in Parliament and its existence confirmed in Hansard. The last time was in 1977 when, on March 9, the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Bill Hayden, asked “questions on notice” on the subject. On April 19, the then Prime Minister, Mr. Malcom Fraser, declined to answer the questions, “in the interests of National Security:”
The Early Australian Headquarters
That some level of surveillance and monitoring of Australian citizens was carried out right from the start is highly probable, though how, and where, has proved impossible to learn. The first clue of the Australian Headquarters of this unknown infringement of our basic rights appeared in 1975. Then, as today, government undertakings involving expenditure over a certain amount must be presented to a Senate body, the Joint Parliamentary Accounts Committee (JPAC). In 1975, JPAC was asked to examine and approve finance for the construction of a new building in Deakin, a leafy suburb of Canberra a little west of the new Parliament House. This quite massive building was to be constructed behind an existing, much smaller one, which, until then, had been known to the public only as the “Deakin Telephone Exchange.”
That it was not, and never had been, simply a “telephone exchange” finally came to light in the 1975 JPAC Approval Report, when it was admitted that the existing building had a comprehensive basement which housed NASA’s microwave communications headquarters in Australia. Part of the justification of the “need” for the new, much larger building, was that by 1980, it was expected that NASA would run out of room in their existing home.
Incidentally, despite this document being readily available to anyone who cares to seek it, and despite the fact that approval to commence construction was only given in late 1975, there are STILL politicians, journalists, and television “current affairs” programmes insisting that the edifice was constructed simply “as a telephone exchange,” and that it was completed in 1972!
The “old” Deakin “Telephone Exchange” was built in 1966, presumably complete with NASA’s basement, so it is safe to assume that this was the Australian headquarters of PROJECT PLATFORM from then, till 1980, when the new, larger building was completed. As another interesting aside, the size of the new Deakin building was largely justified (apart from allowing for NASA’s expansion) on the grounds that it would house the telecommunications network for the new Parliament House. Deakin, however, complete with room for this facility, was approved fully six months before Parliament finished “debating” the issue of whether or not the new Parliament House would even be built, which gives you some idea of just how serious the “debate” really was.
The Deakin Centre—Australia’s Largest Telephone Exchange
Like its predecessor, the new home for NASA was built under the camouflage of being a “telephone exchange.” To this day, there are politicians and “informed” media personalities who insist it was merely built as an exchange, and when it was finished, found to be “superfluous” to Telecom’s needs. This, the official explanation goes, is how and why it ended up full of computers.
There are a couple of things wrong with this “official” explanation. First and foremost is the JPAC Report, confirming that the building was meant, amongst other things, to allow for the expansion of NASA’s facility. Second, Telecom produced a booklet called “Service and Business Outlook” which details their main expenditure each year, including all outlays for construction over $250,000. Deakin, a multi-multi-million dollar edifice, was built between 1977 and 1980, without Telecom ever showing a SINGLE CENT for construction. I have no idea who ultimately paid for Deakin, but it wasn’t Telecom. Not, at least, according to their own financial reports.
Third, and most telling of all, despite the fact that Deakin was not even finished until February 1980, space was being leased out to government departments to house their new “computer headquarters” fully six months before the building was completed. These departments, in turn, had commenced assessing the building’s “suitability” up to a year and a half prior to leasing a portion. That is, (if you want to believe the “official” version), Deakin was commenced in late 1977, and by early 1978, before it was even one quarter constructed, had been deemed “superfluous” to Telecom’s needs. Again, doubting politicians and media-types can find a full explanation of this assessment process in the 1979 JPAC Report on “MANDATA,” another supposedly bungled computer network.
Apart from NASA, it is now admitted that Deakin houses the National Computer Headquarters for, amongst others, the Australian Defence Department, the Australian Taxation Office, the Department of Social Security, the Commonwealth Department of Education, and the Department of Transport and Communications. Both Tax and Social Security are, in turn, directly linked to Medicare. In fact, the Department of Health used Social Security’s computer facilities there until their own were completed. A small, but highly significant, part of the building is, in fact, occupied by Telecom. This is the part that contains the networking junctions for the optical-fibre lines leased by the banks for their “Electronic Funds Transfer System” (EFTS). ALL financial transactions by the banks are handled by a subsidiary company, “Funds Transfers Services Pty Ltd.” (FTS). The computing headquarters of FTS is just around the corner from the Deakin Centre, in Thesiger Court. We will return to this matter in the next issue. Deakin is also the telecommunication network headquarters for the new Parliament House.
The Political Coverup
When these details first appeared in the Inside News in September, 1987, the political reaction was immediate. Statements ranged from “impossible” to “ludicrous.” Australia’s politicians unanimously agreed that the building was “only” a telephone exchange. Ian Sinclair, then Leader of the National Party, wrote to his constituents assuring them that it was “only” a telephone exchange. Senator Janine Haines, of the Australian Democrats, appeared on morning radio in Sydney with John Tingle and said she had “personally inspected the place, and it was nothing more than a telephone exchange.” Mr. Tingle and the good Senator went on to agree that anyone who suggested otherwise, was obviously a “neo-Nazi Fascist,” although, to this day, I have been unable to see the connection. Still, according to the Senator, anyone who disagrees with her and the Democrats is some form of “Fascist.” It was Senator Haines who referred to Australia’s concerned aged pensioners as “a bunch of geriatric Fascists.”
Garry Nehl, a National Party politician, flooded Canberra with a five-page story about how people in Sweden had been “conned” into believing that they were all being secretly numbered on the forehead with some kind of laser beam. This, Mr. Nehl said authoritively, was the “kind of nonsense Peter Sawyer was peddling.” Little Johnny Howard, then Leader of the Opposition, who never managed to get ANYTHING right, went a step further and actually attributed the Swedish Number story directly to me and repeated the statement that “it was all nonsense.” Michael Cobb, a rural Liberal Politician described it as “preposterous.” I have no idea if there is any truth in the highly improbable “Swedish” story or not. Through it all, however, Deakin and its billion dollars worth of computer equipment quietly ticked on, amassing data on each and every Australian.
It was not until October 28, 1987, that the first crack appeared in the effort to pass Deakin off simply as a “telephone exchange.” On that day, a Liberal Senator from Tasmania, Senator Shirley Walters, released an Australia-wide press-statement to the effect that she had sent one of her staff members to Deakin to inspect the place, only to have that officer run off the site by two ARMED GUARDS, one of whom had demanded the officer’s name and personal details and noted his car registration number. On hearing this, the Senator, in her official capacity as a member of the JPAC Committee, had tried to elicit further information about Deakin. She was ultimately referred to the Department of Administrative Services, (DAS) who, strangely enough, was responsible for this “telephone exchange.” They, however, couldn’t, or wouldn’t, disclose any details to her over the phone. Senator Walters had then hauled the DAS authorities before the JPAC Committee, only to be told that all they could say for sure was that Telecom used part of the building. That this was a lie and amounted to contempt of Parliament was later disclosed, but, like everything else connected with Deakin, the fact has been conveniently forgotten. (If the officers questioned meant they were claiming that this was all they actually KNEW about Deakin, they were lying. DAS collects the rent from ALL the departments occupying the building. If they meant that it was all they FELT they could say, they were lying as well, as it has been consistently denied that there is any kind of “security” classification on Deakin and the departments in there.)
