Intracerebral Implants
"Perhaps the most interesting pieces of evidence surrounding the
abduction phenomenon are the
intracerebral implants allegedly visible in the X-rays and MRI scans of
many abductees. Indeed,
abductees often describe operations in which needles are inserted into
the brain; more frequently
still, they report implantation of foreign objects through the sinus
cavities. Many abduction
specialists assume that these intracranial incursions must be the
handiwork of scientists from the
stars.."
"The abductees' implants strongly suggest a technological lineage which
can be traced to a device
known as a "stimoceiver", invented in the late '50s-early '60s by a
neuroscientist named Jose
Delgado. The stimoceiver is a miniature depth electrode which can
receive and transmit electronic
signals over FM radio waves. By stimulating a correctly-positioned
stimoceiver, an outside
operator can wield a surprising degree of control over the subject's
responses.
- Martin Cannon, The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien
Abduction
"Radio stimulation of different points in the amygdala and hippocampus
in the four patients
produced a variety of effects, including pleasant sensations, elation,
deep, thoughtful
concentration, odd feelings, super relaxation, colored visions, and
other responses.".
- Jose Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind: Towards a
Psychocilvilised Society
Of one experimental subject, Delgado notes that 'the patient expressed
the successive sensations
of fainting, fright and floating around. These 'floating' feelings were
repeatedly evoked on different
days by stimulation of the same point..." Ufologists may recognize the
similarity of this sequence of
events to abductee reports of the opening minutes of their experiences."
"In a fascinating series of experiments, Delgado attached the
stimoceiver to the tympanic
membrane, thereby transforming the ear into a sort of micro-phone. An
assistant would whisper
"How are you?"into the ear of a suitably 'fixed' cat, and Delgado could
hear the words over a
loudspeaker in the next room.
The application of this technology to the
spy trade should be
readily apparent. According to Victor Marchetti, The Agency once
attempted a
highly-sophisticated extension of this basic idea, in which radio
implants were attached to a cat's
cochlea, to facilitate the pinpointing of specific conversations, freed
from extraneous surrounding
noises. Such 'advances' exacerbate the already-imposing level of
Twentieth-Century paranoia:
Not only can our phones be tapped and mail checked, but even TABBY may
be spying on us!"
"Robert G. Heath, of Tulane University, who has implanted as many as 125
electrodes in his
subjects, achieved his greatest notoriety by attempting to 'cure'
homosexuality through ESB. In his
experiments, he discovered that he could control his patients' memory;
he could also induce
sexual arousal, fear, pleasure, and hallucinations. Heath and another
researcher, James Olds, have
independently illustrated that areas of the brain in and near the
hypothalamus have, when
electronically stimulated, what has been described as 'rewarding' and
'aversive' effects.
"Both animals and men, when given the means to induce their own ESB of
the brain's pleasure
centers, will stimulate themselves at a tremendous rate, ignoring such
basic drives as hunger and
thirst. (Using fixed electrodes of his own invention, John C. Lilly had
accomplished similar effects
in the early 1950s.)" "Bryan Robinson, of the Yerkes primate laboratory
has conducted
fascinating simian research on the use of remote ESB in a social
context. He could cause mothers
to ignore their offspring, despite the babies' cries. He could turn
submission into dominance, and
vice-versa."
"In his autobiography The Scientist John C. Lilly (who would later
achieve a cultish reknown for
his work with dolphins, drugs and sensory deprivation) records a
conversation he had with the
director of the National Institute Mental Health in 1953. The director
asked Lilly to brief the CIA,
FBI, NSA and the various military intelligence services on his work
using electrodes to stimulate
directly the pleasure and pain centers of the brain. Lilly refused..."
- Martin Cannon, The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien
Abduction
"Dr. Antoine Remond, using our techniques in Paris, has demonstrated
that this method of
stimulation of the brain can be applied to the human without the help of
the neuro-surgeon; he is
doing it in his office in Paris without neuro-surgical supervision. This
means that anybody with the
proper apparatus can carry this out on a person covertly, with no
external signs that electrodes
have been used on that person. I feel that if this technique got into
the hands of a secret agency,
they would have total control over a human being and be able to change
his beliefs extremely
quickly, leaving little evidence of what they had done."
- John C. Lilly, The Scientist
"Despite his avowed phobia against secrecy, a careful reading of The
Scientist reveals that he
continued to do work useful to this country's national security
apparatus. His sensory deprivation
experiments expanded upon the work of ARTICHOKE's Maitland Baldwin, and
even his dolphin
research has - perhaps inadvertently - proved useful in naval warfare.
One should note that Lilly's
work on monkeys carried a "secret"classification, and that NIMH was a
common CIA funding
conduit."
"Over the years, certain journalists have asserted that the CIA has
mastered a technology call
RHIC-EDOM. RHIC means 'Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control'. EDOM
stands for
'Electronic Dissolution of Memory.' Together, these techniques can -
allegedly - remotely induce
hypnotic trance, deliver suggestions to the subject, and erase all
memory for both the instruction
period and the act which the subject is asked to perform.
"RHIC uses the stimoceiver, or a microminiaturized offspring of that
technology to induce a
hypnotic state. Interestingly, this technique is also reputed to involve
the use of
INTRAMUSCULAR implants, a detail strikingly reminiscent of the 'scars'
mentioned in Budd
Hopkins Missing Time. Apparently, these implants are stimulated to
induce a post-hypnotic
suggestion.
"EDOM is nothing more than missing time itself - the erasure of memory
from consciousness
through the blockage of synaptic transmission in certain areas of the
brain. By jamming the brain's
synapses through a surfeit of acetocholine, neural transmission along
selected pathways can be
effectively stilled. According to the proponents of RHIC-EDOM,
acetocholine production can be
affected by electromagnetic means. (Modern research in the
psycho-physiological effects of
microwaves confirm this proposition.)"
- Martin Cannon, The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien
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