CONTROL, From Page 4 perts, including George Kotov, a former KGB general now serving in.a senior government ministry post, present in their report a list of software and hardware associ- ated with their psycho-correction pro, that could be procured for as little as $80,000. * “As far as it has become possi- ble to probe and correct psychic contents of human beings despite their will and consciousness by instrumental means... results having been achieved can get out of [our] control and be used with inhumane purposes of manipulat- ‘ing psyche,” the paper states. - The Russian authors note that “World opinion is not ready for dealing appropriately with the problems coming from the possi- bility of direct access to the hu- man mind.” Therefore, the Rus- sian authors have proposed a bilateral Center for Psycho-tech- nologies where U.S. and Russian authorities could monitor and re- Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000500810007-97, 1993 DEFENSE NEWS 29 U. S., Russia Hope To Safeguard Mind- Control Techniques strict the emerging capabilities. Janet Morris of the Global Strategy Council, a Washington- based think tank established by Ray Cline, former Central Intelli- gence Agency deputy director, is a key U.S. liaison between Rus- sian and U.S. officials. In a Dec. 15 interview, Morris said she and the Richmond, Va.- based International Healthline Corp. have briefed senior U.S. in- telligence and Army officials about the Russian capabilities, which Morris said could include hand-held devices for purposes of special operations, crowd con- trol and antipersonnel! actions. Healthline Corp. is evaluating Russian health care technologies and will underwrite Russian dem- onstrations in the United States. “We talked about using this to screen and prepare special oper- ations personnel for extremely difficult missions and ways in which this could be integrated into doctrine for [psychological operations], Morris said. She said Army officials were concerned about the capability being directed against armored systems and personnel through electronic communications links. Ground troops, she said, risk ex- posure to bone-conducting sound waves that cartnot be offset by earplugs or other current protec- tive gear. Morris added that U.S. countermeasures could include sound cancellation, a complex process that involves broadcast- ing oppositely phased wave forms in precisely matched frequencies. Maj. Pete Keating, a U.S. Army spokesman, said senior Army of- ficials had expressed interest in “reviewing Russian capabilities but that repeated plans to sched- ule visits to the former Soviet Union were rejected by Donald Atwood, deputy secretary of de- fense. Keating said he was unfa- miliar with the mind-control tech- nology and could not discuss French Government Links Firms To Make Them More Competitive specific details, U.S. sources said government officials and leaders from the business .and medical communi- ties will consider Russian offers to place the mind-control capabil- ity under bilateral controls. At least one senior U.S. sena- tor, government intelligence offi- cials and'the U.S. Army’s Office for Operations, Plans and Force Development:are interested in re- viewing the Russian capabilities, U.S. sources said. In addition, International Healthline Corp. is planning to bring a team of Russian special- ists here within the next couple of months to demonstrate the ca- pability, company President Jim Hovis said in a Dec. 2 interview. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army’s Ar- mament Research, Development & Engineering Center is conduct- ing a. one-year study of acoustic beam technology that may mirror some of the effects reported by the Russians. Aspin: Staff Members. To Fill Pentagon Posts Army. spokesman Bill Harris said Dec. 3 the command award- ed the one-year study contract to Scientific Applications & Re- search Associates of Huntington Beach, Calif. Related research is being conducted at the Moscow- based Andreev Institute, U.S. and Russian sources said. Despite the growing interest in a capability traditionally reserved for science fiction novels and cin- ema, industry and academic ex- perts are ‘cautious and skeptical about its potential battlefield use. _ “This is not something that strikes me as requiring high-level - attention,” Raymond Garthoff, a . defense and ‘intelligence analyst at the Washington-based Brook- ings Institution, said in a Dec.2 interview... ; Morris contends that the capa- bility has been demonstrated in the laboratory in Russia and should be’ placed under interna- tional restrictions at the earliest possible opportunity. _ASPIN, From Page 15° mw Determining the future US. force structure and Amer- - ica’s role in U.N. peacekeep- _ is unclear exactly what job he will get. Sources said Smith's broad defense experience makes him well-suited to head On Dec. 29, the government also shifted 20 percent of its 99 _ percent stake in Aerospatiale to Credit Lyonnais, the nationalized CONSOLIDATE, From Page 4 5. 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