HAARP: Weaponizing the Atmosphere and Beyond

[Guest guest]

Editor's note: Jerry Smith's last

feature work was to be part of a top-secret book, to be published by

Defender Publishing LLC. Given Jerry's passing, we are providing his

chapter (below) to the public at this time. Wikipedia's entry also notes: Jerry E. Smith (8

April 1950, Pomona, California 8 March 2010) was an author, lecturer,

poet, and editor. His bibliography of published works includes three

books from Adventures Unlimited Press (AUP), scores of non-fiction

articles and reviews, and more than a dozen ghost-written books. He was

a close friend and literary partner of author Jim Keith. They worked

together on magazines and books, and co-hosted a radio show broadcast

from the campus of the Oregon Institute of Technology.

 

 

 

 

 

HAARP:

Weaponizing the Atmosphere and Beyond By Jerry E. Smith, RaidersNewsNetwork.com, March 25, 2010, 11:00 am Eastern

 

A lot of things spooked folks at

the end of the last millenniumas this book attests, some of them

turned out to be real threats that need to be dealt with now. One of

those very real things that went bump on the Internet was the

High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).

 

HAARP is a field of antennas on

the ground in Southeastern Alaska linked together to work as one giant

antenna. Today, it is the worlds largest radio frequency (RF)

broadcaster, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of three to four

billion watts. It uses a unique patented ability to focus the RF energy

generated by the antenna field, injecting it into a spot at the very

top of the atmosphere in a region called the ionosphere.

 

As you can imagine, injecting

that much RF energy into a spot about twelve miles across by about two

and a half miles deep (by about ninety miles up), heats the thin

atmosphere of the ionospheric region by several thousand degrees.

HAARP, then, is a type of device called an ionospheric heater.

 

HAARP is one of about twenty

ionospheric heaters scattered around the planet and in use todaybut it

is the largest and most powerful, and the only one that can focus its

output. This heating of the ionosphere allows scientists to do a number

of things. Controlling and directing the processes and forces of the

ionosphere by intentionally modifying it is called ionospheric

enhancement.

 

An early HAARP document

stated: "The heart of the program will be the development of a unique

ionospheric heating capability to conduct the pioneering experiments

required to adequately assess the potential for exploiting ionospheric

enhancement technology for Department of Defense (DOD) purposes."[1]

 

What might those DOD

purposes be? Something about winning wars, eh? HAARP proponents[2] claim it

is nothing more than a simple civilian research stationwhich may be

true, but what is it researching? It is not about understanding how the

atmosphere works. That research was largely completed decades ago. The

Executive Summary of Applications and Research Opportunities Using

HAARP says:

 

"The HAARP facility,

currently under development in Alaska, is the outgrowth of more than 30

years of ionospheric heating research. A wealth of experimental studies

conducted at ionospheric heating installations, such as the ones in

Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Tromso, Norway; Fairbanks, Alaska; and several

installations in the former USSR brought the understanding of the

physics and the phenomenology of the HF [High-frequency]-ionosphere

interactions to a new plateau. The scientific field was ready to make

the transition from pure research to applications in the civilian and

military arenas."[3]

 

HAARP is about applying what we

know to achieving military objectives. It is, in simplest terms,

looking for ways to weaponize the atmosphere. It is but one of many

programs seeking to control and direct natural processessuch as the

weather, earthquakes, and tidal wavesto achieve military objectives;

in effect, it seeks to draft Mother Nature.

 

The research at HAARP is being

conducted without adequate multidisciplinary oversight. The research

itself, much less any application or technology developed from the

research, has tremendous potential for environmental and human

disaster. While there are a multitude of concerns, the general publics

interest has centered on the possibilities of HAARP affecting the

weather, setting off earthquakes, or being used for covert mind

control. How this might be, Ill outline in this chapter.

 

These concerns, although

outlandish sounding, are real. Scientific American

noted that a dogleg in the jet stream over HAARP in 2000 resulted in a

swarm of out-of-season tornadoes in Florida.[4] HAARP is

operating in frequencies known to have serious impacts on humans, yet

no biological scientists are involved. The European[5] and

Russian[6]

parliaments have both demanded international oversight, and the U.S.

has simply ignored their demands.

 

This is not like testing a

new gun in a lab. This research is being done in the real world in real

time with real natural systems and real potential for disasterpossibly

irreversible disaster! The whole planet is the HAARP lab, and that

makes every living thing an unwitting subject of the experiment, which

is a violation of the Nuremberg Code.[7] None of

us has given informed consent.

 

If this is civilian science as

claimed, then the international scientific community should oversee it,

as the entire planet is affected. If it is military, as is obvious

despite official claims otherwise, then it should at least have a

proper multidisciplinary review panel and personnel on the ground.

Right now, neither of those conditions is being met.

 

On March, 23, 1983, President

Ronald Reagan called upon " the scientific community in our country,

those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to

the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering

these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."

 

This quest for the creation of a

technology, of a weapon or weapons systems that would make atomic war

impossible, was officially named the Strategic Defense Initiative

(SDI). The press lost no time in dubbing it "Star Wars" after the

George Lucas movie. That initiative sent the United States

military-industrial-scientific research community on the greatest

and costliest weapons hunt in human history. Thousands of ideas were

floatedhundreds of those were funded. Most lines of SDI research have

since been abandoned. Some, however, are still being actively pursued

to this day. Many people around the world, myself included, believe

that HAARP is one of them.

 

Officially, "The HAARP

Interactive Ionospheric Research Observatory is a major Arctic facility

for the study of upper atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics and

for Radio Science and Communications research. Among the instruments

included at the facility are a high power, high-frequency (HF) phased

array radio transmitter, numerous radio frequency and optical research

instruments capable of observing and monitoring the complex auroral

ionosphere, and site infrastructure to support research activities."[8]

 

The above is from the University

of Alaska at Anchorage original HAARP website (that page has been

slightly rewritten now). The Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) is

the high-frequency-phased array radio transmitter mentioned in the

paragraph above. It is the heart of the program.

 

Today, the IRI is a field of 180

towers, each 72 feet tall with two crossed, dipole antennas at the top

of each tower. These antennas are for broadcasting in the High

Frequency (HF) range, which is an audible range below the lowest ranges

currently used for radio communications (below shortwave). Slung

beneath the towers is a wire grid for reflecting upward any radio

emissions from the antennas that heads toward the ground. Beneath the

mesh are small buildings called shelters for the radio transmitters.

All of these elements are linked together to act as one giant

transmitting antenna. The 360 antenna elements of the field

collectively output some 3.6 million watts. Injecting that output into

the electrically charged ionospheric region magnifies the signal

strength up to a thousand times, giving HAARP an effective radiated

power (ERP) of three to four billion watts!

 

Alaska has two ionospheric

heaters, HAARP and the HIPAS (HIgh Power Auroral Stimulation)

Observatory, operated by the University of California at Los Angeles

Plasma Physics Laboratory. Work there proved that ionospheric heaters

could generate Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) radio waves to

successfully find underground targets. In the late 1980s, sensors in

Fairbanks picked up ELF waves generated in the ionosphere by HIPAS as

they returned from deep underground. After interpretation, they clearly

revealed an old mining tunnel below the surface. The success of this

experiment was later used to convince the U.S. Senate to fund HAARP.[9]

 

HAARP has been successfully using

the ionosphere to generate ELF since 1995, bathing most of the world in

its signal, of which the wavelengths are so long that they circle the

earth and penetrate deep into the earth and sea. The possibility of

seeing deep into the earth led the Senate to fund HAARP, insisting that

its primary mission would be to develop the capacity to conduct deep

earth scans for nuclear counterproliferation efforts.

 

ELF/VLF radio waves penetrate

deeply beneath the surface of the earth and interact with the geologic

structure of the earthProper understanding of the physics of the

generation and propagation of ELF/VLF waves and their interactions with

earth materials will allow these waves to be used for applications such

as sub-surface communications and exploration of the subsurface

geological structureto detect and image subterranean features such as

tunnels, bunkers, and other potential military targets.

 

In 1994, the Senate Armed

Services Committee noted the promising results of the high frequency

active auroral research program (HAARP). This transmitter in Alaska,

besides providing a world class research facility for ionospheric

physics, could allow earth- penetrating tomography over most of the

northern hemisphere. Such a capability would permit the detection and

precise location of tunnels, shelters, and other underground shelters.

The absence of such a capability has been noted as a serious weakness

in the Department of Defense plans for precision attacks on hardened

targets and for counterproliferation.[10]

 

Curiously, there is no official

confirmation of HAARP ever having been used to target or monitor enemy

underground bases. But HAARP officials do admit they have been using

the same, deep-sea-penetrating ELF signals to communicate with

deeply submerged submarines.

 

Mind Control and Mental

Dysfunction

 

What about fears that HAARP could have

a negative impact on the mental health of people populating entire

regions of the globe, or could even be used to mind control or

brainwash whole populations? HAARPs ionospherically generated ELF is

at exactly the same frequency at which the human brain works. Could we

be picking up some part of those signals?

 

In a seminal article on

HAARP in Nexus Magazine,[11] Dr. Nick

Begich and Jeane Manning describe how HAARP could be used to induce

mental dysfunction, quoting from presidential security advisor Zbigniew

Brzezinski[12] on a

proposal from UCLAs Dr. MacDonald, saying: Political strategists are

tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behavior.

Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonaldspecialist in problems of

warfaresays [an] accurately-timed, artificially-excited

electronic stroke could lead to a pattern of oscillations that

produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the

Earth. In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously

impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected

regions over an extended period

 

There has been concern that HAARP

and other sky busters could be covertly used to mess with our minds

for decades. One of the first projects to raise such concerns was the

so-called "Russian Woodpecker."

 

The bicentennial of the American

Revolution was celebrated on July 4, 1976. The Soviets made some

"fireworks" of their own by beginning a series of broadcasts that

became known to ham radio operators around the world as the "Russian

Woodpecker" in that same year. The official Defense Department

explanation of the Woodpecker signal was that it was an

over-the-horizon radar system designed to detect enemy missile

launches. This is essentially what the Over The Horizon Backscatter

(OTH-B) program, the original occupier of the HAARP site, was intended

to be. These broadcast-interfering electromagnetic signals were on

the three to thirty megahertz (MHz) bands, and were usually pulsed at

an on-off rate of ten per second, which gave the signal the

characteristic tapping that gave rise to its being called the "Russian

Woodpecker."

 

In The Zapping of

America, Paul Brodeur wrote: "A report published in the New York

Times on October 30, 1976, revealed that in recent months a mysterious

broadband, short-wave radio signal had been broadcast intermittently

from the Soviet Union. The signal was so powerful that it disrupted

radio and telecommunications throughout the world. Dr. Zaret is

concerned about the Russian signalbecause of its potential hazard to

human beingsit was very clear that such an encoding impressed onto

carrier wavelengths could have a central-nervous-system effect."[13]

 

In the early 1950s, the

Soviets began directing a microwave beam at the United States embassy

in Moscow. They spent the next four decades using our embassy workers

as guinea pigs for their electromagnetic radiation (EMR) experiments.

Washington, D.C. was oddly silent regarding the Moscow embassy

bombardment when it was discovered in 1962. It was investigated by the

CIA, who brought in an outside consultant, Dr. Milton Zaret, giving his

investigation the code name "Project Pandora."[14] Zaret

was startled to discover that the beam was focused precisely upon the

ambassador's office. The intensity of the bombardment was not made

public, but when the State Department finally admitted to the existence

of the Moscow signal over a decade later, it was announced that it was

"fairly low."

 

The Moscow signal finally became

public knowledge in the mid-seventies. It then became the subject of

heated debate in the media. In 1976, The Los Angeles Times

reported that the United States ambassador to the USSR had informed his

Moscow staff that the microwaves that the Soviets were beaming at the

United States embassy in Moscow could cause emotional and behavioral

problems, as well as leukemia, cancer, and cataracts. At least one of

our ambassadors died as a result of exposure to the signal.

 

The Russian Woodpecker would

appear to be an expansion of the Moscow signal, upping the ante from

one building, the U. S. Embassy, to the whole United States. In the

fall of 1976, after just a few months of operation, the Soviets

completed the first of several expansions of their ELF Woodpecker grid.

That expansion was accompanied by a major piece of curiosity, if not an

outright criminal act. In 1977, the United States government sold the

Soviets a supermagnet they knew was going to become part of the

Woodpecker program. This magnet was a forty-ton monster capable of

generating a magnetic field 250,000 times more powerful than that of

the earth's magnetic field. Its purpose was to override, blank out,

and/or interfere with the earth's natural magnetic field to permit the

Soviet Woodpecker signals to penetrate to the United States. The United

States not only knew what it was for, they sent a team of scientists to

help the Russians install it! This supermagnet was installed at the

Gomel site, powered by the Chernobyl reactor. Eleven years later, in

1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor outside of Kiev, Ukraine exploded,

ending these signals.

 

Following the 1977 upgrade, a

series of mysterious sonic booms were heard off the eastern coast of

the United States. Some researchers believe these were the result of

the newly enhanced Woodpecker being calibrated. A United Press

International (UPI) wire story of December, 22, 1977, reported that "a

series of mysterious atmospheric explosions were reported along the New

Jersey shore last night for the third time this month. Police said the

explosions were preceded by a series of rumblings. On December 2, there

were two similar incidents, but the Federal Aviation Administration,

the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have

been unable to offer any explanation for the blasts."

 

The following month, the

Associated Press (AP) reported that a White House spokesman had

informed the press that the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) would

conduct a "measured and prudent" inquiry into the "mysterious

atmospheric booms off the East Coast." The NRL never released its

findings, but a little over a decade later it became a member of the

HAARP project. Coincidence?

 

David Brinkley, on the TV

show "NBC Magazine,"[15] spoke of

the Woodpecker signal. He revealed to his audience that the

northwestern United States had been continuously bombarded by the USSR

with low-frequency waves set at the approximate level of biological

frequencies. Brinkley said: "As I say I find it hard to believe, it is

crazy and none of us here knows what to make of it: the Russian

Government is known to be trying to change human behavior by external

electronic influences. We do know that much. And we know that some kind

of Russian transmitter is bombarding this country with extreme low

frequency radio waves."

 

Hypnotists have long known that

when a subject is given a post-hypnotic command to perform some act in

the waking state, the subject will do it and rationalize the act as his

or her own idea. In one such example, hypnotists put Robert Kennedy's

convicted killer, Sirhan Sirhan, under, then told him to swing from the

bars of his cell like a monkey when he was awakened. Sirhan carried out

the instruction. When told he had been hypnotized and shown a video of

himself acting like a monkey, he insisted that it had been entirely his

own idea; he said he needed the exercise! Instructions, thoughts, or

beliefs transmitted to a target subject could similarly be accepted by

the subject as his or her own thoughts. This is the essence of research

into mind control effected through the use of electromagnetic

broadcasts.

 

In HAARPs use of the ionosphere

to rebroadcast in the ELF and/or microwave ranges, we can clearly see

an area where there is a great potential for danger in the project.

Could HAARP rebroadcasting in the ELF band via the aurora, as it was

funded to do by the Senate to conduct earth-penetrating tomography

studies, produce the same unhealthy effects ascribed to the Russian

Woodpecker? Many people today are convinced that they are the target of

ELF behavior modification operations. Some suspect HAARP is a part of

these attacks on their minds.

 

Even if HAARP is not a CIA/DOD

black project, if it really is just a scientific experiment, it is no

less dangerous. Medical researchers have generated a literal mountain

of documentation in the last two decades showing unmistakable health

hazards associated with EMR exposure. How dare they ignore the health

risks to the people (and other life forms) living above the underground

targets they plan to irradiate? What about all those who will receive

the fallout of this radiation meant to penetrate to submarines? Even if

they are not deliberately trying to fry our brains, they might still

succeed in turning our grey matter into three-minute meals.

 

Other Concerns

 

Nor is health, physical or

mental, the only area of concern with HAARP rebroadcasting from the

aurora. As noted in a HAARP fact sheet, "Since the sun's radiation

creates and maintains the ionosphere, sudden variations in this

radiation such as those caused by solar flares can affect the

performance of radio systems. Sometimes the changes are sufficient to

induce large transient currents in electric power transmission grids,

causing widespread power outages."[16] HAARP is

designed to duplicate solar phenomena. It is certainly not

inconceivable that it too will cause similar power outages.

 

For some, a power outage is

merely an inconvenience. For others, it can mean damaged electronic

equipment, particularly computers; doctors forced to operate by

flashlight; and, as in the infamous blackouts of New York City, it

often means rape, burglary, and murder. Are you prepared to let some

scientist tinkering with the aurora turn out your lights?

 

Another area for concern is

this possibility of creating earthquakes. In the 1890s, Nicola Tesla

demonstrated the potential for causing earthquakes through either

creation of artificial standing waves or through inducing sympathetic

resonance.[17] The

United States Department of Energy successfully caused a massive

earthquake in the Nevada desert by detonating a high-yield nuclear

device that had been intentionally placed on a fault line in Project

Faultless.[18]

Additionally, United States scientists have discovered that earthquakes

cause changes in the ionosphere and in the magnetosphere; and there is

some reason for concern that the reverse, causing changes in the

ionosphere and/or magnetosphere, could trigger earthquakes.[19]

 

Dr. Rosalie Bertell has written

extensively about the use of nuclear weapons, in particular depleted

uranium, and has written two books: No Immediate Danger: Prognosis

for a Radioactive Earth and Planet Earth, The Latest Weapon of

War. The latter includes a lengthy section on HAARP. In it, Dr.

Bertell noted several potential dangers from the HAARP signal,

including mental disruption to both humans and migratory species as

well as earthquakes and weather/climate change:

 

Ionospheric heaters such as HAARP create

extremely low frequency (ELF) waves which are reflected back to the

Earth by the ionosphere. These rays can be directed though the Earth in

a method called deep earth tomography. Since the beamed radiation used

to convert the direct electrical current of the electrojet into

alternating current must be pulsed, it is reasonable to assume that the

ELF radiation it generates will also be pulsed. Pulsed ELF waves can be

used to convey mechanical effects, vibrations, at great distances

through the Earth. By studying their shadowthat is, where the

vibrations are interruptedit is possible to understand and reconstruct

the dimensions of underground structures.

 

The 10-Hertz ELF wave can easily pass

through people, and there is concern that since it corresponds to brain

wave frequency it can disrupt human thoughtsuch waves may also have a profound

effect on migration patterns of fish and wild animals as they rely on

undisturbed energy fields to find their way. Moreover, the wider

effects of deep-earth tomography are unknown. Certainly, it has the

capability to cause disturbance of volcanoes and tectonic plates, which

in turn have an effect on the weather. Earthquakes, for example, are

known to interact with the ionosphere.

 

Deep Earth probes appear to be an integral part of

the militarys aim to control and manipulate natural Earth processes.

Whilst the potential of ELF waves to generate Earth movements, with

associated freak weather, is frightening enough, it is also clear that

the interaction between the earth and ionosphere that takes place

during ELF generation and transmission may be capable of inducing more

direct weather effects.[20]

 

What about birds flying through

HAARP's intense RF beam? The HAARP site was nearly half wetlands, in a

vast stretch of nearly flat, wet "bush." HAARP is located in the heart

of a prime waterfowl migratory path! HAARPs Final Environmental Impact

Statement acknowledges this. It states that HAARP "lies within the

Copper River Basin, which is one of Alaska's more important migration

corridors." And yet it insists that "no significant impacts to birds

would result from the construction of the HAARP facility." The most

they did was to propose putting some colored streamers on the antenna

masts to help reduce the number of birds flying into them!

 

Salmon, caribou, and other

migratory species may be affected by HAARP as well. That is because

altering the electrojet might cause alterations of the earth's magnetic

field. This little-noted side effect of modulating the electrojet might

have profound and unseen consequences for "spaceship" earth and its

passengers. The magnetically sensitive material magnetite has been

found in salmon and caribou brains. It has also been found in the human

brain.

 

The Alaskan monthly, Bush

Blade, carried comments by the late geomagnetic researcher Lloyd

Zirbes, who strongly opposed HAARP. He wrote, "disruption of the

Earth's magnetic field will complete damages done by the nuclear bomb

blasts in the natural radiation belts. Earth's magnetic field keeps the

planet in balance. Projected results of the HAARP project may include

disturbance of the circadian rhythms of human beings and increased

exposure to radiation as the magnetic field is attenuated."[21]

 

Discovery Magazine

discussed the possibility that disruption of the earth's internal

dynamo and the alteration of the upper atmosphere's magnetic belts

could "create a premature reversal of the magnetic poles, worsen the

newly discovered wobble of the Earth, and possibly create a total polar

reversal or Earth shift. During at least one [previous] reversal,

magnetic north may have changed direction by as much as 4 to 8 degrees

in a single day."[22]

 

In 1988, scientists at the U.S.

Naval Observatory and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that

the earth had developed a wobble in its spin. The cause of that wobble

is still unknown. Some suspect that it was caused by the Russian

Woodpecker signal. The 2004 Asian tsunami not only added a new wobble

to the earths spin, it also changed the rate of spin, changing the

length of a day by a fraction of a second. What effect, if any, HAARP

may have on the magnetic pole or these wobbles is equally unknown. Do

we want the DOD to get the answer the hard way?

 

During a reversal of the magnetic

pole, the strength of the earth's magnet field would collapse, then

rebuild in the opposite polarity. During the period of collapse and

rebirth of the field, the earth would be without the protection of the

magnetosphere. The only living things to survive would be deep in the

earth or the sea. The flood of hard radiation from the sun and space

would wipe out humanity, and virtually all species that live exposed to

the sky. We know that changes in the earth's interior affect the

magnetosphere. If the reverse is also the case, the magnetosphere

affecting the interior, then ignorant or intentional misuse of HAARP

has the potential to virtually wipe out life on earth.

 

HAARP Timeline

 

Dr. Bernard J. Eastlund

received his patent for a Method And Apparatus For Altering A Region

In The Earths Atmosphere, Ionosphere, And/Or Magnetosphere on August

11, 1987, while working for the Atlantic Richfield Co. subsidiary ARCO

Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI).[23] It was

but the first of a dozen related patents that scientists on APTI's

payroll would take out over the next few years. These were for an

antenna field forty miles on a side intended to create a shield in the

upper atmosphere that no intercontinental ballistics missile (ICBM)

could penetrate. This suite of patents was explicitly for a

ground-based SDI system that would realize President Reagans dream.

They would eventually form the intellectual property that the HAARP

program is based onor not, depending on who you listen to. Another

reason for HAARP researchers to be concerned about HAARP having an

effect on the weather is because an ability to modify the weather is

laid out in those patents.

 

Officially, HAARP was conceived

over two years later, on the morning of December 13, 1989, when a joint

Navy-Air Force meeting was held at the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

in Washington, D.C. It has since been described as a discussion of

their mutual interest in carrying out a DOD program in the area of

ionospheric modification. Military and HAARP documents insist that it

was at this meeting that the need for a unique heating facility to

conduct "critical experiments" relating to potential DOD applications

was identified. Other meetings and a number of symposia soon followed.

 

The Appropriation Act for Fiscal

Year (FY) 1990 provided funds for the creation of HAARP, jointly

managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval

Research. Three contracts were awarded to ARCO Power Technologies

(APTI, Eastlunds boss) to begin feasibility studies in FY1991. In

FY1992, the principal contract to begin construction was awarded, also

to APTI.

 

In FY1992, the

environmental impact process began, ending a year later with the Final

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) being filed on October 18, 1993.

The problem with these assessments is that they only addressed the

effects on the ground of the energy coming directly from the towers and

completely ignored what would happen in and to the ionosphere, much

less what the re-radiated energy from the ionosphere would do. Several

activists, including the group Trustees for Alaska,[24] have

demanded a new FEIS.

 

In early November 1993, the

United States Air Force announced, via press release, that the prime

contractor on the HAARP program was APTI. Initial prototype

construction began at the Gakona, Alaska, site in late 1993 and was

completed a year later in late '94. During that time, ARCO divested

itself of APTI selling the firm to a major defense contractor,

E-Systems of Dallas, Texas.

 

In 1995, Raytheon bought

E-Systems and all the APTI patents it held. Congress budgeted $10

million for HAARP for 1996 under "CounterproliferationAdvanced

Development" spending. In the 1997 Descriptive Summary of the

Counterproliferation Advanced Development Budget, HAARP appears

under the sub-heading "Project P539 Counterforce." There it is

recorded that "In FY96, Congress added $10 million to be used for the

High-Frequency Acoustic [sic] Auroral Research Program (HAARP) to this

project." Elsewhere in that report, it states "in FY96 only, the

Congressionally added HAARP program funds will be used to explore the

ability of auroral transmissions to detect and locate underground

structures of the type where WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] can be

developed or stored."

 

After Raytheon acquired HAARP and

the Eastlund patents, the program received full funding, but only after

agreeing to make earth penetrating tomography (EPT) the project's top

priority. Amazingly, nowmore than a decade laternot a single word

appears on the official HAARP website about what they have done on

this. It would appear that they have done nothing! Are they thumbing

their collective nose at the U.S. Senate, or have they been developing

this technology and don't want to let the world know about it?

 

While the HAARP final ionospheric

research instrument (FIRI) was planned to be a field of 180 antennas, a

smaller set of elements was initially constructed so that the predicted

performance could be verified before the entire facility was built.

That initial phase of the program was called the Developmental

Prototype (DP). By April of 1995, the DP array of 48 antenna towers

arranged as eight columns by six rows had been completed and the first

round of tests performed. And there the program sat, with no further

progress, at least officially, for many years. The 960-kilowatt

transmitter, however, was powerful enough to produce ionospherically

generated ELF, which was used for communication with the submarine

fleet.

 

Things went from bad to worse for

the folks at HAARP after the turn of the century. They wanted to finish

erecting the final ionospheric research instrument (FIRI) by 2002 but

got their budget slashed instead. Adding insult to injury, in August of

2002, Russia's Interfax news agency reported that the Russian state

Duma (their version of Congress or Parliament) expressed concern about

HAARP, calling it a program to develop "a qualitatively new type of

weapon. A joint commission of the state Duma's International Affairs

and Defense Committees issued a report that said: "Under the High

Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) the USA is creating

new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth

medium with high-frequency radio waves. The significance of this

qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to

firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new

type of weapon differs from previous types in that the near-Earth

medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component."

 

The report further claimed that

the USA's plan to carry out large-scale scientific experiments under

the HAARP program, and not controlled by the global community, would

create weapons capable of jamming radio communications, disrupting

equipment installed on spaceships and rockets, provoke serious

accidents in electricity networks and in oil and gas pipelines and have

a negative impact on the mental health of people populating entire

regions. An appeal, signed by ninety deputies, demanding that an

international ban be put on such large-scale geophysical experiments

was sent to President Vladimir Putin, the United Nations (UN) and other

international organizations, the parliaments and leaders of the UN

member countries, the scientific public, and mass media outlets.

 

The project got moving again when

the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) signed a

Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Air Force and Navy to run HAARP

for them in November, 2002.

 

What is DARPA? Per one of its old

fact sheets: "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is

the central research and development organization for the Department of

Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied

research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and

technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success

may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and

missions."

 

Note that high risk element.

Here we may be talking about several kinds of risk, including political

and environmental. Back before the breakup of the Soviet Union, when

HAARP began, many were concerned that the Star Wars weapons program

would upset the global balance in that it might give the U.S. first

strike capability and at the same time negate Russias ability to

retaliate, thus destroying Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the

foundation of Cold War détentepossibly leading to a preemptive Russian

first strike and the outbreak of World War III. On the other hand, some

researchers suggested that HAARP was capable of severe disruptions of

natural systems, from weather out of control to a magnetic pole shift

or reversal, to other bits of environmental mayhem too horrible to

contemplateup to and including destroying all life on earth! Talk

about high risk!

 

There are eight technical

offices in DARPA. HAARP was placed under the Tactical Technology Office

(TTO). According to its fact sheet, "The Tactical Technology Office

engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced technology development of

military systems, emphasizing the system and subsystem approach to

the development of Unmanned Systems, Space Systems and Tactical

Multipliers."[25]

 

Note that "tactical multipliers"this

may be a tip-off that HAARP was seen by DARPA as some sort of a force

multiplier. Tactical multiplier is a military term referring to a

factor that dramatically increases (hence "multiplies") the combat

effectiveness of a military force. Some common force multipliers are:

technology, morale, geographical features, training, strength of

numbers, and the weather.

 

Ionospheric Enhancement,

what HAARP is officially built to do, was a tactical multiplier

mentioned in "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in

2025,"[26] a study

conducted by the Air University to examine the concepts, capabilities,

and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant

air and space force in the future."[27] It

states, A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification

offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some

segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial

issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military

capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own

peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the

enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete

dominance of global communications and counterspace control,

weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of

possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. The technology is

there, waiting for us to pull it all together; in 2025 we can Own the

Weather."

 

Dr. Sheldon Z. Meth was the

project manager of HAARP at DARPA. Not only was Dr. Meth in charge of

HAARP; he also managed programs called Air Laser and MAgneto

Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM)! Does it seem odd to you that a

guy running a laser development program and designing some kind of bomb

would also be tinkering with how the top of the atmosphere reacts to

radio waves?

 

On April 23, 2007, System

Planning Corporation (SPC) announced that Dr. Sheldon Z. Meth would

join the company as chief technology officer.[28] A

company press release described him as coming to SPC from duties as

a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense

Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he was responsible for

the development of new generations of advanced strategic and tactical

warfare and military space technologies to enhance U.S. defense

capabilities against emerging national security challenges. Prior to

his DARPA experience, Dr. Meth held chief scientist positions at

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for nearly

fifteen years. SAIC (CIAs spelled backward) is one of the nations top

ten defense contractors, with its primary clientele being the

Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and various

alphabet agencies within the intelligence community, in particular the

National Security Agency (NSA, no such agency). I think Dr. Meths

connections to SAIC is significant, revealing a connection between

HAARP and Intel.

 

The official DARPA web page for

HAARP (now taken down) listed four things theyve done with HAARP, but

only used three numbered bullets:

 

(1) the generation of extremely

low frequency/very low frequency radio waves for submarine and other

subsurface communication, and the reduction of charged particle

populations in the radiation belts to ensure safe spacecraft systems

operations;

 

(2) the control of electron

density gradients and the refractive properties in selected regions of

the ionosphere to create radio wave propagation channels; and

 

(3) the generation of optical and

infrared emissions in space to calibrate space sensors.

 

Dr. Meth does not have trouble

countingusing the antenna field produces ELF and affects the radiation

belts! Heating the ionosphere by several thousand degrees heats the

molecules of the air to the point that they literally blow apart.

Breaking the bonds of the molecule gives off a package of energy,

including a "scream" of ELF. It also converts the air into plasma, the

fourth state of matter. Plasma is electrically conductive, so it

responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. HAARP converts a chunk of

the atmosphere into plasma, which then goes out into space. It keeps

going until it runs into something to stop itthe lines of force of the

earth's magnetic field. There, the plasma is trapped between the lines

of force, spreading out, possibly forming the shield that President

Reagan asked for.

 

As you may know, the earth is

surrounded by the Van Allen Radiation Belts, named after James Van

Allen (September 7, 1914August 9, 2006), who proved they were there by

setting off atom bombs in them in 1958. These belts are areas where the

earths magnetic field traps radiation.

 

Space shuttles, the International

Space Station, and spy satellites all fly well below the Van Allen

belts. But to get satellites up into geosynchronous orbit, much less to

go to the moon, Mars, or elsewhere in the solar system or beyond, craft

have to pass through the Van Allen belts. One of the arguments used by

those who say we never went to the moon is that it was impossible to

get there because the radiation would have killed or incapacitated any

astronaut who made the trip. Van Allen dismissed these claims. He was

also a strong supporter of HAARP, by the way.

 

If HAARP can reduce the

hard radiation in these fields, it could be a very good thing for those

trying to get into outer space. But there are substantial possible

downsides to this. Weakening of the belts could harm electronics and

organisms on earth. According to the Wikipedia article,[29]

dissipating the belts might even influence the behavior of earth's

magnetic poles!

 

Exactly how this reduction of the

radiation in the belts is accomplished is not well described in the

available literature. It seems to involve inducing the belts to

precipitate out (rain radiation to earth) by injecting either radio

waves or excess particles into them. So what happens when this hard

radiation falls into the upper atmosphere? Could it create a cascade

effect, with effects reaching all the way to the ground? What if the

attempt to overburden the belt fails and instead of causing it to shed

excess radiation, it just beefs it up?

 

DARPAs including the reduction

of charged particle populations in the radiation belts to ensure safe

spacecraft systems operations in the same bullet with the generation

of extremely low frequency/very low frequency radio waves for submarine

and other subsurface communication is clear evidence that doing one

also accomplishes the otherthat is, the HAARP antenna array generates

radio emissions that do both at the same time.

 

As repeatedly statedand admitted

to by everyone, although downplayed by the civilians at the University

of Alaskaone of the prime purposes of the project was to communicate

with deeply submerged submarines. This is certainly a valid military

use for this technology, although finding a dual use civilian side

might be a bit of a stretch. Every time HAARP talks with the sub fleet

it also sends plumes of plasma out into space, throwing away a piece of

our atmosphere!

 

Dr. Bernard Eastlunds

second APTI patent was for a "Method for producing a shell of

relativistic particles at an altitude above the Earth's surface.[30] This

patent described a method for creating a "death zone" for anything

electronic flying through this shell of relativistic particles,

similar to the effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).

 

An EMP is a burst of

radiation released immediately after a nuclear explosion. The EMP is

essentially an electric field and a magnetic field moving away from the

blast. The electromagnetic pulse burns out electronic circuitry,

destroying communications systems, computers, and other sophisticated

electronic instruments. The implications of the EMP are uncertain, but

some experts assert that the EMP released by one large nuclear

explosion over the central United States could cause an electrical

blackout affecting the entire country. Further, it is possible that the

EMP would damage the circuitry in missiles so that they would be unable

to reach their targets. The EMP was first detected during a nuclear

test at Johnston Island in 1962.[31]

 

Early HAARP documents

discussed how the facility could be used to create artificial EMPs.

After Eastlund went public, all such mentions disappeared from official

sources. Many researchers are convinced that HAARP can cause EMP-like

effects in the upper atmosphere. HAARP transmissions excite beta

particles or electrons in the magnetosphere making them move very fast,

nearly to speed of lightEastlund called these relativistic particles.

HAARP may be ready, right this minute, to bring down enemy missiles or

spy satellitesor friendly ones! Some researchers are convinced that

the space shuttle Columbia was brought down by HAARP![32]

 

On February 17, 2003, a press

release went out announcing that BAE Systems North America had reached

a definitive agreement with Advanced Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI) to

purchase the corporation for $27 million in cash (note that somewhere

along the line, the A in APTI changed from ARCO to Advanced). One

year and two months after purchasing APTI, BAE Systems announced that

it had received a contract from the Navy for $35 million to complete

the HAARP FIRI. After purchasing APTI, BAE Systems became the owners of

the intellectual property, the patents that make HAARP possible.

 

The contract was awarded to

BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS)

division. Just the sound of Information & Electronic Warfare

should have been ringing alarm bells. Perhaps it did, as that division

has since changed its name to the kinder and gentler sounding

Electronics and Integrated Solutions Operating Group[33], which

is defined by the company as a major defense electronics component of

BAE Systems, Inc., a U.S. corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of

BAE Systems PLC, a multinational corporation headquartered in the

United Kingdom. BAE Systems PLC is the result of over one hundred years

of mergers and acquisitions, with the former British Aerospace at its

core.

 

BAE Systems lost no time in

farming out the HAARP contract. Five days after getting the job from

the Navy, it subcontracted the transmitter portion of the project to

DRS Technologies[34], and

twelve days later, the subcontractor who would put up the remaining

antennas, Phazar Corporation,[35] sent out

its own press release. DARPA announced the completion of this phase of

HAARPs history via its website on March 9, 2006. BAE Systems held a

grand ribbon cutting ceremony the following year, in June of 2007.

 

HAARP is today a multi-million-dollar

upper atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics observatorythat may

or may not also be a whole lot more. Remember, it is the High-frequency

ACTIVE Auroral Research Program. Very little is passive about HAARP; it

is designed to do things, to modify the atmosphere. Like the report,

Applications and Research Opportunities Using HAARP, said, HAARP is

about making the transition from pure research to applications in the

civilian and military arenas. I think we should be told what those

applications will be. Even if HAARP is exactly what it says it is, is

that something good?

 

From an environmental point of

view, there is no end to the potential horrors of HAARP and similar

technologies. Oddly enough, my greatest fear now is that HAARP might be

exactly what it says it isan experimental base from which clueless

civilian scientists are manipulated into performing questionable

experiments on vast planetary systems with unknown potential

outcomeseven if it doesnt say that in quite those words.

 

HAARP's primary avowed purpose,

stated most simply, is to find out if the ionosphere can be "tweaked"

so as to advance military objectives. Common sense tells us that

"weaponizing the atmosphere" could be a serious mistakeeven if it

works. If we achieve this technology, how long will it be before our

enemies gain it, too? What happens when we and they go head to head in

a war using geophysical weapons? Nukes are nice in comparison to the

hell that could be unleashed.

 

Unfortunately, there is little

the average citizen can do about HAARP directly. Activists have had

little impact on the project despite nearly two decades of activism.

The solution, broadly, has to be in educating the public and our

leaders about HAARP and this technology, and in using politics to force

our leaders to alter the way we fund and conduct science.

 

Jerry E. Smith is a

freelance writer and lecturer currently working for Adventures

Unlimited Press. His latest book is Weather Warfare:The Military's

Plan to Draft Mother Nature?a follow up to HAARP: The Ultimate

Weapon. He also co-authored Secrets of the Holy Lance with

George Piccard. Visit his website at www.jerryesmith.com.

[Guest guest]

>Please read this. It is very interesting.

 

 

/*Editor's note:* Jerry Smith's last feature work was to be part of a

> top-secret book, to be published by Defender Publishing LLC. Given

> Jerry's passing, we are providing his chapter (below) to the public at

> this time. //Wikipedia's entry also notes/

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_E._Smith>/: *Jerry E. Smith* (8

> April 1950, Pomona, California ? 8 March 2010) was an author, lecturer,

> poet, and editor. His bibliography of published works includes three

> books from Adventures Unlimited Press (AUP), scores of non-fiction

> articles and reviews, and more than a dozen ghost-written books. He was

> a close friend and literary partner of author Jim Keith. They worked

> together on magazines and books, and co-hosted a radio show broadcast

> from the campus of the Oregon Institute of Technology./

>

>

> *HAARP: Weaponizing the Atmosphere and Beyond

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm> *By Jerry E.

> Smith, *RaidersNewsNetwork.com,* March 25, 2010, 11:00 am Eastern

>

> A lot of things spooked folks at the end of the last millennium?as this

> book attests, some of them turned out to be real threats that need to be

> dealt with now. One of those very real things that went bump on the

> Internet was the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).

>

> HAARP is a field of antennas on the ground in Southeastern Alaska linked

> together to work as one giant antenna. Today, it is the world?s largest

> radio frequency (RF) broadcaster, with an effective radiated power (ERP)

> of three to four billion watts. It uses a unique patented ability to

> focus the RF energy generated by the antenna field, injecting it into a

> spot at the very top of the atmosphere in a region called the ionosphere.

>

> As you can imagine, injecting that much RF energy into a spot about

> twelve miles across by about two and a half miles deep (by about ninety

> miles up), heats the thin atmosphere of the ionospheric region by

> several thousand degrees. HAARP, then, is a type of device called an

> ionospheric heater.

>

> HAARP is one of about twenty ionospheric heaters scattered around the

> planet and in use today?but it is the largest and most powerful, and the

> only one that can focus its output. This heating of the ionosphere

> allows scientists to do a number of things. Controlling and directing

> the processes and forces of the ionosphere by intentionally modifying it

> is called ?ionospheric enhancement.?

>

> An early HAARP document stated: " The heart of the program will be the

> development of a unique ionospheric heating capability to conduct the

> pioneering experiments required to adequately assess the potential for

> exploiting ionospheric enhancement technology for Department of Defense

> (DOD) purposes. " [1]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn1>

>

> What might those DOD purposes be? Something about winning wars, eh?

> HAARP proponents[2]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn2> claim it is

> nothing more than a simple civilian research station?which may be true,

> but what is it researching? It is not about understanding how the

> atmosphere works. That research was largely completed decades ago. The

> Executive Summary of ?Applications and Research Opportunities Using

> HAARP? says:

>

> " The HAARP facility, currently under development in Alaska, is the

> outgrowth of more than 30 years of ionospheric heating research. A

> wealth of experimental studies conducted at ionospheric heating

> installations, such as the ones in Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Tromso, Norway;

> Fairbanks, Alaska; and several installations in the former USSR brought

> the understanding of the physics and the phenomenology of the HF

> [High-frequency]-ionosphere interactions to a new plateau. The

> scientific field was ready to make the transition from pure research to

> applications in the civilian and military arenas. " [3]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn3>

>

> HAARP is about applying what we know to achieving military objectives.

> It is, in simplest terms, looking for ways to weaponize the atmosphere.

> It is but one of many programs seeking to control and direct natural

> processes?such as the weather, earthquakes, and tidal waves?to achieve

> military objectives; in effect, it seeks to draft Mother Nature.

>

> The research at HAARP is being conducted without adequate

> multidisciplinary oversight. The research itself, much less any

> application or technology developed from the research, has tremendous

> potential for environmental and human disaster. While there are a

> multitude of concerns, the general public?s interest has centered on the

> possibilities of HAARP affecting the weather, setting off earthquakes,

> or being used for covert mind control. How this might be, I?ll outline

> in this chapter.

>

> These concerns, although outlandish sounding, are real. /Scientific/

> /American/ noted that a dogleg in the jet stream over HAARP in 2000

> resulted in a swarm of out-of-season tornadoes in Florida.[4]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn4> HAARP is

> operating in frequencies known to have serious impacts on humans, yet no

> biological scientists are involved. The European[5]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn5> and Russian[6]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn6> parliaments

> have both demanded international oversight, and the U.S. has simply

> ignored their demands.

>

> This is not like testing a new gun in a lab. This research is being done

> in the real world in real time with real natural systems and real

> potential for disaster?possibly irreversible disaster! The whole planet

> is the HAARP lab, and that makes every living thing an unwitting subject

> of the experiment, which is a violation of the Nuremberg Code.[7]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn7> None of us has

> given informed consent.

>

> If this is civilian science as claimed, then the international

> scientific community should oversee it, as the entire planet is

> affected. If it is military, as is obvious despite official claims

> otherwise, then it should at least have a proper multidisciplinary

> review panel and personnel on the ground. Right now, neither of those

> conditions is being met.

>

> On March, 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan called upon " ? the

> scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons,

> to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace,

> to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and

> obsolete. "

>

> This quest for the creation of a technology, of a weapon or weapons

> systems that would make atomic war impossible, was officially named the

> Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The press lost no time in dubbing it

> " Star Wars " after the George Lucas movie. That initiative sent the

> United States? military-industrial-scientific research community on the

> greatest and costliest weapons hunt in human history. Thousands of ideas

> were floated?hundreds of those were funded. Most lines of SDI research

> have since been abandoned. Some, however, are still being actively

> pursued to this day. Many people around the world, myself included,

> believe that HAARP is one of them.

>

> Officially, " The HAARP Interactive Ionospheric Research Observatory is a

> major Arctic facility for the study of upper atmospheric and

> solar-terrestrial physics and for Radio Science and Communications

> research. Among the instruments included at the facility are a high

> power, high-frequency (HF) phased array radio transmitter, numerous

> radio frequency and optical research instruments capable of observing

> and monitoring the complex auroral ionosphere, and site infrastructure

> to support research activities. " [8]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn8>

>

> The above is from the University of Alaska at Anchorage original HAARP

> website (that page has been slightly rewritten now). The Ionospheric

> Research Instrument (IRI) is the high-frequency-phased array radio

> transmitter mentioned in the paragraph above. It is the heart of the

> program.

>

> Today, the IRI is a field of 180 towers, each 72 feet tall with two

> crossed, dipole antennas at the top of each tower. These antennas are

> for broadcasting in the High Frequency (HF) range, which is an audible

> range below the lowest ranges currently used for radio communications

> (below shortwave). Slung beneath the towers is a wire grid for

> reflecting upward any radio emissions from the antennas that heads

> toward the ground. Beneath the mesh are small buildings called shelters

> for the radio transmitters. All of these elements are linked together to

> act as one giant transmitting antenna. The 360 antenna elements of the

> field collectively output some 3.6 million watts. Injecting that output

> into the electrically charged ionospheric region magnifies the signal

> strength up to a thousand times, giving HAARP an effective radiated

> power (ERP) of three to four billion watts!

>

> Alaska has two ionospheric heaters, HAARP and the HIPAS (HIgh Power

> Auroral Stimulation) Observatory, operated by the University of

> California at Los Angeles Plasma Physics Laboratory. Work there proved

> that ionospheric heaters could generate Extremely Low Frequency (ELF)

> radio waves to successfully find underground targets. In the late 1980s,

> sensors in Fairbanks picked up ELF waves generated in the ionosphere by

> HIPAS as they returned from deep underground. After interpretation, they

> clearly revealed an old mining tunnel below the surface. The success of

> this experiment was later used to convince the U.S. Senate to fund

> HAARP.[9] <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn9>

>

> HAARP has been successfully using the ionosphere to generate ELF since

> 1995, bathing most of the world in its signal, of which the wavelengths

> are so long that they circle the earth and penetrate deep into the earth

> and sea. The possibility of seeing deep into the earth led the Senate to

> fund HAARP, insisting that its primary mission would be to develop the

> capacity to conduct deep earth scans for nuclear counterproliferation

> efforts.

>

> ELF/VLF radio waves penetrate deeply beneath the surface of the earth

> and interact with the geologic structure of the earth?Proper

> understanding of the physics of the generation and propagation of

> ELF/VLF waves and their interactions with earth materials will allow

> these waves to be used for applications such as sub-surface

> communications and exploration of the subsurface geological structure?to

> detect and image subterranean features such as tunnels, bunkers, and

> other potential military targets.

>

> In 1994, the Senate Armed Services Committee noted the promising results

> of the high frequency active auroral research program (HAARP). This

> transmitter in Alaska, besides providing a world class research facility

> for ionospheric physics, could allow earth- penetrating tomography over

> most of the northern hemisphere. Such a capability would permit the

> detection and precise location of tunnels, shelters, and other

> underground shelters. The absence of such a capability has been noted as

> a serious weakness in the Department of Defense plans for precision

> attacks on hardened targets and for counterproliferation.[10]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn10>

>

> Curiously, there is no official confirmation of HAARP ever having been

> used to target or monitor enemy underground bases. But HAARP officials

> do admit they have been using the same, deep-sea-penetrating ELF signals

> to communicate with deeply submerged submarines.

>

>

> *Mind Control and Mental Dysfunction*

>

> What about fears that HAARP could have a negative impact on the mental

> health of people populating entire regions of the globe, or could even

> be used to mind control or brainwash whole populations? HAARP?s

> ionospherically generated ELF is at exactly the same frequency at which

> the human brain works. Could we be picking up some part of those signals?

>

> In a seminal article on HAARP in /Nexus Magazine,/[11]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn11> Dr. Nick

> Begich and Jeane Manning describe how HAARP could be used to induce

> mental dysfunction, quoting from presidential security advisor Zbigniew

> Brzezinski[12]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn12> on a proposal

> from UCLA?s Dr. MacDonald, saying: ?Political strategists are tempted to

> exploit research on the brain and human behavior. Geophysicist Gordon J.

> F. MacDonald?specialist in problems of warfare?says [an]

> accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic stroke ??could lead to

> a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over

> certain regions of the Earth.? In this way, one could develop a system

> that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large

> populations in selected regions over an extended period???

>

> There has been concern that HAARP and other ?sky busters? could be

> covertly used to mess with our minds for decades. One of the first

> projects to raise such concerns was the so-called " Russian Woodpecker. "

>

> The bicentennial of the American Revolution was celebrated on July 4,

> 1976. The Soviets made some " fireworks " of their own by beginning a

> series of broadcasts that became known to ham radio operators around the

> world as the " Russian Woodpecker " in that same year. The official

> Defense Department explanation of the Woodpecker signal was that it was

> an over-the-horizon radar system designed to detect enemy missile

> launches. This is essentially what the Over The Horizon Backscatter

> (OTH-B) program, the original occupier of the HAARP site, was intended

> to be. These broadcast-interfering electromagnetic signals were on the

> three to thirty megahertz (MHz) bands, and were usually pulsed at an

> on-off rate of ten per second, which gave the signal the characteristic

> tapping that gave rise to its being called the " Russian Woodpecker. "

>

> In /The Zapping of America/, Paul Brodeur wrote: " A report published in

> the New York Times on October 30, 1976, revealed that in recent months a

> mysterious broadband, short-wave radio signal had been broadcast

> intermittently from the Soviet Union. The signal was so powerful that it

> disrupted radio and telecommunications throughout the world.? Dr. Zaret

> is concerned about the Russian signal?because of its potential hazard to

> human beings?it was very clear that such an encoding impressed onto

> carrier wavelengths could have a central-nervous-system effect. " [13]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn13>

>

> In the early 1950s, the Soviets began directing a microwave beam at the

> United States embassy in Moscow. They spent the next four decades using

> our embassy workers as guinea pigs for their electromagnetic radiation

> (EMR) experiments. Washington, D.C. was oddly silent regarding the

> Moscow embassy bombardment when it was discovered in 1962. It was

> investigated by the CIA, who brought in an outside consultant, Dr.

> Milton Zaret, giving his investigation the code name " Project

> Pandora. " [14] <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn14>

> Zaret was startled to discover that the beam was focused precisely upon

> the ambassador's office. The intensity of the bombardment was not made

> public, but when the State Department finally admitted to the existence

> of the Moscow signal over a decade later, it was announced that it was

> " fairly low. "

>

> The Moscow signal finally became public knowledge in the mid-seventies.

> It then became the subject of heated debate in the media. In 1976, /The

> Los Angeles Times/ reported that the United States ambassador to the

> USSR had informed his Moscow staff that the microwaves that the Soviets

> were beaming at the United States embassy in Moscow could cause

> emotional and behavioral problems, as well as leukemia, cancer, and

> cataracts. At least one of our ambassadors died as a result of exposure

> to the signal.

>

> The Russian Woodpecker would appear to be an expansion of the Moscow

> signal, upping the ante from one building, the U. S. Embassy, to the

> whole United States. In the fall of 1976, after just a few months of

> operation, the Soviets completed the first of several expansions of

> their ELF Woodpecker grid. That expansion was accompanied by a major

> piece of curiosity, if not an outright criminal act. In 1977, the United

> States government sold the Soviets a supermagnet they knew was going to

> become part of the Woodpecker program. This magnet was a forty-ton

> monster capable of generating a magnetic field 250,000 times more

> powerful than that of the earth's magnetic field. Its purpose was to

> override, blank out, and/or interfere with the earth's natural magnetic

> field to permit the Soviet Woodpecker signals to penetrate to the United

> States. The United States not only knew what it was for, they sent a

> team of scientists to help the Russians install it! This supermagnet was

> installed at the Gomel site, powered by the Chernobyl reactor. Eleven

> years later, in 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor outside of Kiev,

> Ukraine exploded, ending these signals.

>

> Following the 1977 upgrade, a series of mysterious sonic booms were

> heard off the eastern coast of the United States. Some researchers

> believe these were the result of the newly enhanced Woodpecker being

> calibrated. A United Press International (UPI) wire story of December,

> 22, 1977, reported that " a series of mysterious atmospheric explosions

> were reported along the New Jersey shore last night for the third time

> this month.? Police said the explosions were preceded by a series of

> rumblings. On December 2, there were two similar incidents, but the

> Federal Aviation Administration, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the

> Nuclear Regulatory Commission have been unable to offer any explanation

> for the blasts. "

>

> The following month, the Associated Press (AP) reported that a White

> House spokesman had informed the press that the Naval Research

> Laboratory (NRL) would conduct a " measured and prudent " inquiry into the

> " mysterious atmospheric booms off the East Coast. " The NRL never

> released its findings, but a little over a decade later it became a

> member of the HAARP project. Coincidence?

>

> David Brinkley, on the TV show " NBC Magazine, " [15]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn15> spoke of the

> Woodpecker signal. He revealed to his audience that the northwestern

> United States had been continuously bombarded by the USSR with

> low-frequency waves set at the approximate level of biological

> frequencies. Brinkley said: " As I say I find it hard to believe, it is

> crazy and none of us here knows what to make of it: the Russian

> Government is known to be trying to change human behavior by external

> electronic influences. We do know that much. And we know that some kind

> of Russian transmitter is bombarding this country with extreme low

> frequency radio waves. "

>

> Hypnotists have long known that when a subject is given a post-hypnotic

> command to perform some act in the waking state, the subject will do it

> and rationalize the act as his or her own idea. In one such example,

> hypnotists put Robert Kennedy's convicted killer, Sirhan Sirhan, under,

> then told him to swing from the bars of his cell like a monkey when he

> was awakened. Sirhan carried out the instruction. When told he had been

> hypnotized and shown a video of himself acting like a monkey, he

> insisted that it had been entirely his own idea; he said he needed the

> exercise! Instructions, thoughts, or beliefs transmitted to a target

> subject could similarly be accepted by the subject as his or her own

> thoughts. This is the essence of research into mind control effected

> through the use of electromagnetic broadcasts.

>

> In HAARP?s use of the ionosphere to rebroadcast in the ELF and/or

> microwave ranges, we can clearly see an area where there is a great

> potential for danger in the project. Could HAARP rebroadcasting in the

> ELF band via the aurora, as it was funded to do by the Senate to conduct

> earth-penetrating tomography studies, produce the same unhealthy effects

> ascribed to the Russian Woodpecker? Many people today are convinced that

> they are the target of ELF behavior modification operations. Some

> suspect HAARP is a part of these attacks on their minds.

>

> Even if HAARP is not a CIA/DOD black project, if it really is just a

> scientific experiment, it is no less dangerous. Medical researchers have

> generated a literal mountain of documentation in the last two decades

> showing unmistakable health hazards associated with EMR exposure. How

> dare they ignore the health risks to the people (and other life forms)

> living above the underground targets they plan to irradiate? What about

> all those who will receive the fallout of this radiation meant to

> penetrate to submarines? Even if they are not deliberately trying to fry

> our brains, they might still succeed in turning our grey matter into

> three-minute meals.

>

>

> *Other Concerns*

>

> Nor is health, physical or mental, the only area of concern with HAARP

> rebroadcasting from the aurora. As noted in a HAARP fact sheet, " Since

> the sun's radiation creates and maintains the ionosphere, sudden

> variations in this radiation such as those caused by solar flares can

> affect the performance of radio systems. Sometimes the changes are

> sufficient to induce large transient currents in electric power

> transmission grids, causing widespread power outages. " [16]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn16> HAARP is

> designed to duplicate solar phenomena. It is certainly not inconceivable

> that it too will cause similar power outages.

>

> For some, a power outage is merely an inconvenience. For others, it can

> mean damaged electronic equipment, particularly computers; doctors

> forced to operate by flashlight; and, as in the infamous blackouts of

> New York City, it often means rape, burglary, and murder. Are you

> prepared to let some scientist tinkering with the aurora turn out your

> lights?

>

> Another area for concern is this possibility of creating earthquakes. In

> the 1890s, Nicola Tesla demonstrated the potential for causing

> earthquakes through either creation of artificial standing waves or

> through inducing sympathetic resonance.[17]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn17> The United

> States Department of Energy successfully caused a massive earthquake in

> the Nevada desert by detonating a high-yield nuclear device that had

> been intentionally placed on a fault line in Project Faultless.[18]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn18> Additionally,

> United States scientists have discovered that earthquakes cause changes

> in the ionosphere and in the magnetosphere; and there is some reason for

> concern that the reverse, causing changes in the ionosphere and/or

> magnetosphere, could trigger earthquakes.[19]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn19>

>

> Dr. Rosalie Bertell has written extensively about the use of nuclear

> weapons, in particular depleted uranium, and has written two books: /No

> Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth /and /Planet Earth,

> The Latest Weapon of War/. The latter includes a lengthy section on

> HAARP. In it, Dr. Bertell noted several potential dangers from the HAARP

> signal, including mental disruption to both humans and migratory species

> as well as earthquakes and weather/climate change:

>

> /Ionospheric heaters such as HAARP create extremely low frequency (ELF)

> waves which are reflected back to the Earth by the ionosphere. These

> rays can be directed though the Earth in a method called deep earth

> tomography. Since the beamed radiation used to convert the direct

> electrical current of the electrojet into alternating current must be

> pulsed, it is reasonable to assume that the ELF radiation it generates

> will also be pulsed. Pulsed ELF waves can be used to convey mechanical

> effects, vibrations, at great distances through the Earth. By studying

> their ?shadow??that is, where the vibrations are interrupted?it is

> possible to understand and reconstruct the dimensions of underground

> structures./

>

> /The 10-Hertz ELF wave can easily pass through people, and there is

> concern that since it corresponds to brain wave frequency it can disrupt

> human thought/*?*/such waves may also have a profound effect on

> migration patterns of fish and wild animals as they rely on undisturbed

> energy fields to find their way. Moreover, the wider effects of

> deep-earth tomography are unknown. Certainly, it has the capability to

> cause disturbance of volcanoes and tectonic plates, which in turn have

> an effect on the weather. Earthquakes, for example, are known to

> interact with the ionosphere./

>

> /Deep Earth probes appear to be an integral part of the military?s aim

> to control and manipulate natural Earth processes. Whilst the potential

> of ELF waves to generate Earth movements, with associated freak weather,

> is frightening enough, it is also clear that the interaction between the

> earth and ionosphere that takes place during ELF generation and

> transmission may be capable of inducing more direct weather

> effects./[20] <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn20>

>

> What about birds flying through HAARP's intense RF beam? The HAARP site

> was nearly half wetlands, in a vast stretch of nearly flat, wet " bush. "

> HAARP is located in the heart of a prime waterfowl migratory path!

> HAARP?s Final Environmental Impact Statement acknowledges this. It

> states that HAARP " lies within the Copper River Basin, which is one of

> Alaska's more important migration corridors. " And yet it insists that

> " no significant impacts to birds would result from the construction of

> the HAARP facility. " The most they did was to propose putting some

> colored streamers on the antenna masts to help reduce the number of

> birds flying into them!

>

> Salmon, caribou, and other migratory species may be affected by HAARP as

> well. That is because altering the electrojet might cause alterations of

> the earth's magnetic field. This little-noted side effect of modulating

> the electrojet might have profound and unseen consequences for

> " spaceship " earth and its passengers. The magnetically sensitive

> material magnetite has been found in salmon and caribou brains. It has

> also been found in the human brain.

>

> The Alaskan monthly, /Bush Blade/, carried comments by the late

> geomagnetic researcher Lloyd Zirbes, who strongly opposed HAARP. He

> wrote, " ?disruption of the Earth's magnetic field will complete damages

> done by the nuclear bomb blasts in the natural radiation belts. Earth's

> magnetic field keeps the planet in balance. Projected results of the

> HAARP project may include disturbance of the circadian rhythms of human

> beings and increased exposure to radiation as the magnetic field is

> attenuated. " [21]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn21>

>

> /Discovery Magazine/ discussed the possibility that disruption of the

> earth's internal dynamo and the alteration of the upper atmosphere's

> magnetic belts could " create a premature reversal of the magnetic poles,

> worsen the newly discovered wobble of the Earth, and possibly create a

> total polar reversal or Earth shift. During at least one [previous]

> reversal, magnetic north may have changed direction by as much as 4 to 8

> degrees in a single day. " [22]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn22>

>

> In 1988, scientists at the U.S. Naval Observatory and at the Jet

> Propulsion Laboratory announced that the earth had developed a wobble in

> its spin. The cause of that wobble is still unknown. Some suspect that

> it was caused by the Russian Woodpecker signal. The 2004 Asian tsunami

> not only added a new wobble to the earth?s spin, it also changed the

> rate of spin, changing the length of a day by a fraction of a second.

> What effect, if any, HAARP may have on the magnetic pole or these

> wobbles is equally unknown. Do we want the DOD to get the answer the

> hard way?

>

> During a reversal of the magnetic pole, the strength of the earth's

> magnet field would collapse, then rebuild in the opposite polarity.

> During the period of collapse and rebirth of the field, the earth would

> be without the protection of the magnetosphere. The only living things

> to survive would be deep in the earth or the sea. The flood of hard

> radiation from the sun and space would wipe out humanity, and virtually

> all species that live exposed to the sky. We know that changes in the

> earth's interior affect the magnetosphere. If the reverse is also the

> case, the magnetosphere affecting the interior, then ignorant or

> intentional misuse of HAARP has the potential to virtually wipe out life

> on earth.

>

>

> *HAARP Timeline*

>

> Dr. Bernard J. Eastlund received his patent for a ?Method And Apparatus

> For Altering A Region In The Earth?s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, And/Or

> Magnetosphere? on August 11, 1987, while working for the Atlantic

> Richfield Co. subsidiary ARCO Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI).[23]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn23> It was but

> the first of a dozen related patents that scientists on APTI's payroll

> would take out over the next few years. These were for an antenna field

> forty miles on a side intended to create a shield in the upper

> atmosphere that no intercontinental ballistics missile (ICBM) could

> penetrate. This suite of patents was explicitly for a ground-based SDI

> system that would realize President Reagan?s dream. They would

> eventually form the intellectual property that the HAARP program is

> based on?or not, depending on who you listen to. Another reason for

> HAARP researchers to be concerned about HAARP having an effect on the

> weather is because an ability to modify the weather is laid out in those

> patents.

>

> Officially, HAARP was conceived over two years later, on the morning of

> December 13, 1989, when a joint Navy-Air Force meeting was held at the

> Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Washington, D.C. It has since been

> described as a discussion of their mutual interest in carrying out a DOD

> program in the area of ionospheric modification. Military and HAARP

> documents insist that it was at this meeting that the need for a unique

> heating facility to conduct " critical experiments " relating to potential

> DOD applications was ?identified.? Other meetings and a number of

> symposia soon followed.

>

> The Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 1990 provided funds for the

> creation of HAARP, jointly managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory

> and the Office of Naval Research. Three contracts were awarded to ARCO

> Power Technologies (APTI, Eastlund?s boss) to begin feasibility studies

> in FY1991. In FY1992, the principal contract to begin construction was

> awarded, also to APTI.

>

> In FY1992, the environmental impact process began, ending a year later

> with the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) being filed on

> October 18, 1993. The problem with these assessments is that they only

> addressed the effects on the ground of the energy coming directly from

> the towers and completely ignored what would happen in and to the

> ionosphere, much less what the re-radiated energy from the ionosphere

> would do. Several activists, including the group Trustees for

> Alaska,[24] <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn24>

> have demanded a new FEIS.

>

> In early November 1993, the United States Air Force announced, via press

> release, that the prime contractor on the HAARP program was APTI.

> Initial prototype construction began at the Gakona, Alaska, site in late

> 1993 and was completed a year later in late '94. During that time, ARCO

> divested itself of APTI selling the firm to a major defense contractor,

> E-Systems of Dallas, Texas.

>

> In 1995, Raytheon bought E-Systems and all the APTI patents it held.

> Congress budgeted $10 million for HAARP for 1996 under

> " Counterproliferation?Advanced Development " spending. In the 1997

> Descriptive Summary of the Counterproliferation Advanced Development

> Budget, HAARP appears under the sub-heading " Project P539 Counterforce. "

> There it is recorded that " In FY96, Congress added $10 million to be

> used for the High-Frequency Acoustic [sic] Auroral Research Program

> (HAARP) to this project. " Elsewhere in that report, it states " ?in FY96

> only, the Congressionally added HAARP program funds will be used to

> explore the ability of auroral transmissions to detect and locate

> underground structures of the type where WMD [Weapons of Mass

> Destruction] can be developed or stored. "

>

> After Raytheon acquired HAARP and the Eastlund patents, the program

> received full funding, but only after agreeing to make earth penetrating

> tomography (EPT) the project's top priority. Amazingly, now?more than a

> decade later?not a single word appears on the official HAARP website

> about what they have done on this. It would appear that they have done

> nothing! Are they thumbing their collective nose at the U.S. Senate, or

> have they been developing this technology and don't want to let the

> world know about it?

>

> While the HAARP final ionospheric research instrument (FIRI) was planned

> to be a field of 180 antennas, a smaller set of elements was initially

> constructed so that the predicted performance could be verified before

> the entire facility was built. That initial phase of the program was

> called the Developmental Prototype (DP). By April of 1995, the DP array

> of 48 antenna towers arranged as eight columns by six rows had been

> completed and the first round of tests performed. And there the program

> sat, with no further progress, at least officially, for many years. The

> 960-kilowatt transmitter, however, was powerful enough to produce

> ionospherically generated ELF, which was used for communication with the

> submarine fleet.

>

> Things went from bad to worse for the folks at HAARP after the turn of

> the century. They wanted to finish erecting the final ionospheric

> research instrument (FIRI) by 2002 but got their budget slashed instead.

> Adding insult to injury, in August of 2002, Russia's Interfax news

> agency reported that the Russian state Duma (their version of Congress

> or Parliament) expressed concern about HAARP, calling it a program to

> develop " a qualitatively new type of weapon.? A joint commission of the

> state Duma's International Affairs and Defense Committees issued a

> report that said: " Under the High Frequency Active Auroral Research

> Program (HAARP) the USA is creating new integral geophysical weapons

> that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio

> waves. The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to

> the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons

> to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapon differs from previous types

> in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct

> influence and its component. "

>

> The report further claimed that the USA's plan to carry out large-scale

> scientific experiments under the HAARP program, and not controlled by

> the global community, would create weapons capable of jamming radio

> communications, disrupting equipment installed on spaceships and

> rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity networks and in oil

> and gas pipelines and have a negative impact on the mental health of

> people populating entire regions. An appeal, signed by ninety deputies,

> demanding that an international ban be put on such large-scale

> geophysical experiments was sent to President Vladimir Putin, the United

> Nations (UN) and other international organizations, the parliaments and

> leaders of the UN member countries, the scientific public, and mass

> media outlets.

>

> The project got moving again when the Defense Advanced Research Projects

> Agency (DARPA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Air Force

> and Navy to run HAARP for them in November, 2002.

>

> What is DARPA? Per one of its old fact sheets: " The Defense Advanced

> Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development

> organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs

> selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD,

> and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very

> high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional

> military roles and missions. "

>

> Note that ?high risk? element. Here we may be talking about several

> kinds of risk, including political and environmental. Back before the

> breakup of the Soviet Union, when HAARP began, many were concerned that

> the Star Wars weapons program would upset the global balance in that it

> might give the U.S. ?first strike? capability and at the same time

> negate Russia?s ability to retaliate, thus destroying Mutual Assured

> Destruction (MAD), the foundation of Cold War détente?possibly leading

> to a preemptive Russian first strike and the outbreak of World War III.

> On the other hand, some researchers suggested that HAARP was capable of

> severe disruptions of natural systems, from weather out of control to a

> magnetic pole shift or reversal, to other bits of environmental mayhem

> too horrible to contemplate?up to and including destroying all life on

> earth! Talk about high risk!

>

> There are eight technical offices in DARPA. HAARP was placed under the

> Tactical Technology Office (TTO). According to its fact sheet, " The

> Tactical Technology Office engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced

> technology development of military systems, emphasizing the ?system? and

> ?subsystem? approach to the development of Unmanned Systems, Space

> Systems and Tactical Multipliers. " [25]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn25>

>

> Note that " tactical multipliers " ?this may be a tip-off that HAARP was

> seen by DARPA as some sort of a force multiplier. ?Tactical multiplier?

> is a military term referring to a factor that dramatically increases

> (hence " multiplies " ) the combat effectiveness of a military force. Some

> common force multipliers are: technology, morale, geographical features,

> training, strength of numbers, and the weather.

>

> Ionospheric Enhancement, what HAARP is officially built to do, was a

> tactical multiplier mentioned in " Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning

> the Weather in 2025, " [26]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn26> a study

> conducted by the Air University ?to examine the concepts, capabilities,

> and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant

> air and space force in the future. " [27]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn27> It states, ?A

> high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma

> not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society

> will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as

> weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could

> result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing

> friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale

> tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global

> communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the

> war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an

> adversary. The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all

> together; in 2025 we can ?Own the Weather.? "

>

> Dr. Sheldon Z. Meth was the project manager of HAARP at DARPA. Not only

> was Dr. Meth in charge of HAARP; he also managed programs called Air

> Laser and MAgneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM)! Does it seem

> odd to you that a guy running a laser development program and designing

> some kind of bomb would also be tinkering with how the top of the

> atmosphere reacts to radio waves?

>

> On April 23, 2007, System Planning Corporation (SPC) announced that Dr.

> Sheldon Z. Meth would join the company as chief technology officer.[28]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn28> A company

> press release described him as coming to SPC ?? from duties as a program

> manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced

> Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he was responsible for the

> development of new generations of advanced strategic and tactical

> warfare and military space technologies to enhance U.S. defense

> capabilities against emerging national security challenges.? Prior to

> his DARPA experience, Dr. Meth held chief scientist positions at Science

> Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for nearly fifteen years.

> SAIC (CIAs spelled backward) is one of the nation?s top ten defense

> contractors, with its primary clientele being the Department of Defense,

> the Department of Homeland Security, and various alphabet agencies

> within the intelligence community, in particular the National Security

> Agency (NSA, ?no such agency?). I think Dr. Meth?s connections to SAIC

> is significant, revealing a connection between HAARP and Intel.

>

> The official DARPA web page for HAARP (now taken down) listed four

> things they?ve done with HAARP, but only used three numbered bullets:

>

> (1) the generation of extremely low frequency/very low frequency radio

> waves for submarine and other subsurface communication, and the

> reduction of charged particle populations in the radiation belts to

> ensure safe spacecraft systems operations;

>

> (2) the control of electron density gradients and the refractive

> properties in selected regions of the ionosphere to create radio wave

> propagation channels; and

>

> (3) the generation of optical and infrared emissions in space to

> calibrate space sensors.

>

> Dr. Meth does not have trouble counting?using the antenna field produces

> ELF and affects the radiation belts! Heating the ionosphere by several

> thousand degrees heats the molecules of the air to the point that they

> literally blow apart. Breaking the bonds of the molecule gives off a

> package of energy, including a " scream " of ELF. It also converts the air

> into plasma, the fourth state of matter. Plasma is electrically

> conductive, so it responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. HAARP

> converts a chunk of the atmosphere into plasma, which then goes out into

> space. It keeps going until it runs into something to stop it?the lines

> of force of the earth's magnetic field. There, the plasma is trapped

> between the lines of force, spreading out, possibly forming the shield

> that President Reagan asked for.

>

> As you may know, the earth is surrounded by the Van Allen Radiation

> Belts, named after James Van Allen (September 7, 1914?August 9, 2006),

> who proved they were there by setting off atom bombs in them in 1958.

> These belts are areas where the earth?s magnetic field traps radiation.

>

> Space shuttles, the International Space Station, and spy satellites all

> fly well below the Van Allen belts. But to get satellites up into

> geosynchronous orbit, much less to go to the moon, Mars, or elsewhere in

> the solar system or beyond, craft have to pass through the Van Allen

> belts. One of the arguments used by those who say we never went to the

> moon is that it was impossible to get there because the radiation would

> have killed or incapacitated any astronaut who made the trip. Van Allen

> dismissed these claims. He was also a strong supporter of HAARP, by the

> way.

>

> If HAARP can reduce the hard radiation in these fields, it could be a

> very good thing for those trying to get into outer space. But there are

> substantial possible downsides to this. Weakening of the belts could

> harm electronics and organisms on earth. According to the Wikipedia

> article,[29] <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn29>

> dissipating the belts might even influence the behavior of earth's

> magnetic poles!

>

> Exactly how this reduction of the radiation in the belts is accomplished

> is not well described in the available literature. It seems to involve

> inducing the belts to precipitate out (rain radiation to earth) by

> injecting either radio waves or excess particles into them. So what

> happens when this hard radiation falls into the upper atmosphere? Could

> it create a cascade effect, with effects reaching all the way to the

> ground? What if the attempt to overburden the belt fails and instead of

> causing it to shed excess radiation, it just beefs it up?

>

> DARPA?s including ?the reduction of charged particle populations in the

> radiation belts to ensure safe spacecraft systems operations? in the

> same bullet with ?the generation of extremely low frequency/very low

> frequency radio waves for submarine and other subsurface communication?

> is clear evidence that doing one also accomplishes the other?that is,

> the HAARP antenna array generates radio emissions that do both at the

> same time.

>

> As repeatedly stated?and admitted to by everyone, although downplayed by

> the civilians at the University of Alaska?one of the prime purposes of

> the project was to communicate with deeply submerged submarines. This is

> certainly a valid military use for this technology, although finding a

> ?dual use? civilian side might be a bit of a stretch. Every time HAARP

> talks with the sub fleet it also sends plumes of plasma out into space,

> throwing away a piece of our atmosphere!

>

> Dr. Bernard Eastlund?s second APTI patent was for a " Method for

> producing a shell of relativistic particles at an altitude above the

> Earth's surface.?[30]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn30> This patent

> described a method for creating a " death zone " for anything electronic

> flying through this ?shell of relativistic particles,? similar to the

> effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).

>

> An EMP is a burst of radiation released immediately after a nuclear

> explosion. The EMP is essentially an electric field and a magnetic field

> moving away from the blast. The electromagnetic pulse burns out

> electronic circuitry, destroying communications systems, computers, and

> other sophisticated electronic instruments. The implications of the EMP

> are uncertain, but some experts assert that the EMP released by one

> large nuclear explosion over the central United States could cause an

> electrical blackout affecting the entire country. Further, it is

> possible that the EMP would damage the circuitry in missiles so that

> they would be unable to reach their targets. The EMP was first detected

> during a nuclear test at Johnston Island in 1962.[31]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn31>

>

> Early HAARP documents discussed how the facility could be used to create

> artificial EMPs. After Eastlund went public, all such mentions

> disappeared from official sources. Many researchers are convinced that

> HAARP can cause EMP-like effects in the upper atmosphere. HAARP

> transmissions excite beta particles or electrons in the magnetosphere

> making them move very fast, nearly to speed of light?Eastlund called

> these relativistic particles. HAARP may be ready, right this minute, to

> bring down enemy missiles or spy satellites?or friendly ones! Some

> researchers are convinced that the space shuttle Columbia was brought

> down by HAARP![32]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn32>

>

> On February 17, 2003, a press release went out announcing that BAE

> Systems North America had reached a definitive agreement with Advanced

> Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI) to purchase the corporation for $27

> million in cash (note that somewhere along the line, the ?A? in APTI

> changed from ?ARCO? to ?Advanced?). One year and two months after

> purchasing APTI, BAE Systems announced that it had received a contract

> from the Navy for $35 million to complete the HAARP FIRI. After

> purchasing APTI, BAE Systems became the owners of the intellectual

> property, the patents that make HAARP possible.

>

> The contract was awarded to BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare

> Systems (IEWS) division. Just the sound of ?Information & Electronic

> Warfare? should have been ringing alarm bells. Perhaps it did, as that

> division has since changed its name to the ?kinder and gentler? sounding

> Electronics and Integrated Solutions Operating Group[33]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn33>, which is

> defined by the company as ?a major defense electronics component of BAE

> Systems, Inc.,? a U.S. corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of BAE

> Systems PLC, a multinational corporation headquartered in the United

> Kingdom. BAE Systems PLC is the result of over one hundred years of

> mergers and acquisitions, with the former British Aerospace at its core.

>

> BAE Systems lost no time in farming out the HAARP contract. Five days

> after getting the job from the Navy, it subcontracted the transmitter

> portion of the project to DRS Technologies[34]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn34>, and twelve

> days later, the subcontractor who would put up the remaining antennas,

> Phazar Corporation,[35]

> <http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory83.htm#_edn35> sent out its

> own press release. DARPA announced the completion of this phase of

> HAARP?s history via its website on March 9, 2006. BAE Systems held a

> grand ribbon cutting ceremony the following year, in June of 2007.

>

> HAARP is today a multi-million-dollar ?upper atmospheric and

> solar-terrestrial physics? observatory?that may or may not also be a

> whole lot more. Remember, it is the High-frequency ACTIVE Auroral

> Research Program. Very little is passive about HAARP; it is designed to

> do things, to modify the atmosphere. Like the report, ?Applications and

> Research Opportunities Using HAARP,? said, HAARP is about making ?the

> transition from pure research to applications in the civilian and

> military arenas.? I think we should be told what those applications will

> be. Even if HAARP is exactly what it says it is, is that something good?

>

> From an environmental point of view, there is no end to the potential

> horrors of HAARP and similar technologies. Oddly enough, my greatest

> fear now is that HAARP might be exactly what it says it is?an

> experimental base from which clueless civilian scientists are

> manipulated into performing questionable experiments on vast planetary

> systems with unknown potential outcomes?even if it doesn?t say that in

> quite those words.

>

> HAARP's primary avowed purpose, stated most simply, is to find out if

> the ionosphere can be " tweaked " so as to advance military objectives.

> Common sense tells us that " weaponizing the atmosphere " could be a

> serious mistake?even if it works. If we achieve this technology, how

> long will it be before our enemies gain it, too? What happens when we

> and they go head to head in a war using geophysical weapons? Nukes are

> nice in comparison to the hell that could be unleashed.

>

> Unfortunately, there is little the average citizen can do about HAARP

> directly. Activists have had little impact on the project despite nearly

> two decades of activism. The solution, broadly, has to be in educating

> the public and our leaders about HAARP and this technology, and in using

> politics to force our leaders to alter the way we fund and conduct

> science.

>

> /Jerry E. Smith is a freelance writer and lecturer currently working for

> Adventures Unlimited Press. His latest book is /Weather Warfare:The

> Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature?/?a follow up to /HAARP: The

> Ultimate Weapon/. He also co-authored /Secrets of the Holy Lance /with

> George Piccard. Visit his website at www.jerryesmith.com

> <http://www.jerryesmith.com>./

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