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.SINISTER ECRET

T TFOs come in all shapesand sizes. ut the underside of these

I .f every now and then a particular shape craft, with one light in

u raa*a to t lecome oar l rcu lar l \ com- eacn corner . some wlt -

il mon. This has happened previously

with disc-shaped and cigar-shaped objects,

but is happening now with triangular-

shaped craft. This type of craft is sometimes

called The Silent Vulcan, but is more usu-

allr'referred to as The Fly ing Triangle..\ s alwavs. here are some variations n

accounts from witnesses, but there are

enough common features to suggest that

one n'pe of craft is involved. The Flying

Triangle is generally described as being

over 100 metres in diameter, and as being

black or grey in colour. The triangular

shape is most apparent when viewed from

belorv - in other words, the craft is fairly

flat. and shaped rather like a slice of pizza.

,\ significar-rt umbe r of reports also talk

of' the object being wedge-shaped, or

shaped like a boomerang. There are fre-

quelrt reports of three lights mounted on

nesses ell of a fourth light mounted in the

centre of the craft, in between the more vis-

ible lights. The lights at the edges of the

craft are generaily described as being red,

while the central light is white.

Of course, many UFO sightings occur atnight, and in the case of the Flying

Triangle, it is the fact that the lights seemed

to be flying in a triangular formation that is

often the thing that first attracts the atten-

tion. But unlike aircraft lights, these do not

appear to flash.

THE FIRST WAVE

The first major wave of sightings involving

the Flying Triangle occurred in the Hudson

Valley area of New York State in March

1983. Witnesses eported 'flying wings', or

'V-shaped' UFOs. One eyewitnesssaid the

craft was so huge it filled up the entire sky'.

A Mony Flying

Triongles moy be

nothing more thon

misidentified Sreclth .

bombers or ne\ /, , ,prototype fighrer : ;'

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Over the next four years, hundreds of

people in the Hudson Valley area claimed

to haveseen his crafr .

But it wa sevents n Belgium in 1990 hat

were to bring the Flying Triangle to world

attention, and woulcl result in one of the

most spectacular and well documented

UFO encountersof all t ime.Since a wave of sightings that had

occurred on 29 November 1989, Belgium

had been experiencins a lot of UFO actir

ity, with many good-quality reports being

submitted by reliable rvitnesses.These

included trained observerssuch as military

personnel and members of the Belgian

display. As a resuk, the Air Force decided

that it would only send r,rpaircraft if visual

sightingswere correlated by radar evidence.

On the night of 30 March 1990,an d in the

early hours of the following day, this is pre-

ciselywhat happened.

RADAR EVIDENCE

The sightings were focused on the Wavre

repion, and manv of these reports spoke of

three lights flying in a perfect triangular

formation. Many people clearlv sarv that

these lights were on th e underside of a

huge, triangular-shaped crafi. The object

n'as picked up by two different ground

radar bases,one operated by the Belgian

Air Force, and one by NAIO. As a result of

this, orders were given to scramble two F-I6

fighters kept on Quick Reacrion Alert br.the Belgian Air Force.

Th e fighters soon picked up rhe obiect

on their radar, and then used the radar to

lock on to the craft. But somehow the craft

broke this lock on severaloccasions,an d

seemed to be able to move almost instantly

from a hovering state to over a thousand

kilometrespe r hour.

This evasive action suggests that th e

craft rvasunder intelligent control, but the

acceleration involr.ecl in the manoeuvres

performed n'ould have killed an y humanoccupants. The Beleiar-rAir Force wa s

quizzecl about these evelrts,and co-oper-

ated rr.ith a Belgian UFO research group in

carrving out a detailed nvestigation.

Th e Chief of Operations of rhe Belgian

The f ly ing tr iongle

cleorly behoves in o woythqt is beyond fhe cutting

edge of our technologyNick Pope, Ministry of Defence

police force - the type of people who are

less likely to rnisiclentifv a conventional

object or phenomenon.

Many of the sightings spoke of a larse,

triangular-shaped object. As a resulr of this,

the Belgian Air Force asreecl o send ets r.rpto inr,estigateshould a particularlv interest-

ing sighting occur.

On one rather ernbarrassingoccasion,

aircraft \vere sent up to investigate,onlv to

find that the UFO sightings hacl been gen-

erated by people seeing ights from a laser

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hoppen more frequently thon the scepticswouldcqre to odmit. The Flying Triongle siglrfings overBelgium ore perhops the most fomsus instonce,bur old Minisfry of Defunce iles, ovoiloble qt thePublic RecordsOffice ot Kew, reveol mony oihercqses including some instonceswhere the RAFlounched iets to rry ond intercept UFOs.

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photogrophed over

Togresk, Russio, n199O. Reports of

sightings of Flying

Triongles hove come

from ql l ocross

Europe, os well qs

rhe US, Austroliq

ond Jopon.

Two particular reports are

especially noteworthy; the first

was a siehting from RAF

Cosford in Shropshire. In this

case, an entire military guard

patrol reported s eeing t4.

UFO pass directly over thebase.They made frantic checks

rvith duty Air Traffic

Corr t rol lers,but drew a com-

pleteblank therewere r to air -

craft in the area.

SECURITY THREAT

The rnost sensational report

submit ted that night came

from the N'Ieteorological

Officer at RAF Shawbury,

r,r.hichs only a ferv kilometres

from RA.F Cosford. Har,ing

heard about the UFO sighting

at Cosford,he went orr ts ide o

see f he coulcl see anything.

To his absolute amazement,

he sa w a triangular-shaped

craft flying directly towards the

base, emitting a low, humming

sound. He estimated the size of the object

as being only a little smaller than aJumbo

jet. The witness reported that the objectthen fired a beam of light at the ground,

and swept this beam from side to side,as f

it was lookir-rg for something. The ligh,t

then rvent out, and the craft passed slowly

overhead, almost directly over the base,

The Ministry of Defence launched a full

investigation into these sightings in a

Air Staff, Colonel Wilfred De Brouwer,

candidly admitted that they had assessed

that the UFO was a solid. structured craft.which had carried out an unauthorized

penetration of Belgian airspace. In view of

the fact that military and political figures

routinely deny the existence of UFOs, this is

quite an admission.

NIGHT SIGHTINGS

Three years ater, the Flying Triangle put in

another appearance, this time over Britain.

Most of the sightings occurred in the early

hours of 31 March 1993 and, perhaps

because of the late hour, many of the wit-

nesseswere police officers on night patrol,

and service personnel on guard duty

arorurd military bases.

The descriptions were uncannily similar

to the Belgian sightings, with many people

reporting three lights moving in perfect for-

mation, rvhile others who had a closer view

reported that the lights simply marked the

edgesof a huge, triangular UFO.

A number o f witnesses eported another

characterist ic which has frequently beenreported in relation to the Flying Triangle -

a lorv, humming sound that appears to

come from the craft.



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desperate attempt to find an explanation.

Th e Ministry had alwaysmaintained that

UFOs were 'o f no defence significance',

but were now facing a dilemma. There was

no way in which they could continue to say

that these even ts were of no defence signif-

icance when numerous military witnesses

had reported an unidentified triangular

craft flying directly over two key military

establishments.

The Ministry tried to tie the sightings in

with some more mundane occurrence.

Assuming that at least 90 per cent of UFO

sightings have conventional explanations,

#g l*,The Air Force hqs orrived of

lhe conclusion hotq

numberof qnomqlous phenomenohove been produced wirhin

Belgion oirspoceCol. WilfredDe Brouwer, elqion ir Force

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wffihey ran a detailed series of

checks, first looking for aircraft

activity, airship flights or weather

balloon launches. They even

checked with the Royal

Observatory at Greenwich to see if

there might be an astronomical

explanation, such as unusual mete-

orite activiry but all their investiga-

tions drew a blank.

One theory was that the lights in

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ings had occurred over a period of several

hours. There lvas clear1r.1ro \vav in which

sightings such as the one fiom RAF

Shawbury cor-rldbe explainecl like this, so

this theory had to be eliminated.

PROTOTYPE PTANES

It has been sr-rggested hat the Flying

Triangle ma1'be some sort of secret, proto-

tVpe craft. For many years now there have

been rumours of a hypersonic eplacement

to the Lockheed SR-71Blackbird, and it is

alleged that this aircraft is called Aurora.

The Belsian Air Force has investigated

the possibil ity that the triansle seen n 1990

was an American F-117 Stealth fighter, but

had received a categoric assurance hat no

American aircraft was invoh,ed. It rvas

always unlikely - secret aircraft are tested

the sky were caused by the re-entry

into the earth's atmosphere of a

Russian rocket. But while this event might

have explained a particular concentration



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RIGHT TO KNOW

The Brirish Ministry of Defuncehos been

investigoting UFO sightings since he

l95Os, ond its reoson for foking on

interest is to look for evidence of onyro rhe defence*e defence of the Unired

The Ministry receives up fo 3OO

exclusiveh'in approved ranges and danger

areas. and would not f ly into heavily

defencled airspac e without proper diplo-

matic clear:rnce.Otherrvise, a diplomaticinciclent is r iskecl, vith the possibi l i tv hat

the :rircraft mav be interce pted, and the

seclctcral i r r rade rr l r l i , .

For similar reasons. he British Ministrt'

of Defence reject ecl t1-re dea that an

American prototYpe urircrafi rr'as responsi-

ble. \{'hile go\rernments r'ereunable to pro-

vide an answer, '\rere he leal oper-atorsof

this craft enjoying their confi.r sion? her-e s

an interest ing connect ion betrreen the

sightings in Belgium ancl the L K: both

u'aves f sightingsoccurred late at night on

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hos complete conlrol

over everything,' ond

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some woy.

30 March, and in the early hours of the next

day. Arrd i f these UFO stor ies had been

pickedup bv the nal ionalmedia. he slories

rvor-rldhar,e appeared on... 1 April. \A4ro

rvould pa,vmuch attention to a UFO story

that appeared on April Fool's Day? Is this

coincidence, an elaborate hoax, or a sign

thert he intelligence behind the craft ha s a

senseof l-rlrmour?

-\lthougl.r these rr'aves f Flving Triangle

sightings :rr-c mportant, not least because

of tl-re nilitarl'r'r,itnesses, nd the National

Securitv mplications, t should be remem-

berecl that sishtings of this object ar e

reported on an almost daily basis,often by

pilots. The case iles of everv UFO group in

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t was4.20 a.m.when Ronald

Seigelwasawoken by the

noise of his bedroom door

r creaking open. He heard

footsteps approach the bed, and

the sound of hear.ybreathing filled

the room. Paralysed 'vith eaqSeigel could only lay back,

smelling the musty odour of the

approaching entity.

'There seemecl o be a murky

presence n lhc room. ' Seigel

recalls. I tried to throw off the

covers and get up, but I r'r,as

pinned to the bed. There was a

weight on my chest. My heart was

pounding. I strained o breathe.'

Next, the creature ouched his

neck and arm, and whispered n

his ear. 'Each word rvasexpelled

from a foul mouth of tobacco.'

Seigel emembers. Th e language

seemedstrange,almost ik e

English spoken backrvards.' eigel,

still unable to move, looked at the

clock on his bedside able. This is

no dream,' he thought.

SHARED EXPERIENCE

Suddenly, the enti ty shifted its

weight and straddlecl Seigel'sbody.

The bed started o creak. There

was a texture of sexual

intoxication. I started to lose

consciousness. uddenly he voice

stopped. sensed he intruder

moving s lowly out of the room.

Cradually the pressure on my chest

eased.'By now it was4.30a.m.,and Ronald Seigel arreminent

professor of psycho logy at the

University of California, Los

,\rgeles - had us t been subjected

to attack rom rrhat manl'would

cail a psychic entitf

For centuries,people from

cultures spanning the globe have

described similar attacks.Usually

occurring at night, us t beforefalling asleep or waking up, these

attacks nvariably subject their

terrified victims to complete

paralysis,a pressure on the chest

an d heightened sensualawareness.

Like so many other 'supernatural'

episodes, he universalsimilarityof

the experienceswould suggesta

genuine phenomenon, but where

do these presences' ome from?

If folklore and many of today'spsychic nvestigatorsare to be

believed, these entities are

malevolent earth-bouncl spirits -



demons and witches who attack us

in our sleep.One of the most

widespread olkloric traditions

involves he 'Old Hag', a term

coined in Nerfoundland. Canada.

for the terri$ring figure often

encountered during night-time

attacks.And the same Old Hag

appears hroughout the world.

Cermans call it 'Mare' (from which

the rr'ord'nightmare' originates),

Scandinaviansuse the name 'Mara',

and the Greeks, Mora'.

DREAM TOVER

Another popular variation on the

Old Hag tradition is the incubus -

the 'demon lover' or spirit thatindulges in sexual ntercourse with

the lir 'rng. Derived from the Latin

incubaremeaning'to lie down on',

the incubus is often blamed for the

crushing weight on the chest and

the feeling of sexual arousal that

occurs during these attacks.

However, by looking elsewhere

for explanations for these universal

experiences. sychologists.

including Ronald Seigel,are

concentrating on the common, but

rarely talked about, phenomenon

of sleep paralysis.

STEEP PATTERNS

Every night, whether we remember

it or not, each of us dreams.We

may forget the dreams in the

morning, but while the fantastic

scenesare going on, our brain is

extremelv actiYeand our bodycompleteiv paral,vsed. his

parah'sis s essentialbecause

otheru'ise rve rvould act or.ltour

dreams, ith disastrous

consequences. ormalh', the

musclesare completelv relaxed

and unresponsive to rvhat the

brain tells hem to do. Onlv th e

musclescontrolling the eyesan d

the breathing are unaffected.

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\A/hen we wake up in the

morning. this paralys is s usually

gone. But ust occasionally

something goes \,rong with the

mechanism that keeps dreaming

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hallucination. This is a twilight state

between sleepand wakefulness n

which our dreams are so vivid, they

seem alarmingly real.

For many sufferers, he first signof s leepparalysiss a strarrge oise.

Sometimes descpibedas a whining

or humming, it can also sound like

footsteps, the thrum of a motor, or

even loud screaming nd high

pi tched aushter ' .Vibrat iotrs [ the

body can follow, and people

describeshakingor juddering,

rippling and contorting.

Strange ights can flicker around

the room. These can be flashine

lights, little stars,or glowing shapes.

Occasionall y, he whole room seems

to be lit by an eerie glow and

objectsare surrounded by coloured

haloes or strangesparkles.

But thc most r ighteningaspect

of sleep paralysis s the feeling of a

nearby presence.You may see

nothing - and have no reason for

your conviction - but you know

there is someone there in the

room with you. In many cases, he

presence s actually visible (the

eyesare often open during sleep

paralysis)and can take on any

number of forms - human, animal,

demonic, even alien' - and can

apparently change shape at will.

ATIEN DREAMS

This 'visitor' experience has ed a

number of researchers o conclude

that the classicalien abduction

scenario s, n fact , nothing more

than sleep paralysis. n his paperentitled Alien Dreamtime, etrred

psychologistRobert Baker recounts

the tale of the well-known

abductee, \44ritleyStrieber.

'I n the wee hours of the night,'

Strieber explains, 'I abrr-rptlywoke

cases,we can feel the paralysis

coming on just as we fall asleep or

wake up, and we cannot move,

speak or cry out.

This is s leepparalysis.rrd s

nearly alwaysaccompaniecl by a

rapid heartrate, difficulq, in

trreathing and a feeling of terror.

The ordeal is all the more

frightening because he sufferer s

conscious f h is or her

surroundings but trapped in what

scientists all a hypnogogic

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couldn' t move.corr ld l r c l ' \ out .

couldn't ge t awav.. Everr muscle

in my body wasstiff to th e point of

breaking. I could hardh'breathe.'

As Baker points out. if one

comparesStrieber's ecollections

with Ronald Seigel's, here s not a

lot of difference berrveen he two.

'The acconnts are, for irll practical

purposes, dentical,' Baker states.

'The essentialand significant

difference is that the sleep

paral1'sis...,ictims oing to

knorvledseable herapists are told

about sleep paralysisand

hallucinations, whereas hose going

to believers n alien abduction are

told they have been abducted.'

Baker's sceptical viervof alienabductions is that these are

nothing more than modern sleep

paralysismyths.The humming

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experienced inpreference to qll

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noises an d eerie vibrations of sleep

paralysis become the alien crafi,

the Old Hag's caressing becomes

the alien's probing, and the

f loat ing and f ly ing sensal o l ls

become the journey to the stars.

The only problem with this

theory is that i t does not account

lol a l l abdrrct ion experiences.

There are nllmerous cases of

rhr l iq lr t and mass ahdrrct ions.

some of which have beerr

rvi tnessed.And the same objections

can be levelled asainst clairns that

all 'strpernatural' encounters ar e

the result of sleep paralysis.

CONSISTENT CONTENT

-\ more objectir.e rrd evel

assessrnentf the sleepparalysis

phenomenon is provided by the

behaviotrral cientistDavid.fHufforcl. In his landmark book,

The Terror-l-hatComesn the I'light,

Hufford arglles that there appears

to be more to sleep pala l l 's is than

the confused brain plaving t r icks

on the sleeper.

Hufforcl has been stnrck bv tl-re

renrarkablv consistent content of

the hel lrrcirrrr l iorrs rrd, i r r

particulal, the Olcl Has attacks.

What he linds most curions is that

these attacks have been reported

from coLrntries ali over the r,vorld by

apparently normal and healthl'

people. Moreor,er, manv of these

subjects have hacl r-rocontact rvith

folklore traditions and disclaim anv

belief or interest in the paranormal.In contrast to ordinarv b:rd

clreams,which var,v enormously in

colr tent , ' \ {hy, ' asks Hufford, 'i s

the colrtent fo f thesesleep

paralvsis alltrcinations]so

consistentl v he samerr.ithoutapparel)t regard

lirr crrltr,rre?'Hufford

corrr ' l r rdcshat scient i f ic

research n tl-risarea has

not e\,enbegun to address

rhe qrrest ion. ut concerns

i tscl lsoleh with arralysing

the ph,vsiologicalprocesses

of'sleepparalvsis.

ATTERNATIVE REATITY?

It mav be that there is a perfectly

'normal' explanation to t irese

peculiar and harrorving

experiences. C)r it may turn out

that ther spr i rrg f lorn arrother

realm - acccssed ia the

strbcorrsciorrs nirrd - that is as real

and ruriversal to those rvho

experience it as the external world.

Bu t ur-rtil the specific contents of

sleep paralysis hallucinations have

been thorouehly investigated and

explained, oLlr understanding of

th is part icrr la l phelromenolr esr

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AS A TEENAGE PHENOMENON,

MATTHNW MRNNING MADE

HEADLINE NEWS WITH HIS

PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES.

Now, HE IS RECoGNIZED

INTERNATIONALLY AS A HEALER

TI I hen MatthewManning was a little boy,he

flf wanted o be a farmei when he grew up. But inI t February 19670whenhe was ust 1 yearsold,

w Maniring became the centre of inexplicablepoltergeist activity. This lasted for ovei four years and

changed his life forever.

Unlike many other victims supposedly affected by a

poltergeist's powerful forces, Manning eventually

learned to channel the psychic energy he was creating

and make it work for him. At first, this came through

in a series of extraordinary automatic drawings and

writing. He documented his teenage experiences in

The Linh in 1973 and has since gone on to write four

more books about his psychic abilities.

Nowadays, Manning devotes his skills to healing.

His years of exposurq to the media havemade him

something of a showman, with his ponltailo sometimes

flamboyant clothes and chunky gold jewellery. But -

,rs years of tests in scientific laboratories around the

world have proved - there is

nothing fake about Manning's

abilities or his devotion to

his profession.

.( fn No Foith Required,

Monning writes obout the mony

scientific lests in which he hos

porticipoted over fhe yeors,ond his subsequenl

concenlrotion on using his

powers to heol people.

"€ ^#&* As q young child did you think you

were sPeciol?No. If anything, I wassomething of an introvert. I was

extremely shy and refused to speak to st rangers.

Whof sort of things hoppened during thepoltergeist outbreqks?Furniture and objects moved around. Things started

to appear out of nowhere. Among them rvere a

couple of bread rolls, one of which is still kept in the

freezer at my parents' home! It was analvsedby a lab

which found that it had been baked after 1840. but

before 1914.

How did you feel qboui whof wqs

hoppening?It was disturbing, notjust for me but for the whole

family. We didn't know what was happening. Once my

bed started to shake and lift up from the foot end.

Then it suddenly swung out. I don't think I actually

realized it had lifted off,the ground until it came

crashing down in the middle of the room. That was

the time I was the most frightened.

Did the phenomenE occur onywhere otherthqn in your home?Yes. n 1971,when I was 15, the phenomena were

witnessedby a large number of people - mostly fellow



pupils and teachers at Oakham, my boarding school

in Leicestershire.

How did your school friends reoct?At first, the other boys at school were frightened by

the poltergeist activity. But they soon got used to it.

There were some very odd experiences though. I

slept in a dorm with 25 other boys. My bunk-bed

would shift across he room. Sometimes there would

be chaos as objects shifted around the dorm.

Stones, crockery, cutlery came out of nowhere

and whirled around.

Whot did the feochers think of rhis?There was so much disruption that the headmaster

considered suspending me. It was out of cont rol. But

then something happened.

Whof wqs thot?One night, I was writing an essay

for homework. I had my pen

poised above the paper. I couldn't

think what to write next and my

mind had obviously drifted off.

Then suddenly my hand went

down on the paper and I started

SS rBI 'mahealer-notafadthheale4not a spirituat"heale4not an eaangelical, rystalor

eaencolour healer

appearanceof writing on the walls of my bedroom at

home. Between3l July an d 6 August 1971,503

signatures,nearly all with a date, were scribbled

around the room, mainly on one wall, but also on the

ceiling and even in a lampshade.

Did onyone witness this qutomotic writingqs it hqppened?Nobody was n the room when the writing

materialized - the doors and windows had been

securely ocked. Many of the names have since been

traced to the parish records for the area. The original

owner of the house - Robert Webbe, who died in

1.733 had indicated through auromatic writing ro

me that he would bring 'half-a-thousandsignaturesof

friends and family'.

Whqf kind of qttention did

this octivity bring?The interest in me grew until it

exploded into a media circus. By

the time I was 19, I was regularly

appearing on national television.

At that time, throush automaticnU

* € wr ir ing.someonecal l inghimsel lg # Dr Penn senrme medical

writing. It stopped after a couple of sentences.

I looked at what I'd written, but it clearly wasn't in

my handwriting and didn't seem to make any sense.

It had nothingwhatsoever o do with what I wassupposed to be doing for homework.

How did you feel?I was actually quite frightened. I felt that something

had got in or through me. I remember tearing up the

paper and throwing it in the bin. But what was

interestins about the incident was that there was no

poltergeist activity for about three days

afterwards.I later discovered that what had

happened was called automatic writing. This

was n some way releasing the energy that

had gone into moving objectsand creating

th e poltergeisractivity.

How did your life chonge qfier rhis?I discovered could switch myself on or off

like an electric light switch.As well as the

lvriting - and later drawing - I found I

couid see auras surrounding people.

I alrvavsound it interesting doing the

drawings because never knew until I had

finished what I was going to draw.

Whof wos the sfqngest fhing fhct

hoppened fo you during this time?The most amazing phenomenon was the

diagnosesof people based on their date of birth.

Why did you stop giving such diognoses on

television?I was n Germany' around i974. The producer of the

TV show I was appearing on said he'd had a medical

problem diagnosed at hospital three dayspreviously.

He thought this would make a good demonstration of

my powers. On the show, made my diagnosisand

the producer said it was spot on. But when he

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my diagnosiswas otally wrong - I had just said what

he'thought washis condit ion. This made me wonderwhether what I was actually doing was tapping into

the subconsciousand reading minds. Perhaps I was

sensing ear and feeding it back to people. I realized

that this could have devastatingconsequences,so I

stopped the TV appearances.

Whqr did you do next?I became involved in a lot of scientific research. was

hooked up to electroencephalographs,to measure my

brainwaves,electrocardiographs,to measure my heart

beat, and I wasshut away n Faraday cagesfdevicesused to screen out all electromagnetic waves] to

measure my electrical output.

Did rhe scientists ind onyrhing unusuol?They found that I had a brainwave pattern that they

had never seen before. It actually came from a part of

my brain that is dormant in everybody else. n one

experiment, I was asked to project psychic energy

while instant photographs were taken of my head.

The photos showed some sort of energy coming frpm

me that grew stronger aftet severalminutes. One of

the most controversial experiments found that I could

kill cancerouscells.

When did you foke up heoling full-rime?In the late 1970s.People now come to me from al l

over the world, hoping I can treat problems that

orthodox medicine can't solve. sometimesget up

to 2,000 letters a week asking for help. Obviously

I can't see everyone. I tend to favour those with

life-threatening diseases. also try and spend as much

time as I can with children or people with children.

How do you know thot your heoling skills

reqlly do hqve on effect?I spent eight yearsdoing experiments with scientists,

influencing blood cells and enzymes.They know that

I can have an effect, and I know it when I feel theenergy flowing through me. B,v he same token, I'd be

an idiot to say all the healing results I get are only

connected to what I do with my hands. I know that it

has a lo t to do with psychologicalpou,ers, he patient

thinking positively.

Becquse of your reputotion, do you think

people might hove greoler expecfolions thqi

they're going to get betfer?Yes.But frankly, at the end of the day,none of this is

important. The only thing that I'm concerned about

is that somebody does get better. If that happens,

does it really matter how it's being brought about?

Whor hoppens during q consultqfion?I often play music because find it inspiring. I start by

placing my hand on the patient's shoulders. I find

that psychologicall,v his already has an effect because

it says,I' m with you, I'm supporting vou, you're no

Ionger alone.' Whoever I'm rvorkingwith, I'm very

careful about what I claim. I never use the word

'cure'. And I never mpose my beliefson others.On e

thing I'm not is a faith healer. Healing can'work on a

scepticalperson and I always ell people that no faith

is required.

Whot do you think is hoppening when you

ore heqling someone?I find it terribly difficult to put into words. I suppose

I feel what I'm doing is channelling some form of

universal, unconditional love. I suppose this is one of

the reasons 've stopped doing scientific experiments.

We tend to only accept what can be quantified and

measured.Nobody has quantified love in a sciencelab, but we don't say t does not exist.We measure

Iove by the effect that it has on people's lives.And

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n 2 September 1989. \{ ' i l t red

Doricent, aged 17, rvas reunited

rvi thhis tami l l in his home vi l lage n

=:-== southern Haiti. Teenagers often

rebel arrd leavehome. bur Wil t - red's ase

rra. di l ferent. He had been dead l -or I8

months. His family had witnessed his bur-

ia i and had a death cerr i f rcate o prove r.

\ \ i l l^r 'ed ad beerra promisir rgstudent,

arrd r ,rasadored by his fami ly. But. in

March 1988. e srrddenly rewvery l l and

died. His body becamehideouslyswol len

and gave off such a foul st€nch that his

grieving father had to make hurried

arrangelnents for the funeral.

But Wilfred was not dead. Unbeknown

to his father, he had been turned into a

zombie - a ' l iving corpse'. Acting onnenatf of enemies of Wilfred's father in a

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bitter land dispute, a",bahor (a Voodoo

priest who practises black magic) had

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administered a powerful coup.poudre,poi-

sonous powder spell, which" sent Wilfred

ipto a coma. Shortly afterwards, he rvas

declared dead.

ZOMBIE STAVE

The night following the funeral, \Arilfred's

tomb was broken ir r to and his body was

removed. The brrhor are \A'ilfred a drug

made from the hallucinogenic plant that

Haitiarrs call concombre ombi (zombie's

cucumber) . and slapped him back inro

something approaching consciousness.

Wil f red was hen transporred n chains o

.a remote mountain farm to work as a slave.

After IB mon(hs - no one knorvshow -

'Wilfred made his way back ro his asron-

ished but del ighted amily.LareqWil f red told an old fr iend rhat he

had been fully awareof everything that was

happening to him as hb was being

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of olcohol in on

qttempt to invite

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partners n black magic to carry out harm-

ful services in exchange for a substantial

sacrifice. Usually, this iakes the form of a

pig, a goat, atrull or occasionallya corpse

from a cemetery. But there are also stories.

that human sacrifice may be involved.

As recently as September 1994, shortly

before the Americans invaded Haiti, a

three-dayVoodoo ceremony was allegedly

held in''the ruling junta's riiilitary head-

quarters to prevent the"US invasion going

ahead. During the ceremony, the most

violent Petro loa were invoked, and uncon-

firmed reports claim that as many ds 13

people were offered as'sacrifice - includ-

ing a pregnant girl.

Perhaps it was coincidence,,but by mid-.

October, three American GIs had commit

ted suicide, including Geraldo Lucianowho blew his brains out while, by al l

accounts, happily plapng d game of cards.

SECRET gOCIETIES*"""-*,,.].,"@"sw1{-ry-*.E* *

In a country where the priests are often

local law-enforcers, and where poliqical

and judicial murders are commonplace,

no one can say with certainty whether

human sacrifice occurs or not....:

But there is no doubt that black magic -

referred to asthe

work of thele.ft hand' -n

is.practised by a number of sects hat have

splintered.off from the main Voodoo com-

munities. These sects operate under the

strictest secqecyand are shunned by main-

stream Voodoo practitioners.

The most.infamous sects, the Bizango

and the Cotchorl tris,are renown€d for mak-

ing human sacrifices,calling rlp the dead

to inflict harm on others and turning peo-

ple into zombies- atlegedlyas punishment

100 per cent Voodoo - and neirly every-

one belieVes n zombies. But it is not thg

fdar of zombies that haunts most Haitians

- it is the fear of being turned jnto one.fr

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for way'rruardocial tiehaviour such

as adultery or land theft.

In the' remoter parts of

Haiti. Voodoo is very power-

ful - the priest at Wi'lfred

There is no greater torment among the

Voodoo faithful than the prospect of los-

ing their souls, .which is what happens

when you become a zombie - it is a sen-

tence o[ living d eath. After 'resurrection'

by the bakor,which must happerrwithin a

few days of burial to prevent death by suf-

focation in the'coffin, the zdmbie's senses

are numb and he suffers lrom ossof mem-

ory and personaliry. Easy to manipulate,

he is then used as slave

labour on remote plan-

tations and construction

sites, which are often

owned by the unscrupu-

lous bakor.

Some zombies. how-

ever, manage to escape

captivity. It is claimed

that. the spell c.4n be

,reversed if rhe bakorwho

cast it dies, or if the zom-

''bie is fid salt. But, occa-

sionally, the lack of ory-ge n ln the colnn causes

too much brain damage

for the zombie to be of

V Dr Froncois'Popo

Doc' Duvolier ond his

murderous secret

pofice Lsed Voodoo

ond the threot of

zombificolion os on

inslrument of

reprcssion during his

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any use. \Arhen this happens, he is left to

roarn i r r the forests.

I t is r rot casy bl a zomhie lo r t ' t t r r t t lo his

old way of life. Unlike Witfrecl.D.Pricen t's

r t 'c t 'pt iorr wherr he came hotne.. lhmi l ies

arrd v i l lasers frequently reiect zombi"t *h'o

retr r rn to the fcr ld.They are fearcd because.

according to Vo<-rdoobeliefs, special powers

ar t ' at l r ibtr led lo thern. rvhich they may use

to seek revenge on those who have harmed

them. As a result, lhey face a life as social

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church to tolk to God, 'butthe Voodooist goes to

the hounfort [Voodootemple] to become him

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outcasts, f'orced to scrateh out an

somewhcre berweert lh e realms

ir rg arrd the dead.

.\Arhen relative dies,S6'meamilies leave

nothing to charrce. r r addi t ion to per-

formir f f r i luals to sertc l re spir i ts of the

dead safely on their way, a family rvill often

have the head of a dead relative removed

heforc brrr ia l .or lhe heart p ierced with a

stake, us t in case he, or she, has been

turned into a zombie. Another precaution

is to spray the bocly with br,rllets.

POWERFUT POISON

The"fear

of being trtrned into a zombie

suggests hat Voodoo sorcer\/ is extrernely

porverfttl. Bu t jr-rst hcirv potent is i t?

American anthropologist and e hno-

botar-ristDr \\'ade Davishas don.eextensive

lesearch on the zombie phenomenon. Hebelieves hat, part of the ar-lsweries in the

poisonous potion that the bahoradmms-

ters lo his vict im to set the plocess of

'zombificationl. in motion. This poison \,,,

made from a combination of h.r-ort

remains, poisonous plants and traces of

the lethal Bouga toad arrd prr f fer lsh - is

so loxic that i t onl l has to be absorbed

through the skin to be effective.

In Davis' opinion, some Voodoo bakors

are ski l led poisonerswho knolr how to

dispense he r ight amotrr l to{ deacl lyr tgre-

clients to slo'rv down the metabolism of

theii victims to the point where they

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n the early hours of a

February morning in 1995,

agents rom the Federal

I Bureau of Investigation

(FBI) sr-rrrounded he Player's

Club, a group of luxury apartment

buildings in Raleigh, North

Carolina. \{hen Kevin Mitnick, one

of Ame| ica'smost notor ious

computer hackers,emergecl rom

his f lar r l re r r thor i t iesswung nto

action and arrested him. It was the

climax of a nationwide hunt by a

team of'FBI ager-rts,omputer

scientists nd amateur sleuths,

headedbr cornprr ter ecur i ty

expert Tsutornn Shimomura.

Shimomura's obsession vith

catching Mitnick began rvhen thehacker broke into his home

computer in December 1994.

Mitnick stole $l million worrh of

software iorn Shimomura's

machinearrd eft h im taunt ing

voicemailmessages. Jter that, th e

two became ernbroiled in a battle

of wits that finallv ended with

Mitnick's arrest.

NATIONAT SECURITY

Kevin Mitnick first came to public

attention as a teenager n 1982,

when,asa 'prank' he used a

computer to access he US Air

Defense Command. By the time he

was arrested, he was ound to be in

possession f over 20,000credit

card details and numerous secret

passr'vordso sensitivecomputer

databases round the'rvorld.

Mitnick had also acquired theabiliry to control the three central

of f icesof te lephorre ompanies n

New York City, and all the

r Voluoble dolo conbe effeciively :-'locked' nsideo computerusing

-{encryption oftwore,bur potient g

progrommerswho enioy o chollenge{

con often ind o woy in - somelimes $

wirh devosroringesulrs inser)'

,, ,,-,!==telephoneswitching entres n

Cal i fornia. f he had wanted o,

Mitnick could haveaccessedhe

nation's major sto ckexchange

computersor mi l i tary control

centresand held the wor ld to

f inancial ansom.Although his

court case s sti l l in process, i

Mirnick could. theoret ical ly. e

sentenced o 100years n pr ison. iMitnick is ust one of an ,

infamousband of anarchic ,

computer scient isrs ho havehiti

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ffifi;;:*y.,

,.Wefe not mel.

Such o feot,

the headlines in rccent le:rr-s.

Another is Nlark Al>elc, a lscr

knor'vn as Phiber Optik, r,r.hon'as

imprisoned on T.fanuarv 1994 fo r

targeting phorrc companies'

central colnputers. He rvas- ja i led

for a year ancl a dar, ltut rvas

releasecl on 7 Novernber 1994.

Althoush Abcne's cr irnes cl ic l

not cir l r ' \ the sanrcsirr istcr t l i reat

as \ I i t r r ick s. both shaled i r

1:rscinat ion r t l i te le1- l i rone

svstcnrs. ike \ I i tn ick. - \be ne hacl

cleviser lx 'a ls of obtaininq- i lee

intelnatiorral calls br hacking it i tc)

te lecontmunicat ion cont lo l

ccntres. This are:r ol conrputer

hackins is kncxr ' rras 'phleakine' ,

arrr l , [ i r t o lr t i , ,n \ ] ( ! t \otr . , i l i s rro l

appleciatccl bl the likes of Rrit ish

Telcconr ancl -\nrerican Tclephone

irncl Teleslaph. -\ntither, slightly

chi ld ish, -\ ltene tr ick involved

' l ' i l ing-' homc phones in the UK

to p:rv pirones in the US so that a

cornptrtelizeri r,oice dentanded ten

( cnl\ e\er ' \ t i rnc the receivt ' r uas

picked up .

\\Ihilc tl-ris rnav have been a

relzrt ivclvharmless prank,

phr-cakers have the abilitl' to 'steal'

cellular phone nrimbers and

charge thcir calls to the orisinaio\vllers bills. The,v can also

re-route their dornestic phone

costs so that the amount shorvs up

possible,

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the person committing the crime.However, this is not always he

case.One of the mos t audacious

examplesof cybercrimecame to

public attention in October 1996

with rhe arrest of sevencompurer

criminals. Using relatively

unsophisticated omputer

which can be used in exchange for

goods, servicesor airline tickets.

. One particularly worrying trend,

according o consul tantPeter

Jenner who heads he

international computer security

division at Management

ConsultancyPA, s the growing

. involvement of o rganized and

'twell-equipped criminals in

. computer fraud.

EASY MO N EY

Organizations as diverseas the

Mafia and the IRA need money to

support their criminal activities,

and computer fraud is a relatively

low-risk way of raising large sums

of money. They can do this bycoercing a company employee into

interfering with the computer

sy-stem nd diverting money to a

false bank accou nt, or by 'planting'

one ol thei r members n the

company to do it for them. 'The

people perpetrating thesecrimes

rarely get caught,' saysJenner.This

is because t is extremelv difficult

to track down, let alone prosecute,

) A huge voriety of

informotion exisls on lhe

Inlernel, complete wirh full

colour illustrqtions. Much of

rhis will be illegol, while some

will iust be offensive. So for,

there is no method for keeping

potentiolly dongerous moteriql

off of rhe Internet, ond the

system remoins open lo obuse.

equipment - and a few corrupt

British Telecom employees the

so-called hole in the wall gang'

planned to hack into thetelephone lines running between

cash dispensersand central

banking computers.

Hundreds of thousands of

customer PIN numbers - the

secret our digit figures that have

to be typed in before money can

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be dispensed could be obtained

in this way.The PIN numbers

could th en be dec rvpted. and

loaded on to a nervbank card.

Using a network of international

thieves,money could be obtained

from machines across l-reglobe.

Police claimed that the heist could

have crippled the UK's financial

institutions,had it sncceeded.

DATA FREE-FOR-Art_

At the moment. con-rputer raud

seems o be a problem that only

affects the profits of big businesses.

But as more and more people

connect to the Internet,

cybercrime could end up being a

problem that affects everyone.

The Internet provides a forum

for anyone to publish any

information they want, irrespective

of the legality. Hundreds ofthousandsof documents exist on

the Internet, which could prove

lethal if they got into the wrong

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fitfi#,ffi YoIt,ftsa frta

consultant from Manchester,

married with two children, was

convicted of dorvnloading child

pornography from the Internet to

his home computer. He was ined

f9,500. His arrest vaspart of a

massive oli ce s\roop codenamed,Operation Starburst, vhich

involved police forces from seven

conntr ies. ncluding the US,

Cermanv and Hong Kong.

SEtF-REGUTATION

Ye t poiicint t l te Internet to stop on -

l ine c l r i l r l por r roqraphy is a

mamnloih - some n'ould say

irnpossible - task. One of the main

problenrs is that different laws

applr' in cliff-erent countries, and

the hrternet does nol fal l under the

juri-s6l i61i6r.rf anv one place. If one

corlntrv clecides o crack down on

chi ld pornographr ' , paedophi les

can sirr-rph transfer their material to

another countr l r lhere th e laws are

more lenient. \Iaterial can then be

ff

tl .rtre

Todop the electronicwol ls going up

everywhere on theNet ore the cleqresf

proof of the loss of trustond community

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i ln \Fpuploaded olt to the Internet an d

irccessed v anvone,anl,where nthe rrorid. Unsuspecting userscan

sometimesstr-rmble cross his kind

of r.rraterial ccidentally.

hr the caseof online

paedophi l ia .some progress s

being made by the use of

allon\' lr iolls 'tip-offs'. Anyone who

finds paedophile material on the

Internet can contact special

groups who pass he information

on to the relevant authorities, an dso far this is proving fairly

successful.However, there are

many ways of disguising

unsavourymater ia l f a person s

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hands. Instructions for creating

crude and sophisticated explosives

- even atomic bombs - can be

found, as well as ordering details

for firearms and other dangerous

weapons. Methods for committing

suic ideexist,aswel l as nstruct ions

on how to perpetrate and -

literally - get awaywith murder.

You can even find advice on how

to change your identity and fake

vour own death.

The abundance of illegal

information on the Internetcreates he ideal breeding ground

for would-be criminals. And with

tens of millions of people alreacly

on-line, the chancesof catching

the criminal element of this

sprawling communication network

is practically nil.

POLICING THE NET

Another example of the

communicatiotr'free-for-all' s theproliferation of child pornographv

on the Internet. In November

1995,Christopher Sharp,a

48-year-oldmanagement

determined and skilled enough.

Renegade hackers ike Kevin

Mirn ick are a lrr 'avsrepared o

chal lerrgehe so-cal led xpertsand

break their'ur-rbreakable' ystems.

But, given that so much dangerous

material exists on the Internet, are

hackers ike Mitnick the real

cy'bercriminals? f their high-profile computer skills keep the

experts on their toes and drives

this area of computer technology

forward, perhaps the increase n

securi ty nowledge an be used o

banish he sin ister. nonymous

information off of

the Net - before it

gets out of cont rol

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A nlony Verney looked forward r,r'ith

excitement to his retirement.

T,ogether with his wife Doreen, he

had bought an idyllic woodcutter's

:,rin ural Kent, England. But things

rotwork out asplanned or the Vernevs

- the elder ly couple had not counted on

being guinea pigs for a horriFying experi-

Snsel and Gretel horne.

Cottage dated back

the Battle of Waterloo

began permeat ing hrough

ilie' building. By October,ih€,,rvolume ncreased and,

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ment in microwave weaponry courtesy of

the Br i t ishgovernment.

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and yellow lights, casting eerie sl

among the woodland rees.

POTICE DENIATS

Decidine to locate the source of ' :ming, the Verneys et out late at rr!

24 November. It proved to be a fu-tilb

cise,as he sounclseemed o move aiound. r.

However. ur ing their foray. hey an inro a

police patrol not far from their cottagd!:

was 1 a.m., and the policemen cled

heard the sounds. But when Verney

an official complaint at the police

the following day, he rvas old it *ur,';ini

matter for the oolice' and to

Environmental Health Department:::,,'',:l$

Despite epeatedattempts o p

matter before the council. Vernev reii

no response.Frustrated and debilitate

next contacted an acousticseneineer

a local firm in Maidstone. Arriving at

cottage that same evening, the e

obtained a very strong reading ofthe vi

t ions. Conierned, he aler ted

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At this point, Verney reported

wa s becoming intolerable inside

iAhbour, meanwhile, had told the

,about an odd btrilcling that had

rected close by. two or threelearsusly. The two-storey building, sur-

mded by high hedges, had no windows

the first floor, and reminded Verney

,:L,ip{,,Germanrmy bunkers built during

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1;1t.'...,.1.',1'tostddly, the ground floor windows

w€re protected by thick net curtains typical

. of those used to protect specialgovernment

ildings rom bomb blasts. errrey lsodis-

fea{ that the telephone number of the

tding was 'classified'.This building was,

felt, the origin of the disturbances

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no one in authority to turn to, Verney

to London to hire his own record-

ipment. Explaining the sitr,ratiorro

rs of a shop specializing in elec-

. tronic appliances, Verney was told by the

two shop assistants.[ t sounds as rhough

tronics scientist and a date was set for

hnician to visit the cottage.

arranged, the eleclrorr ics c ient is t .

we qhall refer to as 'Mr D' , arrived

;lottage on 18 January 1984. Ten

. Defence. 'After a short conversation.

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minutes after \Ir D set up hi s equipment,

Yernev rvas astonished by the arrival of a

local Environmental Health officer.

Appearing agitated, he officer remarked ro

the scientist, 'So you're Mr D?' and pro-

ceeded to cross-examinehe scientiston hisequipment. He left shortly afterwards.

Following his departure, Mr D and the

Verneys began a vigil, hoping to capture

necessarydata to prove what was going on.

Most unusually, t was a quiet evening, with

no humming noisesor ground I'ibrations.

By 10 p.m., Mr D decided to return home,

and packecl up his equiprnent. Artonv

Verney drove him back to London. Shortlr'

after they left, the noise and vibrations

began in earnest,and Doreen Veruev suf-

fered a nisht of 'bombardrnent'.

After seven months of suffering, the

Verneys reluctantly decided to sell their

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Britain in 1985. In a dossier prepared by

fbrmer activist,Kim Besly,details of alleged

microwave assaultsdirected at the peace

campaigners are fully catalogued. Victims'

symptoms include retinal bleeding, nau-

sea, nosebleeds, dizziness, palpitations,

and heaclaches.

The list of srrnptoms \\'ere rer-ierled tv

the Nobel Prize norninee Dr Robelt

Becker, a medical scientist rrho alscr

analysed the recordings made br' \-elner

and others. Dr Becker concluded: '\lrs

Besly'speople certainly fit r,vell nside of the

EM field exDosure vndrome...'

Another case nvolves Robert Strom, an

emplovee of the Boeing Corporation - a

major US defence contractor. His life was

cut short after contracting leukaemia as he

result of exposlrre o Electromagnetic Pulse

(EMP) radiation. Strom alleged that, in

1983, Boeing set him the task of firing an

EMP simulatcir hundreds of times a day as

part of a secretexperiment to test the haz-

alclsof E\'IP exposure. n 1990,Boeing set-

tlecl he crrse ut of corrrt br $500.000.

SECRET MILITARY PROJECT

Lr par:rllcl. Bc.reingier-ealso operating a

secre L S -{ir For-ce rograntlne at a missile

site n Lrclii lur. -\rother Boeing employee,

Jim Dalton. rias erposed to EMP radiation

that senelated 600,000natts r,vithin eet of

n'here he rrorked. The exposure of Boeing

staff tci this radiation was rot accidental.As

fa r back as 1971,Boeing knew there were

consiclerable risks involved. At that time,Boeirrs medical stalf wrote they were 'in a

unique position to evaluatesome aspectsof

the biological effectson man'.

These experiments, an d many more

besides,provided the necessary'science' c- r

develop anti-personnel electromagnetic

weapons. This new-agearmoury has manv

benefits for the military and intelligence

community. Foremost, perhaps, s that they

are invisibleand deniable. Arhetherused on

the battlefield or in the bungalow elecrro-

magnetic weaponsare destined to become a

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