1. "Microwave Weapons" MICROWAVE NEWS May/June 1998 Lawsuit charges illegal experiments... On April 15, the International Committee on Offensive Microwave Weapons charges in federal court in Washington that the Department of Defense and the CIA have conducted "classified research on human subjects without their informed consent", in efforts to develop weapons using EMFs, lasers, microwaves, and sound waves. The lawsuit cites an article by retired Lt. Col. Timothy L. Thomas in the spring 1998 issue of PARAMETERS, the journal of the U.S. Army War College. The article, The Mind Has No Firewall appears in a section on "Future Land Warfare". The committee, headed by Harlan Girard of Philadelphia, asks for an injunction to end the alleged illegal experiments. 2. "Microwave Weapons" MICROWAVE NEWS March/April 1998 Information Warfare...The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has mounted high-power microwave generators on air-launched cruise missiles to test their usefulness in waging computer warfare, reports Aviation Week in it's January 19, 1998 issue. The tests were somewhat successful, although there were problems with range and focus, according to the magazine which has excellent sources at the Pentagon. But the information wars of the future will involve more than zapping computers. USAF GENERAL JOHN JUMPER PREDICTS THAT THE MILITARY WILL ["WILL" - WHAT A LAUGH! E.W.] THE TOOLS TO MAKE POTENTIAL ENEMIES SEE, HEAR, AND BELIEVE THINGS THAT DO NOT EXIST, according to a follow up in the March 9 issue. That same idea was contained in a 15-volume study by the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, issued in 1996, on how to maintain U.S. air and space superiority on the battle- fields of the 21st century. (See MWN J/F 1997)