Biological Effects of Radiowaves and Microwaves

This showed up in rec.arts.poems one day, and immediately caught my attention:

>            Biological Effects of Radiowaves and Microwaves

>In the spring of 1973, Dr. Charles C. Sharp and some colleagues at the Walter
>Reed Army Institute of Research conducted an experiment in which the human
>brain received a message carried to it by a pulsed microwave transmission.
>Sitting in an anechoic chamber, a room with absorbent walls designed to
>prevent microwave reflection, Dr. Sharp was able to recognize spoken words
>that were modulated by an audiogram, a graphic representation of the sound
>waves that humans can hear, and that were then sent into the chamber at a
>microwave frequency of about 2 gigahertz.

>Later in the DIA report, the authors predict that the Soviets will continue to
>use internal sound perception, perceptual distortion and other
>psychophysiological effects, and that "the results of these investigations
>could have military applications if the Soviets develop methods for disrupting
>or disturbing human behavior."

>Elsewhere, the report states "One physiological effect which has been
>demonstrated is heart seizure."

> - From Defense Intelligence Agency Report DST-1810S-074-76, "Biological
>Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation (Radiowaves and Microwaves) Eurasian
>Communist Countries."

If this was the situation in 1973, imagine what the state of the art must be today. In addition to the audiograms and heart seizures, you could probably find a frequency to just dull and damage someone's brain, perhaps even at night while they were sleeping. You could really make someone think they were going crazy with this technology. Not to mention what everyone else would think. What if you also had them under surveillance, with audio and video and perhaps more? You could set up a serious aversive conditioning feedback loop, perhaps without them even being aware of it. Just give them a little jolt whenever they do something you do not approve of. But this would constitute torture by anyone's definition. What an assassination tool remote-control heart attacks could be...