Discrediting Dissidents by Inducing Dementia

by Jon Roland



One of the recurring themes in modern political reform or investigatory

activities is the development of aberrant behavior by key personalities,

often after a long, unbroken history of competence and rationality. This

seems especially prevalent among witnesses to high-level criminal or

secret projects, or persons otherwise critical to exposure of something

powerful people may want to keep covered up. The subject will exhibit

such symptoms as the loss of focus, shortening of attention span, loss

of coherence in sentence structure and logic, and the development of

paranoid suspicions of others, including his own family, friends, and

allied, often accusing them of betrayal or plotting against him, and

turning more attention on them than on his real enemies. The subject may

begin to say weird things that cause his supporters to lose confidence

in him and in the other things he has had to say, thereby discrediting

him and his evidence. At the same time, the subject may exhibit some or

all of the following physical symptoms: fever, headache, delirium,

aching joints, high blood pressure, numbness of extremities, and skin

rash.



Subjects exhibiting these symptoms have had reported the presence in the

area of mysterious vans parked nearby, often with license plate numbers

that don't seem to be registered to anyone, or frequent overflights by

black helicopters with no tail numbers.



We have a number of reports of methods used by intelligence agencies and

criminal organizations to affect the minds of persons, ranging from

contact poisons to infrasonic transmitters to psychotronic devices

operating on microwave frequencies. Research programs in the MK-ULTRA

series have been documented in hearings before the U.S. Congress, and a

few researchers, like Jose Delgado, have openly published papers on

mind-control research they have conducted under government sponsorship.

Several investigators, notably Martin Cannon and Julianne McKinney, have

documented much of this research, including material that can be found

in public records.



Therefore, we must take seriously the possibility of a real threat to

the mental soundness of key personalities involved in the exposure of

high-level corruption or abuse, and to reformers generally. Parties who

might be threatened by such reform activities and who may have access to

and use of such mind-altering technologies could be expected to yield to

the temptation to use those technologies, and such use may have become

well-established.



There is a natural tendency on the part of ordinary people to discredit

such concerns, and to dismiss them as paranoid, the evidence of

delusional thinking rather than a matter of rational discussion and

preparation. However, the public record cannot be ignored, nor can we

ignore the susceptibility of powerful persons to use any methods they

have available to them to protect their interests. We can hardly rely on

the powerful to be decent, honorable people. History proves otherwise.



So how can activists and witnesses protect themselves from such threats

without becoming paranoid by doing so? It is certainly not feasible to

live in a Faraday cage (to protect from electromagnetic transmissions),

or to subject everything we eat, drink, or touch to sophisticated

chemical analyses.



The first thing to do is to recognize the symptoms. If our previously

rational fellows begin to go weird on us, they may have become targets

for mental disruption. At this point it may not be too late to take

defensive actions. The subject might be removed to another environment

where he will be less easily targeted. Faraday screens might be set up

(wire mesh or screen wire). Precautions against poisoning might be

taken, especially against contact poisons. Parked vans and overflying

helicopters might be discouraged (by methods left to your imagination).



But there are two main things that can and should be done. The first is

for supporters to recognize the possible threat and not to discredit the

evidence that the subject presented during his rational period, even if

he is no longer a credible witness. The second is for the subject

himself to fight the symptoms. That is not easy, but there is good

reason to think that such assaults can be resisted if the person learns

to recognize them in himself, and to develop the kinds of mental

training that can overcome them. He will need to learn to see his

behavior as others see it, to take an external view of himself, and to

counter any aberrant thoughts, feelings, or behaviors as they arise. By

drawing from inner reserves of reason and objectivity, he can

effectively resist almost any onslaughts of this kind.



The war for the future will be fought on many fronts, and on many

battlefields. In the end, the most important of these are our own minds.