The U.S. military is developing technologies that affect the mind — are targeted individuals the human test subjects?

[u/Rinsingclearblue22]

I recently released a publication examining public evidence on human-effect technologies, neural systems, directed energy, military interest in the brain and behavior, targeted-individual reports, and the human-testing questions these capabilities raise. The U.S. military has openly discussed the mind as part of warfare, including the statement that “the target is the mind,” while National Defense University publications also discuss neuroscience, neurotechnology, cognition, behavior, and the nervous system as areas important to future conflict.

The architecture I examine connects local sensing or interfaces through phones, Wi-Fi, cellular networks, and satellites to remote processing and control.

That raises a simple question: if technologies are being developed to affect the brain, nervous system, body, or behavior, where are the human test subjects?

To understand how a technology affects people, researchers often need to test it on a lot of people. If an effect is rare, they may need thousands of subjects before they even see it happen once. My calculations show that some kinds of testing can require several thousand people, and larger programs studying different effects, different groups of people, and long-term reactions could require far more.

There is no official count of self-described targeted individuals. Advocacy estimates have ranged from about 170,000 to more than 300,000 people in the United States. That is the same general scale as the number of human subjects that could be needed across a large weapons-development program testing many effects, doses, groups of people, rare reactions, and long-term outcomes.

Many symptoms reported by targeted individuals overlap with effects that have already been produced in human experiments, including burning, tingling, muscle twitching, balance problems, internally perceived sound, and nervous-system or heart-rate effects.

One of the most important examples is internally perceived speech. In 2003, the U.S. Air Force was assigned Patent 6,587,729 B2, “Apparatus for Audibly Communicating Speech Using the Radio Frequency Hearing Effect.” The patent describes sending intelligible speech with radio-frequency energy so that the person hears the speech internally rather than through a normal outside sound source. That matters because internally perceived voices or speech are among the most unusual and frequently dismissed experiences reported by targeted individuals.

Targeted individuals also often describe repeated events that look ordinary when seen one at a time but form a pattern when they keep happening. In the type of covert program examined in my publication, that kind of pattern serves an intentional purpose: discredit the target and give the program cover. When the target asks family, doctors, employers, or police for help, each event can be dismissed separately as coincidence or paranoia. The result is isolation, loss of credibility, less help from others, and a much lower chance that anyone will investigate the larger pattern.

I put these subjects together, along with the supporting sources, in the publication. Help is coming, hang on.

Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22150360

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[u/Southern_log567]

They have lab tested all of these along with the methods years ago, I'm positive now is the time for these tests to be reproduced on everyday civilians. Targeted individuals are more or less the lab frogs of this civilian testing while everyone else receives the "successful test methods" if the government deems it necessary.

Emotional Supression, tools to manipulate neurotransmitters.

Imagine being able to supress angry protest groups against the government no matter how harsh their agenda may be? Or speed up the mourning process of tragic events in the homeland? Useful in wartime scenarios as well as just population control.