On January 28, 1999, The European Parliament adopted a resolution A4-0005/99, calling for "an international convention introducing a global ban on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings; ..."

While every weapon ever produced can be said to "enable manipulation of human beings," the patents listed here are directly concerned with weapons capable of COVERT (unknown to the target) or DENIABLE (known to the target but either impossible or nearly impossible to prove) manipulation ability.

U.S. 3,773,049: Rabichev et al.

Apparatus for the Treatment of Neuropsychic and Somatic Diseases with Heat, Light, Sound and VHF Electromagnetic Radiaton

Originally designed for drugless sedation. Can covertly affect the ability to remain alert, or with a pulse rate setting increase, the ability to sleep. The VHF signal can penetrate non-conducting walls. Tested by Dr. Ross Adey at the Loma Linda, California Veterans Hospital, using the "Lida" device.

Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves

This patent describes the transmission of radio signals at the head of a subject, and picking up of the signal as altered by the brain's electrical activity, for remote reading of the brain's activity. Also covers use of transmitting a radio signal back to the brain "to effect a desired change in electrical activity therein."

"A method and apparatus for simulation of hearing in mammals by introduction of a plurality of microwaves into the region of the auditory cortex..."

Describes a means of direct transmission of a microwave signal which can carry audible sound to the brain of a mammal, hence, a person. Microwave is capable of penetrating a non-conducting wall, thus this technology could be used as a covert or nearly impossible to prove weapon to manipulate human beings.

Apparatus for audibly communicating speech using the radio frequency hearing effect

"A modulation process with a fully suppressed carrier and input preprocessor filtering to produce an encoded output; for amplitude modulation (AM) and audio speech preprocessor filtering, intelligible subjective sound is produced when the encoded signal is demodulated using the RF Hearing Effect. Suitable forms of carrier suppressed modulation include single sideband (SSB) and carrier suppressed amplitude modulation (CSAM), with both sidebands present."

Another means of direct transmission of audible sound into the hearing sense of a person, carried on a radio signal.

Hearing system

"Sound is induced in the head of a person by radiating the head with microwaves in the range of 100 megahertz to 10,000 megahertz that are modulated with a particular waveform."

Another patent, like the Stocklin patent above, describing a method of modulating a microwave signal to carry audible sound directly into the brain of a person.

Silent subliminal presentation system

"A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high audio frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplitude or frequency modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones or piezoelectric transducers."

This technology is popularly called "silent sound", and has found use in self help recordings and store anti-shoplifting applications. The "nonaural" feature makes it a covert influence technology.

Method of and apparatus for inducing desired states of consciousness

"Improved methods and apparatus for entraining human brain patterns, employing frequency following response (FFR) techniques, facilitate attainment of desired states of consciousness. In one embodiment, a plurality of electroencephalogram (EEG) waveforms, characteristic of a given state of consciousness, are combined to yield an EEG waveform to which subjects may be susceptible more readily."

This is a potentially covert technology, an enhancement of the simpler Rabichev et al. (Lida device) patent 3,773,049 above.

Communication system and method including brain wave analysis and/or use of brain activity

"A system and method for enabling human beings to communicate by way of their monitored brain activity ... then the computer at the remote location determines that the individual was attempting to communicate the word, phrase, or thought corresponding to the matched stored normalized signal."

This patent is talking about the beginnings of thought reading, hence, a significant step in covert manipulation of human beings. Recent work in fMRI scanning is also making progress in thought decoding.

Subliminal acoustic manipulation of nervous systems

"In human subjects, sensory resonances can be excited by subliminal atmospheric acoustic pulses that are tuned to the resonance frequency. The 1/2 Hz sensory resonance affects the autonomic nervous system and may cause relaxation, drowsiness, or sexual excitement, depending on the precise acoustic frequency near 1/2 Hz used. The effects of the 2.5 Hz resonance include slowing of certain cortical processes, sleepiness, and disorientation."

1/2 Hz and 2.5 Hz sound is extremely low, well below human hearing. Thus, as with the "silent sound" patent 5,159,703 above, this technology has covert manipulation potential.