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Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba

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Re: Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba

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Post by philwelch »

linsomniac wrote: post #81
wybiral wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was a rejected proposal. (There are probably all kinds of crazy military proposals that get rejected)

My memory of reading Bamford's book was that it was an APPROVED proposal, which was made obsolete by the Cuban Missile Crisis. The DOJ approved that plan, and many of the people involved in that are still on the scene today. But, I read that book a decade or more ago so maybe I'm misremembering.

Exactly how many people involved in a scheme during the early 1960’s would still be “on the scene today”? If one of the coauthors of the plan was a 20 year old intern who had a long government career, that person would be 75 today. “Many of the people” involved seems unlikely.

Re: Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba

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Post by blorsh »

mccoyspace wrote: post #3

This is such a fascinating (and disturbing) situation. And quite mysterious. High frequency ultrasound is used routinely in medicine and has never been shown to change brain tissue. Infrasound has some effect on tissue but its probably overstated. (the infamous 'brown note' [1]. Other sonic weapons rely on volume/amplitude. None of this seems to be the case here. Another really interesting point is the description of…

Ultrasound does damage brain tissue.

It has been studied in China, where evidently it was considered ethical to do so. Search terms: China ultrasound study

What this does to the population's average mental ability and sanity is an interesting question. Autism is suspected.

Re: Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba

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Post by thomble »

CapsAdmin wrote: post #85
ACEace wrote: post #78

There's a longer version of this AP report that includes the below quotes. The fact that there were cases of two people in a room where one heard the sound and the other did not was something I had not seen mentioned before. It was a question I had been curious about and would seem to indicate something different going on - rather than an acoustic weapon unexplained by current science that affects some people but not…

I still can't help but think all of this are sleep paralysis symptoms. Not being able to focus on a screen sounds like they became drowsy by something? I remember when I took alimemazine once I had severe sleep paralysis. I heard a loud buzzing sound and the day after I felt extremely drowsy. But in the end all we can do is speculate, which is fun I guess. Maybe all of this is really nothing and they're just finding…

I too have experienced buzzing and grating sounds and vibrations during sleep paralysis, or during a false awakening. It happened frequently in college when my sleep schedule was broken.

I'm skeptical. Part of me thinks that this is mass hysteria.

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