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the war it has been suspected that the tower was being used for wireless purposes by German spies. Strangers are said to have been seen about the place in the past month....(p. 25)

Recent Discussions of Various Tesla Technologies as Possible Weapons: The Soviet Connection

Tesla's numerous inventions could be applied in a variety of ways for military purposes, e.g., particle beam weapons, world wide radar, earthquake contrivances, brain wave manipulation. One or more magnifying transmitters could supposedly send destructive impulses through the earth to any location. For instance, a well placed jolt of many millions of volts could theoretically destroy the communications network of any major city. Recent discourses on potential future warfare technologies stemming mainly from parapsychologists such as Tom Bearden (1978; 1981; 1985) and Andrija Puharich (1976; 1984; 1985) suggest that the Soviets have already harnessed various Tesla weapons including apparatuses for weather and mind control (Washington Star, 1/31/1977, pp. 1,5; Sunday Times, Scranton, PA, 11/6/1977, pp. 14-15).

For instance, in the fall of 1976, an ominous 10 Hz transmission picked up in Canada and the northwestern part of the United States was attributed to Soviet-Tesla mind control weaponry experiments (Bise, 1978, pp. 24-28). These extremely low frequencies (ELF waves) labeled "woodpecker transmissions" are hypothesized to be Soviet attempts to "entrain" the brain waves of Americans. Through modulating this resonant neural frequency, detrimental effects in thought processes and even health problems could supposedly be augmented (Planetary Association for Clean Energy, Vol. 1, #2, pp. 18, 19; Vol I, #4, p. 11). Puharich (1985) has invented a device to protect a person from such dangerous transmissions.

Star Wars. This research is highly controversial and speculative. Nevertheless, Bearden's work led this researcher to a 7,000 word article in Aviation Week on Soviet particle beam weapons (Robinson, 5/2/1977, pp. 11, 16-27). The expose, which "shook Washington" when it appeared, was also abstracted in Science (May 1977, pp. 957-959). It contains a schematic drawing of a particle beam weapon which bears a remarkable resemblence to Tesla's (1937d/1985) drawing made four decades earlier, but publicized eight years after this article appeared. Coupled with the realization that the Soviets are well advanced in