Nikola Tesla Books
The breaking of the news in February 1976 that the American embassy in Moscow was being subjected to microwave radiation by the Soviets may have ignited the first widespread public concern about the microwave danger (Ruussian knowledge of that danger makes their conduct doubly bizarre). Among the facts that subsequently emerged were that the Soviets had irradiated the embassy as early as 1962 but the State Department had kept that information from embassy employees...that Ambassador. Walter J. Stoessel was suffering from bleeding of the eyes and from a blood disease akin to leukemia (he has since been transferred from Moscow)...that two of his predecessors, Ambassadors Bonlen and Thompson, had died of cancer... that, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the cancer rate among Americans in the Moscow embassy was the highest in the world...that 16 American women who served in Moscou developed breast cancer...that among embassy personnel given blood tests, the average lymphocyte (a white blood corpuscle) count was 40percant higher than in other foreign service personnel. that State Department tests for genetic damage conducted an employees returning from Moscow found chromosomal breaks in significant numbers (the Department did not tell the employees the object of the tests). Whether the Russians zapped the Embassy to foil American ecuesdropping equipment, as they said, or for other reasons is unclear. Equally unclear is whether the State Department kept the facts of irradiation from its employees and the public out of some dopey concern for its "detente" policy, fear of lawsuits by enraged employees, or because of the secrecy with which the government surrounds microwaves. As the government's largest user of microwave, the Defense Department funds the research to determine their dangers. Which, says Brodeur, puts the fox in charge of guarding the chicken coop and makes test animals of us all. THE ZAPPING OF AMERICA is an important book not only for the valuable controversy it will provoke about microwaves and their effects, but also because it challenges the objectivity of any research by government agencies with too great a vested interest in the results. (Published in The Washington Monthly/October 1977.)
