January 10, 2005
YUP, DEMOCRACY'S JUST WHAT THEY NEED ALL RIGHT
Psychic security department protects Russian presidents from external psychological influence (Dimitri Sudakov, Pravda, January 6th, 2005)
Americans have created radiators of modulated signals, which control people's behavior thousands of kilometers from afarYuri Malin, a former KGB officer, says that there was a special department in the structure of Russian secret services to protect top officials from malicious intentions of scientists and extrasensory individuals, who could create devices that were capable of affecting human psychology. Yuri Malin worked as a consultant of Boris Yeltsin's Federal Security Service.
“Special Services do not take much care of President Putin nowadays. There
are no professionals in his team to help him struggle with the external psychophysical influence. There were such people in Boris Yeltsin's team, though. There was a special department, which was dealing with unconventional technologies to manipulate the human mind," Malin says [...]"Extrasensory appliances were used during pre-election campaigns in the beginning of the 1990sin Russia. I have a document dated December 16th, 1995 - a price list for extrasensory pre-election services. The extrasensory security guarantee for candidates cost $3,000 a month at that time. A candidate had to pay $2,000 to "bewitch" the entire population of a town to make all people vote for him. The cheapest extrasensory service for candidates - assistance during public appearances - cost $150 per hour.
"There were about 20 institutes in Russia in the beginning of the 1990s, which developed a variety of extrasensory devices, like the one that was found in Boris Yeltsin's office. I know those people, who worked on psychic developments and those, who denounced them as something pseudo-scientific. Those were one and the same people actually. There were certain devices, which could drive a person to insanity. The goal of our department was to control, supervise and restrain this "weapon of mass manipulation." When the system of state support collapsed, commercial and criminal structures started sponsoring the "pseudo-scientific inventors." High-ranking officials knew that someone could turn them into zombies. That is why Yeltsin's government assigned 500 million rubles for a special program to prevent any kind of remote manipulation effect.
"When Vladimir Putin came to power, the department was abolished. I do not know if a new department was established afterwards. It is not ruled out that the new president considered the psychic security service nonsensical. A lot of experienced specialists have been left out of job at the time when human mind manipulation technologies are developing so actively in the world today. Americans have reportedly created radiators of modulated signals, which control people's behavior. One should say that the control can be conducted thousands of kilometers from afar. It is not ruled out that such technologies were used during the presidential election in Ukraine."
We asume they were still ironing out the bugs when they zapped Michael Moore and Paris Hilton.
Posted by Peter Burnet at January 10, 2005 2:42 PMBoy, I'll bet the R.J. Reynolds company is doing landoffice business over there. My only question would be whether or not their product is being sold in the kitchen or clothing departments of Russian stores.
Posted by: John at January 10, 2005 3:10 PMTo ease the fears of any Democrats who worry that these technologies will be used to promote the Republican party, I understand that President Bush has directed the Psychophysical Projection task force to make sure that no one even thinks of using such technologies to induce votes for Republicans in the 2006 elections.
Posted by: pj at January 10, 2005 3:10 PMThe Russians have been into this nonsense for decades. When Fischer played Spassky and when Kasparov played Karpov, the Soviets had a guy with really weird eyes and a big bushy beard, known colloquially as Zoukar the Magnificent, sit in the front row and stare at Fischer and Kasparov respectively during the match.
Posted by: Bart at January 10, 2005 3:56 PMThis is pretty much the plotline of the old computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, except that Ray Wise isn't president and the Commies haven't attacked the Statue of Liberty with giant war zeppelins. Yet.
Dang, that was a fun game.
I see that Pravda's reporting has improved considerably since the fall of the USSR.
Posted by: David Cohen at January 10, 2005 4:17 PMDavid:
Actually it's kind of fun. They have this guy called Timothy Bancroft-Hinchley (a typical Russian name), whose unredeemed Stalinism will make you nostalgic for 1950's Izvestia. But then they have these neo-cons and right-wing fundies who weigh in. I think Moscow is kind of like a wild, wild West of journalism these days. For now.
Posted by: Peter B at January 10, 2005 4:29 PM