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The following article which appeared in the U.K. magazine, LOBSTER,
in June 1993, is reproduced at the request of the author.
(LOBSTER magazine, which specialises in intelligence and conspiracy
matters, is published twice yearly.)



       NON-LETHALITY: JOHN B. ALEXANDER, THE PENTAGON'S PENGUIN

                          By Armen Victorian

On April 22, 1993, both BBC1 and BBC2 showed on their main evening
news bulletins a rather lengthy piece concerning America's latest
development in weaponry - the non-lethal weapons concept.  David
Shukman, BBC Defence Correspondent interviewed (Retired) U.S. Army
Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main
proponents of the concept (1).  The concept of non-lethal weapons
is not new. Non-lethal weapons have been used by the intelligence,
police and defence establishments in the past (2).  Several western
governments have used a variety of non-lethal weapons in a more
discreet and covert manner.  It seems that the U.S. government is
about to take the first step towards their open use.

The current interest in the concept of non-lethal weapons began
about a decage ago with John Alexander.  In December 1980 he
published an article in the U.S. Army's journal, MILITARY REVIEW,
"The New Mental Battlefield," referring to claims that telepathy
could be used to interfere with the brain's electrical activity.
This caught the attention of senior Army generals who encouraged
him to pursue what they termed "soft option kill" technologies.

After retiring from the Army in 1988, Alexander joined the Los
Alamos National Laboratories and began working with Janet Morris,
the Research Director of the U.S. Global Strategy Council (USGSC),
chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA (3).  I
examine the background of Janet Morris and John Alexander in more
detail below.

Throughout 1990 the USGSC lobbied the main national laboratories,
major defence contractors and industries, retired senior military
and intelligence officers. The result was the creation of a
Non-lethality Policy Review Group, led by Major General Chris S.
Adams, USAF (retd.) former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command
(4).  They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of
the Senate Armed Services Committee.  According to Janet Morris,
the military attache at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC
about the possibility of converting military hardware to a
non-lethal capability.

In 1991 Janet Morris issued a number of papers giving more detailed
information about USGSC's concept of non-lethal weapons (5).
Shortly after, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command at Fort
Monroe, VA, published a detailed draft report on the subject titled
"Operations Concept for Disabling Measures."  The report included
over twenty projects in which John Alexander is currently involved
at the Los Alamos national Laboratories.

In a memorandum dated April 10, 1991, titled "Do we need a
Non-lethal Defense initiative?" Paul Wolfwitz, Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy, wrote to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, "A U.S.
lead in non-lethal technologies will increase our options and
reinforce our position in the post-Cold War world. Our Research and
Development efforts must be increased."

HOW LETHAL IS NON-LETHAL?

To support their non-lethal weapons concept, Janet Morris argues
that while "war will always be terrible... a world power deserving
its reputation for humane action should pioneer the principles of
non-lethal defense (6)."  In "Defining a non-lethal strategy," she
seeks to establish a doctrine for the use of non-lethal weapons by
the U.S. in crisis "at home or abroad in a life serving fashion."
She totally disregards the offensive, lethal aspects inhereent in
some of the weapons in question, or their misuse, should they
become available to "rogue" nations.  Despite her arguments that
non-lethal weapons should serve the U.S.'s interests "at home and
abroad by projecting power without indiscriminately taking lives or
destroying property (7)," she admits that "casualties cannot be
avoided (8)."

Closer examination of the types of weapons to be used as non-lethal
invalidates her assertions about their non-lethality.  According to
her white paper, the areas where non-lethal weapons could be useful
are "regional and low inensity conflict (adventurism, insurgency,
ethnic violence, terrorism, narco- trafficking, domestic crime)
(9)." She believes that "by identifying and requiring a new
category of non-lethal weapons, tactics and strategic planning" the
U.S. can reshape its military capability "to meet the already
identifiable threats" that they might face in a multipolar world
"where American interests are globalized and American presence
widespread (10)."

THE POTENTIAL INVENTORY

Janet Morris' "White Paper" recommends "two types of
life-conserving technologies":

ANTI-MATERIAL NON-LETHAL TECHNOLOGIES

To destroy or impair electronics, or in other ways stop mechanical
systems from functioning.  Amongst current technologies from which
this category of non- lethal weapons would or could be chosen are:

* Chemical and bilogical weapons for their anti-materiel agents
"which do not significantly endanger life or the environment, or
anti-personnel agents which have no permanent effects (11)."

* Laser blinding systems to incapacitate the electronic sensors, or
optics, i.e. light detection and ranging.  Already the Army
Infantry School is developing a one-man portable and operated laser
weapons system known as the Infantry Self-Defense System.  The U.S.
Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineer Center (ARDEC),
is also engaged in the development of non-lethal weapons under
their program called "Low Collateral Damage Munitions" (LCDM). The
LCDM is trying to develop technolgies leading to weapons capable of
dazzling and incapacitating missiles, armoured vehicles and
personnel.

* Non-lethal electromagnetic technolgies.

* Non-nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse weapons (12).  As General
Norman Schwartzkopf has told the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, one
such weapons stationed in space with a wide-area-pulse capacity has
the ability to fry enemy electronics.  But what would be the fate
of enemy personnel in such a scenario? In a join project with the
Los Alamos National Laboratories and with technical support from
the Army's Harry Diamond Laboratories, ARDEC are developing High
Power Microwave (HPM) Projectiles.  According to ARDEC, the Diamond
lab has already "completed a radio frequency effects analysis on a
representative target set" for (HPM).

* Among the chemical agents, so-called supercaustics - "Millions of
times more caustic than hydrofluric acid (13)" - are prime
candidates.  An artillery round could deliver jellied super-acids
which could destroy the optics of heavily armoured vehicles or
tanks, vision blocks or glass, and "could be used to silently
destroy key weapons systems (14)."

On less lethal aspects the use of net-like entanglements for SEAL
teams, or "stealthy" metal boats with low or no radar signature,
"for night actions, or any seaborne or come-ashore stealthy
scenario" are under consideration (15). More colourful concepts are
the use of chemical metal embrittlement, often called liquid metal
embrittlement and anti-materiel polymers which would be used in
aerosol dispersal systems, spreading chemical adhesives or
lubricants (i.e. Teflon-based lubricants) on enemy equipment from a
distance.

ANTI-PERSONNEL NON-LETHAL TECHNOLOGIES

* Hand-held lasers which are menat "to dazzle," could also cause
the eyeball to explode and to blind the target.

* Isotropic radiators - explosively driven munitions, capable of
generating very bright omni-directional light, with similar effects
to laser guns.

* High-power microwaves (HPM) - U.S. Special Operations command
already has that capability within their grasp as a portable
microwave weapon (16).  As Myron L. Wolbarsht, a Duke University
opthalamist and expert in laser weapons stated: "U.S. Special
Forces can quietly cut enemy communications but also can cook
internal organs (17)."

* Another candidate is Infrasound - acoustic beams.  In conjunction
with the Scientific Applications and Research Associates (SARA) of
Huntingdon, California, ARDEC and Los Alamos laboratories are busy
"developing a high power, very low frequency acoustic beam
weapons." They are also looking into methods of projecting
non-diffracting (i.e. non-penetrating) high frequency acoustic
bullets.  ARDEC scientists are also looking into methods of using
pulsed chemical lasers.  This class of lasers could project "a hot,
high pressure plasma in the air in front of a target surface,
creating a blast wave that will result in variable but controlled
effects on materiel and personnel."

* Infrasound.  Alrady some governments have used it as a means of
crowd control - e.g. France.

* Very low frequency (VLF) sound (20-35 KHz), or low-frequency RF
modulations can cause nausea, vomiting and abdominal pains.  "Some
very low frequency sound generators, in certain frequency ranges,
can cause the disruption of human organs and, at high power levels,
can crumble masonry (18)."  The CIA had a similar program in 1978
called Operation Pique, which included bouncing radio or microwave
signals off the ionosphere to affect mental functions of people in
slected areas, including Eastern European nuclear installations (19).

JOHN ALEXANDER

The entire non-lethal weapon concept opens up a new Pandora's Box
of unknown consequences.  The main personality behind it is retired
Colonel John B. Alexander.  Born in New York in 1937, he spent part
of his career as a Commander of Green Berets Special Forces in
Vietnam, led Cambodian mercenaries behind enemy lines, and took
part in a number of clandestine programmes, including Phoenix.  He
currently holds the post of Director of Non-lethal Programmes in
the Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Alexander obtained a BaS from the University of Nebraska and an MA
from Pepperdine University.  In 1980 he was awarded a PhD from
Walden University (20) for his thesis "To determine whether or not
significant changes in spirituality occur in persons who attended a
Kubler-Ross life/death transition workshop during the period June
through February 1979."  His dissertation committee was chaired by
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

He has long been interested in what used to be regarded as "fringe"
areas.  In 1971, while a Captain in the infantry at Schofield
Barracks, Honolulu, he was diving in the Bemini Islands looking for
the lost continent of Atlantis.  He was an official representative
for the Silva mind control organisation and a lecturer on
Precataclysmic Civilisations (21).  Alexander is also a past
President and a Board member of the International Association for
Near Death Studies; and, with his former wife, Jan Northup, he
helped Dr C.B. Scott Jones perform ESP experiments with dolphins
(22).

PSI-TECH

Retired Major General Albert N. Stubblebine (Former Director of
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command) and Alexander are on
the board of a "remote viewing" company called PSI-TECH.  The
company also employs Major Edward Dames (ex Defence Intelligence
Agency), Major David Morehouse (ex 82nd Airborne Division), and Ron
Blackburn (former microwave scientist and specialist at Kirkland
Air Force Base). PSI-TECH has received several government
contracts. For example, during the Gulf War crisis the Department
for Defense asked it to use remote viewing to locate Saddam's Scud
missiles sites.  Last year (1992) the FBI sought PSI-TECH's
assistance to locate a kidnapped Exxon executive (23).

With Major Richard Groller and Janet Morris as his co-authors,
Alexander published THE WARRIOR'S EDGE in 1990 (24).  The book
describes in detail various unconventional methods which would
enable the practitioner to acquire "human excellence and optimum
performance" and thereby become an invincible warrior (25).  The
purpose of the book is "to unlock the door to the extraordinary
human potentials inherent in each of us.  To do this, we, like
governments around the world , must take a fresh look at
non-traditional methods of affecting reality.  We must raise human
consciousness of the potential power of the individual body/mind
system - the power to manipulate reality.  We must be willing to
retake control of our past, present, and ultimately, our future
(26)."

Alexander is a friend of Vice President Al Gore Jnr, their
relationship dating back to 1983 when Gore was in Alexander's
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). NLP "presented to selected
general officers and Senior Executive Service members (27)" a set
of techniques to modify behaviour patterns (28).  Among the first
generals to take the course was the then Lieutenant General Maxwell
Thurman, who later went on to receive his fourth star and become
Vice-Chief of Staff at the Army and Commander Southern Command
(29).   Among other senior participants were Tom Downey and Major
General Stubblebine, former Director of the Army Intelligence
Security Command.

"In 1983, the Jedi master (from the Star Wars movie - author)
provided an image and a name for the Jei Project (30)."  Jedi
Project's aim was to seek and "construct teachable models of
behaviorable/physical excellence using unconventional means (31)."
According to Alexander the Jedi Project was to be a follow-up to
Neuro-Linguistic Programming skills.  By using the influence of
friends such as Major General Stubblebine, who was then head of the
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, he managed to fund
Jedi.  In reality the concept was old hat, re-christened by
Alexander.  The original idea which was to show how "human will
power and human concentration affect performance more than any
other single factor (32)" using NLP skills, was the brainchild of
three independent people; Fritz Erikson, a Gestalt therapist,
Virginia Satir, a family therapist and Erick Erickson, a hypnotist.

JANET MORRIS

Janet Morris, co-author of THE WARRIOR'S EDGE, is best known as a
science fiction writer but has been a member of the New York
Academy of Sciences since 1980 and is a member of the Association
for Electronic Defense.  She is also the Research Director of the
U.S. Global Strategy Council (USGSC).  She was initiated into the
Japanese art of bioenergetics, Joh-re, the Indonesian brotherhood
of Subud, and graduated from the Silva course in advanced mind
control.  She has been conducting remote viewing experiments for
fifteen years.  She worked on a research project investigating the
effects of mind on probability in computer systems.  Her husband,
Robert Morris, is a former judge and a key member of the American
Security Council (33).

In a recent telephone conversation with the author (34), Janet
Morris confirmed John Alexander's involvement in mind control and
psychotronic projects in the Los Alamos National Laboratories.
Alexander and his team have recently been working with Dr Igor
Smirnov, a psychologist from the Moscow Insitute of
Psychocorrelations.  They were invited to the U.S. after Janet
Morris' visit to Russia in 1991. There she was shown the technique
which was pioneered by the Russian Deparment of Psycho-Correction
at Moscow Medical Academy.  The Russians employ a technique to
electronically analyse the human mind in order to influence it.
They input subliminal command messages, using key words transmitted
in "white noise" or music (35).  Using an infrasound very low
frequency-type transmission, the acoustic psycho-correction message
is transmitted via bone conduction - ear plugs would not restrict
the message.  To do that would require an entire body protection
system.  According to the Russians the subliminal messages by-pass
the conscious level and are effective almost immediately.

C.B. SCOTT JONES

Jones is the former assistant to Senator Clairborne Pell (Democrat,
Rhode Island).  Scott Jones was a member of U.S. Naval Intelligence
for 15 years, as well as Assistant Naval Attache, New Delhi, India,
in the 1960s.  Jones has briefed the President's Scientific
Advisory Committee, and has testified before House and Senate
Committees on intelligence matters.  After the navy he "worked in
the private sector research and development community involved in
the U.S. government sponsored projects for the Defense Nuclear
Agency (DNA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and U.S. Army
Intelligence and Security Command."  He has been head of the
Rockerfeller Foundation for some time and chairs the American
Society for Psychical Research (36).

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Alexander and C.B. Jones are members of the AVIARY, a group of
intelligence and Department of Defense officers and scientists with
a brief to discredit any serious research in the UFO field.  Each
member of the Aviary bears a bird's name.  Jones is FALCON, John
Alexander is PENGUIN.

One of their agents; a UFO researcher known as William Moore, who
was introduced to John Alexander at a party in 1987 by Scott Jones,
confessed in front of an audience at a conference held by the
MUTUAL UFO NETWORK (MUFON) on July 1, 1989, in Las Vegas, how he
was promised inside information by the senior members of the AVIARY
in return for his obedience and service to them. He participated in
the propagation and dissemination of disinformation fed to him by
various members of the AVIARY.  He also confessed how he was
instructed to target one particular individual, an electronics
expert, Dr Paul Bennewitz, who had accumulated some UFO film
footage and electronic signals which were taking place in 1980 over
the Menzano Weapons Storage areas, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New
Mexico.  As a result of Moore's involvement, coupled with some
surreptitious entries and psychological techniques, Bennewitz ended
up in a psychiatric hospital.

Just before the publication of my first paper unmasking two members
of the AVIARY (37) I was visited by two of their members (MORNING
DOVE and HAWK) who had travelled to the U.K. with a message from
the senior ranks advising me not to go ahead with my expose.  I
rejected the proposal.

Immediately after the publication of that paper, and with the full
knowledge that myself and a handful of colleagues knew the true
identities of their members, John B. Alexander confessed that he
was indeed a member of the AVIARY, nicknamed PENGUIN.  The accuracy
of our information was further confirmed to me by yet another
member of the AVIARY, Ron Pandolphi, PELICAN.  Pandolphi is a PhD
in physics and works at the Rocket and Missile section of the
Office of the Deputy Director of Science and Technology, CIA.

In his book, OUT THERE (38), the NEW YORK TIMES journalist Howard
Blum refers to "a UFO Working Group" within the Defense
Intelligence Agency.  Despite DIA's repeated denials (39), the
existence of this working gorup has been confirmed to me by more
than one member of the group itself, including an independent
source in the Office of Naval Intelligence.  The majority of the
group's members are senior members of the AVIARY:  Dr Christopher
Green (BLUEJAY) from the CIA (40), Harold Puthoff (OWL) ex-NSA; Dr
Jack Verona (RAVEN) (DoD, one of the initiators of the DIA's
Sleeping Beauty project which aimed to achieve battlefield
superiority using mind-altering electromagnetic weaponry); John
Alexander (PENGUIN) and Ron Pandolphi (PELICAN).

The mysterious "Col. Harold E. Phillips" who appears in Blum's OUT
THERE is none other than John B. Alexander.

John Alexander's position as the Program Manager for Contingency
Missions of Conventional Defense Technology, Los Alamos National
Laboratories, enabled him to exploit the Department of Defense's
Project RELIANCE "which encourages a search for all possible
sources of existing and incipient technologies before developing
new technology in-house (41)" to tap into a wide range of exotic
topics, sometimes using defense contractors, e.g. McDonnel Douglas
Aerospce. I have several reports, some of which were compiled
before his departure to the Los Alamos National Laboratories when
he was with Army Intelligence, which show Alexander's keen interest
in any and every exotic subject - UFOs, ESP, psychotronics,
anti-gravity devices, near death experiments, psychology warfare
and non-lethal weaponry.

John Alexander utilises the bank of information he has accumulated to
try to develop psychotronic, psychological and mind weaponry.  He
began thinking about non-lethal weapons a decade ago in his paper
"The New Mental Battlefield."  He seems to want to become a
"Master."  If he ever succeeds in this ambition the rest of us
ordinary mortals had better watch out.

NOTES:

1.  Letter dated 2 April, 1993, to author from Mrs Victoria
Alexander.

2.  The U.S. Army Chemical and Military Police used "Novel Effect
Weapons" against the women protesters at the Greenham Common Base.

3.  The United States Global Strategy Council is an independent
think tank, incorporated in 1981.  It focuses on long-range
strategic issues.  The founding members were Clare Boothe Luce,
General Maxwell Taylor, General Albert Wedemeyer, Dr Ray Cline
(Co-chair), Jeane Kirkpatrick (Co-chair), Morris Leibman, Henry
luce III, J. William Middendorf II, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer USN
(retd), General Richard Stillwell (retd), Dr Michael A. Daniles
(President), Dr Dalton A. West (Executive Vice President).  Its
Research Directors were Dr Yona Alexander, Dr Roger Fontaine,
Robert L. Katula and Janet Morris.

4.  NONLETHAlITY: DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL POLICY AND EMPLOYING
NONLETHAL MEANS IN A NEW STATEGIC ERA -  a Project of the U.S.
Global Strategy Council, 1991, p.4.  Other staff members of the
USGSC are
Steve Trevino, Dr John B. Alexander and Chris Morris.

5.  The USGSC has issued a wide variety of papers on the Nonlethal
Weapons Concept.  For example, IN SEARCH OF NONLETHAL STRATEGY
(Janet Morris); NONLETHALITY: A GLOBAL STRATEGY - WHITE PAPER;
NONLETHALITY BRIEFING SUPPLEMENT No.1; and NONLETHALITY IN THE
OPERATIONAL CONTIUNUUM.

6.  IN SEARCH OF A NONLETHAL STRATEGY, Janet Morris, p.1.

7.  NONLETHALITY: A GLOBAL STRATEGY - WHITE PAPER, p.3.

8.  IN SEARCH OF... P.3.

9.  In the recent cult siege in Waco, Texas, a "nonlethal"
technique, projecting sublimal messages, was used to influence
David Kuresh - without effect.

10. NONLETHALITY: A GLOBAL STRATEGY - WHITE PAPER, p.2.

11. The computer data base compiled during the CIA/Army's Project
OFTEN, examining several thousand chemical compounds, during
1976-1973, is a most likely candidate for any chemical agents for
nonlethal weapons.

12. The British MoD is already developing a "microwave bomb."  Work
on the weapon is going on at the Defence Research Agency at
Farnborough, Hampshire. See SUNDAY TELEGRAPH September 27, 1992,
partly reproduced in LOBSTER 24, p.14.  The Royal Navy is already
in possession of laser weapons which dazzle aircraft pilots.  The
Red Cross has called for them to be banned under the Geneva
Convention because could permanently blind.

13. IN SEARCH OF A NONLETHAL STRATEGY, p.13.

14. Ibid.

15. The U.S. Navy, through its Project SEA SHADOW,  has already
developed a stealth boat.  Like the Lockheed F117A, stealth
fighter, it leaves no radar signature - BBC, Newsround, April 28,
1993.

16. Taped conversation with Janet Morris, March 1, 1993.

17. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, January 4, 1993.

18. IN SEARCH OF A NONLETHAL STRATEGY, p. 14.

19. REMOTE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY, Anna Keeler (FULL DISCLOSURE, Ann
Arbor, U.S.A., 1989) p.11.

20. Walden University, 801 Anchor Road Drive, Naples, Fl. 33904,
U.S.A.  Walden University considers itself a non-traditional
university and does not offer any undergraduate courses to its
students.

21. Brad Steiger, MYSTERIES OF SPACE AND TIME (Prentice Hall,
Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey) pp.72 and 3.  The U.S. Army Command
and General College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, issued this on
Alexander's career:  "Colonel John B. Alexander, U.S. Army Retired,
manages Antimateriel Technology at Los Alamos National
Laboratories, Los Alamos, New Mexico.  His military assignments
included; Advanced Systems Concepts Office, Laboratory Command;
manager, Technology Integration Office, Army Material Command;
assistant deputy chief of staff, Technology Planning and
Management, Army Material Command; and chief, Advanced Human
Technology, Intelligence and Security Command."

22. Taped telephone conversation with Dr Scott Jones, August 17,
1992.

23. Taped telephone converstaion with Maj. Edward Dames, June 27,
1992; and THE BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS, December 1992, p.6.

24. THE WARRIOR'S EDGE, Col. John B. Alexander, Maj. Richard
Groller and Janet Morris, (William Morrow Inc., New York, 1990).

25. Ibid. p.9.

26. Ibid. pp.9 and 10.

27. Ibid p.47.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid.

30. Ibid. pp.72 and 3.

31. Ibid. p.12.

32. Ibid. p. 13.

33. The American Security Council (ASC) Box 8, Boston, Virginia
22713, USA. ASC is militarist, anti-communist and right-wing.
Formed in the mid 1950s, the Council acts as a right-wing think
tank on foreign policy and lobbies for the expansion and
strengthening of U.S. miliary forces.  In 1985 the ASC had 330, 000
members.  See, for example, the entry for the ASC in THE RADICAL
RIGHT: A WORLD DIRECTORY, compiled by Ciaran O Maolain (Longman,
London 1987).

34. Taped telephone conversation with Janet Morris, March 1, 1993.

35. In 1989 a U.S. Department of Defense consultant and contractor
explained to the author how he was asked to examine the possibility
of devising operational methods of transmitting subliminal messages
through the TV screen.

36. "Will the Real Scott Jones please stand up?" - unpublished
paper by George Hansen and Robert Durant, February 20, 1990, pp.4
and 5.

37. "The Birds" Armen Victorian, in U.K. UFO Magazine, Vol.11 No.3,
July/August 1992, pp 4-7.

38. OUT THERE, Howard Blum (Simon and Schuster, London 1990) pp.44,
46-51, 55-57.

39. DIA's letters to author dated July 12, 1991, July 8, 1992 and
December 18, 1992.

40. Dr Chistopher "Kit" Green, BLUEJAY, has admitted that the CIA
has compiled over 30,000 files on UFOs, 200 of which are extremely
interesting.  Green was a key CIA member in examining the UFO
problem for several years.

41. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Institutional Plan Fiscal Year
1992 - Fiscal Year 1997, p.14.

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