1968 Patrick Flanagan

Introduction

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On July 16, 1968, the United States Patent Office issued Patent 3,393,279 for an invention described as a "nervous system excitation device". This invention involved the discovery, "... that certain electromagnetic waves induce responses in the nervous system of mammals. In human beings a response is produced when some or all of a person's nervous system is placed within a field of electromagnetic waves ... ." This invention was the progenitor of the equipment which has been used for many years in the protracted extra-judicial killing of American citizens (and the citizens of our allies) in their own homes by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Interestingly enough, the Patent Office held this invention in abeyance for six years because they did not believe that Flanagan had discovered anything. He finally had to go to Washington and demonstrate it to the astonished examiners in order to obtain the patent granted. Despite this patent, and because they are afraid of losing their lucrative government grants, most American scientists working in the field of bioelectromagnetism still deny, deny, deny that electromagnetic radiation has any affect other than heating on the human nervous system. This lie was perpetuated in the U.S. Marine Corps announcement in 2001 of an "active denial technology" which produces the pain of being burned but no visible damage to the skin.

Please take special note that in the Flanagan patent, two of the three claims made for the device mention coupling effects with the nervous system in the skin of the human subject, and the remaining claim asserts coupling with "a portion of the nervous system contained in the person's spinal column".

N.B. The device Flanagan currently markets as the Neurophone may or may not be similar to the equipment the CIA and DOD refer to as "influence technology". The Neurophone employs acoustic waves as a pathway into the nervous system rather than electromagnetic waves. In other words, the end result may be the same but the mechanism by which the body converts the disturbance into the appearance of sound is entirely different than the way his nervous system excitation device works.

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