USAF COMMANDO SOLO: AERIAL MIND-CONTROL BROADCASTS

T
he United States Air Force uses aerial mind-control broadcasts against civilian
populations as well as enemy troops. Some of these actions against civilians are
done with the intent of influencing public opinion and the outcome of elections.
In a previous article, we examined mind-control technology, especially that util-
ising Silent Sounds™, in which radio-frequency broadcasts carry subliminal patterns that
entrain the listener's brainwaves into a preselected emotional state. According to ITV
wire service reports, this technology was used during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, as
part of US Psychological Operations (PsyOps) directed against Iraqi troops.1, 2
To the Desert Storm offensive we can now add several other incidents. Alex Horvat,
The US Air Force's editor of The Probe, calls to our attention the 1998 video, Exotic Weapons of Mass
Control, produced by Bob Fletcher. "The excerpt played on Fletcher's video is from TLC
Commando Solo [The Learning Channel] and clearly states that Commando Solo was used in Haiti for
what was called Operation Uphold Democracy. As the general populace was violently
aircraft are used to opposed to Aristide and most in favor of his ouster, it took nearly a year of this clandes-
broadcast tine counter-programming to get them to change their minds... Instead of butchering a
population physically, we can now manipulate them mentally, virtually enslaving their
subliminal radio- thoughts with a criss-cross pattern of flights by an EC-130 (which is just a C-130 heavily
laden with electronic hardware)."3
frequency messages We were not at war with the citizens of Haiti, yet the US Government directed military
weapons against this friendly, or at least neutral, civilian population. The US Government
to manipulate the sanctioned the "rigging" of the Haitian election by mental control of the people, program-
ming them to cast their votes for the Americans' favoured candidate. And they had the
minds of military nerve to call it "Operation Uphold Democracy". Some sense of humour! Stalin would
have loved it. Hitler would have loved it. Why is the US Government doing this? Who
and civilian targets. is behind this flagrant violation of civil liberties? Is it the US Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), which has a long history of interfering in foreign government politics? Or has this
become standard military procedure?
The rationale is always the same: "to make the world safe for democracy". Yet what is
democracy if not freedom? Freedom to think your own thoughts; freedom to express your
own opinions; freedom to vote for the candidate of your own choice.
Fletcher's video also mentions that the same technology was used against the Bosnia
population for a week to influence their election. 4 This was probably done during
Operation Joint Guard in 1995. 5
The questions arise: If they have used mind-control broadcasts against foreign civilian
populations to influence elections, will they use them against American citizens—or have
they already? What other countries may be the recipients of this innovative technology?
Just what is this EC-130E Commando Solo? The United States Air Force has helpfully
by Judy Wall © 1999 published a Fact Sheet that describes the Lockheed-built aircraft. 6 This 1995 bulletin
states that the "unit flyaway cost" is more than US$100 million each, and that there are
Editor/Publisher eight in the inventory. Its primary function is "Psychological operations broadcasts". The
RESONANCE crew consists of four officers (pilot, copilot, navigator, control chief/EWO) and seven
Newsletter of the Biolectromagnetics enlisted members (flight engineer, loadmaster, five mission crew).
Special Interest Group According to the Fact Sheet:
684 C.R. 535, Sumterville FL 33585, USA "Air Force Mission: Commando Solo conducts psychological operations and civil
Tel: +1 (352) 793 8748 affairs broadcast missions in the standard AM, FM, HF, TV and military communications
bands. Missions are flown at maximum altitudes possible to ensure optimum propagation

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patterns. The EC-130 flies during either day or night scenarios MILITARY PSYOPS AGAINST CIVILIANS
with equal success, and is air refuelable. A typical mission con- In a phone call to the USAF Special Operations Command
sists of a single-ship orbit which is offset from the desired target Public Affairs Office, I questioned the legitimacy of using these
audience. The targets may be either military or civilian personnel. subliminal broadcasts against civilian populations. 9 I was told
"Secondary missions include command and control communi- that it was all perfectly legal, having been approved by the US
cations countermeasures (C3CM) and limited intelligence gather- Congress(!). It may be okay by Congress, but I sincerely doubt
ing. that it would be approved by the recipient populations.
"Air Force Features: Highly specialized modifications have That conversation also elicited more information concerning the
been made to the latest version of the EC-130. Included in these Commando Solo units. For instance, the Air National Guard of
modifications are enhanced navigation systems, self-protection individual states in the US can also operate Commando Solo air-
equipment, and the capability of broadcasting color television on craft, should the Governor of a State request assistance. That
a multitude of worldwide standards throughout the TV VHF/UHF means the PsyOps mind-control technology can be directed
ranges... against US citizens.
"Air Force Background: Air National Guard EC-130 aircraft The Commando Solo aircraft have participated in the following
flown by the 193rd Special Operations Group were deployed to missions—possibly more, as the early missions of Volant Solo 1
both Saudi Arabia and Turkey in support of Desert Storm. Their were not known to the spokesperson:
missions included broadcasts of 'Voice of the Gulf' and other pro- • Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada, Oct-Nov 1983, Jan-June
grams intended to convince Iraqi soldiers to surrender. 1985)
"The EC-130 was originally modified using the mission elec- • Operation Just Cause (Panama, late December 1989)
tronic equipment from the EC-121, known at the time as the • Operation Desert Shield (Kuwait, Iraq, from August 1990)
Coronet Solo. Soon after the 193rd SOG received its EC-130s, • Operation Desert Storm (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iraq, 1991)
the unit participated in the rescue of US citizens in Operation • Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti, 1994–1995)
Urgent Fury, acting as an airborne radio station informing those • Operation Joint Guard (part of a UN operation in Bosnia-
people on Grenada of the US military action. Herzegovina, 1995)
"Volant Solo, as the mission is now known, was instrumental in • Operation Desert Thunder (part of a UN operation in Iraq)
the success of coordinated psychological operations in Operation • Operation Desert Fox (Iraq, 2 to 3 days in December 1998)
Just Cause, again broadcasting continuously throughout the initial Other countries are known to have a similar aircraft, but the PR
phases of the operation..." officer declined to identify them, suggesting instead that I check
Operation Just Cause ? This is another propaganda name, out Jane's Defence Weekly for such information. Not having
applied to the US invasion of Panama to take out that country's access to that particular publication, I searched through my copy
leader, General Noriega, the CIA's erstwhile partner in drug of Jane's Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems 1993–94.10 The
smuggling. Apparently the General had made someone mad— Commando Solo unit was not listed, but a browse through the
how else to account for the massive invasion of this tiny tourist book was informative as to the numerous types of electronic
country? To wit: "A superpower whipped the poop out of 10 per offence and defence systems available. These include stationary
cent of the police force of a Third World nation. You are sup- and mobile land units (many housed in large trucks), shipboard
posed to be able to do that. It was done well, and I credit those and airborne models as well as space-based technology. If the
who did it. But it is important that we draw the right lessons from military is spending US$100 million per airborne unit (times
it," according to an anonymous US Marine.7 eight, we're talking US$800 million here), I think it is safe to
Our Commander-in-Chief had another point of view: "...the assume that they have tried out mind-control equipment with less
roll call of glory, the roster of great American campaigns— expensive, roving land units (trucks), but use the airplanes to
Yorktown, Gettysburg, Normandy, and now Panama." cover wider areas and hard-to-reach locations of the world.
— President George Bush, March 19908 And I might add, we can assume that they have tried out the
efficacy of this mind-
control technology. Even
the US military would not
waste $800 million on
something unless it has
been proven to work, and
work effectively, even
under the adverse situation
of military combat. This is
an important point.
The initial research into
mind control in the USA
was conducted under the
auspices of the CIA. The
flagrant abuse of human
rights in experimenting on
unsuspecting persons was
based on the supposition
The EC-130E Commando Solo is basically a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft which has been modified to carry that the veracity of the
electronic radio and television broadcast equipment. It can be easily identified by the large (6 x 23 ft/1.83 x 7 m) experiments would be com-
underwing antenna pods, located at the tips of the wings, and the smaller antenna pods on the vertical tail.21
promised if a subject knew

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that he was participating in an experiment. In the case of mind- MIND CONTROL AGAINST 'POTENTIAL' ENEMIES
control technology, this supposition may very well be true. But The US military is aware that certain actions or procedures may
that does not justify its use—or so said the Nürnberg Code, the not be acceptable to the American public. Metz and Kievit
tenets of which were used as a legal basis to prosecute Nazi scien- express these concerns in their paper, "The Revolution in Military
tists for war crimes. However, the US seems to have excused its Affairs and Conflict Short of War". 14 "The use of new technology
own military and scientific community from adhering to that may also run counter to basic American values. Information
Code.11 age—and, in particular, information warfare—technologies cause
concerns about privacy... American values also make the use of
MANIPULATING MIND AND BODY BY SATELLITE directed energy weapons...morally difficult, perhaps unacceptable.
The next logical step in mind control would be to incorporate The advantage of directed-energy weapons over conventional
this technology into satellite communications. Since other coun- ones is deniability. Against whom is such deniability aimed?
tries are known to have similar capabilities, there could occur a ...deniability must be aimed at the American people." Later they
situation in which electronic mind-control warfare is waged state: "We must decide whether innovative military capabilities
against a civilian population, receiving conflicting mental manip- are, in fact, acceptable and desirable. That can only happen
ulation from opposing sides. What would be the mental state of through open debate. The military must be a vital participant, but
individuals so targeted? Would it cause a rise in mental aberra- not the sole one."
tions and schizophrenia? And what are the limits of mind manip- But there has been no open debate.
ulations? Can people be forced to commit suicide? Can physical On July 21, 1994, the US Department of Defense proposed that
ailments or psychosomatic illnesses be induced? non-lethal weapons be used not only against declared enemies,
A March 1990 report from Bosnia-Herzegovina in the former but against anyone engaged in activities that the DoD opposed.
Yugoslavia suggests the latter may have already happened. The That could include almost anybody and anything. Note that the
report concerns 2,990 ethnic mind-control technology is classi-
Albanians who were admitted to hos- fied under non-lethal weapons.15
pitals with complaints of lung and Commando Solo conducts A 1998 news item states that
skin problems for which doctors US Air Force General John
could find no physical cause.12 psychological operations and civil Jumper "predicts that the military
It is not a far step from manipulat- affairs broadcast missions in the will have the tools to make
ing a person's emotional state to influ- potential enemies see, hear and
encing bodily functions. Indeed, standard AM, FM, HF, TV and believe things that do not exist"
much of the literature documenting military communications bands. and that "The same idea was con-
microwave effects on biological sys- tained in a 15-volume study by
tems deals with precisely this phe- Missions are flown at maximum the USAF Scientific Advisory
nomenon. In fact, studies of the altitudes possible to ensure Board, issued in 1996, on how to
physical effects of microwave expo- maintain US air and space superi-
sure (including radio frequencies) optimum propagation patterns. ority on the battlefields of the
generally preceded studies of mental 21st century".16, 17
effects. It seems that, in military par-
A meeting sponsored by Defense & Foreign Affairs and The lance, a "prediction" means: "Don't be surprised when you find
International Strategic Studies Association was held in out we've already got this, but it's classified and we can't admit to
Washington, DC, in 1983. High-level officials from many coun- it just yet."
tries met for this conference. They discussed psychological Notice that General Jumper predicts that mind-control technolo-
strategies related to government and policymaking. A summary gy will be used against potential enemies. The military and gov-
of the agenda reads: "The group will be discussing the essence of ernment agencies may apply this term to any group or individual
future policymaking, for it must be increasingly clear to all that they perceive as a threat to their own interests. Potential enemies
the most effective tool of government and strategy is the mind... may be counter-culture individuals, those of opposing political
If it's any consolation to the weapons-oriented among defense pol- viewpoints, economic or financial competitors, biological undesir-
icymakers, the new technologies of communications—satellites, ables, etc. It is part of the military agenda to identify potential
television, radio, and mind-control beams—are 'systems' which threats so as to be prepared to meet them. Experience has shown
are more tangible than the more philosophically based psycholog- that the US Government (the CIA and FBI, for example) has
ical strategies and operations. moved against these people or groups, slandering, harassing, even
"But we should make no mistake; it will be the 'psychologically killing them, without adequate cause or legal sanction.
based' systems which determine the world's fate in coming years: A weapon that can be used in secret lends itself to abuse by
the condition of the minds of populations and leaders. And we unethical individuals in positions of power. The military and
should not ignore the fact that the USSR is working on electronic secret services have shown themselves often to be lacking in ethi-
systems to 'beam' messages directly into the brain. What good, cal constraints. After all, the job of the military is war; it is killing
then, are conventional systems if these types of weapons are not people; and so, just how this is accomplished may be considered
countered? And, on a more basic level, what good is a weapon irrelevant. Lesser evils, like mind control, pale by comparison.
system if public opinion or political constraints prohibit its Of course, it can be argued that it is far more humane to brain-
deployment?"13 wash a person via mind-control technology into accepting your
It is obvious that they found the answer to that last question. If ideas than it is to torture or kill them. Others vehemently deny
the public does not know about a weapon system, it cannot pro- this. They'd rather be dead than a mental slave to Big Brother!
hibit its deployment. This is the situation that applies to mind- That is what revolutions are about. And if I recall correctly, that
control technology. is the idea behind the US Bill of Rights.

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WARNS OF DANGERS As we have seen, the mind-control subliminal messages are car-
Awareness of the existence of mind-control technology, and ried on radio-frequency broadcasts. The HAARP facility could be
hence its dangers and possibility for misuse, seems to be more used to broadcast global mind-control messages, or such mes-
prevalent in Europe than in other areas. The European Parliament sages could simply be inserted into existing systems.
recently passed a "Resolution on environment, security and for- Dr Igor Smirnov, of the Institute of Psycho-correction in
eign policy".18 This document includes these articles: Moscow, says in regard to this technology: "It is easily
"23. Calls on the European Union to seek to have the new 'non- conceivable that some Russian 'Satan', or let's say Iranian [or any
lethal' weapons technology and the development of new arms strate- other 'Satan'], as long as he owns the appropriate means and
gies also covered and regulated by international conventions... finances, can inject himself [intrude] into every conceivable
"27. Calls for an international convention introducing a global ban computer network, into every conceivable radio or television
on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable broadcast, with relative technological ease, even without
any form of manipulation of human beings." disconnecting cables. You can intercept the [radio] waves in the
The United States will ignore these resolutions, of course, as it has aether and then [subliminally] modulate every conceivable
other EP requests; for example, as mentioned in the same document: suggestion into it. If this transpires over a long enough time
"24. Considers HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research period, it accumulates in the heads of the people. And eventually
Project) by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the environment to be they can be artifically manipulated with other additional
a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological and ethical implica- measurements, to do that which this perpetrator wants [them to
tions to be examined by an international independent body before any do]. This is why [such technology] is rightfully feared."20
further research and testing; regrets the repeated refusal of the United
States Administration to send anyone in person to give evidence to A WORLDWIDE MIND-CONTROL MISSION?
the public hearing or any subsequent meeting held by its competent To return to the USAF Fact Sheet, it concludes: "In 1990 the
committee into the environmental and public risks connected with the EC-130 joined the newly formed Air Force Special Operations
HAARP programme currently being funded in Alaska..." Command and has since been designated Commando Solo, with
One of HAARP's potential uses is as a communications system. no change in mission. This one-of-a-kind aircraft is consistently
The military officially acknowledges two communications-related improving its capabilities. The next few years should see contin-
applications: (1) to replace the existing Extremely Low ued enhancements to the EC-130 and its worldwide mission." ∞
Frequency (ELF) submarine communications system now operat- About the Author:
ing in Michigan and Wisconsin; (2) to provide a way to wipe out Judy Wall is the E ditor of R E S O N A N C E, the Newsletter of the
communications over an extremely large area, while keeping the Bioelectromagnetics Special Interest Group of American Mensa Ltd.
military's own communications systems working.19 Viewpoints expressed here are her own personal views.

Endnotes <www.hurlburt.af.mil>. 25 and 31, 1990.

1. Wall, Judy, "Military Use of Mind Control 7. Morrison Taw, Jennifer, "Operation Just Cause: 13. Summary, The Perth Corporation, Defense &
Weapons", NEXUS 5/06, Oct-Nov 1998. Lessons For Operations Other Than War", Rand Foreign Affairs, November 1983.
2. "Psychological operations" are defined as: Corp., 1996, p. vii; quoting from "Some Questions 14. Metz, Steven and James Kievit, "The Revolution
"Planned operations to convey selected information Whether the US Is Ready for LIC", Navy News and in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War", US
and indicators to foreign audiences to influence Undersea Technology, August 27, 1990, p. 7. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-
their emotions, motives, objective reasoning and 8. Morrison Taw, Jennifer, ibid., p. 1. 5050, USA, pp. 15-16 and 29. [See also Krawczyk,
ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, 9. Telephone conversation of February 26, 1999, Glenn, "Big Brother's Recipe for 'Revolution in
organizations, groups and individuals. The purpose with AF Special Operations Command Public Military Affairs'", NEXUS 2/26, June-July 1995.]
of psychological operations is to induce or rein- Affairs Office; voice (850) 884 5515, e-mail 15. Schaefer, Paul, "Psyops: Invisible Warfare",
force foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the <[email protected]>. Zuni Mountain Citizen (precise date unknown, late
originator's objectives. Also called PsyOps." From 10. Blake, Bernard (ed.), Jane's Radar and 1998/early 1999), p. 5.
"Joint Doctrine for Information Operations", Joint Electronic Warfare Systems 1993-94, Jane's 16. "Microwave Weapons", Microwave News,
Publication 3-13, 9 October 1998. Thanks to Information Group, Inc., 1340 Braddock Place, March/April 1998; Louis Slesin (editor), citing
Harlan Girard of the International Committee on Suite 300, Alexandria, VA 22314-1651, USA; also Aviation Week, March 9, 1998.
Offensive Microwave Weapons (PO Box 58700, Jane's Information Group, Sentinel House, 163 17. Same article as above, citing Microwave News,
Philadelphia, PA 19102-8700, USA) for the excerpt. Brighton Road, Coulsdon, Surrey CR5 2NH, UK. January/February 1997.
3. Horvat, Alex, "Commando Solo", The Probe, 11. (a) "US Nullifies Nuremberg Law", Earth Island 18. "Environment, security and foreign affairs",
vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 1998/99, p. 44; available from Journal, Winter 1996-97. (b) Hightower, Jim, Resolution A4-0005/99, Minutes of 28/01/99 –
PO Box 905, St Peters, MO 63376, USA. "Unregulated Experiments on Humans", New Provisional Edition, European Parliament. For
4. Fletcher, Bob, Exotic Weapons of Mass Control; Times, June 19-25, 1997; cites Stolberg, Sheryl copy, thanks to Grattan Healy, Adviser on Energy &
video available from The Probe (see above), or Gay, "Unchecked Research on People Raises Research, Green Group in the European
Global Insights, A675 Fairview Dr. #246, Carson Concern on Medical Ethics", New York Times, May Parliament, LEO 2C35, Rue Wiertz Straat, B-1047
City, NV 89701, USA, tel 1800 729 4131. 14, 1997. (c) See "Ban On Medical Experiments Bruxelles, Belgium, e-mail <ghealy@ europarl.
5. An item of interest is that the US had a new type Without Consent Is Relaxed", New York Times, eu.int>
of aerial reconnaissance plane positioned over the November 5, 1996, p. 1; copy available for 50 19. For more info on HAARP, see Begich, Nick
former Yugoslavia from July 14, 1995, about six cents from David Park Books, 3456 17th St, San and Jeane Manning, Angels Don't Play This
months before the US officially intervened. The 10- Francisco, CA 94110. (d) Also see Senator John HAARP, Earthpulse Press, PO Box 201393,
million-dollar, unmanned saucer-shaped spy craft is Glenn's Bill S-193, "Human Research Subjects Anchorage, AK 99520, USA, tel (907) 249 9111.
nicknamed "Dark Star". Information from C-Com Protection Act of 1997", Congressional Record, US 20. From a German documentary, "Geheimes
(Classified Communications) 3(12), Dec 1995; Erich Senate, January 22, 199. (e) "In 1994, a congres- Russland: Moskau – Die Zombies der roten Zaren"
A. Aggen, Jr (editor), citing CE Chronicles nos. 1 sional subcommittee found up to 500,000 ("Secret Russia: Moscow – The Zombies of the Red
and 2 and Raising Awareness newsletter. Americans between 1940 and 1974 were endan- Czars"), aired on German TV network ZDF on
6. Fact Sheet, dated March 1995. The address on gered by secret defense-related tests including radi- December 22, 1998. Script translation by Jan
the publication is AF Special Operations Command ation experiments, mustard gas, LSD and biological Wiesemann. The full text is to be published in
Public Affairs Office, 100 Bartley Street, Hurlburt agents." See Pitch Weekly, April 17-23, 1997. Resonance, no. 35.
Field, FL 32544-5273, USA. They no longer supply 12. Schaefer, Paul, "Experimentation and Warfare", 21. Reed, Chris, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Its
printed copies, but you can access the document at article citing The Kansas City Star, between March Variants, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, Atglen, PA, 1999.

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