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a man sits in a cold Soviet bunker


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strapped to a chair electrodes are glued


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to his temples wires trailing into a


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machine humming with unnatural energy


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fluorescent lights flicker overhead


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casting long uneasy Shadows on the


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concrete walls he doesn't move he


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doesn't speak because at this moment his


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mind is no longer his own in another


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room a Soviet General sits at his desk


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back straight staring blankly ahead his


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breathing is slow methodical his hands


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rest on the table


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motionless he too is


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waiting a scientist steps forward his


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coat is damp with sweat his fingers


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tremble as they hover over a roll of


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dials he closes his eyes and thinks a


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single thought in the other room the


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General's hand


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Twitches the scientist tightens his grip


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on the chair's armrests his breath is


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shallow he thinks another thought the


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general stands up his movements are slow


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deliberate like a puppet responding to


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Invisible


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strings he reaches for his


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pistol the scientist's heartbeat pounds


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against his ribs his his hands are


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shaking now a bead of sweat rolls down


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his Temple but he doesn't dare


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move the general raises the pistol


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presses it against his own


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Temple the scientist exhales just a


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whisper of breath his lips barely move


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he mouthed one word net no but the


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general doesn't blink his finger


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tightens on the


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trigger they called it the weapon to end


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all wars


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during the Cold War the world feared


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nuclear Annihilation the United States


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and the Soviet Union built enough


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Warheads to end civilization a 100 times


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over but what if there was a deadlier


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weapon a weapon that could eliminate


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Free Will without a single bullet being


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fired forget missiles forget tanks the


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Soviets wanted something far more


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dangerous a machine that could control


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the human mind


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in the 1960s both the United States and


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the Soviet Union were running classified


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experiments on the human brain the CIA


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had MK Ultra testing mind control


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through LSD and psychological torture


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but the Soviets they had something else


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they believed that the brain was just


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another electrical system and if


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electricity could be manipulated so


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could thoughts emotions even actions the


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idea was simple and terrifying what if


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you could broadcast thoughts into


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someone else's mind what if you could


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make them feel emotions that weren't


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theirs what if you could make them obey


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a command without ever speaking a


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word the KGB was obsessed with the idea


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of psychotronic warfare they wanted a


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way to break enemies without


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interrogation to influence foreign


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leaders to turn prisoners of War into


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obedient


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operatives and most terrifying of all


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they wanted to create the perfect


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Soldier a Human Weapon who couldn't


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question orders because he didn't even


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realize he had been given one and that's


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where the psychotronic generator comes


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in officially the Soviet Union never


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admitted to building a psychotronic


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machine but Declassified reports


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Defector testimonies and leaked


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documents tell a different story the


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psychotronic generator or as some called


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it the Mind weapon was allegedly


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designed to manipulate brain waves at a


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distance a machine that could transmit


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thoughts emotions even commands directly


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into the minds of its


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targets one document claims the machine


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could create synthetic


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telepathy that means hearing a voice


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inside your head but it's not your own


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oh great because hearing my own thoughts


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isn't exhausting enough let's add


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government brain hijacking to the


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mix you joke but imagine waking up one


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day and suddenly feeling an overwhelming


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urge to do something you normally


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wouldn't and you have no idea


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why some accounts claim test subjects


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felt emotions that weren't their own


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that they suddenly felt paranoia fear or


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rage as if someone had flipped a switch


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in their mind right and I'm sure they


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also had a machine that let you see the


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future and talk to your dead Grandma


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governments love throwing cash at


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nonsense normally I'd agree but here's


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where it gets weird the cia's own


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documents show that the US took this


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threat very seriously if this was


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nonsense why was the US government


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panicking about it because Cold War


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intelligence agency IES had the critical


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thinking skills Eva potato oh no the


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Soviets are experimenting on hamsters we


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better counter it with a billion dollar


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project on telepathic


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Dolphins that's fair but let's put it


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this way when your biggest rival in


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world domination is dumping resources


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into something you have to assume they


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know something you


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don't by the 1970s the Soviet Union was


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running at least 20 Secret Labs


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dedicated to electromagnetic mind


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control some of their research was


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leaked some of it


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disappeared and some of it may still be


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in use


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today and this is where the story takes


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a disturbing


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turn to understand how the Soviet


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psychotronic generator was supposed to


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work we need to start with a simple fact


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your brain is just an electric circuit


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every thought you have every movement


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you make every emotion you feel it's all


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just electrical impulses bouncing


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between neurons and if the human brain


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is an electrical system then in theory


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it can be


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hacked the Soviets believed that if they


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could manipulate the electromagnetic


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field around a person's brain they could


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interfere with those electrical signals


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control the signals control the mind


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this wasn't just speculation Soviet


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scientists were already experimenting


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with extremely low frequency waves EF


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waves radio waves that can penetrate the


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brain and alter brain wave


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activity this is where the P cyclotronic


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generator comes in according to leaked


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reports the device was an array of


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antennas and oscillators designed to


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emit targeted electromagnetic pulses it


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could be tuned to different frequencies


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each one capable of inducing specific


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mental


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States delta waves 0.5 to 4 Hertz deep


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sleep unconscious


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States theta waves 4 to 8 Hertz hipnosis


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altered


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Consciousness then you have Alpha Waves


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8 to 14 Hertz good for relaxation


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suggestibility beta waves 14 to 30 Hertz


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alertness stress


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anxiety and then gamma waves 30 plus


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Hertz heighten perception and panic so


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what you're saying is they basically


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tried to turn human brains into radio


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stations now broadcasting on Soviet mind


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control FM next up uncontrollable


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paranoia followed by a long


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nap that's actually not far off they


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believed that with the right frequency


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they could override natural brain waves


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inducing sleep paranoia aggression even


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obedience According to some reports the


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psychotronic generator could be tuned to


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force a subject into a suggestable state


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where their thoughts were no longer


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entirely their own right because nothing


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says Unstoppable super weapon like


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turning someone into a glorified


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zombie maybe but think about it if you


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could force an enemy General to feel


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irrational fear or make a political


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leader fall into an altered state during


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negotiations that's not a zombie that's


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a


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Checkmate the US took this seriously


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enough to launch their own research into


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psychotronic weapons which means at the


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very least they believed it was


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possible there were three key methods


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the Soviets allegedly tested number one


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direct break wave manipulation emitting


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elf waves to alter mood Consciousness or


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mental state real world parallel the US


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military has studied non-lethal crowd


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control weapons that use similar


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frequencies number two synthetic


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telepathy using electromagnetic waves to


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implant thoughts or voices into a


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target's mind real world parallel the US


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DARPA program explores brain computer


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interfaces that can transmit thoughts as


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text number three remote behavioral


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influence inducing stress anxiety or


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paranoia in a Target real world parallel


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microwave weapons have been used to


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cause disorientation and discomfort in


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protest control yeah right and let me


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guess the Soviets were also working on a


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device that let you order pizza with


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your mind


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because if this worked we'd all be


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living in a Soviet dystopia right


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now that's where things get complicated


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because while this sounds insane there


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are real documented cases of


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electromagnetic manipulation affecting


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human behavior in controlled experiments


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certain frequencies have been shown to


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cause people to hear voices that aren't


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there in fact in the


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1960s us scientist Alan Frey discovered


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that microwave pulses could directly


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stimulate the auditory nerves making


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people hear radio Transmissions inside


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their heads this is called the fry


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effect the US military later patented


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devices based on this concept in other


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words the tech


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exists here's where the trail goes cold


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the Soviet Union collapsed before we


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ever got definitive proof the CIA never


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found a working device


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no whistleblower ever produced physical


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evidence and to this day the existence


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of the psychotronic generator remains


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unconfirmed but if this research was


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real if it worked at even a fraction of


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what was claimed where did it go


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what if I told you the Soviet Union may


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have tested the psychotronic generator


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on real people not in a lab not in


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controlled experiments but out in the


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world on civilians diplomats even high


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ranking officials because history has a


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disturbing pattern when a government


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stumbles Upon A Dangerous new technology


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they always test it on someone for over


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two decades American diplomats working


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in the US Embassy in Moscow complained


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of migraines dizziness anxiety and even


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hallucinations medical tests showed they


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had unexplained neurological damage


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blood work revealed elevated white blood


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cell counts consistent with radiation


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exposure at first officials thought it


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was stress then they checked for


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listening devices that's when they


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founded a directed energy source aimed


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directly at the embassy for for years


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the Soviets had been bombarding the US


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Embassy with microwave


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radiation but the strangest part they


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weren't eavesdropping they weren't


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jamming Communications they were


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experimenting not only were they spying


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but they decided to slow cook the


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diplomats like rotisserie chickens real


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classy that's the terrifying part no one


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knows what they were actually testing


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some believe it was an early


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psychotronic experiment others think it


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was designed to make the diplomats


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paranoid emotionally unstable without


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them realizing they were being


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attacked either way the US government


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was terrified because if this was just a


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test what else were they capable


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of in the 1970s rumors surfaced of a


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secret Soviet lab in novos brisk Siberia


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where human test subjects were allegedly


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exposed to psychotronic frequencies


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prisoners political dissidents even


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Soviet soldiers who had volunteered for


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classified research the reports are


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chilling I heard a voice in my head no


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it wasn't mine they told me to


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stand I stood they told me to walk uh I


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walked I didn't want to but I couldn't


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stop myself so I saw others some were


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crying begging to be released others sat


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perfectly still I blank breathing slow


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as if they were no longer there I mean


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call me oldfashioned but I think I


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prefer the days when war crimes at least


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involve something normal like I don't


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know


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bullets oh don't worry they have those


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too but psychological warfare that's the


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future because if you can control


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someone's mind you don't need bullets


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the experiment allegedly continued for


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years years some subjects became


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catatonic others were released back into


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the population were they tested subjects


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or walking


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weapons then in


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1976 shortwave radio operators started


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picking up mysterious signals a loud


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rapid knocking sound pulsing at 10 htz


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it became known as the Russian


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woodpecker no one knew what it was the


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signal was too strong too structured to


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be random noise and here's where it gets


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even weirder the frequency 10 htz the


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same frequency range as human brain


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waves at first people assumed there was


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Soviet radar interference but some


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researchers began to suspect something


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else what if this was a test a global


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experiment in lowf frequency brain wave


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influence was the Soviet Union


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broadcasting psychotronic signals on a


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global scale


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[Music]


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let's take a step back we've explored


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the terrifying possibilities of the


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Soviet psychotronic generator mind


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control synthetic telepathy human


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experiments but now we have to ask the


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most important question was any of it


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real or was is just another cold war


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paranoia fueled Legend first let's start


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with what we know is true number one the


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Moscow signal happened the US Embassy


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was bombarded with microwave radiation


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for over two decades diplomats did


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suffer neurological effects memory loss


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and paranoia the US government


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investigated it under project Pandora


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but never confirmed the intent behind it


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number two so EF wave research was real


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Declassified Soviet documents confirm


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experiments on brain wave


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experments bioelectric manipulation and


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electromagnetic field effects on


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cognition the Soviets funded at least 20


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classified Labs studying these phenomena


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the US also took this research seriously


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creating counter programs to explore


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similar


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possibilities number three The Fray


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effect and microwave auditory phenomenon


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exist scientists have shown that


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electromagnetic frequencies can create


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the sensation of hearing voices or


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sounds in the human brain the US holds


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patents for devices that beam sound


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directly into people's heads using


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microwave


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technology this means that synthetic


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telepathy is theoretically possible


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right so what we've confirmed so far is


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that that governments have been cooking


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people with microwave beams for decades


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and everyone just went along with it


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great love that for us yeah it's not


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exactly comforting but let's move on now


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let's discuss what we can't prove number


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one no confirmed psychotronic generator


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device exists there is no physical proof


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that the actual Soviet device was ever


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operational no whistleblower has ever


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produced one no documents prove it was


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deployed on a large scale number two no


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verifiable mind controlled subjects


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there are no confirmed cases of someone


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being mentally hijacked through


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psychotronic technology while people


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have claimed to hear voices feel


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paranoia or lose control there's no


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evidence linking it directly to Soviet


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experiments three the Russian woodpecker


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was likely just over the horizon radar


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the infamous woodpecker signal that


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pulsed at brain wave frequencies most


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experts agree it was a Soviet early


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warning radar system not a mind control


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test and finally what's outright false


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number one the Soviets did not create


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mind controlled super soldiers the idea


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that entire Soviet battalions were under


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mind control totally fiction while they


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experimented with altering cognition and


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behavior there's no proof they created


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full obedience through electromagnetic


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fields number two no documented case of


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an instant kill mind control command the


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idea that a scientist could simply think


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a command and force someone to shoot


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themselves not a single Declassified


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document supports this it's a terrifying


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concept but right now it belongs in


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sci-fi not history so no psychic Soviet


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assassins no kg BB brain waves of Doom


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well there goes my


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weekend I mean not officially but that


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brings us to the final question we have


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to ask ourselves did the research really


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end the Soviet Union collapsed in


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1991 their classified research vanished


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but did it really stop because in the


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decade since governments all over the


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world have continued to experiment with


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cognitive Warfare in 202 20 a NATO


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report described cognitive Warfare as


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the next


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Battlefield DARPA America's most


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secretive defense research agency is


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actively developing brain machine


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interfaces non-lethal directed energy


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weapons and remote influence


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Technologies I'm sorry but are we just


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casually dropping the fact that brain


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Warfare is now a thing like is that just


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normal news


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now I wish I were making this up but


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it's happening the psychotronic


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generator may not have been real in the


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way we imagined but the dream of


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controlling the human mind that never


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died and that's what should really scare


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[Music]


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us for decades we laughed at the idea of


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Mind Control we called it science


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fiction a Cold War Fantasy but tell me


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this if the Soviets never perfected


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psychotronic technology then why did the


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research never stop why did the US


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Military and NATO continue developing


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neurocognitive influence


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programs why did Intelligence agencies


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fund Research into remote behavioral


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modification subliminal influence and


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perception


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management the terrifying truth is the


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psychotronic generator was never a


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machine it was never some box of wires


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hidden in a Soviet lab the real weapon


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was never Hardware it was a system A


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system that could be refined digitized


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perfected and deployed


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invisibly because now the battlefield


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isn't in Cold War Laboratories it's in


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your hands you don't need electrodes


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glued to your head when you'll willingly


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expose your mind every single day you


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don't need a Soviet scientist tuning


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your brain waves when an algorithm


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already knows exactly how to manipulate


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you you don't need the KGB forcing


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thoughts into your skull when you've


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been conditioned to accept ideas without


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ever questioning where they came


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from they don't need a machine to


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control you when you've already given


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them access to your mind Tesla once said


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if you want to understand the universe


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think in terms of energy frequency and


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vibration


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but maybe we should have asked who else


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was thinking that because now in the


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year


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2025 they've mastered the frequency they


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know exactly what signal to send what


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words to use what images to show you


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what tone what pattern what Rhythm will


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bypass your defenses and sink into your


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subconscious before you even realize it


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they have every tool they need to shape


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your thoughts your emotions itions your


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reality and the scariest part you


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probably still don't believe it's


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happening that's the beauty of a


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perfected mind control system the


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perfect form of psychotronic warfare is


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one where the subject never even


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realizes they were part of the


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[Music]


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[Music]


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the world is strange the stories even


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crazier and we're just here trying to


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make sense of it all thanks for showing


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this wild experiment until next time


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stay curious stay kind and remember you


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[Music]


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[Applause]


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[Music]


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do you ever feel like something's


00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:37.029
off like there's a shadow just outside


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the


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light they feed you answers keep you


00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:46.710
numb but the questions man they don't


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sleep at


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night turn the dial crack the Cod what


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if the stories were never just story


00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.950
what if the ghost The Whispers the


00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:09.310
things that you dream are NE goes for


00:27:09.320 --> 00:27:15.350
memories we ain't here to play it safe


00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:20.830
we ain't here to close our eyes Ralph's


00:27:20.840 --> 00:27:25.590
got the map Windows got the match so


00:27:25.600 --> 00:27:30.850
tell me how how deep will you


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[Laughter]


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die lights and Sky moving too


00:27:39.399 --> 00:27:42.350
fast signals in the static calling from


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the


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past Footsteps in an empty


00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:51.830
room and a name you don't remember


00:27:51.840 --> 00:27:55.149
whispered in a voice you never


00:27:55.159 --> 00:27:59.269
knew flip the page break the light


00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:05.149
what if the past F could P at


00:28:05.159 --> 00:28:09.509
all what if we see in the


00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:14.950
future and just don't recognize the


00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:21.590
call we ain't here to play it safe we


00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:26.950
ain't here to close our eyes Ralph's got


00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:33.669
the map Windows got the match so tell me


00:28:33.679 --> 00:28:41.000
how deep will you


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[Music]


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die some brain but


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War like the classes reaching through


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the static trying to remind you before


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we all go down


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[Music]


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we ain't here to play it safe we ain't


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here to close our eyes this is diverg f


00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:52.990
where stories don't


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die so tell me how deep will you die


00:30:07.399 --> 00:30:08.710
truth was


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light but you already knew that didn't


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you


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[Music]