In 1993, the famous Siege of Mount Carmel took place in the United States (Siege at Waco, Tragedy at Waco, Events at Waco) - a siege of a ranch belonging to members of the Branch of David religious sect led by David Cornish, 14 km from the city of Waco in Texas by the FBI and the National Guard of the United States, which lasted from February 28 to April 19, 1993. During the events, 82 members of the sect were killed, including more than 20 children.
The residents of Mount Carmel were suspected of violating weapons laws. During the raid on the ranch, a shootout ensued, during which 10 people died. The FBI initiated a siege that lasted 51 days and ended with an assault in which about 700 people took part, supported by armored vehicles and helicopters. During the assault, a fire broke out in the estate.
The American regional newspaper "The Village Voice" in its March 8, 1994 issue published an article signed by Michael Drosin. Here is its abbreviated content.
“It turns out that during the Waco events, a high-ranking FBI scientist suggested using an experimental Russian mind control device against David Koresh. In March 1993, a few weeks before 80 Koresh sect members were killed in a fire in Waco, a Russian scientist demonstrated in Washington, DC, a device that could subconsciously implant instructions in the minds of people in the defense, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies. and thereby control their actions.
Stephen Killion, deputy chief of technical services at the FBI, attended a meeting with a Russian scientist. He stood up and said, "I want to take this to Texas and apply it to Koresh."
The plan, according to Killion, was abandoned after the Russians failed to provide guarantees that the device would not backfire or cause more violence."
Such is the note. And as it turned out, she is not a newspaper duck at all, as it sometimes happens. All the characters in this story exist (or have existed) in reality. Who is David Koresh, you've probably already heard enough. This maniac established on the Waco ranch, located near the town of Waco (Texas), the most severe discipline among members of the branch of David's cult worshipers organized by him. And when rumors of bullying at the ranch reached local and federal authorities, military forces were sent to the ranch with orders to arrest Koresh.
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But it turned out to be very difficult to do it. Armed members of the sect under the leadership of their leader opened fierce fire, and the authorities retreated. The assault was replaced by a siege that lasted 51 days. All this time, the FBI agents persuaded Koresh and the members of the sect to surrender. However, having exhausted all the possibilities of negotiations, they finally launched a second assault.
As a result of the fire that began, the causes of which remained unclear, almost 90 people died in the fire, including Koresh himself, many children and women. So it is no coincidence that this place received the name "Ranch of Death" in the American press.
It turned out to be true that Igor Smirnov, the head of the scientific sector and the laboratory of psychocorrection, worked for many years at the Moscow Medical Academy. Naturally, it was to him that Russian journalists rushed for explanations. And that's what they finally learned.
About thirty years ago, if anyone remembers, a noise arose around the so-called distant interactions and special biofields in various psychics. The Medical Academy and, in particular, Igor Smirnov himself, was instructed to check whether such phenomena really exist in practice.
When checking, researchers encountered a phenomenon that cannot be explained from a trivial standpoint. Here is what I. Smirnov himself told about it.
“It turned out that when communicating, even at a primitive verbal level, people operate with global semantic categories in addition to the simple meaning of the words they say. For example, empathy (empathy) not only colors the word, but also supplements it with information that is not contained in the word …"
To make it clearer for you what is at stake here, I will try to give an illustrative example. In one of Bogomil Rainov's spy novels, two ladies who cannot stand each other, but are forced by circumstances to maintain secular relations, exchange such remarks.
“… Rosemary blooms on the doorstep, and her excited words sound:“Ah, finally, dear!”, Then Flora's reply greeting:“Glad to see you, dear!” But Rosemary's generous heart cannot stop there, and she says: "And your suit is just a miracle!" This diminutive, as it were, emphasizes that the suit is quite capable of accommodating three more partners in the card game. But Flora does not remain in debt: "And you in this long dress and in fact seem a little taller!" The exchange of serpentine courtesies continues, but this repertoire is too familiar, and I will not play it to the end."
Indeed, we all learn the "snake" language very quickly. And since there is such an opportunity or need, we are always ready to present some nastiness in an effective verbal package.
Scientists, however, went further. In their research, they found that words composed in a certain way into sentences can carry what in their language is now commonly called "semantic fields." That is, some coded information can be entered into an innocent text, and a person, having listened to the tape, immediately begins to execute the encrypted order without realizing it.
In the US, for example, such records are already used to optimize mood, quit smoking, or even to "attract money."
But these tapes are impersonal, that is, they are designed to affect everyone. And such a possibility, according to Smirnov, can be doubted. "Our developments are much more cunning and more effective," he continued his story, "but they were created for specific patients and are not subject to replication."
It all looks like this. The patient is seated in front of a display screen on which some computer images are shown. They put headphones on it, in which a pleasant noise is heard. However, the noise and images are not simple, with a secret: they contain questions about the most important things in every person's life: about family, work, money, profession, sex, study, politics, alcohol, crime, etc.
The patient's body is shrouded in sensors, similar to those used when testing on a "lie detector". And the computer carefully analyzes the body's responses to all these “silent” questions. Moreover, the reports in this case come directly from the subconscious, and the subject cannot control them, often he does not even suspect about his predilections.
But when he leaves the chair of the test subject, scientists will decipher the readings of the sensors and get a complete picture of his "soul", the rating of his values: what he really thinks about himself, about the world around him and about his place among people.
And that's only half the battle - making a diagnosis. Then he can be invited again and seated in the same chair, scrolled through the headphones of his beloved Wagner. And he will not suspect that some "advice" is already included in the music: what emotions he should suppress in himself, what antisocial aspirations to remove, and what positive undertakings to strengthen and develop. The patient again seemed to have heard nothing but music, but he learned the advice. This can be seen in his further behavior: he gave up drinking, entered a university, returned to his family … Maybe even stop theft!
If the patient is mentally ill, then his aggression decreases, he becomes controllable. If in the course of the analysis it turns out that his potential has been exhausted (they say that there are such cases), then he will go to another world without shock pains and suffering …
In general, as you can see, the range of influences is wide enough for FBI agents to grab onto it immediately. But Smirnov really refused to use his method in this case. “Our work is piecemeal, coding is incredibly laborious and expensive: it takes an hour and a half for a minute of text,” he said. And in order for this text to "reach" then, it is necessary first to conduct a thorough diagnosis. Nobody tested Koresh, and running the "machine" at random meant not only discrediting the method itself, but also, possibly, completely ruining the situation.
However, at that moment Smirnov, of course, did not know how the matter would turn out. Otherwise, he might still have risked …
However, as you know, history has no subjunctive moods. Igor Smirnov, until his untimely death, did a specific case, had relationships with specific patients and completely rejected the so-called normographic approach - that is, an attitude towards the "average person". There are simply no such people, we are all individuals, Smirnov believed, and we must work with each separately. And this is a very delicate matter.
“There is such a term -“ALLI”(accent locus of latent information), - argued Igor Smirnov. - This is something like the "phenomenon of criminal knowledge" in a lie detector. A person is never aware of his ALLI, under any circumstances. And God forbid we find out about ourselves this: you can't live … But we look for them and find them in the depths of the patient's subconscious. Because we need "reference points", reference points, to understand the degree of patient's response to different stimuli …"
Today, the creator of this technology is no longer among us. But the laboratory he created has turned into a research institute that continues its work. However, the method is still experimental, it has not yet entered wide medical practice. And will it come in when? This weapon is painfully dangerous - the impact on the subconscious. After all, it is, whatever you say, a tool for “zombifying” a person. And very, very effective …