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asked Dr. Becker to be on the scientific committee overseeing Sanguine. In 1984, Captain Tyler
would author “The Electromagnetic Spectrum in Low-Intensity Conflict,” a watershed paper
which the International Committee on Offensive Microwave Weapons (ICOMW) described as
“so important in the chain of evidence establishing the existence of an Electronic Concentration
Camp System that if our Archive consisted of only two documents, the Tyler paper would surely
be one of them!” 19
In his 1985 book The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life, Dr.
Becker detailed the committee’s disturbing Project Sanguine findings: stress responses,
desynchronized bio-cycles, cellular metabolism interference, increased cancer rates in hundreds
of thousands of people living inside the antenna field, etc. What would happen when the long-
wave signals resonated throughout the world? The committee recommended that Project
Sanguine be shelved and that the 60 Hz power lines carrying far more power than the Sanguine
antenna into homes across the nation be reexamined.

As far as I know, our testimony was the first ever openly given by American scientists stating that electromagnetic
energy had health effects in doses below those needed to heat tissue, and that power lines might therefore be
hazardous to health. We criticized the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy for failing to follow up a
tentative 1971 warning by advising the President that some harmful effects from electropollution were now proven.
Moreover, although we didn’t realize it at the time, we greatly embarrassed Captain Tyler and the Navy by publicly
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revealing the existent of the Sanguine report, which had been secret until then. [Emphasis added.]

In 1973, Medford, Oregon became the suicide capital of the United States overnight, thanks
to the ultra-low frequencies being beamed from a nearby military base to people’s television
antennas. The creation of a standing-wave resonance was connected to depression, whether the
television was on or not. David Fraser, Ph.D., of the Department of Toxicology at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was paid by DARPA to run the Medford experiment.
The U.S. Navy buried the committee’s report, moved the antenna to Michigan’s upper
peninsula, and renamed it Seafarer in 1975, then Austere ELF (extremely low frequency) in
1978. In 1981, an abbreviated Project ELF was constructed. When the New York Public Service
Commission (PSC) had to decide about a network of 765-kilovolt power lines that would link
nuclear reactors, they asked for a review copy of the Project Sanguine report and the Navy
refused. (The nuclear industry and military stick together.)
Meanwhile, Dr. Becker’s career was over:
Becker’s involvement with high-voltage power lines and the U.S. Navy’s submarine
communications system (Project Sanguine, later Project Seafarer and still later Project ELF)
proved to be his undoing. He was forced into retirement at the too-young age of fifty-six. As
Becker wrote in the preface to The Electric Wilderness, a history of these struggles by Andy
Marino and Joel Ray: “We faced a concerted and coordinated effort to suppress the truth which
emanated from the military establishment and was simply aided and abetted by the greed of the
utilities and the tarnished testimony of scientists for hire.” 21
In 1975, the Frank Church Committee briefly opened a window onto the “Moscow signal”
(along with other Cold War sins, like MK-ULTRA), after which the window was nailed shut for
decades. In 1976, while Americans were distracted by Bicentennial celebrations, the Soviets
expanded the Duga-1 and Duga-2 Moscow signals to Duga-3, the over-the-horizon (OTH)
broadcasts called the Russian Woodpecker due to the tapping (pulsing) sound it made. With full
knowledge of the CIA, an electromagnetic interference grid was laid over the United States and
—rather like HAARP twenty years later—a 10 Hz pulse (40 million watts per pulse) on 3–30