Sweden Human Brain Project

Conference Transcript Translation

From the 1940s electrodes were implanted in the brains of unwitting hospital
patients during surgery. In the 1960s mini-transmitters that easily could be
implanted were developed and today “brain chips” are also injected at hospitals
internationally. – Robert Naeslund
OLD WORLD DEPICTION OF THE COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN
…WITHOUT THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY…
RN (Robert Naeslund): This subject has received too little attention and that often has
been related to conspiracy theories and even science fiction, but that in reality has been a
state project during the last 60 years, developed behind the so called “walls of power”;
the secrecy of military research. My name is Robert Nauslund and I am going to give an
explanation of the subject that the American senator John Glenn had his main activity
during his last 3 years as a politician and that he, in his last speech in the senate 1997
described as one of the most important questions of our times. The technology that uses
remote control to directly connect to the human brain emerged as super computers were
developed in the 1940s. From the beginning this technology has used implants in the
human brain, then electrode two-way communication systems where the emitted
frequencies could be programmed with data for influence while the returning signal sent
biological information that the super computer could compile and analyze. The very first
articles about this technology were published in the New York Times in December 1948
when the American professor Norbert Weiner published the book “Cybernetics” coining
at the same time the “cyber” concept. It can be interesting to know where this word is
coming from. The technology came to be known as bio-medical telemetry. That is the
medical name for it. Telemetry means measuring at a distance. Other terms were bio-
cybernetics, brain-computer-technology or man-system-interaction, which is the Swedish
States name for this technology. The first experiments – and this is something that will
challenge our understanding about medical ethics in particular but also doctors functions
– but there is very strong documentation about this: The first experiments with this
technology in Sweden that we can document took place at Karolinska Hospital in
Stockholm 1946. Electrodes where implanted in peoples brains – on the same premises as
today – without people’s knowledge, and these people were thereafter used in medical
experimentation with the new technology. Already in the 1950s –half of a century ago
this extensive research program was organized behind the defense research that was at
that time called F.O.A. and that functioned as a “knowledge bank”, innovator, made
evaluations, trained doctors and professors, to develop the project. The military research
has by now changed its name to F.O.I. and a state in its annual report of 2011 that their
goal is to control mans cognitive functions during the individual’s whole life time.
Cognition is about thought and reason.

Narration Quote: All facts which are presented about Sweden are as well valid for the
U.S. or any European nation. This techno-political violent project goes on globally and
Senator John Glenn, Congressman Kucinich (?), the New York Times and many
professors have all protested against the “rape” or Mentacide of the brain.

RN: It’s with super computers that they were able to develop the “Big Brain Project” that
this lecture will be about. Two years later 1953, April 3, the New York Times had an
article with the title “Scientists use electrodes in brain” and from it we can understand
that already at that time in 1953, one could transfer both memory, thoughts, and sensory
functions by remote control. I’ll quote a few lines from it: “Patients brains are wired for
sound with hair like electrodes in a new technique reported at the Mayo Clinic today…
The scientists said that through the depth recording and electrical stimulation methods,
new fields of investigation had been opened into basic function of the human brain, like
memory, thought, action, sight and smell.” And this was an article published April 3,
1953, but still today; this is nothing that anyone talks about. Well, at least not in the mass
media or in the popular science magazines. Professor John Lilly mentioned in his
memoirs, the book with the title “The Scientist” published 1978 that in 1953 –again this
is mind blowing because it happened such a long time ago – 58 years ago, he was called
to a meeting with the director for the U.S. mental health institute that asked him to have
his research with dolphins and chimps – with electrodes in their brains- to be directed
behind the C.I.A.'s secrecy. But he refused. And the answer that he gave the General
Director was also published in his memoirs telling us very much about how this type of
technology was developed and how far the development had gone already by 1953.
“Doctor Remond that uses our technology in Paris shows that this method of stimulation
of the brain can be applied to the humans (with implants), without the help of a
neurosurgeon. He does it at his clinic. This means that anyone with the right tools can do
this to a person, in secret, without any sign that electrodes have been used on the person.
If this technology comes into the hands of a secret agency, they can have a total control
over a person and change his believes extremely quickly.” That’s how far this technology
was developed already in 1953. The C.I.A. had begun its collaboration with surgeons
abroad, in this case Paris, who implanted their electrodes imperceptibly, secretly in
patient’s brains (Hospitals, Brothels, Orphanages and Prisons).

Narrator Quote: The magazine Science had in 1956, 30 Nov., their first extensive article
regarding the brain subject under the heading “Some issues concerning the control of
human behavior”. Professor Carl R. Rogers called the people under these conditions the
slaves of those who directed their behavior. “I believe the prediction and control of
behavior may be misused… It also means that the great majority are only the slaves. We
can choose to use our knowledge to enslave humans in ways we never dreamed of, in
such a way that they never become aware of the loss of their personalities.”
RN: And this was something that was published in the magazine “Science”. He also
added: “In such a case, we can only look back on the concept of human freedom and the
right to choose, as being a historical curiosity that once existed, as a cultural accident, as
a set of values in a pre-technological civilization.” Yes, these are indeed scary words.
They state something that in fact is much more detestable than what old traditional
dictatorships represent. And that the project was developed because of government
decisions… well, it’s a horror story. That is something that the Swedish Defense
researcher and scientist P.M. Persson talked about in an article in the F.O.A. Magazine
1965, with the title “Bio-telemetry”. He wrote: “The word telemetry comes from the
Greek tele meaning far, and metri meaning measure. In Swedish telemetry would be
called “Measuring at a distance.” Telemetry can be described as the science of the
transmission of data that is normally not available. The oldest and most widely used radio
system is the AM/FM system. It was standardized as early as around 1950 in the U.S.A.
“The substantial portion of biotelemetry comprises data transmission. This is mainly
done by using implanted transmitters. The technology has evolved very far in Swedish
medical research.” What in fact was developed far back in the medical research was the
abuse of patients, in whose brains or heads, transmitters had been implanted. And this
was something that at the time was done largely during surgeries, when patients were
anesthetized. Dr. Jose Delgado, mentioned earlier in the New York Times, published in
1967 a research report “Mans intervention in intracerebral functions”. He wrote that
electrodes were implanted in the patients in all major hospitals around the world. I’ll
quote a few words from the research report: “Implanted electrodes in humans are now
used in all large hospitals. The presence of electrodes in the brain is not harmful or even
unpleasant and patients live a completely “normal” life in their homes. From the
experimental point of view, behavioral research requires individual freedom. In
consequence of this trend, we have begun to affect the brains psychological reactions and
scientific studies have concluded that we can experiment with intracerebral functions
responsible for developing and maintaining specific behaviors and mental functions.”
Well, this was nothing that the patients themselves- as they were called – had the slightest
idea about; that they had been implanted and that they were used in research. In
experiments of their brain functions for a life time connected to the systems. With this
technology, one of the most prioritized research areas emerged that had to do with
changing peoples perceptions, ideas and in general, behavior. To understand about
politicians attitudes regarding this matter, I am going to quote a Swedish government
report from 1972. The Prime Minister Olaf Palme appointed Alva Myrdal as chairman of
state commission “Choosing the Future”. The predicted future wasn’t what anyone would
accept. From the following few words that I am going to quote, one can better understand
politician’s tactical games in which human rights and all international conventions that
Sweden has signed to protect citizens, were completely mashed. Alva Myrdal wrote:
“Research in the field of brain function and behavior is primarily aimed at identifying the
nature and extent of those changes that can be achieved with the different methods.
Discussions about the various methods to influence people, are leading to the question of
the individuals ability to protect oneself from undesirable influences and the invasion of
privacy. Undoubtedly, the protection of the individual against the abuse of these and
similar methods in today’s society are inadequate.” In fact, the government did not want
to give us – the people – protection against the technological intrusion into our brains.
This was 40 years ago. They gave their sympathies to power instead of taking the
people’s side and felt solidarity with some small but powerful groups such as the
military, the professors and the researchers. In particular, these three groups. All of them
wanted to develop it against humanity… and the whole population. About the same time
the American professor of astronomy, Carl Sagan published his book, “The Dragons of
Eden”. In that book he discussed this technology, and he wrote that people who accept
electrodes in their brains have lost any chance of freedom. I quote from it: “When it
comes to technological nightmares, it is important to realize the possibility that people
can understand it and prevent government abuse. The people, that allow their government
to implant electrodes in their brains, have lost the battle of freedom.” A way of
understanding it – at least the beginning of the lost freedom – is to realize that not a
single article has come out in the mass media that has been able to create a debate about
this technology and its emerging role as a political factor.

RN: But there has been one newspaper, a single newspaper in the world that has been
better than any other. It has challenged the greatest power on earth in this matter, and it is
the New York Times. Already from the start in the 1950’s, they bought up the research
reports that referred to the possibility to, for the first time in human history – being able
to neutralize – not only mental diseases, but even physical ones. They have written many
articles about this development in the 1950’s. In the 1960; s they began stating that the
technology was being misused. And they also published many leading figures warnings
about the social danger of a society under brain (mind) control. During the 1970’s the
danger had become even greater and more and more articles were written about the
C.I.A.’s development of brain systems. During a single summer in 1977 the New York
Times published thirty articles about the C.I.A.’s brain control systems. The most
important thing that was brought into the light was that this project already had begun in
the late 1940’s, and that they had built with this technology, a state within a state. In
1967 the New York Times had its first editorial, the first of three following over the next
ten years. This was published April 10th, 1967 under the title “Push Button People” and
they discussed the ongoing experiments that warned about the development of this
technology, and it was stated that it has come up to a more general debate and to
everyone’s attention. They also mentioned that probably there were countries in the
world that already planned to subjugate their populations using this technique. I’ll quote a
few words from the New York Times editorial. “It is the possibility of similar control
over human beings that causes concern. Several years ago a scientist told a scientific
meeting that experiments with patients seems to support the distasteful conclusion that
motion, emotion and behavior can be directed by electrical forces and that humans can be
controlled like robots by push buttons. It is indeed a distasteful conclusion but it is quite
conceivable that in some countries investigations may be under way into the possibility
of using these techniques to control human beings. But the mere existence of such a
possibility is disturbing, and certainly merits wider public discussion and a greater
attention than it has received up to now.” Certainly this was the way it was. Both in the
U.S. and Sweden were countries that had far reaching plans to subjugate citizens beyond
their knowledge, in brain control systems.

RN: By this time, surgeons had under two decades committed their abuses on patients
and this technology has during the whole time been developed behind the Swedish
defense Research Institute F.O.A. The experiments have during the whole development
been very brutal. A conference was held in 1986, March 13th, about this issue at the
Swedish Department of Justice. Swedish Justice Minister Sten Wickborn had invited
some professors, researchers and a few politicians. At the meeting it was mentioned that
this mustn’t reach the mass media. One professor, Bengt Pernow said that researchers
from all over the world are coming to Sweden, to experiment on humans, as they don’t
have the right to do that in their own countries. Because we here in Sweden, have less
protection for our human rights than other nations and this was mentioned in clear words
at that conference. We tend to believe that we in Sweden live in the best of all
democracies. That’s how it usually sounds in the mass media anyway, but if you only
scratch a little bit on the surface you discover something very different. To return to the
New York Times, they publish their second editorial September 19th, 1970 under the title
“brainwave”. It indicated that Orwell’s vision of the future already had expired.
Something new was around the corner, something new and much worse. Every new
born baby – it’s first experience in this world would be to be implanted with a
neuro-transmitter and for their entire lifetime have emotion and cognition
controlled by state computers.
Narrator Quote: NEW YORK TIMES editorial excerpt Aug 5, 1977, “Control C.I.A. not
behavior; “So we must add repugnant medical experimentation to the list of horror stories
emerging from the C.I.A. It was no secret that the agency once hunted desperately for
means to control human behavior. One objective was to program individuals so that they
might do the agency’s bidding even to the point of ignoring such fundamental laws of
nature as self-preservation. We are not sufficiently schooled in ethics to know how this
differs from murder. There is no substitute for also holding their senior officials ethically
and legally responsible as individuals for all activities. Even at this late date, the country
should be told who sanctioned such projects, and how.

RN: These are good words coming from the New York Times. Now, 35 years later, we
have every reason to make the same demands in Sweden. What happened during 60 years
of brain experimentation? Which doctors, professors, what institutions have been
involved in the most anti democratic project that ever existed? By what kind of methods
has it been possible to keep it off the media and peoples attention? What defenses have
been set up? What is the role of the medical corporations?; They are involved. What does
the government say? F.O.I.’s super computers must be turned off! We are all about to
become the states lab rats and chip manipulated behavior skulls, and that is verified by
F.O.I. itself.

RN: To give you an idea about the Pentagon’s use of brain control technology I will
quote something which, just as everything else no one has ever heard of even though it
should have been on the front pages of the mass media. A few people with insight and
courage dared to reveal the most secret, the military’s use of brain technology for mass
murder. Two British scientists, Professor Malcolm Varner and Dr Michael Stone,
published in 1970 the book “The Data Bank Society”, a strong protest against the
Governments power over people’s minds. At that time, the U.S. had its war in Vietnam
and they had advanced methods for implanting people by mixing up microchips in
probably both medicine & alcohol; one could within a few years scan a large part of
South Vietnam upper & middle class. The super computers (via Radio Tower &
Scanners) could thereafter analyze and evaluate people, generally deduce their
opinions and see what they were up to. They rationalized (via the data) that there were
33,000 “very important people” that were Vietcong sympathizers which they planned to
execute and it could be done by the same ingested technology through which their
sympathies where assessed through the connection to their brain waves – their biological
“feelings” could be altered to a state that was lethal rendering them sick or diseased. By
intromitting heart attacks, strokes, cancer or whatever they liked. The following brief
quotation from Professor Malcolm Varner says a lot about that: “Hopelessly thwarted in
its attempts to improve information input, the U.S. Command in Saigon has devoted its
most skilled resources to rendering its information processing ultra-sophisticated. It has
invented what is in effect, a computerized “extermination machine”… The high
command in Saigon is now extending the idea of computer selections to individuals as
well as suspected areas. This year 1970 the program aims to “eliminate” 33,000
individual Vietnamese civilians who – it has been determined by the computer – are
Vietcong sympathizers.” This quote also says a lot about being able to –through the
computer brain interaction – manipulate someone’s biological functions even to the point
where they die of one reason or the other that can’t be differentiated from normal death
causes. The same resources are also in the F.O.I.’s super computer systems and it is also
used to keep the brain systems away from the mass media and people’s knowledge. A
Swedish general director, Stina Wahlstrom wrote in 1989 in the data inspections annual
book that as long as this continues, Sweden cannot be called a democracy. She wrote
about people, exploited without their knowledge or against their will. Of course these are
strong words that we are not living in a democracy, but a project like this cannot exist in
a democracy. However one of the best protests and revelations from this society’s own
authorities was actually stated a few years ago. March 16, 2005, the European
Commissions Ethical Council with the Swedish professor Goran Hermeren as chairman
published the document “Ethical Aspects of the I.C.T. implants in the human body” to
the E.U. Commission as a recommendation on how one should regard this technology’s
future development. It is without doubt challenging the system and it is the best of all
other explanations and the biggest disclosure made about this technology. Their 30 page
document explains that implants are injected into people for research and social control
purposes. I.C.T. stands for information Communication Technology and includes
everything form electrodes to biochip implants. The quotes from their document say
everything regarding how this technology is nowadays used not only in Sweden, but in
all Europe, within the European Union. They are talking about injecting people,
unwittingly with chips. Well, this has in fact been going on for 60 years now, but good
they mention it. I quote from their document: “Brain computer interface or direct brain
control: the technologies involved above are communication technologies: they take
information from the brain and externalize it. There are internalizing technologies whose
purpose is to take information from the outside and provide individual access to it.” They
did not talk about any particular individuals but about all of us… it was declared that it
belonged to a transformation of human being.
Here’s the quote: “Our present society is confronted with the changes that have to do
with the anthropological essence of what man’s inner nature is.” They did not mention
some specific people or population groups, but in fact all of us. This is a planned
population project for the manipulation of our innermost nature. Our right to think for
ourselves. They explain that it was a threat to the democratic society and of course it is
so. Not even a Hitler with his old methods could be a more terrifying threat in today’s
societies when you compare them with the technology’s intrusion into our brains. They
Wrote: “E.G.E. makes the evaluation that non-medical applications of implants are a
potential threat to human dignity and the democratic society… the use of the remote
control to take over people’s will must be absolutely prohibited.” It is of course not less
critical to go into someone’s brain and change a human being’s thoughts and will – than
it was under Hitler’s and Stalin’s times- forcing people behind barbed wire in order to
neutralize their thoughts and will power. It says a lot about our political governance of
course. In addition, you should be aware that many of those who sit in the parliament
also have their brains incorporated into the defense department’s super computer control
systems. Of course they become a type of puppet for the will of others.

Narrator Quote: Frequency Errata Table of Implanted Americans by Professor Stuart

RN: Next quote is about health and our social life that has largely degenerated since the
brain technology had its impact from a couple of decades ago. A neuro professor, Anders
Lasner at Stockholm Brain Institute states that approximately 30% of the people in the
E.U. suffer from brain diseases or behavioral disorders. It increases and it is directly
related to this technology. We all have of course been confronted with the tragedy that
people seem to become stranger and stranger. The E.U. ethical group provided us with an
explanation of the reasons: “It should be stressed that there are no reliable scientific
investigations concerning the long term health aspect of implants in the human body. The
unrestricted freedom of some may endanger the health and safety for others. As in other
areas, the freedom to use implants in ones own body, i.e. the principle of freedom itself
might collide with the potential negative social effects.”

Narrator Quote: The European commission’s ethical board wrote: “Brain computer
interface (B.C.I.) or direct brain control are communication technologies: they take
information from the brain and externalize it… Contemporary society is confronted with
changes that have to do with the anthropological essence of individuals… To what extent
might this technology be misused by the military?... the member states and their ethics
councils have a responsibility to create conditions for education and constructive, well-
informed debates in this area.”

RN: Under the section “Human Dignity, Integrity and Autonomy” the E.G.E. group
brought up a number of questions not because they wondered about the answers, but
probably because they were best presented as questions: “How far can such implants be a
threat to human autonomy, particularly when they are implanted in our brains?”. “How
far can such implants have irreversible impacts in the human body and/or in the human
psyche?” “How will they influence human memory?” “Does a human being cease to be
such a being in cases where some parts of his or her body – particularly the brain – are
substituted and/or supplemented by I.C.T. implants?” “How far can ICT implants give an
individual, or a group, specific capabilities that could become a threat to society?”
“How far should we be subject to the control of such devices or by other people using
these devices?”
From this quote, when the E.U. Commissions Ethical board talks about these implants in
our own brains and bodies, we can understand the extensive use of this project. It has, in
fact, throughout the history of mankind never existed anything more totalitarian. There
has never been anything more anti-democratic. A dictatorship can never be greater than
when citizen’s brains are linked to computer control. The state has become a cannibal, a
rapist who is eating its citizens. Transforming us into biological manipulated
components. But the EU Commission did not support their recommendation on the need
to stop the ongoing trend of mind control. They instead accepted the constitution of this
project and of course, that day when this techno-political development will create debates
in the mass media, it will have serious consequences. They ended the document, by
urging that this development must become general knowledge. Quote: “The member
states and their national ethics councils have a responsibility to create conditions for
education and constructive, well-informed debates in this area.” Of course it is good if
everybody joins this challenge. But these councils have now had (more than) six years to
show their inability – no debate has arisen. Not even a single word has been said yet. But
this is of course also everyone’s responsibility. All of us must participate to ensure that
this issue reaches the mass media. This is one of humanities cross roads. One can almost
say that nothing ever happened in the history of mankind. That this is the very first
time that something is occurring. In other words, before this, we’ve always been our
own biological creations. Sure, we have been indoctrinated to believe or not in
certain things, but we have nevertheless always had our own biology, mentality, our
own resources intact. This is an issue, almost completely unknown, but at the same
time without doubt humanity’s most important. And that was exactly what Senator
John Glenn said in his speech in 1997 when he left the senate.
Narrator Quote: The Swedish Defense 7 Research Institution wrote in its annual report
2011; F.O.I. developed systems with emphasis on the interaction between people and
technology. The goal is that systems are designed at the human cognitive potential, i.e.
the ability to perceive, understand, and sorting information, can be utilized for maximum
system effect…

RN: Everyone must of course join this cause! The media has of course a responsibility to
address this issue. Of course all human rights organizations… Greenpeace, Attack,
Amnesty and of course all political parties that see people’s wellbeing as above state
power must participate in the order to bring this subject up for debate and by that, making
change possible. I will end these dark visions with some positive thoughts about this
technology. The man who coined the term “information society”, the Japanese Professor
Yoneji Masuda published his book “the information Society” in 1980. In that book he
brought up the dark and the light applications of this technology and he wrote: “If
information systems were to be completely dominated by a despotic state organization,
the information society would be the ultimate controlled society, in which the abuses
would by far exceed the abuse of human rights under dictatorships but if the people took
over the systems, we could live free, healthy, active, creative lives up to average of 90 or
more.” This technology has as many positive as negative applications. Thank you.

Robert Naeslund
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