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From: “The Glass House Tapes” by Louis E. Tackwood. New York: Avon Books, 1973.

A National Security Agency computer specialist has proposed attaching miniature electronic tracking devices to 20 million Americans. The “transponder” would transmit the wearer’s location by radio to a computer and could be used “for arrests following riots or confrontations” and “for monitoring aliens and political subgroups.”

Such devices seem to be the bitter fruit of a rapidly developing field, referred to euphemistically by its adherents as “Behavioral Engineering.” Its chief apostle Dr. Robert Schwitzgebel, twin brother of Ralph, is urging the government to consider increased use of devices “to control group behavior.” Noting that the government already spends much of its budget on prisons, police, judges, etc. (“social hardware control”), Schwitzgebel proposes shifting “just a small portion” of the defense budget away from the development of weaponry to “devises for measuring and positively reinforcing desirable behaviors of large groups.” The government could easily accomplish this, he added, because “80 percent of the manufacturing in the United States is controlled by about 2,000 of the largest corporations.”

Barton L. Ingraham of Berkeley’s School of Criminology suggests that “further control,” could be achieved through recent developments in electrophysiology. Not only might “complete and continuous surveillance” of a person that has demonstrated “criminal tendencies” be possible, but “automatic deterrence or blocking” of the criminal activity by electronic stimulation of the brain prior to the commission of the act is also feasible. Electrical impulses injected into the brain can induce, modify, or inhibit such phenomena as movement, desire, rage, aggression, fear, pain, or pleasure.

At the Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Jose Delgado has implanted radio transmitters into the heads of experimental animal subjects so that he can monitor and control their activities from a distant location. Computers have already been tested on subjects in mental “hospitals.” The machines are programmed for undesirable behavior and send out inhibitory instructions.

In “The Physical Control of the Mind”, Delgado – whose work is also funded in part by the government, predicted that ESB could become a “master control of human behavior by means of man-made plans and instruments.”

From: “The Glass House Tapes” by Louis E. Tackwood. New York: Avon Books, 1973.

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