Psychoecology and the DHS
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has gone to many strange places in its search for ways to identify terrorists before they attack, but perhaps none stranger than this lab on the outskirts of Russia’s capital. The institute has for years served as the center of an obscure field of human behavior study—dubbed psychoecology—that traces it roots back to Soviet-era mind control research.
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SSRM Tek is presented to a subject as an innocent computer game that flashes subliminal images across the screen—like pictures of Osama bin Laden or the World Trade Center. The “player”—a traveler at an airport screening line, for example—presses a button in response to the images, without consciously registering what he or she is looking at. The terrorist’s response to the scrambled image involuntarily differs from the innocent person’s, according to the theory.
Sean • September 24, 2007 8:40 AM
We’ll have to see how this turns out, but I place just as much faith in it as I do the dowsing rod bomb detectors I saw in action on a show once. It’s kind of funny watching a guy running around with a pair of handles with ball bearing mounted wires and not think back to when I was a kid and our landlord had a dowser in to find a dry hole.