The LIDA Machine

Associated Press (Exact date not shown on copy but tests took place 1982/83) Loma Linda (Veterans Hospital research unit)

San Bernardino County

An old medical, Russian-made device that transmits pulses of 40 MHz radio signal at pulse rates designed to match relaxed and sleeping states originally.

The machine, known as the LIDA, is on loan to the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital through a medical exchangeprogram between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Hospital researchers have found in changes behavior in animals.

"It looks as though instead of taking a valium when you want to relax yourself it would be possible to achieve a similar result, probably in a safer way, by the use of a radio field that will relax you" said Dr. Ross Adey, chief of research at the hospital.  [Dr. Adey is now deceased.]

[Missing one line on the photocopy] ... manual shows it being used on a human in a clinical setting, Adey said. The manual says it is a "distant pulse treating apparatus" for psychological problems, including sleeplessness, hyper-tension and neurotic disturbances.

The device has not been approved for use with humans in this country, although the Russians have done so since at least 1960, Adey Said.

Low frequency radio waves simulate the brain's own electromagnetic current and produce a trance-like state.

Adey said he put a cat in a box and turned on the LIDA.

"Within a matter of two or three minutes it is sitting there very quietly ... it stays almost as though it were transfixed" he said.

Tho hospital's experiment with the machine has been underway for three months and should be completed within a year, Adey said.

Eleanor White's comments (Dr. Byrd's statement follows):

1.  Heavy "fatigue attacks" are a very common experience among

involuntary neuro-electromagnetic experimentees.  The LIDA device could, right out of the box, be used as a fatigue attack weapon,  FROM HIDING, thru non- or semi-conductive walls.

2.  If the LIDA machine is tuned for tranquilizing effect, then 

it might also be tuned for "force awake" and other effects too.

This device is an electronic harassment weapon, AS IS.  A TV

documentary stated the Russian medical establishment considers

this 1950s device obsolete.  (Wonder what has taken it's place?)

Below is a statement from Dr. Eldon Byrd, U.S. psychotronic researcher who funded Dr. Adey's work with the LIDA machine:

"The LIDA machine was made in the 1950's by the Soviets.  The CIA purchased one through a Canadian front for Dr. Ross Adey, but didn't give him any funds to evaluate it.

"I provided those funds from my project in 1981, and he determined that the LIDA would put rabbits into a stupor at a distance and make cats go into REM.

"The Soviets included a picture with the device that showed an

entire auditorium full of people asleep with the LIDA on the

podium.  The LIDA put out an electric field, a magnetic field,

light, heat, and sound (of course light and heat are electromagnetic waves, but at a much higher frequency than the low frequencies of the electric and magnetic fields mentioned above).

"The purported purpose of the LIDA was for medical treatments;

however, the North Koreans used it as a brain washing device

during the Korean War.  The big question is:  what did they do

with the technology?  It could have been improved and/or made

smaller.  It is unlikely that they abandoned something that

worked.

"Direct communication with Ross Adey:  While he was testing the

LIDA 4, an electrician was walking by and asked him where he got

the "North Korean brain washing machine".  Ross told him that is

was a Russian medical device.

"The guy said he had been brain-washed by a device like that when

he was in a POW camp. They placed the vertical plates alongside

his head and read questions and answers to him.  He said he felt

like he was in a dream.  Later when the Red Cross came and asked

questions, he responded with what had been read to him while under the influence of the device.  He said he seemed to have no control over the answers.

"The LIDA is PATENTED IN THE US.  Why?  They are not sold in the US--the only one I know that exists is the one that was at Loma Linda Medical Center where Adey used to work.  Eldon"

Involuntary neuro-experimentation activist Cheryl Welsh, Davis CA, sent in this clipping from an article by Dr. Ross Adey but without complete bibliographic references:

"Soviet investigators have also developed a therapeutic device

utilizing low frequency square wave modulation of a radiofrequency field.  This instrument known as the Lida was developed by L.Rabichev and his colleagues in Soviet Armenia, and is designed  for "the treatment of neuropsychic and somatic disorders, such as neuroses, psychoses, insomnia, hypertension, stammering, bronchia asthma, and asthenic and reactive disturbances".

It is covered by U.S. Patent # 3,773,049.  In addition to the pulsed RF field, the device also delivers pulsed light, pulsed sound, and pulsed heat.  Each stimulus train can be independently adjusted in intensity and frequency.

The radiofrequency field has a nominal carrier frequency of 40 MHz and a maximum output of approximately 40 Watts.  The E- field is applied to the patient on the sides of the neck through two disc electrodes approximately 10 cm in diameter.  The electrodes are located at a distance of 2-4 cm from the skin.

[Eleanor White's comment:  The fact that Dr. Ross Adey mentioned

an "audience" being put to sleep by the LIDA suggests that the

"E-field" electrodes may not play an essential role.  The radio

signal appears to be the primary cause of the sleep/trance effect.]

Optimal repetition frequencies are said to lie in the range from 40

to 80 pulses per minute.  Pulse duration is typically 0.2 sec.  In

an 8 year trial period, the instrument was tested on 740 patients,

including adults and children.  Postivive therapeutic effects were

claimed in more..."