Reversed-Engineered Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) Tactics and Techniques: Exposing Wireless Electromagnetic Frequency Assault Torture
Updated to include more source references on April 11, 2024.
In April 2007, Steven Reisner a psychoanalyst and activist against torture programs, received intelligence from a government insider regarding the government’s Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) school in Brunswick, Maine. SERE teaches soldiers how to survive advanced interrogation techniques if they are ever captured by the enemy. The memorandum was called the “Brunswick Memo.” The memo described SERE techniques in use at Brunswick which could be reversed-engineered for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
The practice of reverse-engineering advanced interrogation techniques is to “break” the detainees minds so as to make them more cooperative and less hostile to military officials interested in controlling them. The various tactics included: slapping, stress positioning, hooding, manhandling, and walling.
The government insider providing the intelligence said, “Look, if the American program of torture is malaria, psychologists are the tsetse flies.” These advanced interrogation techniques (torture programs) were devised by medical professionals such as psychologists and psychiatrists. He further explained, “They aren’t the ones responsible for the disease — that’s a virus emanating from the top echelons of the system. But they are the carriers; they’re how it’s spread.” Thus, we can make a connection between the wireless electromagnetic frequency assault torture as a program designed to “break the mind” and “neutralize” the targets. (Please refer to my post dated April 1, 2024 https://proclivitysprinciplewisdom.medium.com/havana-syndrome-linked-to-russian-foreign-nationals-sources-say-evidence-targeted-individuals-may-c775b7d5285c)
As with the Bush administration’s implementation of torture programs at Guantanamo, a jointness between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Department of Defense (DoD), both were using the same psychologists to perform illegal interrogation techniques, and the apparent approval for such techniques must have come from a source higher up the chain of command rather than either top echelons of the CIA or DoD. A joint operation such as this, violating international and domestic law, would require executive branch approval. That meant, some major players in the Bush administration would be subject to prosecution.(*)
As for one of the purposes of wireless electromagnetic frequency assault torture during my early morning exercise routine was to create a consistent pattern that would rupture my desire to perform active movement in an attempt to maintain or reduce weight, manage my diabetes and cholesterol levels. This in turn, ensures the quickest onset of increasing diseases and shorten life expectancy. In short, increasing the greater likelihood of pre-mature death as well as to try and make me “more cooperative by breaking them down.” Thus, ensuring more compliance to requests or demands. The language of the wireless electromagnetic assault torture is hostile and demeaning.
What’s even more insidious is the role health professionals are playing in creating a strategic language for describing the effects of imprisonment and torture at prison sites such as Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan. Health professionals appeared to be colluding with the military to describe imprisonment as a type of “mental health treatment,” complete with group therapy sessions to treat depression. Suicide attempts from juvenile prisoners were described as “stemming from a previous condition and not the result of confinement conditions or torture program.”
The problem with these types of programs is health professionals begin to use psychological knowledge, including diagnosis and treatment, as a military tactic while presenting them as a “healing process.” Thus, the cynical misuse of diagnostic jargon with a sinister purpose embedded in the peculiarly American denial of responsibility contained in the phrase “preexisting condition.” Just like psychologists and psychiatrists on the payroll of insurance companies use this phrase to deny needed treatment, the psychologists and psychiatrists at Guantanamo were denying the effects torture had on the detainees.
The International Committee of the Red Cross acknowledged “a flagrant violation of medical ethics” by doctors and other health professionals at Guantanamo Bay. Doctors and medical personnel conveyed information about prisoners’ mental health and vulnerabilities to interrogators through a group called “Behavioral Science Consultation Team” (BSCT) or Biscuit. The fact that health professionals were willing to exploit the vulnerabilities of prisoners’ health instead of protecting them from further harm is unfathomable and unconscionable. After all these were men who took a Hippocratic Oath to “first do no harm!”
What was occurring was nothing more than INSTITUTIONAL COLLUSION. There was systemic American support that resulted in the incremental deterioration of internationally and domestic recognized standards of conduct. Standards of conduct that created a precedent for human behavior across the globe. Standards of conduct that said, “It’s okay to torture a perceived enemy.” Steven Reisner wrote, “And while I believe there is value in working “within the system,” there comes a point, where one is losing one’s voice and one’s very presence gives support to the other side, where one must confront that system.”
(*) Subnote:
Reported in a released document, CIA Inspector General’s report: In accordance with the Torture Convention, the United States criminalized acts of torture in 18 U.S.C. 2340A(a): “Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life.”
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First Do No Harm: The paradoxical encounters of psychoanalysis, warmaking and resistance (2010). Adrienne Harris and Steven Botticelli (editors). New York. Routledge. Chapter 6, “From Resistance to Resistance: A narrative of psychoanalytic activism” by Steven Reisner (pg. 107–141).
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