CAPITAL REGION;
11/12/1999
Albany UAlbany mum on why professor, whose study of mind control was shut
down last spring, has left. A University at Albany professor whose research on government mind control
was shut down last spring is now on paid leave, university officials said
Thursday.
But citing confidentiality concerns, they would not say if psychology
professor Kathryn Kelley was suspended by the university or took the leave
voluntarily. University spokeswoman Mary Fiess also declined to divulge the
reason for the absence, which began Monday.
The UAlbany's Institutional Review Board had previously closed a research
project of Kelley's after a student complained about not being able to leave
a lecture that was part of her experiment. Federal guidelines strictly
prohibit researchers from forcing subjects to engage in their work.
The project, according to a 16-page outline Kelley provided the board, was
aimed at exploring the uses of technology for "monitoring and control." In
subsequent papers and talks at conferences, Kelley, a professor at the
university since 1979, examined the claims of those who said they were
implanted with devices that could read their thoughts.
At a summer conference in Orlando, Fla., she described how a subject under
anesthesia could be implanted with a device called a "RAAT," short for radio
wave, auditory, assaultive, transmitting implants.
"When (short wave) operators transmit to or scan RAAT implants in victims,
they can talk to victims remotely and anonymously, and hear the victim's
speech and thoughts," Kelley wrote.
On another occasion, she said that the Department of Defense and the National
Security Agency funded implant technology aimed at "federal prisoners and
political dissidents."
Kelley declined to comment Thursday.
Implant researcher goes on paid leave
ANDREW BROWNSTEIN Staff writer
Times Union Albany, NY
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