Strange Virginia Tech "Coincidences"

As "News Commentary" on the Truthseeker website notes, Virginia Tech is an "active partner" with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In addition, the CIA actively recruits VT students, holding events the spook agency bills as "career information" sessions.

"News Commentary" claims "Blacksburg, VA houses a US government ABOVE TOP SECRET underground laboratory (in the side of a local Blacksburg mountain) that develops in conjunction with DARPA, weapons such as human robotic mind control programming." A Google search, however, turns up no mention of mind control experiments, of course, but there is plenty of reference to the " Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory ... 7,000 feet under Butt Mountain" in Blacksburg.

Part of the AMADEUS Project (Advanced MAnipulation for DEep Underwater Sampling), funded by the European Commission (i.e., the executive body of the one-world European Union), the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, according to The Pit Bulletin (the newsletter of the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), is designed for "military needs, ranging from unique designs for underground sporting arenas to storing various types of waste materials.... the AMADEUS team feel that the expanding world population is creating a demand for additional types of underground construction." As well, an "expanding world population" may call for the development of "perfect weapons" long sought by DARPA and the Pentagon, including avian influenza H5N1, an area of research at VT, according to Virginia Tech News (a Google reference points to a page that currently produces an SQL error). "If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels," Prince Phillip .

Finally, a resume posted on the VT Computer Science Department website by Robert G. Ball notes grants awarded to the university by ARDA/DTO, short for Advanced Research and Development Activity, Disruptive Technology Office. "ARDA was created in 1998 after the model of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) by the Director of Central Intelligence and the Department of Defense, and took responsibility for funding some of DARPA's projects," explains Wikipedia . "There has been speculation that the DTO is continuing research efforts started under the Total Information Awareness program (TIA) in DARPA's Information Awareness Office (IAO).... Although ARDA's budget is presumably classified as part of the intelligence budget, the New York Times quoted an unnamed former government official saying the agency spent about $100 million a year in 2003. The Associated Press reports that ARDA had a staff of only eight in 2004." Early last year, I reported that DTO was to be run by John Negroponte (see my TIA "Disruptive Technology" Subverting Bill of Rights ).

Of course, all of this secret and not so secret activity on the Virginia Tech campus and environs is not definitive evidence Cho Seung-Hui was a government produced mind-control assassin. However, it does indicate VT serves as a hub for experimental and prototype DoD technologies.

It is no secret the Pentagon has had a keen interest in electromagnetic weapons for some time. "Electronic mind-control research is not new," CNN reported in 1985. "A scientific milestone in this area came in the 1960s when Dr. Jose Delgado demonstrated remote control over a charging bull." Military affairs specialist Chuck DeCaro told CNN: a "scientist, who did not want his identity revealed ... employed by the U.S. Government ... has done secret RF weapons research. He believes that tests done with the [Soviet developed] Lida and similar machines prove that humans are susceptible to remote alterations of mood and awareness.... Certain kinds of weak electromagnetic signals work exactly like drugs, and so the promise is that anything you can do with drugs you could do with the right electromagnetic signal." Dr. Robert Becker, a pioneer in the field of bioeffects of electromagnetism, added: "As far as I'm concerned, the potential that this has for producing a direct psychoactive effect upon the total American population is there, has never been disproven."

The late professor Dr. Gerhard Beyer of Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Virginia Tech broke a significant part of the "magnetic code," and no doubt this was of interest to DARPA and the Pentagon.