CIA Tech: "Laser Probe," "Incapacitation System," Remote Heart Monitor

The CIA didn't just dose people with LSD, consort with mobsters, and hire lock-pickers for Watergate burglars. Back in the day, the Agency also served as a research and development shop for all kinds of federal agencies and local police departments, the newly-released "family jewels" documents reveal.

Those projects include:

* A 1967 "laser probe" tested in "San Francisco under very closely-controlled conditions. Recordings that were made of Laser probe out put were carefully controlled as classified material and it is believed that the tapes have long since been destroyed."

* A device for "Remote Physiological Measurements." A CIA Office of Research and Development "developed XXXXXXXX is being tested at a contractor's site as a remote cardiograph XXXXXXXXXXX. Some subjects are witting, but most are on naive test subjects (they do not know they are being tested). The XXXXXXXXXX is completed harmless and the tests results are being closely held."

* A "Adhesive Restraint, Non-Lethal Incapacitation System," developed for Department of Justice and local law enforcement. "If they developed the system, it would be used for civilian crowd and riot control."

* A look, carried out at Stanford University, at the "Personality Structure of Defectors."

* "Imagery Enhancement Techniques" for the FBI.

* "Narcotics -- our foreign activities are well known in DDS&T."

* "Speech processing" for the "Post Office" and other agencies.

* Reviews of "satellite imagery from NASA programs to identify photography too 'sensitive' for public release."

But the spooks at Langley didn't agree to every federal agency cry for help they received. "About five years ago, assistance was requested [by the Alcohol and
Tobacco division of the IRS] in domestic search of "moonshine" stills using CIA infrared scanners. This request was turned down."

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