In 1999 the STOA (Scientific and Technological Options Assessment), part of the Directorate General for Research of the European Parliament published a report on Crowd Control Technologies. In the report, it discusses radio frequency weapons that manipulate human beings. It states that:
”This report evaluates the second generation of ‘non-lethal’ weapons which are emerging from national military and nuclear weapons laboratories in the United States as part of the Clinton Administration’s ‘non-lethal’ warfare doctrine now adopted in turn by NATO. These devices include weapons using… directed energy beam,…radio frequency, laser and acoustic mechanisms to incapacitate human targets” The report states that „the most controversial ‚non-lethal‘ crowd control … technology proposed by the U.S., are so called Radio Frequency or Directed Energy Weapons that can allegedly manipulate human behavior… the greatest concern is with systems which can directly interact with the human nervous system“ The report also states that „perhaps the most powerful developments remain shrouded in secrecy“
