I am forced to lie on my bunk and stare at the wall like a zombie. - Idon't see how this treatment can possibly be construed as anything other thantorture."

But David Fratus and a good many of the inmates at Utah State prison arecommitted to disclose the torture which they are subjected to, and in order toexpose this to the world they have taken preliminary legal proceedings and wehave in our possession about a hundred documents from these people whodescribe in chilling detail the scale of the torture conducted by thesetechnological Count Draculas as the bodies and minds of defenseless victimsare impaled on the altar of inhumanity.

This is an x-ray of .Dr N Tumba who lives in London. Just what happened to himhe describes himself in a letter to us: "Concerning the braintransmitter in my head, it has been performing without my knowledge orconsent... The most outrageous thing is that I am sharing all my vision,thoughts, images, hearings...etc with people around me as the securityservices are engaging a large scale propaganda drive to smear my character,background, behaviour, emotions and motives... I have no privacy at all. ..Iam not a spy, I am not a criminal, I am not a terrorist. Being an innocentvictim of M15... my persecution started in June 1988."

In the book, 'Manniska och teknik i framtidssam hallet' (People and Technologyin the Future Society) published 20 years ago by researchers Eskil Block, PerShearslrom and Per Block, it was written that through electronic communicationthere was a much improved opportunity to understand the central nervous systemand sensory organs.

"Out of this body of knowledge developed a more abstract and generalscience - cybernetics - the study of communication and control... The improvedpowers to influence and change people is a part of the on-going culturaldevelopments" and they ask the question, "Do we want individuals or entiresocial classes to be drastically reformed according to the demands thatsociety makes?"

The former Lieutenant Colonel in the Taiwan National Defence Department, AlanYu, recently made a public disclosure about what he had found out during hisemployment. In his work he had to check military expenditure of classifiednature and he could see that during 1984, the Taiwanese military police hadpurchased a "thoughts detecting machine" from the USA. Also containedin the document was a service and repair agreement from the American firm.Taiwan changed the name of the machine to a "Psychological LanguageMachine," Alan Yu explains that before he left Taiwan, the machinehad become the most effective piece of equipment for the security departmentssuch as the Headquarters of the police Department, the military police, andThe National Security and Investigation Department of Taiwan.

In his book, "Manipulation med manniskan" (Manipulation of Man) (1972), Tom Selander MA says: "Manipulation has become a buzz-word in social debate. Bythis is meant a covert control of people which is in conflict with their owninterests. It is said that voters are manipulated by politicians, or thatconsumers are manipulated by advertising. It is not that kind of manipulationwe will discuss in this book. Instead, I shall highlight a manipulationof another kind, which is hardly mentioned in the debate, but which I think isfar more dangerous. It is the secret control of people as a consequence oftechnological and biological developments. It seems as if powers which arebeyond human control are playing a grim game with us. The computers arethreatening to fall into the hands of an elite who will use them to increasetheir powers at the expense of the masses..." Professor Erik Anners of theUniversity of Stockholm, argues that we have such primitive social andpolitical decision-making bodies, that the individual and humanity as a wholeare being threatened by our technological civilisation. Professor Torgny Segerstedt of Uppsala University believes that humanity's right to privacy isthreatened by our being linked up with computers which know everything thereis to know about us.