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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1979 Page 5 Consolidated goes north to replace superintendent ithstof r ofintenj st eacho of any H,| Workmen last week took advantage of sun- >rts that! Making road while the sun shines shine and absence of students to re-asphalt Lubbock Street in front of the quad. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Nonlethal weapons studied oilier raj CIA explodes cadavers rterly ' nternati m the s and I 1 agreem* itributioJ 'eak punil Yell, noil n? > will peiJ uil attentl :o remaiol t feature! hat calls I provide! There is! :hey hadl irface-to-l an airlinei isformenl n CalifoiJ es. nal terrorl ir those ii ;how duiil rersons a 11. 8; 1978,1 19. 102. Vs: I cs that, I Indeed,* s of intern! at’s upol )UP isa Dininij ■ the Inc8| sement) United Press International WASHINGTON — As recently as 1970, enterprising souls at the CIA set out to develop an assort ment of nonlethal super-weapons to conk, flash and shock enemy agents into line. In the line of work, they sub- jectjed a few cadavers to explosions, considered blinding a cage or two of mopkeys and even designed a human butterfly net. That’s the story revealed Sunday in ■CIA documents made public through a Freedom of Information Actj request by American Citizens for} Honesty in Government, a group sponsored by the Church of Scientology. A Dec. 31, 1970, memo talks about using “the principle of con trolled electroshock” to provide the apparently long-awaited “solution to the personnel incapacitation prob lem Brahe matter-of-fact note quoted an investigator as saying an electric net that sends five shocks a second into the arms of an enemy agent ought to incapacitate, but not kill, healthy subjects. ESuch a result seems reasonable, but it would be nice to see the re port of this experimental proce dure,” the memo said. L The note called for “extensive field test results of the system” de spite the danger of fatal heart attacks in ‘electrically sensitive” subjects. And then there’s an undated, barely legible memo suggesting de velopment of a “flash blindness in capacitation” device to create “dis orientation, confusion and impaired vision.” The note — using bureacratic, polysyllabic euphemisms — pro posed “sophisticated primate studies” to discover “the functional damage threshold” of the blindness device. It failed to mention whether ani mal tests ever took place, but a se ries of vaguely worded directives re leased under the same Freedom of Information request told of the allo cation of CIA funds for unidentified experimental programs. The memo said the goal of the ex periments was to develop a weapon such as an air gun, explosive pad or blackjack “to induce brain concus sion without giving either advance warning or causing external physical trauma. ” The Church of Scientology, a con troversial religion that began in 1950 as a radical approach to mental health, has been publicizing sensi tive government documents as part of a running battle with the Justice Department. A/hens yOU it-formin ew I ARE YOU THICK AND TIRED OF IT? Soon it’s going to be the time of year when every extra inch shows. ISOS Total Fitness Center can help you find out how easy it is to be physically fit. Frankly, we’re easily the best buy in fitness today. ISOS Total Fitness Center is based on Isokinetic exercise to provide muscular and cardiovascular fitness for men and women of all ages. The equipment utilized in this center has and is being used by NASA for fitness aboard the Skylab and Space Shuttle Programs. 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His most recent work has been in Richfield. He was hired in 1968, and was appointed superintendent of that district in 1976. He is expected to visit the Bryan-College Station area within a week, Peggy Crittenden, Consoli dated public information officer, said. He also visited the area in late February before the job was of fered. He commented favorably upon the body that eventually hired him. “It will be a privilege to join a board of trustees whose principal focus is the development of a per sonalized education program for each student,” he said. Anderson has a wife, Carol, and four children. During a Monday night phone call, Mrs. Anderson said her hus band looked forward to the new job. He was attending a school board meeting of his own at the time. She said they stayed on the Texas A&M University campus late Feb ruary. “It was very, very welcome to see people without coats, ” she said. Up in Richfield, near Min neapolis, she said there is still a foot _of snow on the ground. 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