To the Bearden Group, copied colleagues.
                 HARNESSING OF ENERGY
I have read your thoughts about weapons harnessing of electromagnetic
energy. In respect of defence mechanisms I refer you to an obscure but
important volume about Grindell Mathews, a biography published in the
early forties by Hutchinson of London. This was shown to me recently by a
neighbour, Mr John James, to whom I am copying this message.
This book (which you may trace through Hutchinson or the British copyright
Libraries through library loan) shows that Mathews did indeed fabricate an
electromagnetic device (he called it a Q ray, I think) that was capable of
upsetting and stopping the electrical mechanisms of motors of aircraft and
vehicles at intermediate to long range. This was the ultimate development
of the famous "death ray". It appears to me from the little that this book
describes, technically, that the device needed very high input voltage,
and was effectively a lightning generating machine of the type now
developed highly around the world, but somehow focused into a controllable
beam.
It was not of course a LASER or MASER.
Mathews had no formal education at a University but was the inventor of
radio (wireless) and the sound track on talkies. These devices were
certainly genuine and were demonstrated, for example, to Prince Edward and
George, Duke of York; later King Edward VIII and King George VI. Mathews
frequently demonstrated his devices to the British Military (Army, Navy,
Airforce), but was cold shouldered due to bureaucratic inertia, arrogance,
and incompetence. For example he apparently had an electromagnetic device
that could detect U Boats at a range of over ten miles. He demonstrated
this near Swansea where the wrecks of ships sunk by U boats were then
prevalent. This is all according to this albeit untechnical biography. If
this were true then I wonder why the short range sonar used by the
corvettes and destroyers of the British Navy in the desperate struggle
against the U boats were not replaced or augmented by this long range anti
submarine device. Such speculation is however idle. No doubt it has been
investigated thoroughly by now. Or, maybe not.
He moved to a laboratory above this village in about 1935, and died in
about 1941. I was informed by handwritten letter by Prof. Emeritus R. V.
Jones, FRS, Director of Intelligence, Joint Chiefs of Staff of the second
Churchill Government, Professor and Head of Physics at Aberdeen
University, and a Director of GEC, that Mathews was "a crank", but this is
certainly NOT true. I am not sure why Jones took this line, but Mathews
was certainly very unpopular with the British Military establishment
towards the end of his life. Perhaps there are still official secrets that
the MI5 and MI6 wish not to divulge about Mathews, even now. I doubt it
though. The thirty year rule and official secrets act does not apply any
longer of course, since these events took place more than thirty years
ago.
(The Laboratory, still there today as a private residence, was called "Tor
Cloud" which is a corruption of the Welsh "Tor Glawdd", the outer defences
of the Lord of Gower (Arglwydd Gwyr) against the Anglo Saxons and Irish.
These defences were successful.)
Therefore I feel that your work along these lines is important, especially
if the former (?) KGB made working devices as you claim. Apparently, it is
well known to the population in the US that the major threat now is drug
infiltration, together with long range ballistic missiles being
constructed in countries such as North Korea, Libya, China, Iran, Iraq.
These missiles have a range within which lies Denver, Colorado, for
example, so they are a very REAL threat. It is known publicly that Poland,
for example, was still selling T51 tanks to Iran circa 1996 - very
disappointing in an otherwise quite progressive nation. It is known
publicly that the anti missile missile defences in the war with Iraq were
NOT, repeat NOT successful in intercepting crude scuds used by Saddam and
aimed at Tel Aviv and Riyadh.
This is all public information by now. Electromagnetic beams on satellites
can intercept the missiles at the top of their trajectory, their slow
point, as is again well known to the informed general public. This is
where devices such as the ones you may have in mind come into action. I
assume that the various US weapons laboratories should know about your
ideas in this context and that you have approached them. I am a permanent
resident of the US, but still feel that this type of thing is not really
my business. Obviously it should be kept as completely secret as possible.
I am too young to remember the second war in Europe, but I do know that
the US Second Infantry Division and 101st Airbourne Division trained on
the same piece of mountain as Mathews' lab is located. My grandfather
entertained four soldiers in this house. None returned alive from the
Arnhem Glider landings. So I realize the IMMENSE debt of gratitude that
the whole of Europe must feel, even fifty years later, for that generation
of US soldiers. This includes the majority of German people who were
forced to support Hitler. I have come around to the view that long sighted
defence is always necessary. Presumably the Lord of Gower did the same
more than 1,500 years ago. For obvious reasons sensitive information about
these devices of yours cannot be divulged at all.
In contrast, medical applications can I think be talked about openly,
unless this is prohibited by medical protocol.
These are of course, only my PERSONAL points of view. I am certainly not
connected with MI5 or MI6 over here - as a democratic republican they have
probably an eye on me. A joke, hopefully.
MWE
cc colleagues and website.