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+aliases:
+  - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
+  - WRAIR
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Military
+  - Research Institution
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+# Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
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+The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is a biomedical research laboratory of the [[U.S. Army]]. It was involved in classified research related to the [[Moscow Signal]] and [[Project Pandora]] during the [[Cold War]][^1].
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+An elaborate facility was constructed inside WRAIR, specifically at its Forest Glen Section, where scientists from [[Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory]] irradiated primates with microwave beams. This research aimed to duplicate the effects of the Moscow Signal, an [[Electromagnetic Weapons|electromagnetic weapon]] believed to be aimed at the [[U.S. Embassy in Moscow]] by the [[Soviet Union]][^1].
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+[[Richard S. Cesaro]] of [[ARPA]], who was in charge of Project Pandora, became convinced that these microwave beams adversely affected the internal organs of primates, including the brain, and could lead to conditions like [[Alzheimer's Disease]][^1].
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+Later, in the 1990s, [[David Morehouse]] was transferred to the psychiatric ward at Womack Army Hospital at Fort Bragg, after a period at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for psychiatric evaluation. The Walter Reed Army Medical Center Sanity Board concluded that Morehouse did not have a severe mental disease or defect, but rather major depression and alcohol abuse[^1].
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+## Footnotes
+[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.