Date

Apr 1, 1979

Description

Following the scandal of the Moscow Signal, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation conducts a lengthy review of the documentation on the PANDORA/BIZARRE projects and of various official investigations in an effort to determine the health and safety effects on U.S. personnel who served at the Embassy. This staff report criticizes the official secrecy that kept U.S. personnel in the dark about the ongoing radiation: “Embassy employees were not informed by the State Department of the presence of this radiation throughout the period from its initial discovery until early 1976,” the report notes. “The employees should have been promptly informed of the situation.” At the same time, the report concludes that as of 1979 the medical survey studies on U.S. personnel showed no discernible evidence of impact on health from exposure to the low-level radiation beams. “No convincing evidence was discovered that could directly implicate the exposure to microwave radiation experienced by the employees at the Moscow Embassy in the causation of any adverse health effects as of the time of this analysis,” the Senate inquiry concluded, with the caveat that “it is too early to have been able to detect long-term mortality effects” among hundreds of U.S. personnel exposed to radiation waves between 1953 and 1977.

Source

U.S. Senate Committee Print

Document published in following posting(s):

The Moscow Signals Declassified
Microwave Mysteries: Projects PANDORA and BIZARRE

Sep 13, 2022

U.S. Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Report, “Microwave Irradiation of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (Review of its History and Studies to Determine Whether or Not Related Health Defects were Experienced by Employees Assigned in the Period 1953-1977)”