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the hall. Nobody was ever allowed in that room, not even a fatima. Of course,
there are many technical elaborations like long-range directional mikes.
When cutting the prayer call in with hog grunts it doesn't pay to be walking
around the market place with a portable tape recorder.

An article in NEW SCIENTIST June 4, 1970, page 470, entitled ' Electronic
Arts of Noncommunication ' by Richard C French gives the clue for more
precise technical instructions.

In 1968, with the help of Ian Sommerville and Anthony Balch, I took a
short passage of my recorded voice and cut it into intervals of one
twenty - fourth of a second movie tape (movie tape is larger and easier to
splice)- and rearranged the order of the 24th second intervals of recorded
speech. The original words are quite unintelligible but new words emerge.
The voice is still there and you can immediately recognise the speaker. Also
the tone of the voice remains. If the tone is friendly, hostile, sexual,
poetic, sarcastic lifeless, despairing, this will be apparent in the altered
sequence.


I did not realise at the time that I was using a technique that has been in
existence since 1881 ...I quote from Mr. French's article ... "designs for
speech scramblers go back to 1881 and the desire to make telephone and radio
communications unintelligible to third parties has been with us ever
since"... The message is scrambled in transmission and then unscrambled at
the other end. There are many of these speech scrambling devices that work on
different principles... "another device which saw service during the war was
the time division scrambler. The signal was chopped up into elements .005 cm
long. These elements are taken in groups or frames and rearranged in a new
sequence. Imagine that the speech recorded is recorded on magnetic tape which
is cut into pieces .02 long and the pieces rearranged into a new sequence.
This can actually be done and gives a good idea what speech sounds like
when scrambled in this way."

This I had done in 1968. And this is an extension of the cut/up method. The
simplest cut/up cuts a page down the middle and across the middle into four
sections. Section 1 is then placed with section 4 and section 3 with section
2 in a new sequence. Carried further we can break the page down into smaller
and smaller units in altered sequences.

The original purpose of scrambling devices was to make the message
unintelligible without scrambling the code. Another use for speech scramblers
could be to impose thought control on a mass scale. consider the Human body
and nervous system as unscrambling devices. A common virus like the cold sore
could sensitize the subject to unscramble messages. Drugs like LSD and Dim-N
could also act as unscrambling devices. Moreover, the mass media could
sensitize millions of people to receive scrambled versions of the same set of
data. Remember that when the human nervous system unscrambles a scrambled
message this will seem to the subject like his very own ideas which just
occurred to him, which indeed it did.