HAARP -- Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Nick Begich and the Book
HAARP -- Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Nick Begich and the Book
[edit | edit source]Nick Begich: Biography
[edit | edit source]| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Nicholas J. Begich Jr. |
| Family | Son of Nick Begich Sr., who served as an Alaska state senator and U.S. representative (disappeared in a 1972 plane crash); brother of Mark Begich, former U.S. senator from Alaska |
| Background | Grew up in a political family with strong Alaska connections; pursued research into alternative health, political science, and technology; author and public speaker |
| HAARP involvement | Primary popular critic of HAARP; authored the foundational conspiracy literature on the program |
| Key publication | "Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology" (co-authored with Jeane Manning; 1995) |
| Primary concern | That HAARP represents an unprecedented and dangerous environmental manipulation technology being developed without public awareness or consent |
| Stated position | "It's not that I think it needs to be shut down. It needs to be monitored more closely and scrutinized. The government hasn't been up-front about the nature of these programs." |
The Book: "Angels Don't Play This HAARP" (1995)
[edit | edit source]Published in 1995, the book co-authored by Nick Begich and journalist Jeane Manning became the primary reference text for HAARP conspiracy theories. The book:
- Drew on declassified government documents and patent filings, particularly the Eastlund patent (4,686,605)
- Traced the conceptual lineage from Tesla's teleforce claims through the Eastlund patent to HAARP's design
- Argued that HAARP had undisclosed capabilities including weather modification, earthquake triggering, and potential mind influence through ELF wave generation
- Documented the European Parliament's concerns about HAARP
- Presented excerpts from the HAARP program documents acknowledging ionospheric-seismic correlations
- Called for independent international oversight of the program
The book's subtitle -- "Advances in Tesla Technology" -- signals its central argument: HAARP is the realized heir of Tesla's unrealized vision, built by the military precisely because Tesla's ideas were more than theory.
What the Book Got Right
[edit | edit source]Several of the book's specific factual claims are verifiable and accurate:
- The Eastlund patent is real and its claimed capabilities are as described in the book
- The HAARP program documents do reference ionospheric-seismic correlations
- The European Parliament did express formal concern about HAARP
- The military did fund HAARP through three agencies for 22 years
- Raytheon did acquire the Eastlund patents through its purchase of APTI
- The frequency overlap between HAARP's ELF output and brain wave ranges is real
What the Book Got Wrong or Overstated
[edit | edit source]Equally, the book's extrapolations from these facts to specific operational capabilities have been disputed:
- The physical power levels achievable by the built HAARP facility are insufficient to produce the large-scale weather, seismic, and ionospheric modifications the book suggests
- The connection between Eastlund's patent and what the built facility can actually do is more tenuous than the book implies
- The book treats potential capabilities described in a patent as achieved capabilities of the operating system
The Book's Legacy
[edit | edit source]"Angels Don't Play This HAARP" established the framework within which HAARP conspiracy theories have operated for three decades. Its specific claims -- the Tesla lineage, the Eastlund patent, the weather modification possibility, the ELF brain frequency overlap, the European Parliament resolution -- have been repeated, amplified, and extended by virtually every subsequent writer on the subject. Whether one accepts or rejects the book's conclusions, it remains the primary source document for understanding the HAARP conspiracy theory tradition.
