Classified: how the CIA blocked research showing EMF health hazards
Major research that proved radio waves, a form of electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation, could penetrate the skin, change biological processes and affect organs was kept classified by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for up to 50 years.
Throughout the 1970s, scientists in the US and in the former Communist USSR were investigating the harmful effects of radiation, which, at the time, was mainly being generated by radio and TV broadcasting, but which would shortly be harnessed by mobile devices and Wi-Fi technologies.
Most of the research evaluated the impact of the radiation on laboratory animals, and few of the studies, if any, were able to include people. Critics have argued that results on animals cannot be extrapolated to humans, whose
