The Japanese invented a stunt later used by the Cong, in which an old-fashioned glass thermometer was inserted catheter-style into a male prisoner's penis, then pulverized. After that, an all-liquid diet usually got whatever the interrogators wanted.

It was either the Japanese or the Germans who played around with strobe lights (now piezo lighting) to disorient a prisoner. That and subsonic sounds blasted at fierce intensities. Nowadays they seldom leave a mark, but even old-style flatfoots knew if you had to give a bruise-free kind of beating, you always bashed the nightstick against a phone book. No visuals for the jury.

I think the LAPD or someother big police force is testing sound-cannons for crowd control. Stun someone at fifty paces, that kind of stuff. But if you do it with subsonics and subliminal messaging and broadcast it loud enough in a town where your target is located---maybe his own supporters will kill him and you never had to send any troops to do it.

Modern science really picked up after they developed good night-sights and laser sighting. But now we can wage propaganda wars on people who aren't even awake....

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