Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is a biomedical research laboratory of the U.S. Army. It was involved in classified research related to the Moscow Signal and Project Pandora during the Cold War¹.

An elaborate facility was constructed inside WRAIR, specifically at its Forest Glen Section, where scientists from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory irradiated primates with microwave beams. This research aimed to duplicate the effects of the Moscow Signal, an electromagnetic weapon believed to be aimed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union¹.

Richard S. Cesaro of DARPA, who was in charge of Project Pandora, became convinced that these microwave beams adversely affected the internal organs of primates, including the brain, and could lead to conditions like Alzheimer's Disease¹.

Later, in the 1990s, David Morehouse was transferred to the psychiatric ward at Womack Army Hospital at Fort Bragg, after a period at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for psychiatric evaluation. The Walter Reed Army Medical Center Sanity Board concluded that Morehouse did not have a severe mental disease or defect, but rather major depression and alcohol abuse¹.