Walter Stoessel Jr.
U.S. Ambassador to Moscow exposed to the Soviet microwave Moscow Signal at the American embassy, later dying of leukemia along with two predecessors.
Walter Stoessel Jr. (1920–1986) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow from 1974 to 1976. During his tenure, he was exposed to the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union1.
In January 1976, Stoessel was briefed on the Moscow Signal and filed a formal protest with the Soviets. He minimally informed embassy personnel about their exposure to high-powered microwave beam radiation. The Los Angeles Times reported that Stoessel had told his staff that the Russians were using microwave beams to listen in on conversations and that such radiation could be harmful to their health1.
Stoessel was later reassigned to the U.S. embassy in Bonn, West Germany. He died of leukemia at the age of sixty-six in 1986. Notably, two of the three ambassadors who had served before him in Moscow and had also been subjected to the Moscow Signal also died of cancer: Charles Bohlen (died 1974, age sixty-nine) and Llewellyn Thomas (died 1972, age sixty-seven)1.
Sources
- Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩
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