"Confidential, 'Limited Distribution Only,' Level 9 Communication."

The following is a confidential document alleged to have been written in October of 1995 and circulated inside the "IBM Corporation":

"The control of crime will be of paramount concern in the '21st Century'. We must be ready with our 'security products' when the demand for them becomes popular. Our Research and Development of Corrections, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to run limited trials of the Neural Chip Implant. "We have established representatives of our interests in both management and institutional-level positions with these departments.

"Federal regulations do not permit testing of implants on prisoners, but we have entered into contractual agreements with privatized health care professionals and specified correctional personnel to do limited testing of our products. We also have had major successes, in privately-owned sanitariums, with implant technology. 

"We need, however, to expand our testing to research how effective the 20/20 Neural Chip Implant performs in those people identified as most aggressive in our society. Limited testing has produced a number of results. In California, several prisoners were identified as members of the 'security threat group', E.M.E., or Mexican Mafia. They were brought to the Health Services Unit at Pelican Bay and tranquilized with advanced sedatives developed by our Cambridge, Massachusetts Laboratory.

"The implant procedure takes 60 to 90 minutes, depending upon the experience of the technician. We are working on a device which will reduce that time by as much as sixty percent. The results of implants on eight prisoners yielded the following results: 

Implants served as surveillance monitoring devices for 'threat group' activity. Implants disabled two subjects during an assault on correctional staff members. Universal side effects in all eight test subjects revealed that when the implant was set to [a frequency of] 116 megahertz, all subjects became lethargic and slept on an average of 18 to 22 hours per day. All subjects refused recreation periods for fourteen days during the 116 megahertz test evaluation. Seven out of the eight subjects did not exercise inside the cell or outside of the cell, and five of the eight subjects refused showers for up to three days at a time.

"Each subject was monitored for aggressive activity during the test period, and findings are conclusive that seven out of the eight test subjects exhibited no aggression, even when provoked. Each test subject experienced only minor bleeding from the nose and ears 48 hours after the initial implant adjustment. Each subject had no knowledge of his implant for the test period, and each implant was retrieved under the guise of 'medical treatment'.

"Essentially, these implants make the unsuspecting prisoner a walking, talking recording of every event that he comes into contact with. 

"In Massachusetts, the Department of Corrections has already entered into high-level discussions about releasing certain offenders, with the 20/20 Neural Chip Implant, into the community. Our people are not altogether against the idea. However, attorneys at the Inteli-Connection have advised against implant technology outside of strict control settings. Under the present governmental structure, our liability would be enormous. 

"We have a strong lobby in the Congress and in various state legislatures favoring our product. We will continue to explore community uses of the 20/20 Neural Chip Implant, and our company representatives would be attached to all law enforcement operations, with an 'extraction crew' that could be on-site in two hours, from anywhere, at anytime."

Today, implants can be done by an ordinary injection.