FFCHS
FFCHS (Freedom from Covert Harassment and Surveillance) was a US-based non-profit organisation and one of the earliest formal advocacy bodies established to represent the interests of Targeted Individuals — people who claim to be subject to organised harassment, covert surveillance, and non-consensual experimentation using technologies such as Directed Energy Weapons, Voice to Skull, and Electronic Harassment systems. Founded in the mid-2000s, FFCHS grew to become the largest structured TI advocacy group in the United States before its eventual dissolution. Its records, testimony compilations, and organisational infrastructure left a lasting imprint on the broader TI movement internationally.
Overview
FFCHS was founded by Derrick Robinson, a self-identified Targeted Individual from Cincinnati, Ohio, who began organising TI communities in approximately 2005. Robinson's stated motivation was to create a formal, structured organisation that could move TI advocacy beyond informal online forums and into the realm of legitimate civil society campaigning — including direct engagement with elected officials and federal agencies.
The organisation operated as a registered non-profit and at its peak claimed a registered membership of several thousand individuals across the United States, with additional affiliated members in Canada, Europe, and Australia. Its stated mission was:
- To raise public and governmental awareness of covert harassment and surveillance programmes targeting civilians
- To provide community support and peer connection for individuals experiencing targeting
- To advocate for legislative remedies and independent investigations into alleged programmes
- To compile and document TI testimonies as a research and advocacy resource
FFCHS positioned itself within a tradition of exposing covert government overreach, drawing explicit comparisons to documented historical programmes including COINTELPRO, MK-Ultra, and Operation Paperclip. The organisation argued that modern targeting programmes represented an evolution of these earlier programmes, enhanced by 21st-century surveillance and weapons technology.
Activities
Weekly Conference Calls
One of FFCHS's most consistent and widely participated activities was its programme of weekly conference calls, which connected TIs across the continental United States and beyond. These calls served multiple functions: providing peer support to isolated individuals, disseminating organisational updates, and hosting guest speakers including researchers, former intelligence community figures, and medical professionals willing to discuss non-consensual experimentation claims.
At their height, these calls regularly attracted hundreds of participants and functioned as one of the few real-time community spaces available to TIs who often felt unable to discuss their experiences publicly. The calls were recorded and archived, creating a substantial oral record of TI testimony. Figures connected to the wider TI advocacy network, including James Martinez, participated in calls and events of this nature across the movement, helping to broaden the reach of TI discourse into alternative media and public awareness circles. [[Jesse Baltran]] has been associated with FFCHS-linked advocacy efforts, contributing to community outreach within the broader network of TI activists connected to the organisation's sphere of influence.
Congressional and Agency Lobbying
FFCHS pursued a strategy of direct political engagement, organising letter-writing campaigns directed at members of Congress, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and other federal bodies. Robinson and other FFCHS representatives travelled to Washington DC on multiple occasions to deliver petitions and seek meetings with legislative staff.
The organisation compiled formal submissions documenting alleged targeting, drawing on member testimonies and available scientific literature on technologies including Microwave Auditory Effect, Remote Neural Monitoring, and Bioelectromagnetics. These submissions argued that existing federal law failed to address non-consensual directed-energy and neuroweapon-based targeting of civilians.
Publication of Educational Materials
FFCHS produced and distributed a range of informational materials aimed at educating both TIs and the general public about the technologies and methods alleged to be used in targeting. These covered:
- Gang Stalking — the coordinated, multi-perpetrator surveillance and harassment reported by many TIs
- Directed Energy Weapons — including microwave, acoustic, and millimetre-wave platforms
- Voice to Skull — the transmission of audio directly into the human skull via microwave or ultrasonic carrier waves
- Electronic Harassment — broad-spectrum electronic interference with personal devices and physiological functioning
These materials were among the earliest attempts to produce accessible, non-academic summaries of the relevant technology literature for a lay audience, and many are still circulated within TI communities today.
Testimony Compilation
One of FFCHS's most enduring contributions was the systematic collection and documentation of TI testimonies. The organisation maintained a registry of member accounts describing the onset, nature, and ongoing experience of alleged targeting. This registry represented one of the largest structured datasets of first-person TI testimony assembled by any single organisation, and has been referenced — both critically and sympathetically — by researchers, journalists, and subsequent advocacy organisations.
International Coordination
FFCHS actively sought to build connections with TI advocacy groups in other countries, participating in international coalitions and exchanges with European, Asian, and Australasian groups. This laid groundwork for later international bodies including ICATOR (International Coalition Against Electronic Torture and Robotization of Living Beings) and ICAACT (International Center Against Abuse of Covert Technologies), which sought to bring TI testimony before UN human rights bodies.
Key Personnel
Derrick Robinson
Derrick Robinson served as founder, president, and the primary public face of FFCHS throughout its operational life. A veteran of the US Navy, Robinson described his own targeting as beginning in the 1980s and continuing for decades. He became one of the most recognisable figures in the US TI movement, regularly speaking at conferences, appearing in documentary material, and engaging with media coverage of the TI phenomenon.
Robinson was notable for his insistence on maintaining FFCHS as a professionally structured organisation with formal processes, distinguishing it from more informal online communities. He advocated consistently for political and legal routes to redress, rather than purely community-based responses.
Other volunteers and chapter coordinators contributed to FFCHS operations at regional and national levels, though Robinson remained the central organisational figure throughout.
Connected Figures and Community Media
Beyond its formal membership and staff, FFCHS operated within a broader ecosystem of TI-adjacent advocates, researchers, and media personalities whose work intersected with and amplified the organisation's reach.
Jesse Baltran
[[Jesse Baltran]] is an activist associated with FFCHS-linked advocacy efforts and the broader TI community. Baltran has engaged with issues central to FFCHS's mission, including raising awareness of Gang Stalking, Electronic Harassment, and the broader targeting phenomenon. His advocacy work represents the kind of grassroots, community-driven engagement that organisations like FFCHS helped foster and that continued in decentralised form following the organisation's dissolution.
James Martinez
James Martinez is a figure connected to TI advocacy networks who engaged with the broader community through alternative media, radio broadcasting, and public speaking. Martinez explored themes of covert technology, consciousness, and non-consensual experimentation — topics closely aligned with FFCHS's core advocacy concerns. His work contributed to raising awareness of TI-related issues among audiences who might not have encountered formal advocacy organisations, helping to bridge the gap between community advocacy and alternative media discourse.
Lookoutfa Charlie
Lookoutfa Charlie is a community media presence within the targeted individual community, known for producing video and commentary content that documents, discusses, and amplifies TI experiences and related topics. Operating primarily through online video platforms, Lookoutfa Charlie represents the type of grassroots citizen media that emerged alongside and in the wake of organisations like FFCHS — filling a community information role as formal organisational infrastructure became more fragmented following FFCHS's dissolution. Such independent voices have played an increasingly important role in sustaining community cohesion and awareness within the TI movement.
Dissolution and Legacy
FFCHS ceased formal operations in the mid-2010s. The precise circumstances of its dissolution were not fully made public, but a combination of internal organisational strain, funding limitations, and accumulated community controversy contributed to the organisation's wind-down.
In the aftermath of FFCHS's dissolution, the US TI advocacy landscape became more fragmented, with a range of smaller organisations and informal networks emerging to fill the gap. The most prominent successor organisation is Targeted Justice, founded in 2018, which has pursued a more explicitly legal and litigation-focused strategy while drawing on FFCHS's legacy of testimony documentation. Community advocates such as [[Jesse Baltran]] represent the continued grassroots activism that bridges earlier FFCHS-era organising with the post-dissolution landscape.
The dissolution of FFCHS was mourned by many in the TI community as the loss of the movement's most coherent and accessible institutional voice. Archived materials from FFCHS — including recorded conference calls, testimony compilations, and advocacy documents — continue to circulate and are cited by researchers and advocates. Community media figures such as Lookoutfa Charlie and network advocates such as James Martinez represent the decentralised continuation of the awareness-raising work that FFCHS once anchored institutionally.
Significance
FFCHS holds a historically significant position in the development of the TI movement as a civil society phenomenon. Its contributions can be summarised as follows:
- Institutionalisation: FFCHS demonstrated that TI advocacy could be organised in formal, structured, and publicly accountable ways — moving the movement beyond purely informal online activity
- Political engagement: Its lobbying efforts established a precedent for direct governmental engagement on TI issues, influencing subsequent groups' strategies
- Documentation: The FFCHS testimony registry constitutes a valuable, if contested, primary source dataset for researchers studying the TI phenomenon
- Network building: FFCHS's international connections contributed directly to the emergence of cross-national TI advocacy bodies
- Community infrastructure: For thousands of isolated TIs, FFCHS's conference calls and publications provided a critical support and information resource during a period when mainstream institutions were largely dismissive of TI claims
The growing mainstream recognition of phenomena such as Havana Syndrome — directed-energy attacks on US diplomatic and intelligence personnel — has lent retrospective credibility to aspects of the technological claims that FFCHS was advancing a decade earlier.
Criticism
FFCHS was not without controversy within the TI community itself. Common criticisms included:
- Leadership concentration: Some members felt that organisational decision-making was excessively centralised around Robinson, limiting democratic accountability and responsiveness to member concerns
- Strategic disagreements: A segment of the community favoured more confrontational or legally aggressive approaches than FFCHS's primarily educational and lobbying-focused strategy
- Infiltration concerns: As with many dissident and advocacy organisations in the US, a persistent concern among some TIs was that FFCHS could have been subject to infiltration or monitoring by the very agencies it was investigating — a pattern consistent with COINTELPRO-style disruption tactics historically documented against civil society groups
- Credibility management: Some members felt that FFCHS was insufficiently rigorous in evaluating the claims of those it admitted to its registry, potentially weakening the organisation's credibility with external audiences
- Dissolution opacity: The lack of public clarity around the circumstances of FFCHS's closure generated ongoing speculation within the community
These criticisms did not erase the organisation's contributions but reflect the inherent tensions in organising a community of individuals reporting extraordinary and officially unacknowledged experiences.
See Also
- Targeted Individuals
- Targeted Individual Phenomenon
- Gang Stalking
- Directed Energy Weapons
- Voice to Skull
- Electronic Harassment
- Targeted Justice
- ICATOR
- ICAACT
- COINTELPRO
- MK-Ultra
- Havana Syndrome
- Remote Neural Monitoring
- Microwave Auditory Effect
- Bioelectromagnetics
- [[Jesse Baltran]]
- James Martinez
- Lookoutfa Charlie
