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THE possibility of developing functional visual prostheses was supported by the pioneering case of Brindley and Lewin1,2 and confirmed by our subsequent report on two other blind patients3.
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DOBELLE, W., MLADEJOVSKY, M., EVANS, J. et al. ‘Braille’ reading by a blind volunteer by visual cortex stimulation. Nature 259, 111–112 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259111a0
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This article is fake as is all of Dr. Dobelle's artificial vision implant research (although his other research at Ft. Detrick for the CIA is legitimate). It was put out by the CIA in 1976 to lay the foundation for a covert operation to debrief a defector (a B. Medvedev) on the Russian Nuclear program. Dr. Dobelle's research was reactivated in 2001 as cover to smuggle into Israel an export-restricted imaging device. Dr. Dobelle was, in fact, a double-agent.