While trying to find some references to the possibility that the latest Chinese earthquake was a HAARP or Tesla Magnifying Transmitter caused event an amazing article was discovered detailing a extensive operation of Soviet manipulation of the ionosphere in order to effect weather control against the United States.
Source The Lake Park News, Mar 1, 1984
What is further interesting is that Dr Beter talked extensively of just such operations going on as far back as 1980.
Amazingly the US government will then tell you that Nooo they themselves don't get into ionospheric manipulation to control the weather, yet the HAARP project itself is simply listed as a Ionospheric manipulator. US Patent 4686605 described the HAARP instrument as just such a device, and the following website is one of the most detailed on the true capability of the HAARP facility.