The Department of the Navy and Air Force, along with General Electric, worked together to impact hurricanes. She provided a link for a paper published by General Electric titled History of Project Cirrus from 1947 to 1952, which was a study of how cloud particles and cloud modifications affect hurricanes. Peggy said the purpose of government weather manipulation is to instill fear, uncertainty and to inflict hardship for the purpose of gaining control over an area using the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and federal funding.