I've got news for you (maybe not news). Look up radionics. The same can be done with a picture printed on a piece of paper, or in other ways. If you think withholding it from the badguys will prevent them from having the technology, you're wrong. They already have it and so do ourguys. Not recent either. Dates back to 1970s or possibly long before that.
Example:
https://radionicsspectro.com/2017/09/02/getting-rid-of-insect-pests-in-your-field-or-garden-with-radionics/
I'll summarize a long article.
An acre field of some crop has insect pests.
Photograph the field.
Cut out a small piece of the photograph corresponding to a portion of the field.
Use radionics to remove/destroy insects with respect to that little piece of paper.
Examine the acre field.
Insects are gone in the corresponding region, but remain in the untreated regions.