Source: Havana Syndrome investigation is "a massive CIA cover-up" | 60 Minutes
In a Nutshell
US diplomats, spies, and officers have suffered brain injuries from pulsed microwave weapons since 2016, with consistent victim testimonies of sudden pain, disorientation, and organ damage matching Russian-developed technology. In 2024, undercover DHS agents acquired a concealable, portable version from a Russian criminal network for $15 million, which US military tests on animals confirmed causes identical injuries; security footage shows attacks at CIA HQ, White House grounds, and overseas embassies. Despite this evidence, CIA investigations dismissed foreign involvement as a cover-up to avoid confrontation with Russia, betraying victims—Biden's team believed them but issued no public statement, leaving demands for Purple Hearts and accountability unmet.
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Details of a classified US intelligence mission obtained a previously unknown weapon that may unlock the mystery of brain injuries suffered by US diplomats, spies, and military officers since at least 2016. Victims suffered crippling brain injuries from an overwhelming force damaging vision, hearing, sense of balance, and cognition. Government doubted stories, calling victims delusional. 60 Minutes learned a weapon inflicting these injuries was obtained overseas and secretly tested on animals on a US military base. Investigated for nine years; fourth story titled Targeting Americans. Despite official doubt, continued reporting due to haunting stories.
Chris and Heidi (last name withheld), met at Air Force Academy; Chris retired as lieutenant colonel working on classified spy satellites. First incident August 2020: felt punched in throat, left ear clogged, sharp shooting pains down left arm. Struck by unseen force five times in five months near Washington DC, all in home in Northern Virginia. Heidi present for last two attacks.
Second attack: immediate vice on head, disoriented, confused, dizzy. Third attack end of September: all muscles in spine cramped like Charlie horse, spine on fire, very hot and sharp. Fifth early December: woke with full body convulsion, worst pain ever, vice gripping brain stem.
Heidi January: immense joint pain everywhere, shoulder pain left shoulder, no trauma. Bones in shoulder dissolving (osteolysis), required surgery. Lasting effects: two neurological drugs daily, severe symptoms without; significant damage to multiple organ systems.
You believe attacked by foreign adversary in line of duty? Yes.
Belief shared by officials and families met over years. FBI agent: bam inside right ear like dentist drilling on steroids. Commerce Department official in China: felt sound in head, intense pressure both temples. Early victim from Cuba (Havana syndrome): severe ear pain like sharp pencil poking eardrum. Wife of Justice Department official in Europe: pierced ears from left side through window, fullness in head, piercing headache; multiple surgeries for inner ear and skull bones. Many victims have lifelong disabilities.
Stories consistent across people who never met. Government acknowledges injuries, pays health care, but doubted cause: atmospheric/environmental, virus, pre-existing, or mass hysteria (FBI early investigation). 2023 official word: very unlikely attacks by foreign adversary.
Do you believe victims? Absolutely.
Dr. David Relman, Stanford medicine professor, led two government panels (doctors, physicists, engineers). Reports 2020 and 2022: most plausible for subset of cases is radio frequency or microwave energy.
Microwaves: range in electromagnetic spectrum; from ovens, radar, TV transmitters, phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. Panels found one country did research on unique microwave pattern damaging brain: former Soviet Union (Russia). Effects: loss of consciousness, seizures, memory lapses, inability to concentrate, headaches, intense pressure, pain, disorientation, balance issues—matching victim reports. Russians experimented decades ago.
2014 NSA reference (via lawsuit): intelligence of high-powered microwave system weapon associated with hostile country. CIA thought needed enormous power, truck-sized, not likely. Relman's panels shelved by officials.
What unnerves me is confidence dismissing this work without new evidence. Studies downplayed, dismissed, buried by parts of US government.
Former CIA officer (name withheld), first public comments. Volunteered 2021 for CIA's AHI (Anomalous Health Incidents) investigation due to suffering among colleagues/families overseas: lives destroyed, careers ruined, kids with lifelong developmental issues, cognitive problems years later.
Joined AHI at CIA headquarters expecting to investigate state actor; instead: first directive "bring down temperature on AHI at headquarters"—not investigate but propaganda to frame as atmospheric/environmental, not state actor. Fear/paranoia caused havoc: his family left early, others shortened tours, chose safer locations—governmentwide.
Attitude toward victims: senior AHI member mocked at happy hour, emulated stroke. No sense of getting to bottom; goal prove psychosomatic, atmospheric, environmental. Resigned over moral issue; CIA said "our people highest priority" but not true. Saw families, kids, careers destroyed.
CIA investigation ended 2022.
Classified mission: US agents investigating illicit arms heard Russian criminal network selling microwave weapon. Undercover Department of Homeland Security agents bought it 2024; cost $15 million, Pentagon-funded. Weapon portable, concealable, low power.
Hundreds possible attacks, including CIA headquarters Virginia, at least two on White House grounds.
Former CIA officer Mark Polymetropoulos (executive level, ~3-star general, top 2017 decoration). Overwhelmed in Moscow hotel room: woke with vertigo, room spinning, blinding headache, tinnitus, nausea—terrifying loss of control. Treated for vertigo, migraines, vision loss, memory/concentration issues. Disabled, retired.
2023 agency conclusion: very unlikely attacked—betrayal; CIA should put people first.
Massive CIA cover-up, say with great regret. Loved organization, believe in mission.
CIA believed microwave weapon truck-sized, not plausible.
2024: three independent sources (different agencies): undercover Homeland Security bought miniaturized microwave weapon from Russian criminal network. Classified; described: not gun-like, concealable, person-carried, silent, no oven heat. Programmable, remote control, range several hundred feet, penetrates windows/drywall. Vital components Russian-made. Key: software shapes unique electromagnetic wave—rises/falls abruptly, pulses rapidly (pulsed microwave radiation).
Matches Relman's prediction: Russians perfected pulsed energy for biological effects, stimulates brain/heart tissue.
Ideal stealth weapon; feels like in head.
Tested >1 year US military lab on rats/sheep: injuries consistent with humans. Security videos (classified): restaurant Istanbul—two FBI agents vacationing with families grab heads as man with backpack enters. Stairwell US embassy Vienna to secure facility: two people collapse.
Biden administration summoned ~half-dozen victims to White House ~2 months before term end. Relman (White House adviser) helped organize; Biden team believed victims, rejected CIA's medical/environmental claims as egregious/crazy.
High-level CIA source: "This is the biggest cover-up I've seen in my adult life."
Believe cover-up? Yes, through variety of purposes/means.
Motive: make it go away for normal operations; dug-in opinions on non-thermal microwave implausibility; consistency over objectivity.
Polymetropoulos in meeting: Biden admin indicated new intelligence changed things (unclassified meeting).
Dr. Paul Friedrichs (retired major general, ex-Pentagon top doctor): apologized; never seen victims treated so terribly in 30+ years military medicine.
Chills; indication Biden White House believed us. Insulting to dismiss as malingerers.
Biden White House wrote public statement backing victims, never released. Trump admin unchanged 2023 assessment (very unlikely attacks); briefed Congress top intel officials with classified weapon picture. Pentagon investigators moved to new weapons unit.
CIA officer who quit: CIA careless vs ruthless adversary (Russia). If Russian state actor, resounding success: created fear/paranoia/anxiety US/overseas, astronomical impact. Russians didn't anticipate scale, continued due to effect.
Why bury: political; acknowledging state actor = declaration of war, no appetite to respond to Russians.
2024 story with The Insider: evidence Russian involvement (Russian intel agent near wounded Justice Dept wife overseas).
DOD no comment. ODNI: new AHI review comprehensive, committed to truth.
Chris/Heidi: time to grips game changed; adversaries reach US homes.
Government owes Purple Heart for military victims, acknowledgment of sacrifice affecting families.
Sources: many such devices likely; if bought from gangsters, Russians lost control—stealth weapon usable by anyone anywhere.
Should military Havana syndrome victims receive Purple Heart? Not controversial. at 60minutesovertime.com.
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