Targeting Americans (2024) | 60 Minutes Archive
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A 60 Minutes investigation details "Havana syndrome" (anomalous health incidents) affecting over 100 US national security officials and families since 2014, causing brain injuries to the auditory and vestibular systems via directed-energy weapons like pulsed microwaves or ultrasound, with symptoms including vertigo, memory loss, and balance failure confirmed by Stanford-led studies. Victims like FBI agent Carrie and others link attacks to Russian GRU Unit 29155, citing evidence such as spy Vitali Kovalev's proximity, intercepted calls, matching photos of operative Albert Averyanov in Tbilisi, and patterns targeting top Russia-focused officers—even domestically in the US. US government assessments deny foreign involvement, citing low confidence and alternative explanations, but investigators like Greg Ed Green and attorney Mark Zaid accuse a cover-up amid counterintelligence failures in this shadow war.
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Important developments in 5-year investigation of mysterious brain injuries reported by US national security officials. Injured include White House staff, CIA officers, FBI agents, military officers, and families. Many believe wounded by secret weapon firing high-energy beam of microwaves or ultrasound. Fourth story with evidence of who might be responsible. Most injured fought for America, often in secret, frustrated US government publicly doubts adversary targeting Americans.
Carrie, FBI agent in counterintelligence, disguised, no last name. In 2021, home in Florida, hit by crippling force: "bam, inside my right ear. It was like a dentist drilling on steroids... high-pitched metallic drilling noise... knocked me forward at 45 degree angle." Right ear line of sight to window in laundry room. Pressure and pain from right ear down jaw, neck, chest. Phone battery swelled, broke case. Passed out on couch from chest pain. Checked by cardiologist, returned to duty. Complained for months: felt like early Alzheimer's—short-term memory, long-term memory, confusing memories, multitasking. Baseline changed, not the same person.
Carrie's story matches others. Olivia Troye, Homeland Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, hit outside White House: piercing feeling on right side of head, vertigo, severe ear pain like sharp pencil poking eardrum. Man medically retired from unnamed agency, blind in one eye, balance issues—one of first public cases in 2016 from US embassy in Cuba, origin of Havana syndrome.
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