Targeting Americans; Secretary Hegseth | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
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60 Minutes exposes Havana Syndrome as attacks by a portable, pulsed microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network—acquired undercover by US agents for $15M and tested to match victims' brain injuries—alleging a massive CIA cover-up to avoid declaring war on Russia, despite hundreds of cases hitting US officials even at home and the White House. Victims like retired Lt. Col. Chris, his wife Heidi, and ex-CIA exec Mark Polymeoropoulos describe identical debilitating symptoms, with Stanford's Dr. David Relman confirming radiofrequency energy as the cause, buried by government despite new evidence. The episode shifts to SecDef Pete Hegseth defending ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran under Operation Epic Fury, rejecting regime change labels, demanding unconditional surrender to crush nuclear ambitions, and dismissing criticisms amid casualties, Russian intel aid to Iran, and stalled Strait of Hormuz oil flows.
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US government officials describe being hit by an overpowering force causing lifelong disabilities. One victim felt a vice gripping the brain stem. Another felt fullness in the head and a piercing headache.
60 Minutes details a classified intelligence mission discovering a new kind of weapon built by a foreign adversary. Acknowledging a state actor behind it is essentially a declaration of war against the United States.
Leslie Stahl, Scott Pelley, Anderson Cooper, Sharyn Alfonsi, John Wertheim, Cecilia Vega, Bill Whitaker. Stories include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US and Israeli strikes in Iran entering their second week.
You said this is not a regime change war, but the regime has changed. That's obvious. Can you square the two?
Classified US intelligence mission obtained a previously unknown weapon unlocking the mystery since at least 2016. US diplomats, spies, and military officers suffered crippling brain injuries from an overwhelming force damaging vision, hearing, balance, and cognition. Government doubted stories, calling victims delusional. Weapon obtained overseas, secretly tested on animals on a US military base. 60 Minutes investigated for 9 years; fourth story titled Targeting Americans.
Chris and Heidi (last name withheld), Air Force Academy graduates. Chris retired as lieutenant colonel on classified spy satellites. Attacked five times in five months near Washington DC, all in their home.
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