The 60 Minutes investigation into Havana Syndrome
In a Nutshell
60 Minutes' nine-year investigation into Havana Syndrome reveals over 65 US officials and families targeted by directed energy weapons—likely Russian radio frequency or microwave devices—causing severe symptoms like head pain, vertigo, cognitive issues, and injuries in diplomats in Havana, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and even on White House grounds. Evidence includes victim testimonies, a Kremlin document confirming Russian tests, National Academy of Sciences findings on pulsed energy as the plausible cause, and US discovery of a matching classified Russian weapon tested on animals. Despite government denials and alleged cover-ups, producers believe a subset of cases involved deliberate foreign attacks, detailed further in their upcoming book.
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It's a sound like I've never heard before. Was this subtle? Like, did I hear that? No, it was actually somewhat loud. I heard it about three or four times. Always in the same spot, always over my son's crib and always right before we would go to bed.
When we first heard all of these stories, it sounded odd and hard to believe that some invisible ray gun was hitting these people and hurting them. It was like this piercing feeling on the side of my head. I remember it was on the right side of my head and I got like vertigo.
But these are top officials in the US government. They've gone through lots of vetting. Many of them have security clearances. I'm here because I'm tired of the gaslighting that keeps happening from the US government.
And when they got sick, the US government tended to doubt their stories and we wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. The worst pain I have ever felt. It felt like a vice gripping my brain stem was there.
We did our best to investigate what had happened to them and that we now believe there are directed energy weapons that can do this and we believe in a subset of the large body of cases that that's what happened. This was a directed standoff attack against my apartment. It was a weapon. Of course it was a weapon. An energy weapon. Absolutely.
My name is Oriana Zil de Granados and I'm a producer at 60 Minutes. My name is Michael Ray. I'm a producer at 60 Minutes. We've been reporting for nine years on what's called the Havana syndrome.
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