In a shocking new report for CBS’ 60 Minutes, Insider and Spiegel found out: new evidence Hundreds of U.S. government employees suffering from sudden neurological symptoms known as Havana syndrome may have been attacked by Russia with directed energy weapons, authorities said.
“There are many reasons why the United States does not want to condemn Moscow, that is, Putin and the Russians. One is that this is essentially an act of war,” he said on behalf of 20 U.S. government officials. said attorney Mark Zaid. He told Fox News that he claims to be a victim of Havana syndrome.
Last year, U.S. intelligence agencies released an explosive report denying foreign involvement as the cause of Havana Syndrome. The lead military investigator said the bar to prove Russia was behind the incident was set impossibly high.
CBS interviewed an FBI counterintelligence agent who uses the pseudonym “Carrie.” She was investigating a suspected Russian agent captured in the United States during a high-speed police car chase when she suspected the attack would involve directed energy weapons, such as those that Moscow has publicly boasted about producing. It was the first time I felt such symptoms. intelligence agency.
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“It was like a high-pitched metal drill and I was thrown forward…I immediately felt pressure and a pain started shooting from my right ear, through my jaw, and into my chest,” Carey, 60, said. told the Minute.
Retired Lt. Col. Greg Edgreen led the Department of Defense’s investigation into Havana Syndrome for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
“One of the things I started noticing was the caliber of officers that was being affected. This wasn’t happening with the lowest-performing officers or mid-range officers. This was happening at the top of the defense intelligence community as a whole. “It was happening to five officers, 10% of the time.” There was an angle that we did it,” Ed Green told CBS.
Edgreen said he believed it was Russia from the beginning.
A pedestrian with an umbrella walks outside the Embassy of the Russian Federation near Glover Park in Washington, U.S., on February 22, 2022. (Reuters/Tom Brenner)
“Intelligence agents serving overseas and our diplomats are being removed from their jobs due to traumatic brain injuries. They are becoming incapacitated,” Edgreen said.
Following a 60 Minutes report, the Pentagon confirmed that senior Pentagon officials sought treatment for symptoms of Havana syndrome at last summer’s NATO Vilnius summit.
“This tells us that there are no obstacles to what Moscow will do, who it will attack, and who it will attack. If we don’t face this problem head on, it will get worse. ” Edgreen warned.
A police car chase near Key West four years ago became a key piece of evidence. A search of the car revealed handwritten bank notes, a device that could wipe the car’s computer data, and the driver’s Russian passport. The suspects killed former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in London and tried to poison Russian President Vladimir Putin dissident Alexei Navalny, according to the receipt. is associated with. The same investigator insider Three years ago, as part of a separate investigation, he tracked down members of Unit 29155 with the help of reporters and confronted them on camera.
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“Particularly new evidence is information identifying specific Russian individuals, some of whom were captured by local law enforcement in the United States. There was also geotechnical information indicating that there were certain Russians in the vicinity of the world,” Zaid told Fox News.
The new report has left victims like Adam, who used a false name and was thought to be patient zero, experiencing hearing loss while undercover in Havana in 2016, leaving him unable to walk or move. He looked relieved.
“They pulled receipts from the GRU 29155 group clearly explaining that these are weapons systems and weapons programs,” Adam told FOX.
Employees at the U.S. Embassy in Havana leave the building on September 29, 2017, after the State Department announced it would withdraw all but essential diplomats from the embassy. (Emily Michaud/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“Last September, when Nikolai Patrushev (current head of the Russian Security Council and former head of the Russian foreign spy agency FSB) announced to the press that he had neutralized hundreds of Western spies. And a few days earlier, Putin The president was talking about new technologies that they were developing, such as acoustic weapons systems and RF (radio frequency) systems, so I can’t say I’m surprised by any of that. “We’re discussing the issue,” Adam said in an interview with Fox News.
For years, he and other victims say they felt gassed out by their former temporary agency employers. Last July, an extensive investigation by intelligence agencies ruled out any evidence of foreign involvement.
“We take this matter very seriously,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at the White House on Monday. “We take this very seriously. That’s why we’ve taken a whole-of-government approach and directed each agency to do the three things I listed.”
State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller added: “The general conclusion of our intelligence community since March 2023 is that a foreign adversary is unlikely to be the cause of these unusual health events.” .
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said the investigation is not over and will investigate any new evidence that comes to light. “This does not cast doubt on the symptoms,” he added. Member reported. ”
Zaid, a lawyer for many Havana Syndrome victims, describes how his clients have experienced computer and phone failures during what he considers to be attacks.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, along with Ambassador Jonathan Moore, the new coordinator of the department’s Health Incident Response Task Force, and Ambassador Margaret Uehara of the State Department team, spoke about Havana Syndrome, which US officials are calling an “extraordinary health incident.” . A leader provides support to affected employees in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department on November 5, 2021 in Washington, DC, USA. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool, via Reuters)
“There was evidence of technical issues surrounding them, and they were using their cell phones at the time and the batteries were swelling inside their phone cases and were about to explode, or they were breaking, or the computers they were currently working on were “Computer screens just do all sorts of things that a computer screen can’t do. It doesn’t happen on its own,” Zaid told FOX.
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And then there are the victims’ pets.
“That’s the untold part of the story. Pets can’t hide the fact that they’re suffering, and they don’t have mass psychosis that comes to mind based on what they hear from others. At some point, “it has to be clear that whatever this is, it’s hurting people. So at that point, it may still have dual use, but it’s been weaponized,” Zaid said. He mentioned a targeted energy wave that he believed hit his body. client.
