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Posted on 03/14/2026 7:45:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The last time I wrote about Havana Syndrome was back in January of 2025. US Intelligence Agencies had officially determined in 2023 that Havana Syndrome was not the result of an attack by a state actor.
Advertisement Five of those agencies determined it was “very unlikely” that a foreign adversary was responsible for the symptoms, either as the result of purposeful actions — such as a directed energy weapon — or as the byproduct of some other activity, including electronic surveillance that unintentionally could have made people sick, the officials said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the findings of the assessment, which had not yet been made public...
The intelligence assessment also examined whether an adversary possessed a device capable of using energy to cause the reported symptoms. Of the seven agencies, five determined that it was “very unlikely,” while the other two said it was “unlikely.”
And yet, there was pretty strong evidence uncovered by several major news outlets that Havana Syndrome was the result of directed attacks carried out by Russia's GRU. And in 2025, just as the Biden administration was leaving office, it updated the IC conclusions about a possible weapon.
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an update to the 2023 report. The intelligence agencies aren’t saying a foreign actor is to blame for Havana syndrome. But they are no longer so confident that one is not.
Two intelligence agencies have now “shifted their judgment to reflect a greater possibility” that a small number of cases indeed were “caused by a foreign actor,” an intelligence official told reporters in a briefing. The agencies have examined new information that “foreign actors”—he didn’t say which—“are making progress in scientific research and weapons development.”
It was pretty vague, but they were clearly suggesting that some people, behind the scenes, were changing their minds. And now it seems we know why.
According to a 60 Minutes report aired Sunday, we know the weapon is real because we purchased one from black market arms dealers in 2024 and we've been testing it for more than a year.
60 Minutes has learned U.S. agents who investigate illicit arms dealers heard that a Russian criminal network was selling a microwave weapon. Our sources tell us, undercover agents of the Department of Homeland Security bought the weapon in 2024. The mission cost about $15 million, funded by the Pentagon.
60 Minutes has learned details of a classified microwave weapon that may explain mysterious brain injuries suffered by U.S. officials. We've been investigating these injuries for nine years. And now, our sources tell us this microwave weapon is portable, concealable and uses relatively little power.
Three independent sources from different agencies tell us that undercover homeland security agents purchased a miniaturized microwave weapon from a complex Russian criminal network. It's classified. We didn't see it. But it has been described to us. We are told it doesn't look anything like a gun. It is designed to be concealed and small enough to be carried by a person. It is silent and doesn't create heat like a microwave oven. Our sources say the device is programmable for different scenarios and can be operated by remote control. The range of the beam is several hundred feet. It can penetrate windows and drywall. The vital components were made in Russia. Our sources say the key is not the hardware but the software. The programming shapes a unique, electromagnetic wave that rises and falls abruptly and pulses rapidly.
All of that seems to match with reports that Russia's GRU was behind this. But the real kicker is something else that US intel has come up with: Videos showing people being "hit" by the device. One of the videos apparently even shows the person using the device.
Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has been tested in a U.S. military lab for more than a year. Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans. Also, as a separate part of the investigation, security camera videos have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos are classified but they were described to us. In one, a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families. A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain. Our sources say another video comes from a stairwell in the U.S. embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a secure facility. In the video, two people on the stairs suddenly collapse.
Those videos and the weapon were among the reasons the Biden administration summoned about half a dozen victims to the White House with about two months left in the president's term.
At this point, you have to wonder why we've been sitting on all of this for more than a year. Obviously if we have proof that these were real attacks on US personnel carried out by Russia we ought to be responding to those attacks instead of pretending they didn't happen.
The whole report is worth watching but the bottom line is that this isn't theoretical anymore. We have a working device. We also have video of it being used on Americans. And all of that is why our intel agencies started changing course at the end of the Biden administration.
[youtube video at source link: Source: Havana Syndrome investigation is "a massive CIA cover-up" | 60 Minutes]
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I wonder if a tin foil hat would shield your noggin?
Foil blocks microwaves, so yes. But you’d have to cover your entire head and that’s if it works on the brain and not the peripheral nervous system.
The first thing I wondered on reading the above sentence was how the backpack guy shields himself from the effects of the weapon. Maybe he does wear a tinfoil hat.
Havana was a mass hysteria. Wives hated the place. They and diplomats were malingering and putting in for fake disability. Very lucrative.
The Gru is Russia’s military intelligence, the competent intelligence agency, compared to the KGB/NKVD/FSB:
“A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain.”
How did it only affect those people at one table? And why do that in public? Story makes no sense.
The first thing I wondered on reading the above sentence was how the backpack guy shields himself from the effects of the weapon. Maybe he does wear a tinfoil hat...........
The electromagnetic waves/ppulses/beams are highly directional. In the late 1980s, DARPA gave a briefing at Ft. Knox discussing such a device that could be assembled from off the shelf components, powered by a motorcycle battery and packed in a large briefcase or small suitcase. It could reduce electronic equipment to junk and un-alive anyone in its path.
Maybe. I’d still want a good sturdy double-thickness tinfoil hat if I were the guy with the backpack.
anybody can make a redneck version of one of these by laying a microwave oven on its back in with the door open and the safety switch defeated and the on/off button bypassed ... better stand way back though when plugging it in, and it’s likely to piss off the neighbors and draw quick attention from the FCC and the like ...
There is probably some shielding in the backpack itself to prevent the energy affecting the operaror. Plus, since they say its working distance can be up to 300 feet, its directional, so its not just bathing every direction with the same amount of energy.
Some may have put in fake reasons to leave Havana. But this article proves the ones injured were attacked, with evidence of an acquired physical weapon and Russian videos of American targets in different worldwide locations having the weapon used on them.
I know the current consensus seems to be microwaves, but I think some of the symptoms are closer to the effects of high-power ultrasound.
I’d go infrasound not ultrasound. But yeah. A lot less power required
“In JPL 30 kW power was transmitted for 1.54 km with reception conversion array having an efficiency of 80%.”
“Experimental results on animals exposed to microwave radiation indicated that irreversible tissue damage occurred at power densities of about 100 mW/cm2.”
“Foil blocks microwaves, so yes. But you’d have to cover your entire head and that’s if it works on the brain and not the peripheral nervous system.”
I use a cellphone hotspot.
It still works if I put the cellphone into a covered Farberware pot.
Nope... it was a giant scam that spread through the State Department... then the “monkey see, monkey do” thing kicked in and suddenly it was everywhere. It started in 2017 at the height of the Russia Russia Russia hysteria. And their “disability” was handsomely rewarded financially.
Mass psychogenic illness. Like Salem, or the Dancing Disease in Medieval times. Total bull scat.
They even offered Iphone recordings of the ultrasonic sounds they could “hear”. LOL... it was crickets.
Wait... what’s that noise? I’m putting on a claim... call Art Bell!
What happens in vagus stays in vagus.
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