Espionage

Report: US Military Tested Device Allegedly Linked to Havana Syndrome

Are microwave attacks on U.S. officials a covered-up act of war or recycled hysteria to demonize Russia?

Published MAR 9

Report: US Military Tested Device Allegedly Linked to Havana Syndrome

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Above: The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Sept. 29, 2017. Image credit: Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Getty Images

The Facts

According to confidential sources speaking to 60 Minutes on Sunday, undercover agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security allegedly purchased a miniaturized microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network in 2024 for approximately $15 million in a Pentagon-funded operation.
CBS News
Boing Boing
The device is described as portable, concealable, silent and programmable for different scenarios. It can allegedly be operated remotely and has a range of several hundred feet, capable of penetrating windows and drywall.
New York Post
CiberCuba
The sources said the weapon has been tested for over a year at a U.S. military laboratory on rats and sheep, with results showing injuries consistent with those reported by human victims of anomalous health incidents.
Newsmax
The Latin Times
A former CIA officer who worked on the agency's investigation told 60 Minutes that one of the first things he heard upon joining the unit was that their job was to "bring down the temperature" on anomalous health incidents at headquarters.
The Insider
CBS News
Dr. David Relman, a Stanford University professor who led two government investigations, concluded that pulsed radiofrequency or microwave energy was the most plausible explanation for a subset of cases based on decades of Soviet research.
New York Post
Boing Boing
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence stated that its review of anomalous health incidents intelligence will be comprehensive and complete, and that the agency remains committed to delivering the truth that the American people deserve.
Newsmax
The Insider

Sources Split

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The Spin

Narrative A

The government has failed victims and the public by burying this evidence of Russian microwave attacks on American officials, dismissing victims as delusional, while these revelations about a classified weapon prove that these injuries are real. CIA leadership mocked the wounded, prioritized avoiding confrontation with Russia over protecting personnel and covered up what amounts to acts of war on U.S. soil. Hopefully, as this story has been broken wide open, justice will finally be administered and victims will be protected, not shunned.

CBS News

The Insider

Narrative B

These ongoing claims of systematic foreign attacks are highly suspect because successfully targeting over 1,500 elite intelligence officers would require impossible levels of penetration into classified U.S. systems. If Russia or other bad actors really had moles identifying top performers and their home addresses, the proxy war would have unfolded completely differently. The intelligence community already assessed foreign involvement as very unlikely, making this an unfounded and frequently recycled narrative.