Cabot Phillips

The Pentagon has been tight-lipped about the total number of cases, but reports say that there have been at least 200 victims, some of whom are the small children of diplomats.

Others are now permanently disabled and forced to retire, suffering from severe short and long-term memory loss.

So multiple agencies launched independent investigations.

The CIA, for example, initially believed the symptoms were being caused by, quote, direct pulsed radio frequency energy.

But last year, the intelligence community concluded their years-long investigation and determined it was, quote, very unlikely that these symptoms were caused by any foreign adversary.

But it seems there's more to the story.

New reports confirm that the Pentagon last year secretly acquired a device that they now believe may be responsible for this ailment after all.

Right.

So in the final days of the Biden administration, the Pentagon secretly purchased a device that emits high-frequency pulsed radio waves.

Now, we don't know exactly how they got their hands on this thing, but...

Reports say it cost in the eight-figure range and was acquired covertly as part of a, quote, undercover operation.

Presumably, they got it on the black market.

The Pentagon has been secretly studying this device for the past year.

And get this, according to CNN, it not only is small enough to fit inside of a backpack, it also reportedly contains, you guessed it, Russian components, which lends credibility to the theory that these symptoms were caused by a foreign adversary.

And it also gives vindication to victims who say that they were gaslit by the Pentagon and told that their symptoms were not the result of an attack.

To that point, Mark Polymeropoulos, one of the first CIA officers to go public after experiencing Havana syndrome, told CNN, quote, if the U.S.

government has indeed uncovered such devices, then the CIA owes all the victims a major and public apology for how we've been treated as pariahs.

Yeah, here's where it gets maybe even more interesting.

Unconfirmed testimony from an alleged Venezuelan security guard confirmed

claimed that he and others guarding Maduro were incapacitated by a, quote, very intense sound wave that made him and the others, quote, feel like my head was exploding from the inside.