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Cabot Phillips

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Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

So multiple agencies launched independent investigations.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

But it seems there's more to the story.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

Right.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

Presumably, they got it on the black market.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

Unconfirmed testimony from an alleged Venezuelan security guard confirmed

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

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.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

Again, that report was not confirmed, but White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt did share it on social media saying, quote, stop what you are doing and read this.

Morning Wire
DOJ Probes Church Protesters & ‘Havana Syndrome’ Revelations | 1.20.26

Now, for their part, the House Homeland Security Committee launched a new investigation into Havana syndrome, demanding the Pentagon provide them with a, quote, detailed explanation of the procurement process used to acquire the device, along with the results of their study into the device, and much more.