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So she should be better than most people at understanding a diagnosis.
She is probably very good at separating her private and professional lives.

Actually, I have known nurses who were deep into everything that we call woo-woo, but apparently strictly adhering to science when at work.
 
Today, Wednesday, April 15, 7 PM EDT Arlington, VA + Livestream
"On April 15, we’re taking on one of the most contested issues in national security: Havana Syndrome and Anomalous Health Incidents."
And as so often before, the three panelists Michael Weiss, Christo Grozez & Marc Polymeropoulos as well as the moderator John Sipher are all firm believers in the DEW-attack idea. Not one single skeptic:
Hayden Center on Bsky, April 9, 2026
Invisible attacks.
Conflicting intelligence.
Unanswered questions.
On April 15, we’re taking on one of the most contested issues in national security:
Havana Syndrome and Anomalous Health Incidents.
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It is now on YouTube:
The Quiet War: Invisible Attacks (The Hayden Center on YouTube, April 16, 2026 – 1:32:56)


The YouTube comments give me the impression that the audience consists mainly of targeted individuals, for instance:
@Wingsoftheinfinite
This is happening on a much larger scale , I’m a truck driver that is being hit with pulsing static and really weird experiences and there are tons of people hearing things and feeling tbat someone is in our heads , please address the community calling our selfs targeted Individuals and gang-stalking please help us !
@user0987t3r
There are really non USG civilians, including US citizens, who have been hit by directed energy weapons (DEWs) domestically. It's done by people in our own government, the CIA, under the guise of a "surveillance" program. People have reported severe injuries and health effects from these weapons such as brain damage, third degree burns, and cancer. This may be a reason why AHIs were covered up. The CIA has experimented on and caused serious harm to civilians before with MK-Ultra. Well, once again, innocent civilians are being targeted.
This one is the exception:
@robertbartholomew8121
This isn't a discussion - it's propaganda. The Hayden Center claims to be nonpartisan, so why are there no skeptics on the panel? Isn't that odd? Even the title of this discussion: "The Quiet War: Invisible Attacks" tells you the game they are playing. Why not invite Robert Bartholomew, Bob Baloh, Sergio Della Sala or Fulton Armstrong to participate on the panel? Answer: the panelists have staked out a position and refuse to change regardless of the evidence. The writing of Bartholomew, and Baloh have demonstrated clearly that Havana Syndrome is a hoax.
And it is definitely the real Bartholomew! He would love to debate these guys, but they prefer to cultivate their confirmation bias by excluding critics from participating in events like this one.

The targeted individuals were also busy in the livechat accompanying the discussion. This was the first comment:
@aquaboygarth
Hello in buffalo ny area been hit with these weapons for several years nonstop 24/7 , I know this " cell" people involved yet no one helps.
 
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The video from the Hayden Center was as biassed as could be expected from a one-sided panel like this one.
John Sipher was the moderator of the Hayden Center's panel:
John Sipher on bsky, April 16, 2026
Some good discussion.
The Quiet War: Invisible Attacks
YouTube video by The Hayden Center
dannsim.bsky.social, April 18, 2026
There was no real discussion. Everybody on the panel was a zealous believer in the attack delusion.
Why are the 'syndrome' believers so afraid of having people like Robert Baloh, Robert Bartholomew, Sergio Della Sala, Fulton Armstrong or Mitchell Valdés-Sosa on a panel like this?

rebartholomew.bsky.social, April 20, 2026
If JS is an intel expert & hasn't seen my articles on HS in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry or the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine or Sci American or my critiques of '60 Minutes' - then he isn't doing his job. A true intel officer looks at both sides.
dannsim.bsky.social, April 20, 2026
It's grotesque that 60 Minutes and The Insider ignore all objections to the far-right DEW-attack delusion. Michael Weiss presents as "hard evidence" pure and simple obfuscation, but an intel expert ought to look into how 🇸🇪Säpo tackled its own MPI case in weeks two years ago.
dannsim.bsky.social, April 19, 2026
But Weiss provides obfuscation when he calls the alleged 'biomarkers' "hard evidence" for the DEW-attack idea. Look up NfL & GFAP, the alleged biomarker evidence: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... And look up Minor's syndrome/semicircular canal dehiscence: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superio...

Superior canal dehiscence syndrome - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
 
I guess it's no surprise that people who shield themselves from objections to their ideas when they have panel discussions aren't any more interested in debating on social media. To avoid it, they can cast suspicions – as in the case of Kathleen, "former US career diplomat":
(This Kathleen? https://www.americansecurityproject.org/about/consensus/members/ambassador-kathleen-doherty/ )

And/or ridicule:
https://bsky.app/profile/dannsim.bsky.social/post/3mjwrz5bzcc22

Confronted with arguments (with receipts), they just STFU:

El Bartho is much less confrontational than me, but that doesn't seem to make them more willing to debate:
 
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This seems to have become the favourite argument of believers in the DEW-attack delusion:

John Sipher on bsky, May 6, 2026
You’d have more credibility if you had met a single victim.

DannSim on bsky, May 6, 2026
I don't need to meet the victims! I have heard hour after hour of 'syndrome' victims on TV, in podcasts, and read their articles and interviews.
Like Polymeropoulos I also "lost my long-distance vision" in my early 50s and had to wear glasses at night. It's what AGE – not DEWs – does to people.
DannSim on bsky, May 6, 2026
It is obvious why you avoided having critics of 60 Minutes' and The Insider's baseless claims on the Hayden Center's panel.
"Some good discussion."
No, not really.
Some biassed and one-sided propaganda.
DannSim on bsky, May 6, 2026
You'd have more credibility if you checked 60 Minutes' & The Insider's claims instead of believing in them. It's grotesque that nobody takes a closer look at them: GFAP & NfL, Joy's scar & diagnosis, Chris & Heidi's diagnoses, the Frankfurt case etc.
You just accept them as proof of DEW attacks. 🦗🦗

Goggle's AI used to make an imperfect but nevertheless pretty reliable presentation of the 'syndrome'.
This has changed. Try googling: "Havana syndrome" 2026
It now supports the DEW-attack story, referring mainly to 60 Minutes and The Insider, while ignoring the two JASON reports and the ODNI report, the most comprehensive study of AHI cases.
It is unfortunate that AI can't distinguish between, on the one hand, baseless arguments and pseudo facts and, on the other hand, fact-based analysis.

It can't see that Minor's syndrome, i.e. semicircular canal dehiscence is a rare but nevertheless well-known and perfectly natural disease.
It can't see that the biomarkers GFAP and NfL – first mentioned by David Relman's Expert Panel (scroll down to Appendix I) as a hypothetical tool some time in the future and more or less dismissed by NIH – aren't "hard evidence" of DEW attacks, as claimed by Michael Weiss.
It can't even see that Relman's understanding of sound is below what a somewhat bright (or merely observant) 5-year-old would know.

And since Don't mention the crickets! became the most important rule of DEW Fight Club, it also seems to have disappeared from the attention span of Google AI. Out of 'sight', out of 'mind'.

In good news, there is this from 'syndrome' lawyer Mark Zaid:
Mark Zaid on bsky, April 21, 2026
My firm reps new whistleblower re: Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs) who filed detailed 10 page complaint w/Dept of Defense OIG describing pattern of fraud, waste & abuse, as well as safety/security risks.
Last week OIG closed case without warning, explanation or action.
Cover-up continues.
I would have loved to see the 10-page complaint!
Why cover it up?!
 
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It is obvious that the believers in DEW are more persistent, and over time they drown the skeptical view so that it disappears from search machines, and of course also from AIs.
 
I expected AI to have an algorithm or something akin to an algorithm that would make them value actual investigations higher than media like 60 Minutes and The Insider, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
If this is why the Epstein class buys up all the media conglomerates, AI will be useless as tools to access unbiassed knowledge. It will be automated Minitrue. Elmo's MechaHitler was just a little premature.
 
Bloody hell Dann, I see what you mean:

"As of early 2026, investigations into "Havana Syndrome" (Anomalous Health Incidents) indicate a potential breakthrough, with reports suggesting US officials acquired a portable, concealable microwave device linked to a foreign adversary. Evidence increasingly points to a Russian "kill" unit, with the Pentagon restructuring its task force to focus on medical countermeasures and treating neurological injuries. [1, 2, 3]"​

It reads like it has digested a James Bond book.

From MS's Copilot:

The most significant 2026 development is that U.S. investigators obtained and tested a physical device believed to match the long‑suspected directed‑energy mechanism behind Havana Syndrome, reigniting debates about Russian involvement.
ChatGPT:

Havana syndrome (2026) refers to a still-unexplained set of reported neurological symptoms affecting mainly diplomats, intelligence staff, and their families since 2016.

What it is

  • Often called “anomalous health incidents (AHIs)”
  • Not officially recognised as a single medical disease
  • First reported among U.S. personnel in Cuba, then in multiple countries
 
No fear of the 'syndrome', apparently:
CIA director travels to Cuba as DOJ seeks to indict Raúl Castro (NBC News on YouTube, May 15, 2026 – 6:49 min.)
The Justice Department is pushing to indict 94-year-old Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. NBC News correspondents Gabe Gutierrez and Courtney Kube join Meet the Press NOW to report on the indictment, that comes as CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Havana to meet with Cuban officials.


Why is the CIA chief meeting Cuba's government now? (DW News on YouTube, May 15, 2026 – min.)
As Cuba runs out of fuel and struggles with widespread power cuts, CIA Director John Ratcliffe has made a rare trip to Havana, holding talks with Cuban officials. The US says it's open to cooperation — but only under strict conditions. Is Washington shifting strategy, or tightening pressure? Foreign policy analyst Cecile Shay explains what's really behind the visit.
00:00 CIA chief John Ratcliffe visits Cuba amid deepening crisis
00:42 Interview: Cecile Shay, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
02:04 Why the US made this highly unusual visit public
02:54 Sanctions, fuel shortages and Cuba's potential concessions
05:27 Turning point or tactic? Future of US–Cuba relations
I don't know what is wrong with this woman! Does she actually believe that things were fine until Biden took over after Trump? Can a foreign policy analyst be unaware of what Trump did after he took office in January 2017 – under pretext of the 'syndrome'?
5:27-->
– Well, Cecile, do do you see this meeting as the beginning of a new diplomatic chapter maybe in US Cuban relations or is it really just a tactical move by Washington that's going to do whatever it wants?
– I mean, that's a good question. Of course, relations were much better during the Obama administration. We had begun to lower sanctions. It looked like there might be some movement toward normalizing relations, um, and that began to really fall apart during the Biden administration, and of course now relations between Cuba and the US are as bad as they have been in the last several decades, for sure.
 
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Video clip, 4:57 min:
The Speculation around Havana Syndrome (Lincoln Square on Substack, May 16, 2026)
A decade after American diplomats and CIA agents first reported these debilitating attacks, the truth is still classified. Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi sits down with former CIA Director John Brennan to break down what really happened in Cuba—and what the government is still hiding.
Unfortunately, Brennan doesn't really "break down what really happened in Cuba," and he doesn't seem to know "what the government is still hiding."

The video clip is from this interview with John Brennan, CIA director 2013-2017, 52:04 min:
They talk about the 'syndrome' from 38:30 to 44:40.

Brennan is very cautious about what he says and is mainly asking for more meticulous analysis of the whole thing, but it is fairly obvious that he hasn't seen evidence of any DEW attacks.
Brennan was one of Mark Zaid's clients when his security clearance was revoked by Trump in 2018, and again "on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order revoking the security clearances of Brennan and the other signatories." (Wikipedia)
I don't know to what extent being Zaid's client may influence Brennan's attitude to the 'syndrome'.
 
The 'syndrome' in fiction

The novel, The Invisible Enemy by Alma Katsu, is to be released next year. She mentions it in a very long video:
NSA vs CIA: A Former Analyst Explains the Difference | Alma Katsu (The Team House on YouTube, May 7, 2028 – 1:46:47)
My link is to the approximately 20 minutes specifically about the 'syndrome' and her novel about it, but the rest of it, about working at the NSA and the CIA, is also interesting.

Katsu is a former intelligence analyst who herself had symptoms akin to the 'syndrome' 25 years ago.
Her description sounds much like those of Polymeropoulos in Moscow (and she thinks so, too; coming up). Actually, Polymeropoulos prompted her to write the book. He is obviously still campaigning zealously for the DEW-attack idea, which reminds me of the Danish 'vaccine skeptic', Christine Stabell Benn, who persuaded a Danish novelist to fictionalize (and idealize) her Guinea-Bissau project as the novel The Dinosaur Feather.

But back to Alma Katsu's story:
1:09:17--> I woke up and I had complete vertigo. Spin, spin, spin. And the worst head pain of my life. I thought my skull was splitting open.
This went on for nine months. Now, it didn't come out of the blue. There had been I'd had a couple years of continuous problems with my head and pressures and ear and all that kind of stuff. But of course, NSA didn't want to talk to me about it.

However, she doesn't suspect a hostile attack to be the cause. Instead, she points to her work environment at the NSA:
The roof was completely covered with microwave antennas. The walls were riddled with cabling where transmissions are going around you and underfoot.

She may be right, but to me it sounds more like a case of stress combined with EHS (Wikipedia):
1:10:53—>
– What was the diagnosis that Hopkins gave you for that?
– So 25 years ago the diagnosis is this rare form of migraine called vestibular migraine. Where it affects your vestibular system.

About Polymeropoulos, whom she heard speak at a meeting:
1:12:18—> He talked about his experiences with Havana syndrome and you could have knocked me over with the feather. It was exactly the same, what he went through. The feelings, the headaches, the just crazy. When he finished, I sat down with him and I said, "Look, I'm not saying I had what you had. I'm not saying you had what I have, but this is weird." And he agreed it was weird.

Years later, she had a relapse, went back to (Johns, I assume) Hopkins and – this is interesting – she may have something similar to Minor's syndrome/semicircular canal dehiscence:
1:14:00—> they said, 'You know, we've learned a lot about brains and heads since you were here before'. And they were telling me that they think this condition is, you have to, it's, like, congenital. You have, like, a malformation or a deformity in your head that makes you more susceptible to these kinds of vestibular disturbances.
And it just all clicked into place when they told me that because, like I said, there were other people at NSA who had some of the same physical symptoms that I did, but NSA would always push back and say, "Well, why aren't the other people next to you having the same problems? It can't be real."
I think it's a combination of the effect of the emanations and whether or not you have these congenital problems, whether or not you have malformations that predispose you to this. Here's a, here's an interesting parallel.

When she gets her diagnosis from Johns Hopkins, it is interesting that she sticks to her first suspicion and weaves the two things into one narrative: that it was still somehow caused by the electrical fields in the building and the microwave antennas on the roof. She just happened to be particularly susceptible to them due to her "congenital problems." It doesn't occur to her that almost everybody has similar symptoms occasionally, so when her colleagues had them, in her mind, it will also have to have been caused by the environment, the electromagnetic fields.

Even though she is very interested in feminist issues, it doesn't occur to her that the apparently frail masculinity of Polymeropoulos makes him unable to admit to being susceptible to anything – remember his assumption that the deterioration of his long-distance vision isn't just a normal symptom of aging – and that his way of coping with the problems of age and stress is to blame them on the evil adversary and insist that his condition is a "combat injury."

Instead, she has fictionalized the 'syndrome' in a way that confirms it, unfortunately.
The novel might be worth reading for entertainment. I think she's probably a better writer than the one who wrote the last 'syndrome' novel I read. (See post 2,413.)
 
The community of 'targeted individuasl' will feel vindicated by this story:

Chris Nagano on bsky, May 22, 2026
Physical attack (Havana Syndrome) & intimidation force Investigative Journalist Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez who has blown the lid off dark secrets at Zorro Ranch to leave the country
Powerful people involved w/Epstein will do whatever it takes to keep his secrets secret
www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
https://bsky.app/#

Epstein reporter 'fleeing the country' as home becomes target of alleged 'attacks'
Journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, whose reporting has uncovered a number of previously unknown revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, said on Thursday she will be “fleeing the country” after claiming her...
www.rawstory.com

Epstein reporter 'fleeing the country' as home becomes target of alleged 'attacks' (RawStory, May 22, 2026)
“This morning, I was hit in my home office by two episodes of what I later learned were likely Direct Energy Weapon attacks. Look up Havana Syndrome. My symptoms are consistent with such attacks, and entirely new. We wasted no time in leaving the house, for good.”
(...)
There was no verification that her suspicions of attack were genuine.
 
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The Epstein class strikes back!

Now also in New York Post, May 26, 2026:
Reporter who investigated Jeffrey Epstein is ‘fleeing’ the US after alleged ‘direct energy weapons’ attack
It appears my home has been located by, well, whomever is unhappy about my reporting about Zorro Ranch and the local cover up here and the military intelligence roots of the child sex trafficking operation Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were running here in New Mexico," Valdes-Rodriguez wrote last week on her Substack.
Mroopsimexciting on reddit, May 26, 2026
We are under attack from the billionaire class.

I love this turn of events!
The DEW attacks are as imaginary as they've always been, but at least the crickets have now come home to roost – or whatever it is crickets do instead of roosting!
🦗:crick:🦗:crick:🦗
 
I hope this one was hallucinated together by (very dumb) AI:
Havana Syndrome: The Physics, the Weapon, and What Is Actually Being Done to These People (Fear&Wine, May 27, 2026)

I'll go into two examples only and not comment on this one at all:
A subset of patients showed enhanced basal ganglia connectivity before any Havana Syndrome encounter. People with this pre-existing neural profile disproportionately reported close UAP encounters.

1)
Amy Eskridge: May 13, 2022
Window blinds do not spontaneously vaporize. PVC requires negative 250 to negative 450 degrees Celsius to vaporize. Aluminium slats melt at 660 degrees Celsius. Fabric ignites at negative 255 degrees.

According to Wikipedia:
The Kelvin scale is defined so that absolute zero is 0 K, equivalent to −273.15 °C on the Celsius scale, and −459.67 °F on the Fahrenheit scale.
I guess this is the appropriate way to honor the president of the Institute for Exotic Science.

I hadn't heard about Amy Eskridge before, but she appears to be one of the 'mysteriously' disappeared and/or dead scientists currently in vogue among conspiracy theorists:
The Mystery of Missing and Dead Scientists, Explained (Skeptic, April 25, 2026)

Nobody claims that she was killed by the 'syndrome', but Chris Cuomo finds it suspicious that "Amy Eskridge, who was president of the Institute for Exotic Science (an organization she co-founded) and worked on anti-gravity propulsion and electrostatic propulsion systems, died by suicide of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head" because "months before found dead a scientist [Eskridge] texted a friend that "I did not kill myself.”" (Chris Cuomo on Instagram)

2) And then there are the allegedly identical victim profiles:
The Convergence: Why the Injury Profiles Are Identical
The forensic foundation of this entire investigation is the convergence of injury profiles across completely independent cases spanning seventy years.
Rendlesham Forest, 1980, Jim Burroughs: cardiac damage, neurological damage.
The Nolan MRI cohort: basal ganglia damage, cardiac signature.
The Barber retrieval team: cardiac signature confirmed by Nolan.
Amy Eskridge: radiation burns to hands from focused beam exposure.
Moscow Signal victims: elevated lymphocyte counts, neurological symptoms.
Havana Syndrome victims across all documented cases: basal ganglia damage, vestibular damage, cognitive impairment.
I have no idea what "the Barber retrieval team" is.

"The full episode on Havana Syndrome will be available soon on the Fear & Wine Patreon"
 
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FearAndWinePod on X, June 1, 2026
A skeptic scientist built a pulsed microwave emitter to DISPROVE Havana Syndrome.
He tested it on himself.
He now has brain damage.
The Pentagon and White House sent officials to study the device.
#HavanaSyndrome #directedEnergyWeapons #ScienceExplained #TrueCrime
With a one-minute video.

I think (but I'm not sure) that the Fear&Wine people are probably aware that what they put out there is nothing but fiction,
but they aren't up front about it, i.e. they actually claim that what they're saying is "actual science":
I'm not here to do the 'both-sides' version of the story. I am not here to tell you there are competing theories, and who can say? I'm here to tell you what the actual science says, what the documented evidence shows, what has now been confirmed in 2025 and 2026 by government officials and independent scientists.
And a major problem, as evidenced by the replies to the X post from 'targeted individual', is that people take it seriously, e.g.:
Svetlana Dobryanska on X, June 2, 2026
Gov manufactured and using thousands of these devices in the US for decades.
On civilians and their children.
My family’s official file in cia/fbi
TI SUE on X, June 2, 2026
How do people think the Pentagon and the White House tested these weapons and the scientists' theories? They have been testing on targeted individuals for years before this guy. Maybe they needed to see whether what he built was a better version of what they already had.
 
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More whining from former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos, lawyer Mark Zaid and microbiologist and immunologist David Relman:

Havana syndrome advocates press Trump, Rubio and Ratcliffe to seek answers from Cuba (MS Now, June 3, 2026)​

A decade after U.S. personnel in Cuba began reporting unexplained neurological incidents, a phenomenon that came to be known as Havana syndrome, victims are arguing that the Trump administration has a rare opportunity to use its vast new leverage over the Cuban government to force it to hand over any information it has about what happened.
“There is an enormous opportunity here for the Cubans to come clean,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA official and MS NOW contributor who was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury in 2021.
With a video, 1:51 min, allegedly from Mar 7, 2026. However, it sounds as if the video is much older:
"And even though the administration now says Cuba was not responsible for sickening American diplomats, the ties between the two countries may take years to heal."

The Cubans did come clean – several times!
The "Havana Syndrome": a vile pretext for the dirty war against Cuba (Granma.cu, Sep 2, 2024)
Havana syndrome is really Washington syndrome (Granma.cu, April 4, 2024)
Diaz-Canel: False Havana syndrome reinforced blockade of Cuba (RadioRebelde.cu, April 2,2024)
People with Havana syndrome show no brain damage or medical illness (ScientificAmerican, Mar 18, 2024)
When politics obstructs self-correction in science (International Journal of Social Psychology, Oct 31, 2023)
The truth should not fall on deaf ears (Granma.cu, Jan 24, 2022)
U.S. deception syndrome to discredit adversaries (Granma.cu, May 14, 2021)
No scientific evidence to support allegations of sonic attacks (Granma.cu, Mar 4, 2020)

But much like in the case of the Cubans as well as in the case of the ODNI report, Polymeropoulos is as adamant that he was hurt by 'directed energy weapons', i.e. that he suffers from a "combat injury," as anti-vaxxers are that PASC patients are victims of the mRNA vaccines.
 
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Another one from MS NOW, and this is very bad news:
Can Trump Finally Solve the Havana Syndrome Mystery? (MS NOW on YouTube, June 5, 2026 – 6:45 min.)
A decade after U.S. personnel in Cuba began reporting unexplained neurological incidents known as the ‘Havana Syndrome', victims are arguing the Trump administration now has incredible leverage over the Cuban government to try to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. Retired CIA officer and MS NOW National Security and Intelligence Analyst, Marc Polymeropoulos, who is a ‘Havana syndrome’ victim, joins Morning Joe to discuss this and more.

Weren't the CIA and all the other intelligence agencies supposed to have already got to the bottom of exactly what happened? Weren't they assumed to already have that evidence but hiding it for nefarious reasons? It's what Marc Polymeropoulos and his fellow conspiracy nuts usually claim.

Morning Joe host: Retired CIA officer and MSNOW national security and intelligence analyst Mark Polmeropoulos, ...
Polymeropoulos: And if you want to see any kind of rapprochement, it's very simple that they have to come clean, whether it was rogue elements of the Cuban government, whether it was an assistance from the Russians.

Because, of course!, it has to be on of the two possibilities! It has to be something that confirms that Polymeropoulos is the victim of "a combat injury," which is what he usually claims.
So now he relies mainly on the 60 Minutes 'reporting' and claims that the evidence for his alleged combat injury is already an undisputed fact:

Polymeropoulos: And in essence, there's really no debate anymore. I mean, there is some type of foreign adversary who has conducted these type of attacks against Americans. The intelligence apparently is there.

But why does he then need Rubio to coerce the Cubans "to come clean" if the intelligence were already there? He obviously knows that it isn't so he refers to the two Republicans, Jim Hines and Rick Crawford, who say it's there:
Polymeropoulos: They both agree that this is actually real. And so something occurred. It's just the notion of getting to the bottom of it. ... Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI in a worldwide-threats briefing less than two months ago said she was going to rescind old assessments that kind of basically said it was nothing because of the new reporting, the new intelligence. She hasn't done this.
I wonder what exactly "the new reporting" is supposed to be, but I suspect that he's again referring to 60 Minutes and The Insider.

And MS NOW appears to also have accepted the sloppy reporting from The Insider as proper investigative journalism:
Morning Joe host: And we should note our friend Michael Weiss also done a lot of good reporting on this.
Michael Weiss, the guy with the stories about Joy's semicircular canal dehiscence/Minor's syndrome and the biomarkers GFAP and NfL ...
 
Interesting ....
US confirms Havana Syndrome–causing device by March 31? (Polymarket, Mar 31, 2026)
$87,064 Vol.
Rules
This market will resolve to “Yes” if the President of the United States, any member of the Cabinet of the United States, any member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or any U.S. federal agency definitively states that a man-made device or weapon exists that is responsible for, or capable of causing, Havana Syndrome or Havana Syndrome-like symptoms by March 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No”. The primary resolution source for this market will be official information from the government of the United States; however, a consensus of credible reporting will also be used.
Outcome proposed: No
No dispute
Final outcome: No

Market context
Trader consensus on "No" at 100% stems from the March 31, 2026, deadline passing without any official US government confirmation—such as a statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, CIA, Pentagon, or White House—identifying a specific device as the cause of anomalous health incidents known as Havana Syndrome. Recent developments, including January reports of a pulsed radio wave device with Russian components acquired undercover by Homeland Security Investigations and studied by the Pentagon, CIA reviews in Norway, and a March 60 Minutes segment on animal testing, fueled speculation but yielded no conclusive attribution. Intelligence leaders' endorsement of withdrawing a skeptical 2025 assessment signals shifting views, yet absent primary agency pronouncements, traders see insurmountable barriers to resolution. Only an extraordinary late-breaking official disclosure could alter outcomes, though procedural finality now dominates.

So much for:
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.
(...)
But that changed, dramatically, in 2024. 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.

I can't imagine that a a microwave weapon bought from a complex Russian criminal network for $15 million isn't the real McCoyski.
Dr. David Relman: And what the Russians spoke about was the importance of the energy being pulsed in order to have biological effects on humans. When you produce pulses like this, you can actually stimulate electrically active tissue like brain tissue and the heart, for that matter, mimicking what the brain normally does, but now you're driving it with your pulses from the outside.
Scott Pelley: An ideal stealth weapon.
Dr. David Relman: Ideal. Ideal, because literally the person feels as if this is in my head.
We already know what's in Relman's head. Microwave weapons didn't put it there, and it will make people who mimic it look really stupid!
Miles Taylor: It was a continuous sound and one that only changed based on my location.
Dr. David Relman: They left, it dissipated. They returned, it recurred. That to us was something that we had never heard of, we could not explain by known medical or environmental conditions, and to us deserved our special attention in an effort to understand what might be the plausible mechanism.
That mechanism, Dr. Relman's committees concluded, was most likely "pulsed electromagnetic energy." In other words, a focused beam of microwaves fired from a distance.
🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗


ETA: Senate Demands Answers on Pentagon's Mysterious Weapon (Legis1, May 15, 2026)

We all do! They've had it since 2024. Can't they test it on the alleged Norwegian scientist?
 
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