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Polymarket on X, Mar 7, 2026
JUST IN: 60 Minutes claims Havana Syndrome likely linked to a “weapon built by a foreign adversary.”
Probably meant to make people interested in the bet mentioned in the previous post.
 
Before leaving office, Tulsi Gabbard rescinds the ODNI reports.
Catherine Herridge on X, June 11, 2026
Despite facing systemic resistance within the US intelligence community, an @ODNIgov official confirms Gabbard has rescinded two, Biden-era (!!!) Intelligence Community Assessments (ICA) related to AHI's (Anomalous Health Incidents) or Havana Syndrome on Thursday in a memo sent to the entire Intelligence Community.
The Biden-era (!!!) assessments concluded it was very unlikely a foreign adversary or novel weapon was behind debilitating brain injuries among spies, diplomats, military operatives and civilians.

At least, that's what I think she's saying. Herridge doesn't make it clear what exactly those "two, Biden-era Intelligence Community Assessments (ICA)," are.
However, she always goes out of her way to make it 100% clear that she's on Trump's side and blames Biden for all things (allegedly) bad.

Len Ber, the TI celebrity, writes:
Len Ber MD on X, June 11, 2026
Important note: The memo rescinds both 2023 and 2025 IC Assessments, but not the 2022 IC Expert Panel Assessment! Expert Panel Assessment called out pulsed microwaves as the mechanism of AHI1.
He may be right about the 2023 and 2025 (Wikipedia) IC Assessments.
He mentions that the memo doesn't rescind David Relman's 2022 report, but that one was not Gabbard's to rescind. Neither were other reports, which did not at all point to "pulsed microwaves as the mechanism of AHI1."
Ber likes to pretend that those reports don't exist.
 
This is only tangential to the 'syndrome' story, i.e. it's about other stuff Tulsi Gabbard did in the days before leaving office:

Jonathan Howard on bsky, June 21, 2026
A truly vile person. Let’s hope we never have to listen to her again.
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Tulsi Gabbard's Not-So-Shocking Revelation of U.S.-Funded Veterinary Biolabs in Ukraine (Reason, June 17, 2026)
Trump's director of national intelligence revives a Russian disinformation campaign on her way out.

Tulsi Gabbard: Personal life (Wikipedia)
Gabbard's parents have been associated with the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF), a Vaishnava affiliated organization. When Gabbard's parents moved to Hawaii, they had joined the circle of disciples around the founder of the SIF connected with International Society for Krishna Consciousness. She described the SIF's leader, Chris Butler, as a guide/spiritual leader and "essentially like a Vaishnava Hindu pastor" during her early years. Butler has in return likened her to a star pupil. In 2024, the Trump transition team said that Gabbard has "no affiliation" with the SIF. A lengthy investigative piece published in The Washington Post on June 21, 2026, indicates that this claim was not true.

The released documents intended to smear Fauci and revive the lab-leak idea didn't show what Gabbard claimed.
As for the 'syndrome', 'targeted individuals' as well as people like Marc Polymeropoulos expected her to release documents proving that they are the victims of DEW-attacks. It didn't happen. I assume it didn't happen because there are no such documents to release.
 
More Gabbard:
Maddow: The good news about our bad president (MS NOW on YouTube, June 23, 2026 – 8:50 min.)
5:00-->The sect she belongs to is described by people who've gotten out of it as a secretive, authoritarian religious cult.
There's now evidence reported by the Washington Post that her cult leader apparently has been giving her very detailed, very, very specific commands on what exactly to say and what to do as a public official.
And she's been doing it to the letter.

In more detail:
Guided by a Guru? Inside explosive WaPo report about the man who shaped Gabbard's career (MS NOW on YouTube, June 23, 2026 – 7:51 min.)
A new report is raising questions about whether a spiritual guru had influence over former DNI Tulsi Gabbard when she was in congress. Washington Post Investigative Reporter Jon Swaine obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing guidance allegedly sent to Gabbard from 2011 to 2017. Gabbard's chief of staff called the report "false" and "a blatant example of anti-Hindu bigotry." Swaine joins Antonia Hylton to break down how he got the documents and what was inside.
 
The released documents intended to smear Fauci and revive the lab-leak idea didn't show what Gabbard claimed.
As for the 'syndrome', 'targeted individuals' as well as people like Marc Polymeropoulos expected her to release documents proving that they are the victims of DEW-attacks. It didn't happen. I assume it didn't happen because there are no such documents to release.

Polymeropoulos retweeted Catherine Herridge from June 11 and wrote this:
Marc Polymeropoulos on X, June 11, 2026
Amen to all of this. A long struggle it has been. I’m gonna let others say more words on this. Just briefly here-It has been an exhausting fight for me since 2017, and many of us from original cohort in Havana in ‘16. I am tired. But we never gave up, a select few of us. This is the right move by the DNI (sincere thanks to her), long overdue from the USG, and much more to go in terms of accountability for who covered this up, and attribution, re the adversary who did this.
A couple of things are a little weird:
1) "us from the original cohort in Havana." People who have been following this story know that Polymeropoulos was not in the original cohort in Havana in 2016. He was nowhere near Cuba. He didn't hear and record the Indies long-tailed crickets. He was in a hotel room in Moscow in 2017 when he thought he was being attacked by directed energy weapons.

2) Who (and how many) are the "select few of us" who "never gave up"? And what does it mean that they "never gave up"? Did the ones who "gave up" just not care about the money anymore? Or did they come to terms with reality? Did they realize that they weren't victims of a DEW attack? Did they understand that their cricket recordings were nothing more than that? Did they give up the "exhausting fight" because they understood that they had been fighting against windmills? That they had been manipulated into believing that their brains had been damaged?

3) Polymeroulos doesn't mention that what he was hoping for from Tulsi Gabbard was the declassification of documents that would prove that the "original cohort in Havana in ‘16" (and thus he himself by association) were attacked by an adversary using DEWs. From what we know, she released no such documents. Instead, she declared two of the most thorough investigations of the 'syndrome' null and void – much the same way that she declared that the lab leak of SARS-CoV-2 was real and Fauci was a villain. However, in the case of those two issues, she released documents to prove her point, which they didn't. In the case of the 'syndrome,' there appears to have been nothing other than the declaration.

Polymeropoulos can't be unaware of this.
 
This is only tangential to the 'syndrome' story, i.e. it's about other stuff Tulsi Gabbard did in the days before leaving office:

The released documents intended to smear Fauci and revive the lab-leak idea didn't show what Gabbard claimed.
As for the 'syndrome', 'targeted individuals' as well as people like Marc Polymeropoulos expected her to release documents proving that they are the victims of DEW-attacks. It didn't happen. I assume it didn't happen because there are no such documents to release.
Still tangential, but ...
Tulsi Gabbard’s Fauci Files Don’t Prove What She Says They Prove (Lawfare, June 23, 2026)
Gabbard’s declassification theater is a case study in politicizing intelligence.
In her final act as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released a collection of declassified documents about COVID-19’s origins and Dr. Anthony Fauci. The headline claim was explosive: “Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab Research That Sparked COVID.” Her press release and accompanying five-minute-long video monologue went further, accusing Fauci of manipulating intelligence assessments and lying to Congress.
But the documents don’t show anything of the sort.


ETA: I hadn't seen that there's a whole thread about this in Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories.
 
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Video (34:14 min.) of targeted individual Len Ber:
TechNative on X, May 25, 2026
"It is the kind of technology that REACHES INTO YOUR MIND without revealing itself, without your consent, remotely"
@LenBerMd shares his personal Havana Syndrome journey and pushes back on findings that claim these attacks cause no neurological damage.
Watch Cognitive Liberty: Dystopia - http://youtu.be/3i4bl7tkT6Y
At 33:10--> he has a bout of the 'syndrome', and then a document appears (diagnosis?), "Date 2/5/2025" claiming:
To Whom It May Concern:
The patient listed above is under my care. He is medically disabled from any occupation due to major neurocognitive disorder due to acquired neurosensory dysfunction related to directed energy attacks.
More specifically, his condition causes an inability to plan activity, or engage in activity for any duration, as directed energy attacks can occur without notice.
These attacks are debilitating and cause significant residual deficits, both in the immediate recovery and the long term impact. Patient experiences severe pain and vertigo that are specifically disabling on a daily basis as well as other symptoms.
He cannot perform work of any kind, for any duration, with any regularity.
Sincely,
[REDACTED] MD
NPI [REDACTED]
 
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Not even the fans of the DEW idea who aren't Republicans are interested in correct information.
Guys like Mark Zaid and Marc Polymeropoulos, who criticize Trump and MAGA, don't seem to mind when news outlets misinform about the syndrome.
And John Sipher (Wikipedia), a former high-ranking CIA official who reposts several anti-MAGA posts on his Bluesky account on a daily basis, is deeply offended when I point out disinformation about the 'syndrome':
 
New DEW attack!
A potential directed energy weapon at Lockheed Martin? (Reddit, July 9, 2026)
Denverinthedark is a threads account that reports in police scanner activity in the Denver Metro area. We have a couple of Lockheed Martin campuses that work on both NASA and security clearance projects for the military. This sounds an awful lot like the affects of the directed energy weapon that was discovered being created by Russia. Multiple people near the entry gate reported becoming suddenly ill with ear pain. I don't know enough about emergency response to know if asking for a separate tactical channel means anything with regards to security clearance.

Multiple (!) people "becoming suddenly ill with ear pain"!
With something as rare as that, it's just gotta be Russian GRU Unit 29155.
However, some people speculate that Lockheed Martin DEW'ed their own security guards.
There's no other explanation.
Fortunately, we already have the cure!

The Thread thread.
rich_chef_poor_chef makes it sound more like the Swedish Säpo syndrome:
I was just in Roxborough Park a couple of hours ago for a broker tour. I could see Lockheed in the distance, it’s very close to the house. And I specifically remember smelling something strange in the air. It had a strong chemical smell.
 
Apparently, there are no Anomalous Health Incidents anymore!
Department of War Establishes the Directed Energy Bio-Effects Cross-Functional Team, Delivering First HAVANA Act Payments (U.S. Department of War, July 10, 2026)
Under the direction of the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research & Engineering, the Department of War officially renamed the Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI) Cross-Functional Team (CFT) to the Directed Energy Bio-Effects (DEBE) CFT, while the team continues to facilitate the multifaceted implementation of enduring processes, procedures, and capabilities.


Len Ber on X claims that "the type of AHI that is now called DEBE is AHI1 - those diagnoses confirmed using Hoffer 2018 criteria." He also claims that "only about 15–20 people have received compensation through the DEBE CFT."
 
I thought Trump's nominee for DNI director wasn't asked about his attitude to the 'syndrome' at the recent confirmation hearing. Most of the clips I saw focused on Jay Clayton's refusal to answer very simple questions about the 2020 presidential election. Trump seems to think that MAGA's Big Election Lie is the most important qualification for getting a position in his administration:
'If that's not the bottom, I don't know what is': Nicolle AGHAST at Trump intel pick's propaganda (MS NOW on YouTube, July 15, 2026 – 13 min.)
Jay Clayton, Trump's pick for Director of National Intelligence, refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election in his confirmation hearing today.

However, it turns out that Clayton actually was asked about it. He agrees with Susan Collins, who pretends that the "attacks" in the 'syndrome' case are real:
Sen. Susan Collins Presses Jay Clayton on ODNI's Future & Havana Syndrome | DNI Hearing (DWS News on YouTube, July 15, 2026 – 7:50 min.)
During Jay Clayton's confirmation hearing for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Senator Susan Collins defended the mission of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), recalling its creation after the September 11 attacks. Collins questioned Clayton on preserving ODNI's coordinating role and pressed him on the government's response to anomalous health incidents, commonly known as Havana Syndrome. Clayton affirmed the importance of ODNI's oversight role and pledged to engage further on the issue.


4:08–> The second issue I want to bring up with you is the anomalous health incidents, uh, also known as Havana syndrome that have occurred since 2016 and caused in some cases career-ending disabilities for our intelligence, our defense, our State Department employees, the intelligence community initially took these attacks and care for victims seriously. However, for various reasons, this quickly seemed to turn into a very dismissive attitude throughout the federal government with little forward progress.

For various reasons? And quickly?
It took years and years, and it only happened after extensive investigations of 'syndrome' cases – investigations that Tulsi Gabbard declared null and void before she left the ODNI.
I really hope this ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ will be voted out in Maine at the midterms!
 
New article from Robert Bartholomew:
The ‘Havana Syndrome’ Payout: When the Nocebo Effect Wins the Lottery (Psychology Today, July 14, 2026)

KEY POINTS​

  • Havana syndrome compensation is best understood through the lens of social contagion and the nocebo effect.
  • There is a long history of governments paying compensation to the victims of psychogenic outbreaks.
  • Havana syndrome symptoms are so vague that most people would experience one or more in any given week.
The argument is not that 'syndrome' victims don't deserve compensation. It's that, in reality, it's not compensation for insufficient protection against brain-damaging DEW attacks. It's compensation for the scare that the government itself contributed to with its amateurish handling of the scare.
These events raise an obvious question: Why was the bipartisan law for compensation not amended once the intelligence community concluded "Havana syndrome" was an iatrogenic (physician-created or context-driven) condition? Political pressure. Importantly, the law did not require perceived victims to prove that they had been attacked.
 
Havana Syndrome whistleblower Mark Lenzi settles with State Department over alleged retaliation (New York Post, July 23, 2026)
One of the most well-known Havana Syndrome victims has settled his lawsuit against the State Department over the alleged "campaign of discrimination and retaliation" he faced for $650,000, The Post has learned.

'Targeted Individual' Len Ber is probably right when he writes:
Len Ber on X, July 24, 2026
What these facts show us is that for the Department of State it is easier to write another check than to face the record in open court, put officials under oath, or admit that employees diagnosed with Havana Syndrome/AHI exist, and that they have been mistreated. The Department settles, and walks away without accountability.
Except that he thinks that a diagnosis with Havana Syndrome = attacked by DEWs.
 
MAGA journalist Catherine Herridge has found a new 'whistleblower', and this one is the whole conspiracy package:
anti-vax, lab leak, UAPs, shadow government, Fauci, DEWs and 'syndrome' cover-up. He claims to have saved (!) 400,000 from having to get the COVID-19 shots!
Catherine Herridge on X, July 27, 2026
01:51 Erdman “The CIA that I joined is not the CIA that we have today”02:44 Alleges CIA Effort To Block His Whistleblower COVID-19 Origins Testimony05:07 Senate Democrats “No Show” 05:46 Fauci, Health Officials: Credible Allegations Financial Conflicts of Interest08:30 Senator Rand Paul Records: FBI Blocks CBP Access COVID Scientist09:19 Intel Community More Involved in High Risk “Gain of Function Research" Than Publicly Acknowledged11:08 Is There A Scenario Where Dr. Fauci, His Associates Go To Jail?12:20 Opposition to President Trump’s Election Integrity Investigations 13:20 “Massaging” Trump’s Daily Brief/China14:18 Shadow Government — “We’ve Got Globalists Working Inside The Intelligence Community”17:20 MK Ultra + JFK Assassination Files 18:47 CIA/ODNI “Bureaucratic Guerilla Warfare,” Alleges Spying on Gabbard team 20:20 Former CIA Director Brennan Loyalists Still Inside HQ 23:03 Erdman: Havana Syndrome Cover Up Worse Than COVID-19, Claims CIA Records Destroyed27:34 Records About Suspected Directed Energy Weapon Should Be Declassified28:28 Took ‘Everything Gabbard Had’ To Retract Defective Biden-Era Reports29:26 Directed Energy Weapons: Real People Have Been Harmed29:50 Insider Threats30:12 UAP Reports Can Be Released33:41 Lawsuit Over CIA Officers Who Were “Non-Complaint” With Vaccine Mandates36:22 Tulsi Gabbard: “I think she's the only one who actually conducted IC reform and did exactly what President Trump was asking her to do…”37:40 Completed Reports Can Be Released: UAP, COVID-19 and Directed Energy Attacks

Also on YouTube:
Catherine Herridge Reports: The Shadow Government (on YouTube, July 27, 2026 – 39:41 min.)
EXCLUSIVE: Former Senior CIA Operations Officer James Erdman III Blows The Whistle on “Shadow Government,” Urges Senators To Focus On Fauci and The Money Trail, Alleges CIA Effort to Block His COVID-19 Senate Testimony, Destruction Directed Energy Attack Records And Spying on Former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s Investigators
 
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Acoustic Pressures in the Head From Pulsed Microwaves: Can They Explain “Anomalous” Health Incidents? (IEEE Microwave Magazine, Volume: 27, Issue: 8, August 2026)
The microwave auditory effect—referring to “clicks” or “buzzing” sensations that a person experiences when their head is exposed to pulsed microwave energy such as emitted by radar transmitters—has been known since the 1960s. Formerly a threshold hearing phenomenon, the effect has gained renewed interest due to the advent of high-powered microwave sources in recent decades. Over the past decade, some experts and expert panels have implicated the effect as a cause of “anomalous health incidents,” often but not exclusively to U.S. Government employees stationed in unfriendly countries. Can the microwave auditory effect explain such events?

From the paper, p. 12:
"The microwave auditory effect remains, at present, only an intriguing hypothesis that we judge to be at the outer
edges of credibility."


The good news (from p. 3):
"Figure 1. “One can shield, with a 2-in.sq. piece of fly screen, a portion of the stippled area … and completely cutoff the rf sound.”
I guess all U.S. secret agents and embassy employees have been supplied with tin foil hats or those 2-in-sq. pieces of fly screen, maybe sewed into a wig. I assume the fly screen has to be the metal-wire kind, not plexiglass or plastic.
 
MAGA journalist Catherine Herridge has found a new 'whistleblower', and this one is the whole conspiracy package:
anti-vax, lab leak, UAPs, shadow government, Fauci, DEWs and 'syndrome' cover-up. He claims to have saved (!) 400,000 from having to get the COVID-19 shots!
Statistically that makes him a mass murderer.
 
Statistically that makes him a mass murderer.
Yes, in a way, If true, but I think he's grossly exaggerating.
Besides, again if true, he didn't exactly prevent them from getting health-care, he was just responsible for getting them permission to shirk previously mandatory jabs, which is more akin to helping them commit assisted (albeit involuntary) suicide.
There are many ways to kill people. You can shoot them with an AR-15, deny them access to health care, deprive them of healthy food, evict them or place them in unhealthy housing, make them work two or three jobs at minimum wage, drive them to suicide, enlist them as soldiers, etc. Very few of these ways of killing people are prohibited by the state, and the market is fine with all of them. (Loosely based on Bertolt Brecht)
I assume that only an ignorant and very small minority of the alleged 400,000 didn't take advantage of getting the free jabs.
And then there's this:
Catherine Herridge Reports: The Shadow Government (CatherineHerridgeReport on YouTube, July 27, 2026 – 39:41 min.)
EXCLUSIVE: Former Senior CIA Operations Officer James Erdman III Blows The Whistle on “Shadow Government,” Urges Senators To Focus On Fauci and The Money Trail, Alleges CIA Effort to Block His COVID-19 Senate Testimony, Destruction Directed Energy Attack Records And Spying on Former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s Investigators
On the Eve of Dr. Fauci’s Scheduled Testimony Wednesday, Erdman details “bureaucratic guerrilla warfare” to hide the facts, what he calls the “Globalist” mentality inside the intelligence community, push back against President Trump's agenda, reveals potential financial conflicts of interest surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci and gain-of-function research and why he believes the Havana Syndrome cover-up was bigger than COVID.
(...)
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak did not return emails seeking comment.

23:03 Erdman: Havana Syndrome Cover Up Worse Than COVID-19, Claims CIA Records Destroyed
27:34 Records About Suspected Directed Energy Weapon Should Be Declassified
28:28 Took ‘Everything Gabbard Had’ To Retract Defective Biden-Era Reports
29:26 Directed Energy Weapons: Real People Have Been Harmed
29:50 Insider Threats
30:12 UAP Reports Can Be Released
33:41 Lawsuit Over CIA Officers Who Were “Non-Complaint” With Vaccine Mandates
36:22 Tulsi Gabbard: “I think she's the only one who actually conducted IC reform and did exactly what President Trump was asking her to do…”
37:40 Completed Reports Can Be Released: UAP, COVID-19 and Directed Energy Attacks

The irony is that this genius may not only have helped some people die by staying unvaccinated. He may also have helped others get non-fatally infected with Covid (and maybe even get Long Covid), the symptoms of which some of them may have interpreted as the symptoms of directed energy attacks.
That's a win-win for a conspiracy nut.
 
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Catherine Herridge on X, Aug 8, 2026
NEW CLUSTER HAVANA SYNDROME CASES:
I have confirmed through multiple sources at least three incidents beginning in 2020 of suspected directed energy attacks involving US government personnel in Northern Virginia. I also understand the number of reported incidents is much higher.
In some cases, the individual(s) were investigating directed energy weapons (DEW) technology. At least one incident was reported to occur at a US government facility. In previous cases, the individuals' US government work was linked to the Russia portfolio.
I also learned that the cluster of new cases presents pattern: an initial strike then followed by a flurry of attacks. CIA/ODNI did not respond to questions seeking comment.
NewsNation on X, Aug 8, 2026
EXCLUSIVE: Reports of potential directed energy incidents on U.S. soil are on the rise. Neurologist and directed energy weapons expert Dr. James Giordano joins “Katie Pavlich Tonight” to break down the science and the threat.
More: https://newsnationnow.com/katie-pavlich-tonight/
With a video, 3:21 min.

James Giordano, who has been adamant that 'AHI1' cases, approximately corresponding to the Havana cases in 2016-17, were the real McCoy, now embraces Catherine Herridge's alleged new cases:
I've identified at least three incidents beginning in 2020 involving U.S. government personnel in northern Virginia. In some cases, the individual were investigating directed energy weapon technology. And at least one incident occurred at a U.S. government facility.
Giordano now claims that there are two kinds of DEW attacks: "One was a form of sonic energy, and the other appears to be a laser-induced microwave."
I guess Giordano feels more confident with this new line of thinking because it avoids the problem of switching from one explanation, i.e. sonic attacks, to another, i.e. microwaves. Now it's both!
Herridge and Giordano stick to the rule of conduct that has been in place for a couple of years:
🦗🦗🦗Don't mention the crickets! 🦗🦗🦗
 

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