A weapon that can silently fry your brain through a wall. It sounds like fiction. It's not.
The US government secretly bought a portable microwave device from a Russian criminal network in 2024, and the Pentagon has spent over a year testing it on animals at a military facility, according to a60 Minutes investigationthat aired on 8 March.
The injuries in those animals match what more than 1,500 American officials have reported since 2016: debilitating headaches, vertigo, memory loss, and cognitive damage.
The condition is calledHavana Syndrome. And the weapon that may cause it is now in US hands.
Three independent sources from different government agencies described the weapon to 60 Minutes. It doesn't look like a gun. It's small enough for one person to carry, silent, and programmable for different scenarios. It can be operated by remote control.
The range? Several hundred feet. It can penetrate windows and drywall.
Department of Homeland Security undercover agents purchased the device for approximately $15 million (£11.28 million), funded by the Pentagon. The vital components were made in Russia.
For years, the CIA insisted a microwave weapon capable of causing these injuries would need to be the size of a truck. That argument just collapsed.
A former CIA officer who worked on the agency'sHavana Syndromeinvestigation told 60 Minutes the unit's mission from day one was to 'bring down the temperature' by steering conclusions toward environmental causes. He quit in 2022.
'This is a massive CIA cover-up,' said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA officer who was disabled after an incident in a Moscow hotel in 2017. Another senior intelligence official called it 'the biggest cover-up I've seen in my adult life.'
Source: International Business Times UK
