Spy Agency Bosses Pledge New Look at Havana Syndrome
Congressional intelligence committees extract promises from Gabbard and others to revisit 2025 report that brushed off suspicions of Russian responsibility for incidents
It’s not all in your head, U.S. spy masters effectively told victims of so-called Havana Syndrome Thursday morning, when they agreed in congressional testimony that previous intelligence community assessments dismissing foreign involvement in the suspected “directed energy” attacks they’ve been reporting for years should be retracted.
“Put simply, it’s my clear opinion that individuals in the intelligence community were involved in a cover-up,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford (R-AR) said at the opening of a Thursday hearing, whose focus on foreign threats, particularly Iran, overshadowed the remarkable spy agency turnaround on Havana Syndrome.
Crawford asked the heads of National Intelligence, the CIA, FBI, NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency to respond “yes or no” on whether the 2025 report by the National Intelligence Council, which called the involvement of “a state actor” in the debilitating incidents “very unlikely,” should be “retracted.”
