A lead U.S. military investigator examining reports of what has become known as Havana Syndrome told 60 Minutes he believes U.S. officials are being attacked by Russia and that the official threshold to prove it was set impossibly high.

Greg Edgreen, a now-retired Army lieutenant colonel who ran the Pentagon investigation into what officials refer to as “anomalous health incidents,” said the bar for proof was set so high because the country doesn’t want to face some very hard truths, like the existence of possible failures to protect Americans.

“Unfortunately I can’t get into specifics, based on the classification,” Edgreen said. “But I can tell you at a very early stage, I started to focus on Moscow.”

A 2023 government report deemed it “very unlikely” that a foreign adversary was behind the mysterious brain injuries suffered by U.S. national security officials, yet more than 100 Americans have symptoms scientists say could be caused by a beam of microwaves or acoustic ultrasound. Victims are frustrated that the government publicly doubts an adversary is targeting Americans. The ongoing, five-year 60 Minutes investigation has now uncovered new evidence pointing toward Russia.

Here is the transcript of the March 31, 2024 60 Minutes episode. It’s well worth reading.

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    Except the Pentagon investigation has never come up with any proof that there were any attacks at all. There were multiple studies looking at everything from statistics to evidence of damage in supposedly affected individuals to trying to replicate the effects, and not a single one has come up with anything.

    Some diplomats got tinnitus, and they are blaming sci-fi weapons.

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      Yeah, it’s honestly silly. They’ve been throwing darts at the wall on this forever. Whatever BS propoganda shit has been blamed going back to the actual office in Havana. Russians, Chinese, UFOs, whatever is currently popular.

      Then when they actually put an actual considerable amount of time and money into it, it’s just nothing. It was always nothing, it’s a stupid distraction.

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    Sure bro. The symptoms that sure do present a lot like a hangover must be a vast conspiracy despite never showing up anywhere else, zero proof being found, and serving no conceptual purpose.

    But there are Russians in Cuba! Because Russia doesn’t embargo them, and it’s apparently a pretty dope vacation spot that is desperate for foreign currency.

    See: Symptoms present like hangover

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      I love the idea that because it presents itself like something else it absolutely has to be that and anything else is illogical. You must be one of those doctors that treated Lyme disease patients like they had a case of the Mondays.