An ex-government investigator and CBS’s “60 Minutes” are now suggesting that Russia is behind the mysterious “Havana Syndrome.” This is despite a 2023 government report that found no evidence that Havana Syndrome was caused by foreign agents. So, what has changed? Why is this back in the news? And why are people suddenly blaming Russia? Glenn digs into the facts, including two big coincidences: The U.S. House is about to give Ukraine more aid and many of the alleged Havana Syndrome victims have one thing in common …

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GLENN: There's something else that is bothering me.

In fact, let's -- can we play from yesterday's clips? Can we play the 60 Minutes, former Pentagon investigator says US officers attacked by Russians. This is cut four. This is really important. Listen to this.

VOICE: Are we being attacked?

VOICE: My personal opinion, by whom?

VOICE: Russia.

VOICE: Greg ed Green ran the investigation for the defense intelligence agency. He would not discuss classified information, but he described his team's work from 2021 to 2023.


VOICE: We were collecting a large body of data. Ranging from signals intelligence. Human intelligence.

Open source reporting. Anything, regarding the internet. Travel record. Financial records. You name it.

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

GLENN: Can you tell me about the pattern's you began to see?

VOICE: One of the things I started to notice was the caliber of our officer, that was being impacted. This wasn't happening to our worst or our middle range officers.

This was happening to our top five, 10 percent performing officers, across the Defense Intelligence Agency.

And consistent eight, there was a Russia nexus.

There was some angle, where they had worked against Russia. Focused on Russia. And done extremely well.

The impact has been that, the intelligence officers, and our diplomats working abroad, are being removed from their post with traumatic brain injuries. They're being neutralized.

GLENN: Hmm. They're being neutralized. And Russia was involved. Cut two, please, from today.

VOICE: It was like this piercing feeling on the side of my head. I remember it was on the right side of my head. And I got like vertigo.

VOICE: Olivia Troy was Homeland Security advisor to Vice President Mike Pence.

In our 2022 report, she told us she was hit outside the White House.

VOICE: And then severe ear pain started. So I liken it to, if you put a Q-tip too far, and you're bouncing off your ear drum. Well, imagine taking a sharp pencil. And kind of poking that.

VOICE: And this man told us, he was among the first publicly known cases in 2016, from our embassy in Cuba. That's how the incidence became known as Havana syndrome. He's medically retired from an agency he can't name. Blind in one eye, and struggling for balance.

GLENN: Okay. All right.

STU: It's really weird.

GLENN: It is weird, isn't it? What do you go away with?

STU: On that particular report?

GLENN: What you just heard. What do I take away from that?

STU: Russia is apparently attacking our -- our government officials.

GLENN: Right.

STU: With some sort of weapon? That -- not really explained there. But we've heard about Havana syndrome before.

GLENN: Right.

STU: It seems to be really affecting people who are really hit with what this is.

GLENN: All right. Now, let me take you back to 2023. This is a briefing from the State Department.

Cut three, please.

VOICE: It has been the broad conclusion of the intelligence community since March 2023. That it's unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for these anomalous health incidents. It's something that the intelligence community has investigated extensively. And continues to look at. We will look at new information as it comes in. And make assessments inside the State Department. And with our intelligence community.

VOICE: You can't confirm whether they agree with that in this building?

VOICE: No, they do share that.

GLENN: Hmm. Hmm.

STU: I remember that. That was the big story.

GLENN: Yeah. This is from the Washington Post. A year ago.

The mysterious ailment known as Havana syndrome did not result from the actions of a foreign adversary, according to intelligence report. That shatters a long disputed theory, that hundreds of US personnel were targeted, and sickened by clandestine enemy wielding energy waves as a weapon. The new intelligence assessment caps a year's long effort by the CIA, and several other US intelligence agencies to explain why career diplomats, intelligence officers, and others. Serving in US missions around the world. Experienced what they described as strange and painful acoustic sensations. Many of the afflicted personnel say they were victims of a deliberate attack, possibly in the hands of Russia. Or other adversarial government.

A claim that the report contradicts nearly every aspect, according to two intelligence officials, who are familiar with the assessment, described to the Washington Post. Seven intelligence agencies, participated in a review of approximately 1,000 cases. Of health incidents.

The term, the government uses to describe, a constellation of physical symptoms, including ringing in the ears, followed by pressure in the head, and nausea.

Five of have those agents determined it was very unlikely that a foreign adversary was responsible for the symptoms, either as a result of purposeful actions, such as directed energy weapons. Or a by-product of some other activity, including electronic surveillance that made people sick.

They spoke on the condition of anonymity. One agency, which the officials did not name. Determined that it was unlikely that a foreign actor was at fault, a slightly less emphatic finding.

That did not appreciably change the consensus.

One agency abstained in its conclusion regarding a foreign actor. But when asked, no agency dissented from the conclusion, that a foreign actor did not cause the symptoms.

One of the intelligence officials said. Now, that came out, a year ago.

So one would have to ask the government, were I lying then, or are you lying now?


STU: Is it that these are just people within these investigations, who are disagreeing with the final of the government report?

Because I remember the report. It was a big story at the time.

It was a big thing.

Like everyone, for years and years and years, were told about the Havana syndrome.

Very suspicious and strange.

But no one really knew. And then they came out with this report. This was our conclusion.

We came up with it. It wasn't anybody.

They kind of made it seem like, these were unrelated, sort of general health ailments these people were going through.

Well, let's go through some of this.

60 Minutes spoke with retired general officer, Lieutenant Colonel Greg Edgreen.

Now, remember, he said one agents -- one agents -- or the report a year ago said, one agency didn't agree. So let's just say, that Greg is the guy, who said, I'm not taking a position on this one.

STU: Sure. Okay.

GLENN: He said, that Russia appeared to be the common denominator across most cases concerning Havana Syndrome. One of the things I started to notice was the caliber of our officers.

Okay. Remember? What he just said. Our top five or 10 percent performing officers.

So let's look at those who were targeted.

The investigative journalist also claimed to have obtained an accounting document linked to a top secret Russian intelligence unit called 21159, which outlines a bonus payment for an officer who worked on a project. Concerning potential capabilities of non-lethal weapons.

When I saw it, I literally had tears in my eyes, because it was spelling out, what they had been doing. Said one of the -- one of the victims.

It's not definitive proof of Havana Syndrome Cause. It's the closest to a receipt, you can have, however, for this. Okay. So who are some of these people?

Who are some of the people that were linked? And is it real or a hoax? Let me go there, next.
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Okay. Let's look at what's happening with the CBS report. CBS doesn't have -- and neither did the FBI, have any interest in protecting one of the -- one of the main sources here. That is supposed to be high level intelligence.

Nobody seems to be caring about hiding her identity.

Moreover, CBS acknowledges on multiple occasions. That the FBI has been in the loop, regarding her appearance. And talking points on CBS.

This means that CBS and the FBI have been working in concert on this story.

Which leads to a variety of questions about the independence of 60 minutes, in reporting the story, accurately without any bias.

Remember, the Deep State, they keep going to the same sources that have lied to them, over and over again.

Throughout the piece, there is a stunning lack of real evidence, that delivers a direct link between the Russian agents. Directed energy weapons.

And the variety of claimed injuries.

Now, is there any link. Are there any questions, that should be asked.

Well, here's one. Why isn't Moscow using this weapon against Zelinsky?

Why is there no evidence of Russia using these devices on any battle food, such as Ukraine, or Syria?

There's a journalist, his name is Hans -- Hans Maccadee (phonetic). He noticed, and spoke on X.

He said, it's really important to scrutinize the individual, current, and the former government agents, who claim to be suffering.

So who are they?

Well, one of them is retired from the CIA, in 2019.

Currently, an MSNBC contributor. He was one of the many former government agents who claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was disinformation.

Myles Taylor, another one, is -- wrote the infamous. Anonymous, anti-Trump letter.

Made a career of leveraging his government credentials to write best-selling Trump-bashing Fannie Mae fiction. Olivia Troy, she's a former adviser to Mike Pence. She's followed a similar path to Mr. Taylor.

And the last one, waged the campaign to get social media, to censor critics, falsely accused several people of being Russian-controlled accounts.

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

STU: So you're going with this piece on Havana syndrome, from Jordan Schachtel, right?

GLENN: Yeah. So it's in the dossier. It's really, really well-written, and I think well thought out. He's asking the question, why now?

Why is this story? And this is something that came up to me, yesterday, when we were talking about it on the air, the 60 minutes, had covered this thing.

Wait a minute. Isn't that the same thing that all of the agencies said was not a foreign actor?

Yeah. Well, he thought the same thing, and he went in, and he looked into who these people are. And they're all people that, you know, have either been anti-Trump. Pro-Hunter Biden.

They're all the people that were involved in all of this garbage over the last few years, about Russia. And so that's kind of a coincidence. I mean, incredible.

He points out, in his article, is it perhaps because the House is set to vote on both the massive seizing of Russian assets, and the infusion of cash for the war in Ukraine.

They're set to vote on that, right around the corner. So are they -- is this just another set up? By the government.

Using CBS, to carry the water, to say, see. See how bad they are. It doesn't make sense to me.

It obviously doesn't make sense to him either. What does make sense is that you're being set up and lied to. Because you're either being lied to last year. Or you're being lied to now. Which is it? Which is it?

Well, I would imagine, that you're probably being lied to now, seeing that money is involved. And you watch. You watch. They're going to come out with -- with the Ukraine money. And they're going to say, it's -- it's a loan.

It's just a loan. We're just going to loan them this money. They will pay us back. But it will be a forgivable loan. You watch.