Right After Former CIA Director Dies, his Wife Reveals Havana Syndrome Diag

Late last month, Mr. James Woolsey, the former CIA director under President Bill Clinton, he passed away in his home from a stroke. He was 84 years old. And after he died, his wife gave an interview to the Washington Post wherein she revealed that in the years leading up to his death, Mr. Woolsey suffered from the mysterious ailment that's colloquially called Havana Syndrome. This likely made Mr. Woolsey the highest ranking government official to have been afflicted by this particular disorder, a disorder that, according to his wife, was debilitating. In fact, she said that in the years before his death, they had flown all across the world looking for some kind of a cure. Quote, according to his wife, Mr. Woolsey had been in declining health in recent years as a result of Havana Syndrome. Mr. Woolsey began experiencing the condition following an incident in Washington in 2017 and in Istanbul the following year. We have traveled the world trying to find a cure and a treatment, which sadly we never found, said his wife. Now, even though Mr. Woolsey is likely the most senior level government official to reportedly suffer from this particular malady, he is far from the only one. Ever since the year 2016, when it first started popping up in Cuba, there have been over 1,500 cases of Havana Syndrome being reported by American intelligence as well as American diplomatic personnel across dozens of countries, including right here in the U.S. Now, Havana Syndrome is also known by its official medical designation as an anomalous health incident, shortened to the acronym AHI. And it manifests itself through a slew of different symptoms, including things like headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, which is a ringing in the ear, fatigue, insomnia, nausea, anxiety, blurred vision, and even cognitive issues like memory loss. And it appears to affect different people to differing degrees. Some people's symptoms get so bad that they actually get designated as having traumatic brain injuries, meaning the pain can be extremely acute. But then at the same time, the symptoms can also be chronic and long-lasting, which directly affects a person's ability to work. Reports from many of these people suffering from the anomalous health incidents, they say that their conditions began developing shortly after they heard a loud, unexplained sound. And the scary thing about all this, especially to those who work in foreign service on behalf of the U.S., is that to date, nobody is entirely sure what is exactly causing these maladies, as well as why they seem to only be impacting U.S. intelligence and U.S. diplomatic officials. Or at least we can say that nobody is willing to go and officially declare on the public record what's causing them, because there is a growing body of evidence that's leading a lot of people to suspect that these Havana Syndrome symptoms are actually the result of a directed energy weapon being used by an unknown foreign adversary. Now, one thing that makes Havana Syndrome cases particularly interesting is their timeliness. They only really started to pop up shortly after the U.S. and Cuba began restoring their relations around 2015 under President Obama. It was during that period of time that Cuba got removed from the state sponsors of terror list, political prisoners on both sides were exchanged, diplomatic relations were being restored, and embassies were being reopened. President Obama even famously traveled to Havana to attend a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national team. And so things generally were amicable on the surface. However, shortly thereafter, in 2016 and 2017, U.S. diplomats stationed in Havana began reporting medical symptoms. Things like what we mentioned earlier, hearing strange noises, getting earaches, and experiencing very strong cranial pressure. The symptoms were so severe that dozens of U.S. intelligence officials, they were suddenly sidelined with both lingering and often career-ending illnesses for which there was no known cause. Hence the name given to this mysterious bundle of symptoms as Havana Syndrome, because that's where it started. Now, two years later, in 2018, you had the State Department under President Trump release a 104-page briefing that described their initial investigation into this particular matter. The executive summary of that report, it said that at least 24 embassy staff members in were confirmed to have sustained some sort of a brain injury from an unknown source. And that furthermore, quote, the mechanism for the cause of the injuries is currently unknown. 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Probably the one that you've heard about most recently, most contemporaneously in the literature, is the possibility to use some form of directed energy to affect physiology peripherally and also to affect the physiology and health of the brain. Case in point here, U.S. embassy personnel in Havana and possibly in China. Later in that very same presentation, Dr. Giordano highlighted something called the ripple effect, which basically describes how one act of disruption can have cascading negative effects. I need you to think just for a moment, if you could, why would it be of any value at all to affect, disrupt, and disable individuals who are U.S. embassy personnel in Havana? When did it happen? What was happening? What would be the benefit in fracturing a growing economic, political, and social trust in that part of the world? Who would benefit? What would be the long-term effects, for example, of at least indicating that U.S. embassy personnel and foreign service personnel are vulnerable to these types of threats? Could you impact, pair the threat with some type of conditioned stimulus? So now what you're able to do is to evoke a response in the worried well. Essentially, if I can summarize, he was saying that these incidents, they did way more damage to the U.S. than simply knocking out of commission a few dozen spies off of the playing field. Because Havana syndrome basically became something of a scare tactic toward anyone who does work for the U.S. government or was thinking about going in to doing work for the U.S. government. Because if even highly trained operatives for the CIA could be targeted so easily by something that's at least publicly unknown, then theoretically anyone could be targeted. Also, the mysterious nature of the attacks only added more fuel to the public fear, at least initially. The whole thing actually died down for a while. Havana syndrome basically went away from the public spotlight for a few years before reigniting again in the year 2021, when a slew of additional cases began to get reported by U.S. operatives. This time, however, it wasn't just in Cuba. These reports seem to span the entire globe. In May of 2021, there was a Fox News report about over a hundred of these anomalous health incidents, and they pointed the finger in these cases to Russia. U.S. officials say there are now 130 suspected victims, mostly CIA operatives and U.S. diplomats being treated for brain injuries, debilitating headaches and vertigo, the targets they believe of a directed energy microwave weapon. There's a mysterious direct energy weapon that is being used, and it is causing, in some cases, permanent traumatic brain injury. The Russians have been working on mobile microwave weapons for years. We have to get more information, and we got to tell the public what's going on. The U.S. Air Force and tech firm Apiris have developed a mobile high energy microwave weapon to bring down drones. Apiris is also working on a miniature variant of the weapon that can be easily transported on a pickup truck. This is the type of technology that might be targeting American diplomats. And usually with things like this, when it rains, it pours. And along that line, earlier that very same month as that report about Russia, you had reports of anomalous health incidents affecting U.S. diplomats over in Vietnam. And that incident was made a lot more public because it actually delayed a flight for then Vice President Kamala Harris out of the country. Two months later, in July of 2021, you had roughly two dozen U.S. intelligence officers, as well as U.S. diplomats, as well as other government officials, actually. This time in Vienna, a European Western country, also experienced the symptoms of Havana syndrome. Then the next month, in August of 2021, you had two U.S. officials in Germany who also had to seek out medical treatment. They were suffering from symptoms very similar to Havana syndrome, including things like earaches and fatigue. Now, that, of course, could have been a coincidence, but it also could have been part of a growing pattern. Now, for their part, the U.S. intelligence community was very short on answers. Starting in 2016, all the way up through 2023, they offered very little in terms of what these symptoms could be, what could be causing them, as well as the big question in the room, whether it was some likely communist country behind it all. That was until March of 2023, when they broke their silence. In that month, the National Intelligence Council released a four-page unclassified update assessment, you can see it up on your screen, regarding anomalous health incidents. And the conclusion of that particular report was that anomalous health incidents are very unlikely being caused by a foreign adversary. And for your general reference, within the context of this type of a report, a very unlikely judgment equates to around a 20% chance. Otherwise, you can say it's highly unprobable. The report then went on to say that a review of the existing literature on foreign weapons and foreign research programs led them to believe that there is no credible evidence that a foreign adversary has a weapon that could cause these anomalous health incidents. However, in the very last paragraph of that report, it also mentions that two agencies within the U.S. intelligence community, it doesn't say which two agencies, but two of them, they were not confident in that assessment. And the reason they weren't confident is because the U.S. has laboratories that have proven that radio-frequency energy weapons could, in fact, be a plausible cause for these anomalous health incident symptoms. Meaning, if we can do it, it's not so far-fetched to assume that others can as well. But it's worth mentioning that within the broader intelligence community, that view was in the minority. The majority of the intelligence community that were cited in this report said that Havana syndrome was likely not a result of some sort of a directed energy weapon. Instead, they attributed the symptoms to other factors such as, quote, pre-existing conditions, conventional illnesses, and environmental factors. Now, the publication of this report, which was a long time coming, was not met with glowing reviews. In fact, the findings published in this 2023 U.S. intelligence community assessment, it caused two Firstly, there was a shift in how the Department of Defense provided care for the people suffering from Havana syndrome. And then secondly, there became a lack of trust between the people who were suffering from the illness and the CIA as a whole, who was downplaying what it actually was. A year later, in December of 2024, you had the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence release another report, and that report was a review of the CIA's efforts to provide medical care for those individuals suffering from the AHIs, the anomalous health incidents. However, that Senate Committee report, it also attempted to downplay the theories that were circulating that these particular events constituted an attack by an enemy force. Quote, Although initial reports led many inside and outside the U.S. government to believe that foreign adversaries were attacking USG personnel with an acoustic or directed energy device that has cast doubt on that hypothesis. Yet much remains known about AHIs. Then, besides talking about the unknown cause, the report goes on to describe how the CIA largely mishandled its treatment for the CIA members who fell ill to Havana syndrome, and how that mishandling of the treatment caused significant trust issues between CIA employees and the organization as a whole. And I mean, listen, if you can't even trust your local spy agency, who can you trust at this point? Here's what the report said in its summary. Quote, In sum, the absence of a clear case definition for AHIs, uncertainty surrounding the origin of AHIs, and the CIA's evolving organizational position have greatly complicated the CIA's ability to consistently and transparently facilitate medical care, provide compensation and other benefits, and communicate clearly about AHIs to the workforce. In the very same month, you had the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence release a separate report. It was a 10-page interim report addressing the question of whether the intelligence community was hiding the real reasons behind these anomalous health incidents. And unlike the Senate report, the House report did not buy what the intelligence community was trying to sell. In fact, the House report, they basically wasted no time criticizing the release of the initial intelligence assessment, writing that, quote, The subcommittee has uncovered evidence that the ICA, which is the intelligence community assessment, lacked analytic integrity and was highly irregular in its formation. It appears increasingly likely that the chairman is convinced that a foreign adversary is behind some AHIs. The intelligence community has attempted to thwart the subcommittee's investigative efforts to uncover the truth at every turn. Despite this, the subcommittee has uncovered information illustrative of problems with the intelligence community's assessment's creation, review and release. And so that was, again, the House. A few days later, the National Intelligence Council, they doubled down on their initial assessment, saying that Havana syndrome is very unlikely attributable to a foreign adversary. Now, at this point, there might be a lot of things flying around. So in case you're having a hard time keeping track of all these different reports, here's the gist of what happened. A bunch of people started to get sick starting in the year 2016 and then again in 2021. Then in 2023, the intelligence community came out and they put out a report saying that it's very unlikely that Havana syndrome is being caused by a foreign actor. It's probably a bunch of environmental factors and people's own illnesses. And it's probably just some kind of a coincidence being reported and dots being connected when they shouldn't be. A year later, in 2024, the U.S. House committee came out with a different report saying that, no, the intelligence community might be hiding something and that Havana syndrome is likely being caused by a foreign actor, at least in some of the cases. To that, the intelligence community came out, they doubled down and said, no, no, no, that is still highly unlikely. However, here's the twist. With that latest statement from the intelligence community, the National Intelligence Council did acknowledge a change from that previous report of theirs. You see, the National Intelligence Council is comprised of many different officials from a multitude of agencies. They have people from the NSA, from the CIA, from the DIA and so on. And those people don't always agree. And so in the 2024 update report, they said that, yes, overall, the National Intelligence Council still believes that it's unlikely, it's generally unlikely. But two unnamed intelligence community components, they didn't say which two, but two of them shifted their view, judging that there was a possibility that a foreign actor had the capability to cause Havana syndrome like symptoms. One of those components of the intelligence community said that it was likely, quote unquote, likely, while the other one said that it was roughly even chance, meaning a 50-50 chance. And their rationale for changing their viewpoint was that given the advancements of global technology, it's not a stretch to think that a foreign nation has developed some kind of a directed energy weapon specifically for targeting humans. After all, our very own Department of Defense alone spends at least $1 billion per year on directed energy weapons, which is not a secret. Take a look at this video. The Department of Defense spends about $1 billion annually developing directed energy weapons, such as high energy lasers and high powered microwaves. These weapons can disrupt or destroy their targets at the speed of light. For example, DoD has developed high energy lasers that have successfully shot down drones, but speed isn't their only advantage. They're also less expensive for use than traditional weapons like guns and missiles. Despite those potential advantages, DoD has had trouble getting these technologies out of the lab and into service. The Army has developed a detailed transition plan to support moving these weapons into the next stages of development. We recommend that the Navy and the Air Force develop similar plans. Now, I will mention that while the US has been relatively open for some time about our directed energy weapons programs geared at things like counter drone or anti-missile applications, our government as a whole has never publicly acknowledged that we are, or already have, developed a directed energy weapon capable of producing something like Havana Syndrome. But the fact that we didn't acknowledge it does not mean that we don't have it. In fact, in March of this year, 60 Minutes ran a segment on Havana Syndrome that was very critical of the way that the US government was handling the issue. And included in that segment of theirs was an interview with one former CIA officer who left the team that was designated to investigate Havana Syndrome when it became apparent to him that the intent was actually to cover things up. And then there was this. Three independent sources from different agencies tell us that undercover homeland security agents purchased a miniaturized microwave weapon from a complex Russian criminal network. It's classified. We didn't see it, but it has been described to us. We are told it doesn't look anything like a gun. It's designed to be concealed and small enough to be carried by a person. It is silent and doesn't create heat like a microwave oven. Our sources say the device is programmable for different scenarios and can be operated by remote control. The range of the beam is several hundred feet. It can penetrate windows and drywall. The vital components were made in Russia. Our sources say the key is not the hardware but the software. The programming shapes a unique electromagnetic wave that rises and falls abruptly and pulses rapidly. CBS then ran a follow-up story saying that the undercover agents purchased the weapon for $15 million and then began testing it on rats and sheep at a US military lab for more than a year. And then CNN also independently published a similar report as well. However, of course, I mean, those reports relied heavily on anonymous sources, so you can take them with a huge grain of salt. However, besides those reports, what's undeniable about the issue is that the shift in momentum culminated in Ms. Tulsi Gabbard. You see, earlier this year, right before she abruptly left her post, the then Director of National Intelligence, Ms. Tulsi Gabbard, she rescinded the two intelligence community assessments, which claimed that it was unlikely that Havana syndrome was caused by a directed energy weapon. She basically rescinded them, taking them back, and in explaining her rationale for why she pulled the reports, she released an unclassified memo and sent it out to the entire intelligence community. And in that memo, she wrote that she was pulling the assessments, quote, due to the intelligence community assessments failing to meet the established intelligence community analytic standards. And then in terms of why, she wrote that the pair of assessments selectively excluded relevant intelligence, they suppressed alternative analyses, they relied on ethically flawed medical studies, as well as, quote, limited intelligence collection to maintain an analytic line which relied on absence of evidence. However, even though the memo rescinded those two reports, what the memo did not do was order the intelligence community to take a fresh look at Havana syndrome. It only basically said that the previous assessments of it were flawed, and that's it. And thus far, neither the acting director of national intelligence, the man who took over after Tulsi left, nor Trump's pick, who's still awaiting Senate confirmation, neither of them have made any statements on whether they intend to investigate Havana syndrome further. They might, but at the moment, it's a dead end. However, while the investigation into alleged Havana syndrome attacks against the US appear to be stalled, going nowhere, maybe hit a dead end, recent events have many people speculating if the US itself used a directed energy weapon against Venezuela when we arrested Nicolás Maduro just earlier this year. You see, about a week after that raid on Maduro's compound by US special forces, you had the White House press secretary retweet a post from an account that basically translated an interview with a Venezuelan security guard who was on the receiving end of US special forces. And included in that article, which was translated from Spanish to English, was a small snippet about a type of weapon that the US used, which really sounds like a lot like a directed energy weapon. Quote, at one point, they launched something. I don't know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly, I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was. Now, I will mention that many people are skeptical of this account, including myself, because for one, there are other parts of it where it really sounds almost like pro-American propaganda where the guy just straight up goes, anyone who's thinking of fighting with America should think twice. Nobody can defeat America or something to that effect. And also, there's never been a follow-up regarding any of the people in Maduro's camp who were suffering from the effects of this sonic energy weapon. There's never been a follow-up reporting regarding these people. Also, it's completely unconfirmed. Despite the White House press secretary sharing out this article, the Pentagon has never confirmed the use of directed energy weapons to incapacitate Maduro's guards. However, the closest we have to an admission is from President Trump himself, who, when speaking to reporters, mentioned a secret weapon that was used to disable enemy electrical sensing equipment. And here's what he said. You talked about the weapon, the discombobulator. Discombobulator? Well, I'm not allowed to talk about it. The discombobulator. And so that is, thus far, all we, as the public, really know about Havana syndrome, its effects, and its causes. If you'd like to read more, I will throw my research links. You'll be able to find them down in the description box below, which is that same description box right below those like and subscribe buttons, both of which I hope you smash so this video reaches ever more people. And then, lastly, two things. One, leave your comment regarding what you think about this topic. Do you think I missed something that was relevant and, you know, completely overlooked and maybe changed the dynamic of the whole story? Please leave it in the comment section below. I will mention that, like, even if the wife of the former CIA director was saying that it was a mystery to them and they were flying all across the world trying to find a cure, and he was the former director of the CIA who had, you know, obviously that kind of a vantage point, it does seem to me like the U.S. government really has no idea what it is. Because even the CIA director, who was afflicted by it, didn't know what to do with it. I mean, maybe he knew what caused it. He just didn't know how to fix it. But it seems to me like, reading between the lines, maybe they really don't know what was happening. But maybe I'm being naive. Please leave your comments in the comment section below. I'll be reading them tonight, as well as after the video publishes into the week. And then secondly, on a totally unrelated topic, if you're already this far in the video, I'm sure you're diehard fans, so this is for you. Over on EpicTV, we published a phenomenal documentary called Final Hours. And in it, we ask the big question, which is, what happens to us after we die? I'm sure many people have wondered that question. But in that documentary, we approach the question from a very unique vantage point. We sit down and interview people who have died before. Either they were clinically dead, meaning brain dead, no breath, no pulse, nothing. They were clinically dead. Or alternatively, they were brain dead, meaning that no brain activity. But either way, they came back to life, and they remembered everything that they saw on the other side. The colors, the heavenly realms they visited, the heavenly beings they were able to interact with, being able to see their lives from outside the confines of time and space, being able to see their own lives from the vantage point through the eyes of other people, the people they heard, and the people who loved them. And what was fascinating about those interviews is that different people from all different walks of life, people who have never met each other, never communicated with each other before sitting down for interviews, they told very similar stories, which kind of begins to paint a tapestry of what is actually happening to us after we die. And it's a growing body of research, which I guess you can call either post-death experiences or near-death experiences. NDEs, I think, is the most common term for it. And it's a fascinating scientific research domain because it really is something that can be studied, but the way you study it sort of has to be subjective, which is to interview the people who already died. Because, you know, anyone who did die can't talk about it, but there's a few people who died and came back, and they are able to tell these phenomenal stories. And yeah, I would highly recommend it because, I mean, the people who've watched that documentary, they left comments to us saying it changed the way that they viewed life. They view life differently because of that documentary. So that's all to say I would highly recommend it. If you want to watch Final Hours, the link to it will be right there at the top of the description box below. Just click on that link. It'll take you to the page where you can watch it right away. I would highly recommend it. Technically, I was dead, but I felt that this was more real than real, and I felt more alive than life itself. Thousands have glimpsed something vast and loving waiting on the other side. I was surrounded by beings, some of them I recognize from this life. It's more just like a light, the light of God. I was so happy. I just felt like more and more of the pain of this world was just floating away. What do these human experiences mean for our collective soul? The more we can come into harmony, love, and kindness, the more we're aligned with the essence of the universe. Until next time, I'm your host, Roman from The Epoch Times. Stay informed, and most importantly, stay free.