U.S. agents bought a portable Russian microwave weapon that may explain Havana Syndrome

A small, concealable microwave weapon — bought from Russian gangsters by undercover Homeland Security agents in 2024 — may finally explain years of crippling brain injuries reported by American intelligence officers and diplomats, 60 Minutes reports. The Pentagon spent $15 million on the covert purchase, and the device has upended the government's longstanding insistence that so-called Havana Syndrome was psychosomatic. — Read the rest The post U.S. agents bought a portable Russian microwave weapon that may explain Havana Syndrome appeared first on Boing Boing.