Catherine Herridge@C__Herridge
EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Era Intelligence Assessments On Directed Energy Attacks or Havana Syndrome Rescinded @dnigabbard After Our 2025 Investigation
Despite facing systemic resistance within the US intelligence community, an @ODNIgov official confirms Gabbard has rescinded two, Biden-era Intelligence Community Assessments (ICA) related to AHI's (Anomalous Health Incidents) or Havana Syndrome on Thursday in a memo sent to the entire Intelligence Community.
The Biden-era assessments concluded it was very unlikely a foreign adversary or novel weapon was behind debilitating brain injuries among spies, diplomats, military operatives and civilians.
@DNIGabbard committed to a new review after our 2025 independent investigation (posted again here) revealed progressive brain injuries and cases of brain cell death.
- This fulfills Gabbard's promise to initiate a review of the assessments, make the findings public, and ensure the mistreatment and dismissal of those impacted by AHIs is never again tolerated.
- In the memo, DNI Gabbard explains that "a substantive recall of these ICAs is necessary and appropriate due to concerns about analytic bias negatively impacting the objectivity and soundness of analytic judgments."
- She goes on to detail several of the IC analytic “shortfalls” of the AHI ICAs, to include:
— “Failure to use all available sources of intelligence information and selectively excluding intelligence and evidence which did not support the analytic conclusions”
—“Mischaracterizing the contents and sources of the underlying information to support the analytic conclusions and suppress analysis of alternatives”
—“Misrepresenting and omitting information necessary to understand the quality and reliability of underlying sources of intelligence”
—“Inclusion and reliance on an ethically flawed medical study while omitting information critical of the study and its methodology”
—“Limiting operations and intelligence collection to maintain an analytic line which relied on the absence of evidence.”
-DNI Gabbard directed the Intelligence Community to take further action in the coming months to review this topic, ensure analytic integrity, and bring the truth to the American people.
NOTE: In April 2025, we shared the story of Mike Beck and his wife Rita. Beck was a decorated counterintelligence officer who was hit by a directed energy weapon in 1996 while on assignment overseas.
Diagnosed with a Parkinson's like syndrome, Beck passed away earlier this year.
Because of Mike Beck's bravery, his wife Rita, and many whistleblowers who came forward, change is happening and accountability is possible.
