Directed Energy Weapons: Credible, Crippling & Complex

Investigative journalist, Catherine Herridge speaks with US Intelligence officers who were injured by Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) while serving the US Government overseas, as far back as the mid-1990s and about how the Government has consistently denied the existence of their injuries and has denied them Workers’ Compensation insurance for their injuries, especially if these occurred before 2016.

An Intelligence Community Assessment released last January by the Biden administration says, “Most of the Intelligence Community continues to assess that it’s very unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for the events reported as ‘Havana Syndrome’ or ‘Anomalous Health Incidents'”.

However, top US Neuroscientist and Military Advisor, Dr James Giordano disagrees with this assessment and he confirms that these reports are credible and that the US, China and Russia all have such weapons. He believes the reason why these injured officers have been denied the appropriate medical care is because aspects of their cases are classified.

Dr Giordano explains that these injuries are likely the result of three different weapons; two forms of sonic weapon, that both use the expansions and contractions of sound waves to disrupt the function and structure of human tissues – especially, in brain. He says the third is the use of scalable and directable microwaves.

Dr Giordano describes the causation of these injuries:

“If you were to take your phone and put it in the microwave oven for a second or two seconds, you would take the phone out and structurally it would look fine. It would seem that it would be working just fine for you, on some levels.

“But the actual sophistication of that phone would have been changed, as a consequence of the microwave damage. And not only will it change then, but that change is durable and characteristically, progressive…

“It can cause both brain cell death and change in the functional ability of various cells and nodes in the brain to be able to maintain the networks that are so vital to our thought, our emotions, and our behaviors…

“The problem with directed energy attacks, like many things that can happen to the brain, is that the initial insult at the injury, itself is nothing more than the first snowball that then leads to the avalanche.

“The injury to the brain impairs the brain’s ability to not only function at the time of the injury and thereafter, but to compensate effectively. So then you begin to see a cascade of effects.”

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck says he was injured by a DEW attack in 1996 while working overseas. In 2006, when he was 45 years old, he was diagnosed with “Parkinsonism”, a condition that is rarely seen in patients younger than 70.

Although the NSA issued a National Security Memo in 2014, confirming intelligence reports on the existence of a high-powered microwave system weapon in the hostile country where Beck says he was attacked, they denied there was “Evidence that such a weapon, if it existed and if it was associated with the hostile country in the late 1990s, was or was not used against Mr Beck.”

Now 63, Beck’s condition has advanced to the point where he must live in an assisted living facility. He’d previously been denied three times to receive Workers’ Compensation insurance for his clearly-documented Traumatic Brain Injury but just recently, the Government agreed to pay for his assisted living care. However, there’s currently a balance due of over $25,000 and the couple is concerned that he might be kicked-out.

Catherine Herridge notes that the Trump administration is more openly addressing Havana Syndrome. In February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told her, “There are, most definitely cases where there is no logical explanation, other than the fact that some external mechanism caused them to suffer brain injuries that, in many cases, look like they were hit over the head with a baseball bat or assaulted, somewhere.”

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by Catherine Herridge

BREAKING: Top US Neuroscientist & Military Advisor Confirms Reports Are ‘Credible’ That Directed Energy Weapon Attacks Have Happened on US Soil and Targeted US Personnel Abroad; Exclusive New Records Reveal Exposure to “Microwave Weapon” After Intel Officer Discovered Secret Op.

“These are weapons of maximum disruption…It allows you to get in fast, hit hard, get out, and only then will the effects begin to be known.”

1:50 Reports of DEW Attacks on US Soil Are Credible

2:50 Different Types of DEWs: Sonic & Scalable, Directable Microwaves

3:30 Retired Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck Now In Assisted Living Following DEW Attack

4:50 DEW Attack Happened After Beck And His Partner Discovered Operation Targeting USA By Hostile Country

6:40 How DEW Attacks Disrupt & Destroy Brain Networks 7:30 DEW Attack Aftermath: Brain Cell Death & The Domino Effect

8:20 Big Three: USA, Russia & China Have DEW Capability

9:05 Why Beck’s Case Stands Out And The Legacy of Suffering

10:20 CIA Whistleblower ‘Alice’ Targeted by DEW in Africa

11:00 Exclusive New Medical Records Document Beck’s Microwave Weapon Brain Injury

11:55 US Government Denied Beck Workers’ Compensation Multiple Times Before Approving It

12:10 US Government Currently Three Months Behind ($25,000+) On Payments for Beck’s Assisted Living

13:00 Beck: US Government Has Critical Evidence About Attacks & Weapons

14:20 Directed Energy Weapon Attacks Started in 2016: False

14:50 Trump Administration Openly Addresses Havana Syndrome: Secretary Rubio

15:50 Beck’s Request for President Trump

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TRANSCRIPT

(Opening montage)

Catherine Herridge: Are directed energy weapons real?

Dr James Giordano: Without doubt.

Catherine Herridge: Have directed energy weapons been used against US Government personnel?

Dr James Giordano: Absolutely. These are weapons of maximum disruption.

Catherine Herridge: Mike, you did counterintelligence work for the US Government [National Security Agency]. You dealt with highly-classified information.

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: We walked in on an operation that the hostile country was doing.

Catherine Herridge: So you were attacked by a hostile intelligence service.

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Right.

Catherine Herridge: It fundamentally disrupts the brain network.

Dr James Giordano: Yes, ma’am.

Catherine Herridge: And can cause brain cell death.

Dr James Giordano: Yes, ma’am.

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: We’d applied for Workers’ Compensation. The agencies involved did everything they could to not approve my application.

Catherine Herridge: You were denied three times for Workman’s Comp.

Rita Cicala (wife): Right. All these people being injured and you’re just saying, “No, it didn’t really happen!”

Catherine Herridge: I have a letter here from one of the country’s leading Parkinson’s experts:

“I can state that Mr Beck has a much more clearly documented exposure to a microwave weapon than those patients described in either the literature or the media. Mr Beck clearly merits the recognition that his Parkinson’s disease and its associated symptoms are due to his government service.”

Catherine Herridge: Mike, do you think it’s a government cover-up?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Yes.

(Show title: “Directed Energy Weapons: Credible, Crippling & Complex”)

Catherine Herridge: Based on your firsthand research, are Directed Energy Weapons real?

Dr James Giordano: Without doubt.

Catherine Herridge: Have directed energy weapons been used against US Government personnel?

Dr James Giordano: Absolutely.

Catherine Herridge: Have directed energy weapons been used at targets overseas?

Dr James Giordano: Yes, ma’am.

Catherine Herridge: Are reports of directed energy weapon attacks inside the US credible?

Dr James Giordano: Absolutely.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) A longtime advisor to the US military, James Giordano, is the Director of the Center for Disruptive Technology and Future Warfare at the National Defense University. Giordano shared his expertise with the caveat, he does not speak for the US Government.

Dr James Giordano: These are weapons of maximum disruption. It allows you to get in fast, hit hard, get out. And then, and only then, will the effects begin to be known.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) In 2016, when almost two dozen government employees became ill in Cuba at the US Embassy, Giordano was brought in as a lead consulting neuroscientist.

The US diplomat’s debilitating brain injuries became known as “Havana Syndrome” or “Anomalous Health Incidents”.

Catherine Herridge: (To Dr Giordano) How many types of Directed Energy Weapons exist that have been used against US Government personnel?

Dr James Giordano: To my experience and from my analysis, essentially three.

So, we’re looking at two forms of sonic weapon. They both use sound and the expansions and contractions of a sound wave as the mechanism, by which it’s going to disrupt function and structure of various tissues. But they do so differently.

And the third was something that was really something of a revelation. And this is the use of scalable and directable microwaves.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) With nearly 2,000 reported attacks in more than a dozen countries, our team hit the road to investigate validated Havana Syndrome cases.

We traveled to Maryland and this assisted living facility to visit retired counterintelligence officer, Mike Beck. Medical records we exclusively obtained link a microwave weapon to Beck’s clearly-documented brain injury. Beck moved here last August after his condition worsened and his wife of 40 years could no longer care for him at home.

Rita Cicala: It was devastating. We had a bucket list for when we retired. And being together was on it, not living apart.

Catherine Herridge: Mike, was it a hard decision for you to leave your family home and move into assisted living at, what, 63?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: It was hard. It was depressing. But I understood the situation I was in.

Catherine Herridge: Help people understand what they’re seeing and hearing from your husband.

Rita Cicala: So, it has been a slow deterioration, over time. And he’s gradually losing his train of thought. He forgets what the next word is, so he’ll get stuck. And he just, he’ll stop, because his brain isn’t processing fast enough.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) An incredibly sharp and capable counterintelligence officer, much of Beck’s 33 years of government service remain classified. Beck’s progressive brain injury has left him physically and mentally debilitated. We took multiple breaks during our interview.

Catherine Herridge: Mike, you did counterintelligence work for the US Government. You dealt with highly-classified information; Above Top Secret, Special Access Programs. Does your government intelligence work remain highly-classified to this day?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Yes. Yes, it is.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) A year after this home video was shot of his daughter’s christening in 1995, Beck describes a Directed Energy Weapon attack that hit him and his partner while on assignment for the US Government. The location remains secret.

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: We traveled to a hostile country and we found some pieces of gear that we only heard about. We walked in on an operation that the hostile country was doing.

Catherine Herridge: So, you were attacked by a hostile intelligence service after you made a major find about their capabilities, that they were going to use against the United States?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Right.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) This 2014 National Security Memo linked the hostile country where Beck says he was attacked to a high-powered microwave system weapon. But the Becks are still fighting for recognition.

UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
FORT GEORGE G MEADE, MARYLAND, 20755-6000

October 16, 2014

(U//FOUO) The National Security Agency confirms that there is intelligence information from 2012 associating the hostile country to which Mr Beck traveled in the late 1990s with a high-powered microwave system weapon that may have the ability to weaken, intimidate, or kill an enemy over time and without leaving evidence. The 2012 intelligence information indicated that this weapon is designed to bathe a target’s living quarters in microwaves, causing numerous physical effects, including a damaged nervous system. The National Security Agency has no evidence that such a weapon, if it existed and if it was associated with the hostile country in the late 1990s, was or was not used against Mr Beck.

Catherine Herridge: (To Rita) If this memo is not enough evidence that your husband was hit by a Directed Energy Weapon, what else does the US Government need?

Rita Cicala: They basically wanted the hostile country to say, “Yes, we hit Mike Beck on this date, this time, in this place.”

Catherine Herridge: Why do you think the US Government is setting the bar so high?

Rita Cicala: I think they just wanted to protect their reputation, instead of protecting their employees.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) Giordano showed us how brain injuries like Beck’s can happen. Hollow spaces in the skull, the mouth, nose, ears, and eye sockets can become echo chambers, funneling energy waves into the brain, with catastrophic consequences.

Dr James Giordano: I think the easiest way for a lay person to understand what, particularly rapidly-pulsed microwaves could do is to think about something like Wi-Fi connections in a cellular phone.

So if you were to take your phone and put it in the microwave oven for a second or two seconds, you would take the phone out and structurally it would look fine. It would seem that it would be working just fine for you, on some levels.

But the actual sophistication of that phone would have been changed, as a consequence of the microwave damage. And not only will it change then, but that change is durable and characteristically, progressive.

Catherine Herridge: That’s what a directed energy weapon attack does.

Dr James Giordano: Yes, ma’am.

Catherine Herridge: It fundamentally disrupts the brain network.

Dr James Giordano: Yes, ma’am.

Catherine Herridge: And can cause brain cell death.

Dr James Giordano: Yes, ma’am. It can cause both brain cell death and change in the functional ability of various cells and nodes in the brain to be able to maintain the networks that are so vital to our thought, our emotions, and our behaviors.

Catherine Herridge: When a directed energy weapon attack happens, is that the end of the damage?

Dr James Giordano: The problem with directed energy attacks, like many things that can happen to the brain, is that the initial insult at the injury, itself is nothing more than the first snowball that then leads to the avalanche.

The injury to the brain impairs the brain’s ability to not only function at the time of the injury and thereafter, but to compensate effectively. So then you begin to see a cascade of effects.

Catherine Herridge: Who or what is responsible?

Dr James Giordano: This becomes difficult. But I think what’s important to note is who has developed these technologies and who may be using them, in a whole set of practices. Here we encounter, if you will, the big three.

The United States and some of its international economic and technological and military allies. Our trans-Pacific peer competitor, China, who has developed these types of technologies for a variety of uses. And certainly, our trans-Atlantic peer competitor, Russia.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) These British medical records show in 2006, Beck was diagnosed with “Parkinsonism”. That’s an umbrella term that refers to brain conditions that cause slowed movement and stiffness.

Catherine Herridge: (To Rita) What made Mike’s Parkinson’s case stand out?

Rita Cicala: Well, it’s very unusual, because he was a young onset. He was only 45. It’s usually 70s, 60s, late 60s to be diagnosed.

Catherine Herridge: Did he have any of the typical signs of Parkinson’s?

Rita Cicala: No. His first sign, that I noticed was his anxiety. He never had the tremor. He still doesn’t have a tremor.

Catherine Herridge: So you’ve had a Parkinson’s diagnosis and then more recently a diagnosis of dementia.

Rita Cicala: Yeah.

Catherine Herridge: Is that a secondary consequence of the Parkinson’s?

Rita Cicala: Yes.

Catherine Herridge: Are you frustrated? Are you looking for the words?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Yes, it’s very frustrating. I always wanted to have my A Game on, for work assignments. Until I got hurt, I had a lot of success in the workplace. The one thing I can say about work is, I loved my job.

Rita Cicala: I can see a lot of sadness in your eyes.

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: It was a great career. I was blessed to have such a good job, to work with good people.

Rita Cicala: (Narrating) Cases like Beck’s impact diplomats, military operatives, law enforcement professionals, and America’s spies.

CIA Whistleblower, “Alice”: I was an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency for 19 years.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) In December, a CIA whistleblower, we agreed to call “Alice”, to protect her identity, came forward for the first time. Alice described the fallout of a Directed Energy Weapon attack targeting her, in Africa.

CIA Whistleblower, “Alice”: We’re basically like ticking time bombs, Catherine. You know, I’ve already started having to go to funerals. I have friends in nursing homes. I have friends with dementia and Parkinson’s.

In some ways, you know, people have a heart attack. And if you don’t die of it, we know how to fix a heart attack. We don’t know how to fix this.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) Like the CIA whistleblower, the Labor Department acknowledges Beck’s Traumatic Brain Injury is the result of his government service. In Beck’s case, the Labor Department only acknowledged his Parkinson’s diagnosis after a high-profile intervention.

Catherine Herridge: (To Mike) I have a letter here from one of the country’s leading Parkinson’s experts.

He writes, “Although I have limited expertise in so-called ‘Havana Syndrome’, I can state that Mr Beck has a much more clearly-documented exposure to a microwave weapon, as well as a much more clearly-documented brain injury than those patients described in either the literature or the media.

“Mr. Beck clearly merits the recognition that his Parkinson’s disease and its associated symptoms are due to his government service.”

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: We had applied for workers’ compensation, and the agencies involved did everything they could to not approve my application.

Catherine Herridge: You were denied three times for Workman’s Comp.

Rita Cicala: Right.

Catherine Herridge: Did you finally get workman’s comp?

Rita Cicala: The benefit we received was, they will pay for Mike’s assisted living.

Catherine Herridge: You shared one of the bills for the assisted living with our team, and it says there’s a balance due of over $25,000. Is the government paying Mike’s assisted living on time?

Rita Cicala: No.

Catherine Herridge: No?

Rita Cicala: No.

Catherine Herridge: How many months behind is the US Government on its payments for Mike’s assisted living?

Rita Cicala: Three months behind.

Catherine Herridge: Does that just create more anxiety? It does. It’s scary.

Rita Cicala: I mean, I don’t know how long, you know, when am I going to get the call that says, “You’re going to have to pay this, because we still haven’t gotten a check?” And it’d be devastating because, you know, we’re not living on a whole ton of money.

Catherine Herridge: I have this Intelligence Community Assessment from January. It was released by the Biden administration.

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: It says, “Most of the Intelligence Community continues to assess that it’s very unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for the events reported as ‘Havana Syndrome’ or ‘Anomalous Health Incidents.’

Rita Cicala: It’s ridiculous! I mean, all these people being injured and you’re just saying, “No, it didn’t really happen.” I mean, how do you make this up?

Catherine Herridge: Mike, do you think it’s a government cover-up?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Yes.

Catherine Herridge: Is the US Government trying to limit the identification of cases and compensation?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: That sounds reasonable.

Catherine Herridge: Is that what you think?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: I think it’s problematic that there’s evidence that the US Government has, regarding the availability and use of the weapons and that hasn’t been brought to light.

Catherine Herridge: Were you left behind by the US Government?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Most definitely.

Catherine Herridge: (To Dr Giordano) There’s a narrative that directed energy weapon attacks didn’t really begin until 2016. Is that a false narrative?

Dr James Giordano: It is. It is. I think part of the problem is that the cases prior to them were far more insular cases, and they occurred in particular circumstances that did not warrant broad public dissemination. In other words, characteristically, it was some aspect of that case that was Classified.

Catherine Herridge: (Narrating) The Trump administration is more openly addressing Havana Syndrome. In February, we sat down with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio: But I think there are, most definitely cases where there is no logical explanation, other than the fact that some external mechanism caused them to suffer brain injuries that, in many cases, look like they were hit over the head with a baseball bat or assaulted, somewhere.

We can’t ignore that. And in the meantime, what we have to ensure is that whether they were State Department personnel or working for some other agency, that those people are getting the treatment and the support that they need.

Catherine Herridge: Has there been a sea change within the US Government about Directed Energy Weapon attacks?

Dr James Giordano: It’s been perceptible to me and for many of my colleagues that at this point, there’s really much more of a lean-in to this, recognizing A) the reality of the actual devices; B) the reality of the individuals who suffered an injury; and C) the need to do something about it.

Catherine Herridge: Mike, what are you fighting for?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Equity for our family.

Catherine Herridge: What are you asking President Trump to do?

Retired NSA Counterintelligence Officer Mike Beck: Clean up the mess that’s been made, with all these inaccuracies.

Catherine Herridge: Rita, what are you asking President Trump to do?

Rita Cicala: I think he needs to show that we care about Americans First and that other countries, even if you don’t name them, don’t have the right to harm our people. And it should stop.