Thread by @michaeldweiss

NEW: A yearlong investigation by @InsiderEng, @60Minutes and @derspiegel has uncovered evidence suggesting that Havana Syndrome may have its origin in the use of directed energy weapons wielded by the Russian GRU’s infamous Unit 29155.  theins.press/en/politics/27…

The Insider et al. have obtained intercepted Russian intelligence documents, travel logs, and call metadata, along with eyewitness testimony that challenges the US intelligence community assessment that it’s “very unlikely” Havana Syndrome is the work of a foreign adversary.

Senior members of Unit 29155 have received awards and political promotions for work related to the development of “non-lethal acoustic weapons.”

Operatives attached to Unit 29155, traveling undercover, have been geolocated to multiple locations around the world just before or precisely at the time of reported anomalous health incidents (or AHIs, the U.S. government's formal name for Havana Syndrome).

Contrary to the information that has been made public about Havana Syndrome — that it began in the eponymous Cuban capital in 2016 — there were attacks two years earlier in Frankfurt, Germany.

Albert Averyanov, the son of the commander of Unit 29155 Gen. Andrey Averyanov, was identified by a victim who was hit in Tbilisi in the fall of 2021.

The identification of Albert Averyanov by the victim is backed up by two U.S. government officials, who underline the fact that the younger Averyanov was in the Georgian capital around the time of the attack.

The victim of a Frankfurt hit in 2014 identified Col. Egor Gordienko as the suspect skulking around outside U.S. consulate housing weeks prior to the attack.

The most well-documented cases involve U.S. intelligence and diplomatic personnel with subject matter expertise in Russia or operational experience in countries such as Georgia and Ukraine.

Two CIA officers posted to Kyiv during the period of intense collaboration between U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence that followed the 2014 Maidan revolution later experienced AHIs after being posted to new missions overseas.

Just as reports of curious ailments experienced by U.S. officials working for the State and Commerce Departments began emerging from China in 2016 and 2017, one of Sergei Skripal’s poisoners,Alexander Mishkin, crossed into the country.

He was disguised among a group of Russian race car drivers and their staff as part of a GRU-controlled transnational racing group known as the Silkway Rally. (Yes, really.)

The investigation has obtained an addendum sent by  Lt. Col. Nikolay Ezhov, one of Col. Ivan Terentiev’s aides and a fellow member of Unit 29155.

The document shows that a prize awarded to Col. Terentiev prize was related to his research on the “potential capabilities of non-lethal acoustic weapons in combat activities in urban settings.”