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Number of hot button issues. one of them a series of mysterious attacks using energy beams that you can even see. national security analyst jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with the latest on all of this. hi, jennifer. >> as president biden heads into the summit meeting with putin, lawmakers passing the bill to provide compensation for the 130 plus american diplomats and cia agents who have been affected by an apparent microwave weapon. leaving to what is now known as havana syndrome. the a...

Story highlights Back in 2004, a US-based company also made a prototype of such a weapon for the marine corps According to leading experts in the field, in recent years portable microwave weapons with the capability to cause the mysterious series of “Havana Syndrome” brain injuries in US diplomats and spies have been developed by several countries. Back in 2004, a US-based company also made a prototype of such a weapon for the marine corps. Codenamed Medusa, the weapon was small enough to f...

The US military is currently developing a weapon called THOR, which will be used as a response to swarms of enemy drones.

AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa At least 130 spies, diplomats, military service members, and other US personnel have been affected. The Biden administration is investigating cases and reports, but the cause is still unknown. The cases of mysterious brain injuries that have been dubbed the "Havana Syndrome" have reportedly affected many more US personnel than previously thought. There were about 60 publicly confirmed cases, primarily from incidents in Cuba and China, but th...

Experts believe that US diplomats and national security officials are being targeted by a very dangerous microwave weapon.

An Air Force laboratory spent $15 million to build THOR in cooperation with engineering firm Verus Research as well as BAE Systems and Leidos.

Other types of sonic assault. russia is considered the main communication base. im joined by nbcs ken delaney. >> russia was always a leading suspect because russia operates in force on the island of cuba as does china. the cubans were suspect as well, but now it looks like theres some evidence pointing to russia including these communications, interce intercept, and the u.s. has determined that some type of microwave weapon may have been used in a way that made people think they were hearing so...

They sent signals that they will not be absent not only from cuba, but venezuela and the region. this is coming at a time when russia is much more aggressive and acting without impunity around the world. you have the nerve agent acts in london and the cyber attacks on our election systems in eastern europe, and the provocative military exercises happening now, and the largest in recent modern memory, and eastern russia, and so, this is another demonstration. if it proves to be right, and if josh...

Really, there was only three suspects. russia, china and the cubans. the russian and chinese intelligence services operate in force in cuba. its still believed its possible some element of the cuban intelligence services cooperated with this. the other interesting thing were reporting here is one of the technologies used to injure these american spies and diplomats was some kind of microwave weapon that is so sophistica sophisticated, the americans dont fully understand it. theyve been testing s...

What technologies were used here, they think they understand more about that. a sophisticated microwave technology was used. russia has always been a likely suspect. russia, china, cuba. and now theyre moving closer to saying it was russia, theyre not ready to definitively pronounce that russia did did. thats why some of these calls for sanctions may be a little premature. >> go we have? and is it the same group of people that are investigating what it is? its a sonic attack of some sort? >> its...