Name: The 60 Minutes investigation into Havana Syndrome
Uploaded: 2026-03-10T21:32:12.000Z
Duration: 9 min 53 s
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It's a sound like I've never heard before.

I heard it about three or four times, always in the same spot, always over my son's crib, and

When we first heard all of these stories, it sounded odd and hard to believe that some invisible ray gun was hitting these people and hurting them.

It was like this piercing feeling on the side of my head.

I remember it was on the right side of my head and I. I got, like, vertigo.

But these are top officials in the US Government.

I'm here because I'm tired of the gaslighting that keeps happening from the US Government.

And when they got sick, the US government tended to doubt their stories, and

we wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.

It felt like a vise gripping my brain stem was there.

We did our best to investigate what had happened to them, and

we now believe there are directed energy weapons that can do this.

And we believe in a subset of the large body of cases that that's what happened.

This was a directed standoff attack against my apartment.

My name is Orianna Zyl de Granados and I'm a producer at 60 Minutes.

We could put back in the thornbite about state actors.

So we've been reporting for nine years on what's called the Havana Syndrome.

We've spoken to over 65 people who say they were targeted by a directed energy weapon.

In 2016 and 2017, there was a series of reported attacks on US diplomats and intelligence officers in Havana, Cuba.

They sustained head injuries, traumatic brain injuries, difficulties in hearing, cognitive difficulties, and

So it created this sort of global mystery known as the Havana Syndrome.

For me, it was November of 2017 when I started to feel lightheaded a lot.

He is a State Department official who's responsible for keeping embassies safe and making sure they're not being attacked electronically.

He and his family, including young children, had ongoing experiences with pressure, pain, noise in their apartment.

It was in intense pressure on both of my temples.

I heard this low humming sound, and it was oscillating.

And he found out that his other neighbor was also.

My symptoms would get so bad that I would throw up or I would wake up with nosebleeds.

And both of them, his family and the neighbor, their health was going downhill rapidly.

Vision, hearing, headaches, all sorts of problems.

The most concerning symptom for me was memory loss, especially short term memory loss.

he's battling these long term cognitive issues, balance issues, issues with his vision and his hearing.

There is no shadow of doubt in my mind that this was a directed attack against my neighbor.

Something I felt like hit me from the left side.

And at first it felt like an electric shock, and then it paralyzed me.

Robin and Bria Garfield were among the first victims that we'd spoken to.

He was a trade officer, commerce officer, posted in Shanghai, China.

Over a period of months, experienced a series of incidents with loud noises, pressure, vibrations.

And the whole family started getting ill.

They say the children suffered blurred vision and loss of balance.

We went on a walk and she just fell on her face.

And then a second time, she completely lost her balance and just fell to the side.

The next piece basically looked at domestic incidents where there were reported cases on the White House grounds.

It was very much the feeling of vertigo and dizziness, and I felt like I couldn't really walk.

We couldn't quite believe that this was happening in the U.S.

how could it be happening in the U.S. this is the world's preeminent intelligence agency.

You know, in 2022, we interviewed Director William Burns, who was the head of the CIA at the time, who followed along with what the Agency had been saying about this issue, that they found it still unlikely that there was a foreign adversary behind these incidents.

You understand how frustrating your comments must be to some of these people who believe they know exactly what happened to them on what day and at what time, and

And yet the director of the CIA is saying, we can't connect the dots.

We're not at a position yet where we can offer hard evidence that would connect all those dots.

As we built a database of victims, we started to see, well, Most of these people worked on issues related to Russia in their jobs, whether they were at CIA or Department of Defense.

They all kind of touched the Russia issue.

Ed Green ran the investigation for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

This was happening to our top five, 10% performing officers across the Defense Intelligence Agency.

And consistently there was a Russia nexus.

Everyone theorized that there were only a few countries who could have done something like this around the world.

One of them, obviously, was Russia top suspect.

So we decided to partner with investigative journalists who work at a Russian dissident magazine called theinsider.ru and we found one particular document in the bowels of the Kremlin that indicated that a Russian intelligence officer had been paid to test just such a weapon.

This particular unit had been engaged with somewhere, somehow, empirical tests of a directed energy unit.

There it is, written down in black and white.

It's the closest to a receipt you can have for this the day this story airs.

The US Government's policy on Havana Syndrome is that it's still unlikely that a foreign adversary is involved in this.