Geoff Bennett:
For the last decade, American diplomatic law enforcement and intelligence personnel have suffered grievous, often life-altering injuries in the line of duty.
No guns or bombs or rockets were involved. Many say they felt attacked by sound. That’s debilitating waves of sound and pressure that have left them with traumatic brain injuries, vertigo and other physical ailments grouped under the government designation of anomalous health incidents. You may know it by a different name, Havana Syndrome.
Last evening, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” reported more on this story and assigned blame to a foreign adversary of the U.S., Russia.
For perspective, let’s bring in Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Edgreen. He ran an investigation at the Defense Intelligence Agency about the sources of Havana Syndrome. He’s now the founder and CEO of Advanced Echelon. That’s an organization that takes care of Havana Syndrome survivors and their families and works to pursue those responsible for the attacks.
Thank you for being with us.
You have said that you are confident that Russia is behind these attacks. What informs that confidence?
Gregory Edgreen, CEO and Founder, Advanced Echelon LLC: I just went off of a large body of open-source reporting. You can go to The Insider. They put out a great piece recently, along with Der Spiegel.
There’s a lot of arrows pointing to Moscow right now. And I suggest you guys talk to some of the survivors, because they will give you some very key insights into their backgrounds, what they were doing, things they were working on.
It all paints a very clear picture to the layperson about who could be responsible for this.