A classified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concludes that Russia may be behind Havana Syndrome and that the Biden administration's intelligence community conducted a cover-up to bury the evidence.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been pushing to make the findings public. The CIA, so far, has helped delay that release.

The battle lines are drawn inside the intelligence community, and the stakes are not abstract. Hundreds of US officials have been sickened dating back to 2016, suffering sudden onset of vertigo, hearing loss, migraines, blindness, and cognitive impairment. According to the NY Post, the first cases were reported by US diplomats in Cuba, where the US Embassy was ultimately shut down. Nearly a decade later, those officials still don't have answers. According to sources familiar with the case, the answers exist. They're just locked in a vault.

The weapon, the purchase, and the lab results

CBS News' "60 Minutes" reported Sunday that American agents secretly purchased a miniaturized microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network for roughly $15 million as part of a Pentagon-backed effort. Tests conducted at a US military laboratory on animals, including rats and sheep, produced injuries similar to those seen in Havana Syndrome patients.

That is an extraordinary sequence of facts. US agents obtained the device. A US military lab tested it. The results matched the injuries. And yet the prior administration's intelligence community told the public there was nothing definitive linking a foreign adversary to these attacks.

A source who has seen Gabbard's classified report says it directly criticizes the Biden administration's intelligence community for that cover-up. Its public release has so far been delayed.

What happened in the Situation Room

In April 2025, senior national security officials were briefed in the White House Situation Room on the findings. Two sources in the room described officials as going "white in the face" as the evidence was laid out. The briefing reportedly included warnings that the weapon technology is capable of targeting brain tissue from a distance and could theoretically be transmitted through everyday electronics carried by billions of people.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll later briefed Vice President JD Vance on the revelations, according to sources, though a source close to Vance said this was untrue.

What is not in dispute is that the intelligence exists, that it implicates Russia, and that powerful people inside the government have known about it for some time.

The cover-up has its own timeline

One unnamed source laid out the internal strategy in blunt terms:

"Stage one was kind of this, like, 'Hey, there was a cover-up.'"

Phase two was supposed to be a 14-day amnesty period for officials implicated in suppressing the findings to come forward voluntarily. The consequences for those who didn't were described as loss of security clearances, termination, or even referrals for possible criminal prosecution.

That amnesty window has apparently stalled. So has the public release of the report. And the sources watching this unfold are losing patience. One put it plainly: "They have the people responsible, and they're not doing anything."

Another was even more direct: "They have the list … They have the evidence. They just won't release it."

The CIA's careful positioning

Officially, the CIA is playing cooperatively. A spokesperson said Director John Ratcliffe "supports DNI Gabbard's efforts to review the AHI issue and looks forward to her report on this important matter." The agency also emphasized that "the health and security of CIA personnel is of the utmost importance to the Director."

Those are the kinds of statements that sound supportive until you notice what they don't say. They don't acknowledge the cover-up. They don't address the delay. They don't explain why a report that is, by multiple accounts, finished has not been released.

A CIA official identified only as "Adam," who was forced into medical retirement after being affected by Havana Syndrome, told The Post that a government investigator contacted him requesting names of individuals who took part in the cover-up. He offered this:

"I've heard Tulsi's report is done. Hopefully Tulsi's team has identified the wrongdoers and will hold them accountable."

Adam is not a partisan actor. He is someone whose career was destroyed by an attack his own government spent years pretending didn't have a perpetrator.

What the Biden administration left behind

The pattern here is one conservatives have watched repeat across multiple fronts. An inconvenient truth surfaces. The intelligence community buries it or hedges it into meaninglessness. Officials who raise alarms are sidelined. The public gets a carefully curated version of events that protects institutional reputations rather than the people those institutions are supposed to serve.

With Havana Syndrome, the cost of that pattern is measured in brain injuries. In careers ended. In diplomats and intelligence officers who served their country and were rewarded with official indifference.

The Biden administration had access to the same evidence now sitting in Gabbard's classified report. A miniaturized weapon was purchased. Lab tests confirmed its effects. A list of officials involved in suppressing the findings was compiled. And none of it reached the public.

A spokesperson for Gabbard's office said the review "will be comprehensive and complete before it is released" and that "transparency and accountability are a top priority for the DNI." Gabbard, according to sources, has been presented with a list of officials allegedly involved in the cover-up.

The question that remains

The intelligence community spent years telling the American public, and its own wounded personnel, that Havana Syndrome had no clear cause and no identifiable perpetrator. Now, a classified report apparently says otherwise, and sources say the evidence points to Moscow.

The question is no longer whether a cover-up occurred. Multiple sources, a finished report, and a purchased weapon tested in a US military lab have settled that. The question is whether the people who buried the truth will face consequences, or whether the same institutional inertia that protected them under the last administration will protect them under this one.

Hundreds of American officials were attacked. Their own government looked away. The report is done. Release it.