The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a bill that would boost medical care for American diplomats and spies who develop mysterious brain injuries amid an uptick in suspected directed-energy attacks on U.S. personnel at home and abroad
. A National Security Council official is believed to have been hit with a directed-energy attack while walking on the Ellipse, the lawn just south of the White House; two other NSC officials were recently impacted near their homes outside Washington.
, which has been playing a “leading role” in analyzing symptoms, according to a congressional official briefed on the probe.Warner and his counterpart atop the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio , haveto “get to the bottom of” the suspected attacks, and CIA Director William Burns is receiving daily briefings on the status of the government’s investigation.
Marc Polymeropoulos, who served in the CIA for 26 years including senior roles in clandestine operations, suffered debilitating symptoms from a suspected directed-energy attack during a December 2017 stint in Moscow. Polymeropoulos has said the CIA and other government agencies initially did not take his concerns seriously.
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