Shawn Ryan Show

#283 AJ - Former CIA Chief of Station Breaks Silence on Microwave Weapons

February 26, 2026

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  • The host read powerful testimonial letters from an anonymous senior intelligence professional and Congressman Rick Crawford, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, vouching for AJ's elite status and the severity of his AHI injury. 
  • AJ experienced a sudden, acute neurological event characterized by a crushing sensation, a non-audible, mechanical slide whistle sound that increased in pitch, and an overpressure wave causing muscle lockup and loss of balance. 
  • Historical context reveals decades of U.S. government research (Projects Pandora and Bazaar) into non-thermal microwave effects, mirroring the current situation, and the Moscow Signal incident where ambassadors suffered health issues from similar radiation. 
  • The victim experienced persistent, debilitating cognitive impairment, characterized by an inability to process new information, emotional flatness, and a constant 'barrier' preventing normal interaction with the environment following the incident. 
  • Initial medical evaluations documented measurable abnormalities, including low neurological performance scores (19th percentile), vestibular issues, irregular striated cataracts, and a confirmed diagnosis of dysautonomia (specifically POTS). 
  • Alternative, non-traditional treatments like Equascope and V-cell stem cells showed temporary but significant positive effects on cognitive and emotional symptoms, suggesting that cellular energy restoration may be a viable path for recovery where conventional medicine focused only on symptom masking. 
  • The guest, AJ, experienced severe institutional betrayal upon medical evacuation, noting that colleagues provided support while his direct chain of command failed to check on him for two weeks. 
  • AJ realized the institution prioritized protecting itself over its personnel when an official explicitly stated he was being asked to choose between "the building and the people" and admitted the likelihood of a cover-up. 
  • Conflicting official reports emerged regarding the cause of the incidents, with the CIA's interim assessment denying a foreign adversary campaign while expert panels and later Congressional oversight (HPSCI) found directed energy/pulsed microwave energy a plausible cause and criticized the ICA's integrity. 
  • The speaker believes a self-serving 'blob' or 'deep state' exists within organizations, prioritizing self-preservation and career advancement over serving the American people or mission. 
  • The speaker urges government personnel, especially those in the agency, to honor their oath, stand for truth, and stop protecting the status quo, while encouraging survivors of directed energy attacks to maintain hope. 
  • Trials and struggles are viewed as necessary for refinement, stripping away worldly distractions, building empathy, and ultimately leading individuals closer to faith and their true purpose, contrasting sharply with destructive worldly fears and hopes. 

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Introduction and Testimonial Letters
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(00:00:30)
  • Key Takeaway: Two high-level endorsements confirmed AJ’s elite status and the reality of his AHI injury.
  • Summary: The host introduced AJ by reading letters from an anonymous senior intelligence professional and Congressman Rick Crawford, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The anonymous letter stressed AJ is the ‘pinnacle’ and warned he might downplay his elite career or the severity of his injury. Congressman Crawford affirmed AJ’s profound hardship and noted the intelligence community’s AHI assessment was ‘profoundly flawed and fallacious.’
Historical Directed Energy Context
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(00:13:32)
  • Key Takeaway: The U.S. government secretly studied non-thermal microwave effects on humans via Projects Pandora and Bazaar during the 25-year Moscow Signal.
  • Summary: The Moscow Signal involved radiating the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with microwaves for 25 years, leading to health issues, including leukemia in ambassadors. Projects Pandora and Bazaar studied the non-thermal biological effects of pulsed microwaves on humans and monkeys, sometimes lying to personnel about blood draws for analysis. Historical DIA reports noted Russian capabilities to stop frog hearts with microwaves and weaponize them against personnel.
Governmental Hesitation and Advocacy
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(00:32:04)
  • Key Takeaway: The low probability estimate for official confirmation of a Havana syndrome device stems from individuals protecting institutional equities and foreign policy concerns.
  • Summary: AJ suggested that institutional protection and a desire not to upset adversaries are likely reasons for the government’s hesitation to confirm the cause of AHIs. He argued that this cover-up damages the institution and hinders the development of U.S. countermeasures against this threat. The goal of speaking out is to move the needle toward transparency to protect service members and develop necessary medical and defensive capabilities.
Patreon Question on Intelligence Officers
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(00:39:14)
  • Key Takeaway: Intelligence officers were targeted first because new weapon capabilities are typically tested in the shadows to maintain plausible deniability before going mainstream.
  • Summary: AJ answered a Patreon question by comparing the initial targeting of intelligence officers to the historical use of suppressors by special operations forces before they became common. New capabilities are often deployed covertly to maintain plausible deniability, which is why those operating in the shadows are impacted first. He expressed concern that this technology could soon be weaponized in everyday objects like cell phones.
AJ’s Attack Experience in Southeast Asia
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(00:44:31)
  • Key Takeaway: AJ’s AHI involved a crushing sensation, a non-audible mechanical slide whistle sound increasing in pitch, followed by muscle lockup and total loss of balance.
  • Summary: The incident occurred at (04:55) in the morning, beginning with a crushing sensation and a sensational sound shooting through his head that sounded like a mechanical slide whistle increasing in pitch, ending with a pop. This was followed by an overpressure wave that locked every muscle and caused him to feel thrown, expelling all air from his lungs. He experienced immediate, severe disorientation and confusion, unable to process his surroundings.
Biomarkers and Second Incident
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(00:56:23)
  • Key Takeaway: Blood drawn 8.5 hours post-incident showed significantly elevated biomarkers indicating traumatic brain injury, specifically one marker usually only found in cerebral spinal fluid.
  • Summary: The doctor noted AJ’s eyes had difficulty tracking horizontally, leading to a medevac recommendation. Blood drawn eight and a half hours after the event showed two biomarkers indicating nerve damage; the TBI-specific marker was three times the level of later samples, suggesting a clear spike immediately following the injury. A second incident occurred 30 minutes after AJ heard scraping and furniture moving sounds, which he attributed to activity around him, not the initial attack.
Medevac and Post-Incident State
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(01:11:32)
  • Key Takeaway: AJ was non-functional and unable to manage his own medevac arrangements, relying entirely on unofficial assistance from colleagues who flew out to help him.
  • Summary: AJ was so impaired he could not read emails or book his own travel as officially directed, forcing colleagues to step up unofficially to manage his departure. His colleague reported that AJ stared blankly forward for the entire 14-hour flight back to CONUS without sleeping or moving, which was unsettling. He continues to experience a painful blockage feeling in his left ear, similar to needing to pop ears, which started during the flight.
Persistent Cognitive Impairment
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(01:13:43)
  • Key Takeaway: The confusion and inability to process incoming stimulation have remained constant and have never improved since the incident.
  • Summary: Observers noted the victim shuffled and looked like an old man, sometimes collapsing internally during conversation. The victim describes a constant barrier preventing accurate processing of incoming stimulation and projection of identity. This struggle to process information has been continuous since the second night of the incidents.
Sensory Event Localization
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(01:17:07)
  • Key Takeaway: The victim felt the energy event enter the right side of his head, felt the sound generate internally within the brain, and was 100% certain of the direction of origin.
  • Summary: The sensation felt like a pinpoint shot right behind the right ear, and the sound felt like it was inside the center of the head, not an external auditory sound or ringing. The perceived origin point was toward an interior hallway, suggesting the weapon was not necessarily aimed from the exterior window.
Weapon Precision Assessment
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(01:20:09)
  • Key Takeaway: The victim’s instinct suggests the directed energy attack was a very precise beam weapon, contrasting with theories that it might fill the room with microwave activity.
  • Summary: The precision of the attack is inferred from the specific location where the victim felt the impact. This contrasts with reports from other survivors who felt they could have moved a few feet to avoid the effect, reinforcing the idea of a highly targeted beam.
Post-Medevac Sensory Overload
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(01:27:17)
  • Key Takeaway: Initially, the victim suffered severe light sensitivity, requiring drawn shades for weeks, and experienced profound difficulty with simple cognitive tasks like solving an easy puzzle.
  • Summary: The inability to process stimulus was so severe that bright lights were intolerable, mimicking a never-ending migraine without the actual headache pain. The victim struggled for hours to identify edge pieces on a simple puzzle, demonstrating a breakdown in basic pattern recognition and focus.
Initial Medical Findings
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(01:30:16)
  • Key Takeaway: The first medical facility noted neurological responses in the 19th percentile, inconsistent with the victim’s education and profession, and the second facility diagnosed dysautonomia (POTS) and noted irregular striated cataracts.
  • Summary: MRIs were relatively normal, but Digital Tensor Imagery showed increased perivascular spaces and increased flow to the optical region. Dysautonomia, specifically POTS, was diagnosed, causing the heart rate to spike because the brain failed to signal blood vessels to constrict properly upon standing. Other cohort members also presented with the same type of cataracts.
Cerebellum Dysfunction and Parkinson’s Presentation
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(01:35:02)
  • Key Takeaway: Technicians noted the cerebellum was not functioning properly, specifically in motor skills learning, causing the victim’s response time to worsen with fatigue, presenting like a Parkinson’s patient.
  • Summary: The victim’s body failed to learn from perturbations on a platform test, meaning his response time degraded instead of improving with anticipation. This lack of muscle memory function, associated with the cerebellum, was never officially recorded in his medical records.
Walter Reed Diagnoses and Sensory Deficits
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(01:37:29)
  • Key Takeaway: Walter Reed confirmed bilateral eye misalignment (vertical and horizontal), fine-tuned hearing deficits due to outer ear follicle non-response, and confirmed the severe POTS diagnosis.
  • Summary: The eyes fight each other when focusing, tracking, and perceiving depth, leading to them being ‘at war.’ The hearing issue suggests the signal from the brainstem back to the outer ear follicles to fine-tune sound is broken, making sound localization extremely difficult. The POTS diagnosis at Walter Reed was described as relatively serious, debilitating one out of three sufferers.
Cognitive/Emotional Categorization
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(01:44:00)
  • Key Takeaway: The victim categorized his symptoms into physical, cognitive, emotional, and miscellaneous bins, noting a severe drop from four-dimensional strategic thought to two-dimensional, immediate processing.
  • Summary: Cognitively, executive function vanished, making speech difficult (mixing up words like ‘popcorn’ and ‘porcupine’), and physical tasks required immense energy, feeling like running for 15 hours after 15 minutes of walking. Emotionally, the victim experienced complete flatness, unable to recognize emotions in others (mistaking crying for happiness) or connect with his own identity.
Perception of Reality and Self-Trust
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(01:53:18)
  • Key Takeaway: The victim cannot trust his own perception of reality or performance, noting that while he subjectively feels the same or worse, objective test results show significant cognitive improvement over time.
  • Summary: The feeling of reality is described as signals coming in jumbled, like spinning around with crossed eyes, preventing appreciation of the environment and situational awareness. He estimates being at 70-75% cognitively on a good day, but physically only 30-35% of his former self.
Miscellaneous Symptoms and Headache
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(01:55:08)
  • Key Takeaway: Miscellaneous symptoms included documented temperature regulation issues (skin temperature 4-5 degrees lower), loss of night vision due to pupil dysfunction, and a constant, intractable headache lasting about a year.
  • Summary: Pupils did not dilate correctly; the left pupil remained constricted while the right dilated during certain treatments, and both pulsed without light. The victim lost his excellent night vision, and the severe headache that began weeks after the incident resisted all conventional treatments like Botox and acupuncture.
Non-Traditional Treatment Successes
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(02:02:35)
  • Key Takeaway: Alternative treatments, particularly Equascope, provided immediate, tangible benefits, such as restoring the ability to recognize faces and emotion after just one session.
  • Summary: Treatments focused on energizing cells and waking up mitochondria, moving beyond symptom masking. The victim noted that after the first Equascope treatment, his eyes felt clearer, and he could process emotion, which was a significant change from his previous emotional flatness. He also utilized frequency-specific modulation and V-cell stem cells, noting that all these methods require continuous, expensive effort outside of standard care.
Adversary Publication of Intended Effect
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(02:21:29)
  • Key Takeaway: The intelligence community’s continued use of the term ‘anomalous’ is absurd because the Russians publicly detailed the intended biological effect—autonomic nervous system disorder—in 2003, two decades before the attacks.
  • Summary: The AI program Claude generated a question highlighting that the victim’s diagnosis of dysautonomia matches the specific intended outcome published by Russian directed energy researchers in 2003. This historical publication makes the continued classification of these incidents as ‘anomalous’ scientifically indefensible.
Post-Medevac Institutional Betrayal
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(02:24:49)
  • Key Takeaway: Colleagues provided essential support to AJ after medevac, while his chain of command failed to check on him for two weeks until pressured by a peer.
  • Summary: AJ was initially unable to process information or read emails upon returning from medical evacuation. His colleagues provided necessary support, including food and communication devices. No one from his direct chain of command visited him for two weeks, only doing so after another senior officer intervened.
Nerve Agent Discovery and Cover-up Warning
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(02:48:16)
  • Key Takeaway: An official warned AJ that an interim report was coming and that the agency was likely going to cover up the incidents, forcing him to choose between loyalty to the building or integrity to the people.
  • Summary: A separate institution analyzed AJ’s blood and found a nerve agent, though the finding was dismissed as naturally occurring. Later, an official revealed the analytical cell planned to cover up the issue, stating they were being forced to choose between the institution and the affected personnel.
Agency Foundational Principles
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(03:22:00)
  • Key Takeaway: The foundational principles of the CIA are truth (knowing the truth shall make you free) and sacrifice (removing selfish barriers to serve the mission), which the guest believes are being corrupted by careerism.
  • Summary: AJ referenced the inscriptions at the CIA headquarters—truth and sacrifice—as the organization’s core mission. He argued that individuals prioritizing careerism and selfishness over these foundations are hijacking the organization’s purpose.
Bureaucratic Denial of Benefits
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(03:37:57)
  • Key Takeaway: The analytical cell actively worked to deny AJ benefits, refusing to follow the Havana Act and claiming that granting benefits would set a negative precedent for future claims.
  • Summary: AJ was presented with four options, none of which supported his need for continued care or employment due to his cognitive impairment. The analytical cell explicitly stated they would not support workers’ compensation because they would not tie the injury to a work-related incident, fearing precedent setting.
Timeline of Official Narrative Shifts
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(03:20:22)
  • Key Takeaway: The official narrative denying foreign adversary involvement is crumbling due to evidence like the purchase of a backpack-sized directed energy device and the NIH study being canceled due to participant coercion.
  • Summary: The National Academy of Sciences concluded directed energy pulse microwave was a likely cause in 2020, but the CIA’s 2022 interim report denied foreign adversary involvement. Subsequent reports from HPSCI and later IC assessments showed internal division, with HPSCI finding the ICA lacked analytical integrity and a foreign adversary was likely involved.
Agency Deception and Lack of Accountability
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(03:40:13)
  • Key Takeaway: The guest asserts that a self-serving ‘blob’ or ‘deep state’ within the organization exists to protect itself and its careers, leading to a complete lack of accountability and the willingness to lie directly to Congress.
  • Summary: Multiple sources confirmed to AJ that individuals within the analytical cell would willingly lie directly to Congress to protect the organization, stating their authority could not be questioned. This lack of accountability means the American people cannot trust information emanating from these levels of the organization.
Erosion of Trust and Accountability
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(03:39:17)
  • Key Takeaway: Widespread lack of trust in organizations stems from perceived tarnishing of truth and failure to meet public demands.
  • Summary: The uncertainty surrounding events tarnishes the truth, leading the American people to lose trust in established organizations. The public deserves and demands better service and accountability from these bodies. The fundamental question remains who these organizations are ultimately serving.
Defining the Self-Serving Blob
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(03:40:13)
  • Key Takeaway: The ‘deep state’ is characterized as a self-serving group protecting the organization to further their own interests and careers.
  • Summary: This self-serving group exists to protect the organization, which in turn protects and furthers their individual interests, careers, and popularity. This faction protects and promotes its own members, contrasting with the majority who simply try to do their job for benefits. Those who genuinely care and try to prosecute the mission are often abused, discarded, and passed over.
Reversing Leadership Ethos
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(03:43:37)
  • Key Takeaway: True leadership is a burden requiring stewardship, not a privilege used for personal gain.
  • Summary: Serving the country is a burden, not a privilege, a lesson learned through leading Marines. Many in power view their positions as a privilege and a means to take care of their own ends, necessitating a complete reversal of this mentality. Protecting the organization often means protecting it from other internal factions seeking to gobble up power and resources.
Call for Confirmation Hearing Follow-Through
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(03:44:21)
  • Key Takeaway: Directors must honor confirmation hearing promises to prioritize mission and investigate the Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs).
  • Summary: The speaker is curious about the current stance of officials like Director Ratcliffe and DNI Gabbard regarding their promises to focus on the core mission and investigate the AHI issue. The Director has not contacted survivors to ask how to better protect or medically assist affected personnel. Any official report on the matter is expected to mirror previous findings, but there is concern it could be watered down or covered up.
Encouragement for Survivors and Oath-Takers
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(03:46:06)
  • Key Takeaway: Those who have sworn an oath must choose truth over fence-sitting, and survivors must not lose hope as they are seen.
  • Summary: Individuals who have sworn an oath to the Constitution must get off the fence and commit to truth, especially colleagues within the agency. Survivors in the agency and Department of War are encouraged not to give up hope, as good people are fighting for the truth, and their struggles are recognized. Medical progress offers a tangible example that improvement is possible.
Purpose and Value of Trials
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(03:48:03)
  • Key Takeaway: Trials serve to refine weaknesses, strip away worldly distractions, deepen faith, and build empathy for others’ suffering.
  • Summary: Trials are viewed as beneficial because they refine weak points, strip away connections to worldly distractions, and draw individuals closer to faith and reliance on God. Experiencing hardship builds essential empathy and sympathy, allowing one to relate to others who have lost health or wealth. Transformation into one’s intended self often requires dying to selfishness, which rarely occurs during easy times.
Biblical Truth vs. Worldly Hope
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(03:51:07)
  • Key Takeaway: True hope is anchored in the Bible and Christ’s salvation, contrasting with destructive worldly hopes based on finances or status.
  • Summary: The world is seeking truth and hope because people are tired of lies, but true hope is not found in finances, health, or worldly possessions. Biblically, fear of God is constructive and the beginning of wisdom, whereas worldly fear (of death, job loss, etc.) is destructive. Hope must be placed in the living hope found in the gospel and salvation through Christ to create an unshakable foundation.
Light Shining Through Darkness
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(03:54:25)
  • Key Takeaway: The proliferation of institutional lies is causing a surge in people returning to Christianity, as darkness allows the light to shine brighter.
  • Summary: A positive outcome of the lies from politicians, media, and elites is a gigantic surge of people returning to Christianity. The darkness is being allowed to intensify so that the light becomes more evident. Those who possess the light are encouraged not to hide it, as people are actively searching for truth and hope now more than ever.