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Guys, if your assessments here are correct, these are very covert weapons, aren't they?

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That's correct. There's no entry or exit wound. How they're designed is to make the target feel

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like they're crazy, like they're imagining things. And you guys also said that these attacks are

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happening right here in this city. Is that correct? I mean, there have been some that have gone

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public with respect to Washington, D.C. I think it was Mr. Grozev said you spoke to a Russian

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agent who said that they believe that Americans are using these same weapons on them. Is that

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correct? That is correct. Might that have something to do with part of the CIA's motive to cover up

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the existence of this tech and these weapons? That is a very logical possibility.

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Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Gentleman yields. Chair now recognizes the

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gentleman from New York, Mr. Goldman, for his round of questioning.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our witnesses for being here. Mr. Grozev,

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I want to follow up a little bit on the interactions you've had with Russian intelligence about these

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AHIs. And Mr. Zaid, I want to ask, and this is a hypothetical, but I'm trying to understand

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why our government would try to block information sharing or conceal information that they have.

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And one thing that comes to mind is whether there's an operational risk to revealing any of the details

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of their investigation. Is that something that you have come across in any of your work?

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There's a lot of reasons why the information might not be publicly released. And I do think

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that's something we could address more in a classified environment to explain that. But there

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are understandable reasons why the U.S. government has not revealed much of what it knows.

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There's some long-term things that need to be done in terms of new acts. But in the short term,

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we need to do things like implement the original Havana Act. DOD still hasn't done it. They still

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have not implemented the Havana Act. And we need a VA diagnostic code. Thanks to the VFW brothers and

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sisters that are here today and for your meeting earlier, we don't have a VA diagnostic code for the

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500-some DOD survivors. How are they going to get long-term care and disability without that?

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Well, I hope this issue you see in a room that is often contentious, explosive, volcanic, that you've

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got members on both sides who first honor and salute the victims and want to do everything we can to

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make sure that they're made whole and if they can return, can return. And then, of course, as the victims

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have wanted to do, make sure we do everything possible to prevent anyone else from suffering

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from this. And I yield back. Thank you, Chairman.