Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former counterintelligence officer who was the first person to report symptoms linked to “Havana Syndrome” has died at age 65.

As an employee with the N.S.A., he claimed he was exposed to a direct-energy device that led to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 45. By Clay Risen Michael Beck, the first of scores of ...

J. Michael Beck, a Lancaster County native who was the first of hundreds of federal workers to develop a group of neurological symptoms now known as Havana Syndrome, died Jan. 24 in Columbia, Maryland ...

J. Michael Beck, 65, of Columbia, Maryland, passed away January 24, 2026. He was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania to the late John C. Beck and Ruth Zielinski Beck. Mike graduated from Penn State ...

A former counterintelligence officer who was the first person to report symptoms linked to “Havana Syndrome” has died at age 65. Michael Beck, a retired National Security Agency staffer who blamed his ...