by Jordan Conradson May. 23

A bombshell new report from investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reveals how the CIA has stonewalled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and spied on her team’s efforts to investigate public scandals and government corruption.

The report comes amid Gabbard’s resignation as Director of National Intelligence, which she announced on Friday.

Gabbard cited her husband’s rare form of bone cancer for her resignation. Still, this comes as tensions between the CIA and ODNI gained public attention earlier this month after CIA whistleblower James Erdman III testified that the CIA had seized documents related to the JFK assassination and MKUltra — the CIA’s experimentation on human behavior and mind control through the use of drugs — from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) fired off a preservation letter to the CIA, demanding that all existing and future records related to the taken items be preserved. A Director of National Intelligence spokeswoman later denied that a “raid” occurred as the claim circulated.

However, James Erdman never claimed that the CIA raided Gabbard's office. Instead, during his opening statement before the Homeland Security Committee on May 13, Erdman, a career CIA Operations Officer, testified to several key points regarding the CIA's " refusal to comply with lawful oversight" and “documented efforts to circumvent oversight.”

He told the committee that the CIA not only refused to comply with the ODNI Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) investigations into the COVID-19 origins, anomalous health incidents, and unidentified anomalous phenomena, but also retaliated against analysts who did not support their conclusions. "The CIA illegally monitored the computer and phone usage of DIG personnel, their investigations, and contact with whistleblowers," which "significantly impacted Director Gabbard's implementation of several EOs issued during this administration and tasked to the DIG," he said.

Additionally, “when the DIGs ceased operations, the CIA also took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MKUltra files being processed for declassification by DNI Gabbard.”

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Catherine Herridge highlighted part of Erdman's testimony in a new report, including additional testimony from Erdman regarding Directed Energy attacks that have caused Anomalous Health Incidents, including Havana Syndrome, which are being investigated by the DIG team.

"The DIG investigated the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, the origins of COVID-19, Crossfire Hurricane, the Biden Administration’s domestic surveillance, Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI), and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," Herridge reports.

The investigation into Anomalous Health Incidents was also subject to the CIA's alleged spying, which has been described as tracking “every keystroke” on the devices of DIG personnel. The agency has further attempted to block DNI Gabbard's investigation by denying access to information and CIA officials, according to Herridge.

Herridge reports:

Erdman provided detailed testimony about the the DIG’s investigations into Directed Energy attacks, also known as Havana Syndrome or Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs):

“This was not the first time the CIA appears to have been monitoring DIG communications. Individuals involved in our AHI investigation discovered third parties were listening in on secure phone calls at Intelligence Community facilities. In one instance, it was during a conversation with a whistleblower.

These incidents were also reported in counterintelligence channels, and DNI IT experts confirmed that reproducing what occurred on the secure phone calls required an IT engineering work order. Someone had to request a technical change to the infrastructure.”

During its investigation of AHIs, my reporting reveals additional allegations that the CIA denied DNI Gabbard’s investigators access to key analysts and officials still working in the CIA building, as well as relevant, highly classified intelligence held in compartmented programs.

Senator Rand Paul, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, shared the report, condemning the illegal spying and interference by the CIA, adding, "We've got to get to the bottom of what they're hiding."

Based on @C__Herridge's reporting & our CIA whistleblower's testimony, the CIA appears to be ILLEGALLY SPYING on @DNIGabbard's team, INTERFERING w/ investigations on the COVID coverup, the JFK, MLK, & RFK assassinations, UAPs, etc. We've got to get to the bottom of what they're… https://t.co/LEpSioB7Lh — Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) May 22, 2026

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