We're going to eventually find out that there actually is a sci-fi brain beam being used on our diplomats, but it's the CIA shooting it at other Americans
100% - when the CIA complains of a mysterious affliction and speculates on some strange, uninvented technology as the cause, they're literally just projecting that they're trying to build that technology, failing at it and harming their own agents in the process
We're going to eventually find out that there actually is a sci-fi brain beam being used on our diplomats, but it's the CIA shooting it at other Americans
100% - when the CIA complains of a mysterious affliction and speculates on some strange, uninvented technology as the cause, they're literally just projecting that they're trying to build that technology, failing at it and harming their own agents in the process