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Exclusive | Trump confirms CIA ‘Ghost Murmur’ tool was ‘very important’ to find airman in Iran — as experts debate how it works

Nypost · 🇮🇷 public Iran · · 1082 words · By Steven Nelson
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Trump confirms CIA ‘Ghost Murmur’ tool was ‘very important’ to find airman in Iran — as experts debate how it works WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post the CIA’s secret new “Ghost Murmur” tool was “very important” to rescuing a downed airman inside…

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Trump confirms CIA ‘Ghost Murmur’ tool was ‘very important’ to find airman in Iran — as experts debate how it works WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post the CIA’s secret new “Ghost Murmur” tool was “very important” to rescuing a downed airman inside…

Why it matters

The CIA was fantastic,” Trump told The Post in a phone interview Wednesday.

Common ground

“We have many other things that nobody has ever heard about.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “President Trump said 'Nobody even knows what it is. Nobody ever heard of it before.'”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute Trump's statement about the public's knowledge of the 'Ghost Murmur' tool.
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Claim 2: “The airman used a standard-issue Boeing-made beacon sporadically to avoid detection during the rescue.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the use of a Boeing beacon by the airman.
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Claim 3: “President Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe mentioned the 'Ghost Murmur' tool during a White House briefing, with Trump stating that the pilot was spotted from 40 miles away.”
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Wikipedia entries retrieved are unrelated to the 'Ghost Murmur' tool, the White House briefing, or the 40-mile spotting claim. No relevant evidence found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) is a statutory office (50 U.S.C. § 3036) that functions as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which in turn is a part of the United St…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Owen Brennan (born September 22, 1955) is an American former intelligence officer who served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017. He served as…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump assumed office as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. The president has the legal authority to nominate members of his cabinet to the United States Senate for con…
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Claim 4: “The signal from a heartbeat is typically too weak to be measured except in a hospital setting with sensors nearly against the chest.”
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Claim 5: “DARPA's AMBIENT program aims to develop gradient magnetic sensors that can detect biological signals in ambient environments outside specialized facilities.”
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Claim 6: “A source briefed on the rescue indicated that the Iranian countryside had low electromagnetic interference, which aided in the detection of the airman.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about electromagnetic interference in Iran.
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Claim 7: “President Trump told The Post the CIA’s secret new 'Ghost Murmur' tool was 'very important' to rescuing a downed airman inside Iran this weekend.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about the 'Ghost Murmur' tool or the rescue operation.
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Claim 8: “University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor Thad Walker said detecting a heartbeat at 100 meters using NV center magnetometers would require advanced signal processing and is not currently feasible with existing technology.”
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Claim 9: “Dmitry Budker suggested that the detection might have been due to the airman's movements or electrical equipment rather than just his heartbeat.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute Dmitry Budker's suggestion about alternative causes for detection.
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Claim 10: “Patrick Maletinsky stated that publicly known technologies can only detect heartbeats at distances no more than centimeters.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute Patrick Maletinsky's statement about heartbeat detection distances.
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Claim 11: “Chris Duncan estimated that the maximum detection distance of 'Ghost Murmur' is likely a mile or two.”
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Claim 12: “Lockheed Martin disclosed working on DARPA's Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program to develop next-generation quantum sensors for defense platforms.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute Lockheed Martin's collaboration with DARPA's RoQS program.
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