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Mystery illness suffered by US diplomats in Cuba was most likely caused by directed microwave radiation, a US government report has found.
The report by the National Academies of Sciences does not attribute blame for the directed energy waves.
But it said research into the effects of pulsed radio frequency energy was carried out by the Soviet Union more than 50 years ago.
The illnesses first affected people at the US embassy in Havana in 2016-17.
Staff and some of their relatives complained of symptoms ranging from dizziness, loss of balance, hearing loss, anxiety and something they described as "cognitive fog". It became known as "Havana syndrome".
A 2019 US academic study found "brain abnormalities" in the diplomats who had fallen ill, but Cuba dismissed the report.
The latest study was carried out by a team of medical and scientific experts who examined the symptoms of about 40 government employees.
Many have suffered longstanding and debilitating effects, the report said.
"The committee felt that many of the distinctive and acute signs, symptoms and observations reported by (government) employees are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy," the report reads.
Cuba was not the only posting where US diplomats have reported the unusual symptoms.
In 2018, the US removed several officials from China after employees working in the southern city of Guangzhou reported "subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure". One US official was diagnosed with mild brain trauma.
According to a new study commissioned by the Canadian government, fumigation against mosquitoes may have caused Canadian diplomats — and family members — to fall ill. Neither the diplomats nor the federal government consider the just-released report from Dalhousie University’s Brain Repair Centre as a conclusive answer. I am skeptical. On one hand, the Dalhousie report confirms that Canadian diplomats suffered brain injuries while posted in Havana. But in many ways, it brings more questions than answers.
UPDATE (September 25 2020) — Over the last 12 months, nothing new has emerged and I certainly stand by my initial conclusions.
People point out, as I did, that this theory fails to explain why the pesticide only hurts the North American diplomats and not the Cubans?
This week, we learned that CIA Director Gina Haspel has recently dismissed the idea that Russia was responsible for the alleged attacks on the American and Canadian embassy staff in Cuba (Havana Syndrome).
“I don’t know if there’s a definitive answer yet to what’s going on. Somebody needs to get the bottom of it.”
Justin Sanchez — DARPA Director of the Biological Technologies Office
“Is it possible and probable that electromagnetic pulse devices that would then be propagated either directly or vectored could do this? Yes, it’s very, very possible and very probable.”
James Giordano — Professor of neurology and biochemistry at Georgetown University
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The document is genuine. Its truths cannot be negated or shrugged away. The message is this:
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That last sentence is the real reason why people choose to ignore "Silent
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originally posted by: lostgirl
a reply to: KilgoreTrout
If the U.S. has had such weapons since the 1980's, don't you think it's possible that other countries had developed their own versions of them by 2016?
I wouldn't imagine that "culture shock" would have caused physically diagnosable damage -
- i.e. the report from Dalhousie University's Brain Repair Centre "confirms that Canadian diplomats suffered brain injuries while posted in Havana"...
originally posted by: lostgirl
If the U.S. has had such weapons since the 1980's, don't you think it's possible that other countries had developed their own versions of them by 2016?
We cannot now precisely quantify the risk presented by radio frequency weapons, but we know that the risk is growing. I believe that we can respond to this risk by developing near-term, low-cost, broadly-applicable mitigation techniques. These techniques can greatly reduce our susceptibility to radio frequency weapon environments and thereby reduce the risk to our technological superiority that is essential to our military and economic preeminence.
originally posted by: lostgirl
I wouldn't imagine that "culture shock" would have caused physically diagnosable damage -
- i.e. the report from Dalhousie University's Brain Repair Centre "confirms that Canadian diplomats suffered brain injuries while posted in Havana"...
Diplomatic officials may have been targeted with an unknown weapon in Havana. But a recording of one “sonic attack” actually is the singing of a very loud cricket, a new analysis concludes.