A new study, in the midst of the critical international situation with the growing new Cold War tension between the USA and Russia, presented the possible solution of the mysterious “Havana Syndrome”, which has occupied the American secret services for years, presented,.
One night in 2016, an employee at the US Embassy in Havana woke up to a loud, piercing sound that “pierced” his ear and caused him dizziness and severe nausea. Since 2017, dozens of diplomats at the US and Canadian embassies in Havana have reported the same multiple symptoms, which have been described as “syndrome”, as they have appeared in many other US and Canadian embassy staff in various capitals around the world – even in Beijing and Moscow.
The “Havana Syndrome” has been under scrutiny by groups of US scientists and agents and their allies, while Cuba has denied any involvement or attack with advanced instruments. In the Havana incident there was no interference in electronic systems.
In studies that have been done, brain damage has been observed in some diplomats. Recently, the “Havana Syndrome” came back into the limelight when 20 members of the US diplomatic mission in Vienna – a city that was a base for spies during the Cold War, and is also home to many international organizations – complained of symptoms that referred to ” Havana Syndrome “. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken pledged last November to fully clarify the “syndrome”.
The findings of a new large-scale investigation conducted by a team of US intelligence experts claim that some of the episodes are due to “pulsed electromagnetic energy” emitted by an external source. The team of researchers avoided reaching definitive conclusions, stressing that both electromagnetic energy and ultrasound are an explanation for some of the symptoms that the diplomats showed, as they vary in severity (some patients had severe neurological symptoms).
Of course, everyone’s suspicions fell on Russia and secondarily on China, as “accomplices” of Cuba. Another CIA working group concluded that it was difficult and unlikely (but not impossible) for Russia or any other country to launch a large-scale operation to attack US and Canadian diplomats in an “invisible way”. .
However, all research and groups of scientists or other experts agree that “Havana Syndrome” is not a figment of the imagination or a deliberate accusation against Cuba, as many of the people who presented the syndrome had signs of “cellular injury” in the nervous system and they had symptoms for several years that changed their lives. The main symptoms (acute onset of sounds and pressure, dizziness, nausea, migraines, loss of orientation), without any other health problem, can not be explained (only) by stress or other psychosocial reaction, according to new research.
Some victims who went to court seeking compensation blamed the CIA, accusing the service of not taking their symptoms seriously, downplaying the cases as a psychosomatic episode or mass hysteria. Congress recently passed the Havana Act to financially support “civil servants who have suffered brain injuries from possible targeted energy attacks.”
The mystery of the unknown syndrome is old, some argue. In 1953, the Americans claimed to have located microwave beams of Soviet origin targeting the US Embassy building in Moscow. The Americans reported that they recorded similar “attacks” until 1975. The investigation into the strange syndrome began in 1976, when the State Department asked experts at the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University to compile a study on the possible effects on the health of diplomats. . Its contents were never published, and later medical studies reported general conclusions, stressing that the victims had no serious complications.
