Havana Syndrome – Our World is Getting Nastier

by Mustang

Five cases of the so-called Havana Syndrome were directed against the United States Embassy in Borgata, Columbia, late in 2021.  The U.S. mission there is one of the largest in the world.  In addition to career diplomats and staff, there are numerous intelligence agents and drug enforcement officials. 

Embassy staff speak of it as an “anomalous health incident.”  It’s a buzzword the State Department uses instead of “Havana Syndrome.”  It first became known to us in 2016, when dozens of cases were detected among U.S. and Canadian diplomats (and their families) in the Cuban capital.  Drowsiness, fatigue, headaches, balance, ear aches, and blurred vision were the effects.  Some victims suffered permanent hearing loss.

Since 2016, similar health complaints have been reported in Russia, China, Vietnam, Austria, and Berlin.  In every case, the symptoms appeared suddenly, giving some the impression that they were suffering from food poisoning.

Experts at the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania studied some of the U.S. citizens injured in the aforementioned locations.  They published a study in the 2018 Journal of the American Medical Association.  Researchers discovered that the syndrome’s victims were severely impaired in their balance and cognitive, motor, and sensory abilities — as if they had suffered a severe concussion.  Only unlike actual concussions, the symptoms didn’t disappear.  They only subsided before returning with even more disruptive force.

In late 2020, experts at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States opined that the target pulses of radio-frequency energy were behind the symptoms.  Still, U.S. intelligence personnel said they were “unsure” about the cause of abnormal health incidents.

This is a lie, of course.  The U.S. government knows what’s been going on because they helped develop such capabilities.  Scientific researchers claim that the Havana Syndrome is caused by microwave weapons explicitly used to target diplomats, intelligence officials, and their families.  Such weapons already exist within the U.S. arsenal.

Questions remain about who is behind these activities, with the U.S. claiming the Russian GRU (a military intelligence agency).  So far, the White House hasn’t commented on it, but in 2021, the U.S. Congress passed the Havana Act, which authorized government agencies to pay staff and their families affected by the syndrome.

More recently, in 2023, U.S. intelligence agencies downplayed the involvement of foreign agents, saying that there is no “credible evidence” that an adversary is behind the incidents.  However, on April 1, 2024, Deutsche Welle reported that Havana Syndrome IS linked to Russian intelligence, according to a joint media investigation released on Monday.

The Der Spiegel report says, “Diplomats may have been targeted by sonic weapons,” uncovering evidence suggesting that unexplained anomalous health incidents may have their origin in the use of directed energy weapons known to be in the possession of GRU Unit 29155.

Russia denied the report, of course, and while the National Institutes for Health (NIH) found no evidence of MRI-detectible brain injury or biological abnormalities, they did determine that the symptoms of Havana Syndrome are “severe.”

60 Minutes producers Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados discuss the evolution of their 5-year investigation into “Havana Syndrome,” which led them to what one source calls “a receipt” for acoustic weapon testing done by a Russian intelligence unit.