After spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars investigating claims that U.S. intelligence officers and diplomats were victims of targeted attacks with a mysterious “directed energy weapon,” a new report has found no evidence that such a weapon ever existed or that a foreign government ever existed. involved. The symptoms started in Cuba and later spread to US diplomats around the world. Based on the intelligence intercepts, it appears that other countries’ spy agencies were baffled and confused by the claims. The report says claims of an attack are “highly unlikely.”
These conclusions would always be the case if the investigation were fair and thorough, because the investigations used to suggest an attack had occurred were flawed. In one case, a 2019 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found brain abnormalities in victims from Cuba. Although these findings were widely reported to confirm ‘brain damage’ in patients, closer examination would have revealed that the authors had also admitted that the differences were not so great as to rule out the possibility that they were due to individual variation. Many news reports fail to mention this, stating that similar abnormalities can be caused by exposure to long-term stress. Brain changes are not the same as brain damage.
In their report on the new findings, the Associated Press headline reads: “US finds no link between ‘Havana syndrome’ and foreign powers, but two spy agencies say it’s possible.” It’s also possible that humans are being abducted by aliens and that chupacabras actually exist, but the new report says that’s “highly unlikely.” Why then do news agencies like the Associated Press continue to highlight the possibility that the “Havana Syndrome” was the result of a foreign attack, despite a consensus to the contrary within the intelligence community? First, The Associated Press is one of many news agencies that have repeatedly released reports suggesting that these were real attacks. The same goes for certain intelligence services, which for years claimed that a foreign actor was almost certainly behind the reported health problems. Such a turnaround could be seen as damaging to their credibility. However, honestly reporting the facts as we know them – without embellishment and speculation – can help restore their credibility and status.
And let’s not forget that Congress continues to spend tens of millions of dollars on health care for “victims,” something the new report carefully avoided. “No IC [Intelligence Community] component casts doubt on USG’s experiences or suffering [US Government] staff and family members. All components acknowledge that USG personnel and family members have experienced real, sometimes painful and traumatic, physical symptoms and sensory manifestations and have honestly and honestly reported these events as possible AHIs [Anomalous Health Incidents].”
How then does the intelligence community explain the range of symptoms in victims, including headaches, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, confusion, depression, insomnia, tinnitus, balance problems, head pressure and earache? a partial list? A few years ago a study was conducted New Zealand, led by health psychologist Keith Petrie of the University of Auckland, asked 1,000 people to identify from a list the symptoms they had experienced in the past week. The average person reported five. About 38 percent reported back pain, 36 percent noted fatigue and 35 percent experienced headaches. Nearly 30 percent said they had trouble sleeping, while 15 percent had trouble concentrating, and 13 percent reported memory problems. About 8 percent noted nausea and dizziness.
These are many of the exact symptoms reported by patients with Havana Syndrome!
The ‘Havana Syndrome’ was the result of a series of health complaints that were redefined under a new label in the wake of sensational media reports.
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