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posted by martyb on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the sonic-screwdriver dept.

The US believes several State Department employees at the US embassy in Havana were subjected to an "acoustic attack" using sonic devices that left at least two with such serious health problems they needed to be brought back to the US for treatment, several senior State Department officials told CNN. One official said the employees could have suffered permanent hearing loss as a result.

The employees affected were not at the same place at the same time, but suffered a variety of physical symptoms since late 2016 which resembled concussions.

Conspiracy theory fodder, or actually possible?

alt links:
https://archive.fo/yZB5q
https://web.archive.org/web/20170809231552/http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/us-cuba-acoustic-attack-embassy/index.html


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:42AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:42AM (#551565) Journal

    It seems possible, but I don't understand the motive or whether or not the devices were built for that purpose.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @03:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @03:12PM (#551657)

    #FakeNoise