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CIA director "fuming" after Havana syndrome strikes team member in India
A US intelligence officer traveling in India earlier this month with CIA director William Burns reported experiencing a mysterious health incident and symptoms consistent with so-called Havana syndrome, according to a report by CNN. The officer received immediate medical care upon returning to the US.
The case raises fears that such incidents are not only increasing, but potentially escalating, unnamed officials told CNN and The New York Times. The new incident within Burns' own team reportedly left the CIA chief "fuming" with anger.
The director's schedule is tightly guarded, and officials do not know if the affected intelligence officer was targeted because the officer was traveling with the director. If the health incident was an attack carried out by an adversarial intelligence agency—as feared—it's unclear how the adversarial agency learned of the trip and was able to prepare an attack. It's also possible, however, that the officer was targeted for other reasons and without knowledge that the officer was traveling with the director.
[...] The incident is the second high-profile case in less than a month. On August 24, another so-called "anomalous health incident" affecting US embassy staff in Hanoi, Vietnam, came to light. It is still unclear how many staff members were affected in that incident, but NBC News reported that two US personnel were medevaced out of the country.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Unixnut on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:58AM (3 children)
I so wish this to be the only true solution to this ailment, just so I can watch all the politicians and diplomatic staff walk around with tin foil on their heads. It would look so fitting with the western worlds current descent into collective insanity.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @09:36AM
Engineering-wise, this is the most effective solution in both cost and protection terms. For these very reasons, I don't expect they'll follow it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @11:32AM (1 child)
This is just silly. Obviously they will need tin-foil bracelets around their wrists and ankles as well
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @03:11AM
And be put in steel cages lockable from the outside. For their protection.