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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.
Previously:
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U.S. State Department Pulls Employees From Cuba, Issues Travel Warning Due to "Sonic Attacks"
Latest Explanation for Cuban Embassy Symptoms: Microwave Weapons
"Sonic Attack" Recording Made by Diplomats is Actually a Recording of Crickets
Mysterious health "attack" cases rise to 130, US officials confirm
(Score: 3, Funny) by Dr Spin on Thursday September 23 2021, @12:45PM (1 child)
Cuba is now the worlds largest super-power.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 1, Redundant) by looorg on Thursday September 23 2021, @01:04PM
No they are not. That said it's not like they are inconsequential either, or doesn't have big red nefarious super-power(ish) friends. Did some searching and it appears they are now investigating over 200 cases in total of this "Havana syndrome" all over the globe. The name is just from the current starting position -- Cuba, Canada, USA, India, Austria ... list goes on. So if it's some kind of device it travels around (or there are more then one of them). Could it be a side effect of some device the CIA (or some other lovely three letter agency) has installed at their own location?
In May it was just 130 cases, so in just four months they found another 70 cases to investigate. Not necessarily tho that those 70 cases happened in the last couple of months. Just that they are finding more and more of them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/21/havana-syndrome-cia-officer-india [theguardian.com]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/13/havana-syndrome-brain-injury-130-incidents [theguardian.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome [wikipedia.org]