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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
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @02:57PM (2 children)
uhm ... this episode of Kick farted begs to differ
$40 Tinfoil Hat?? - KICKFARTED Ep. 2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJJENB1UsIU [youtube.com]
It turns out that wearing a tin foil hat could actually make the problem worse because it reflects the radiation that went to your head back to your head again. You might need something like a tin foil helmet? I would like to see the experiments on that. Imagine CIA agents walking around wearing tin foil helmets ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @03:10PM
In all seriousness what you probably need is a tin foil hat with some inside padding that absorbs the unwanted radiation and doesn't let it get reflected back. Or just a hat made out of said material ...
uhm ... maybe I can sell such a product, I'm sure there are enough suckers willing to buy it to make me rich. The CIA might even be interested.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @05:05PM
Perhaps all that concentrated radiation from the tin foil hats is what's responsible for the fuming.