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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:47PM (3 children)
Why should I believe the CIA isn't making this entire thing up, or is doing it to their own men? They've lied so much already about so many things, I would have to be a complete retard to take anything they claim at face value. Is that unpatriotic of me? Is it unpatriotic to doubt the word of officials with a track record of lying? If that is unpatriotic, I don't want to be patriotic.
Even if they are getting their brains zapped, these assholes doubtlessly deserve it. The CIA has done much worse to many more people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @01:27AM (1 child)
Right?
A CIA spook giving two shits about anyone? Something hinky going on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @03:30AM
Your subversive tendencies have been noted, Anonymous Coward.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @03:28AM
I was skimming your comment and saw the words, 'brain zapped;' and my first thought was SSRI withdrawal. If you ask ANYONE what it's like to withdrawal from an SSRI, it's absolutely wicked, makes heroin withdrawal look like a joke. I kept thinking about this over and over and wondering along the lines of some kind of EM spectrum attack, perhaps a gamma laser, or some new tech. However, sneaking 20mg's of Zoloft into a persons daily drinking water over a period of 1 to 2 weeks, is A: likely something they wouldn't notice; unless they had taken an SSRI before, and B: would make them feel VERY strange, off, and sick, after they stopped ingesting the substance.
Interesting puzzle..