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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: 2) by VLM on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:48PM (1 child)
Sci Fi movie plot:
We thought we invented a simple improvement to the polygraph test we give our higher level personnel; whoopsie, it makes them horribly sick a half decade later.
Could be a secondary thing too. Maybe their magic truth serum drug refined from opium poppies and hallucinogenic mushrooms works perfectly fine, but the dumb bastards used a solvent accidentally contaminated with (insert some nasty as hell solvent here that has neurological symptoms). Damnfino maybe DMSO plus a metric shitton of raw benzene is a bad idea but it works great if uncontaminated.
Then the next layer of the onion is the dumb bastard who used contaminated solvent was a Chinese agent paid by the Chinese govt to kill all those CIA bastards so there was a plausibly deniable lab accident and then the wrong beaker was dumped in the wrong test tube and half a decade later you got a hundred slowly dying mid to upper level spies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @03:19AM
OK stop now.