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Havana Syndrome could be caused by pulsed energy devices – US expert report
A US intelligence report by a panel of expert scientists has named pulsed electromagnetic energy and ultrasound as plausible causes for the mystery Havana Syndrome symptoms suffered by US diplomats and spies in recent years.
The report found that a group of cases could not be explained by health or environmental factors or by psychosomatic illness. It also said that devices exist with “modest energy requirements” which were concealable and could produce the observed symptoms and be effective over hundreds of meters or through walls.
The panel, established last year by the director of national security, Avril Haines, and the CIA director, William Burns, said the investigation was not tasked to identify a culprit, but in a statement accompanying the report, Haines and Burns said it would help sharpen the search for the origins of they mysterious ailments.
“We will stay at it, with continued rigor, for however long it takes,” they said.
Previously:
"Havana Syndrome": U.S. Baffled After New Cases in Europe
CIA Finds No Evidence of a Foreign Adversary Causing "Havana Syndrome"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 04 2022, @11:21PM (7 children)
The millimeter wave-based Active Denial System doesn't fit the symptoms reported for Havana Syndrome.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 04 2022, @11:29PM (6 children)
*sigh*
I didn't say it was this particular system.
Unless everyone involved is full of shit, they are almost certainly looking for an electromagnetic weapon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 05 2022, @05:27AM (1 child)
It could just as easily be acoustic, as mentioned in the summary. There are certain ultrasonic frequencies that can cause symptoms like that and the required equipment is both cheap and easy to conceal. Detection is also difficult because common audio recording equipment can't hear it.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Sunday February 06 2022, @08:37AM
Both audio and radio frequency spectrum analysers are readily available, and have been for at least 30 years.
3 inches of wire makes a good aerial for high power microwaves. A tin-foil hat makes quite a good Faraday cage.
An app in your iPhone could probably sense acoustic stuff well beyond what your ears would sense. If not,
a cheap piezo tweeter connected to an Arduino would be enough to indicate suspicious acoustic activity.
If they can't find it, either they are not looking, or its not there.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 05 2022, @05:47AM (3 children)
Yet another area of Runaway1956 expertise. Runaway! You are a maroon! You have no idea what you are talking about! Stop making us have to listen to you, just because you THINK you have an "opinion". And, careful, when you mess with spies, they have access to a lot of information about you that you might think they do not.
(Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Saturday February 05 2022, @08:15AM (2 children)
He is as entitled to express his 'opinion' as you are to express yours - no matter whether you think it is right or wrong. Why is this always a one-way thing with people of your ilk?
I have seen nothing here to indicate that he is making you read it. In fact, if you had read it properly you would have noticed his name and you could have skipped over it - oh, you did notice his name? So you chose to read it! How is that anybody's fault but your own?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @06:11AM (1 child)
No, this is wrong, incorrect. Runaway is an idiot, his opinion nearly always amounts to dis-, or mis-information. He is a Russian agent trying to destroy the West. Did you not see his journal on the Ukraine? Obvious Russian agent of influence. If SN continues to be complicit in his "opinions", I imagine there are several espionage laws in several countries that could have jurisdiction.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 06 2022, @09:05AM
That doesn't give you right to choose who can comment on this site and who cannot. What goes in journals is entirely the user's responsibility. I don't agree with Runaway's politics or medical advice either. You are not forced to read them.
People express similar opinions each day in the MSM, on TV, and on the internet. Contrary to your personal desires it has not been made illegal in the USA. This site was established there for this very reason - it has freedom of speech enshrined in its Constitution.
If you wish to have the right to choose what people can and cannot say you can start your own site somewhere else. We can give you all the software but from then on you would be on your own. Good luck!
Really?