A US intelligence panel investigating the strange brain injuries suffered by certain American diplomats and spies abroad has issued a report, which does not rule out the possibility of deliberate attacks. The expert group asserted in a report released on February 2. It stated that intense directed radiation from an external source could be the cause of some occurrences of “Havana Syndrome” among US diplomats.
What is “Havana Syndrome”?
Havana syndrome is a compilation of medical symptoms with unclear causes. It is primarily affecting U.S. government employees and military personnel staying abroad. The symptoms range in severity from discomfort and ringing in the ears to cognitive difficulties. The initial cases were in 2016. It was of an embassy worker in Havana, Cuba.
What does the recent report state?
The panel of technology and medical specialists found that pulsed electromagnetic energy and ultrasound provided from near distances could have produced the symptoms of what is formally known as anomalous health occurrences, according to a recent report.
Experts have revealed that technology exists to create the unusual combination of earaches, vertigo, nausea, and other symptoms. Out of hundreds of cases reported, “a subset of AHIs cannot be easily explained by known environmental or medical conditions and could be due to external stimuli,” said an unclassified summary of the experts’ report.
According to the specialists, it is feasible to develop concealable devices. It would direct electromagnetic energy or ultrasound ripples to cause damage in a targeted person using moderate quantities of energy. The scientists did not proclaim whether such gadgets exist because they were only curious about the possible causes of AHI. They also didn’t say whether or whether such attacks occurred, or who might have been behind them. However, certain allegations questioning the technological feasibility of AHI attacks were up in their research. Over the last five years, US officials and family members stationed in a variety of nations have published physical illnesses, especially those that fit the AHI definition.
All around two dozen of the 1,000 recorded AHI instances had conventional medical or environmental explanations, according to the Central Intelligence Agency. But there was no explanation for the other two dozen. Other hypotheses of AHI sources, such as ionizing radiation, chemical and biological agents. Experts terminated infrasound, audible sound, ultrasound carried over long distances, and also bulk heating from electromagnetic energy. According to them, all of these were “implausible” causes of the AHI symptoms.
