 [Guardian] At least some of the incidents were confined to certain rooms with laser-like specificity, and some victims now have problems recalling specific words.
Pictured here, IDF Scream-II with left brain/right brain subwoofers disguised as diplomatic security arms room ammo can.
The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room.
Soon came the hearing loss, and the speech problems, symptoms both similar and altogether different from others among at least 21 US victims in an astonishing international mystery still unfolding in Cuba. The top US diplomat has called them "health attacks".
New details learned by the Associated Press indicate at least some of the incidents were confined to specific rooms or even parts of rooms with laser-like specificity, baffling US officials who say the facts and the physics don’t add up.
"None of this has a reasonable explanation," said Fulton Armstrong, a former CIA official who served in Havana long before America re-opened an embassy there. "It’s just mystery after mystery after mystery."
I'm, I'm, I'm incredulized. To borrow a phrase, a virtual 'riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.'
Second article, same topic - [Guardian] Botched surveillance job may have led to strange injuries at US embassy in Cuba.
BLUF: John Sipher, who spent 28 years in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, argued that while direct targeting of US diplomats is rare, unintended harm caused by surveillance efforts that go wrong are much more common.
Lucky for John, he can still remember.
"These efforts, while designed to further surveillance and eavesdropping and not to cause malicious damage, nevertheless risked or resulted in residual physical harm to US diplomats," Sipher said in a commentary on the Just Security website.
Sonic weapons are being developed by security forces around the world. The Israeli defence forces have a vehicle-mounted blaster called The Scream, while cruise ships have adopted a military grade "sound cannons" to project deafening noise over 300 metres to defend against possible pirate attacks.
However, such weapons have an immediate, crippling effect. Whatever has happened in Havana appears to have crept up on its victims more gradually and subtly. 
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