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| Top U.S. officials cast fresh doubt on sensational ‘Havana syndrome' claims |
| 2022-09-14 |
| [Yahoo] A top State Department official, countering claims that have circulated widely among members of Congress and the news media, says in a new interview there is no evidence that any external actors caused the "Havana syndrome" health incidents reported in recent years by over 1,100 U.S. diplomats and spies. The comments by Brian Nichols, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, are especially striking given they come at a time the CIA and the State Department have begun making arrangements to compensate — with payments of up to $189,000 — current and former U.S. officials suffering from unexplained brain injuries under a law, the HAVANA Act, passed by Congress last year and signed by President Biden. But even as those payments go out, a Yahoo News investigation has found there is mounting skepticism among senior officials about a key underlying premise of the new law: that the symptoms associated with Havana syndrome — which the government formally refers to as Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI) — can be linked in any way to hostile attacks by a foreign power. "We have not identified any outside causality in any Anomalous Health Incidents," said Nichols in an exclusive interview for a new three-part series for Yahoo News' "Conspiracyland" podcast, "The Strange Story of Havana Syndrome." The series debuts today with an episode recounting how claims about Havana syndrome led to a breakdown in U.S. relations with Cuba. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Didn't the Social Security have a policy of automatically denying all disability claims the first time? Trust the government ...right. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-09-14 19:00 |
| #5 Ref #2: Based on what I've seen for aged equipment in government offices, there are probably rolls of atomic thermal paper to contend with too, B. My thoughts as well. Atomic Thermal Paper (ATP) imbedded markers used to track electronic pedophile imagery. Sounded like a good idea at the time, but the volume became overwhelming. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-09-14 08:51 |
| #4 A pro-Castro administration wants to down-play the role of Cuba's regime in attacks on US officials. I'm honestly surprised this guy isn't negotiating a deal to put Iranian nukes in Cuba. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-09-14 08:27 |
| #3 This goes way back... PDF icon CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120082-1.pdf 65.68 KB Body: Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/05/10: CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120082-1 ;i975 WASHINGTON POST PAB - By Robert G. Kaiser -....:: the American embassy in Moscow has been bombarded for years by a mysterious form of radiation... ... "It it absolutely unbelievable that they never told us about it," the wife of one diplomat observed... (much of the report is garbled) |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2022-09-14 08:13 |
| #2 Based on what I've seen for aged equipment in government offices, there are probably rolls of atomic thermal paper to contend with too, B. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-09-14 07:52 |
| #1 "We have not identified any outside causality in any Anomalous Health Incidents," Well then, if it only happened to US gov't workers at the office, there appears to be only one other explanation. I blame the atomic fax machines. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-09-14 06:17 |