Foreign involvement was ruled out in 976 cases of the 1,000 reviewed. In January 2022, the Central Intelligence Agency issued an interim assessment concluding that the syndrome is not the result of "a sustained global campaign by a hostile power". Of over a thousand purported cases, the majority of US investigative bodies found only a few dozen cases to be suspicious.
Due to the lack of evidence, pattern of reports, and spread to numerous locations, some scientists promoted the alternate hypothesis of mass psychogenic illness as the true cause of the cases. intelligence and government officials expressed suspicions to the press that Russian military intelligence was responsible. intelligence services could not determine the cause of the symptoms, U.S. Other possibilities such as pesticides and other toxins were also raised, but all suggested causes were speculative as no undisputed evidence was discovered. officials blamed the reported symptoms on a variety of unidentified and unknown technologies, including ultrasound and microwave weapons. government representatives attributed the incidents to attacks by unidentified foreign actors, and various U.S.
Once the story became public, various U.S. Department of State, Department of Defense, and other federal entities have called the events "Anomalous Health Incidents" (AHI). intelligence and military personnel and their families, reported having these symptoms in other places, such as China, New Delhi, India, Europe, and Washington, D.C. Beginning in 2017, more people, including U.S. and Canadian embassy staff in Havana, Cuba. The symptoms range in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive dysfunction and were first reported in 2016 by U.S. government officials and military personnel. Havana syndrome is a cluster of idiopathic symptoms experienced mostly abroad by U.S. Mass psychogenic illness, psychosomatic illness officers traveling overseas.” It claims that the numbers have been rising and that has had the effect of “increasing the pressure on the Biden administration to make conclusions about what is causing the illnesses and whether an adversarial intelligence service is responsible.The Hotel Nacional in Havana is one of the locations where the syndrome has reportedly been experienced. The Times traces the basic facts as they appear today: “Well over 200 American officials have been injured in the health incidents since 2016, roughly half of them C.I.A. We continue counting on The New York Times and other outlets to keep it churning over until either the mystery is solved or simply runs out of fuel. The Daily Devil’s Dictionary has been following the story these past few years, with articles that examine various features of the phenomenon here, here, here, here and here. The Havana syndrome is already five years old, which means that even as it continues to develop in the coming years, it already qualifies as being more than simply an isolated moment in history. It will reveal certain continuities that began with the original Cold War and are now playing out in the newly emerging Cold War 2.0 that traces its origins to Donald Trump’s election in 2016 and Russiagate. It will undoubtedly include several dimensions that today’s newspapers are willing to evoke but not explain. One day the entire history of the Havana syndrome will be summed up in a full-length book, probably in conjunction with UFOs, cancel culture, the role of the deep state and even other less contemporary themes, such as the McCarthyist communist witch hunt in the 1950s. Add to all that the silence of the State Department and the story is clearly not about the Havana syndrome but about a struggle between opposing forces inside the government. Spratlen available for comment and declined to comment on the criticism of her.” No identified cause, no designated agent, no consistency in the symptoms themselves.
“The Biden administration,” it informs us, “has so far been unable to conclude what is causing the unexplained health incidents.” Then there’s this important piece of non-news: “The State Department did not make Ms. Anyone guilty of that crime will understand the risk of being immediately canceled.Īs usual, The Times article helpfully reminds readers that, concerning the syndrome itself, besides the fear factor, there is nothing to report. When, in the coming weeks, both personalities will be effectively replaced - one in Vienna and the other in Washington - we can reasonably assume that skepticism will be absent from their intellectual profile. Spratlen viewed the health incidents skeptically,” The Times reports.
What ties these two events together? An astute reader may notice that Spratlen’s crime was identical to that of the CIA officer: skepticism. JQuery('.search-field').on('input', function() )
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