Journalistic investigation links Havana syndrome to Russia

The mysterious symptoms of the so-called syndrome To Havana Attacks experienced by American diplomats in recent years have been linked to a Russian intelligence unit, according to a multimedia joint investigation published Monday.

He syndrome from the Havana was first reported in 2016. US diplomats in the capital of Cuba They fell ill and claimed to have heard piercing sounds at night.

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These symptoms generated speculation about a possible attack by a foreign entity with some kind of sonic weapon.

The means O Insider, Der Spiegel and the program60 minutes“from jail CBS they guarantee in their investigation that there is “evidence to suggest” that the syndrome in To Havana It is caused by “use of directed energy weapons wielded by members of unit 29155 (of the Russian GRU)”According to the report.

Unit 29155 Russia conducts operations abroad and has been blamed for several international incidents, including the attempted poisoning of the defector Sergei Skripal in Great Britain in 2018.

Moscow assured on Monday that the report’s conclusions are “unfounded”.

“This issue has been discussed in the press for many years. And from the beginning most of the time links to the Russian side”, said the spokesman Kremlin, Dimitri Peskovat a press conference.

“But no one has published any convincing evidence, so all of this is nothing more than a baseless and baseless accusation.”“, he said.

Washington closed its immigration office To Havana in 2018 under a U.S. policy shift toward Cuba and because of the fear generated by syndrome among diplomats.

US intelligence said in 2022 that intense energy directed from an external source could have caused some of these symptoms, officially known as anomalous health incidents (THEREby its acronyms in English).

But US intelligence agencies concluded in March 2023 that “There is no credible evidence that a foreign adversary possesses a weapon or collection device that is causing IAH”.

Washington announced the reopening of its immigration office in To Havana in August 2023.

O investigation of the media, lasting one year, suggests that those of To Havana These were not the first cases of this syndrome: “It is likely that there had been attacks two years earlier in Frankfurt, Germanywhen a US government employee at the consulate was knocked unconscious by something resembling a strong energy beam.”

The New Yorker reported in July 2021 that around twenty intelligence agents, diplomats and other U.S. officials in Austria reported similar problems syndrome from the Havana since the president Joe Biden he took office that same year.

Source: Elcomercio

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