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Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/tense-blinken-meeting-havana-syndrome-diplomats-complain-skepticism-n1279769 Exclusive: In his first meeting with the cohort of State Department staffers affected in Cuba and China, the secretary of state spent more than an hour offering reassurances and fielding questions. Sept. 21, 2021 By Josh Lederman and Brenda Breslauer WASHINGTON – U.S. diplomats suffering from the unexplained “Havana Syndrome” used a tense meeting with Secretary...
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17th of July 2021 Source: BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57875322 The US government is investigating a series of health incidents in the Austrian capital Vienna involving its diplomats and other administration staff. More than 20 officials have reported symptoms similar to Havana Syndrome – a mystery brain illness – since President Joe Biden took office in January....
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Article by an electrical and computer engineer who designs and builds sources of high-power microwaves (Edl Schamiloglu, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,  University of New Mexico. https://theconversation.com/scientists-suggest-us-embassies-were-hit-with-high-power-microwaves-heres-how-the-weapons-work-151730 Excerpt Lots of power, little heat Although these high-power microwave sources generate very high power levels, they tend to generate repeated short pulses. For example, the SINUS-6...
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25889. Description In late 2016, U.S. Embassy personnel in Havana, Cuba, began to report the development of an unusual set of symptoms and clinical signs. For some of...
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NY Times, Dec. 5, 2020. Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies A government-commissioned report provides the most definitive explanation yet for “Havana syndrome,” which struck scores of American employees, first in Cuba and then in China, Russia and other countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/business/economy/havana-syndrome-microwave-attack.html?smid=tw-share Numerous other media outlets...
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