2024-04-02 01:27:06
The Russian investigative portal The Insider has published material that may reveal an explanation of the long-standing mystery associated with the mysterious illness of a number of American diplomats and their family members. According to the portal, which tried to unravel the mystery in cooperation with the German newspaper Der Spiegel and the program 60 Minutes of the American station CBS, the Russian military intelligence GRU is behind the attacks against Americans.
Headaches, fatigue, hearing distortion, but also dizziness and nausea. American diplomats and their family members who lived and worked in the Cuban capital Havana began to complain about such problems in 2016. Hence the name of this “mystery”: Havana syndrome. The name did not change even after similar health problems began to be reported by American diplomats, but also by CIA agents from other countries, including Austria, Colombia or Vietnam.
The Americans began to investigate from the first case, but from time to time they only came back with information that they could not explain what exactly was causing the problems. Only now has information emerged that could bring a resolution. According to an article on the Russian portal The Insider, members of the Russian military intelligence GRU are behind the disease. In the article on the revelation of the Havana syndrome, they describe in detail what and how the intelligence could have done to attack Americans.
The Insider reported that members of the Russian military intelligence unit 29155 were in the cities in which the “Havana syndrome” appeared. High-ranking members of the said unit were awarded for their contribution to the development of so-called acoustic weapons. It is a device that can affect the victim’s brain with the help of high-frequency waves. The Kremlin denies Russian involvement.
By the way, the media has previously linked the members of the mentioned unit to, for example, the nerve agent poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer and British agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yuliya in Britain, or gunner Emiliyan Gebrev in Bulgaria. Gebrev also had weapons stored in Moravian Vrbětice in October 2014, when a devastating explosion hit the ammunition warehouse there. The Czech authorities also suspect members of the GRU from 2021 at the latest in this explosion.
According to the investigative portal, the first case of “Havana syndrome” could have occurred earlier than 2016. According to it, two “attacks” took place in 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, with one of the victims being an employee of the American consulate.
A US Department of Defense official also had problems
The American newspaper The Washington Post wrote last year that, according to an analysis by five American intelligence agencies, the “Havana Syndrome” was most likely not caused by an attack by a hostile government or a weapon or device emitting energy beams. He also stated that the explanation for the phenomenon remains unclear.
According to the TASS agency, the spokesman of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, has now pointed out that the media have previously blamed Russia in connection with the “Havana syndrome”, and stated that there is a lack of evidence for Russian involvement. “For many years, the media has been imposing the topic of the so-called Havana syndrome. From the very beginning, it has been most often associated with blaming the Russian side, but for the entire time no one has published or presented at least a little convincing evidence for these loud accusations,” Peskov said.
The Pentagon confirmed on Monday, according to Reuters, that a high-ranking official of the US Department of Defense, who attended the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Vilnius last year, also suffered from the symptoms of “Havana syndrome”.
“I can confirm that a senior Department of Defense official had symptoms similar to those reported in unusual medical incidents,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters today. She added that the unnamed official was not part of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s delegation to the NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital, but was there “on his own and attended meetings that were part of the NATO summit.”
Citing medical secrecy and privacy protection, the spokeswoman did not specify whether the person in question had to seek further medical help, or whether he had to stop fulfilling his duties or retire.