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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone know what is the Havana Syndrome Joe clueless is discussing with Adam clueless?
RegularJam
(914 posts)akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)The US is so puritanical.
yardwork
(61,711 posts)Read up on it.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Remember reading about it .
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)JT45242
(2,295 posts)First seen in Havana. Government workers at the Havana embassy had a bunch of unexplained illnesses.
Lots of speculation that it could be a weapon, perhaps a sonic weapon or some other weird weapon. Has occurred at a few other places.
No one is sure who is behind it or how it works (at least officially). Has happened at a few other places and happened on US soil recently.
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)womanofthehills
(8,771 posts)Side effects are similar.
pwb
(11,291 posts)?
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)lark
(23,156 posts)I just haven't read about it lately until now when it's coming out that this is happening in DC too. WTF, Ruskies, stop the shit.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)The who and what now?
flying_wahini
(6,651 posts)Causes a myriad of symptoms. (A syndrome)
Quakerfriend
(5,453 posts)akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)FakeNoose
(32,767 posts)The GRU is the current version of the KGB. It's the Russian spy organization and they think they're still fighting in the Cold War.
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)and will continue to survive. Do not care for America embargo on Cuba, America has become inadequate since January 6. No other country in the world raped their place of law and killed and attacked cops. The rethugs claiming the insurrectionists look like tourists, since when tourists attack a sacred place of law and order, scaled walls and desecrated the building?
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Good article in GQ
https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks
The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion
BY JULIA IOFFE
October 19, 2020
Some of the two dozen Americans affected in Havana had been CIA officers under diplomatic cover. Though these apparent attacks baffled officials at the Agency, there was growing suspicion inside CIA headquarters, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, that these attacks had been the work of Russian security services. It was not a wild stretch, and many in Washingtons foreign policy and national security universe were thinking along the same lines. Since 2014, the Russians had become increasingly brazen in going after the U.S. and its allies, and they had every reason to peel their old Cuban allies away from the Americans embrace. These guys have been told they can take the gloves off and do whatever they want to hurt Americans, says a former national security official. Theyre trying to weaken us generally, and theyve obviously taken the gloves off quite some time ago.
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The notion of weaponizing microwaves dates back to the Cold War, when, in 1961, an American biologist named Allan Frey discovered that irradiating a human head with microwaves could produce the sensation of soundeven in deaf ears, even from thousands of feet away. Playing with the frequency and intensity of the microwave beam could produce a range of different sensations in a person. In 2018, Frey told the New York Times that the Soviets took immediate notice of his work and flew him to Moscow, where they squired him around secret military facilities and asked him to give lectures about the effects of microwaves on the brain.
As the Cold War progressed, both the United States and the Soviet Union raced to find military uses for what came to be called directed energy weapons. American researchers had studied things like beaming words into subjects headsgreat for psychological warfarewhile also researching the thermal aspects of microwaves. Packaged in the right way, researchers theorized, a microwave weapon could be mounted on a truck, where it could cast a beam outward to create an invisible barrier anywhere, anytime, capable of immobilizing any person who got within its range. This research ultimately culminated in the development of a weapon the Pentagon calls an Active Denial System, or ADS. In a video touting its capabilities, the U.S. military boasts that this highly portable weapon can be attached to a military vehicle and used to direct precise beams of electromagnetic radiation at, say, an armed militant in a crowd or a suspicious person approaching a military checkpoint. The beam would instantaneously produce a sensation of heat on the skin, which would trigger a persons reflex to flee. (This summer, a military official inquired about deploying the technology against American protesters who flooded into the streets of Washington, D.C., to protest police brutality.)
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By now, this was no longer a novel occurrence, and CIA people had come to call it getting hit. One senior intelligence officer in EEMC, the Center Polymeropoulos used to run, had gotten hit twice while traveling under cover, first in Poland in the spring of 2019, then again in Tbilisi, Georgia, that fall. He, too, was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and experienced symptoms similar to Polymeropouloss. (He declined to be interviewed for this article.)