New in SpyWeek: Storms Over Havana Syndrome, Greenland, Iran, Venezuela
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Sick: The Havana Syndrome controversy exploded anew this week with claims that the U.S.had secretly acquired a foreign made “directed energy” or “sonic” weapon of a type that could have been the cause of the strange medical episodes that have stunned and permanently disabled scores of U.S. officials, starting with CIA officers serving in Cuba and other foreign posts and, in two alleged incidents, Washington, D.C. First came Sasha Ingber, a former TV and radio correspondent who had also worked in a State Department initiative to monitor and counter Russian disinformation. On Monday she reported on her HUMINT substack that “a number of months ago, the U.S. captured a weapon that has been associated with Havana Syndrome,” whose symptoms include vertigo, nausea, splitting headaches and mental confusion. Two sources demanding anonymity told Ingber it was “seized by U.S. Special Forces during an operation.” They said “the weapon has been tested so that the U.S. can understand how the device works,” but that “no one said that it had ever been used.”
