Havana Syndrome latest findings

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Havana, China, Washington DC, and other places where U.S. citizens have been targeted by a device that actually gives them lasting brain damage. 

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Wouldn't surprise me if true.  Although, if it is considered dead certain that it was a Russian initiative, there will eventually be payback of some kind.  That's why most of these actions / counter-actions have traditionally been kept within certain bounds.

"Eye for an eye" applies in the covert action world.

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Warning: this is going to be a long post of twisty rabbit holes. If not interested in this topic, exit now... Or scroll down to second post for some fun obscure stuff.

Havana Cabana Syndrome back in the news again. Apparently, someone didn't like the recent medical finding that found no clear evidence of any Havana Syndrome, so now we have "sources" keeping the claim alive. 60 Minutes featuring Vitalii Kovalev as a Russian military trained electronics expert and chef. A whole lotta speculation mixed with fiction.

Fox News report from Sunday evening re: Havana Syndrome. June 2020 arrest of a man named "Vitalii." Monroe County Sheriff's Dept in FL arrested a Vitallii Kovalev -- identified by Fox as Russian, by Monroe County as German -- the same dated listed in the 60 Minutes preview clip.

Monroe County Sheriff's Department blog, from 2020



The date in the 60 Minutes clip:



The man arrested in the 60 Minutes clip vs. photo of Vitallii Kovalev on Monroe County Sheriff's website. It's unclear when the latter photo was taken:



Per the 60 Minutes report, Kovalev was released after 30 months connected to the charges from his arrest. He went back to Russia and a journalist claims to have found a death certificate for Kovalev, who died on frontline of the Ukraine conflict. 60 Minutes admits they don't know what Kovalev "was up to" at the time of his arrest. So we're back to square one. No evidence. More speculation. 60 Minutes claims Havana Syndrome actually started in Germany in 2014 and with other possible attacks in Ukraine in 2014 after Euromaidan.

A journalist from The Insider claims a special Russian unit, 29155, issued a memo about "potential capabilities" of a directed-energy weapon. He states this is proof of testing of such weapons. Everyone is using hedging language and weasel words to avoid making definitive statements. One victim states an accused Russian man might look like someone she saw before her attack. Everything here is connected by implication.


Advanced Echelon


New article in The Insider claims that the attacks, rather than microwave weapons, could be acoustic weapons. This was in fact the original suggestion between 2017 and 2019:

Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on U.S. officials and their families

'Non-lethal Acoustic Weapons'

A yearlong investigation by The Insider, in collaboration with 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel, has uncovered evidence suggesting that unexplained anonymous health incidents, also known as Havana Syndrome, may have their origin in the use of directed energy weapons wielded by members of Unit 29155.

Among this investigation’s core findings is the fact that senior members of the unit received awards and political promotions for work related to the development of “non-lethal acoustic weapons,” a term used in Russian military-scientific literature to describe both sound- and radiofrequency-based directed energy devices, as both would result in acoustic artifacts in the victim’s brain.

These and other operatives attached to Unit 29155, traveling undercover, have been geolocated to places around the world just before or at the time of reported anomalous health incidents — or AHIs, as the U.S. government formally refers to Havana Syndrome. Furthermore, Joy is not the only victim to identify a known member of this Russian black ops squad lurking around her home.

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Pulsed microwave radiation is one of two technologies that scientists — including those assigned by the U.S. intelligence community to investigate Havana Syndrome — have theorized as the possible cause of the condition. The other is acoustic sound. Either of these approaches may result in the victim appearing to hear audible sounds, hums and clicks, through a phenomenon termed the Frey Effect, named for Allan H. Frey, the American scientist who first wrote about the microwave auditory effect.

Russia has been experimenting with both for decades.

In fact, in its corpus of scientific literature the two phenomena are conflated into a common category of “wave weapons.” A Soviet patent from 1974 was issued to a military unit that developed – and claimed to have successfully tested – a “non-lethal device inducing sleep in the target via the use of radio-waves.” A series of studies by Soviet and Russian scientists from 1991 to 2012 focused on the transmission of simulated auditory information to targets using ultra-high radio frequencies. And The Insider, 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel can now reveal, senior members of Unit 29155 were themselves tasked with, and rewarded for, successfully testing “non-lethal acoustic weapons.”

The very first sentence in the 60 Minutes piece stated as fact that Havana Syndrome has caused "brain injuries." Yet the NIH studies released just last month found no evidence of brain injuries at all.

Meanwhile, NIH news release published March 18, 2024...

NIH studies find severe symptoms of “Havana Syndrome,” but no evidence of MRI-detectable brain injury or biological abnormalities - "Compared to healthy volunteers, affected U.S. government personnel did not exhibit differences that would explain symptoms."


Something that doesn't get discussed much is that early research into directed-energy weapons sometimes crossed over with parapsychology. Edwin May, who worked on remote viewing experiments for SRI International and ran Stargate, conducted directed-energy experiments for the US Air Force.

Excerpt from Russell Targ's book, The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities (2012) (page 116-117):


May is mentioned briefly in relation to noted psychic spy Joe McMoneagle, and May later authored a paper for Targ's SRI covering work with McMoneagle on a DEW system.


CIA PDF file

Not been able to locate the SRI report. An interesting connection, however is you'll notice it's included on a number of bibliographies in the CIA's Reading Room linked to Project Grill Flame, another name for the Stargate Project. Edwin May headed Stargate program towards the end, until its (supposed) discontinuance in 1995. What's notable here is that although the CIA was involved early on, Stargate was largely overseen by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)—the same agency now running an "Anomalous Health Incidents" (AHI) program.

This Havana Syndrome or whatever you wish to call it I think goes back to the Nazis and some of the tech that Tesla was working on. Who knows really, but it's been going on a long time, since the early 70's with the so-called "Moscow Signal".

Some Air Force and Navy memos on microwave radiation I found from Ann Druffel at EFR archive:






This article from over a year ago suggests the DIA was likely the agency that abstained from offering a conclusion in the ODNI report:

The Washington Post reported that seven intelligence agencies participated in the assessment, with five coming to the “very unlikely” conclusion, one ruling it “unlikely,” and a final agency abstaining entirely.

An unclassified statement of work included with the Virginia Contracting Activity’s request for information (RFI) identifies the Anomalous Health Incident Program by name, repeatedly using the phrase alongside occasional references to Havana Syndrome, suggesting that the Defense Intelligence Agency, VACA’s parent agency, may have been the abstaining party in the ODNI assessment.

And that they did this because they're currently developing an AHI program:

On March 1, 2023, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a press release stating that it was “very unlikely” that anomalous health incidents were the result of attacks by a foreign adversary.

The Washington Post reported that seven intelligence agencies participated in the assessment, with five coming to the “very unlikely” conclusion, one ruling it “unlikely,” and a final agency abstaining entirely.

An unclassified statement of work included with the Virginia Contracting Activity’s request for information (RFI) identifies the Anomalous Health Incident Program by name, repeatedly using the phrase alongside occasional references to Havana Syndrome, suggesting that the Defense Intelligence Agency, VACA’s parent agency, may have been the abstaining party in the ODNI assessment.

The document calls for a 26-person team of support staff, ranging from resident nurses and psychologists to industrial hygienists and case managers, to assist the DIA in medical response and data analysis of anomalous health incidents targeting the Intelligence Community in the continental United States and duty stations abroad.

It is one of a number of documents produced over the years that point to a long-standing belief in anomalous health incidents by agencies within the government. An earlier version of the RFI included with the contract opportunity identifies the Office of the Surgeon General as the supervising agency and is dated for October 2019.

It is unclear if the Anomalous Health Incident Program is a new program within the DIA and/or the OSG, or if the RFI is expanding upon a pre-existing one.

The DIA has investigated anomalous health incidents in the past, as discovered by Freedom of Information Act researcher John Greenewald, Jr. in 2022, when a FOIA request into an alleged incident returned a response from the agency.

Full article: The U.S. is spending millions on ‘Havana Syndrome’ research – but it’s not clear if it exists

Given that the DIA official 60 Minutes talked to has created a company, Advanced Echelon, to pursue AHI contacts, and his company is now hiring a similar slate of positions as referenced in the DIA's SOW for its AHI program, it's likely his company will be filling these positions:




The 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome segment, which was promoted in advance as evidence of attacks, is now simply a working hypothesis according to a Bellingcat operative.


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The Havana Syndrome saga is like the reverse of the ending of THE PARALLAX VIEW. That story ends with "There will be no questions." The Havana Syndrome saga ends with "There will always be more questions, and if there isn't we'll create more!"

Continue...

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Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff joins the chat...



His discussion on SpyTalk.

The release of this document, albeit heavily redacted, marks a rare instance of official acknowledgment of records pertaining to Havana Syndrome. It provides a glimpse into the government’s efforts to understand and address the condition, which has been a source of controversy and concern.

The nature and origin of Havana Syndrome remain contentious topics. While some believe it to be the result of hostile actions by foreign adversaries, others argue that psychological factors or environmental causes could be at play. The U.S. government’s cautious approach to releasing information has fueled speculation and calls for greater transparency.

FOIA Request Sheds Light on DIA’s Records Pertaining to ‘Havana Syndrome’

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I about fell outta my chair when I heard this...Havana Syndrome banger:



Seems all his songs are insanely long.

Some high-quality outsider art:



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So a Russian electrical engineer is captured in Florida.. Strong possibility Russia Russia Russia and their unit 29155!!

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The never ending story...

The FBI just released a mostly redacted (they only released 7 pages of the 23-page report, and most are heavily redacted) 2019 report from its Behavioral Analysis Unit which argued reported cases of Havana Syndrome were the result of a mass psychogenic illness.


F.B.I. Releases Redacted Report on Havana Syndrome

It appears the report was obtained by the New York Times through a lawsuit. The FBI rejected a FOIA request by an individual researcher who put through for the same report in 2022, stating it was exempt from disclosure.


This is notable because the FBI has since walked back its conclusions in this report. Beginning in 2021, FBI agents suddenly started coming down with Havana Syndrome like it was a variant of Covid. (The initial reporters to cover this had ties to the CIA and State Department.)


If interested, here's the partial heavily redacted report obtained by the NY Times.


New Yorker, July 2021: The FBI found no evidence Havana Syndrome exists and initially stated victims were suffering from a mass psychogenic illness, but backed down upon pressure by the State Department.



Newsy, 2022: FBI agents now have Havana Syndrome.


Exclusive: FBI Agents In The U.S. Report Symptoms Of Mystery Syndrome

If you don't believe Havana Syndrome is a psychological operation at this point, I don't know what to tell you.

This story isn't necessarily new. NBC first reported on the possibility in November of last year.

FBI acknowledges some agents may have Havana Syndrome symptoms "After NBC News obtained internal emails, the FBI publicly acknowledged for the first time that some employees may have symptoms of Havana Syndrome." (Nov. 24, 2021 / Updated Nov. 27, 2021)


The question to ask here: why is Newsy, a relatively minor news outlet, breaking this story and not the NY Times or NBC?

LOL, the journalist here (Sasha Ingber) is an ex State Department employee who acted as editor on a project countering "Russian disinformation".



Newsy gave themselves an award for "innovation" in 2019 for a collaboration with Bellingcat. (E.W. Scripps owns Newsy.)


So, now we believe the FBI again?
In a case where nothing is at stake and they're pitted against the CIA, an agency they notoriously do not get along with and would love nothing more than to make look foolish? Also where their review lines up with all available scientific evidence? Yes, sometimes, skeptically.


Earlier this year, an anonymous FBI agent claimed she had been afflicted with the illness after interviewing an alleged Russian spy.




The alleged Russian military intelligence officer, assigned to Unit 74455 is Vitalii Sergeevich Kovalev. Despite the fact that 60 Minutes says he died in 2023, if you file a FOIA to FBI it will be DENIED.


KOVALEV Wanted by FBI | KOVALEV Wanted by Secret Service


No worries. Elon has a cure on the way for those 'traumatic' brain injuries.

There was a CIA bureau chief & a State Dept chief who said it was fake at the start and was immediately removed.


CIA station chief in Vienna Removed  | State Dept chief removed