Havana Syndrome latest findings

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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.


https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status...8329299141

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!"

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