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Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

i also have it having read and now moderated cspam. thanks for nothing

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Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

important Primers

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/the-mystery-of-the-havana-syndrome

quote:

If there was a weapon, of whatever kind, who wielded it? And to what end? Despite a long investigation into the incidents, the U.S. government can�t answer these questions. �It�s been more than a year and a half since the first reported health incident in Havana, and we know no more today about the cause than we did then,� Leahy said. In September, NBC News reported that U.S. intelligence agencies considered Russia to be the main suspect, citing evidence from communications intercepts. But intelligence officials, in interviews with The New Yorker, insisted that they still had no evidence of Russian complicity.

The Cubans say that their investigation has stalled. When U.S. lawmakers visited Havana last January, the Interior Ministry showed them a PowerPoint presentation, which concluded that the ministry had �run out of all investigative possibilities to shed light on the events.� Johana Tablada argued that there was simply nothing to find. �After a year and a half, the most powerful nation on earth hasn�t been able to present one single piece of evidence,� she said. But some see the absence of evidence as proof of a sophisticated operation. �The harder it is to figure this out, the more it lends credence to the fact that it was something that was directed,� Rubio said. �Havana is one of the most heavily surveilled cities on the planet. There is no way the Cubans don�t know who did it�if they didn�t do it themselves.�

Tablada said that she disagreed with virtually everything that Rubio has ever said about Cuba. But, she said, �on one thing, I agree with Marco Rubio. Such a thing cannot happen in Cuba without the Cubans knowing. The thing is, it didn�t happen.�

DeLaurentis, like others at the Embassy, is outraged by the Cubans� denials. In conversation with former colleagues, he still gets upset by suggestions that the Thing was imaginary. �It did happen,� he says. �I know it did.�

https://www.wsj.com/articles/havana-syndrome-symptoms-11626882951

quote:

On Oct. 8, President Biden signed the Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks (HAVANA) Act, which authorizes additional medical and financial support for intelligence officers and diplomats affected by the syndrome.

god drat do Americans love acronyms lmao

Dreylad has issued a correction as of 17:49 on Oct 21, 2021

# ¿ Oct 21, 2021 17:46

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

John Charity Spring posted:

please ban any havana syndrome deniers, mods

# ¿ Oct 21, 2021 19:47

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

vyelkin posted:

inhaling a bunch of insecticide makes sense to me, but otoh who do we get to bomb if it turns out diplomats and spies just love huffing roundup?

Monsanto.

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