Senate intelligence panel criticizes CIA response to Havana syndrome

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Source: Aol/Reuters

December 27, 2024 at 5:56 PM


(Reuters) -A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report released on Friday criticized the CIA's response to so-called Havana syndrome health problems among its workforce, saying many individuals did not receive adequate care. The report cast no new light on the causes of the headaches, nausea, memory lapses, dizziness and other ailments that were first reported by U.S. embassy officials in the Cuban capital Havana in 2016.

A globe-spanning U.S. intelligence investigation concluded in March 2023 that it was very unlikely a foreign adversary was responsible for the ailments that afflicted some 1,500 U.S. diplomats, spies, other personnel and their families. It found the symptoms, reports of which peaked in 2021 and have since dramatically tapered off, likely resulted from pre-existing conditions, conventional illnesses and environmental and social factors.

Commenting on the Senate findings, a CIA spokesperson said the agency had to respond to the "vexing" health problems as it grappled with the pandemic, and worked with other agencies to determine if a foreign power was attacking U.S. personnel and their families.

"Whether, in hindsight, we could have done better is for others to evaluate, but our commitment to ensuring our officers and their families had access to the care they needed has never wavered," the spokesperson said in a statement.

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Link to Senate Intelligence REPORT (PDF) - https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/AP_Report_24_01_R.pdf

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1. Linked is the full Senate Intelligence Committee report.

Excerpt:

"It can take years or even decades for some medical mysteries–such as Gulf War Syndrome or the health effects of Agent Orange–to be solved. This Committee does not want the IC to repeat previous USG mistakes of withholding medical care and other support because it does not yet fully understand the mysterious health conditions its personnel are reporting."




Source:

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/AP_Report_24_01_R.pdf

[BComplex]

2. I think this is happening in the USA now.

I'm having a conspiracy imagination about it being the drones, but I don't know what it is. I've never heard so many people around me complaining of headaches, dizzyness, foggy brains, and general physical weakness. And this is people in their 30's and 40's, not the old folks.

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3. Could be chemicals or toxins in your area, BComplex.

Years ago in college I would have excruciating migraines and nausea only on Fridays. I was the only student affected (or who spoke up). After I graduated, an instructor found my number and called me a year later. Other students reported the same symptoms as me after I left. The school ran tests and discovered the classrooms where I sat on Fridays had a terrible toxic paint that was off-gassing which affected me first.

Do these people live near a chemical or petroleum-refining facility?

The other culprit could be power-lines or a communications center in your vicinity, but they would have to be emitting some powerful juju to sicken those people.

I would hate to think people in the US were suffering from AHIs like cited in the report, since that would be intentional and enemy action against innocent civilians.

Links:

https://www.greenjournal.co.uk/2021/10/is-it-unhealthy-to-live-near-a-manufacturing-plant/

https://en.geovital.com/how-close-is-too-close-when-living-near-transmission-power-lines/

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4. We live in a rural area. You got me thinking that it might be chemicals on the crops getting into the

ground water. I'll get it checked.

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6. "so many people around me complaining of headaches, dizzyness, foggy brains, and general physical weakness"

That could be long COVID.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-long-term-effects/art-20490351

Ask these folks if they tested positive for COVID in the past 4 years.

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5. Havana syndrome could also be pesticides sprayed in rooms for bugs

Staff could mix up pesticides and spray outdoor pesticides indoors. I remember a couple of tourists dying this way.

I got very sick with similar symptoms in 90’s (my whole neighborhood got sick) when a city worker ran out of his usual mosquito spray and sprayed my neighborhood 3 nights in a row (for mosquitoes) with old Malathion he found in a city shed.

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7. Great points! %$3@ COVID or pesticides could be the culprits in that rural area.

And people in Flint, Michigan drank leaded water years ago.