As many as 200 Americans have now reported possible symptoms of 'Havana Syndrome'

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 00:46:01 PDT 2021


Now they claim it was "crickets" all along... lol.

A Declassified State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause
'Havana Syndrome'

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/havana-syndrome-jason-crickets
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21068770-jason-report-2018-havana-syndrome
https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2020/12/new-report-assesses-illnesses-among-us-government-personnel-and-their-families-at-overseas-embassies

Noises linked to mysterious injuries among US diplomats in Cuba were
most likely caused by crickets -- not microwave weapons -- according
to a declassified scientific review commissioned by the US State
Department and obtained by BuzzFeed News. The State Department report
was written by the JASON advisory group, an elite scientific board
that has reviewed US national security concerns since the Cold War. It
was completed in November of 2018, two years after dozens of US
diplomats in Cuba and their families reported hearing buzzing noises
and then experiencing puzzling neurological injuries, including pain,
vertigo, and difficulty concentrating. Originally classified as
"secret," the report concluded that the sounds accompanying at least
eight of the original 21 Havana syndrome incidents were "most likely"
caused by insects. That same scientific review also judged it "highly
unlikely" that microwaves or ultrasound beams -- now widely proposed
by US government officials to explain the injuries -- were involved in
the incidents. And though the report didn't definitively conclude what
caused the injuries themselves, it found that "psychogenic" mass
psychology effects may have played a role.

"No plausible single source of energy (neither radio/microwaves nor
sonic) can produce both the recorded audio/video signals and the
reported medical effects," the JASON report concluded. "We believe the
recorded sounds are mechanical or biological in origin, rather than
electronic. The most likely source is the Indies short-tailed
cricket." The report's findings fly in the face of a medical report
commissioned by the State Department and published by a National
Academies of Sciences panel last year, which found that microwaves
were the "most plausible" cause of the symptoms. That panel was not
provided with the JASON report as part of its assessment, the NAS told
BuzzFeed News.


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