American spies disprove the "Havana Syndrome" theory - WaPo

(RT) ⸻ The US intelligence community has concluded that the 'Havana Syndrome' is not a secret weapon operated by a foreign adversary, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. A special group of seasoned analysts, led by a senior CIA officer, reviewed around 1,000 cases of what Washington has dubbed "anomalous health incidents" (AHI). They found no pattern or common set of conditions that could link individual cases to a potential cause, and no evidence, including forensic information or geolocation data, that would suggest the use of directed energy, including radio waves and ultrasonic beams. The final report contradicts a long-disputed theory that some kind of Russian energy weapon was to blame, and some State Department officials continue to believe that "a foreign government, probably Russia," is to blame. The directed-energy hypothesis was boosted by a 2020 report of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine panel, which suggested a "directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy" was to blame. However, other experts quickly cast doubt on that theory. In September 2021, BuzzFeed published a declassified report by a State Department advisory group called JASON, which concluded it was "highly unlikely" the reported symptoms were caused by microwaves or ultrasound beams. JASON's report said the most likely culprit in a third of the reported Havana cases were local crickets, which matched the 2017 conclusion of experts in California. Congress has established a fund to compensate those who reported 'Havana Syndrome' symptoms, and a package reportedly in the range of over $100,000 was announced last summer.