These health problems first struck American and Canadian diplomats stationed in Cuba in 2016, hence his name “Havana syndrome”.
MO12345LEMOND With AFP
American intelligence estimated on Wednesday 1
“Based on a collective effort involving intelligence agencies (…), I can share with you that most of them have concluded now that it is very improbable that a foreign entity is responsible “Of these troubles, said the national intelligence director in a statement. April Haines clarified that agencies had various levels of “confidence” in their evaluation.
American intelligence still believes that the symptoms observed by these employees were “probably due to factors not involving a foreign entity as pre -existing conditions, conventional diseases or environmental factors”, according to the press release.
M hate, as well as the director of the CIA William Burns and other US officials hastened to say that these conclusions did not question or minimized “them” real disorders reported by affected people.
These health problems (migraines, dizziness, nausea, vision disorders, etc.) first hit American and Canadian diplomats stationed in Cuba in 2016, hence his name “Havana syndrome”.
These “abnormal health incidents”, according to the terminology used in the United States, were then reported elsewhere in the world (China, Germany, Australia, Russia, Austria) and even in Washington.
The hypothesis of electromagnetic waves questioned
Havana syndrome remains unexplained to this day by scientists who have multiplied the hypotheses.
However, seven intelligence agencies have examined about 1,000 cases in recent years of “abnormal health incidents” and five of them have concluded that it was “very improbable” that these disorders have had been provoked by a deliberate attack.
One of the agencies judges this hypothesis as “improbable” only, while another refrains from conclusion, according to the report.
This conclusion seems to go against an expert report published a year ago according to which electromagnetic waves may have been in certain cases at the origin of the mysterious syndrome, thus supporting the thesis of attacks deliberated.
But in his latest evaluation, American intelligence concluded that “there is no credible evidence that a foreign opponent has a weapon or a mechanism that caused these disorders”.
The CIA had already last year deemed “improbable” that a foreign entity was able to initiate a systematic campaign aimed at employees in American embassies around the world but without excluding it in around twenty cases.
“Lack of transparency”
For lawyer Mark Zaid, who says he is representing more than twenty suffering people, “this last assessment of American intelligence lacks transparency and we continue to question the accuracy of these conclusions”.
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“it is inconceivable that in view of the many questions that have remained unanswered today be the last word, “he said.
In August 2021, the visit to Hanoi of the American vice-president Kamala Harris had been delayed by three hours after an alert of this type in the Vietnamese capital.
In September 2017, former President Donald Trump had ordered the departure of almost all employees of the United States Embassy in Havana, due to this supposed “syndrome”.
The American Embassy resumed the issuance of visas for Cubans in early January wishing to settle in the United States.