Washington: The CIA has concluded that US diplomats suffer from mysterious headaches and nausea in what has been dubbed “Havana Syndrome” is not targeted in a global campaign by foreign forces, said Wednesday.
NBC News, The New York Times and Politico quoted several officials issued based on the CIA intelligence assessment of the incident that first emerged in diplomats in 2016 in the Cuban capital, where US officials and Canadians complained severe headaches, and the possibility of brain damage Afterwards heard a high pitched voice.
Since then, diplomatic and intelligence officials have reported similar experiences in countries including Australia, Austria, China, Colombia, Germany and Russia.
The report said the CIA did not rule out foreign involvement in about two dozen cases that remained unexplained, which continued to be investigated.
“In hundreds of other cases of possible symptoms, the agency has found an alternative explanation that makes sense,” NBC’s source to the network.
Some US officials previously accused these cases could be caused by Russian microwave attacks, but scientists expressed doubts about the theory and said there was no one misery or the cause of the reported case.
The report said the CIA document reported Interim’s findings.
“The temporary report is not the final conclusion of the wider administration of Biden or the full intelligence community,” reported NBC, quoting US officials.
This finding caused frustration from some of them who fell ill, with a group of people who said the CIA assessment “could not and should not be the last word about this problem,” according to a statement quoted in the times.
“While we have reached several significant temporary findings, we are not finished,” William J.
Burns, Director of the CIA, said in a statement quoted by The Times.
“We will continue the mission to investigate this incident and provide access to world-class care for those who need it.”