The mysterious neurological symptoms experienced by American diplomats in China and Cuba are consistent with the effects of directed microwave energy, according to a long-awaited report by the National Academy of Sciences to support the long-held guilt of American intelligence officials. .
A report obtained by NBC News on Friday did not confirm that any of the US officials had long believed that the directed energy release was intentional. But that increases the likelihood of confusion.
NBC News reported in 2018 that U.S. intelligence officials had identified Russia as a leading suspect in deliberate attacks on diplomats and CIA officials abroad. But it wasn’t – and not now – the undercover intelligence pointing in that direction, to the multiple officers who provided information on the matter.
A team of medical and scientific experts who studied the characteristics of about 40 state and other government employees concluded that nothing like them had been previously documented in the medical literature, according to a report from the National Academy of Sciences. Many experienced loud noises and a feeling of pressure in their heads, and then dizziness, unstable gait, and visual disturbances. Many suffered from long-lasting, debilitating effects.
According to the report, the committee felt that many of the specific and intense signals, symptoms and observations reported by (government) employees were consistent with the effects of directed, vibrating radio frequency (RF) energy. “Studies published in open literature by Western and Soviet sources in the decades before and after half a century provide circumstantial support for this potential mechanism.”
While important questions remain, “Just considering such a scenario raises serious concerns about a world of mischievous artists and new tools to harm others, as if the US government is not already full of naturally occurring threats,” Stanford’s Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology Professor David. This is according to a report edited by David Reelman and Julie Pauline, a physician who heads the National Academy of Sciences of the World Health Organization in Washington.
Last year, according to the first report by GQ Magazine, a number of new incidents were reported by CIA officials in Europe and Asia, including one involving Mark Polymoroplos, who retired last year after a long and well-groomed career as a case officer. He told NBC News that he still suffers from the effects of what he believes to be a constant brain injury during a trip to Moscow.
A source familiar with the matter told NBC News that the CIA, using mobile phone location data, determined that some Russian intelligence agents working on microwave weapons programs were present in the same cities at the same time that CIA officers received the mysterious symptoms. CIA officials hope there is a promising lead but no conclusive evidence.
The State Department and the CIA did not respond to a request for comment late Friday night. Russia has denied any involvement in the incidents.
This study explores four possibilities to explain the symptoms: infection, chemicals, psychological factors, and microwave.
“Overall, the directed pulsed R.F. This seems to be the most prayerful method of explaining these cases among the people considered by the Energy Committee. … The committee cannot rule out other possible mechanisms and it is possible that the multiplication of factors explains the differences between some cases and others. “
The report says further investigation is needed.
Electromagnetic currents, including frequencies such as radio and microwaves, have been considered a leading possibility since the early days of the mystery. Initially, investigators also considered the possibility that sound waves, toxins or other methods could be involved, although no evidence was found to support those theories.
Over the years, the incidents have been investigated by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. military, the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, health control and health control centers, and for disease control and prevention. No one has come forward with a conclusion, and the State Department has quietly stopped using the word “attack” to describe what happened, as then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other top officials did in the early days after the events first came to light. . In public in 2017.
Beginning in late 2016, U.S. diplomats and other government employees working in Havana began hearing strange sounds and experiencing strange physical sensations and then fell ill. These events led to mild traumatic brain injury with hearing, balance, and cognitive changes, also known as seizures.
More than two dozen U.S. workers and a small number of Canadians on duty in Cuba were confirmed to have been affected, in addition to U.S. troops in China. Similar symptoms were seen as a government employee who became a judge in 2018.
For some affected employees, those symptoms have resolved and individuals are finally able to return to a relatively normal life. For others, the effects have been protracted and continue to pose a significant and significant obstacle to their work and well-being, in interviews with NBC News U.S. officials who have been assessed by the government.
Cuba has consistently and consistently denied any knowledge or involvement in these incidents. In late 2018, NBC News reported that U.S. intelligence agencies considered Russia the main suspect based on interviews with U.S. officials investigating the incidents and two others.
Some unresolved medical experts in the investigation have speculated that workers may suffer from mass hysteria. But doctors who evaluated patients at the University of Pennsylvania, through advanced brain imaging, found differences in their brains, including less white matter and connectivity in areas that control vision and hearing than similarly healthy people.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked about the investigation in October, indicating that no definitive conclusion has been reached yet, although he cut off allegations raised by many affected diplomats that the state department has taken adequate measures for their safety and adequate care Takes.
“We’ve done a lot of work to identify and identify how all of this happened,” Pompeo said. “And we continue to determine the cause and precision of this while doing our best to ensure we are taking care of the health and safety of these people.”
The report recommends that the state department establish a response mechanism for similar incidents that can study new cases more quickly and effectively.
