Hackers, Havana Syndrome, and Other Invisible Russian Aggressions That Only the CIA can see

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By Caitlin Johnstone – Oct 21, 2021
Theย House Foreign Affairs Committee isย reportedly marking upย its hilariousย Havana Syndrome Attacks Response Actย this week which calls for sanctions upon whoever the president determines is responsible for inflicting US officials with hangover-like symptoms using high tech microwave beams. The conditionย has not been proven to actually existย in any tangible way and has been commonly attributed toย psychogenic illness,ย Cuban crickets, andย actual hangovers.
At the same time, virulent Russiagater Julia Ioffe has published an anonymously-sourced article proclaiming that the Kremlin is responsible for this mysterious alleged ailment.
In an article for Puck News titled โHavana Syndrome:ย A Cold War Saga in Bidenโs Washingtonโ, Ioffe reports that anonymous sources at the Walter Reedย Military Medical Center have told her that this strange affliction now has so many victims among US government employees that the facility is at capacity, and that Russia is to blame for it.
Ioffe writes:
โThe intelligence community is increasingly convinced that the Russian government is behind these attacks. Russia has extensively studied and invested in the technology, and, in the spring of 2017, just as the attacks in Havana were ramping up, Putin personally pinned a medal on the breast of aย young scientistย for his advances in using directed energy and microwaves on signals systems andย living cells. Russia certainly has the motive: Putin still thinks America is Russiaโs biggest enemy and poking the country in the eye is a worthy end in and of itself. Plus, thereโs that location data, placing F.S.B. officers in the same Taiwanese hotel where a senior C.I.A. official was hit.
โBut there still isnโt enough evidence to make a public declaration. โThey believe the hypothesis more but donโt have a smoking gun,โ said the person familiar with the investigation.โ
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There are now so many cases of Havana Syndrome that Walter Reed is at capacity. The U.S. government has started outsourcing cases to other hospitals
My latest, for @PuckNews. https://t.co/jUi00b2LX8
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) October 20, 2021
To get a sense for the integrity of the sourcing in Ioffeโs report, hereโs an actual paragraph from the article with emphasis added by me:
โBurns has also convened a panel of intelligence officials to try to find whoever is behind these attacks.ย A spokesperson for the Agency told methat the C.I.A. is โbringing an intensity and expertise to this issue akin to our efforts to findย Bin Laden.โ She added, โWe will keep doing everything we can to protect our officers.โย People familiar with the inquiry tell meย that the political will behind this is palpable. Asย one source told me, โWhereas before you might have said that the folks working on the issue spent half their time trying to convince people that something happened, that kind of distraction has dissipated to a large degree, which is very helpful.โโ
This kind of sourcing would make a UK gossip rag blush.
Hereโs another delightful bit:
โI think weโre beyond the point of anyone being able to question whether itโs a real thing,โ a senior administration official told me.
Ah well if an anonymous government official tells Julia Ioffe that Havana Syndrome is real then hot damn thatโs good enough for me.
Apart from anonymous individuals, Ioffe also cites a โretiredโ CIA officerย namedย Marc Polymeropoulos, who attests that he himself came down with a case of Havana Syndrome that was so bad it forced him to โretireโ.
Ioffe writes:
โAs we talked, I couldnโt square two things: Marcโs retirement and his age. He had just turned 50, and, by his own account, he had been on the up-and-up at the C.I.A.ย Why had he left so soon?ย I asked himโฆย But Marcโs answer surprised me: Havana Syndrome. He told me, off the record, that he had been โhitโ while visiting Moscow and that the attack had undermined his health so badly that he physically couldnโt work anymore. A promising career in an organization he loved, and had come of age in, was over.โ
Oh wow the โretiredโ CIA spook had to โretireโ because he was afflicted with a condition which just so happens to advance CIA cold war hysteria about a CIA-targeted nation, and how heโs spending his โretirementโ tellingย cold war propagandistsย about it.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is marking up a bill this week to sanction whoever โdirected or carried outโ Havana syndrome attacks lol
— aรญda chรกvez (@aidachavez) October 19, 2021
Havana syndrome is a mysterious illness whose symptoms include vertigo, nausea, and billions of dollars in new cold war military spending.
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Itโs just so interesting how Russia keeps attacking America in unverifiable and invisible ways that only the US intelligence community can see. First it wasย plot hole-riddled claimsย that Russian hackers attacked American democracy in 2016, and now itโs invisible microwave beams from secret Kremlin ray guns. Someday soon we may turn on the news to see footage of an empty Capitol Building while a reporter solemnly tells us that it has just been stormed by GRU agents injected with invisibility serum.
Iโm old enough to remember when the US war machine needed actual, physical events to justify the advancements of its military agendas, like planes crashing into buildings. Nowadays those agendas are justified by invisible, unverifiable allegations for which the evidence is always classified.
Believing that Kremlin operatives are attacking the brains of US government employees with ray guns which cause mild hangover-like symptoms is no less crazy and baseless than the claims by internet crackpots that the Covid vaccine contains 5G mind control nanobots. Literally the only difference is that one has been endorsed by the mainstream US political/media class while the other has not.
When a poor person says spies are attacking their brain with microwave beams itโs called paranoid schizophrenia. When a US government operative says it, itโs called Havana Syndrome.
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