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

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By Caitlin Johnstone – Oct 21, 2021
TheĀ House Foreign Affairs Committee isĀ reportedly marking upĀ its hilariousĀ Havana Syndrome Attacks Response ActĀ 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 conditionĀ has not been proven to actually existĀ in any tangible way and has been commonly attributed toĀ psychogenic illness,Ā Cuban crickets, andĀ 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 āHavana Syndrome:Ā A Cold War Saga in Bidenās Washingtonā, Ioffe reports that anonymous sources at the Walter ReedĀ 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:
āThe 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 aĀ young scientistĀ for his advances in using directed energy and microwaves on signals systems andĀ living cells. Russia certainly has the motive: Putin still thinks America is Russiaās biggest enemy and poking the country in the eye is a worthy end in and of itself. Plus, thereās that location data, placing F.S.B. officers in the same Taiwanese hotel where a senior C.I.A. official was hit.
āBut there still isnāt enough evidence to make a public declaration. āThey believe the hypothesis more but donāt have a smoking gun,ā said the person familiar with the investigation.ā
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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 Ioffeās report, hereās an actual paragraph from the article with emphasis added by me:
āBurns has also convened a panel of intelligence officials to try to find whoever is behind these attacks.Ā A spokesperson for the Agency told methat the C.I.A. is ābringing an intensity and expertise to this issue akin to our efforts to findĀ Bin Laden.ā She added, āWe will keep doing everything we can to protect our officers.āĀ People familiar with the inquiry tell meĀ that the political will behind this is palpable. AsĀ one source told me, āWhereas 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.āā
This kind of sourcing would make a UK gossip rag blush.
Hereās another delightful bit:
āI think weāre beyond the point of anyone being able to question whether itās a real thing,ā a senior administration official told me.
Ah well if an anonymous government official tells Julia Ioffe that Havana Syndrome is real then hot damn thatās good enough for me.
Apart from anonymous individuals, Ioffe also cites a āretiredā CIA officerĀ namedĀ Marc Polymeropoulos, who attests that he himself came down with a case of Havana Syndrome that was so bad it forced him to āretireā.
Ioffe writes:
āAs we talked, I couldnāt square two things: Marcās 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.Ā Why had he left so soon?Ā I asked himā¦Ā But Marcās answer surprised me: Havana Syndrome. He told me, off the record, that he had been āhitā while visiting Moscow and that the attack had undermined his health so badly that he physically couldnāt work anymore. A promising career in an organization he loved, and had come of age in, was over.ā
Oh wow the āretiredā CIA spook had to āretireā because he was afflicted with a condition which just so happens to advance CIA cold war hysteria about a CIA-targeted nation, and how heās spending his āretirementā tellingĀ cold war propagandistsĀ about it.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is marking up a bill this week to sanction whoever ādirected or carried outā Havana syndrome attacks lol
— aĆda chĆ”vez (@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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Itās just so interesting how Russia keeps attacking America in unverifiable and invisible ways that only the US intelligence community can see. First it wasĀ plot hole-riddled claimsĀ that Russian hackers attacked American democracy in 2016, and now itās 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.
Iām 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 itās called paranoid schizophrenia. When a US government operative says it, itās called Havana Syndrome.
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