Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit

I think it's sensible to suspend judgment for now, but this is clearly one of the two main plausible contenders for an explanation of the observed phenomena.

This is a key point made in the article.

“A consensus has formed among the growing community of AHI sufferers that the U.S. government — and the CIA in particular — is hiding the full extent of what it knows about the source of Havana Syndrome. The victims offer two general hypotheses as to why. The first is that releasing the full intelligence around Russian involvement might be so shocking as to convince the American people and their representatives that Moscow has committed an act of war against the United States, thereby raising thorny questions as to how a nuclear power fond of showing off its hypersonic missiles ought to be made to pay. The second is that acknowledging Havana Syndrome is caused by a foreign adversary could put a damper on recruitment to the CIA and State Department.”

This misses a third key point. The US government has a complicated relationship with Russia. The Republican Party in particular.

In certain instances, they opt for psychological warfare techniques, similar to those employed by the Stasi in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung

Guess where Putin was stationed in the '80s during his tenure as a KGB officer?

Killing them would be crazy. This weapon, whatever it is, is perfect. Just enough doubt (by people like you and other Russian plants) to create no clear answer. EDIT: I'm not calling you a Russia shill.

The linked article and the 60 Minutes doc are literally what everyone's been waiting for. I was on the sidelines before, but not now.

> Dr. David Relman, a prominent scientist who has had access to the classified files involving the cases and representatives of people suffering from Havana syndrome, said the new studies were flawed. Many brain injuries are difficult to detect with scans or blood markers, he said.

If anybody finds any factual claims about this device and this supposed syndrome, buried in the innuendo, please post it. But the boldfaced faux-abstract at the top doesn't indicate any new information at all.

Things like Ménière’s disease are a PITA to image, but it’s possible.

Perhaps why this has been suppressed for as long as it has

Check out the “active denial system”.

> There is a reason why the Havana Act only came into force in 2021: for the past eight years, Havana Syndrome has been the subject of intense controversy. Sociologists have suggested it is little more than a mass psychogenic illness, or perhaps the outbreak of mass hysteria. Such arguments have been undercut by multiple medical studies, including one conducted by an expert panel convened by the U.S. intelligence community. The final assessment of that investigation found that AHIs had “a unique combination of core characteristics that cannot be explained by known environmental or medical conditions and could be due to external stimuli.”

Compare this to the Salisbury poisonings, where a bunch of Brits got caught up, the target was an intelligence asset, and standing up to Russia plays very well with the electorate… there was a coordinated, significant, non-military response across several allies

Given Russia already does that, is this, this doesn’t seem a massive escalation.

Not that the modern caring sharing Russians who tried to bring peace to Bucha and got awards for it would do such a thing.