By B.N. Frank
When people who are NOT “Havana Syndrome” victims experience symptoms and illnesses after being exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMF) – also referred to as “Electrosmog” – this is often referred to as Microwave Sickness, Radiation Sickness, Electromagnetic Sensitivity (ES) and/or Electromagnetic Hypersensivity (EHS). Electrosmog includes radio frequency radiation (RF) from common wireless sources – activity trackers, cell phones, cell towers, utility “Smart” meters (electric, gas, and water), virtual reality (VR) headsets, Wi-Fi routers, 5G, etc. ES is already a federally recognized disability in the U.S.
Additionally, numerous experts have already claimed that “Havana Syndrome” victims are likely being injured by exposure to electromagnetic and/or microwave energy and/or radio frequency (RF) (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). Some say it was NOT caused by a directed energy weapon and now (and again) some say that it was.
From Yahoo:
Newly Declassified Report Contradicts Officials, Suggests Havana Syndrome Might Be Caused by Directed Energy
Lucas Ropek
Several weeks after the intelligence community came out to disavow claims that “Havana Syndrome”—the bizarre rash of neurological disorders plaguing U.S. foreign service officers—was the result of a directed energy weapon, a newly declassified report alleges that may very well be what it is.
The group behind the report, the Intelligence Community Experts Panel on Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs), was established by the government to figure out just what the heck had happened to the 1,000-ish American officials who claim to have suffered from “Havana”’s bizarre symptoms. Those symptoms, which first cropped up at a U.S. embassy in Cuba in 2016 and soon spread to other parts of the globe, include a rash of inexplicable ailments—things like hearing and memory loss, severe headaches, light sensitivity, nausea, and a host of other debilitating issues.
Several weeks after the intelligence community came out to disavow claims that “Havana Syndrome”—the bizarre rash of neurological disorders plaguing U.S. foreign service officers—was the result of a directed energy weapon, a newly declassified report alleges that may very well be what it is.
The group behind the report, the Intelligence Community Experts Panel on Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs), was established by the government to figure out just what the heck had happened to the 1,000-ish American officials who claim to have suffered from “Havana”’s bizarre symptoms. Those symptoms, which first cropped up at a U.S. embassy in Cuba in 2016 and soon spread to other parts of the globe, include a rash of inexplicable ailments—things like hearing and memory loss, severe headaches, light sensitivity, nausea, and a host of other debilitating issues.
In an exclusive, Salon has published the full 153-page report put together by the panel. The document (which is heavily redacted) was recently declassified as the result of a lawsuit filed by the James Madison Project, a non-profit that lobbies against government secrecy. It had previously been reported that the panel’s findings supported the notion that electromagnetic energy may have been the culprit, but the full findings of the report have not been made public until now.
According to the report, a plausible explanation for the disorders may be “pulsed electromagnetic energy.” It reads:
Electromagnetic energy, particularly pulsed signals in the radio frequency range, plausibly explains the core characteristics, although information gaps exist. There are several plausible pathways involving forms of electromagnetic energy, each with its own requirements, limitations, and unknowns. For all the pathways, sources exist that could generate the required stimuli, are concealable, and have moderate power requirements.
Furthermore, the report speculates that such energy could be “propagated with low loss through air for tens to hundreds of meters, and with some loss, through most building materials.” This could potentially be done using “commercial off-the-shelf technology” and devices exist that “are easily portable and concealable, and can be powered by standard electricity or batteries,” it states.
The report is really interesting but it’s also sorta funny because it appears to say the exact opposite of what the government just came out and told everybody less than a month ago. On March 1st, Haines told journalists that most cases of Havana Syndrome could likely be attributed to “environmental factors” or “conventional illnesses.” The notion that the symptoms would’ve been caused by a “directed energy weapon” was considered “highly unlikely” in most instances, Haines told the public. While she and other officials left the door open for alternative explanations, the press conference seemed like a clear attempt to shut down further speculation about the bizarre episodes.
But far from waving off victims’ symptoms as the result of “environmental factors” or some sort of mass delusion, the recently declassified report refers to Havana Syndrome as a “unique neurosensory syndrome” that is “distinctly unusual,” and is “unreported elsewhere in the medical literature.” Aside from the “electromagnetic energy” explanation, it also seems to dismiss most of the other theories that have been posited to explain the syndrome’s genesis.
For example, one frequently proposed explanation for the bizarre disorders has been mass delusion—a sort of weirdly global psychological affliction impacting U.S. officials all over the world. But the report states that psychosocial factors alone “cannot account for the core characteristics [of Havana Syndrome]” and that “incidents exhibiting these characteristics do not fit the majority of criteria” for a “mass sociogenic illness.”
The other, often proposed explanation—that the symptoms are the result of run-of-the-mill environmental factors or common illnesses—is also dispensed with; the report states that based on “literature reviews and discussions with a group of experts gathered from government and academia…the Panel determined that the core characteristics cannot be explained by benign natural or environmental factors.”
The other potential causes of the syndrome that the panel looked into—like ionizing radiation and chemical and biological agents—are given some consideration but the panel ultimately concludes that they are “implausible explanations for the core characteristics in the absence of other synergistic stimuli,” the report states.
Mark Zaid, an attorney with the James Madison Project (and a representative for some of the Havana Syndrome victims), told Salon that he thought the report showed that the government was clearly hiding something. “The U.S. government is covering up evidence as to what AHIs are,” Zaid told the outlet. “It is becoming apparent that these events were perpetrated either by foreign actors, or it is an experiment gone horribly wrong.”
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Last year, the Biden administration started providing financial compensation to some (but not all) “Havana Syndrome” victims. More recently, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced it would fund experiments to try to recreate “Havana Syndrome”. This will be done by blasting RF radiation at test animals.
On a somewhat related and troubling note, The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is supposed to protect Americans from RF exposure but has failed to do so for years. In 2021, a federal court ruled in favor of organizations and petitioners that sued the agency and in 2022, one of the organizations announced it was seeking plaintiffs who have been injured by exposure to cell towers and Wi-Fi in schools.
Activist Post reports regularly about “Havana Syndrome”, ES, EHS, Microwave Sickness, Radiation Sickness, and unsafe technologies. For more information, visit our archives and the following websites:
- Environmental Health Trust
- Electromagnetic Radiation Safety
- Physicians for Safe Technology
- Americans for Responsible Technology
- We Are The Evidence
- Wireless Information Network
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