U.S. diplomats keep on reporting cases of Havana Syndrome, deliberately caused by Russia. Starting from the 1960s, the facts analyzed point to the cases of microwave radiation used by the Kremlin against U.S. diplomatic missions. With Moscow long studying electromagnetic radiation to cause damage to human health, Havana Syndrome cases are placed on a par with the attack on U.S. diplomatic staff.
In U.S.-Russia talks in Geneva, Russia has again resorted to using microwave radiation that causes Havana Syndrome, to affect U.S. diplomats.
Some people from the U.S. embassies staff in Europe have simultaneously reported symptoms of Havana Syndrome. The disease was found in at least three diplomats working in Geneva, The Wall Street Journal says, with one of those taken to the United States for treatment. Geneva hosted U.S.-Russia talks on “security guarantees”.
Last September, the symptoms of Havana Syndrome were reported by a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officer who accompanied the agency’s head William Burns in a trip to India. Washington believes the symptoms of that syndromeappeared as a result of Russia’s malign activity.
Havana Syndrome cases have been reported since late 2016, when Washington accused Moscow of meddling in the election. Roughly 200 U.S. officials and their families have experienced Havana Syndrome, accompanied by headaches, nausea, memory blocks, and dizziness.
The first cases were reported in Cuba, followed by Russia, China, Austria, Germany, and even the U.S.
In May 2021, the RLI analyzed cases of Havana Syndrome in American diplomats and came to the view that such cases had already been reported by U.S. embassy staff in Moscow in the 1960s and 1970s. Aside from that, the CIA’s archive materials indicate that Russia studied the effect by microwave radiation on biological objects, registering the same consequences as Havana Syndrome symptoms.
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Further inquiry has revealed more options to raise the possibility that Russia is involved in.
The London Times of April 1976, citing John Hemenway, president of the American Foreign Service Association, indicated that the Russians beamed microwaves on U.S. diplomats to cause health hazards, irritability, and fatigue.
CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120070-4The first impression was that the microwaves were intended to activate or charge bugging devices installed in the embassy. But it was later reported that their aim was to disable monitoring equipment installed on the embassy roof and used among other things to eavesdrop on the Soviet officials travelling in cars. According to the Washington Post (1976), an agreement had been reached between the Russians and the Americans for the dismantling of the rooftop equipment in exchange for reduction in the beaming of microwaves. But within a month, a full-scale bombardment had been resumed by the Russians, at a level that was dangerous to health.
In May 1972, The London Telegraph noted that the case of U.S. embassy irradiated in Moscow made the CIA consider the microwaves were beamed to cause psychological damage in U.S. diplomats. The microwave radiation beamed on U.S. Embassy resulted in Project Pandora, with monkeys used to determine the effects of microwave radiation, wrote Jack Anderson. One of the scenarios shows that Russians used radiation as a new type of surveillance technology to eavesdrop on conversations, as the voice made microwaves vibrate.
But the CIA report of August 1977, speaks for the fact that the Soviet Union carried out tests on electromagnetic emission effect on human beings.
CIA-RDP90-00965R000605470001-6The DIA report, meanwhile, cited by The Washington Post in November 1976, emphasizes that Moscow was studying the effect by electromagnetic emission on a human being, to cause physical and psychological damage. The report deals specifically with low-level micro-wave radiation, questioned by the State Department in the 1970s for its negative impact on the body.
CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120039-9-1The report concluded that Soviet research in this area has great potential for development into a system for disorienting or disrupting the behavior of military or diplomatic personnel. It could be used equally as well as interrogation tool.
The report said that along with microwave hearing, the Soviets also have studied various changes in body chemistry and brain function resulting from exposure to microwaves and other frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. “One psychological effect demonstrated is heart seizure,” the report said.
CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120039-9 CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120005-11It cannot be ruled out, therefore, that microwave radiation is used by Russians both to spy and deliberately damage health of U.S. diplomats.
