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Zorro

(15,749 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 03:10 PM Sep 2018

Scientists say 'Neuroweapons' were behind Cuba attacks

Source: Yahoo News

Could a foreign country build a directed-energy weapon tailored to target a single diplomat walking through a house, leaving other occupants unaffected? What about drugs that target a person’s brain, or even a specific part of the brain? Yes, it’s possible, according to scientists who have been studying the possible causes of the mysterious health effects reported among U.S. diplomatic personnel in Havana, Cuba.

Four scientists, including the first doctor to examine the diplomats reporting symptoms in Cuba, took part in a Pentagon-sponsored teleconference on Friday, where they announced new research results, including what they determined to be the probable use of “neuroweapons” in what they called the Havana Effect.

At issue are the more than two dozen U.S. government officials stationed in Havana, who have described hearing strange sounds, followed by a combination of medical symptoms, including dizziness, hearing loss and cognitive problems. More recently, a similar case has been reported in a U.S. embassy worker in Guangzhou, China. For months, a mix of secrecy and speculation has surrounded those incidents, including an increasingly popular theory that the diplomats were the victims of microwave weapons.

Michael Hoffer, an otolaryngologist at the University of Miami, who was the first to conduct tests on the embassy workers, said on the Friday call that the diplomats are suffering from a “neurosensory dysfunction,” which is primarily affecting their sense of balance.


Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-say-neuroweapons-behind-cuba-attacks-170009735.html

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Scientists say 'Neuroweapons' were behind Cuba attacks (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2018 OP
In other words, Miami exiles. sandensea Sep 2018 #1
Yeah, all those crazy Cuban exiles in China. Jedi Guy Sep 2018 #2
Four scientists say "maybe"...but the question no one will face is...WHY? The embassy just Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #3
Test run, my friend, test run. Haggis for Breakfast Sep 2018 #5
😊 joke! Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #7
No proof here and only my thoughts bluestarone Sep 2018 #4
I'd say you're in the right ballpark. Haggis for Breakfast Sep 2018 #6

sandensea

(21,660 posts)
1. In other words, Miami exiles.
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 03:26 PM
Sep 2018

Cui bono, as they say.

It certainly wouldn't benefited either the Castro regime or the Obama administration.

I bet Narco Rubio knows the perpetrators by name - even calls them "Chico," "Chuchi" and "Quique."

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Four scientists say "maybe"...but the question no one will face is...WHY? The embassy just
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 04:52 PM
Sep 2018

opened to overwhelming acclaim by Cubans, after, what, 50 years...those not in exile anyway.

Who stands to gain by these alledged attacks...not Cuba!

Anyone want to take up the question as to why in fuck would the Cuban government, obviously implied as the culprit, so anything like this?


https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/world/americas/cuba-us-embassy-diplomatic-relations.html

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
5. Test run, my friend, test run.
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 11:09 PM
Sep 2018

Always start your scientific trials in small, controlled groups in an environment that you control. What better place than an island, isolated by a large body of water ?

bluestarone

(17,027 posts)
4. No proof here and only my thoughts
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 06:24 PM
Sep 2018

RUSSIA has to be behind this somehow! They just do not want the USA and Cuba to get along! (am i way off on this thought?)

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