Attacks on US diplomats in Cuba continued longer than first announced, State Department now says

September 01, 2017

Unusual health attacks on U.S. diplomats in Cuba continued as recently as August despite previous assessments that the activities had stopped in the spring, the U.S. said on Friday.

"We can confirm another incident which occurred last month and is now part of the investigation," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.

The U.S. is continually revising its assessments of the extent of the attacks as new information is obtained, Nauert said. An investigation has not been completed.

The announcement that the attacks – in which a potential covert sonic device caused a series of issues, including permanent hearing loss – comes after the union representing American diplomats said that mild traumatic brain injury was among the diagnoses given to diplomats victimized in the attack.

The American Foreign Service Association said additional symptoms had included brain swelling, severe headaches, loss of balance and "cognitive disruption."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/01/attacks-on-us-diplomats-in-cuba-continued-longer-than-first-announced-state-department-now-says.html

U.S. officials had previously said that the attacks had started in fall 2016 and continued until spring 2017. Last week, Nauert had said at least 16 Americans associated with the U.S. Embassy in Havana had been affected, but that the "incidents" were no longer occurring. The tally of U.S. government personnel affected jumped to 19 following Friday’s revelation.

Two Cuban diplomats were kicked out of the Washington embassy by the State Department following news of the incidents.

Last I've heard, it still isn't known how these "attacks" are occurring, only that the damage is being seen. My first thought about it,was that it was the result of the Cuban government using horrendously awful spying equipment that causes damage rather than remaining covert. Perhaps a bit like setting up xray scanners at airports to detect weapons, but turning them up so high that they radioactively poison everyone who travels.

But we'll see. No mechanism has been found yet, so we're just guessing.

since when do X-Ray Machines emit Radioactivity?

You don't know what X-rays are, do you?

and were sure you do, S A.

I sure do,Mister,I sure do!

It's also possible that these are again, not attacks per se, but rather the result of the Cubans trying to use poor quality anti-spying measures against the Americans. Perhaps they fear that Americans are using sound-based spying techniques on them, and are responding by generating a sort of sound-blanking field, and doing it wrong.

Anyway, the main thing is, we don't know what's really going on yet, only that there are some unpleasant symptoms to deal with.