{"id":3569,"date":"2021-01-11T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:26:34","slug":"havana-cuba-syndrome-a-microwave-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/2021\/01\/11\/havana-cuba-syndrome-a-microwave-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana, CUBA syndrome &#8211; a Microwave Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-new-york-times\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Report Points to Microwave \u2018Attack\u2019 as Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fhavana-syndrome-microwave-attack.html#?secret=umnUpHceWj\" data-secret=\"umnUpHceWj\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Report points to microwave \u2018attack\u2019 as likely source of mystery illnesses that hit diplomats and spies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>A government-commissioned report provides the most definitive explanation yet for \u201cHavana syndrome,\u201d which struck scores of American employees, first in Cuba and then in China, Russia and other countries.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The most probable cause of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F10%2F19%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fdiplomat-attacks-havana-syndrome.html&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C3b6601b0e2604c9eff0508d8a7b38954%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637443736824040785%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Er9FgFF0%2Bs4znbOKGWfylHmxzczoIDM8MqDXgL47Ir4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">a series of mysterious afflictions<\/a>&nbsp;that sickened American spies and diplomats abroad in the past several years was radiofrequency energy, a type of radiation that includes microwaves, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has concluded in a report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conclusion by a committee of 19 experts in medicine and other fields cited \u201cdirected, pulsed radiofrequency energy\u201d as \u201cthe most plausible mechanism\u201d to explain the illness, which came to be known as Havana syndrome, though they said that they could not rule out other possible causes and that secondary factors may have contributed to symptoms, according to a copy of the report obtained by The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report points to microwave \u2018attack\u2019 as likely source of mystery illnesses that hit diplomats and spies A government-commissioned report provides the most definitive explanation yet for \u201cHavana syndrome,\u201d which struck scores of American employees, first in Cuba and then in China, Russia and other countries. WASHINGTON \u2014 The most probable cause of&nbsp;a series of mysterious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopthecrime.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}