An interagency fight appears to be brewing within the outgoing Biden administration over the origins of so-called “Havana Syndrome.”
In advance of an intelligence assessment slated for release today, the Miami Herald revealed the details of a November 18 meeting in the White House Situation Room in which National Security Officials confessed that the conclusions about the phenomenon U.S. intelligence officials arrived at in 2023 “were no longer valid.” That assessment asserted that it was “very unlikely” that the hundreds of U.S. governmental personnel who exhibited symptoms associated with the affliction suffered as a result of a clandestine operation conducted by a hostile foreign power. The victims’ symptoms — which include nausea, headaches, memory loss, tinnitus, and dizziness, often after “hearing a noise coming from a particular direction” — were attributed to their individual preexisting medical and psychological conditions.
