“Havana Syndrome” – radiation attack in Geneva – is Vladimir Putin behind it?

«Sare US diplomats under covert attack?», ask the US media. to Rreal. Since 2016, at least 200 cases of the «Havana–Syndroms» occurred – almost exclusively among representatives and employees of American diplomacy, the CIA, the State Department and of pentagons.

Just last August, US Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Vietnam had to be postponed after two US embassy officials in Hanoi fell ill. In Serbia, Austria and India surfaced last year Likewise cases.

Now Switzerland is also affected. At least three US citizens at the United States Consulate in Geneva have fallen victim to the mysterious disease. The US Embassy also reports a case in Paris.

The State Department confirmed that «abnormal health event» to 20 minutes and referred to a statement by Foreign Minister Antony Blinken last November: «The government has remained focused on investigating these incidents since they were first reported by diplomats at the US Embassy in Havana more than five years ago, and they are causing severe physical and physiological harm.»

The most likely culprit of this «damage» – ranging from headaches to hearing loss, loss of balance and brain damage – are beams of “directional, pulsed radiofrequency (RF) energy”. This is the conclusion most recently reached by a panel commissioned by the US State Department in the December. Another study came to a similar conclusion in 2018.

Thereby can «directed energy» cannot be used as a weapon alone – although several countries have tested this and some companies are selling directed energy weapon systems to take out drones.

At the «Havana–syndrome» the investigators in the USA rather assume that a foreign secret service has used microwave devices in foreign languagese US institutions to get data from computers and cell phones. The associated health problems for the Americans should be a welcome side effect in this case.

The task force tasked with finding answers to the inexplicable health problems is now headed by a CIA veteran who was involved in the hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

But neither his task force nor the US intelligence services know for sure how the attacks are carried out in practice and who is really behind them. «We have interesting leads, but nothing solid», according to a senior CIA official «Wall Street Journal».

Along with China, the Russian military intelligence service GRU is at the top of the list of suspects. After all, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin used microwaves against the USA to disrupt secret service operations. «Also today is associated with the Havana–Syndrome no novel technology used», says Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA operative and counterterrorism expert.

The fact that the US secret service has cell phone data from Russian military intelligence officers who were near the Americans at the same time they fell ill in Cuba in 2016 also speaks for Russia. «A lot of these officers hakill previously participated in other Russian operations», according to Polymeropoulos.

The radiation attacks would also fit the Russian government’s preference for outlandish acts of aggression on foreign soil, says Paul Kolbe of Securitypolicy specialized «Belfer Center» – be it poisoning with radioactive isotopein or military nerve agentin like in Britain or executions in broad daylight like in Berlin.

«The elements of the attacks correspond to all parameters of hybrid warfare: they are deeply asymmetrical, not or only very difficult to assign, extremely disruptive and not to verto recover», says Kolbe. “The is an approach favored by the Russians, among others.»