A DISTURBING new possibility has emerged to explain the injuries suffered by 26 U.S. diplomats serving in Cuba in recent years, and one in China. The diplomats reported symptoms such as hearing loss, dizziness, tinnitus, visual difficulties, headaches, fatigue, and cognitive, balance and sleeping difficulties. The attacks occurred after the United States and Cuba restored diplomatic relations in 2015 and could have been an attempt to disrupt that rapprochement. In Moscow during the Cold War, the Soviet Union bombarded the U.S. Embassy with microwave beams, perhaps for espionage. Still, the microwave explanation has again raised a question about whether the United States has discovered more than is being said about the perpetrators.

Source: Washington Post September 07, 2018 23:48 UTC