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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/politics/new-evidence-havana-syndrome/index.html

However, the two agencies are in the minority and the broader intelligence community assessment remains that it is very unlikely that the symptoms were caused by a foreign actor,

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

It was caused by a foreign weapon. It was caused by the weapon called US propaganda and the foreign imperialism it forces upon countries like Cuba.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

Imagine how often you could show up to work at the CIA and pass off the booze shakes as Havana Syndrome

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah that weapon's called alcoholic beverages.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

Imagine being the agent who partied in Havana a bit too hard, got too hungover to go to work the next day, and made up a lie, and how they must feel when their lie went this far.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

They didn't even bury the lede lol. They just outright said "nah it's probably bullshit" on the headline.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying it's possible...

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

They're saying they want it to be possible to further justify sanctions, but very minimally covering thier asses with the thinnest veneer of bullshitting....officially.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

there are like 50 'US intelligence agencies' and most of them are privatized nonsense. its not all CIAs, FBIs and DHSs.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So glad we wasted what like 4 years on this bullshit and no doubt millions of dollars. Can't feed the hungry or house the homeless, nah too much money not that important.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

They also gave millions of dollars directly to "victims of Havana syndrome". The program is apparently hilariously means-tested because of course it would be.

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

Why is a very unlikely possibility a headline

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

I saw a journalist ask Biden about this in 2025. This is the most blatant propaganda and literally every liberal thinks it's real.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

A foreign weapon known as Cuban rum

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

There's a Chuppl video about Havana syndrome that pretty well convinced me that something real is affecting at least some of these people. I'm not sure what the cause is, but it seems beyond the realm of a mass psychogenic illness. Like physical brain damage that is visible on tests, symptoms that you can see that are basically impossible to fake, like pupil reaction and their eyes tracking separately.

I don't know what any of it means, but the fact that the CIA wants the public to think it's a mass psychogenic illness makes me think they did it somehow.