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Who is Behind the Havana Syndrome?

Dr. Munr Kazmir
4 min readJul 29, 2021

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U.S. officials are developing mysterious symptoms at embassies around the world…and in Washington, D.C. Is it an energy weapon?

“Spy” by Transformer18. Taken June 17, 2020.

Back in 2016, U.S. embassy officials in Havana, Cuba began complaining of dizziness, hearing loss, and other strange symptoms. This mysterious illness was quickly dubbed the “Havana syndrome.”

It wasn’t only U.S. officials complaining. The Canadian embassy in Havana reported similar issues.

At first, there was a lot of speculation about what could have caused all these symptoms. Understandably, there were a lot of unknowns at the time as the U.S. tried to determine why people were falling ill. The U.S. even suspected Cuba may have had some hand in causing this sudden explosion of health problems in embassy staff members.

Soon, U.S. personnel at the consulate in Guangzhou, China reported similar symptoms. Before long, cases were showing up across the globe, such as in Uzbekistan, this time involving a USAID official. It quickly became clear that something much bigger was at play.

Experts carried out a study, finding the symptoms were, “consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy.” These directed-energy attacks are quite worrisome. While the study revealed RF energy as a potential cause, it also drew attention to the fact that…

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