“Many mathematicians believe that if they understand Maxwell equations mathematically inside out, they will understand the physics inside out. Only it doesn’t work that way. Mathematicians who study physics with that point of view — and there have been many of them — usually make little contribution to physics and, in fact, little to mathematics. They fail because the actual physical situations in the real world are so complicated that it is necessary to have a much broader understanding of the equations.”
Richard Feynman
(Nobel Prize 1965)
August 16 2023 — On October 3 2017, I coined the expression “Havana Syndrome” which is now universally used, both by mainstream media and the research community. Five years later, I came to the conclusion that these alleged attacks in Cuba never occurred. Yet, there is no doubt that such attacks did really occur before the events reported in Havana. As I have explained long ago, such microwave espionage attacks are conducted routinely. Nevertheless, there is a mystery that could not be explained. Why would the attackers raise the power to a level where it activates the Frey effect, thus warning the targeted individual? The experts hired by the CIA failed to answer that question. Here is the most likely explanation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
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“I think history shows that scientific experts mostly get things right. But examples where experts have gone wrong offer the opportunity to better understand the limits of expertise.”
When Experts Get It Wrong
Scientific American
(March 2021)
On October 3 2017, I coined the expression “Havana Syndrome” which is now universally used, both by mainstream media and the research community. [Here is the tweet]
In the same piece, I suggested for the very first time that microwave attacks, conducted for espionage, were the most likely explanation.
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Here is what I wrote:
“If the facts are confirmed and if the effects are indeed caused by a physical device, I find the microwave explanation far more likely than a sonic attack.”
In December 2020, the US National Academy of Sciences came to the same conclusion. In February 2022, the US ODNI released a short declassified Executive Summary which also agrees with my initial analysis.
Five years later, I came to the conclusion that these alleged attacks in Cuba never occurred. Yet, there is no doubt that such attacks did really occur before the events reported in Havana.
True Mystery : Why so much RF power?
The threshold of RF power density required to activate the Frey effect is well documented. Technically, there is no need for such high power to conduct a microwave spying attack.
In fact, it seems stupid as the Microwave Auditory Effect provides a clue that such attack is going on. If it was not for that weird noise, no one would be speaking about the Havana Syndrome.
But surely, the attackers are not idiots. They know full well what they are doing. How do we solve this contradiction?
Experts get things wrong
All the experts hired by the CIA and the US State Department have accepted a simple hypothesis: As one moves away from the source, the intensity of the microwave decreases according to the properties of the emitting antenna.
This assumption may seem obvious, but it is not always true! Allow me to explain.
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
When an electromagnetic wave encounters a rectangular aperture, such as a window in the wall of a building, a process of diffraction may occur.
The problem is well understood and the solution is given in various textbooks (For instance : OPTICS by Eugene Hecht) using either Fresnel Integrals or the Euler-Cornu Spiral.
As a result, the intensity of the electromagnetic wave can be significantly higher behind the window than in front of the wall.
At about 1 GHz, a typical frequency used for microwave spying, the diffraction from a 2 by 2 meters window will produce a broad maximum located about 5 meters behind the window.
This is just bad luck for the attacker, and there is simply nothing he can do about it. Sometimes, the real world is very complicated, and the consequences can be surprising.
REFERENCES
US Intelligence Agencies Are Trying To Solve Scientific Mysteries And Failing Badly — BuzzFeed News
Expert Opinion Can’t Be Trusted if You Consult the Wrong Sort of Expert — Scientific American
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Havana Syndrome — The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
“It is the role of intelligence to identify and characterize threats to the nation and to sift what is likely true from what is probably false. But the public has gotten very little useful or meaningful information from our intelligence agencies. They could do better.”
Steven Aftergood
Federation of American Scientists
Intel Today 
In plain language, please elaborate. You could go into more details using a specific attack as a case study, one near a window, and one through a wall. Come on.
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Dear KB, I will provide (soon) all the details needed to make this calculation. I will also use a few examples. Best, L
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Here’s my post, 27’th September 2017, before anyone else that I’m aware of. I don’t mean to brag but it’s important for my credibility as a researcher of this. I stated the most likely cause that was then verified in the years that followed:
“The only logical cause are electromagnetic waves. How long until they’re going to have no choice and say that?” (27’th September 2017)
January 15’th 2018, I posted a government document stating the same symptoms, including the microwave auditory effect sounds and other symptoms of Havana Syndrome, caused from RF over exposures:
“Auditory (>100 mW/cm2) buzzing, clicking, hissing
Confusion, Vertigo, Headache, Blurred vision, Overall nauseous feeling”
Fascinatingly, even though it’s a government document, the government investigators somehow had no clue at that stage what would cause the sounds or the other symptoms, stating that investigators, consultants that they asked, inside and outside of government, didn’t know what it was and somehow they didn’t mention then that radio or microwaves could be a cause, that was later found to actually be the most plausible cause.
I posted further research that I was doing (November 1’st 2019), as a presentation and a scientific paper. More than a year earlier and with the same quality and research results as the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report of December 2020.
Your question regarding the power level of the RF activating the Frey effect can be solved when you realize that it’s scientifically verified that heart rates, breathing and even EEG is on reradiated radio waves. These are incredibly useful for espionage and can provide all kinds of information, such as the emotional response that diplomats have regarding diplomatic deals and could also be used to determine who the intelligence agency spies are that were under diplomatic cover.
Now the power levels required to deter heart rates and breathing won’t necessarily activate the microwave auditory effect. However, from the research it seems that EEG would require higher power levels, the available scientific research stating shorter distances than say neighbouring apartments or from outside, where such espionage would occur from. This would require high energy pulses to produce sufficiently strong return signals and it’s these high energy pulses that then causes the microwave auditory effect.
The fact that the sounds produced are very similar to the crickets in Havana actually provides a cover to conceal it’s use. Which could be why they thought that they could use it at higher power levels there and be generally less cautious, resulting in it first being revealed in Havana.
Intentionally causing various biological effects to diplomats, CIA agents under diplomatic cover…etc, would also have various logical uses though and again, similar noises of crickets could be used to try and conceal its use, resulting in less cautiousness and a large number of cases that could not be explained or denied and thus, through this, also the revealing of it’s use throughout the world.
https:/ww.nature.com/articles/srep06893?fbclid=IwAR2-W3slnCm05envjQnodqlzPDuTxwTdnRYW7uFt9iY_kF4c-x2Ih0G5p4A
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8620988?fbclid=IwAR0vFxr0ihEI4ER5hcT8b2kfRKA9VGogCE-YvCovea5rBvC0Gu-wGUjJlyI
https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/home-health-device-uses-wireless-signals-identify-person-its-seen
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Thank you for the message. I will get back to you soon. Regards, L
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