“There’s been some other locations [where] we’ve had similar situations. We’re still working on it. I think if it was an intelligence-based operation, it’ll be hard to attribute.”
William Evanina — Director of the US National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center
In 2016, two dozen of US diplomats — most of them actually spies — based in Havana suffered a range of symptoms including hearing loss, tinnitus, headaches and dizziness. Later, US diplomats in Beijing experienced the same symptoms. US experts now consider “microwave weapons” as the prime suspect. On September 5 2018, William Evanina — Director of the US National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center — made two extraordinary revelations. Firstly, similar events have occurred elsewhere. Secondly, the effects are believed to be the consequences of an intelligence operation.
Since the beginning of this story, I have argued that the symptoms were related to an exposure to microwave radiation. Today, there appears to be a consensus on this issue among US experts investigating the case.
In this post, I bring you three additional pieces of information. I believe that similar events have occurred in Brussels, possibly before the recorded and disclosed attacks in Havana. I also suspect, as Evanina suggests, that the primary purpose of these microwave attacks was to gather intelligence, not to hurt the US diplomats. Finally, I have some very good reason to suspect one country: China. I believe that it is highly unlikely that such operation could have been set up without the complicity of Belgian administrators, and possibly politicians. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →
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