#Cuba: What is the Havana Syndrome & What is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
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#Cuba: What is the Havana Syndrome & What is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/havana-syndrome-revisited-cuba-russia-kremlin-us-intelligence-polymeropoulos-brain-diagnosis-28506aa1
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelors. Cuba. Cuba, a non-transparent darkness |
| 0:11.6 | visible for many decades and now one more mystery thanks to Mary Ann Estasio |
| 0:16.6 | Grady's column and she is the editor at the Wall Street Journal editorial board |
| 0:22.4 | of Cuban mysteries. This is about April Haynes, the director of National Intelligence, |
| 0:28.4 | now saying that the suspicion that Cuba was up to something nefarious, damaging the lives of |
| 0:37.1 | personnel from the United States with undetermined weaponry leading to what was called the Havana |
| 0:43.8 | Syndrome. April Haynes now says that it's very unlikely that a foreign adversary, A.K. Cuba, |
| 0:50.3 | was responsible. Mary, a very good evening to mystery upon mystery. What is the event itself? |
| 0:58.0 | What do we know about what happened to people at the embassy in Havana? Good evening to. |
| 1:03.6 | Well, good evening, John. I should mention that right off the bat that it was not only Havana. |
| 1:09.8 | It occurred in Moscow, Belgrade, Hanoi, in province in China. So it happened |
| 1:19.8 | to US personnel serving overseas. Many of them high ranking intelligence officers. |
| 1:28.6 | They suddenly described having these terrible headaches, having vertigo, losing their balance, |
| 1:37.4 | becoming dizzy, having ear pain, having eyesight problems. When they reported it, |
| 1:48.6 | some of them felt that they weren't given very serious hearing until the numbers began to go up. |
| 1:58.2 | Then it was named Havana Syndrome because the first case of this happened in Havana and there were |
| 2:06.5 | numerous cases. Other cases reported there as well as I mentioned around the wall. |
| 2:12.4 | So we do not believe that it is a Cuban-only phenomenon. Was Cuba the first do we know when it |
| 2:18.6 | first started, Mary, or is that part of the mystery? No, it started in 2016 around the time that |
| 2:25.6 | President Obama was warming ties with Havana. But one of the people that I told about in my column |
| 2:35.6 | on Monday was a CIA officer who had gone to Moscow and came down with a brain injury. |
| 2:47.1 | While he was there, he made it back. When he eventually, at first, the CIA didn't |
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