Evening Edition: Intelligence Report Says Foreign Adversaries Did Not Cause 'Havana Syndrome'

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

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The United States intelligence community is now ruling out foreign involvement when it comes with the cause of 'Havana Syndrome'. Hundreds of former government employees experienced health issues from vertigo, nausea and even traumatic brain issues. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Jennifer Griffin, FOX's Chief National Security Correspondent, about the latest report on the incidents, reaction from it and her discussion with the first person to experience symptoms. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Ben Dominic. I'm Ainsley your heart. I'm Trey Gowdy, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.0	Thursday, March 2nd, 2023. I'm John Sossier. Have you heard much about
0:13.4	a vannis syndrome, a recently declassified US intelligence report on this strange phenomenon?
0:19.0	In fact, the American diplomats working in foreign countries, the thought here is that some sort
0:23.2	of foreign adversaries was behind it, but this report says otherwise. It is very frustrating to
0:29.3	the victims, the so-called Havana syndrome victims. They feel like they are being made to look
0:34.5	like they have psychosomatic illnesses. It went, in fact, multiple doctors have confirmed that
0:40.9	there's been some change to their brain. This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.
0:50.8	From the Fox News Podcasts Network, I'm Ben Dominic, Fox News contributor and editor of the
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1:06.0	It all started happening at the US Embassy in Cuba back in 2016. A US government worker began
1:11.8	experiencing strange symptoms that even caused him to black out. He wasn't the only one.
1:16.9	Hundreds of US workers in multiple different countries started coming down with strange symptoms
1:22.1	that range from vertigo to serious traumatic brain injuries. There was a theory out there that
1:26.6	it could be some sort of energy source being beamed into US embassies abroad, leading to people
1:31.4	getting sick, but this new declassified intelligence report refutes that. I sat for a briefing at the
1:37.3	office over at ODNI, the director of national intelligence, had two briefers present to us this new
1:45.3	intelligence community assessment. Our guest today is Fox News National Security correspondent
1:50.0	Jennifer Griffin over the Pentagon. Basically, they had a task force for two years where the
1:54.5	full resources of the intelligence community was put into trying to figure out what was behind
2:01.1	the so-called Havana syndrome symptoms that up to 1500 US government workers have now
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