What Next: Is Someone Brain-Zapping American Operatives?

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Havana Syndrome sounds like something straight out of a spy novel: microwaves are being directed towards U.S. embassies, causing hearing loss, headaches, and in some cases, permanent brain damage. The Biden administration is taking these “anomalous health incidents” very seriously. Should we? Guest: Micahel Wilner, a Senior National Security and White House Correspondent for McClatchy. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.4	Back in September, a memo started making the rounds at the Pentagon.
0:39.0	It was about something Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called
0:43.0	anomalous health incidents.
0:46.0	This memo, it's both incredibly vague and weirdly specific.
0:50.8	It defines an anomalous health incident as a series of troubling and sudden sensory events.
0:57.7	An AHI, as it's called, could involve headaches, it could make you feel hot,
1:03.7	it could be accompanied by sounds or make you feel pressure.
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1:11.2	This memorandum offers advice to anyone who thinks they may be experiencing an AHI.
1:19.1	If they have a sudden vertigo, if they feel a sudden heat, sound or pressure in the head,
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