{"id":2210754,"date":"2024-04-01T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigation-links-russian-hit-squad-to-us-officials-havana-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:53:26","slug":"investigation-links-russian-hit-squad-to-us-officials-havana-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigation-links-russian-hit-squad-to-us-officials-havana-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe Connects Russian Assassination Team to American Authorities Affected by &#8216;Havana Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finvestigation-links-russian-hit-squad-to-us-officials-havana-syndrome%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210754&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2063investigation\u2063 connects a \u200cRussian hit\u2064 squad to the &#8216;Havana Syndrome&#8217; affecting U.S. \u2064officials. Reports suggest that \u2063Russia&#8217;s GRU Unit\u200b 29155, specializing in assassinations,\u2064 might be linked to the mysterious condition experienced by American\u200c diplomats. The study, covered by CBS\u2019s 60\u200b Minutes and others, reveals\u2064 suspected connections between the GRU unit and attacks on U.S. government \u200cofficials at home\u200b and abroad.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Investigation Links Russian Hit Squad to US Officials' 'Havana Syndrome'\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/no-stopping-until-liberation-mit-faculty-member-urges-followers-to-shut-down-israeli-company-in-cambridge\" data-post-url id=\"print-1874616\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tU.S. embassy in Havana (Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Russian intelligence unit that specializes in assassinations may be behind &#8220;Havana syndrome,&#8221; a mysterious condition that afflicted U.S. diplomats, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>A joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/havana-syndrome-culprit-investigation-new-evidence-60-minutes-transcript\/\"><span>investigation<\/span><\/a>  by CBS\u2019s <em>60 Minutes<\/em>, along with <i>Der Spiegel <\/i>and <em>The<\/em> <em>Insider<\/em>, revealed links between Russia\u2019s GRU Unit 29155 and suspected attacks on U.S. government officials both in the United States and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of Havana syndrome\u2014which the U.S. government terms &#8220;anomalous health incidents,&#8221; or AHI\u2014 include sudden headaches, vertigo, ringing in the ears, nausea, and in some cases blindness or hearing loss. The syndrome was named after U.S. officials in the Cuban capital first reported experiencing these symptoms in late 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation placed suspected Russian agents in the same locations as U.S. officials when they began experiencing symptoms. Journalist Christo Grozev of <em>The<\/em> <em>Insider <\/em>also uncovered a Russian document showing a Unit 29155 officer performed work focused on &#8220;potential capabilities of non-lethal acoustic weapons,&#8221; a discovery Grozev called the &#8220;closest to a receipt you can have for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/all\/havana-syndrome-likely-caused-microwave-energy-government-study-finds-n1250094\"><span>report<\/span><\/a>  by the National Academy of Sciences suggested Havana syndrome could have been caused by directed microwave energy, raising the possibility the U.S. officials were targeted by an energy weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Army lieutenant colonel Greg Edgreen, who led the Defense Intelligence Agency\u2019s investigation of Havana syndrome until 2023, told <em>60 Minutes<\/em> host Scott Pelley that he believes Russia is behind the attacks.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was happening to our top 5 percent, 10 percent performing officers across the Defense Intelligence Agency,&#8221; Edgreen said. &#8220;And consistently there was a Russia nexus. There was some angle where they had worked against Russia, focused on Russia, and done extremely well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/18\/health\/havana-syndrome-studies\/index.html\"><span>1,000 cases<\/span><\/a>  of Havana syndrome among U.S. government officials have been documented in 96 different countries. U.S. intelligence has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/01\/20\/cia-havana-syndrome-unlikely-foreign-campaign-report\"><span>maintained<\/span><\/a>  that it is unlikely that a foreign actor is responsible for the symptoms.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report suggests a Russian assassination unit could be responsible for the &#8220;Havana syndrome&#8221; affecting U.S. diplomats. CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes, Der Spiegel, and The Insider revealed ties between Russia\u2019s GRU Unit 29155 and the suspected attacks on American officials. U.S. embassy in Havana is depicted in the Getty Images in the report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2109,"featured_media":2210755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1233001758-e1622061328379.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1233001758-e1622061328379.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}