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Russian intelligence hit squad behind Havana Syndrome brain injuries of US personnel: report
Newsweek ^ | April 1, 2024 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 04/01/2024 10:36:40 AM PDT by canuck_conservative

Members of Russian military intelligence unit 29155, who allegedly have access to microwave or ultrasound weapons, had been placed at the scene of reported attacks that resulted in US personnel suffering health problems, according to a year-long investigation by the Latvia-based Insider in collaboration with CBS’s “60 Minutes” and Germany’s Der Spiegel.

Christo Grozev, the head of investigations with The Insider, told “60 Minutes” that he uncovered accounting records that show a 29155 officer received a bonus for work related to the development of “non-lethal acoustic weapons.”

Unit 29155 has reportedly operated around the world since 2008, and is suspected of carrying out acts of sabotage aimed at destabilizing Western European governments and high-profile assassination attempts targeting the Kremlin’s enemies.

The top-secret squad is said to be headquartered in suburban Moscow and led by Major General Andrei Averyanov, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Operatives have been linked to the attempted poisoning with the nerve agent “Novichok” of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in England in 2018.

The Insider’s investigation allegedly uncovered evidence of Unit 29155’s presence in Tbilisi, Georgia, in the fall of 2021, when multiple American officials and their family members reported suffering unexplained health issues.

The wife of a Justice Department staffer working in Tbilisi told “60 Minutes” she was in her laundry room when she was overwhelmed by a sound that she believed came from the window.

The woman, who asked not to be named, came down with a devastating headache and projectile vomited.

When she later looked at the security footage, she said she spotted an unfamiliar car outside. Nearby was a man she did not know...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: jimwatx

If it happened at all. Apparently the symptoms are all subjective.


41 posted on 04/01/2024 11:25:09 AM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Never said I support Putin. You do need a sorting though.


42 posted on 04/01/2024 11:26:10 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: wildcard_redneck

He lost the last one already. I guess it’s up to the powers that decide all our elections. He has no actual support here.


43 posted on 04/01/2024 11:27:10 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

Decent, patriotic Canadians are our brothers and should disregard anything I say to this one.


44 posted on 04/01/2024 11:36:23 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: CapandBall

No not at all!
The pro-deep-state Kremlinists on FR always say it’s
UKRAINE!! UKRAINE!! UKRAINE!! or... Zelensky!! Zelensky!! Zelensky!!


45 posted on 04/01/2024 11:37:38 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: JonPreston

World class piece of cow manure is what he is. All of us infantry vet types know what’s up. We care about our own and what’s being done to us. We all took oaths. Clowns like that guy are not the norm here.


46 posted on 04/01/2024 11:39:22 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: canuck_conservative

47 posted on 04/01/2024 11:42:20 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Bulwyf

100%


48 posted on 04/01/2024 11:43:58 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: canuck_conservative

Ruzzia, Ruzzia, Ruzzia.


49 posted on 04/01/2024 11:45:47 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Kazan; canuck_conservative
You're a joke. Almost everything you post here is a lie.

But other than that I'm sure he's probably a nice guy.

50 posted on 04/01/2024 11:57:57 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm looking for a blessing that is NOT in disguise.)
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To: TonyinLA

A ‘weapon’ that causes “migraines, nausea, memory lapses and dizziness”

Sounds like that time of the month.


51 posted on 04/01/2024 12:02:30 PM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Russia did it

Says who?


52 posted on 04/01/2024 12:09:49 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: woodpusher
"Most IC (intelligence community) agencies have concluded that it is 'very unlikely" a foreign adversary is responsible," the assessment said. It also found "no credible evidence" that any American foe possessed "a weapon or collection device," including an emitter of electromagnetic energy pulses, that could cause the symptoms.

"IC agencies assess the symptoms reported by U.S. personnel were probably the result of factors that did not involve a foreign adversary, such as pre-existing conditions, conventional illnesses and environmental factors," the assessment concluded.

Confidence in that conclusion was bolstered by findings that "medical, environmental and social factors can explain" many symptoms, it continued. "We cannot tie a foreign adversary to any incident," said one of two U.S. intelligence officials who briefed reporters. He added that pre-2016 reports of similar symptoms also were examined, but there was insufficient data on those. None of the foreign intelligence services contacted during the investigation reported similar incidents, he said.

CIA Director William Burns said in a statement that the "findings do not call into question the experiences and real health issues that U.S. government personnel and their family members - including CIA's own officers - have reported while serving our country.

"We will continue to remain alert to any risks to the health and wellbeing of agency officers, to ensure access to care, and to provide officers the compassion and respect they deserve."

Notice that the intelligence officers never said that the microwave and sonic wave emissions existed.   They just said that some people when they they heard from the scuttlebutt that they were in the path of a microwave emitter let their minds go over the edge like the people who think their cell phones will give them brain tumors.

In the 1980's I visited an MCI terminal in Chicago, where the floor to ceiling Microwave Antenna with the emitter an collector was on the floor around desks in an office setting.   It was pointed out of the window to a Microwave tower miles away.   Just seeing that might cause some to have migraines.   In my 40 year telecommunications career about half of that I worked around microwave radios with the waveguides going out of the top of the racks.   Doing regular baseband sweeps or troubleshooting spikes in the signals I was probably exposed to spurious microwave emissions through pinholes in the waveguides.

53 posted on 04/01/2024 12:17:29 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: canuck_conservative

Here you are again. Flopping around in the bottom of the boat as another hook, line and sinker is removed.


54 posted on 04/01/2024 12:31:03 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: canuck_conservative
Need more proof that Russia is attacking Americans?

No surprise there. Glad that the Muscovite culprits have finally been identified through detailed detective work and hard evidence.

And also no surprise that the pro-Kremlin crowd around here are reacting as they usually do.

55 posted on 04/01/2024 12:33:53 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: bimboeruption

LOL.

People would need to understand the whole political (and social + medical) context in order to appreciate your post.


56 posted on 04/01/2024 12:35:42 PM PDT by mbj
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To: BipolarBob

:-D


57 posted on 04/01/2024 12:36:35 PM PDT by mbj
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To: canuck_conservative

Source: Newsweek.


58 posted on 04/01/2024 12:40:14 PM PDT by meyer (Psalm 83)
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To: DesertRhino; canuck_conservative

Sound waves (and moisture, and debris) in the air, are affected by ultrasound.

There are devices that can “see” that activity.


59 posted on 04/01/2024 12:41:27 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Timber Rattler

>>> No surprise there. Glad that the Muscovite culprits have finally been identified through detailed detective work and hard evidence.

And also no surprise that the pro-Kremlin crowd around here are reacting as they usually do.<<<

Says the NeverTrumper...


60 posted on 04/01/2024 12:42:09 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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