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CIA chief 'issues warning to Russian spies over Havana Syndrome': Director William J. Burns told Moscow's intelligence services they would face 'consequences' if they were behind mysterious illnesses, officials say
dailymail.co.uk ^ | November 24, 2021 | Alex Hammer

Posted on 11/25/2021 4:38:30 PM PST by elpadre

The director of the CIA reportedly issued a bold warning to Russia's two top intelligence agencies earlier this month, saying that there will be 'consequences' if the US government finds out that they are behind the hundreds of Havana Syndrome cases afflicting US diplomats and spies across the globe.

The threat, delivered by CIA Director William J. Burns during a recent visit to Moscow this month, was directed at the country's foremost intelligence agencies, the Federal Security Service, or the FSB, and the Foreign Intelligence Service - the SVR.

During the visit, the CIA chief further told his Kemlin counterparts that causing crippling aliments among US personnel and their family members would be unacceptable for a 'professional intelligence service,' US officials who witnessed the exchange told The Washington Post, speaking under the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the conversation.

Burns' warning did not explicitly state that Russia was behind the still-largely unknown syndrome, which first surfaced at the US embassy in Havana in 2016 and has since afflicted more than 200 Americans around the world, but the fact that the CIA head worded the warning with the conditional 'if,' suggests that the US government is still confounded as to the cause of the unusual incidents

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1 posted on 11/25/2021 4:38:30 PM PST by elpadre
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They are shaking /s


2 posted on 11/25/2021 4:39:30 PM PST by HollyB
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To: elpadre

Russia Russia Russia


3 posted on 11/25/2021 4:39:41 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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I can’t imagine any Russian fearing this administration.


4 posted on 11/25/2021 4:41:26 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: HollyB

Russia better be scared or we’ll change genders on them


5 posted on 11/25/2021 4:41:26 PM PST by bboise
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To: elpadre

Russians laughing at us.


6 posted on 11/25/2021 4:42:20 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: elpadre

Question: What if there were indications China was responsible, would the WH make such a threat?? These people are making the Russia the fall guy for many things, but it may be China all along.


7 posted on 11/25/2021 4:43:56 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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Are they going to send Kamala to cackle them into submission?


8 posted on 11/25/2021 4:44:57 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: elpadre

William J. Burns is an ignorant ass behind much of the destruction of the improving relationship between the US and Russia following the collapse of the USSR. He’s a CLintonista.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/william-j-burns-putin-russia/583255/

In his own words.


9 posted on 11/25/2021 4:45:24 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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Why would the Russians do that, what’s the purpose, how do they benefit?


10 posted on 11/25/2021 4:46:51 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: elpadre

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/havana-syndrome-cause-crickets-cia-b1930390.html

He’s a moron.


11 posted on 11/25/2021 4:46:58 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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It seems clear that Covid came from the Wuhan labs and used by China as a bio-warfare weapon. Could the Havana Syndrome be another bio-warfare weapon from the Wuhan lab?


12 posted on 11/25/2021 4:51:45 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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From Wiki:

“ Havana syndrome is a wide range of only partly overlapping unspecific medical symptoms with unknown causes experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel. The symptoms range in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive difficulties[2][3] .”

“… an expert committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded in December 2020 that microwave energy (specifically, directed pulsed RF energy[2]) “appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases among those that the committee considered” but that “each possible cause remains speculative”.[4][6][15] Other potential causes or contributing factors of the symptoms that have been proposed have included ultrasound,[16] pesticides,[17] or mass psychogenic illness.[18]”

I’ll take Mass Psychogenic Illnesses for $800, Mayim.


13 posted on 11/25/2021 4:59:41 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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<...Could the Havana Syndrome be another bio-warfare weapon from the Wuhan lab?>

Somebody should ask Fauci that.

14 posted on 11/25/2021 5:04:52 PM PST by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/havana-syndrome-cause-crickets-cia-b1930390.html

“Havana Syndrome” is a mass psychosis from nutball State Department loons.


15 posted on 11/25/2021 5:09:05 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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I thought I was just a few headaches and didn’t even exist?


16 posted on 11/25/2021 5:16:19 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: elpadre

If they don’t stop someone is going to write a mean letter about this!


17 posted on 11/25/2021 5:29:45 PM PST by Obadiah (Truth is treason in an empire of lies.)
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18 posted on 11/25/2021 5:34:53 PM PST by xp38
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I vividly recall the sickness suffered by U.S. personnel assigned to the embassy at Moscow, the Soviet Union, in the mid-nineteen eighties. As I recall it even resulted in the eventual death of a diplomat. Then, as now, much was claimed but nothing was resolved.


19 posted on 11/25/2021 5:37:36 PM PST by Bookshelf
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"The director of the CIA reportedly issued a bold warning to Russia.."

Much to putin's amusement.

20 posted on 11/25/2021 5:41:07 PM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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