'Science fiction': Cuban officials dismiss claims of sonic attack on US diplomats

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters


Washington accused of ‘slander’ and refusing to cooperate with Cuban inquiry into mysterious incident that sickened American diplomats
Reuters
Wednesday 25 October 2017 14.34 EDT

Cuban officials investigating US complaints of mysterious incidents that sickened American diplomats in Havana have described allegations of sonic attacks as “science fiction” and accused Washington of “slander” and refusing to cooperate fully with Cuba’s inquiry.

Donald Trump said last week he believed Havana was responsible for 24 diplomats being harmed. Washington expelled 15 Cuban diplomats and recalled more than half the US diplomatic personnel from Havana earlier in October.

While Cuba denounced the expulsions as “unjustified” and accused the United States of insufficient cooperation, three interior ministry officials and a doctor heading the inquiry provided more details in an interview in Havana.

Cuba had deployed about 2,000 security officials and experts, from criminologists to audiologists and mathematicians, to investigate the incidents after it became aware of them in February, the investigators said.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/25/cuba-us-embassy-sonic-attack-science-fiction

[yallerdawg]

1. We've been here before.

McKinley? Didn't Trump just mention going back to the old name for the highest mountain in North America? Why did that come up on his radar now?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Canadian diplomats have also been affected, though not as severely.

I read somewhere else that two US diplomats required hospitalization and/or suffered permanent hearing loss.

Whatever it is, it is very strange.

The Canadians say the Cubans have been very cooperative on this issue.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

3. Why no mention of the Russians...

... and their history of such tactics. Similar occurred back in the 70's and 80's in Moscow concerning US diplomats and embassy workers.

[link:http://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/30/archives/soviet-halts-microwaves-aimed-at-us-embassy.html|