US intelligence is investigating two possible on-air attacks in recent months, one of which may have taken place near the White House.
The US federal services are investigating two mysterious incidents that have occurred in recent months in Washington DC, one of which may have taken place near the White House last November, CNN reported on Thursday. According to the television station, the Senators and the armed services of the House of Commons were informed of the threat in early April.
These two mysterious attacks caused unexplained symptoms on several members of the US state personnel. They are reminiscent of the unexplained symptoms felt by some American agents affected by “the Havana syndrome”, since 2016 in Cuba, Russia and China.
Headache, dizziness and extreme fatigue
“For nearly five years, we have been informed of mysterious attacks against representatives of the American government in Havana, Cuba, as well as in the rest of the world,” the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said in a joint statement. , Democrat Mark Warner, and his vice-president, Republican Marco Rubio.
“These kinds of attacks against our fellow citizens who work for the government seem to be on the increase,” they added, implicitly confirming CNN’s revelations about two recent attacks on American soil.
Since 2016, several American agents (diplomats, intelligence and security agents or staff) have suffered from strange symptoms such as memory loss, extreme fatigue, headaches and violent dizziness that can go as far as ‘to total incapacity.
One of those incidents took place last November near the Ellipse (the huge oval park near the White House) in Washington. A National Security Council official fell ill as he strolled through the lawn, according to several US officials and others familiar with the matter.
As for the second event, it is about a White House official who fell ill while walking her dog in the suburbs of Washington in Virginia during the year 2019, as reported by GQ magazine l last year.
“High intensity microwave beam”
The first elements of the investigation do not bring forward clear conclusions about what happened in the United States, several sources close to the investigation report to CNN, or whether these new attacks were linked to previous cases. having performed abroad. The Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI declined to comment on these incidents and on the investigations conducted since.
But the report from the American Academy of Sciences and Medicine, released in December 2020, revealed that the cases reported in recent years in China, Russia and Cuba may well have been caused by “a weapon generating a micro-beam. high intensity waves “in a range of frequencies ranging from 300 MHz to 300 GHz. The American elected officials promised in their press release to “shed light” on these attacks.
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