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The Cult Dossier · No. 170 · Moral Panic / Mass Hysteria
Havana Syndrome
Anomalous Health Incidents; AHIs
2016 – present · Havana, Cuba; then China, Russia, Austria, Colombia, the United States and elsewhere
XVI. CONTAGION — SYMPTOMS THAT SPREAD WITHOUT A PATHOGEN
None.
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- LATE 2016 US diplomatic personnel in HAVANA report sudden onset of unusual sounds or pressure followed by neurological symptoms. Reports later come from other posts worldwide.
- 5 DECEMBER 2020 A NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES PANEL names DIRECTED, PULSED RADIOFREQUENCY ENERGY as the most plausible mechanism for the distinctive early cases, without identifying a source.
- 8 OCTOBER 2021 The HAVANA ACT is signed into law, providing compensation for those affected. WHATEVER THE CAUSE, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TREATED THE INJURIES AS REAL AND PAID FOR THEM.
- 1 MARCH 2023 AN INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT CONCLUDES IT IS VERY UNLIKELY THAT A FOREIGN ADVERSARY WAS RESPONSIBLE for the incidents, including through a novel weapon.
- 18 MARCH 2024 NIH STUDIES PUBLISHED IN JAMA FIND NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES in brain imaging or most biological markers between affected personnel and matched controls. This makes a uniform physical injury signature harder to sustain, and it does NOT establish a psychogenic cause.
- 10 JANUARY 2025 FIVE INTELLIGENCE COMPONENTS REAFFIRM that foreign responsibility is very unlikely. TWO SHIFT. One judges a roughly even chance that a foreign actor has used a novel weapon or prototype device to harm a small, undetermined subset of those affected. The other judges a roughly even chance that such a weapon has been developed, but still thinks it unlikely one was deployed. BOTH HOLD THOSE JUDGMENTS WITH LOW CONFIDENCE. The disagreement is on the record and is not a fringe position.
- 13 JANUARY 2026 THE MATTER IS NOT CLOSED. CNN reports that the Department of Homeland Security bought, for an eight-figure sum, a backpack-sized device that emits pulsed radio waves and contains Russian components, and that the Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device acquired through an undercover operation, which some investigators suspect may be relevant. NO CONCLUSION HAS BEEN PUBLISHED.
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