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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Declassified US Report Dismantles Story of Sonic Attacks</h1>October 1, 2021</div>
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<p>A State Department
report declassified Thursday dismissed the theory of the causes behind
the alleged acoustic attacks reported in 2017 by U.S. diplomats in
Havana.</p>
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<p>The document, which dismantles the political argument used by the
administration of former President Donald Trump to reinforce the U.S.
blockade against Cuba, was completed in 2018, but comes to light now to
ratify what the scientific community already demonstrated.</p>
<p>Noises linked to a
mysterious disease among U.S. diplomats in Cuba, dubbed the “Havana
Syndrome," were likely caused by insects rather than microwave weapons,
the declassified report has revealed.</p>
<p>According to the
study, there are no microwave weapons associated with the alleged health
ailment that caused the Trump administration to decide to dismantle its
embassy in the Cuban capital. </p>
<p>The scientific review was commissioned by the U.S. State Department and written by the independent science advisory group JASON.</p>
<p>The United States
accused Cuba, without evidence, of an alleged deliberate attack against
its diplomatic corps accredited in Havana, which the authorities of the
island nation categorically denied from the outset. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">A secret report found that microwaves didn't cause "Havana syndrome" incidents and concluded some diplomats heard crickets. <a href="https://t.co/RlY8TTWbRy">https://t.co/RlY8TTWbRy</a></p> — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews)
<a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1443938499854483464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2021</a>
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<p>Last July, President Joe Biden ordered the State Department to
examine the possibility of increasing the staff of its representation on
the island in the midst of the long-promised review of the policy
towards the largest of the Antilles.</p>
<p>In multiple
scenarios, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has reiterated that
his country has never perpetrated nor will it perpetrate attacks of any
nature against diplomatic officials or their families, without
exception. He has also remarked that Cuba never allowed nor will it ever
allow its territory to be used by third parties for such purposes.</p>
<p>This is in line with
Cuba's adherence to its obligations under the 1961 Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations, with regard to the protection of the integrity of
accredited officials on national soil, as well as their families. </p>
<p>Another declassified
State Department report earlier this year suggested that Trump's
decision regarding the Havana embassy was, above all, a political
response plagued by mismanagement, lack of coordination and procedural
non-compliance.</p>
<p>The escalation of
statements and actions by the Trump administration was mounted on the
story of the health incidents and false accusations, according to Johana
Tablada, who is the deputy director general for the United States at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. </p>
<p>Such actions “tightened the blockade and redoubled hostility against Cuba," she warned at the time.</p>
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