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Report links Havana diplomats’ mysterious symptoms to likely radiation ‘attack’

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A U.S. government report released Saturday points to radiofrequency energy as the likely source of the mysterious illness that made many U.S. diplomats, as well as other countries’ diplomats, serving in Havana, Cuba sick back in 2017. Additionally, the report cites strong evidence implying that the illness was likely caused by attacks. Radiofrequency energy, it should be noted, is a type of radiation that includes microwaves.

While the reports of these symptoms arose in August 2017, the reports themselves date back to late 2016.

More than 40 U.S. government employees were affected by this illness between 2016 and 2018, according to Reuters.

Researchers from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that the symptoms experienced by those diplomats in Havana—such as dizziness, nausea, visual impairments, hearing a loud sound, and headaches—were “consistent with a directed radio frequency (RF) energy attack”. This illness has come to be known as Havana syndrome.

Furthermore, the 19-person committee stated that “directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy” was “the most plausible mechanism” in explaining Havana syndrome but that secondary factors and other possible causes also bringing about these symptoms could not be taken off the table.

Other U.S. government employees stationed in Cuba and other places have also reported similar symptoms, such as in China and Russia. In June 2018, the U.S. State Department announced that it had withdrawn diplomats from China over worries that they were experiencing such symptoms.

The 2017 illnesses in Havana sparked rumors and speculation that it was a deliberate attack carried out by a foreign country hostile to the United States, with many U.S. officials suspecting Russia.

While the report doesn’t name any country or entity as the origin of these likely attacks, the researchers cited Western, Russian, and Soviet studies on pulsed radiofrequency technology and the exposure of military personnel stationed in “Eurasian communist countries” to this radiation who reported similar symptoms, saying these “provide circumstantial support for this possible mechanism.”

Both Russia and Cuba have denied any involvement in the likely attacks, according to NBC News.

Back in October, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “We’ve done a lot of work to try and identify how this all took place,” when asked about the investigation at a press conference. “And we continue to try and determine precisely the causation of this while doing our best to make sure we’re taking care of the health and safety of these people.”

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Report: Beijing’s military hacked U.S. nuclear firm before Hunter Biden aided Chinese bid to acquire it

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A bombshell report by Just the News explains that “U.S. officials were acutely aware that Beijing was trying to obtain America’s premiere nuclear reactor technology, including through illicit hacking, months before Hunter Biden and his business partners sought to arrange a quiet sale of an iconic U.S. reactor company to a Chinese firm, according to court records and national security experts.”

Hunter Biden attempted to assist CEFC China Energy to acquire Westinghouse, one of America’s most famous electricity and appliance brands, as well as its state-the-art AP1000 nuclear reactor.

Hunter began his work with the Chinese company in early 2016 – while Joe Biden was the sitting Vice President – memos show. According to a copy of the indictment, just 20 months earlier, his father’s Justice Department charged five members of a Chinese military hacking unit for breaching the company’s computer systems in search of intellectual property and internal strategy communications.

Just the News reports:

In May 2014, the five operatives of the People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 61398 were charged with hacking into the systems of six U.S.-based companies across different industrial sectors, including Westinghouse Electric Co., SolarWorld, United States Steel Corp., and a union. The attorney general at the time, Eric Holder, called the breach a classic case of “economic espionage.”

One operative gained access to Westinghouse’s computers in 2010 and “stole proprietary and confidential technical and design specifications related to pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing” pertaining to the company’s advanced AP1000 nuclear reactor design, according to an indictment filed by the Department of Justice.

“Among other things, such specifications would enable a competitor to build a plant similar to the AP1000 without incurring significant research and development costs associated with designing similar pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing systems,” the indictment reads.

Just the News notes that while there is no evidence at the moment that Hunter Biden was aware of or involved in the hacking efforts by the Chinese, documents previously released by Congress in the Biden impeachment inquiry show Hunter Biden wrote in one text message in 2017 that he believed one of the CEFC officials he worked with, Patrick Ho, was the “f—ing spy chief” of China.

Ho was later indicted in the U.S. and charged with corruption. Joe Biden’s brother James told the FBI he believed CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming had a relationship with China’s communist president.

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