> The name is a pseudonym, which she requested in order to protect her privacy.) Her life in Havana was fascinating but orderly. She lived with her husband and their twelve-year-old twins<p>This is the problem with "anonymizing" a person by just changing their name, or exchanging a name in a database with a number.<p>There's a pretty high probability that the number of FSI agents in Havana with 12-year-old twins is precisely one. We already know she works in the embassy in Havana, which means she's one of a couple hundred people, she's female, which cuts that number in half, she has twins, which cuts that number by about 100.
They said it wasn't likely a toxin, or at least there were no toxins that screening picked up on. But could some other fungus/mold or other pathogen infect the people there or could they accumulate a toxin that wasn't screened for? Just how clean did they get and keep that place at?
Is it just me or does it seem this would be trivial to detect with tangible proof? One or several software-defined radios can be set up to listen to the full breadth of the radio spectrum. If an incident like this is ever reported again, correlate the waterfall view with the time of the incident, and see if there were any increases in activity in that period. I currently believe this was a mass hysteria.
I would be stunned to discover that this is anything other than a case of mass hysteria.<p>Psychosomatic symptoms are still symptoms and stress and anxiety can cause physical changes to the body and brain and long lasting effects.
So the first “victims” were CIA officers, and the CIA the first to start pushing to close the embassy and return to the status quo developed and favored by the CIA for decades.<p>No evidence exists to suggest anything actually happened to the victims, and what limited scientific evidence does exist is being criticized.<p>And all of this just happened to directly support the official hard line position taken by the new US government.<p>What a remarkable set of coincidences!