![]() ![]() They also voiced concern that it was being employed to affect the behavior of US diplomats and other personnel who were stationed there. They appeared in the magazine when the Soviet Union was bombarding the US embassy in Moscow with microwave radiation known as the “ Moscow Signal.”Īt the time, government officials surmised that the Soviets were using the radiation to activate listening devices hidden in the walls of the embassy. I am a former staff writer at The New Yorker who, in 1976, wrote the first articles about the ability of microwave radiation to cause changes in the central nervous system and behavior, as well as other biological effects. Other media echoed similar claims of ignorance about the syndrome. Relying heavily on State Department and intelligence agency sources, Entous and Anderson informed their readers that no one in the United States government had any idea how the Havana syndrome was operating to adversely affect the people who were exposed to it. It was written by Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson. The most detailed of these articles appeared in The New Yorker in November 2018, under the title “The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome.” ![]() Brodeur’s take on the situation is very different from that expressed by other writers for the same magazine, as shown below.ĭuring the past five years, US newspapers and magazines have published a number of articles about the Havana syndrome - a sudden onset of ringing in the ears, dizziness, imbalance, earache, headache, and changes in behavior - which originated in the city after which it is named, and soon afflicted several hundred Foreign Service and CIA officers around the world. In this opinion piece, Paul Brodeur, a writer for The New Yorker - who won an Alicia Patterson Foundation Award for his reporting on the potential dangers of microwave radiation - lays out the tortured history behind the new government report, and its significance for understanding the frightening prospects for technological warfare in the 21st century. EDITOR’S NOTE: After years of stonewalling and outright denials, a federal government report conceded on Februthat US diplomats around the world may have been repeatedly assaulted by “pulsed microwave radiation” - a futuristic weapon deployed by unknown adversaries with unknown but clearly malign intent. ![]()
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