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Also known as "Havana Syndrome" from when U.S. govt agents suffered the same symptoms while in Cuba.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/us-investi...e-house/#x

Ars Technica article about it, too.

Mysterious health attacks like those seen in Cuba have come to DC
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/...ome-to-dc/

INTRO: At least two US government officials in the Washington, DC, area have experienced mysterious health incidents that are strikingly similar to the brain-damaging “health attacks” that plagued US diplomats in Cuba beginning in 2016.

Last November, a National Security Council official reported being sickened while near the Ellipse, the White House’s large, oval-shaped southern lawn, according to a report by CNN. In a separate 2019 incident, a White House staff member said she also experienced something akin to a health attack while walking her dog in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. The 2019 incident, which occurred just after Thanksgiving, was first reported by GQ last year. The magazine wrote at the time:

"According to a government source familiar with the incident, the staffer passed a parked van. A man got out and walked past her. Her dog started seizing up. Then she felt it too: a high-pitched ringing in her ears, an intense headache, and a tingling on the side of her face."

The staffer also said she had experienced a similar incident just a few months earlier, in August of 2019, while she was traveling in London with then-National Security Adviser John Bolton. According to GQ, the staffer reported again feeling a tingling in the side of her head, which was facing the window of her hotel room, as well as intense pressure and ringing in her ears. All of those symptoms stopped when she left the room.

The accounts are eerily similar to those from US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba, as well as later reports from US diplomats in China. Many of the diplomats reported experiencing directional high-pitch sounds, grinding noises, and/or vibrations that led to a constellation of symptoms, including dizziness, nausea, headaches, balance problems, ringing in the ears, nosebleeds, difficulty concentrating and recalling words, permanent hearing loss, and speech problems. A medical case report of some of the victims concluded that they had sustained “injury to widespread brain networks without an associated history of head trauma.”

Since the first reports occurred among diplomats in Cuba, the puzzling condition has often been dubbed “Havana syndrome.” The cases led the US to dramatically reduce staff at the US embassy in Havana. On Thursday, CNN reported and NBC News confirmed that federal agencies are now investigating the two incidents on US soil, as well as the more than 40 cases reported in diplomats who were sickened abroad... (MORE)

(May 2, 2021 05:12 AM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]Ars Technica article about it, too.

Mysterious health attacks like those seen in Cuba have come to DC
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/...ome-to-dc/

INTRO: At least two US government officials in the Washington, DC, area have experienced mysterious health incidents that are strikingly similar to the brain-damaging “health attacks” that plagued US diplomats in Cuba beginning in 2016.

Last November, a National Security Council official reported being sickened while near the Ellipse, the White House’s large, oval-shaped southern lawn, according to a report by CNN. In a separate 2019 incident, a White House staff member said she also experienced something akin to a health attack while walking her dog in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. The 2019 incident, which occurred just after Thanksgiving, was first reported by GQ last year. The magazine wrote at the time:

"According to a government source familiar with the incident, the staffer passed a parked van. A man got out and walked past her. Her dog started seizing up. Then she felt it too: a high-pitched ringing in her ears, an intense headache, and a tingling on the side of her face."

The staffer also said she had experienced a similar incident just a few months earlier, in August of 2019, while she was traveling in London with then-National Security Adviser John Bolton. According to GQ, the staffer reported again feeling a tingling in the side of her head, which was facing the window of her hotel room, as well as intense pressure and ringing in her ears. All of those symptoms stopped when she left the room.

The accounts are eerily similar to those from US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba, as well as later reports from US diplomats in China. Many of the diplomats reported experiencing directional high-pitch sounds, grinding noises, and/or vibrations that led to a constellation of symptoms, including dizziness, nausea, headaches, balance problems, ringing in the ears, nosebleeds, difficulty concentrating and recalling words, permanent hearing loss, and speech problems. A medical case report of some of the victims concluded that they had sustained “injury to widespread brain networks without an associated history of head trauma.”

Since the first reports occurred among diplomats in Cuba, the puzzling condition has often been dubbed “Havana syndrome.” The cases led the US to dramatically reduce staff at the US embassy in Havana. On Thursday, CNN reported and NBC News confirmed that federal agencies are now investigating the two incidents on US soil, as well as the more than 40 cases reported in diplomats who were sickened abroad... (MORE)

This type of equipment has been in usage for years. The main problem has been that peoples perspectives of what they see and hear can be different.

For instance in these particular cases it's likely a LIDAR usage to try and obtain biometrics of people to circumnavigate security clearance, or to obtain access to previously gained intelligence that might well have been encrypted through biometrics. (Just remember that as you swipe you phone with a fingerprint or use your face to unlock it)

Is "the influencing machine" becoming a reality?

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1...ShNhEBicuM