![]() He calls his wife, no answer, so he leaves her voicemail, but he’s struggling to speak. He’s having trouble moving his hands and fingers. A national security official is on his way home when he hears a sharp ringing in his ears. It’s November, 2020, just outside the White House. Al Letson:įrom the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. Please be aware that the official record for Reveal’s radio stories is the audio. ![]() Reveal transcripts are produced by a third-party transcription service and may contain errors. MacArthur Foundation, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hellman Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Park Foundation. Support for Reveal is provided by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the John D. Reporters: Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous with VICE World News | Producers: VICE Audio’s Julia Nutter, Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, Ramón Campos Iriarte, Annie Aviles and Kate Osborn | Editor: Jenny Casas | Original music: Steve Bone | Special thanks to Pran Bandi and Nicole Pasulka | Engineering: Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda | Executive producers for Reveal: Taki Telonidis and Brett Myers Watch: What is Havana Syndrome? (VICE) Credits Read: ‘Deny Everything’: Why the US Hasn’t Solved the Mystery of Havana Syndrome (VICE) Read: We Set Out to Solve the Mystery of Havana Syndrome. Read: The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome (The New Yorker) Listen: Check out the entire VICE World News podcast series “Havana Syndrome” The team shares reporting-informed theories about who and what could be causing Havana syndrome. In the third segment, reporters Entous and Anderson head to Havana to visit the sites where people reported the onset of their symptoms, looking for answers. But during his first night on the island, the CIA doctor falls ill with the same syndrome he is there to investigate. He’s sent to Havana to investigate the cause of the symptoms and whether they may be caused by a mysterious sound recorded by patient zero. officials on the island are experiencing the same thing.Ī CIA doctor sees reports from the field about this strange condition happening in Cuba. When he reports the illness to his bosses at the CIA, he learns that other U.S. This “patient zero” explains the ways Cuban intelligence surveil and harass American spies working on the island and his own experience of suddenly being struck with a mysterious, painful condition. The reporters begin by tracking down one of the first people to report Havana syndrome symptoms, a CIA officer working in Cuba. This episode is built from reporting for an eight-part VICE World News podcast series by the same name. Reporters Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson try to make sense of this confusing illness that has come to be called Havana syndrome. officials across the world – in Cuba, China and Russia – have reported experiencing the sudden onset of an array of eerie symptoms. ![]() Please reload the page and try again.Īpple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | S titcher | Pandora | Amazon MusicĪ sharp sound. The city is currently the site of indirect talks between Iran and the United States over salvaging the nuclear deal that was negotiated there in 2015.Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Vienna has for centuries been a center for espionage and diplomacy and was a hub for clandestine spy-versus-spy activity during the Cold War. The Vienna cases were first reported Friday by The New Yorker magazine. The Vienna-based employees have reported suffering from mysterious symptoms since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, according to the officials. However, despite years of study there is no consensus as to what or who might be behind the incidents or whether they are, in fact, attacks. Some believe the unexplained injuries, which include brain damage, are the result of attacks with microwave or radio wave weapons. ![]() “Any employees who reported a possible UHI received immediate and appropriate attention and care.” Embassy Vienna community,” the State Department said. ![]() government, we are vigorously investigating reports of possible unexplained health incidents among the U.S. “In coordination with our partners across the U.S. diplomats and spies in Havana, Cuba, in 20 for which no definitive cause has yet been determined, according to the officials, who said more than 20 new cases were being looked at by medical teams at the State Department and elsewhere, including the Pentagon and CIA. Some of the symptoms are similar to those first reported by U.S. RTA releases photos of woman wanted in connection with Baby Doe ![]()
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