WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that a series of mysterious health incidents affecting U.S. personnel around the world since 2016 were unlikely to have been caused by a foreign adversary or by a directed energy weapon, after conducting what one intelligence official described as a “historic” investigation.
Scouring evidence in roughly 1,500 reported cases, seven intelligence agencies unanimously concluded that it was either unlikely or very unlikely that a foreign actor was responsible for the cases, which became known to the public as “Havana syndrome” after a cluster of cases affected U.S. personnel in Cuba at the end of the Obama administration.
The intelligence community assessment, published Wednesday, found evidence “consistently against” the involvement of foreign powers, one intelligence official familiar with the assessment said, finding that major adversaries were themselves perplexed over the series of cases.
