American Thinker
Monica Showalter
Nov. 11, 2018
The New Yorker this week has an amazingly good investigative piece by Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson titled 'The Havana Syndrome,' exploring every aspect and angle of the sonic or electromagnetic attacks on U.S. diplomats and CIA officers last year in Cuba. I read the 10,000-word piece, and was struck by all of its amazingly well-reported angles and insights, as well as its superb sourcing, which included interviews with the diplomats who were actually targeted, and accounts from Obama administration officials, such as Ben Rhodes, who led the Cuba normalization efforts. What really happened. Was it real? How did it come to be? Who did it? And how did it connect to the Obama administration's ill-considered opening with Cuba? It reminds me of the kind of immersing and insightful pieces that used to run in The Atlantic in the 1970s.
The part that leaps out arises on the question of who did these immensely painful and injurious attacks on U.S. embassy personnel. Was it Russians? Chinese? Or was it some faction of the Castroites upset over normalization of relations with the U.S., hardline or otherwise? No one really knows yet, but a very important argument was laid out by one of the writers' sources:
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