CIA assesses it's unlikely Havana syndrome is due to 'sustained worldwide campaign' by a foreign country in interim report
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The CIA has assessed in an interim finding that the spate of mysterious incidents sickening US officials around the globe -- known colloquially as Havana syndrome -- is unlikely to represent "a sustained worldwide campaign" by Russia or any other foreign actor intended to harm US personnel, CIA officials said.
The agency hasn't ruled out that a smaller subset of incidents could be attacks, and the intelligence community continues to investigate "whether any device or mechanism plausibly could cause the symptoms reported," a senior CIA official said.
But in the interim findings delivered to President Joe Biden and briefed to Congress in recent weeks, the CIA has yet to find any evidence that a nation-state is behind any of roughly 1,000 reported episodes around the globe.
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