U.S. diplomats face a “much broader” threat of suffering brain injury while deployed than was previously understood, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a Senate panel Thursday, after a U.S. official in China fell ill and showed similar symptoms to U.S. officials in Cuba who fell victim to a “sonic attack.”
“We had an officer who suffered a medical incident that is consistent with what happened to American officers that were serving in Havana,” Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “It’s gone from a localized incident to one that is much, much broader, and now the question is where, ‘where all might we see this?’”
More than two dozen American officials suffered various kinds of brain injuries while deployed to Cuba last year, inflicted by mysterious attacks that led to a cratering of U.S.-Cuba relations. The prevailing theory was that some sort of “sonic attack” led to those illnesses, but no final explanation was ever given.
The State Department announced Wednesday that a U.S. official working in China had also been targeted and show similar symptoms.
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