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U.S. Diplomats Suffer Hearing Loss After Serving in Cuba
- adventured 9y agoWorth noting that at least one Canadian diplomat was also among the injured (worth noting because Canada has much better relations with Cuba than the US does). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/11/sonic-attack-canadian-diplomat-in-cuba-also-suffered-hearing-damage https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/11/sonic-attack-c...
- drpgq 9y agoSupposedly this happened to Canadian diplomats as well.
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- dang 9y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?query=Cuba%20diplomats%20points%3E30&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Cuba%20diplomats%20points%3E30...
- eponeponepon 9y agoThis is such a bizarre story, and I'd love to know the truth behind it - naturally, even if a full and frank report appeared, it'd still be highly questionable just because of its association with intelligence work. I do recall reading, though, that one remedy against eavesdropping by laser monitoring of vibrations in windowpanes is to deliberately induce white-noise vibrations in them yourself. That seems like the kind of thing that could cause inaudible but damaging infrasound standing waves inside your own building, so I wonder: is it possible that this was an accidental self-inflicted injury? All of this, of course, assumes that any of it even happened - and who can say with spies involved?