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2017-09-15 Caribbean-Latin America

Mystery of sonic weapon attacks at US embassy in Cuba deepens

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-15 00:43|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 Muted U.S. Government outrage? Except for the Guardian, media non-play.
Nothing much if anything from Congressional Intelligence Committees. Much yawning, and discussion topic changing you say ?

Limited to certain rooms? While Cuban technology is impressive (note the numerous 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air's still poking about). Could it possibly be that our own "botched surveillance" or.... counter-surveillance systems are responsible ?

Just thinking outside the transmitter box. Perhaps we too, should change the topic of discussion, or no ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-15 01:06|| 2017-09-15 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Just as likely that US Gov't efforts/devices in Cuba have misfired & hurt our own personnel. Induction of permanent brain damage without leaving a trace is scary stuff. Details of what actually happened will be very slowly released if they never get known at all.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-15 01:48|| 2017-09-15 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if Trump's just waiting to play his hand here and reverse Obama yet again when he feels the time is right? I'd think anything tangible that can be pinned on the Cubans will be all he needs to close the embassy there and reinstate sanctions.

Posted by Raj 2017-09-15 03:10|| 2017-09-15 03:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Easy to make, just get two or more directional tweeters and feed some amplified high frequency signals to them. Where the sounds cross paths, you get the annoying sounds as described, If you're in a single sound path, you hear nothing.

Good trick if you're in a museum, stand in front of an object and you'll hear narration about said object, move on to the next one and the old narration fade out and a new onw fade in.

It's a little tricky to insure proper out of phasing so as not to mix up the narrations, but satisfying whe it all works.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-09-15 03:20|| 2017-09-15 03:20|| Front Page Top

#5 "These efforts, while designed to further surveillance and eavesdropping and not to cause malicious damage, nevertheless risked or resulted in residual physical harm to US diplomats,"

Hey, Raul, new guinea pigs!

Trying something like a laser microphone, but in the lower energy spectrum.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-15 08:00|| 2017-09-15 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Too often I've found that for which I've been looking.

1) Are others outside the embassy effected?
2) Does the embassy sit in the path of the AT&T microwave crossing the city?
3) Any measurable EMF from local high tension power lines?

I wouldn't be surprised if the cheap chinese surge protectors were decaying from transients and creating secondary effects.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-15 13:58|| 2017-09-15 13:58|| Front Page Top

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