A Dangerous New Class of Weapons Emerges.

• Author: Magnuson, Stew
• Position: Editor's Notes

Readers if they turn to page 20 in this magazine will find a reprint of a story National Defense first ran online Sept. 6 focusing on the series of mysterious incidents involving personnel assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba.

Victims of this apparent attack first heard a mysterious sound seemingly emanating from their own ears. Pain, feelings of vertigo, nausea ensued and later some were diagnosed with neurological damage.

Information about these mysterious attacks over the past year has come out piecemeal in the mainstream media, usually citing unnamed intelligence community sources. National Defense, however, conducted three on-the-record interviews with the three physicians whom the State Department tasked with examining the case. One of them was the first and only doctor to examine the victims in Cuba shortly after the incidents. He also had the opportunity to see the locations where the attacks took place, which were in residences and a hotel--not at the embassy itself--as reported.

Along with the exclusive interviews, the doctors gave National Defense two unclassified PowerPoint presentations they have delivered to various defense agencies.

Independent of each other, the three experts examined data collected from the victims then came together to share their findings with each other. They all came to the same basic conclusions.

First, they ruled out some of the common causes of inner ear disturbances such as high doses of aspirin, mercury poisoning or head trauma. They said it was an extremely low possibility that they had accidentally been exposed to energy coming from pest control devices or faulty air conditioners.

They concluded that the victims had been subjected to one of four possible directed energy weapons. They did not have enough data to say precisely which one. Nor were they tasked with assigning responsibility for the attacks.

As far as the theory put forth by some of the magazine's readers that this was a coincidental incident, it should be noted that these victims were not sitting in the same place at the same time. They were either at their individual residences or a hotel known to be frequented by U.S. personnel.

And as one of the doctors noted, the vast majority of victims happened to be working for a particular set of personnel who are assigned to U.S. embassies. The targeting was precisely aimed at this group. Readers may have noticed the magazine's use of the words "personnel assigned to the U.S. Embassy...