Symptoms of Havana syndrome can include brain injury, vertigo, confusion, and memory loss—but have never before been reported as occurring on U.S. soil
A number of Trump-era Homeland Security officials in Washington, D.C., say they were stricken with mysterious, debilitating symptoms similar to those that have affected U.S. diplomats 0verseas without explanation since 2016. Known as Havana syndrome, symptoms can include brain injury, vertigo, confusion, and memory loss—but have never before been reported as occurring on U.S. soil.
The former chief of staff of Homeland Security, Miles Taylor, said that more than once he’d felt sick the day after hearing a digital “chirping” sound outside his D.C. home. “That, to me, as a homeland security professional was a big blinking red light. I mean, to me, this said: ‘Five-alarm fire,’” Taylor said. Former national security adviser John Bolton corroborated the accounts of several more unnamed officials who spoke to the network.