U.S. Diplomats Suffer Hearing Loss After Serving in Cuba

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/25/546186317/u-s-diplomats-suffer-hearing-loss-after-serving-in-cuba

by agreen • 9 years ago

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adventured• 9 years ago

Worth 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-c...

drpgq• 9 years ago

Supposedly this happened to Canadian diplomats as well.

dang• 9 years ago

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Cuba%20diplomats%20points%3E30...

eponeponepon• 9 years ago

This 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?

U.S. Diplomats Suffer Hearing Loss After Serving in Cuba

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