Update on Havana Syndrome

From Scott Pelley, Aliza Chasan, Oriana Zill de Granados, Michael Rey, Emily Gordon, and Jaime Woods' 12-5-24 CBS News report entitled "Foreign Adversary Was Likely Behind Havana Syndrome, House Intelligence Leaders Say":

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said in an unclassified report released Thursday that it "appears increasingly likely that a foreign adversary is behind some cases of what officials refer to as "anomalous health incidents" – mysterious illnesses suffered by U.S. national security officials.

The House Intelligence Committee concluded in the report that an intelligence community assessment from 2023 of anomalous health incidents (AHI), commonly called Havana Syndrome, "lacked analytic integrity and was highly irregular in its formulation."

That 2023 report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had deemed it "very unlikely" that a foreign adversary was behind the mysterious injuries, though it did acknowledge that some intelligence agencies had only "low" or "moderate" confidence in that conclusion. Until now that has been the government's leading assessment of what's behind the Havana Syndrome.

Thursday's report also accused the intelligence community of interfering with the House Intelligence Committee's ongoing investigation.

"Sadly, the [intelligence community] has actively attempted to impede our investigation, but we have nonetheless been able to gather significant evidence, and I have reason to believe that its claims of environmental or social factors explaining AHIs are false," said Rep. Rick Crawford, the chairman of the Subcommittee on the Central Intelligence Agency, who led the investigation.

To read the entire report, click HERE.