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Havana Syndrome in Vietnam: Possible Russian role in attack on Americans, according to new evidence


Eleven U.S. officials were injured in a Havana Syndrome-style attack ahead of VP Kamala Harris's 2021 trip to Hanoi. A newly discovered document suggests Russia may have been involved.

At the time, the U.S. embassy in Hanoi announced that a possible "anomalous health incident," the federal government's term for so-called Havana Syndrome attacks, was slowing Harris's arrival in Vietnam. According to Grozev, a document within the email shows that Russian intelligence lobbied for and received permission from President Vladimir Putin to provide exclusive technology to Vietnamese security services. Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Greg Edgreen ran an investigation for the Defense Intelligence Agency into anomalous health incidents, which have been referred to as Havana Syndrome attacks because they were first reported by American officials based in the U.S. embassy in Cuba in 2016.

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