{"id":49271,"date":"2024-04-03T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/report-us-officials-had-sudden-symptoms-before-harris-hanoi-visit\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:13:34","slug":"report-us-officials-had-sudden-symptoms-before-harris-hanoi-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/report-us-officials-had-sudden-symptoms-before-harris-hanoi-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: US officials had sudden symptoms before Harris\u2019 Hanoi visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Close to a dozen U.S. officials suffered from unexplained symptoms just before Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 visit to Hanoi in 2021, according to a CBS News investigation into a string of incidents around the world that\u2019s become known as \u201cHavana Syndrome.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201c<\/span>60 Minutes<\/span><\/a>\u201d report found evidence that suggests Russia is behind numerous \u201canomalous health incidents\u201d that have left dozens of American diplomats with prolonged injuries following sudden head pressure, dizziness or head or ear pain.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incidents date back to 2016, when officials working at the U.S. Embassy in Havana began reporting the symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The March 31 report said there were two separate incidents in Hanoi that affected 11 American officials \u2013 two U.S. Embassy officials and nine members of a U.S. Department of Defense advance team ahead of <\/span>Harris\u2019 Aug. 24-26, 2021<\/span><\/a>, visit.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CBS report suggested that either Russian officials or Vietnamese officials were involved, and that Russia provided Vietnam with equipment that uses \u201cdirected, pulsed radio frequency\u201d to injure its targets.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leaves her plane, as she arrives at the airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Aug., 24, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein\/AFP)<\/p>\n

Another possibility, according to the report, was that Vietnamese officials weren\u2019t aware of the dangerous effect of the Russian equipment and believed it was only for surveillance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The report provides evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized the provision to Vietnam\u2019s security services of Long Range Acoustic Device, or LARD, emitters and short wave equipment for human body scanning technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Hanoi wouldn\u2019t dare to do this\u2019<\/p>\n

Carl Thayer, emeritus professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy, told Radio Free Asia that it\u2019s unlikely that Vietnamese officials would have motive to harm American officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Vietnam\u2019s security services had every incentive to eavesdrop on American officials prior to and during Vice President Harris\u2019 visit to Hanoi, they did not have an incentive to cause deliberate physical harm to U.S. officials,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vu Minh Tri, a former Vietnamese military intelligence officer, agreed, saying in a message to RFA that Vietnamese officials wouldn\u2019t do something so \u201cignorantly unjustifiable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHanoi wouldn\u2019t dare to do this,\u201d he said. \u201cVietnam would use LARD to suppress the people in the country, but wouldn\u2019t do this to the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Flight delayed<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 flight into Hanoi from Singapore was delayed for several hours because one U.S. diplomat was being medevaced out of Vietnam, according to the CBS report.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was the first U.S. vice president to travel to Vietnam since the unification of the country under the Communist North in 1975. Her two-day visit came a month after U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in Hanoi for meetings with Vietnamese officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harris spoke with Vietnam\u2019s leaders about shared efforts to counter \u201cbullying\u201d by China in the South China Sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She announced during her trip that the United States would donate another 1 million doses of Pfizer\u2019s COVID vaccine following an earlier donation of 5 million doses. She also launched the new Southeast Asia regional office of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Hanoi.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its 2024 threat assessment issued in February, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found that it was \u201cunlikely\u201d that a foreign adversary was behind the incidents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Monday that it \u201chas been the broad conclusion of the intelligence community since March 2023 that is unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible\u201d for the incidents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RFA sent an email to a Vietnamese government spokesperson seeking comment on the CBS News report, but there was no immediate response.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edited by Matt Reed and Malcolm Foster.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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