Blinken defends diplomats after CIA casts doubt on Havana Syndrome

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Secretary of State Blinken defended diplomats who report suspected “Havana Syndrome” incidents, insisting “their pain is real' after a CIA report raised doubts.

Blinken said it was “gut-wrenching” to hear about the impact the incidents have had on staffers"work, their families, their whole lives.”

In the new CIA intelligence assessment, first reported late Wednesday by NBC News, the agency said it found no evidence of a sustained global campaign to harm or spy on hundreds of American officials. But the CIA said it can’t rule out foreign involvement in about two dozen cases, and another group of cases is considered unresolved.

“We are going to continue to bring all of our resources to bear in learning more about these incidents, and there will be additional reports to follow,” Blinken wrote on Thursday.Multiple U.S. officials told NBC News that other departments within the U.S. government were concerned by the timing and contents of the CIA’s report, which is considered interim and not a final conclusion of the broader Biden administration or the full intelligence community.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who chairs the Senate’s intelligence panel, pushed back on the notion that the CIA report marked the final word on the matter, saying in a statement that the assessment, “while rigorously conducted, reflects only the interim work of the CIA task force.” And House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said that while the report was a “first step” toward getting answers, “it is far from the last.

 

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