The officials would not discuss if the US has a weapon that could have caused these incidents.
There is nothing to indicate that these incidents were the result of an insider attack, the officials said. On the whole, officials did not find evidence to validate one of their incoming assumptions that one or more state actor was causing the incidents, they explained. Officials said that evidence pointed against foreign involvement, including citing “confusion” on the topic among key adversaries. Officials even considered extraterrestrials as a cause, but found no linkage, they said. But when intelligence officials chased those leads - by looking into the criminals’ past, their family and their travels - they found no connection to the mysterious health incidents. There was also criminal activity that occurred around some of the incidents - such as the presence of weapons dealers. “There is no one explanation for any of this.” “We weren’t finding what we expected to find,” said one of the US officials. In some instances they found malfunctioning HVAC systems, which can cause discomfort to humans, and in other cases there were computer mice that created surprising disruptions.
Intelligence officers vigorously studied what happened in the hours, days and weeks surrounding the incidents, the official explained. The investigative efforts were “extremely aggressive” and involved “a high degree of risk,” one official explained. “I want to be absolutely clear: these findings do not call into question the experiences and real health issues that US Government personnel and their family members - including CIA’s own officers - have reported while serving our country,” he said. In a statement, Burns said the assessment is “one of the largest and most intensive investigations in the Agency’s history,” stating that it “reflects more than two years of rigorous, painstaking collection, investigative work, and analysis by IC agencies, including CIA.” Sufferers were notified in recent days that the assessment was coming and some received a call from CIA Director Bill Burns, one source said. The intelligence community workforce was notified of the assessment on Wednesday, officials said. If doctors are diagnosing some of us with a qualified injury to the brain in the line of duty and we are not saying it was a foreign adversary, what was it from?” said one former CIA agency officer who experienced symptoms. “There is something counterintuitive to all of this. The assessment is likely to lead to further frustration among those impacted who have chastised the US government for not taking the condition seriously enough or slow-rolling the investigation. Instead, there are many different possible causes including environmental as well as social factors and preexisting medical conditions, officials said. There is no one explanation for these incidents. Wednesday’s assessment, however, does not provide definitive answers on or what caused the ailment that has sickened hundreds of US government personnel and family members worldwide. The assessment, the result of the work of seven intelligence agencies, draws on the immense resources of the US intelligence community, including a review of hundreds of incidents and a wide range of factors surrounding them, officials explained. There have been about 1,500 reported cases across the US government in 96 different counties including some cases reported this year, officials said Wednesday, but the number of reported incidents has dropped significantly in the last year.
In subsequent years, there have been cases reported around the world, including clusters of at least 60 incidents in Bogota, Colombia and Vienna, Austria. The mysterious illness first emerged in late 2016, when a cluster of diplomats stationed in the Cuban capital of Havana began reporting symptoms consistent with head trauma, including dizziness and extreme headaches. IC agencies have varying confidence levels because we still have gaps given the challenges collecting on foreign adversaries - as we do on many issues involving them,” said Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. “I can share with you that most IC agencies have now concluded that it is ‘very unlikely’ a foreign adversary is responsible for the reported AHIs. Officials also explained that the medical analysis has also evolved in a way that points away from adversarial involvement.
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