U.S. CIA spy says he’d “rather be shot” after being attacked by secret Russian weapon

U.S. diplomats accredited to Cuba have been returning dizziness and other symptoms since 2016, and a senior U.S. CIA intelligence officer revealed that he, too, had experienced the condition in Moscow and believed it was an attack by a secret Russian weapon.

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BBC Chinese reports that Marc Polymeropoulos, a senior U.S. CIA intelligence officer who has been stationed in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, traveled to Moscow in 2017 for regular liaison meetings between U.S. and Russian spies, but he woke up in his hotel in Moscow with a sudden spinning in the sky and intense ringing in his ears, saying he felt like throwing up at the Time He said he felt like throwing up and couldn’t stand up, and that even though he had been shot before, it was his most memorable and terrifying experience. Polymelopoulos said he returned to the United States without dizziness, but other symptoms persist to this day, such as migraines, which makes him “prefer to be shot,” or at least know how to treat.

The newspaper analysis, the condition is called “Havana syndrome” (Havana syndrome), is a sudden loud noise triggered by pain, or suspected of coming from a location of the source of irritation, resulting in the victim’s head pressure dizziness. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences reported late last year that the symptoms were consistent with the effects of radio after ruling out the possibility of poisoning and psychological factors.

The Russian Foreign Ministry responded that it had no information on such microwave weapons to offer and that such speculation would not be considered a serious matter for comment, the report said.