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U.S. intelligence agencies cannot link a foreign adversary to any of the incidents associated with the enigmatic “Havana syndrome,” in which the hundreds of cases of brain injuries and other symptoms were reported by American personnel around the world, the AP reported on Wednesday.

The findings released Wednesday by U.S. intelligence officials, the AP reported,  cast doubt on the longstanding suspicions by many people who reported cases that such countries such as Russia or others of that ilk may have been orchestrating a global campaign to harass or attack Americans using some form of directed energy.

Most of the cases investigated appear to have different causes, from environmental factors to undiagnosed illnesses, said the officials, who say they have not found a single explanation for most or all of the reports, the AP reported.

Instead, officials say, there is evidence that foreign countries were not involved. The AP also reported that in some cases, the U.S. detected there was confusion among adversarial governments about the allegations and suspicions that Havana syndrome was nothing more than an American plot. And investigators found “no credible evidence” that any adversary had obtained a weapon that could cause the symptoms that were reported or could they create a listening device that might inadvertently injure people.

The Biden administration has been under pressure to respond to Havana syndrome cases from government personnel who have reported injuries and their advocates, including members of Congress. In addition, the AP reported that President Joe Biden in 2021 signed into law the HAVANA Act, which provided compensation to people deemed to have sustained injuries consistent with what the government calls “anomalous health incidents.”

Affected people have reported headaches, dizziness and other symptoms often linked to traumatic brain injuries, according to the AP report. Some U.S. employees have left their government positions due to the severity of their illnesses, the report indicated.

In a statement, Maher Bitar, the White House National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence programs said, “Nothing is more important than the health and wellbeing of our workforce. Since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration, we have focused on ensuring that our colleagues have access to the care and support they need.”

The AP reported that Mark Zaid, an attorney representing more than two dozen people who have reported injuries, said the new assessment lacked transparency and left key questions unanswered.

In a statement, Zaid said, “Until the shrouds of secrecy are lifted and the analysis that led to today’s assertions are available and subject to proper challenge, the alleged conclusions are substantively worthless. But the damage it has caused to the morale of the victims, particularly by deflecting from the government’s failure to evaluate all the evidence, is real and must be condemned,” the AP report said.

Under the rules set by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, two officials familiar with the assessment, spoke on the condition of anonymity as they conducted briefings with reporters on Wednesday, according to the AP report.

Other intelligence experts are also confounded as to why the government has not made more aggressive attempts to locate and prosecute those who are responsible for this health debacle, according to other published reports.

“The abysmal failure of the US government to launch a searing and unrelenting probe into the origins of the Havana syndrome and their alleged inability to locate the people and possible countries that launched this devastating illness is beyond shameful. For the sake of complete transparency, the American people deserve truthful answers as do the government employees and their families. We should place enormous pressure on the powers that be to find and apprehend those responsible. Once found, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, “ said one official who spoke to media outlets on the condition of anonymity.

On January 20, 2022, the AP reported that the CIA believes it is unlikely that Russia or another foreign adversary has used microwaves or other forms of directed energy to attack the hundreds of American officials who attribute symptoms associated with brain injuries to the Havana syndrome.

At the time, the AP reported that the agency’s findings, according to one official familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence, drew immediate criticism from those who have reported cases and from advocates who accuse the government of long dismissing the array of ailments.

Investigators have studied hundreds of reported cases reported globally by U.S. intelligence officers, diplomats and military personnel and whether the injuries are caused by exposure to forms of directed energy, the AP reported at the beginning of 2022.

In Wednesday’s report, the AP said that the investigators reviewed roughly 1,500 cases of those who experienced symptoms in 96 countries. Many of those cases, officials said, have been linked to other potential explanations aside from a foreign campaign such as medical illnesses, malfunctioning air conditioning and ventilation systems, or electromagnetic waves coming from benign devices like a computer mouse, the AP report said. Officials said that some people may have come forward to report symptoms based on what they had heard about other cases or the exhaustive media reports about Havana syndrome.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, said in a statement that the findings reflected more than two years of “rigorous, painstaking collection, investigative work, and analysis” by the C.I.A. and other U.S. intelligence agencies.

“I and my leadership team stand firmly behind the work conducted and the findings,” Mr. Burns said,as was reported by the NYT. “I want to be absolutely clear: These findings do not call into question the experiences and real health issues that U.S. government personnel and their family members — including C.I.A.’s own officers — have reported while serving our country.”

Despite the fact that the agencies conducting these investigations have insisted that none of the cases of Havana syndrome were inextricably linked to an adversarial nation or nations, many others are of the belief that a cover-up of sorts is taking place and that it remains a mystery as to why the intelligence agencies cannot located the culprit or culprits involved in creating this dangerous syndrome and the deleterious effects that it has taken.

Officials briefing reporters declined to say how the latest assessment, first reported by The Washington Post, may affect payments under the HAVANA Act, the AP reported. The State Department has compensated affected employees with one-time payments from $100,000 to $200,000.

Officials briefing reporters declined to say how the latest assessment, first reported by The Washington Post, may affect payments under the HAVANA Act, the AP reported. The State Department has compensated affected employees with one-time payments from $100,000 to $200,000.

The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee insisted that “there should be no change” to compensation while they review the assessment, according to the AP report.

In their statement, Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and Jim Himes, D-Conn said, “We will seek to ensure the review was conducted with the highest degree of analytical rigor and that it considered all the available intelligence and perspectives, documenting all substantial differences in analysis.”