“Havana Syndrome,” Mind Control & Ufology: THEIR DARK MATERIALS?

There’s been some passing discussion in this forum about whether the so-called “Havana Syndrome” that affected U.S. personnel in Cuba – but also others in different parts of the world in recent time – could be related to mind control operations gone rogue (or not). Those nefarious techniques unfortunately also bleed into Ufology, especially as they pertain to hoaxed “abductions.” That’s the dark material of Chapter 3 of THE SPACE PEN CLUB book, “Psychotronic Nightmares & The Alien Abduction Blues?” It’s a difficult chapter to read, perhaps the hardest one in the entire book since civil societies don’t engage in these behavior modification/manipulations. Do they?

Scrambling your brains to create false and frightening Close Encounters of the 4th or 5th Kind happens only in John Le Carré wanna-be spy novels, the creepy, slick Jason Bourne film franchise, or whacked paranormal TV series where there’s a conspiracy lurking in every episode (and maybe in the commercials too!).  And yet, the Martin Canon document quoted extensively in Chapter 3 makes a convincing, if chilling, claim that these weapons exist – and have existed since “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” was a TV hit in the ‘60s – or earlier (for those not in the Boomer demo, it was about CIA spooks, er agents….) Canon wrote that such mind gamer programming probably was part of the MK-ULTRA regimen that the Church Committee in 1975 explored (but not far enough), identifying covert intelligence abuses by federal agencies, including the CIA. These intel agencies engaged in any number of mind makeover applications and or “experiments” using LSD, electroshock and other methods for any number of agendas.

A CIA Man Who is Also an Experiencer?!

However, as retired career CIA officer John Ramirez recently told the Project Unity YouTube program, MK-ULTRA no longer exists. But it could still be operational under a new name. The interview with Ramirez is fascinating, esp. for diehards keen to hear what “the Agency,” as it’s known officially inside the Beltway, and other intel desks like NSA really do in terms of monitoring and managing the UFO issue. My former colleague at CSETI in the ‘90s, Dr. Joe Burkes, calls Ramirez "The CIA analyst that came in from the cold.”

Indeed, Ramirez has outed himself, and his credentials are impressive, as this summary of the program states: “He is a retired GS-15 rank CIA Officer who served within ‘The Agency’ from 1984 - 2009, serving within the Directorate of Science & Technology, the Directorate of Intelligence and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In this exclusive interview Mr. Ramirez will be presenting, for the first time publicly, his own presentation on UAP data collection within the United States Intelligence Community, a presentation that aims to, amongst other things, advise members of the UFO Community as to the best approaches for accurate Freedom of Information Act or (FOIA) requests in order to obtain actionable intelligence on UAP data from various keystone U.S Intelligence agencies.”

But guess what? In a subsequent interview, Agent Ramirez also admits to being “an experiencer,” a term I’m not fond of, but it’s the style everyone’s wearing these day by all those who also insist on calling UFO’s “UAPs,” lest we confuse these objects for well, unidentified flying objects. It’s crazy. I know.

But back to what we understand – or are slowly learning – about “Havana Syndrome” (when in doubt about what to call something seemingly political and inexplicable, make sure to pin it on a longtime adversary like Cuba – where several Americans experienced it).

Here’s a summary from a recent feature story from that bastion of Spy vs. Spy machinations, The Wall Street Journal (Feb. 4) called “Havana Syndrome: What We Know.”

“Initially, investigators believed the syndrome was the result of an attack by a sonic or acoustic weapon. A later review from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identified pulsed radio-frequency energy as the most likely culprit. An examination by the University of Pennsylvania of the brains of 40 people affected by the syndrome found some evidence of brain abnormalities. This led to public speculation that Russia or another foreign power might be deploying a weapon or using radio-frequency surveillance technology against intelligence officers and diplomats all over the world.

“A comprehensive review by the CIA, whose findings were made public in January, concluded that it was unlikely that any foreign power was behind the bulk of the attacks, though the agency said it was evaluating a small number of cases to determine whether a foreign actor was behind them. The CIA assessed that medical conditions, stress or other factors were the case of most cases.

“A subsequent report, however, released in early February by a group convened last year by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Mr. Burns of the CIA, struck a different note, finding that some incidents of Havana Syndrome are most likely caused by directed energy or acoustic devices and can’t be explained by other factors [italics are mine]. The signs and symptoms of suspected Havana Syndrome are “genuine and compelling,” the report’s executive summary states, suggesting that in some cases, someone is deliberately harming U.S. personnel overseas.”

 I’m going to leave this right here. For now.

David McCallum as Agent Illya Nikolayevich Kuryakin in “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”