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Re:U.S. Diplomats Suffer Hearing Loss After Serving in Cuba by dang on Friday September 08, 2017 @10:16AM (#15200294)
Re:U.S. Diplomats Suffer Hearing Loss After Serving in Cuba by adventured on Friday September 08, 2017 @10:12AM (#15200265)
Worth noting that at least one Canadian diplomat was also among the injured (worth noting because Canada has much better relations with Cuba than the US does).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/11/sonic-attack-c...

Re:U.S. Diplomats Suffer Hearing Loss After Serving in Cuba by eponeponepon on Friday September 08, 2017 @10:20AM (#15200316)
This is such a bizarre story, and I'd love to know the truth behind it - naturally, even if a full and frank report appeared, it'd still be highly questionable just because of its association with intelligence work.

I do recall reading, though, that one remedy against eavesdropping by laser monitoring of vibrations in windowpanes is to deliberately induce white-noise vibrations in them yourself. That seems like the kind of thing that could cause inaudible but damaging infrasound standing waves inside your own building, so I wonder: is it possible that this was an accidental self-inflicted injury?

All of this, of course, assumes that any of it even happened - and who can say with spies involved?

Re:U.S. Diplomats Suffer Hearing Loss After Serving in Cuba by drpgq on Friday September 08, 2017 @10:14AM (#15200283)
Supposedly this happened to Canadian diplomats as well.