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Logic tell me that "it would have to be someone with the resources to carry out such attacks across the world" 99% point to USA?

Not trying to disclaim you, but this part of reasoning seems rather weird. Even China has more global influence than Russia? Or even UK, France, German.

If you think this attack by "enemy", why not just kill someone? I mean, given the length of what's happening, it must be that there is no way to obtain concrete evidences.

Russia would know for sure that US would accuse Russia anyway, even without any concrete evidences; which has been the behavior pattern of US for quite a long time.

Turns out that, if we follow logic, then we can fairly sure that this is indeed a unsolved case. And more investigation is needed. And that's what CIA chief is doing, and I think CIA chief is doing something right.




Russia and China easily have the resources to carry out clandestine ops around the world. Given that this seems to do with signals / electronics, it may not require particularly large teams or equipment.

I think many more countries could do this around the world... I'm not sure about Cuba, but maybe even yes.


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> Don’t be daft, you’re sitting there lapping up the propaganda without thinking about it.

This isn't only harsh, it's also wrong. There was no special press conference to announce it. The news is reported by the media. CIA on the news! Big deal.

As for why now, who knows, but if it's something that occurs occasionally without explanation, five years and counting, in the American soil even, then any intelligent agency worth their salt would put resource to solve the mystery.

Perhaps it's you who leap to conclusion without thinking?


Oh come on, just a random interview. Right. Yep, I’m sure that happens all the time.

…oh wait, no, it doesn’t.

I’ll say it again: it is naive to assume that this is not orchestrated by a press division. Any vague hand waving to the contrary simply doesn’t acknowledge the reality of how media content is produced.

> As for why now, who knows…

Believe what you want to believe I guess.

Maybe you’re right, maybe they just wanted to let us know their doing their jobs now, because they’re feeling nice, or like, it happened to come up in the interview.

…but, in my view, people can, do and and will continue do their jobs without making media content for it.

When media content like this appears, it is orchestrated.


You hit the nail on the head. This is old news; they've been investigating this for years.

They chose now of all times, with the protests going on in Cuba and U.S. officials openly calling for U.S. intervention, to release another presser about a years-old story which gins up negative sentiment against Cuba.


"In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, Burns also discussed the CIA's future in Afghanistan and the theory that the coronavirus outbreak was caused by a leak from a Chinese state-run laboratory in Wuhan."

This was not a random press conference organized just to loud speak the words "Havana syndrome". It's almost like you didn't even read the linked article.


It being an interview doesn't really change things, Burns still likely had some input on when it would happen and what would be discussed.




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