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A senior Canadian diplomat says he was posted to Cuba by Global Affairs Canada in 2018 without being told he already had signs of brain damage consistent with Havana syndrome after earlier short-term deployments there.
The damage to the veteran diplomat’s brain showed up during baseline testing at Dalhousie University’s Brain Repair Centre between the earlier deployments and the 2018 posting. Such testing is now done routinely on Canadian diplomatic staff before they are posted to Cuba. But no one told the Ottawa-area diplomat what had been found until months later when he was working at the Canadian Embassy in Havana and his symptoms became more severe.
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