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Other types of sonic assault. russia is considered the main communication base. i m joined by nbc s ken delaney. russia was always a leading suspect because russia operates in force on the island of cuba as does china. the cubans were suspect as well, but now it looks like there s some evidence pointing to russia including these communications, interce intercept, and the u.s. has determined that some type of microwave weapon may have been used in a way that made people think they were hearing sounds. that s why initially this was described as a sonic event but there s science that shows that micro waves that can mimic sounds that can cause brain damage. they suffered serious brain damage. the u.s. is not ready to name and shame russia, but they re moving towards that point. russia s not messing around. what are the potential counter measures? well, a lot of people think the u.s. has their own ....
They sent signals that they will not be absent not only from cuba, but venezuela and the region. this is coming at a time when russia is much more aggressive and acting without impunity around the world. you have the nerve agent acts in london and the cyber attacks on our election systems in eastern europe, and the provocative military exercises happening now, and the largest in recent modern memory, and eastern russia, and so, this is another demonstration. if it proves to be right, and if josh s reporting is correct that the russians have taken another step to use asymmetric attacks to effect u.s. interests whether it is sonic weapons, and electromagnetic weapons or microwave weapon, you have the u.s. having to confront another vector of attack from the russians. and another thing that is coming out of the new reporting is that this is not an accident or a microwave listeninging device gone bad, but it is an attack the against american ....
Really, there was only three suspects. russia, china and the cubans. the russian and chinese intelligence services operate in force in cuba. it s still believed it s possible some element of the cuban intelligence services cooperated with this. the other interesting thing we re reporting here is one of the technologies used to injure these american spies and diplomats was some kind of microwave weapon that is so sophistica sophisticated, the americans don t fully understand it. they ve been testing some kinds of aspects kind of reverse engineering? absolutely. you know, the military has been the u.s. military has worked on microwave technology. apparently the russians have as well. it can make people think they re hearing sounds. that s why initially this was thought to be a sonic attack of some sort. what do we know about the people? were individuals targeted? was it just a group that was targeted? do we have any idea about a motive? why these people and then? again, these ....
What technologies were used here, they think they understand more about that. a sophisticated microwave technology was used. russia has always been a likely suspect. russia, china, cuba. and now they re moving closer to saying it was russia, they re not ready to definitively pronounce that russia did did. that s why some of these calls for sanctions may be a little premature. go we have? and is it the same group of people that are investigating what it is? it s a sonic attack of some sort? it s not a sonic attack. the victims thought they heard sounds. that s why initially it was described that way. what our sources are saying, they believe microwaves were part of they can be deployed a certain way. they can make people think they re hearing sounds. and this is a really sophisticated microwave weapon that the russians may have deployed. the military has done research on some of this technology as well. now they think the russians have used it against our diplomats. ....
China. all kinds of speculation, focused on some sort of sonic attack. now, scientists who led the investigation tell the new york times they believe the main culprit, likely to be some kinds of microwave weapon. patrick oppman is following the developments for us in havana. patrick, microwave weapon? can you explain that? reporter: yes. well, you know, there are weapons that do exist unconventional weapons that use radiation, microwaves. and they concentrate them and they can used for crowd control, to anti-mitchell defense to psychological warfare. the question is is whether or not they were used in cuba or china. the jury is still out on that. initially when the story broke out almost last year, the first incident was reported almost two years ago. initially u.s. officials once they sore of but together the beginning falling six here in ....