Havana, 21 Jan (Xinhua) -- In an interview with a Xinhua reporter in Havana on 21 January, Mitchell Valdés-Sousa, director of the Cuban Center for Neuroscience Research, said that the US Central Intelligence Agency's investigation report on "Havana syndrome" has not helped to improve US-Cuban relations, and everything that has happened around the so-called "Havana syndrome" is "very absurd."
According to US media reports on the 20th, an investigation report released by the CIA believes that most of the so-called "Havana syndrome" cases that appear in the personnel of US embassies and consulates abroad may be caused by environmental factors, unidentified health problems and stress, rather than hostile countries using "secret weapons" on a large scale against US diplomats.
Asked whether the CIA's report's conclusions would help improve U.S.-Cuba relations, Valdés-Sousa made it clear that it would not. Because the report still holds, he said, the possibility that a small number of cases were "attacked" could not be ruled out.
Since 2016, many U.S. agencies abroad have reported symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, and tinnitus, most of whom are based in Havana, the capital of Cuba. Former U.S. President Donald Trump's administration believes that this is the result of Cuba's use of some kind of "secret weapon" and calls the symptoms "Havana syndrome.". (End)