Multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that while the Pentagon and other agencies probing the matter have reached no clear conclusions on what happened, the fact that such an attack might have taken place so close to the White House is particularly alarming.
Defense officials briefed lawmakers on the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on the matter earlier this month, including on the incident near the White House. That incident, which occurred near the Ellipse, the large oval lawn on the south side of the White House, sickened one National Security Council official, according to multiple current and former US officials and sources familiar with the matter.
In a separate 2019 episode, a White House official reported a similar attack while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb just outside Washington, GQ reported last year.
Those sickened reported similar symptoms to CIA and State Department personnel impacted overseas, and officials quickly began to investigate the incident as a possible "Havana syndrome" attack. That name refers to unexplained symptoms that US personnel in Cuba began experiencing in late 2016 -- a varying set of complaints that includes ear popping, vertigo, pounding headaches and nausea, sometimes accompanied by an unidentified "piercing directional noise."
Rumors have long swirled around Washington about similar incidents within the United States. While the recent episodes around Washington appear similar to the previous apparent attacks affecting diplomats, CIA officers and other US personnel serving in Cuba, Russia and China, investigators have not determined whether the puzzling incidents at home are connected to those that have occurred abroad or who may be behind them, sources tell CNN.
Defense officials who briefed lawmakers said it was possible Russia was behind the attacks, but they did not have enough information to say for sure. Another former US official involved in the investigation at the time said China was also among the suspects.
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Ладно НЛО под управлением Путина (ржавые ракеты, гыгык! а что они могут повторить гыгык! мультики гыгык! ааааа.... смотрите какие у них фундерфали!!!), тут всплыла тема направленно энергетического невидимого оружия, которую опять вешают на русских. Ну или на китайцев. Началось в Гаване, когда там от чего-то резко плохело американским дипломатам, потом подобное случилось в Китае, а теперь вот два случая в Вашингтоне, один - непосредственно перед Белым Домом. Людям внезапно на пустом месте становится плохо, причину никто найти и понять не может, значит..... виноваты русские! А я вот бы, следуя традициям, поискал бы виновных среди МУТАНТОВ. Ведь такая идея уже проскакивала у Марвел в Людях Х! А то русские какие-то. Чего они могут? Бензоколонка же, Лаптестан. Впрочем..... у русских были свои мутанты, выращенные в суперсеркретных sharashkas. ВотЪ!