(DC Pundit) – A CIA whistleblower has come forward with a bone-chilling warning: Americans should be ‘terrified’ of the government’s alleged gaslighting of former intelligence employees who believe they’ve been struck down by the mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome’.
Speaking under the pseudonym Alice, this medically-retired officer spilled the beans to investigative journalist Catherine Herridge. With two decades of government service under her belt, Alice claims she began experiencing ‘Havana Syndrome’ – or as the bureaucrats like to call it, Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs). Because nothing says “we’re taking this seriously” like slapping a vague, clinical-sounding label on a potentially life-altering condition.
For those living under a rock (or perhaps just trying to avoid the constant barrage of political news), Havana Syndrome is a disputed medical condition that’s been plaguing U.S. and Canadian government officials in about a dozen overseas locations since 2016. Symptoms include dizziness, cognitive problems, insomnia, and headaches – which, coincidentally, are also the side effects of listening to most political speeches.
Alice’s story is nothing short of a spy thriller gone wrong. Picture this: she’s serving in Africa, enjoying a quiet Saturday night at home, when suddenly – cue the dramatic music – she hears a weird noise. “It was a really weird sound that I’ll never, never forget,” Alice recounted, probably wishing she could. “After about a second or two, I felt it in my feet, kind of like the reverb from a speaker.”
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Alice’s partner couldn’t hear the mysterious sound. But as soon as she re-entered the room, bam! The noise returned with a vengeance, bringing with it a host of alarming symptoms. “My ear started hurting. I started having vertigo,” Alice remarked.
Here’s where the plot thickens: Alice believes that several different, concealed weapons could be behind these strange symptoms. And who does she think is pulling the strings? None other than our favorite geopolitical boogeyman, Russia. “I believe the Russian GRU came to my house late at night and took me off the battlefield,” Alice stated, in what might be the understatement of the century.
Now, you might be thinking, “Surely the CIA, with all its resources and fancy gadgets, would be bending over backwards to help its own?” Well, hold onto your tin foil hats, folks, because according to Alice, the CIA has been gaslighting her and other AHI survivors, making them “question our own injuries”. It’s like a spy agency version of “It’s not you, it’s me” – except in this case, it’s definitely them.
“We swore this oath and every day I watch them really continue to deny people’s humanity and their injuries,” Alice lamented, probably wondering if she should have gone into a less stressful career, like defusing bombs or wrangling alligators.
Alice stated, “If they’re politicizing this, what else are they not telling the president?”
The Labor Department does list Alice’s Traumatic Brain Injury as a ‘work injury’. But the compensation she’s received through the Havana Act is about as useful as a chocolate teapot when it comes to covering her medical expenses.
“It is a full-time job to try to get medical treatment and is another full-time job to try to handle the bureaucracy of trying to access benefits,” Alice explained, probably wishing she could trade in her CIA badge for a degree in bureaucracy-wrangling.
As the saga continues, with investigations yielding more questions than answers, one thing is clear: the truth behind Havana Syndrome is proving harder to pin down than a greased pig at a county fair. But for Alice and her fellow survivors, the fight for recognition and proper care continues, with the hope that someday, the fog of mystery surrounding this condition will lift.
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