The U.S. Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting U.S. spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.
I mean that would be a little bit more plausible, although the article claims the opposite—that the device is super mysterious and the Americans don’t even know how to use it.
It sounds like someone pulled off a sweet scam though, getting “eight figures” for what sounds like a backpack full of cobbled together radio hardware.
Reminds me of an old book/movie, Our Man in Havana.
This vacume cleaner salesman somehow has the schematics for his vacume found by the cia when he’s in havana and the cia thinks it’s some weapon schematics and they get all deep into this espianage with him, he’s clueless. From what I recall I only was part of it once.