Sound heard during ‘sonic’ attacks that injured U.S. diplomats in Cuba recognized by former Cuban political prisoner By Alberto de la Cruz - Babalú Bog October 14, 2017
The “sonic attacks” on U.S. diplomats in Cuba story is nothing more than a science-fiction fantasy, they say. A tall tale worthy of a Star Wars plot, the Cuban dictatorship says. The diplomats are just suffering from mass hysteria, some doctors say. No such “sonic” weapons exist, the experts say.
Well, apparently they do and the Castro dictatorship has been using them for quite a while.
Frances Martel reports in Breitbart:
Former Political Prisoner: Sound Reported in Cuba Sonic Attacks Similar to Prison Torture
Following the publication of a sound the Associated Press (AP) asserts was potentially used to torture and maim American diplomats in Cuba, a former political prisoner tells Breitbart News that sound resembled what was used to torture him in a Cuban prison decades ago.
In July – before the U.S. State Department confirmed that 22 American diplomats and relatives suffered unexplained health “attacks” on the island – former Cuban political prisoner and lifetime anti-communist activist Luis Zúñiga testified before a committee organized by the group JusticeCuba that he had been subjected to a form of acoustic torture in two prisons during his 19 years behind bars in the communist regime.
His testimony resurfaced in Cuban exile media a month later due to the similarities between what he told the group he experienced and what various media organizations, from the AP to CBS News to McClatchy, claimed American diplomats were subjected to on the island.
Zúñiga noted that, while the technology available today is likely far more sophisticated than what he suffered under in 1977, a sound published by the AP on Thursday resembled what Cuban prison guards broadcast into his cell as a method of torture.
“What they were applying to us was rudimentary, techniques from the ’60s and ’70s,” he told Breitbart News, adding that one of the officials at the prison would boast that it was authentic KGB Soviet technology. Zuñiga says that guards placed “loudspeakers on both extremes of the cell hallway. The cells didn’t have windows. They would put on a sound like – have you heard a short-wave radio when it is set in between two stations? Peaks and troughs.”
“It would emit very high high-pitched sounds and very sharp low sounds, so it penetrates your ear, your timpanum, and it creates a state of desperation in the person,” he added. The sound the Associated Press published, he noted, was “similar.” “The vibration of the wave is similar … it is similar in that respect,” he noted.
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