O<\/span>n Thursday it emerged that the \u201cattack\u201d \u2013 which Cuba denies \u2013 was in one case a blaring, grinding noise which jolted an American diplomat from his bed in The Capri, a Havana hotel popular with tourists.<\/p>\n The diplomat, according to AP, moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed \u2013 and then the agonising sound hit him again.<\/p>\n “None of this has a reasonable explanation,” said Fulton Armstrong, a former CIA official who served in Havana long before America re-opened an embassy there.<\/p>\n “It’s just mystery after mystery after mystery.”<\/p>\n The Cuban authorities earlier this month allowed teams from the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate, but they are yet to find any evidence. That the authorities in Havana have allowed the FBI in suggests that they are either innocent, or strongly want to show that they are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n T<\/span>wo Cuban diplomats were expelled in May,<\/a>\u00a0but the US has stopped short of blaming Havana.<\/p>\n “Had they thought the Cuban government was deliberately attacking American diplomats, that would have had a much more negative effect,” said Mark Feierstein, who oversaw Barack Obama\u2019s defrosting of Cold War-era relations while he sat on the national security council.<\/p>\n “We haven’t seen that yet.”<\/p>\n S<\/span>uspicion initially focused on a sonic weapon, and on the Cubans. Several of the diplomats have been forced to leave Cuba and return to the US for treatment.<\/p>\n Yet the diagnosis of mild brain injury, considered unlikely to result from sound, has confounded the FBI, the state department and US intelligence agencies involved in the investigation.<\/p>\n Some victims now have problems concentrating or recalling specific words, several officials told AP.<\/p>\n Investigators have tested several theories about an intentional attack – by Cuba’s government, a rogue faction of its security forces, a third country like Russia.<\/p>\n That Canadians were caught up has muddied the waters; Canada has a good relationship with Cuba.<\/a><\/p>\n Some experts suspect an eavesdropping device went awry.<\/p>\n Some felt vibrations, and heard sounds – loud ringing or a high-pitch chirping similar to crickets or cicadas.\u00a0 Others heard the grinding noise.\u00a0 Some victims awoke with ringing in their ears and fumbled for their alarm clocks, only to discover the ringing stopped when they moved away from their beds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n C<\/span>uba’s government has promised full cooperation, saying it was treating the situation “with utmost importance.”<\/p>\n “Cuba has never, nor would it ever, allow that the Cuban territory be used for any action against accredited diplomatic agents or their families, without exception,” the Cuban statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk Startling new details have emerged in\u00a0the Cuban \u201csonic harassment attacks\u201d, with reports suggesting that diplomats were targeted in specific rooms or even a part of a specific room. 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