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> The Russian security services were also known to flood the U.S. embassy in Moscow with electromagnetic radiation. They would beam concentrated microwaves and
by huhtenberg 9y ago
> The Russian security services were also known to flood the U.S. embassy in Moscow with electromagnetic radiation. They would beam concentrated microwaves and electronic pulses at the Embassy in an attempt to eavesdrop on U.S. typewriters and conversations. In the 1970s, a U.S. Ambassador contracted and died of a blood disease that many assumed to be a result of the attacks.
This goes both ways.
From what I remember there was _exactly_ the same case reported of the US security services blasting Soviet embassy in Washington with EM radiation, which led to several cases of blood cancer in personnel, all of which were ultimately lethal.
- xattt 9y agoBut microwaves are non-ionizing and do not cause damage to the DNA to cause a cancer to develop.
- huhtenberg 9y agoNo idea, mate. I read this more than 20 years ago, so the "EM" part might be off, but the article revolved around the fact that there was an abnormally high number of former Washington embassy employees from certain time period that died of blood cancer. The cause was stated to be some kind of external irradiation.
- 13years 9y agoCertainly there could be other pathways to cancer. We know there are lots of things that contribute to cancer other than ionizing radiation. For example, improperly functioning immune system can lead to cancer. It could be there is a pathway using EM not well understood.