4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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In the first installment of the series, Isikoff and his producer Mark Seman travel to Cuba where they interview Johana Ruth Tablada de la Torre, the deputy director for U.S. affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry about how the reports of Havana Syndrome were viewed by the country's leadership. The episode also features interviews with a leading Cuban human rights activist, Brian Nichols, the assistant U.S. secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs and Ben Rhodes, the ex-Obama aide who negotiated the reopening to Cuba in 2014 only to watch all his efforts undercut by the events that began with Havana Syndrome.
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0:00.0 | Hi folks, Michael Isikov here. |
0:02.1 | As we mentioned on the pod the other day, |
0:03.9 | we're making available a special bonus |
0:06.0 | for skull-duggery listeners. |
0:07.8 | All three episodes are the most recent series |
0:10.2 | of my conspiracy land podcast, |
0:12.6 | The Strange Story of a Vannis Syndrome. |
0:15.4 | It's a pretty surprising account of a phenomenon |
0:17.7 | that has confounded US intelligence |
0:19.8 | and diplomatic officials for years now, |
0:22.4 | a medical mystery that has been used |
0:24.5 | or arguably misused for political purposes. |
0:28.0 | I'm pretty psyched about it, |
0:29.1 | and if you get into it, feel free to subscribe |
0:31.2 | to conspiracy land and get three additional bonus episodes. |
0:35.2 | I hope you enjoy the listen. |
0:41.8 | August 14th, 2015. |
0:48.1 | American flag is raised over the US Embassy in Atlanta, Cuba, |
0:51.4 | reopened after more than half a century |
0:53.5 | in a ceremony led by Vann's Secretary of State, John Kerry. |
0:59.4 | It's morning, I feel very much at home here, |
1:02.1 | and I feel at home here because this is truly |
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