No progress as US, Cuba meet on mysterious ‘health attacks’
WASHINGTON — Cuba said Thursday the United States is continuing to withhold important information that could help in the investigation into mysterious incidents that have injured some two dozen Havana-based American diplomats, including some with brain damage, since late 2016.
After meeting with U.S. officials at the State Department, members of a team Cuba assembled to look into the incidents said their requests for patient records and other information had again been rebuffed and rejected anew after Washington’s assertions that the injuries were caused by targeted attacks.
“The Cuban side is completely unable to support the hypothesis of health attacks and brain damage as reported by the State Department,” said Dr. Mitchell Valdes Sosa, chief of the group of Cuban scientists and physicians. “Nothing was presented that could add up to sustain such a thing.”
The Cuban delegation renewed calls for the State Department to release to it specific medical records and other data about the victims in order for it to be studied.