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Now even if our own government won't. canadian media reported today that one of canada's diplomats in cuba fell ill as well and has been treated for headaches and hearing loss, raising the possibility that if the american diplomats were targeted in this strange way, they weren't the only targets. then there's new reporting from the a.p. now. the a.p. is now reporting tonight that investigators looking into this aren't convinced that it was the cuban government who carried out the supposed sonic attack. quote, officials familiar with the probe said investigators are looking into the possibiliti...

Without making a sound that the human ear can pick up. scary stuff if you want to keep yourself up all night. if some other country is using weapons like that to target american diplomats, if russia is targeting american citizens with some kind of sonic ray in cuba, that's very strange, something we're going to need to know more about. even with these new details, we don't know what caused it, who was behind it, or how serious it was, the only thing we know is that the state department doesn't want to talk about it. >> anything -- are we done with cuba? okay. we're done with this now. i'm -- i...

Those two individuals have departed the united states. we take the situation very seriously. >> okay. so patrick, those are some very vague comments from the state department. can you help us make sense of what went down, what's going on here. >> absolutely. and this is very mysterious. sounds like something straight out of a spy novel. when they talk about acoustic attacks, these are frequencies these diplomats we're told were being bum barded with. the human ear cannot hear these frequencies but they had a physical impactn on the diplomats working in havana. one had permanent hearing loss an...

Interestingly i think has for the most part been superceded by what the russian kz do via internet. they don't have to use these arcane and older technologies. but the cuban kz do it. >> so the colonelilaten, has the u.s. ever used a acoustic attack on any other country? >> not to my knowledge, don. and we've done testing in the acoustic area bt we have never used them on specific targets. either specific individuals or entities in a hostile environment. so there are no records that indicate that anything like that has happened. >> why does it make people so ill? >> part of it is because the w...

>> not to my knowledge, don. and we've done testing in the acoustic area bt we have never used them on specific targets. either specific individuals or entities in a hostile environment. so there are no records that indicate that anything like that has happened. >> why does it make people so ill? >> part of it is because the way in which the human ear, for example, operates. it operates within a certain frequency range. what happens if you go beyond that frequency range, it can actually affect things like balance. it can also affect the areas in which fluid is retained in the body. what that d...