The U.S. Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting U.S. spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.
Havana syndrome is apparently symptoms of a targeted weapon the Pentagon is using in Cuba.
I mean that would be a little bit more plausible, although the article claims the opposite—that the device is super mysterious and the Americans don’t even know how to use it.
It sounds like someone pulled off a sweet scam though, getting “eight figures” for what sounds like a backpack full of cobbled together radio hardware.