In testimony published Thursday, Luís Zúñiga – a Cuban dissident who spent 19 years in political prison – detailed his experience seeing the use of “acoustic attacks” on political prisoners to damage their brains and ultimately kill them. His testimony described a tool that resembled theories of how some U.S. diplomats may have been severely injured by sonic devices in Havana.
In a briefing Thursday, the U.S. State Department confirmed that at least 16 U.S. diplomats suffered a variety of physical symptoms doctors believe were prompted by a sophisticated “sonic” device. Multiple news outlets have reported that the symptoms vary from headaches and vomiting to more severe issues like permanent hearing loss and brain damage.
Zúñiga testified to watching Cuban state police kill a man with sonic torture. The Miami-based Cuban Democratic Directorate issued a statement regarding his testimony arguing that acoustic attacks were “not alien to the Castro agenda.” They cited Zúñiga’s testimony, delivered on July 15 to Justice Cuba, as proof that others had witnessed such incidents on the island.
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