The United States has decided maintain a reduced staff at its embassy in Havana, the Department of State announced Friday.
“The embassy will continue to operate with the minimum personnel necessary to perform core diplomatic and consular functions, similar to the level of emergency staffing maintained during ordered departure,” the State Department said in a statement. “The embassy will operate as an unaccompanied post, defined as a post at which no family members are permitted to reside.”
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson decided to reduce the diplomatic presence in Havana at the end of September due to the inexplicable symptoms suffered by at least 24 intelligence officers, diplomats and their relatives, who reported falling ill after hearing strange sounds and feeling vibrations. The State Department considers the incidents, which took place between November 2016 and August 2017, as “health attacks” against U.S. personnel.
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