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Tillerson to order new probe of Havana embassy health ‘attacks’

Published January 9, 2018 Updated January 9, 2018 07:40pm

Tillerson has decided to convene an Accountability Review Board, a special panel that evaluates cases in which US diplomatic personnel or facilities have been damaged abroad, Francisco Palmieri, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, told a Senate hearing.

The new probe will be in addition to other US government investigations already under way, including one by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Cuban government has denied any role in the incidents, which Washington says injured 24 diplomats and family members, and is conducting its own investigation.

 

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