Story highlights Cuban state-run TV documentary releases documents on "acoustic attacks"

Cuban officials in the documentary deny targeting diplomats

Havana, Cuba (CNN) The Cuban government apparently named for the first time some of the US diplomats who suffered health problems as a result of a series of mysterious incidents in Havana that US officials have described as attacks on their personnel.

The names of nine people identified as US diplomats were shown briefly on Cuban state-run TV Thursday night during a half -hour program on the incidents that have caused US-Cuban relations to sink to their lowest point in years.

Cuban officials in the TV program "Presumed Acoustic Attacks" vehemently denied targeting the diplomats and said no evidence exists to suggest they actually took place.

In the April 2017 letter shown on TV, officials from the Cuban Interior Ministry-- the agency investigating the alleged attacks-- requested information from a government hospital in Havana that treats foreigners on whether any of the nine US diplomats named in the letter had received care there.

The letter --one of several documents shown on the program-- asks hospital officials if the diplomats were ever treated for "hearing and neurological ailments, which could be linked to harm to their auditory system from being exposed to levels of sound affecting their health."

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