News

Taiwan Spy Agency Denies Electromagnetic Attack on Lin
By wchung | 08 Jun, 2026

Taiwan’s intelligence agency flatly denied that it had launched an electromagnetic wave attack on the running mate of opposition presidential candidate James Soong. Lin Ruey-shiung had alleged two days ago that he had been subjected to a 3-day “electromagnetic wave” attack from outside his home beginning September 20.

“The National Security Bureau has not owned the alleged technologies, nor have we used equipment to harass the alleged targeted person,” the bureau said in a statement.

Lin had claimed that a “local intelligence unit” belonging to the National Security Bureau had launched an electromagnetic wave attack on his house that lasted three days. He explained that a victim of an electromagnetic wave attack experiences a “spirit of excitement” that disrupts sleep.

“If I hadn’t quickly moved out, I would have lost my mind,” Lin told reporters.

Lin is a retired epidemiologist who had specialized in the link between brain tumors and electromagnetic waves. He was chosen by independent candidate Soong in an effort at winning support from Taiwan’s wealthy and influential medical professions. Soong is given a low probability of winning the January 14 election himself, but could siphon off enough votes from Kuomingtang incumbent Ma Ying-jeou to lose to DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen.

One of the most famous instances of electromagnetic attacks was documented by the large staff of the US Embassy in Moscow during the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. Russian intelligence units directed intense radio waves in the microwave frequencies at the offices of the US Ambassador, ostensibly to jam listening devices US spies were operating from the structure.

The sustained exposure to the intense electromagnetic waves reportedly caused various physical ailments, including an unusually high incidence of cancer among former staffers and bleeding of the eyes of the US ambassador. The embassy eventually placed metal screens on all windows to block out the microwave beams.