Pentagon Withholds Cold War Medical Data (WMD use on our troops)

[NNN0LHI]

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHEMICAL_TESTS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

<snip>The secretive tests involved 5,842 soldiers and sailors - many of whom were unwitting guinea pigs. The experiments were designed to determine the effectiveness of biological and chemical agents in combat and methods to protect troops from attacks. An untold number of civilians also may have been exposed during some of the tests on the troops.

In most cases, supposedly harmless simulants were used to mimic anthrax, E. coli or other agents, although in a number of cases potentially deadly nerve agents were used, including sarin and VX.

Numerous veterans say they are now suffering from illnesses because of exposure, but the Veterans Affairs Administration has denied requests for health care coverage.

After a three-year investigation that Pentagon officials characterized as "exhaustive," the Defense Department released an overview of the tests and a series of fact sheets last June and then disbanded the probe.

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[leetrisck]

1. I am very,very angry about

this. I have a family member laying in a hospital now (20 yr Navy veteran)and his illnesses very likely came from this garbage.

[frisbeez]

2. Its almost (NOT) unbelievable, the amount of denial over the association

of these chemical agesnts and thier medical usage. I have patients that have very real symptoms...but can't get ackowledgement from the VA. In fact literature on the asssociations are not that easy to locate with the realm of medical literature. I had to be directed to a wealth of material by a friend via the internet...by googling agent orange/cover up.!!!

[newyawker99]

5. Hi frisbeez!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[PaDUer]

7. Am in the

same boat as you..And it takes forever to get a response from the VA...then they tell you they didn't receive what you sent!! I drove to Phila and hand delivered it to them again and had it stamped! Thus far, it's 2yrs and hasn't been resolved as yet!

[Bluerthanblue]

3. i guess

'they' could claim that WE GASSED OUR OWN PEOPLE-

i shouldn't be surprised at this news, but i surely am disturbed by it.

[leetrisck]

4. To put it very bluntly,

that's exactly what happened.

[RedSock]

6. another good link

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/uswarcrimes/other/usbioandchemonownpeople.html

[bobthedrummer]

8. If the tests were in the 1950's there's a good chance they were

run by recruited Nazis-they did a lot with radiation and drugs in national security.
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/paperclip.html

http://www.goordnance.apg.army.mil/OPpaperclip.htm

http://www.infoage.org/paperclip.html