Re: [microsound] US use of bio-chemical weapons

["Ian Gallimore" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 <r3dshift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> hi Ian,
>
> do you have any credible sources to back up your claims below?
>
> thanks,
>
> -Joe
>
>

are these 'credible' enough?

> > For those who a blissfully unaware of US use of chemical and biological
> > agents, both abroad and at home, here's a summary.
> >
> > Bahamas - late 1040-mid 1950s
> > Joint US-Canadian-UK operation sprayed bacteria on the islands killing
> > thousands of animals. Human casualties unknown. Details of tests still
> > classified.

Leonard A. Cole, 'Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over
Populated Areas', Maryland, 1990, p.18

> > Canada - 1953
> > Zinc cadmium sulfide disseminated through Winnipeg.

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue48/articles/27.pdf
Also, Baltimore Sun, Aug 15, 1980, p.17

> > China & Korea - 1952
> > Bacteria, insects, feathers, decaying animal and fish parts dropped over
> > Korea and north east China.

Stephen Endicott & Edward Hagerman, 'The United States and Biological
Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea', Indiana University
Press, 1998, pp.166-167.

> > Vietnam - early 1960-early 1970s
> > Agent Orange. CS, DM and CN gases.

James Ridgeway, Village Voice, Feb 5, 1991, p.30, New York Times, Sep 9,
1965.

> > Laos - September 1970
> > Sarin nerve gas.

'NewsStand: CNN & Time', Jun 7, 1998, and Washington Post magazine, Nov 29,
1998, p.20

> > Panama - 1940-1990s
> > Used as testing ground for mustard gas, VX, sarin, hydrogen cyanide,
Agent
> > Orange.

http://www.forusa.org/Programs/panama/Archives/chem-report/index.htm

> > Cuba - 1962
> > Contaminated Cuban sugar exports destined for the Soviet Union.

New York Times, Apr 28, 1966, p.1, Taylor Branch & George Crile III, 'The
Kennedy Vendetta', Harper's, August 1975, p.52

> > Infected Turkeys with fatal Newcastle disease.

Washington Post, Mar 21, 1977, p.18

> > Cuba - 1971
> > African swine fever.

San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 10, 1977

> > Cuba - 1996
> > Thrips palmi crop-eating insect sprayed by US State Dept. crop-duster.

New York Times, May 7, 1997, p.9

> > Watertown, NY - 1950
> > Cereal rust spores dropped on oat crops as part of biological weapons
> > testing.

New York Times, Jan 22, 1999, p.12

> > San Francisco Bay area - Sept 20-27, 1950
> > Bacillus globigii and Serratia marcescens and other biological warfare
> > agents sprayed as part of tests to ascertain effectiveness in attacking
> > seaport city with BW aerosol.

San Francisco Examiner, Dec 22, 1976, p.1, Dec 23, 1976, p.1, Sep 17, 1979,
p.3, Oct 19, 1980.

> > Minneapolis - 1953
> > 61 releases of zinc cadmium sulfide released in four sections of the
cit.

San Francisco Chronicle, Apr 3, 1981, Baltimore Sun, Aug 15, 1980, p.7,
Leonard A. Cole, 'Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over
Populated Areas', Maryland, 1990, p.60-64

> > St Louis - 1953
> > 35 releases of zinc cadmium sulfide over residential, commercial and
> > downtown areas.

Leonard A. Cole, 'Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over
Populated Areas', Maryland, 1990, p.63-65

> > Washington DC area - 1953
> > Zinc cadmium sulfate combined with lycopodium spores sprayed over wide
> area.

Washington Post, Jun 9, 1980, p.11

> > Washington DC area - 1969
> > 115 open air tests of zinc cadmium sulfate near Cambridge, Maryland.

San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 14, 1980, p.12

> > Washington DC - early 1960s
> > Bacillus subtilis dissemniated through Washington National Airport.

http://web.mit.edu/communications/pres97/08.0.html

> > Florida - 1955
> > Open-air testing of whooping-cough bacteria around Tampa Bay area.

San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 17, 1979, p.5, Oct 29, 1980, p.15.

> > Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida - 1956-1958
> > Aedes aegypti mosquitoes released as part of biological weapins tests.

US Army Chemical Corps, 'Summary of Major Events and Problems, fiscal year
1959, pp.101-103, and Leonard Cole, 'The Eleventh Plague', NY, 1997,
pp.28-31.

> > NY City - Jun 6-10, 1966
> > Trillions of Bacillus subtilis variant niger released into subway system
> > durinbg rush hour to test vulnerability of subway passengers to covert
> > attack with biological agents.

San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 4, 1979, p.12 and 'A Study of the Vulnerability
of Subway Passengers in New York City to Covert Attack with Biological
Agent', Miscellaneous Publications 25, Department of the Army, Fort Detrick,
Frederick, Maryland, January 1968

> > Chicago - 1960s
> > Similar experiment to NYC.

Washington Post, Dec 5, 1984, p.B1

See also http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=547

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=10498

'Biological Testing Involving Human Subjects by the Department of Defense',
Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the
Committee of Human Resources, US Senate, Mar 8 and May 23, 1977.

William Blum, 'Rogue State', London, 2002

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