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

["::\)" <r3dshift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ian!

-Joe

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From: "Ian Gallimore" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] US use of bio-chemical weapons

> <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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