Vet Groups Sue DoD, CIA + for chem testing

[revelarts]

Three veterans groups are seeking class-action status for a lawsuit they filed in 2009 against the Defense Department, the CIA and the Army on behalf of thousands of soldiers who participated in research programs at Edgewood Arsenal and Fort Detrick, the trade publication U.S. Medicine reported (http://www.usmedicine.com/news/2012/03/03/lawsuit-involving-military-chemical-testing-moves-forward.html).

The lawsuit alleges that chemical and biological weapons were tested on soldiers, that the military failed to provide follow-up care for the symptoms they developed, and that nearly all disability claims related to the tests have been denied.

CNN reported about the tests earlier this month (http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/01/health/human-test-subjects/index.html), prompting some former soldiers to share their experiences with the network. One was given sarin gas and its antidotes, along with other injections that remain a mystery, and later was found to have damage to his heart. Another developed Parkinson's disease that he blames on the numerous injections and pills he was given at Edgewood; he was never told what they contained.
According to U.S. Medicine, the lawsuit seeks no monetary damages, but would require the military to notify the test participants what chemicals they were exposed to, as well as the doses and methods of administration. It would also require the federal government to provide healthcare for veterans suffering from diseases related to the tests.

More on this story:...

U.S. Medicine: Lawsuit involving military chemical testing moves forward (http://www.usmedicine.com/news/2012/03/03/lawsuit-involving-military-chemical-testing-moves-forward.html)
CNN: Vets feel abandoned after secret drug experiments
(http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/01/health/human-test-subjects/index.html)
CNN: Readers share stories about secret Army drug testing program (http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/09/health/soldier-guinea-pigs/index.html?hpt=us_c2)
CNN: Secret Army volunteer's widow blames VA for husband's death (http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/03/health/medical-volunteer-number-6692/index.html)





http://www.stripes.com/news/army/vets-groups-suing-dod-cia-over-secret-chemical-tests-on-soldiers-1.171179


hope they get some relief.

[jimnyc]

FIVE decades? Wow.


Drugs the test subjects were allegedly exposed to include: LSD, mescaline, amphetamines, mustard gas, sarin, dioxin, anthrax, and botulism.

They should test this crap on captured terrorists. It can't be labeled torture, as I've taken the first 3 myself, and willingly! :laugh2:

I'm too lazy to search more, but are they still actively doing this shit? And why expose people to anthrax and sarin gases, won't that kill them? Did the army make a mistake and think these soldiers were lab rats?

[revelarts]

FIVE decades? Wow.



They should test this crap on captured terrorists. It can't be labeled torture, as I've taken the first 3 myself, and willingly! :laugh2:

I'm too lazy to search more, but are they still actively doing this shit? And why expose people to anthrax and sarin gases, won't that kill them? Did the army make a mistake and think these soldiers were lab rats?

If you look at the link "readers share stories" they have film of some of the experimentation and the way men volunteered. No mistakes it seems the Army was trying to see what was effective. the men were pawns.
As far as what going on now who knows, there are many who think that the some of the vaccines the gulf war I soldiers got were experimental. the gov't will come clean in 20 years if not pressed.

I ran into this in a quick search
came up with this list

1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.

1994 With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.

1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War .

1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.

1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.

1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.

1997 Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.

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I've heard of some of the above but I'd need a 2nd look at the rest for clarity.



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