BURIED BIOWEAPONS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>

BURIED BIOWEAPONS
Armed Forces Journal International (June, 1996) reports that a 
construction crew at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio uncovered 
dozens of old M-114 submunitions containing expired biological weapons 
agents. Many were still armed. Until the discovery, the area was 
considered a former sanitary landfill.
Public fears dissipated rapidly once the Air Force determined that the 
organisms had long ago lost all their toxicity. But Armed Forces 
Journal is concerned that even these dead biological weapons weren't 
supposed to be there. It wrote: "In face, we've been told a lot of 
things that don't square with the discovery of the biological warfare 
bomblets at Wright-Patterson."
To get to the truth, Armed Forces Journal calls upon Defense Secretary 
Perry to absolve veterans from their secrecy agreements involving 
chemical and biological weapons, as he is doing for radiation and 
nuclear weapons. And it goes a step further:
"... Secretary Perry should set about mustering whatever national 
investigative resources are necessary to determine the identities of 
the persons involved in assembling, and then burying, these M114 
biological warfare agents in a sanitary landfill. Those idiots 
committed a crime. They should be identified and held accountable to 
the full extent of the law for endangering the lives of those who must 
now clean up their deadly legacy."