From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org> |
Date: | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | BURIED BIOWEAPONS |
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." | |
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