Agent Orange Found at Thai Airport

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Tuesday May 25 11:28 AM ET 
Agent Orange Found at Thai Airport
Associated Press

Summary

Thailand's Department of Pollution Control believed they discovered Agent
Orange, a defoliant, buried beneath a provincial airport used by the U.S.
military during the Vietnam War. Fumes sickened a hundred workers who were
working on an airport runway extension. A team from the Environmental
Protection Agency was dispatched to Thailand to investigate the chemical
and initial investigations led them to believe the chemical is not Agent
Orange but a solvent.  Samples of the chemical have been sent to the United
States for testing, but results are weren't available at the time this
article was published. The United States has admitted to testing Agent
Orange and other defoliants in Thailand with the knowledge and consent of
the Thai military government of the time. During the Vietnam War the U.S.
launched air attacks from bases in Thailand.