[CPEO-MEF] Veteran fights for information about biological, chemical tes

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Veteran fights for information about biological, chemical tests
Campaign: Former Navy corpsman, Kansas congressman to request full 
disclosure of tests
Last Modified:
5:03 a.m. 7/8/2002
By Matt Moline
Special to The Capital-Journal

After retiring from the U.S. Navy in 1982, Topekan Jim Druckemiller 
never paid much attention to the periodic revelations in various news 
media of scandals in all the armed forces.

"The press had been pretty much giving the military a going over ever 
since Vietnam," Druckemiller said last week. "Then there were the 
debacles in Somalia, mostly caused by politicians, and the constant 
horror stories of the Department of Defense paying $750 for a toilet 
seat and things like that."

So Druckemiller was reluctant to talk to a California investigative 
journalist who called two years ago with a new set of unsettling 
allegations.

According to the journalist, the Defense Department had deliberately 
exposed Druckemiller's destroyer crew aboard the USS Power to dangerous 
biological and chemical contaminants 32 years ago as part of a series of 
secret military tests, known as Project SHAD.

This article can be viewed in its entirety at:
http://cjonline.com/stories/070802/com_vet.shtml?p

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