[CPEO-MEF] Senate to hear witnesses on testing

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Senate to hear witnesses on testing

Veterans: Legislation would help expedite declassifying materials
By Matt Moline
Special to The Capital-Journal

The U.S. Senate's Armed Forces Committee is expected to hear testimony
Thursday that the Department of Defense exposed thousands of U.S. Navy
veterans to chemical warfare agents during secret military tests in the
1960s.

The committee hearing was called this past week by Sen. Bill Nelson,
D-Florida, according to retired U.S. Navy corpsman Jim Druckemiller, of
Topeka, who has emerged as the unofficial national spokesman for
veterans who have called for public disclosure of the covert DOD tests.

According to Druckemiller, tests known as Project SHAD involved dozens
of U.S. Navy ships between 1963 and 1970, while exposing as many as
16,000 servicemen to lethal doses of sarin and VX nerve gases and
anthrax-like bacillus globigii spores, among other dangerous
contaminants.

This article can be viewed at:
http://cjonline.com/stories/100702/com_druckemiller.shtml?p

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