[CPEO-MEF] Yellow Jacket (UT) chem warfare area

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army tests ravaged family's land

Military blasted mines owned by Utahns with tons of chemical agents

Copyright 2004 Deseret Morning News

By Lee Davidson
Deseret Morning News
November 26, 2004

Siblings Louise, Douglas and Allan Cannon inherited a gold mine. But
they say the Army is giving them the shaft, figuratively, as some of its
old, dark secrets have turned their dream of rich income into a nightmare.

They found belatedly that the Army's nearby Dugway Proving Ground
attacked the old family mines with 3,000 rounds of chemical arms at the
end of World War II. The purpose was to simulate what the Army would
face against Japanese bunkers and caves.

The Army also bombed the surface of 1,425 acres of Cannon family-owned
land above the mines with more than 23 tons of chemical arms, including
deadly mustard agent, hydrogen cyanide and the choking agent Phosgene,
plus high explosives and incendiary arms that included napalm, butane
and gasoline (from flame throwers).

...

For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595107713,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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