[CPEO-MEF] Canadian chem-weapons dumping

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tale persists of possibility of chemical weapons beneath Strait of Juan 
de Fuca

by JIM CASEY
Peninsula Daily News (WA)
December 4, 2006

SEKIU -- The rumor persists -- cloaked like the grim reaper -- that tons 
of mustard gas lie beneath the Strait of Juan de Fuca near the Clallam 
County shore.

The report surfaces regularly in news accounts and on Web sites that 
Canadian forces dumped deadly chemical weapons into American waters in 
September 1947.

That the Canadians and the other World War II Allies had stockpiles of 
mustard gas is no secret.

U.S. Forces buried mustard gas after the war on the Tulalip Indian 
Reservation north of Everett.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/265400

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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