[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, HEALTH: Agent Orange at Ft. Detrick

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Use of Agent Orange is well-documented


By Megan Eckstein
Frederick News-Post (MD)
August 13, 2010


Long before Fort Detrick hired a contractor to investigate its past use 
of Agent Orange on post, the fact that the Army did test the herbicide 
in Frederick was common knowledge.

The Frederick News-Post archives, government documents and Fort 
Detrick's website all chronicle the Army post's Vietnam-era testing of 
Agent Orange, a defoliant that has since been proven to cause cancers, 
Parkinson's disease, skin conditions and more.

An April 8, 1967, news article by The Associated Press states that 
"research headquarters for the U.S. (chemical and biological warfare) 
program is Ft. Detrick É it has a 1967 budget estimated at $38 million."

"In one distant corner of the base lies the crop division with its four 
large greenhouses where research is done on the defoliants and 
herbicides now used in Vietnam," the article continues.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=108529

See also
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=108531
for Thursday's community meetinh.

And the editorial at 
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_editorial.htm?StoryID=108508

The editorial concludes:

"Did Agent Orange used at Detrick make some of those living nearby sick, 
some unto death? The bare truth is called for here. Nothing less will do 
-- whatever that truth is and whatever its consequences."


--


Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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