[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, HERBICIDES: No buried drums found at Camp Carroll, South Korea

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Joint probe team fails to find metal drums under Camp Carroll's helipad

Yonhap News Agency (S. Korea)
July 20, 2011

SEOUL -  A South Korea-U.S. joint team failed to find any signs of  
metal drums under the helipad of a U.S. military base in southeastern  
South Korea, officials said Wednesday, casting doubts over  
allegations that a toxic defoliant was buried there in the 1970s.

The latest finding came after the same joint team said earlier this  
month that through a geophysical survey they had detected what could  
be metallic materials buried under the heliport located at Camp  
Carroll in Chilgok, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

The joint team began its investigation in early June after three  
retired United States Forces Korea veterans revealed in a May media  
interview that in 1978 they helped bury hundreds of drums containing  
chemicals suspected to be the cancer-causing defoliant Agent Orange.

In its latest examination, the joint investigation team cored 40  
spots of the helipad in order to secure soil samples for toxic  
chemical tests, and in the process, no signs of metallic drums were  
detected, the government officials said.


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For the entire article, see
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/ 
2011/07/20/57/0301000000AEN20110720008900315F.HTML

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