[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Camp Stanley (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Former CIA agent claims the military poisoned his family at Camp  
Stanley - and used national security concerns to cover it up

By Michael Barajas
San Antonio Current (TX)
October 12, 2011

The ugly side effects surfaced soon after Kevin Shipp transferred in  
1999 from CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., to Camp Stanley, the  
sprawling U.S. Army weapons depot just north of San Antonio. His now  
ex-wife, Lorena Shipp, suddenly began to suffer near-constant  
migraines. Rapidly increasing bouts of confusion and short-term  
memory loss were so severe the family feared she was bordering on  
dementia. "I thought she was dying," Kevin Shipp said in a recent  
interview with the Current.

Son Joel Shipp, then 17, and his two younger siblings battled  
nosebleeds, strange rashes, bleeding gums, and frequent vomiting, as  
well as emergency-room trips for breathing difficulties. A doctor  
later noted Joel’s immune system had been ravaged.

...

For the past two decades, Camp Stanley has, like many aging military  
outposts, struggled to scrub away its toxic footprint. Officials in  
1991 found that remnants of chemical solvents dumped for years on  
base had leeched into the underground aquifer, spurring a large-scale  
monitoring and cleanup program.

...

For the entire article, see
http://sacurrent.com/news/former-cia-agent-claims-the-military- 
poisoned-his-family-at-camp-stanley-8212-and-used-national-security- 
concerns-to-cover-it-up-1.1216784

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Lenny Siegel
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