[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: "U.S. spent more than $3 million on Agent Orange claim [in South Korea], found nothing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. spent more than $3 million on Agent Orange claim, found nothing

By ASHLEY ROWLAND
Stars and Stripes
January 6, 2012

SEOUL - The U.S. military spent between $3 million and $4 million  
last year investigating a former soldier’s claims that he helped bury  
Agent Orange at a base in South Korea more than three decades ago.  
But after eight months of intensive research - from high-tech soil  
and water sampling and interviews of nearly 200 people in the U.S.  
and South Korea - a team of U.S. and South Korean experts found no  
evidence of the Vietnam-era defoliant.

Despite the high price tag of the investigation, U.S. military  
officials say the effort was necessary and served a critical purpose:  
proving that regardless of what might have happened in the ‘70s, the  
area around Camp Carroll is now safe.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.stripes.com/news/u-s-spent-more-than-3-million-on-agent- 
orange-claim-found-nothing-1.165251

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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
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