[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: Old soldier says herbicides buried in South Korea

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Old soldier accepts one last mission

Mike Connell
Port Huron Times Herald
January 22, 2012

CLAY TWP. -- Steve House didn't intend to go to war with the U.S.  
Army, but the way he sees it, he wasn't given a choice.

"They poked a wounded bear," he says.
House, 55, who lives near Algonac, contends the Army disposed of  
Agent Orange, Agent Blue, Urox 22, Lindane and other very, very nasty  
chemicals in a toxic dump at Camp Carroll in South Korea.

How does he know this? In the summer of 1978, as a heavy equipment  
operator with the 802nd Engineer Battalion, he says he buried  
hundreds of chemical drums in a ditch the size of a city block.

...

THE PENTAGON says it spent $3 million to $4 million last year to  
investigate the claims. It also says it could find no evidence of  
toxic chemicals at the location pinpointed by House.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20120122/OPINION02/201220315/ 
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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
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