[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: "Operation Red Hat: Chemical Weapons and the Pentagon Smokescreen on Okinawa"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Operation Red Hat: Chemical Weapons and the Pentagon Smokescreen on Okinawa

By Jon Mitchell
Asia-Pacific Journal/Truth-Out
August 11, 2013  

In July 1969, a leak of chemical weapons on Okinawa sickened more than 20 U.S. soldiers and laid bare one of the Pentagon’s biggest Cold War secrets: the storage of toxic munitions outside of the continental United States.

Public outrage following the Okinawa accident forced the White House to launch Operation Red Hat - codename for a mission to remove the chemicals from the island.

For more than four decades, details of that project have been kept firmly under wraps. But now, newly disclosed scientific studies - and accounts from U.S. veterans who participated in Operation Red Hat - are casting light on the mission and exposing what truly occurred. These revelations include the alleged dumping of chemical weapons off the coast of Okinawa, the presence of the potent blister agent, lewisite, and the inclusion of Agent Orange – the Vietnam War defoliant which the Pentagon denies was ever present on the island.


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For the entire article, see
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18102-operation-red-hat-chemical-weapons-and-the-pentagon-smokescreen-on-okinawa

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Lenny Siegel
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