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- CBS News says thousands of
Navy personnel were subjected, without their consent or knowledge, to biological-warfare
experiments back in the 1960s.
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- Based on Navy documents and CBS News interviews with
sailors involved at the time, the network is reporting that:
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- Two secret tests - one code-named 'Autumn Gold, 'conducted
off Hawaii, the other, 'Copper Head,' off Newfoundland - were carried out
35 years ago to test the vulnerability of Navy ships to germ-warfare attack.
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- Navy documents refer to the vessels as "target ships"
and the sailors on them as "test subjects."
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- (CHEMTRAIL SPRAYING USED 35 YEARS AGO)
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- Nine times in one month, jet aircraft would spray clouds
of a biological-warfare agent, used to simulate the deadly anthrax germ,
in the path of the vessels.
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- Then, other planes on the same path would fly over, spraying
particles of zinc cadmium oxide, thought to be harmless.
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- However, after a researcher warned that the compound
was "highly toxic," the military ceased spraying it.
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- Only eight of the men who made up the "control group"
wore gas masks. Other crewmen were ordered to give throat swabs or gargle
samples.
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- The Pentagon now says the sailors "were not exposed
to any harmful chemical and biological compound" and all "were
fully informed about the details of each test."
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- Those Navy personnel interviewed by CBS dispute that,
saying they never gave their consent, were never even told what the experiments
were about.
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- Harmful or not, the tests appear to have violated government
policies of half-a-century standing that: "The voluntary consent of
the human subject is absolutely essential."
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- CBS did not say whether any of the sailors involved in
the experiments had reported ill effects.
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