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The 1994 Rockefeller Report
Examining Biological Experimentation on U.S. Military. Participation in military research is rarely included in military medical records, making it impossible to support a veteran's claim for service-connected disabilities from military research

September 17, 2008 Force Health Protection and Readiness Launches Chemical-Biological Warfare Exposures Web Site No. 08-93

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The Department of Defense Force Health Protection and Readiness Directorate (FHP&R) has launched the Chemical-Biological (CB) Warfare Exposures Web site to provide Service members, veterans, their families and the public with information on the testing of chemical and biological warfare agents from 1942 to 1975. The Web site presents sections on World War II, Project 112/SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), and the Cold War.

A number of studies, reports and briefings have been done on chemical and biological warfare exposures. The major documents are provided below (click on the document to open it).

Government Accountability Office Reports:

Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report: GAO-04-410, DOD Needs to Continue to Collect and Provide Information on Tests and on Potentially Exposed Personnel, May 2004
Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report: GAO-08-366, DOD and VA Need to Improve Efforts to Identify and Notify Individuals Potentially Exposed during Chemical and Biological Tests, February 2008

Institute of Medicine Reports:

Institute of Medicine Study: Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD, 2007
Supplement to Institute of Medicine Study: Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD, “Health Effects of Perceived Exposure to Biochemical Warfare Agents, 2004”

Congressional Testimony:

Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Hearing: Military Exposures: The Continuing Challenges of Care and Compensation, July 10, 2002
House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, Hearing: Military Operations Aspects of SHAD and Project 112, October 9, 2002
Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Personnel, Prepared Statement of Dr. William Winkenwerder, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, on Shipboard Hazard and Defense, October 10, 2002

DoD Briefings and Reports:

Military Service Organizations/Veterans Service Organizations Briefing: Chemical/Biological Exposure Databases, February 21, 2008
Extracts from 2003 Report to Congress Disclosure of Information on Project 112 to the Department of Veterans Affairs as Directed by PL 107-314, August 1, 2003 – Executive Summary and Disclosure of Information

Conspiracy Corner

The History of the Development of AIDS
“Special Operation-X.” (The SOX) program served as the immediate prototype program for the Special Virus program to begin in 1962
Man-Made AIDS for Bio Warfare When conspiracy-minded critics raise questions about the origins of the variety of new diseases and medical syndromes that "emerged" in the 1970s and '80s, they often point to the so-called MacArthur testimony as a putative smoking gun.

Did the Shots Cause HCV
"Intramuscular immune globulin is safe and has never transmitted hepatitis C or any other infectious disease as licensed in the United States," said Miriam Alter, the CDC's chief hepatitis epidemiologist.
Hepatitis C Origin
Points to Possible Military Link Copyright 1999 by Forward Times- DOCUMENTS RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT VIETNAM ERA EXPERIMENTS ED WENDT-Documents obtained by Forward Times under the Freedom of Information Act, for an investigation of the hepatitis C epidemic, reveal that U.S. servicemen were used to test experimental vaccines while they were in Basic Combat Training during the Vietnam Era” “ blood samples of American servicemen taken in 1948 were recently reviewed during a study. Those samples detected the hepatitis C virus.”
1969 New York Times Washington, July 28 -- The 59-year old doctor, whose companies have been blamed for the repeated use of dangerous methods and inadequate equipment, is estimated to have produced the plasma for about a fourth of an important byproduct that is widely used to protect people exposed to infectious diseases.... An executive of Cutter Laboratories once acknowledged, for instance, that gross contamination was apparent in the areas where the largest blood plasma operations were conducted. The rooms were "sloppy," he observed...When a Government doctor asked why Cutter continued to reward such an enterprise with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of business, the executive explained that the Stough group enjoyed crucial "contacts" with well placed officials. ......

With neither Government nor industry intruding, with most of their records held in secret, with officials passing the problem on to someone else, Dr. Stough prospered at his work throughout the nineteen-sixties. .......

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