Posted on 06/25/2002 10:43:58 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A Senate panel will investigate whether the Pentagon intended to use American sailors as human guinea pigs during the 1960s testing of chemical weapons aboard Navy ships, Sen. Max Cleland said yesterday.
The Georgia Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services personnel subcommittee, said he will convene hearings this fall on the once-secretive testing program that Pentagon officials acknowledged for the first time last month. Cleland says he is pushing for open hearings, but the Pentagon might insist some of the material stay classified.
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