A Military Secret No Longer

Hartford Courant ^ | October 19 2001 | MARK PAZNIOKAS

[2Trievers]

He kept the secret for 30 years. The former Navy skipper told no one about the classified tests of Project Shad, how the Marine jets came screaming out of the night off a remote Pacific atoll, spraying a 100-mile-long aerosol cloud over his five tugboats. Then Jack Alderson's men started getting sick.

[backhoe]

Whoa! A cursory search:

Project SHAD
Project "SHAD" (Shipboard Hazard and ... & B. Project SHAD
Information Paper. Prepared by Compensation ...

Project SHAD
Project SHAD. During the 1960s, the Department of Defense (DoD) conducted tests
involving animals to determine the effectiveness of shipboard detection and ...

JANUARY 2001 NEWS PG. 3 - Disabled American Veterans, ...
... It has come to light that a 15 year multi-service effort called "Project Shad"
(Shipboard Hazzard and Defense) was initiated in the early 1960's into the ...

Disabled American Veterans - bulletin_1000
... the evening news regarding possible adverse health affects of veteran participation
in Project Shad. This paper is provided to give you information we know in ...

[RaceBannon]

Disgusting. Makes me try to remember things, just in case...

[The Duke]

I seriously doubt that, in those times, Americans went about poisoning one another. It's more likely that they tested with some sort of "chemical markers" that had no adverse affects on human health, and that this is simply yet another exercise in the wealth transfer through the legal system.

[2Trievers]

"Makes me try to remember things ..."

Just don't forget where you put that bottle of Ginko Baloba.

[Born to Conserve]

"...synthesizing records..."

Oxymoron.

[t-shirt]

Why did you post a story this important not under breaking or front page?

[2Trievers]

Why? Because when I flipped the coin, the choices were this category, or humor ... I dunno.

[Cagey]

Now what?