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PROJECT SHAD

Guest opinion: U.S. vets deserve answers on biochemical tests By J.B. STONE The U.S. Army's Project 112 and its Navy component, Project SHAD, started in 1961 when Robert McNamara and President Kennedy allotted $4 billion and 10 years to create a biochemical juggernaut. Decades of unanswered questions had just begun. In Judith Miller's 1999 book, "Germs", William Capers Patrick III, the head of Bio-Chemical Weapons development programs at Fort Detrick, Md., for more than 30 years, states: "We didn't sit around talking about the moral implications of what we were doing. We were problem-solving ... you never connected it to...

H. R. 4259 To establish the Veterans' Right to Know Commission. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 8, 2005 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To establish the Veterans' Right to Know Commission. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans' Right to Know Act''. SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT. There is established a commission to be known as the ``Veterans' Right to Know Commission'' (in this Act referred to as the ``Commission''). SEC. 3. DUTIES. (a) In General.--The duties of...

Congressman Denny Rehberg, 516 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 N E W S November 8, 2005 Chemical and Biological Testing on American Veterans: Reps. Rehberg and Thompson Call for Independent Investigation WASHINGTON, DC - At a Capitol Hill news conference, Montana�s Congressman, Denny Rehberg (R), and California Congressman Mike Thompson (D) today called for an independent investigation of chemical and biological weapons testing conducted on American service members. Rehberg and Thompson today introduced the �Veterans Right to Know Act,� creating a commission to investigate chemical and biological warfare testing carried out in the 60�s and 70�s. �This is...

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