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Title: Vets sue CIA, Defense over military experiments
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107 ... _war_experiments_lawsuit/print
Published: Jan 7, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-01-07 15:27:32 by PSUSA
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By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer Paul Elias, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 53 mins ago

SAN FRANCISCO – Six veterans who claim they were unwittingly exposed to dangerous chemicals and germs during government-sponsored Cold War experiments have sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies.

The vets volunteered for military experiments they say were part of a program started in the 1950s to test nerve agents, biological weapons and mind-control techniques. They allege in their federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco that they are in poor health today because of the experiments. They are demanding health care and a court ruling that the program was illegal.

The organization Vietnam Veterans of America is also part of the lawsuit, which seeks class action status on behalf of all participants who were allegedly exposed to unhealthful experiments without their knowledge.

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#1. To: PSUSA (#0)

Thanks for the heads up. Finally these poor guys might get justice and restitution from the scoundrels in the CIA and DOD who treated them like guinea pigs for their ghoulish experiments.

Here's another article on the same subject from Bloomberg News:

www.bloomberg.com/apps/ne...sid=aQLKz5TZ0PpY&refer=us

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Vietnam Veterans of America and six former soldiers sued the Central Intelligence Agency over once- secret experiments on human subjects during the 1960s and 1970s to test chemical and biological weapons and drugs.

The group and the veterans say they and others were treated like guinea pigs in tests involving nerve gas, sarin gas, hallucinogenic drugs and mind-control tests that left many civilians and military people who volunteered for the program with permanent disabilities. The tests began in the 1940s and continued to about 1976, they said.

“What is not historical about these tests is the impact they had on the enlisted men,” Gordon Erspamer, an attorney with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, said at a news conference in San Francisco. “They have never been compensated, they have been denied health care, they have been left alone for more than 30 years.”

The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco today and names the CIA, the Defense Department and other agencies as defendants. It seeks a court order forcing the government to notify and provide health care to those who participated in the experiments.

Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman, didn’t immediately return a message.

Between 1950 and 1975, about 6,720 soldiers took part in experiments involving 254 different chemicals at U.S. Army laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, according to “Health Effects from Chemical, Biological and Radiological Weapons,” a 2003 training manual by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Congressional hearings about the experiments held in 1974 and 1975 led to disclosure of the program, notification to subjects and compensation for a few families of soldiers who died during the tests, according to the manual says.

The case is Vietnam Veterans of America v. CIA, 09-37, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

scrapper2  posted on  2009-01-07   15:39:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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