I have written a lot, and extensively about the Cold War Human experiments called by the names SHAD/112 approx 6500 men used, the chemical weapons and drug experiments at Edgewood Arsenal from 1955 thru 1975 7120 men used, and the Fort Detrick Biological weapons program from 1955 thru 1972 approx 2300 men used.
The DOD and the VA have failed the veterans for decades, and a Feb 2008 GAO report shows that as of Feb 2008 they still had not identified more than half of all the veterans, and I presume the widows of all the deceased veterans that had been used in these classified experiments.
The veterans in most if not all of these programs had to sign National Security Agreements that we could tell NO ONE, not family members, spouses, doctors, etc. any violation of this would result in a 25 year sentence to Leavenworth the federal prison. This started falling apart in 1975 when the Department of the Army IG released a report on Human Experimentation.
Then in 1987 Master Sergeant Stanley sued the Army for using him in the late 50s in a LSD experiment and never telling him, he did not learn of his use, until the late 70s when the Army did a follow up of the veterans used in the LSD experiments. He sued and it made it's way to the Supreme Court where he lost a 5-4 decision. Congress did pass a law compensating him about 500,000 dollars. There was another settlement with another LSD veteran who had broken his neck jumping into an empty pool which left him paralyzed in the early 90's I beleive and it was settled for 1.2 million. Other than that no other "test veterans" have been compensated, many of the veterans are service connected (SC) by the VA for other medical problems but not as a result of exposures in the experiments.
The common tactic is for the VA to tell the veterans you can't prove you were exposed to any substance that caused your medical problems. Denied. You provide them with EPA Superfund reports showing the 77 toxic substances in the drinking water and soil of Edgewood Arsenal found in 1978, and they tell you that you can't prove you ingested any of the toxins, excuse me I know I am not real bright, but I was there for almost three months, do they honestly beleive I didn't drink or bathe for the entire period? We all used the water wells for drinking water, the cooks made coffee and kool aid with the water, they cooked with it. We used it for brushing our teeth, showers, and the post swimming pool was filled from those wells, how could we avoid it? They then told me that the EPA reports were Internet trash and not factual government reports duh?
Yesterday I found this report VA Fact Sheet Edgewood/Aberdeen Experiments Information the conclusions section left me shaking my head.
Based on it the VARO's around the nation should be accepting all of the "test vets claims" and give them all the "benefit of the doubt" yet they continue to deny all claims, why?
Is there anyone in government that can explain this to me and the other veterans and the widows? anyone care to try?
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Shocking Document from the VA Itself
