- Project SHAD
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- Project SHAD, an acronym for Shipboard Hazard and Defense,
was part of the joint service chemical and biological warfare test program
conducted during the 1960s. Project SHAD encompassed tests designed to
identify US warships' vulnerabilities to attacks with chemical or biological
warfare agents and to develop procedures to respond to such attacks while
maintaining a war-fighting capability. Although classified, the Department
of Defense has been actively pursuing declassification of relevant medical
information. To date twelve SHAD projects have been evaluated and released
for your review. The Department of Defense continues to search and declassify
documents associated with this project, and will post additional information
as it becomes available. http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/current_issues/shad/shad_intro.shtml
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- American Servicemen used as Guinea Pigs JimCast@infowars.net
(Last update) June 27, 2002
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- "Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense" (SHAD),
was a program started in the early 1960's, to learn the vulnerabilities
of US warships, during chemical or biological warfare attacks. Under "Project
SHAD" were 113 different "Operations" or tests.
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- US Naval crews and Marine personnel were sprayed with
various biological and chemical germ warfare agents, and simulants. Some
ships, and Marine personnel were sprayed from overflying aircraft, while
other tests on ships were being sprayed by aircraft carriers, which were
upwind. While some high ranking personnel may have had knowledge of what
was happening, most of the ships crews did not.
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- Project SHAD was controlled by The US Army Deseret Test
Center, later to be known as Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. For over 35
years, The Department of Defense said, "there was NO Project SHAD".
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- Today the DoD admits that it tested the deadly nerve
agent Sarin, known as VX, or biological toxins on American Servicemen,
but said the information was "classified".
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- Lately the DoD agreed to declassify all of the 113 "Operations"
and inform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of the findings. Presently
12 of the 113 have been declassified, although the information being released
is very limited.
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- The Department of Defense is not releasing ALL the information
needed by the Veteran, which would allow him to apply for treatment in
a VA facility and to file a claim for service connected disability compensation.
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- Only about 600 veterans of the estimated tens of thousands
of those exposed to warfare agents have been notified they could be suffering
from related dangerous health effects, according to VA and Pentagon officials.
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- A study by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs completed
in September of 2001, but never released to the public or the affected
veterans, suggests that Veterans, who participated in "Project SHAD",
may be at increased risk for cerebrovascular diseases and respiratory diseases.
That they are three (3) times more likely to die of respiratory and vascular
brain diseases than the general population.
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- Steve Robinson, executive director of the National Gulf
War Resources Center, said: "These veterans could be dying at a rate
three times greater than the general population from diseases that could
be related to their military service."
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- "We have a moral responsibility to set the record
straight and that seems to be a problem for both the leaders in the Department
of Defense, and the entrenched bureaucrats of the Department of Veterans
Affairs."
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- Agents and decontaminants used, different ones in different
tests are: Bacillus globigii (BG), Coxiella burnetii, Pasteurella tularensis,
Zinc Cadmium Sulfide,
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- Beta-propriolactone, Sarin, VX, Escherichia Coli (EC),
Serratia Marcescens (SM), Sodium Hydroxide, Peracetic acid, Potassium hydroxide,
Sodium hypochlorite, "tracer amounts" of radioactivity and asbestos,
Methylacetoacetate.
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- Senator Bill Nelson (D) of Florida, a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee and Rep. Mike Thompson (D) of California plan
to introduce legislation in their respective chambers next week, urging
the Pentagon to reveal more information about the tests, known as "Project
SHAD". Eleven other members of Congress have signed the request from
Thompson. They have attached a provision on to Senate bill, S-2514, known
as the National Defense Authorization Act, to fund the declassification
of Project SHAD.
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- The President has vowed to veto the bill. The tests involved
substances that the military believed at the time to be harmless. But evidence
now shows that some could be harmful.
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- The Secretary of veterans affairs, Anthony Principi,
urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to declassify more of the tests
"as quickly as possible".
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- Anyone that believes they were part of the SHAD tests,
should contact:
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- Vietnam Veterans of America 8605 Cameron Street, Suite
400 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 301-585-4000, Fax 301-585-0519, 1-800-VVA-1316
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- The SHAD helpline is at 1-800-749-8387 or contact VA
by e-mail at shadhelpline@vba.va.gov
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- All known SHAD operations, dates of operations, the agents
sprayed, and the ships and Marine personnel involved, in no particular
order, are:
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- Operation Dates, Agent Sprayed and Ships involved:
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- 'Copper Head' Jan 24-Feb 25, 1965
- Bacillus globigii
- Zinc Cadmium Sulfide
- (FP-fluorescent particle)
- * USS Power
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- 'Shady Grove' Jan 22-Apr. 9, 1965
- Bacillus globigii,
- Coxiella burnetii (OU),
- Staphylococcal enterotoxin
- (Type B _PG2)
- Uranine dye (sodium fluorescein)
- * USS Granville S.Hall
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- 'Autumn Gold' May 3-31-1963
- Bacillus globiggi (BG)
- * USS Navarro (LPA-215)
- * USS Tioga County (LST-1158)
- * USS Carpenter
- * USS Hoel (DDG13)
- * USS Granville S. Hall (Yag-40)
- * Marine Air group 13, First Marine Brigade
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- 'Purple Sage'
- Jan & Feb 1966
- Methylacetoacetate
- * USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD-833)
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- 'Eager Belle I' Jan-Mar 1963
- Bacillus globiggi (BG)
- * USS George Eastman (yag39)
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- 'Eager Belle II' Feb-Mar 1963
- Bacillus globiggi (BG)
- * USS George Eastman (yag39)
- * USS Granville S. Hall (yag40)
- * USS Carpenter (DD-825)
- * USS Navarro (LPA-215)
- * USS Tioga County(LST-1158)
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- 'Scarlet Sage' Feb 9,1966-Mar 4, 1966
- Bacillus globiggi (BG)
- * USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD-833)
- (Army tugs manned by naval personnel)
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- An article at www.tugboatsF.com/1t2080Frame1 LT-2080,
LT-2081, LT-2085
- source1.htm, lists the following agents as being used:
LT-2086, LT-2087,
- LT-2088
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- Tularamia, anthrax, parrot fever, Q fever, botulism,
and Rocky Mountain
- spotted fever.
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- 'Fearless Johnny' Aug-Sep 1965
- VX nerve agent Diethylphthlate
- * USS George Eastman (yag-39),
- * USS Granville S. Hall (yag-40)
- * Two light tugs (not identified)
- * VC-1 Utility squadron One,
- * Blue Aiis Squadron (Blue Warriors)
- * Patrol Squadron Six (PATRON SIX)
- * Flight Wing Two,
- * Covered lighter (barge) YFN-811
- * US Navy Tug, ATF-105
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- 'Flower Drum I' Feb-Apr
- Sarin nerve agent
- * USS George Eastman (yag-39),
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- Aug-Sep 1964
- Sulphur dioxide, Methylacetoacetate
- * USS Granville S. Hall (yag-40)
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- 'Flower Drum II' Nov & Dec 1964
- VX nerve gas
- * US Navy Barge YFN-811
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- Phosphorous 32
- * US Navy Tug, ATF-105
- Bis (2 ethyl-hexyl)
- hydrogen phosphite
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- DTC Test 69-32
- Apr 30-Jun 28, 1969
- Serratia
- * USS Granville S. Hall (yag-40),
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- Marcensen, Escherichia coli, Five Army light tugs, (manned
- Bacillus subtilis var. by naval personnel). niger (BG),
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- DTC Test 68-50 Sep-Oct 1968
- Bacillus globiggi (BG)
- * USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40)
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- Staphylococcal enterotoxin,
- Type B (PG2),
- Uranine dye (sodium fluorescein).
- used on:
- * 4533rd Tactical Test Squadron
- * 33rd Tactical Fighter Wing (F-4E aircraft)
- * Marine Air Group 13, First Marine Brigade
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- 'Half Note'
- 'Red Beva'
- 'Night Train'
- 'Big Tom'
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