5 San Francisco Chronicle, October 8, 1979, p. 13; Washington Post, October 9,1979,p.6

6 Endicott and Hagerman, op. cit., p.xi, 49-50, 218

7 Ibid., p.63

8 San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980. Oddly enough, it was only in 1999 that the South Korean government ordered an inquiry into a report that in the late 1960s the US military had used Agent Orange and other toxic defoliants along the North Korean border. The report was based on declassified US documents (Washington Post, November 17,1999).

9 The Michigan Agent Orange Commission, Physicians Information for Care of Vietnam Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange and Other Chemicals, June 1991, p.4-8; Harris and Paxman, p.192-3.

10 According to Dr. Barry Commoner, director of the Center for Biology of Natural Systems at Washington University, St. Louis, The Guardian (London), February 17,1984.

11 Robert Dreyfuss, Apocalypse Still , Mother Jones (San Francisco), February 2000, p.42ff

12 James Ridgeway, Village Voice, Feb. 5, 1991, p.30; New York Times, September 9,1965

13 John Cookson and Judith Nottingham, A Survey of Chemical and Biological Warfare (London,

1969), p. 15-17

14 Ibid.,p.30

15 April Oliver and Peter Arnett, Did the U.S. Drop Nerve Gas? , Time, June 15,1998, p.37-9

16 The Washington Post Magazine, November 29,1998, p.20 ff.

17 Tailwind: Rebuttal to the Abrams/Kohler Report , July 22, 1998, can be found on the Internet

18 John Lindsay-Poland, Toxic Aftertaste , The Progressive, (Madison, WI), December 1998, p. 24-27; see also Washington Post, January 10, 2000, p.14-5

19 The Dallas Morning News, August 20,1999

20 Philip Wheaton, Panama Invaded (New Jersey, 1992), p. 16-17, citing the monthly magazine El Periodico (Panama City), February 1990, p.8, Bombardean Pacora con substancias quimicas .

21 New York Times, April 28,1966, p.l.

22 Taylor Branch and George Crile III, The Kennedy Vendetta , Harpers (New York), August 1975, p.52

23 Washington Post, March 21,1977, pA18

24 Warren Hinckle and William Turner, The Fish is Red: The Story of the Secret War Against Castro (Harper & Row, NY, 1981), p.293, based on their interview with the participant in Ridgecrest, California, September 27,1975.

25 San Francisco Chronicle, January 10,1977

26 Bill Schaap, The 1981 Cuba Dengue Epidemic , Covert Action Information Bulletin (Washington, DC), No. 17, Summer 1982, p.28-31

27 Reported on their website: http: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/dengue.htm

28 Jane Franklin, Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History (Ocean Press, Melbourne and New York, 1997), p.170. This book states that 188 people died from the dengue epidemic (p.

174)

29 San Francisco Chronicle, October 29,1980, p.15

30 Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC), January 13,1967, p.176

31 Covert Action Information Bulletin (Washington, DC), No. 22, Fall 1984, p.35; the trial of Eduardo Victor Arocena Perez, Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, transcript of September 10, 1984, p.2187-89.

32 For further details of the State Departments side of the issue, see New York Times, May 7,1997, p.9

33 Response to authors query, July 29,1997, by FAA spokesperson Hank Price

34 UN General Assembly document A/52/128, April 29,1997

35 As reported to the author by the Cuban UN Mission in New York

36 See, e.g., San Francisco Chronicle, July 27,1981

37 Washington Post, September 16,1977, p.2

38 Los Angeles Times, June 18,1990, p.l

39 Theres an abundance of documentation of this. See, e.g., Seth Shulman, The Threat at Home: Confronting the Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Military (Beacon Press, Boston, 1992), passim.

CHAPTER 15

1 New York Times, January 22,1999, p. 12

2 Biological Testing Involving Human Subjects by the Department of Defense, 1977, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, US Senate, March 8 and May23,1977,p.270

3 Leonard A. Cole, Clouds of Secrecy: The Armys Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas (Maryland, 1990), chapter 1

4 San Francisco Chronicle, October 8,1979, p. 13; Washington Post, October 9, 1979, p.6; Scientific American, June 1999, p.70-75

5 Cole, chapters 7 and 8; San Francisco Examiner, December 22, 1976, p.l; December 23,1976, p.l; September 17,1979, p.3; October 19,1980

6 Cole, Appendix 3, for this and another expert testimony on the potential danger of the same bacteria, submitted to the US Senate, 1977 (see note 2)

7 San Francisco Chronicle, December 22,1976, p.l; April 3,1981, p.12

8 Ibid., April 3,1981; Baltimore Sun, August 15,1980, p.7; Cole, p.60-64

9 Cole,p.63-65

10 Washington Post, June 9,1980, p. 11

11 San Francisco Chronicle, October 14,1980, p.12

12 Airport and White House: Washington Post, December 5,1984, p.Bl

13 New York Times, September 19,1975, p. 14

14 San Francisco Chronicle, December 17,1979, p.5, October 29,1980, p. 15

15 For details of this experiment and the scientists objections, see Leonard Cole, The Eleventh Plague (New York, 1997) p.28-31, based on US Army Chemical Corps, Summary of Major Events and Problems, fiscal year 1959, p. 101-3

16 San Francisco Chronicle, December 4,1979, p.12

17 Cole, Clouds of Secrecy, p.65-9

18 New York Times, September 19,1975, p.14

19 Washington Post, December 5,1984, p.Bl

20 Biological Testing..., op. cit., p. 134. A lengthy list of the open-air CBW testing locations (but without details) can be found on pages 124-140, although for some reason the list doesnt include the occasions where zinc cadmium sulfide was used.

21 US General Accounting Office (GAO), Nuclear Health and Safety: Examples of Post World War II Radiation Releases at U.S. Nuclear Sites, November 1993, passim

22 Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century, December 8, 1994, passim; US General Accounting Office (GAO), Human Experimentation: An Overview on Cold War Era Programs, September 28, 1994, passim; Final Report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations

with Respect to Intelligence Activities (The Church Committee), Book 1, Foreign and Military Intelligence, April, 1976, p.385-422; Eileen Welsome, The Plutonium Files: Americas Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War, (New York, 1999) passim; Jonathan Moreno, Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1999), passim; John Marks, The Search far the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control (Dell, New York, 1979), passim; Martin Cannon, Mind Control and the American Government , Lobster magazine (Hull, England), #23, 1992, p.2-10; and Aaron Epstein, At Holmesburg Prison, 320 human guinea pigs , Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25,1979, p.l ff.

23 From a review of The Plutonium Files, op. cit., by Deborah Nelson, Bookworld (Washington Post), November 21,1999, based on chapter 22 of the book

24 Washington Post, June 9,1999

25 Hearings before a House Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1970