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October 10, 2002
US planes sprayed Wiltshire with Sarin
>From Chris Ayres in Los Angeles and Michael Evans
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-441704,00.html
CROPDUSTER aircraft flown by British and US military personnel sprayed deadly chemical
weapons, including Sarin and VX, over the Wiltshire countryside in the late 1960s.
News of the tests is broken in declassified documents released this week by the
Pentagon.
They took place at the highly secretive Porton Down facility near Salisbury, despite
there being virtually no information about the long-term health effects of even very
low exposures to the lethal nerve agents.
As well as Sarin and VX, the tests involved Soman and Tabun. According to the
documents, seen by The Times, the chemical weapons were used on open grassland and
woodland.
The Ministry of Defence said last night that none of the tests was carried out on
human beings or animals. The only people concerned were the military and scientists
studying the effects of the chemical and biological tests.
More than 600 documents exist detailing the experiments in the 1960s: "The documents
speak for themselves," a ministry spokesman said.
The object of spraying Sarin, Tabun and VX gases over fields and woods was to see "how
they would be affected by the climate and other atmospheric conditions". Tests at sea
were to check how chemical and biological agents might affect warships.
Hundreds of documents have been released by the Public Record Office in Kew about
chemical and biological experiments at Porton Down in the 1950s and 1960s when human
beings were used as guinea pigs. Those tests, however, involved small amounts of the
gases and agents in laboratory conditions.
Those who "volunteered" from the military have claimed in recent years that they were
told the experiments were about the common cold. Wiltshire police are investigating
the case of Ronald Maddison, who died in 1953 after Sarin was put on his skin.
The Pentagon released the new files at the request of the Department of Veterans'
Affairs, which is lobbying for extra healthcare services for the 5,000 or so Americans
involved in chemical and biological weapons testing.
It is not known how many Britons were involved, but claims for extra healthcare
benefits by US servicemen could prompt similar claims in the UK - if any are still
alive.
The test results are not known. It is also not known if the deadly agents were used
directly on military personnel.
Crop-dusting was not the only method used to "weaponise" the nerve agents. The files
explain how British and US military personnel used "rain-type" munitions and bombs.
The declassified documents acknowledge a far wider use of chemical and biological
weapons than admitted by the British or US Governments. The disclosure could not come
at a worse time for Tony Blair and President Bush, who argue that Iraq's stockpiling
of such nerve agents justifies a "regime change". President Saddam Hussein used
chemical weapons in the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s and against his own Kurdish
citizens.
Sarin, infamously used on the Tokyo subway by a terrorist group in 1995, causes a
runny nose, watery eyes and breathing difficulty. It soon leads to vision problems,
confusion, a coma, then death. VX causes vomiting and violent fits before death, all
within about 15 minutes.
According to the documents, the project was ordered by Robert McNamara, the US
Secretary of Defence, just after President Kennedy's inauguration in 1961 and when
Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister. The tests did not take place until 1967 and 1968,
when Lyndon Johnson was US President and Harold Wilson was Prime Minister. The Porton
Down tests were part of a British, US and Canadian programme. The US scrapped its
biological weapons programme in the late 1960s.
A report published yesterday said that lie detector tests were mostly inaccurate and
had failed to catch a single spy, in spite of nearly a century of use. The report, by
the National Academy of Sciences, urged America's security agencies to stop believing
that lie detectors, or polygraphs, are "magical mind-reading machines" and to
acknowledge that they rarely produce reliable results.
At present all employees of the CIA and National Security Agency are given a polygraph
test. The FBI and Defence Department also test extensively
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