2012 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:34:25 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: "U.S. spent more than $3 million on Agent Orange claim [in South Korea], found nothing"
 
U.S. spent more than $3 million on Agent Orange claim, found nothing

By ASHLEY ROWLAND
Stars and Stripes
January 6, 2012

SEOUL - The U.S. military spent between $3 million and $4 million last year investigating a former soldier’s claims that he helped bury Agent Orange at a base in South Korea more than three decades ago. But after eight months of intensive research - from high-tech soil and water sampling and interviews of nearly 200 people in the U.S. and South Korea - a team of U.S. and South Korean experts found no evidence of the Vietnam-era defoliant.

Despite the high price tag of the investigation, U.S. military officials say the effort was necessary and served a critical purpose: proving that regardless of what might have happened in the ‘70s, the area around Camp Carroll is now safe.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.stripes.com/news/u-s-spent-more-than-3-million-on-agent- orange-claim-found-nothing-1.165251

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Lenny Siegel
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