Government Testing of Weapons of Mass Destruction ~ Chemical ~ Biological ~ Psycho chemical Warfare ~Entomological Warfare

The Skull Valley Sheep Kill ~ Retraction

THE DUGWAY SHEEP INCIDENT, ALSO KNOWN AS THE SKULL VALLEY SHEEP KILL, WAS A 1968 SHEEP KILL THAT HAS BEEN CONNECTED TO UNITED STATES ARMY CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAMS AT DUGWAY PROVING GROUND IN UTAH. SIX THOUSAND SHEEP WERE KILLED ON RANCHES NEAR THE BASE, AND THE POPULAR EXPLANATION BLAMED ARMY TESTING OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS FOR THE INCIDENT, THOUGH ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS HAVE BEEN OFFERED. A REPORT, COMMISSIONED BY AIR FORCE PRESS OFFICER JESSE STAY AND FIRST MADE PUBLIC IN 1998, WAS CALLED THE “FIRST DOCUMENTED ADMISSION” FROM THE ARMY THAT A NERVE AGENT KILLED THE SHEEP AT SKULL VALLEY.

IN THE DAYS PRECEDING THE DUGWAY SHEEP INCIDENT THE UNITED STATES ARMY AT DUGWAY PROVING GROUND CONDUCTED AT LEAST THREE SEPARATE OPERATIONS INVOLVING NERVE AGENTS. ALL THREE OPERATIONS OCCURRED ON MARCH 13, 1968. ONE INVOLVED THE TEST FIRING OF A CHEMICAL ARTILLERY SHELL, ANOTHER THE BURNING OF 160 U.S. GALLONS (600 LITERS) OF NERVE AGENT IN AN OPEN AIR PIT, AND IN THE THIRD, A JET AIRCRAFT SPRAYING NERVE AGENT IN A TARGET AREA ABOUT 27 MI (43 KM) WEST OF SKULL VALLEY. IT IS THE THIRD EVENT THAT IS USUALLY CONNECTED TO THE SKULL VALLEY SHEEP KILL.

VX IS AN EXTREMELY TOXIC SYNTHETIC CHEMICAL COMPOUND IN THE ORGANOPHOSPHORUS CLASS, SPECIFICALLY, A THIOPHOSPHONATE. IN THE CLASS OF NERVE AGENTS, IT WAS DEVELOPED FOR MILITARY USE IN CHEMICAL WARFARE AFTER TRANSLATION OF EARLIER DISCOVERIES OF ORGANOPHOSPHATE TOXICITY IN PESTICIDE RESEARCH. IN ITS PURE FORM, VX IS AN OILY, RELATIVELY NON-VOLATILE, LIQUID THAT IS AMBER-LIKE IN COLOR. BECAUSE OF ITS LOW VOLATILITY, VX PERSISTS IN ENVIRONMENTS WHERE IT IS DISPERSED.

Why?

PREVIOUSLY OBTAINED DOCUMENTS SAID A NERVE AGENT DEMONSTRATION OCCURRED THE DAY BEFORE THE SHEEP DEATHS. ON MARCH 13, 1968, AN A-4 SKYHAWK ATTACK AIRCRAFT FLEW A TEST MISSION OVER THE DUGWAY PROVING GROUND WITH CHEMICAL DISPENSERS CONTAINING THE NERVE AGENT VX. ONE OF THE DISPENSERS WAS NOT COMPLETELY EMPTIED DURING THE TEST, AND AS THE A-4 GAINED ALTITUDE AFTER ITS BOMBING RUN, VX TRICKLED OUT IN A TRAIL BEHIND THE AIRCRAFT, DRIFTED INTO SKULL VALLEY, NORTH OF THE PROVING GROUND, AND SETTLED OVER A HUGE FLOCK OF SHEEP.

THE ARMY MAINTAINED THAT IT DID NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INCIDENT AND DID NOT ADMIT NEGLIGENCE.

RAY PECK, WHO OWNED THE SHEEP THAT WERE KILLED, WAS OUTSIDE WORKING DURING THE MAY 13, 1968, INCIDENT; MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY DEVELOPED NERVOUS-SYSTEM ILLNESSES THAT WERE SIMILAR TO THOSE REPORTED BY PEOPLE EXPOSED TO LOW LEVELS OF VX IN LAB EXPERIMENTS.

A REPORT WHICH REMAINED CLASSIFIED UNTIL 1978 AND UNRELEASED TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL NEARLY 30 YEARS AFTER THE INCIDENT WAS CALLED THE “FIRST DOCUMENTED ADMISSION” BY THE ARMY THAT VX KILLED THE SHEEP.

After extensive research concerning what was at the time called: ” The Skull Valley Sheep Kill“, or the Dugway Sheep Kill, on or around March 17 1968, I can no longer in good conscious support the general consensus that the Military, or Dugway Proving Ground was at fault or “caused” the incident. The realistic facts, most especially, the atmospheric conditions, at the time and the date of the incident, do not add up in a logical order. The sheep were grazing in an area about 27 mi (43 km) from the proving ground; total sheep deaths of 6,000–6,400 were reported over the next several days as a result of the incident. Other information contradicted the initial assumptions. One contradiction to nerve agent exposure as a cause came in the symptoms of some of the sheep following the incident. Several sheep, still alive, sat unmoving on the ground. The sheep refused to eat, but exhibited normal breathing patterns and showed signs of internal hemorrhaging. Regular breathing and internal hemorrhaging are inconsistent with nerve agent exposure, and no other animals of any type, including cows, horses, dogs, rabbits, or birds, appeared to have suffered any ill effects, a circumstance that was hard to explain if VX had in fact caused the sheep deaths. One explanation in the aftermath of the incident was that a chemical or biological agent had escaped from the Dugway Proving Ground. Circumstantial evidence seemed to support this assertion; the United States Army admitted to conducting open-air tests with VX in the days preceding the sheep kill. The Army declared that a spray nozzle had malfunctioned during the test ~~~ causing an aircraft to continue spraying VX as it climbed to higher altitudes~~~ . It was reported that a small amount of VX was found in the tissue of the dead sheep.

~~~Regular breathing and internal hemorrhaging are inconsistent with nerve agent exposure. As was found to be the case with some of the sheep.~~~

However, In my opinion. Again, IN MY OPINION, I do not believe it is likely that the VX agent could have carried over the distance from where the agent was dispensed, AFTER A “BOMBING RUN”,(~~~How Much VX was left ~~~) where the flock of sheep were grazing. ~~~OVER a 24 hour period of time~~~ And~~~ 24 Miles away please note that I am referring to the generally accepted version of events. The A10 Skyhawk with a malfunctioning dispenser.

REFERENCES:

Skull Valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Valley_Indian_Reservation

OPERATION BIG ITCH

OH….. THE THINGS OUR GOVERNMENT GETS AWAY WITH… !!

HERE IS ANOTHER TWISTED EXAMPLE OF THE HIGHLY SECRET ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE OCCURRED AT DUGWAY PROVING GROUND.

OPERATION BIG ITCH WAS A U.S. ENTOMOLOGICAL WARFARE FIELD TEST USING UNINFECTED FLEAS TO DETERMINE THEIR COVERAGE AND SURVIVABILITY AS A VECTOR FOR BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. THE TESTS WERE CONDUCTED AT DUGWAY PROVING GROUND IN 1954. OPERATION BIG ITCH WAS A SEPTEMBER 1954 SERIES OF TESTS AT DUGWAY PROVING GROUND IN UTAH..

THE TESTS WERE DESIGNED TO DETERMINE COVERAGE PATTERNS AND SURVIVABILITY OF THE TROPICAL RAT FLEA (XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS) FOR USE IN BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AS DISEASE VECTOR. THE FLEAS USED IN THESE TRIALS WERE NOT INFECTED BY ANY BIOLOGICAL AGENT. THE FLEAS WERE LOADED INTO TWO TYPES OF MUNITIONS AND DROPPED FROM THE AIR. THE E14 BOMB AND E23 BOMB, WHICH COULD BE CLUSTERED INTO THE E86 CLUSTER BOMB AND E77 BOMB, RESPECTIVELY. WHEN THE CLUSTER GUINEA PIGS WERE USED AS TEST SUBJECTS AND PLACED AROUND A 660-YARD (600 M) CIRCULAR GRID.

BIG ITCH PROVED SUCCESSFUL, THE TESTS SHOWED THAT NOT ONLY COULD THE FLEAS SURVIVE THE DROP FROM AN AIRPLANE BUT THEY ALSO SOON ATTACHED THEMSELVES TO HOSTS. THE WEAPON PROVED ABLE TO COVER A BATTALION-SIZED TARGET AREA AND DISRUPT OPERATIONS FOR UP TO ONE DAY. THE ONE-DAY LIMIT WAS DUE TO THE ACTIVITY OF THE FLEAS; THE AIR DROPPED FLEAS WERE ONLY ACTIVE FOR ABOUT 24 HOURS.

REFERENCES:

ENTOMOLOGICAL WARFARE HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/ENTOMOLOGICAL_WARFARE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_agent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(epidemiology)

Project SHAD and Project 112

Project 112

Project 112 was a biological and chemical weapon experimentation project conducted by the United States Department of Defense from 1962 to 1973.

Project 112 was a highly classified military testing program which was aimed at both offensive and defensive human, animal, and plant reaction to biological and chemical warfare in various combinations of climate and terrain. Experiments involved unknowing test subjects who did not give informed consent, and took place on land and at sea in various climates and terrains. Experiments involved humans, plants, animals, insects, aircraft, ships, submarines and amphibious vehicles.

Project 112 primarily concerned the use of aerosols to disseminate biological and chemical agents that could produce “controlled temporary incapacitation” (CTI). The test program would be conducted on a large scale at “extra continental test sites” in the Central and South Pacific.

The project was coordinated from Deseret Test Center, Utah.

As of 2005 publicly available information on Project 112 remains incomplete.

Project 112 consisted of both land-based and sea-based tests. The sea-based tests, called Project SHAD were primarily launched from other ships such as the USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) and USS George Eastman (YAG-39), Army tugboats, submarines, or fighter aircraft and was designed to identify U.S. warships’ vulnerabilities to attacks with chemical or biological warfare agents and to develop decontamination and other methods to counter such attacks while maintaining a war-fighting capability.

USS George Eastman

63-1 Eager Belle I

63-1 Eager Belle II

64-2 Flower Drum I

65-4 Magic Sword

65-17 Fearless Johnny

66-13 Half Note

The Most Disturbing Incidences… Read Closely

In May 1965, vulnerability tests in the U.S. using the anthrax stimulant Bacillus globigii were performed in the Washington D.C. area by SOD covert agents. One test was conducted at the Greyhound bus terminal and the other at the north terminal of the National Airport. In these tests the bacteria were released from spray generators hidden in specially built briefcases. SOD also conducted a series of tests in the New York City Subway system between 7 and 10 June 1966 by dropping light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis var. niger. In the latter tests, results indicated that a city-level epidemic would have occurred.

Local police and transit authorities were not informed of these tests.

Project SHAD

Project SHAD, an acronym for Shipboard Hazard and Defense, was part of a larger effort called Project 112, which was conducted during the 1960’s. Project SHAD encompassed tests designed to identify U.S. War Ships’ vulnerabilities to attacks with chemical agents or biological warfare agents and to develop procedures to respond to such attacks while maintaining a war-fighting capability and to determine how well service members aboard military ships could detect and respond to chemical and biological attacks. Dee Dodson Morris of the Army Chemical Corps who coordinated the ongoing investigation, says, “The SHAD tests were intended to show how vulnerable Navy ships were to chemical or biological warfare agents. The objective was to learn how chemical or biological warfare agents would disperse throughout a ship, and to use that information to develop procedures to protect crew members and decontaminate ships.”

Although many of the roughly 5,500 veterans who took part were aware of the tests, some were involved without their knowledge. Psycho chemical warfare involves the use of psycho pharmacological agents with the intention of incapacitating an adversary through the temporary induction of hallucinations or delirium. These agents have generally been considered chemical weapons and, more narrowly, constitute a specific type of incapacitating agent. Although never developed into an effective weapons system, psycho chemical warfare theory and research—along with overlapping mind control drug research—was secretly pursued in the mid-20th century by the US military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the context of the Cold War. These research programs were ended when they came to light and generated controversy in the 1970’s. The degree to which the Soviet Union developed or deployed similar agents during the same period remains largely unknown.

References:

Agent 15

Field Testing of Hallucinogenic Agents

While the Medical Research Volunteer Program conducted at Edgewood Arsenal collected information on the effects of psycho chemicals (hallucinogenic drugs) on individuals, there was no information on how these drugs would affect groups of people. Specifically, would they produce disorganizing and disruptive effects on military units?

Additional testing of LSD occurred at Fort McClellan (1959-1960) and Dugway Proving Ground (1959).

A multi-phase field test (Project Dork) involving the dissemination of the hallucinogen BZ was conducted at Dugway Proving Ground in 1964. The purposes of Project Dork were to test the effective dosage of BZ when disseminated in the open and to collect treatment information on BZ-induced delirium.

Operation Polka Dot

Operation Polka Dot was a U.S. Army test of a biological cluster bomb during the early 1950s.

Operation Polka Dot was a field test of the E133 cluster bomb undertaken at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah during the early 1950s. The operation was detailed in a July 18, 1955 U.S. Army report that also detailed Operation Trouble Maker. The operation was classified “secret”and involved filling the munitions with the biological agent stimulant, Bacillus globigii.

, usually anthrax. The E133 cluster weighed 750 pounds. It held between 536 and 544 E61 bomblets , which when dropped would detonate on impact dispersing an aerosol of biological agent , usually

References

Biological Agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare

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The “MOCKINGBIRD, Project”

Armonk, NY (2004) “MOCKINGBIRD, Project”. Encyclopedia of intelligence and counterintelligence (First ed.). Routledge. p. 432. ISBN 0765680688. “A Cold War-era CIA propaganda campaign, Project MOCKINGBIRD was begun in the late 1940s under Frank Wisner, director of the Office of Policy Coordination.

Project MOCKINGBIRD sought to manipulate media coverage of the Cold War by recruiting foreign and domestic journalists to serve as clandestine propaganda agents for the United States.

Enjoying mixed success in the late 1950’s and 1960’s, the program was ended in the 1970’s due to mounting popular opposition to the CIA’s cover operations and domestic activities.

In 1977 New York Times article: The CIA conducted a covert propaganda campaign to squelch criticism of the Warren Report. The CIA urged its field stations to use their “propaganda assets” to attack those who didn’t agree with the Warren Report. In a dispatch from CIA headquarters, the Agency instructed its stations around the world to:



1. “Counteract the “new wave of books and articles criticizing the [Warren] Commission’s findings…[and] conspiracy theories …[that] have frequently thrown suspicion on our organization”



2. “discuss the publicity problem with liaison and friendly elite contacts, especially politicians and editors;” and….



3. “employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of the critics. … Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. … The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists..”

Operation Nifty Package

Operation Nifty Package was a United States Delta and Navy SEAL-operated plan conducted in 1989 designed to capture Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega. When Noriega took refuge in the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, deafening music and other psychological warfare tactics were used to convince him to exit and surrender himself.

The U.S. Army turned to psychological warfare, blaring rock music at “deafening levels,” gunning the engines of armored vehicles against the Nunciature’s fence, and setting fire to a neighboring field and bulldozing it to create a “helicopter landing zone. “Reportedly the version of the song “I Fought The Law” performed by The Clash was played repeatedly along with “You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC; “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses; another song in the line-up was “Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die” by Jethro Tull.

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