プロジェクト１１２ 知られざる米軍化学兵器開発
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動画
Project 112 documentary - "Pentagon" trailer
Project 112
From Wikipedia,
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BS1 8月13日（火）午後10:00～10:49
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東西冷戦下の１９６０年代、アメリカは「核兵器」に代わる大量殺りく兵器として「生物化学兵器」の開発を急いでいた。コードネーム「プロジェクト１１２」。兵士を動員した人体実験も行うという非人道的なものだった。さらに、沖縄もプロジェクトの重要拠点のひとつとなっていた。人体実験の健康被害を訴える兵士たちが保障を求めて裁判を起こす中、膨大な機密文書と兵士たちの証言からアメリカの化学兵器開発の実態を明らかにする国家と戦争に翻弄され続けた長い旅路の物語である。
動画
Project 112 documentary - "Pentagon" trailer
公開日: 2012/10/07
Upcoming documentary about Project 112
For the first time ever, see footage from the Vietnam War era chemical and biological warfare tests designated Project 112. Is the government at fault for sickening soldiers? Veterans say yes - the government says prove it.
Project 112
From Wikipedia,
Extracontinental Site 2, Okinawa[edit source | editbeta]
As of 2012 the Department of Defense did not disclose any Project 112 tests as being conducted on Okinawa. However, one file of a Project 112 subject, former marine Don Heathcote, notes that he was “Sprayed from numbered containers”. Heathcote told The Japan Times that while he was stationed on Camp Hansen in 1962, he “sprayed foliage with chemicals from drums with different-colored faces.” and that “As we did this, a guy came by with a clipboard and made notes. How better to run a test than to color-code each barrel?” On his return to the US, Heathcote developed bronchitis and sinusitis, which the doctors connected to chemical exposure.[9]
Corroborating suspicions of Project 112 activities on Okinawa include "An Organizational History of the 267th Chemical company", which was made available by the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center to Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, Veteran's Service Officer Michelle Gatz in 2012.[9] According to this document, the 267th Chemical Company was activated on Okinawa on December 1, 1962 as the 267th Chemical Platoon (SVC) and was billeted at Chibana. During this deployment, "Unit personnel were actively engaged in preparing RED HAT area, Site 2, for the receipt and storage of first increment items, [shipment] "YBA", DOD Project 112". The company received further shipments, code named YBB and YBF, which according to The Japan Times are "believed to include sarin and mustard gas."[9]
The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book "Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–1945, and the American cover up" wrote about Project 112:
The test program, which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “an ambitious one.” The tests were designed to cover “not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well.” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “satellite sites.” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries. The tests conducted there were aimed at both human, animal and plant reaction to BW. It is known that tests were undertaken in Cairo, Egypt, Liberia, in South Korea, and in Japan’s satellite province of Okinawa in 1961, or earlier. This was at least one year prior to the creation of Project 112.
―(Harris, 2002)[5]:232
Harris continued:
The Okinawa anti-crop research project may lend some insight to the larger projects 112 sponsored. BW experts in Okinawa and “at several sites in the Midwest and south:”conducted in 1961 “field tests” for wheat rust and rice blast disease. These tests met with “partial success” in the gathering of data, and led, therefore, to a significant increase in research dollars in fiscal year 1962 to conduct additional research in these areas. The money was devoted largely to developing “technical advice on the conduct of defoliation and anti-crop activities in Southeast Asia.” By the end of fiscal year 1962, the Chemical Corps had let or were negotiating contracts for over one thousand chemical defoliants. The Okinawa tests evidently were fruitful.
―(Harris, 2002)[5]:232-233
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