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Article: Field experiment Gopher (Canadian government exposed own troops to mustard gas during WWII).
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- Esprit de Corps
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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In recent months there has been a tidal wave of controversy swirling around DND's Preventive Health Branch. Scandalous stories about Mefloquine madness, anthrax illness and most recently `mad cow' disease stemming from military innoculations, have sparked widespread fear and distrust among the troops. As this article shows, the Canadian military has a long history of infecting their own troops.
In April 1996, Legion Magazine featured an article about Canadian troops being exposed to poison gas during WWII. A subsequent article in the Vancouver Sun went on to say that the Canadian government had finally recognized that there are now veterans suffering from exposure ...