Article: U.S. military tested Agent Orange in Panama, accounts say.

PANAMA CITY _ The United States military conducted secret tests of Agent Orange and other toxic herbicides in Panama during the 1960s and '70s, potentially exposing many civilians and military personnel to lethal chemicals, according to documents and eyewitness accounts.

According to these accounts, which the U.S. military says remain unproven, hundreds of barrels of Agent Orange were shipped to Panama at the height of the Vietnam War, then sprayed on jungle areas in an effort to simulate the tropical battlefield conditions of Southeast Asia.

The Panamanian government has, for years, attempted to obtain proof from the United States that it used lethal ...

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