AAP General News (Australia)
07-07-2008
FED: Fitzgibbon calls for briefing on Aust-US nerve gas plan

SYDNEY, July 7 AAP - Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has asked for an urgent briefing
about a US military plan to test deadly nerve gas on Australian soldiers during the 1960s.

It's been revealed that the US military planned to test the gas on Australian soldiers
in far north Queensland during the Cold War.

Newly declassified Defence and Prime Minister's office files show that the US was strongly
pushing then prime minister Harold Holt's government in the 1960s to allow tests of two
of the deadliest chemical weapons ever developed -- VX and GB, better known as Sarin nerve
gas.

The ...

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