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

Australian defence minister JOEL FITZGIBBON has asked for an urgent briefing about
a United States military plan to test deadly nerve gas on Australian soldiers during the
1960s.

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

Newly declassified Defence and Prime Minister's office files show 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 .. ...

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