Litigation
Jan. 9, 2009
Veterans' Suit Seeks Care for Victims of 40-Year-Old Secret Experiments
A group of vets filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against the Defense Dept, CIA and the U.S. Army, claiming that they were subjected to experiments that were conducted to identify the effects of toxic chemical and biological substances on humans. The soldiers say they served as "laboratory rats or guinea pigs" for the military, which was trying to develop non-lethal but incapacitating agents and to research mind control.
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Shortly after Franklin D. Rochelle was drafted into the Army in 1968, he saw a flyer for a program that promised him a four-day workweek, better food, civilian clothes and $1 per day extra pay. All he had to do, the flyer said, was test boots, uniforms and gas masks. Rochelle signed up. He was 20 years old. On Wednesday, more than 40 years after Rochelle joined the progra...
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