国会记录：6月10日，美国佛罗里达州的2002年（参议院）第S5277-S5278鲥鱼项目NELSON先生。主席先生，在最后的几天里，我已经了解了美国一些相当令人不安的消息军人被用作人类豚鼠。它是在20世纪70年代进行了船上的一个项目，船在太平洋，由鲥鱼缩写已知的项目 -  S-H-A-d。它基本上是利用各种生物和化学物质暴露我们的水手，据说，企图应该有那样的攻击发生在我们的部队准备就绪。当时我们仍然参与了越南战争。但我所得到的消息，目前还不清楚的话，其实，部队 - 在这种情况下，水手们 - 被告知有关测试和，事实上，给予相应的警告得到适当的防护装备。究其原因这已经到了光 - 我要给予信贷，信贷是因为 - 有加州众议员汤普森，谁一直在栏杆有关此问题的一个勇敢的国会议员。但最近来到了我的注意，因为其中几个已经退休的水手都被美国政府告知，他们应该进来并得到身体检查，并且其中一些前水手在佛罗里达州。现在，这里是它的程度。有所做的一些测试113。 The only ones that have been released thus far are some 12 of the 113 tests. According to the sources I have, in those 12, there were a total of 4,300 sailors who were exposed to these chemical and biological agents that were sprayed on or over the ships in the Pacific in the 1970s. Of those 4,300 sailors, only 622 have been notified and have been notified by mail. By the way, how it came to my attention is 51 of those 622 happen to reside in the State of Florida. This, in and of itself, portends some very serious consequences for our country. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I want to know, now some three decades later, that we are contacting these sailors to come in and get checked medically. I want to know the details. I want to know who were the military personnel, were there any civilian personnel, and were there any substances we should know about so that we could give the kind of medical care that would be important as the U.S. Government ought to be protecting the people, particularly the people who served in uniform trying to protect this country. When this came to my attention last week, I wrote to the Secretary of Defense and asked him for an explanation. I have written to our wonderful chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Levin, and asked him to conduct an inquiry and hearing, if necessary, and if it needs to be classified, then we can operate in the Armed Services Committee in a classified manner to find out what the degree of exposure was and what the degree of medical attention should be in order to protect these American citizens. If that is not enough, I have also had my suspicions aroused because in the 1950s there was a test going on in the old Boca Raton airbase. This was an airbase that during World War II was a training base for flyers. After World War II, in the 1950s, there was research going on at this particular airfield to develop a toxin that would attack and kill the Soviet wheat crop. Remember, in the 1950s we were immersed in the cold war. We didn't know what to expect. We had the two nuclear superpowers. We were investigating: Could we develop a toxin that, if the United States were attacked, with which we would be able to attack their agricultural supply. Why was that done in Florida? Well, we don't raise wheat in Florida. So that is one of the reasons Florida was chosen. But in addition to the Boca Raton location, there were other field tests made not only for wheat but perhaps for other substances that I have been able to find out about just in the State of Florida, in locations such as Belle Glade, Fort Pierce, Avon Park, and Panama City. A couple of months ago, I wrote to the Department of Defense and asked for information about this matter, along with the same line of inquiry which I have just spoken about with regard to SHAD, the gassing of the sailors in the 1970s. I wanted to know: Were people at risk? Were military personnel exposed? Were civilians exposed? And on the 85- acre parcel to the north of what is now Florida Atlantic University, built on the Boca Raton airport, a part of the old airbase, an 85-acre area to the north where this testing was going on, were there toxins that were dumped there? Were there toxins buried there? Basically, to my inquiry to the Department of Defense a couple months ago, they said they could not tell me because it was classified. Well, the Senate Committee on Armed Services is not only capable but is quite experienced in handling highly classified matters of the Government. The Defense Department had better be forthcoming to let us know if there is a problem, and if there is, what we are going to do about it. [[Page S5278]] These two issues have come up in the last few days and have certainly aroused my suspicions. I call on the good offices of the Secretary of Defense, who I think personally is doing a very good job, to see that his organization snaps to and produces the documentation the Senate needs in its oversight capacity. ____________________