| http://www.rense.com/general24/40.htm As you can plainly see, many extraordinary things occurred during our time there. It has taken a great amount of courage to come forward with this information when I know it will be at first taken with disbelief. If lie detector tests, psychological examinations and physical examinations are called for, I will gladly comply. I welcome any effort to back the authenticity of this testimony for I am not lying, nor am I crazy, but I am ill and so are a great many others in this country and around the world. Affidavits are coming from many of those mentioned above. When the others are found I expect theirs as well. This was my first experience dealing with the military, I was anxious to re-enter the real world and put it all behind me. Two things have hampered this: my health and my conscience. John had opted for an early out, received an Honorable Discharge and we moved to Tampa, Florida. It was here that my cognitive struggle began for I quickly realized that my ability to communicate with others was hampered by moments of confusion and of total memory loss. In 1988 I had taken the Army's entrance exam. This exam is well noted for its accuracy in determining I.Q. levels. My score fell within the top 10% and at the enlistment center they offered me a MOS in Military Intelligence learning Czechoslovakian, yet now I am sometimes unable to carry on a simple conversation. It has been a humbling experience. In March of 1994, an OB/GYN discovered a lump in my throat and urged me to have it checked out. After many tests, I underwent a very risky surgery to have the right side of my thyroid removed. The biopsy revealed papillary thyroid cancer. Papillary thyroid cancer can ONLY be acquired from radiation poisoning or fallout. Now there are radiation treatments, various tests and the use of Synthroid for the rest of my life. Strangely, after the tumor had been removed, the daily headaches and nausea disappeared and the pain in my joints has greatly lessened. Further testing revealed Hashimoto's disease. You have a better chance of being struck by lightening than getting this extremely rare condition. It is an immune system disorder relevant to a defective gene. That is what radiation does to your genes. It does not always outright attack them; it alters them. Now that you have discovered my motives, I would like to inform you of all the information acquired as a result of private research. After reading reports of human radiation experimentation conducted by the Air Force in Alaska involving radioactive isotope iodine 131 (this is what gives many people thyroid cancer), I began to make a few phone calls. The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research suggested that I may have gotten thyroid cancer as a result of drinking milk that had been contaminated with fallout as a child. Their representative explained that low exposures of iodine 131 over a long period of time can cause thyroid cancer and that it takes five years to develop. The only problem with this theory is that as child I never drank milk. I have lactose intolerance and the physician at the time instructed my mother and grandmother to not give me any milk products. I also did not grow up in a state which received high levels of fallout according to the National Cancer Association. On July 21, 1998 per a telephone conversation with Cathy Lemar, Executive Director of the Military Toxics Project, I was informed that Ft. Greely has radioactive materials stored on site. She has sent me a copy of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) report on Ft. Greely in which it states, "Begin removal of contaminated pipe and associated soil from nuclear power plant cooling water waste line in FY97" She also made me fully aware and has sent documentation of the role depleted uranium plays in giving people thyroid cancer. This new awareness was an encouragement to probe further. To my amazement there is a wealth of information available on the internet. To understand the history of Fort Greely, you must understand that it is also called by two other names: the Northern Warfare Training Center and the Cold Regions Testing Center. Every year NWTC hosts troops from all over the country, including West Point Cadets, to train on its ranges and rivers. CRTC is responsible for a plethora of testing on Ft. Greely. As part of the Cold War effort to develop and test nuclear weapons, Ft. Greely was chosen as a site to place the Atomic Energy commission's SM-1A reactor. The SM-1A was a medium sized, fixed-base (as opposed to portable), pressurized water nuclear power plant. Experiments were conducted there and called "Project Greely" during the years of 1964 and 1965. During the years of 1966 and 1967 I have found reports referring to the "Greely Event". NASA conducted nuclear tests from 1966 until 1970. Project Greely Titles "Overexposure at SM-1A reactor, Fort Greely, Alaska" "Possible high radiation exposures at the SM-1A nuclear power plant (List of men to be subject to high exposures during reactor refueling)" "Overexposure to ionizing radiation at SM-1A" "Memo to file, subject: Selection of contractor for analytical work on SM-1A" "Memo to JE Reeves, Et Al, Subject: Interim report of offsite surveillance for Project Greely" Greely Event Titles "Memo to O.R. Placak, Subject: Preliminary report for the Greely Event" "Information meeting 650, 11:20 a.m., Wednesday, December 21, Chairman's Conference Room, D.C. Office (Assignment of U.S. Personnel at IAEA, Rt on 12/20 Greely Event, Project Cabriolet, Etc)" NASA Titles "Neutron spectral considerations affecting projected estimates of radiation embrittlement of the Army SM-1A reactor pressure vessel" "Inspection of europium-bearing control rods from the Army SM-1A stationary medium power reactor" "SM-1A core 4 design analysis Final report" "Postirradiation examination of fuel elements from core 1 and core 2 of the Army SM-1A stationary medium power reactor" "SM-1A core 4 loading and startup core physics test report Final report" "SM-1A reactor pressure vessel surveillance - Irradiation of follow-on capsules in the SM-1 reactor" Mayor Glenn Wright has reported speaking to a lifelong resident of Delta Junction. As a child in elementary school she had remembered being told that a small incident had occurred with the reactor. The school children were asked to place cups on their desks every morning and they were collected after the children left at night. She had always thought that this was done to collect and measure radioactive fallout. The following information is from the EPA. Ft. Greely has two Superfund locations. The first one is Superfund ID# AK2210890115 and there is no detailed information available from their web site about it. The second is Superfund ID# AK8214522155. Its EPA# is AK9214522345 and it also has a Hazardous Waste Report and an AIRS report. On these reports I found containers that have an illegal status and an operator status that reads, "INACTIVE/CLOSING, BUT NOT YET RCRA CLOSED". Admittedly these reports are all new to me and I am missing a great deal of information that would be in a more detailed report, yet the "NOT YET RCRA CLOSED" gives us quite a bit of information. The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research's On-Line Classroom gives detailed information about the classification of radioactive waste. "Transuranic Waste (TRU): Waste containing elements with atomic numbers (number of protons) greater than 92, the atomic number of uranium. (Thus the term 'transuranic,' or 'above uranium.') TRU includes only waste material that contains transuranic elements with half-lives greater than 20 years and concentrations greater than 100 nanocuries per gram. If the concentrations of the half-lives are below the limits, it is possible for waste to have transurnaic elements but not be classified as TRU waste. In both the commercial and military sectors, some of the radioactive wastes generated are mixed with hazardous substances, such as organic solvents or other toxic chemicals. Much of this waste (especially the transuranic waste) contains substantial quantities of long-lived radionuclides, such as plutonium-239 and technetium-99. The radioactive components of mixed wastes are regulated under the Atomic Energy Act by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for commercial sources, and by the Department of Energy for military sources. The hazardous components, however, are subject to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency according to an environmental law known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)". I am also very interested in finding out whether RCRA is responsible for handling chemical and biological agents as well. When discussing Alaska, the term "phenomena" will frequently arise. Scientific phenomena take place there which take place no where else on this earth. Has our military, which should be the expert in this area due to their years of research, made others aware of such phenomena? According to the "Cold Weather Decontamination Study by Joseph C. Maloney, July 1960, Radiologic Laboratory, U.S. Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratories, Army Chemical Center, Maryland" it states, 'The vertical movement of deposited solid fallout into the ground is negligible under temperate condition, and a similar circumstance would be encountered when the ground is frozen. however, the fallout may settle through snow and ice by a combination of gravity and thermal action. Since the location of the fallout with respect to the surface of either snow or ice will determine the decontamination procedure to be followed, it is necessary to understand the phenomena associated with fallout migration. The NCEL has reported that sand, deposited on snow, migrated a maximum vertical distance of 1-1/2 inches until solar radiation no longer had an effect. Little else is known of this phenomena and consequently further information is required'. Might other phenomena might take place there in relation to nuclear, chemical and biological contamination? Former U.S. Senator Frank H. Murkowski in his 1993 speech, "The Environmental Legacy of the Cold War", states, 'More recently the Department of Defense issued an interim report listing sites at Fort Greely, Fort Wainwright, Adak, Dutch Harbor and Attu where chemical weapons were or may have been tested, stored or discarded'. I have also learned that Army dosimeters were specifically designed to pick up any form of ionizing radiation, not only the kind used in x-rays, but also ionizing radiation emitted from reactors. John's and Jason's dosimeter results always came back o.k., but if they were the only two people on base wearing dosimeters, how else was the leak discovered if the tanks were buried underground. If their dosimeter results were truly all right then the Army's only other clue that radiation was leaking had to come from the number of people coming down with cancer on base. And now I turn to an article entitled, "B-2 successfully drops improved bunker buster bomb", written by Senior Airman Adam Stump of the 354th Fighter Wings, Public Affairs, released March 26, 1998. The article boasts "A B-2 Spirit bomber dropped two B61-11 bomb shells to test their improved ground penetration capability March 17 at the Stuart Creek Impact Area, 35 miles southeast of Fairbanks". It goes on to say "The B61-11 is a new modification to a nuclear weapon that has been in the Air Force inventory since the 1960's". "The bomb cases contained simulated nuclear components made of depleted uranium...". The writer of the article goes on to explain the scientific experiment and attempts to assure the public that no danger exists. Did Eielson drop depleted uranium bombs on a Ft. Greely range during Operation Desert Storm and later attempt to test our lungs to ascertain whether or not the radioactive material we inhaled impaired our lung capacity? How long have they been testing depleted uranium on Ft. Greely? The Mayor of Delta Junction, Mr. Glenn Wright, told me that aviation tanks located on Ft. Greely and Delta Junction were removed due to radioactive contamination. Certainly it is logical to deduce that these tanks took part in depleted uranium exercises out on the range. In a Newsletter of the Military Toxics Project, First Quarter-1997, called Touching Bases, there appears a letter from Mary Grisco, Chair, Military Accountability Committee, Sierra Club, Alaska Chapter--January 8, 1996 which states, "Ft. Greeley, outside of Fairbanks, contains many unexploded ordinance as well as storage areas of unidentified weapons. Neighbors complain of headaches and nausea and wildlife (their subsistence) tasting 'funny'. Ft. Greely continues training while issuing statements that public health is not being threatened". According to a Central Intelligence Agency document entitled, "Radiation Sickness or Death Caused by Surreptitious Administration of Ionizing Radiation to an Individual", it states, 'In 1954, a Soviet Secret Agent, Mikolai Khokhlov, gave himself up to U.S. authorities rather than carry out an assassination in West Germany. He subsequently joined the emigrant Russian revolutionary movement centered in West Germany. In 1957, while attending a Frankfurt conference, he became sick with nausea, vomiting and fainting.' It goes on to say, 'Thallium poisoning was suspected. On review of his activities on the day he became sick, he recalled a bad-tasting cup of coffee after his speech; he thought this coffee may have been poisoned'. This is exactly what residents of Ft. Greely and Delta Junction have been complaining about for a very long time. The date of this document is 1969, so it is quite obvious that our government has been fully aware of the situation and has refused to act responsibly in this regard. At the DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments website, located at tis-nt.eh.doe.gov/ohre/, I searched the archives, performed a fielded search, and typed in the terms "Greely" and then "Gerstle". Our own government has already admitted to nuclear testing that occurred on Ft. Greely that had resulted in fallout. They have admitted to chemical testing performed on soldiers at Ft. Greely without their knowledge. It is here that you will find the admission from our government that these tests occurred at the expense of residents of Ft. Greely and Delta Junction and that our government simply did not care. They placed the importance of these tests above the safety and welfare of the very citizens it professed to protect. And lastly, the most striking evidence to date has come from Mrs. Joyce Riley, head of the American Gulf War Veterans Association. This previously classified document is entitled, "Installation Assessment of Gerstle River Test Site, Records Evaluation Report No. 105, Volume 1, December 1976, Department of the Army, Office of the Project Manager for Chemical Demilitarization and Installation Restoration, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21010, For Official Use Only". It begins with this statement, 'During 1976, a Records Research (R/R) study was conducted at Fort Greely to establish possible contamination at the Gerstle River Test Site by chemical, biological, and radioactive material, and to assess the possibility of contaminants migrating beyond the boundaries of the installation'. At least three times it is explained that this report is incomplete because they were unable to obtain all of the data for these tests. It states, 'Only the main post of Fort Greely is improved. The outlying test sites - Gerstle River, Delta Creek, Bolio Lake, Beales Range, Texas Range - are considered semi-improved, with mostly temporary structures. Although Fort Greely is not a U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (USATECOM) installation, the U.S. Army Cold Regions Test Center (a tenant activity at Fort Greely) has operational control of Fort Greely. Chemical, biological, and dud-producing high explosive munitions (and riot control munitions) have been employed in these areas in recent years. The Cold Regions Test Center also uses these ranges for environmental testing. The same area is used by the 172d Infantry Brigade (Alaska) for training. Civilian use of the area is almost entirely recreational' How many people have been exposed to these ranges over the years? By shipping most of its personnel out every one or two years and bringing in new soldiers and families, by training other companies of soldiers from all over America and even inviting private enterprise to train employees there, it seems that the numbers of people potentially exposed are astounding. In reference to the Gerstle River Test Site, this report states, 'The land is unsuitable for agricultural purposes'. In another section it states, 'Hunting is not allowed at Fort Greely. The entire post, with post cantonment and areas immediately adjacent to roads and recreational lakes, is not open to general hunting and trapping'. Well, people sure are hunting there now and these same people are getting ill because of it. Every year, Delta Junction holds a buffalo cookout. These buffalo roam all over Texas range, eat the groundcover prepared for them, and the people eat the buffalo. The U.S. Army has no way of controlling moose who might wander into those areas to graze and must be held accountable to those who subsist off of that meat. 'In the early 1970's, the Gerstle River Test Site at Fort Greely became a matter of controversy for Alaskan politicians in Washington, D.C. The discovery that the U.S. Army had conducted chemical and biological tests at Fort Greely initiated an intense investigation. Numerous articles appeared in local papers, federal releases, and national television accusing the U.S. Army of being responsible for the deaths of various animals in Delta Junction, Alaska, approximately 10 miles from Fort Greely. Newspaper articles also accused the U.S. Army of being responsible for the paralysis of two children in Fairbanks, Alaska, and an outbreak of tularemia in Vermont in 1968, in addition to many other accusations. There has been no evidence or scientific proof to link the Alaska tests with any of the above accusations'. Old habits die hard and once again people are asking for explanations. 'Earth-covered ammunition storage magazines are overgrown with natural grasses, Kentucky Bluegrass, and Artca Red Fescue. The goal is to camouflage the nature of the facility from aerial observation and four or five more years of undisturbed growth will complete the program'. And yet, '..the Team cannot vouch for the accuracy of the data'. How can anyone be sure that all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons have been removed from the area. They can not, nor do they care to find out. Many of the symptoms I experience are the same symptoms experienced by the Gulf War Veterans, yet I was never there. Before moving to Ft. Greely I was an extremely healthy and vibrant person who never had any need to visit a physician. Now I am a sick 29 year old housewife and mother of four. Shall I, like a hypocrite, go with my family to church every Sunday and turn my back on this issue? To the contrary, every stone must be overturned. This type of knowledge requires responsibility and is an extremely delicate matter. Before her transfer back to the lower 48, my girlfriend confided that she had ovarian cancer. She told me that it had spread so quickly that she had only months to live. Her face of anguish haunts me. My husband, John, has for many years now discouraged me from trying to find out exactly what happened on Ft. Greely. He is a veteran and the idea that the military would do anything like this is almost like blasphemy to him. As a patriotic American, it is not my intention to disgrace the military in any way, rather, as a Christian woman, I feel a moral obligation to have this matter addressed and investigated further. It is especially important that the military be held accountable before they pull out in the year 2001 and leave the Delta Junction community and the state of Alaska with this mess. Up to this date they have not been forthright in their findings concerning the human health situation and environmental contamination. Those who passed through Fort Greely may be suffering and dying without even realizing why. Don Jenkins recalls, "Come to think of it, that is all we ever treated people on Greely for: headache and nausea with accompanying flu like symptoms. Besides that, we treated soldiers for broken bones which were the result of training exercises. For a three month period of time we had a real problem on Greely and were very worried. Everyone was coming in with these symptoms. We did not treat them, just ensured they did not become dehydrated." Mr. Jenkins is extremely ill these days. He served his nation in the Gulf and then on Greely. Don was told that he is by far the sickest man to come out of the Fox Trot 122 Main Support Battalion and it is no wonder. The variety of symptoms he experiences include: gastrointestinal problems, loose bowel syndrome, headaches, chronic fatigue, swelling of lymph nodes with those on the right side of his neck very pronounced, respiratory problems, extreme joint pain and weakness, and stabbing pains due to noticeable liver swelling. For his meritorious duty, he has been rewarded with slaps in the face by our government and has no cheek left to turn. John Vitek also has the Gulf War Syndrome. His stay on Greely had been brief. John has been consulting physicians ever since returning from Alaska for aches in his joints, muscle spasms, headaches, memory loss, ringing in the ears and stiff necks due to lymph node swelling . No one has been able to diagnose him. After relaying this information to him, he said, "Thank you. It is such a comfort to know why I am ill. Thank you so much". Heather Breece still experiences chronic fatigue and just feels sick all of the time. Jason Kelly said, "One thing I do recall about my health on Ft. Greely is that I was always tired and worn down. All day long in the clinic I felt tired and worn down. I always remember that". After Jason left Ft. Greely, he returned to feeling healthy again. My husband, John received 12 hours of sleep a night while on Ft. Greely and never woke up feeling refreshed. Today he is in good health. The U.S. Army may have slowed me down by inflicting this disease upon me, but I have not been stopped, nor will I stop until their reckless actions of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons testing have been stopped. How many times must the face of humanity be slapped before he rises up and cries, "JUSTICE!"? America, we lived and worked on a nuclear, chemical and biological weapons playground. Today many of us are ill. It is just this simple. Our government has perpetrated The Gulf War Illness upon this nation's people. Today I am calling for a revolution of Truth in this country. I am calling every good American to arms. Arm yourself with Truth. Truth is our government's greatest enemy. Truth shall prevail every time. It is only when we are once again armed with Truth that our nation will be great. As these words leave you now, sing to yourself the words of "America the Beautiful" and weep. UPDATE: After contacting Laura Cuozzo and realizing that innocent people were still being subjected to the aftereffects of nuclear, chemical and biological testing, I was contacted by representatives of the Canadian Parliament. They are now asking serious questions involving the experiments, which may have a direct effect on the caribou migration into Alaska and throughout the northwest. To satisfy my curiosity about the health effects on the civilian residents of Delta Junction, I contacted Delta Junction City Hall, the Public Health Nurse, the one local physician and several others. They confirmed to me that the incidence of rare tumors and cancers appears to be much higher than that found in the general population. Bolio Lake no longer has any fish in it and several areas on the base are totally off limits. It is because of the real American Patriot's such as Laura Cuozzo and magazines like the Free American that we are still able to disclose information vital to the health and well being of all Liberty loving Americans. We must be our own advocates and research these issues as if our very lives depend upon them---BECAUSE THEY DO. We have heard ad nauseam of the experiments conducted on unwitting American children, the mentally retarded, prisoners and also the military. It is time the experiments be revealed, individuals be justly compensated and prosecution be pursued with regard to those who have perpetrated these illnesses and diseases on the very people the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Nuremberg Code was designed to protect. If you have information on this or any other experiments regarding nuclear, biological or chemical testing, please contact the American Gulf War Veterans Association: 3506 Highway 6 So. #117, Sugarland, Tx. 77478-4401, 1-800-231-7631 There can be a million lies; there is only one truth. We will continue to bring you the truth. For God and Country, Joyce Riley vonKleist & Dave vonKleist |
