Gulf War Syndrome event
also: Gulf War disease
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Claims (35)
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome documented
“He goes on, Tuesday's announcements marked the first categorical rejection of the Department of Defense of the existence of unknown malady stemming from the 1990-91 war. Dr. Joseph concluded that the Defense Department researchers found not…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 44:57
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome documented
“The heat of the fire of the public sentiment continued to burn until August 19th, 1969, when AP published an article called The Pentagon Admits Chemical Weapons Reached Soldiers. In the article, the Pentagon finally admitted that it knew as…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 53:14
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome documented
“The investigation, however, does not change the Department of Defense position that U.S. forces were not exposed to chemical or biological weapons. Whether through scud attacks or inadvertent releases from Allied bombings, said Air Force Co…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 46:23
Donald Riegle issued_report_on
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“Contrary to the Pentagon stance, a report issued in September of 1993 by the staff of Senator Donald Regal, a Democrat from Michigan, and the Center for Disease Control, affirmed that Iraqi Scud missiles capable of carrying biological and c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 12:06
Center for Disease Control issued_report_on
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“Contrary to the Pentagon stance, a report issued in September of 1993 by the staff of Senator Donald Regal, a Democrat from Michigan, and the Center for Disease Control, affirmed that Iraqi Scud missiles capable of carrying biological and c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 12:06
William Kay blamed
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“blames his sickness on the Iraqi Scud missile that hit near his unit, which he believes was loaded with chemical or biological or both agents. The military takes credit for doing its best to protect against these things, but one of the meth…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 15:00
Steve Beyer suffered_from
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“When people were coming back from Vietnam, wringling Agent Orange out of their clothes, they were told they were under stress too. The Army took almost 20 years to settle that one. So I don't think we have a real good record of letting troo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 13:59
U.S. Air Force reported_side_effects_from
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“Because of this, the military administered PB to almost all of the personnel stationed in the Gulf. Yes, they did. The Air Force personnel reported serious side effects from the drug. Pilots reported impaired breathing, blurred vision, shor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 24:44
Army Reserve suffered_from
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“Army Reserve units began showing symptoms of something terrible wrong with their physical condition. They reported they began having headaches, memory loss, bleeding gums, skin lesions, rashes, hair loss, muscle ache, and extreme fatigue. O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 3:10
Czechoslovakian chemical detection unit suffered_from
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“The Czechs later reported that 10 of their soldiers from the detection unit later began suffering from mysterious ailments. That was extremely familiar and comparable to what they labeled Gulf War Syndrome. In other sectors, the British had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 9:57
Charles Henshaw Jr. analyzed_data_on
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“result in coughing fits, according to the veterans that were involved in it. Dr. Charles Henshaw Jr., president of the American Academic of Environmental Medicine, analyzed data on 25 Gulf War veterans who had been exposed to low levels of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 6:39
Alan Cantrell Jr. stated
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“Veterans claimed that one-third of Gulf War babies had been born with abnormalities. That was 10 times the normal rate. Dr. Francis Wachman, an environmental pediatrician, stated that the syndrome could be passed on, creating an infant with…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 5:12
Francis Wachman stated
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“Veterans claimed that one-third of Gulf War babies had been born with abnormalities. That was 10 times the normal rate. Dr. Francis Wachman, an environmental pediatrician, stated that the syndrome could be passed on, creating an infant with…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 5:12
John Deutch covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“In 1995, it was obvious a few nerves were struck. The line of questioning centered around were Americans exposed to chemical, biological, and radiological weapons during the Persian Gulf War? Deutsch denied any such events ever occurred. Bu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 50:03
Garth Nicholson exposed
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“Finally, Bradley asked if there was any possibility that biological weapons or chemical weapons might have been used, and Deutsch simply dodged and evaded the question. The interview was aired on March 12, 1995. Two doctors have relentlessl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 50:32
Garth Nicholson exposed
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“wouldn't be a major cover-up that had been constructed by the Clinton administration. But of course, it started before that with the George H. W. Bush administration. In a letter written to a former Army chaplain, Colonel James Ammerman of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 52:42
Dan Tlepsky exposed
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“A further twist is that a chemical officer told the engineers that he detected nerve agent sarin, but the officers in charge of the soldiers told them not to don their chemical protective units and gas masks. The chemical officer, Dan Tleps…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 55:18
Gulf Watch exposed
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“More information came out when the AP released an article part of the log of Gulf War data missing. In an article called Gulf Watch, a Gulf veterans watchdog group discovered the log pages were mysteriously missing from a diary kept for Gen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 56:49
Peter Kawaja claimed
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“and that many of the weapons were used on U.S. and allied troops. He further states that thousands of documents that detail the Gulf War Syndrome cases and government involvement in both the production and shipment and the disease aftermath…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 55:28
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“institutions complaining of the same thing. Since then, over 20,000 veterans have complained of strange physical disabilities and over 7,000 of them have died from what was dubbed Gulf War Syndrome. But the Pentagon's official steadfastly d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 3:39
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“But that was not the case with these particular missiles. For the Army, the cover-up of what really happened began early. When the first indication surfaced with the Indiana Reservists that something was wrong with our Persian Gulf returnee…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 13:29
Department of Defense exposed
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“through the population. In a staff report prepared by the Senate Committee for Veterans Affairs, it outlined its findings as follows. For at least 50 years, DOD has intentionally exposed military personnel to potentially dangerous substance…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 18:26
Department of Defense failed_to_provide_follow_up
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“DOD and the VA have repeatedly failed to provide information and medical follow-up to those who participated in military research and was ordered to take investigational drugs. The federal government has failed to support scientific studies…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 20:19
Department of Defense misrepresented_danger_of
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“making it impossible to support a VA claim for service-connected disabilities. They have it in your shot record. They just don't acknowledge it. DOD has demonstrated a pattern of misrepresenting the danger of various military exposures, and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 21:16
Department of Defense denied
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“Veterans advocate Paul Sullivan recently obtained 11 pages of secret Defense Department logs revealing U.S. chemical alarms went off repeatedly during the war. Yes, they did. I know that personally. Pentagon spokesmen blame those alarms on …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 25:49
Department of Defense denied
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“unnamed Pentagon spokesman simply dismissed the latter as defective equipment. Yeah, that's when I was telling you guys we would get those alerts to don our chem gear, MOPS. So they were obviously detecting it because we had to put the equi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 10:28
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“Still, the government continued to deny the Gulf War syndrome existed. In an AP article titled, No Mystery Ailment Found in Gulf War Veterans, a study says, the author wrote, quote, a study of more than 10,000 veterans and family members su…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 43:37
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“The Pentagon's top medical official said Tuesday. They lied. The study turned up instances of back pain, headaches, alcoholism, depression, and other ailments, but no mystery ailment. They were dropping dead. Large percentages of particular…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 44:06
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“Again, you just can't hate these people enough. The exposure being investigated occurred in late January 1991 when the Czechoslovakia experts in chemical warfare detected the traces of sarin gas in areas occupied by the Allied forces. Still…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 46:56
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“that would cause this type of illness. Veterans organizations involved in exposing the truth fought an uphill battle with the government. Author Wilson, who is the executive director of the DAV, wrote that the Pentagon had shown an absolute…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 48:02
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“Mr. Wilson summed up in his article in the DAV magazine, quote, remember that during and after World War II, the Department of Defense concluded that there was no significant long-term health effects from the mustard gas or the atomic radia…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 49:02
U.S. Army administered
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“Because of this, the military administered PB to almost all of the personnel stationed in the Gulf. Yes, they did. The Air Force personnel reported serious side effects from the drug. Pilots reported impaired breathing, blurred vision, shor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 24:44
Department of Defense covered_up
Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted
“The Pentagon and other, we didn't demolish it, we bombed it and we spread that shit everywhere. The Pentagon and other government agencies aware of the presence of chemical weapons at the ammunition storage facility didn't realize in 1991, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 53:44
Stanley Harris dismissed
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“When the case went to court, the U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Harris dismissed the lawsuit, citing the necessity of military to protect the health of its troops. Sound familiar? It should. The fact that vaccines and drugs were untested…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 17:55
Jim Twitt speculated
Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted
“Gas deaths. You don't need massive death gas. You need a tiny little bit that affects you long term. They always use these bullshit words to qualify everything they say. Former congressional investigator Jim Twitt speculates that gases were…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 26:20
Mentions (15)
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We're going to talk a little bit about the Gulf War syndrome today. And if all of the other chapters of this book didn't make you mad, this one's going to make you mad. And of course, it's within our lifetime. So the author starts out with …
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institutions complaining of the same thing. Since then, over 20,000 veterans have complained of strange physical disabilities and over 7,000 of them have died from what was dubbed Gulf War Syndrome. But the Pentagon's official steadfastly d…
▶ 9:57
The Czechs later reported that 10 of their soldiers from the detection unit later began suffering from mysterious ailments. That was extremely familiar and comparable to what they labeled Gulf War Syndrome. In other sectors, the British had…
▶ 12:06
Contrary to the Pentagon stance, a report issued in September of 1993 by the staff of Senator Donald Regal, a Democrat from Michigan, and the Center for Disease Control, affirmed that Iraqi Scud missiles capable of carrying biological and c…
▶ 14:29
who developed respiratory symptoms and repeated bouts of influenza and kidney problems after returning from the Gulf War. He is also afflicted with prostate infections, spastic, colon, and multiple allergies. These symptoms, plus more, have…
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It's actually worse for you. And they made us take it. And then those of us who have like degenerative nerve damage, they don't even want to rate you for it. Life Magazine reported in an article about the Gulf War syndrome that Czech and Br…
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like Richard Secord. It is now maintained by experts that the Gulf War Syndrome investigation that a biological weapons laboratory in Houston supplied Barbadi with basic bacilli and virus cultures from which biological warfare agents could …
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Still, the government continued to deny the Gulf War syndrome existed. In an AP article titled, No Mystery Ailment Found in Gulf War Veterans, a study says, the author wrote, quote, a study of more than 10,000 veterans and family members su…
▶ 50:32
Finally, Bradley asked if there was any possibility that biological weapons or chemical weapons might have been used, and Deutsch simply dodged and evaded the question. The interview was aired on March 12, 1995. Two doctors have relentlessl…
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this very unusual DNA sequence in most of the Desert Storm veterans. It says that this microorganism was probably illegally developed and tested in the United States, then illegally sold and transferred to Iraq during the Gulf War. Another …
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A further twist is that a chemical officer told the engineers that he detected nerve agent sarin, but the officers in charge of the soldiers told them not to don their chemical protective units and gas masks. The chemical officer, Dan Tleps…
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He's the only guy in his entire unit that doesn't have the Gulf War syndrome. Another break in the case was a New York Times report that an intelligence memo had circulated in 1991 concerning the event and routing marks showed that it had t…
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with this. I mean, they use the same banks, but it's so crazy to be reading a story of this investigator into the Gulf War syndrome and the selling of chemical and biological ingredients out of the United States and find the same bank that…
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One of the men hired to provide security analysis for the Florida chemical camp owned by Baruch, our body, was Peter Kawaja. He was a former federal agent who had become a Gulf War disease activist, had stated that both chemical and biologi…
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and that many of the weapons were used on U.S. and allied troops. He further states that thousands of documents that detail the Gulf War Syndrome cases and government involvement in both the production and shipment and the disease aftermath…