{"id":330288,"date":"2017-10-14T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-tested-carcinogenic-chemicals-on-canadian-civilians\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T00:01:11","slug":"us-tested-carcinogenic-chemicals-on-canadian-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-tested-carcinogenic-chemicals-on-canadian-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"US Tested Carcinogenic Chemicals on Canadian Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Army secretly\u00a0tested carcinogenic chemicals on unknowing\u00a0residents of Canada in Winnipeg and Alberta during the Cold War in testing linked to weaponry involving radioactive ingredients meant to attack the Soviet Union, according to classified documents revealed in a new book\u00a0<em><a class=\"easyazon-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Behind-Fog-Radiological-Innocent-Americans\/dp\/1138239674?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrockwell-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1138239674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-cart=\"y\" data-cloak=\"y\" data-identifier=\"1138239674\" data-locale=\"US\" data-localize=\"y\" data-popups=\"y\" data-tag=\"permacultucom-20\">Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Lisa Martino-Taylor, an associate professor of sociology at St. Louis Community College.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents occurred\u00a0between July 9, 1953 and Aug 1, 1953 when they sprayed six kilograms of zinc cadmium sulfide onto unsuspecting citizens of Winnipeg from U.S. Army planes. The Army then returned 11 years later in 1964 and repeated the experiments in other parts of Canada including\u00a0 Suffield, Alta. and Medicine Hat, Alta., according to Martino-Taylor,\u00a0<em>National Post<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/u-s-secretly-tested-carcinogen-in-western-canada-during-the-cold-war-researcher-discovers\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Winnipeg, they said they were testing what they characterized as a chemical fog to protect Winnipeg in the event of a Russian attack,\u201d Martino-Taylor said. \u201cThey characterized it as a defensive study when it was actually an offensive study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canada knowingly participated in this experiment as part of an agreement it held with the U.S. and England but was allegedly not told about what was being sprayed on its citizens, according to Martino-Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>In 1964, a memo from Canadian officials expressed concern that an \u201cAmerican aircraft was emitting distinctly visible emissions,\u201d Martino-Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/gold-silver-daily-spot-prices\/?utm_source=LRC&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_campaign=spotprices\">Instant Access to Current Spot Prices &amp; Interactive Charts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Canadian and U.S. documents, the tests were referenced as biological and chemical when documents suggest they actually involved combining the two with radiological components to form a combined weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. was working on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/no_author\/revealed-u-s-tested-carcinogenic-chemicals-on-unknowing-canadian-civilians-during-the-cold-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army secretly\u00a0tested carcinogenic chemicals on unknowing\u00a0residents of Canada in Winnipeg and Alberta during the Cold War in testing linked to weaponry involving radioactive ingredients meant to attack the Soviet Union, according to classified documents revealed in a new book\u00a0Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans\u00a0by\u00a0Lisa Martino-Taylor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}