Show ft UTAH Thursday January The Salt Lake Tribune Feds Admit Nerve Agent Near Sheep Continued from A-- l subnutted after the sheep-deatcontroversy subsided were simply filed away The Army never has done a detailed retrospective of the accident to finally resolve what happened sTo the best of my knowledge this is the first documented admission that VX killed the sheep says Steve Erickson spokesman for a military watchdog group known as the Down winders Its not news in the sense that everyone knows the Army did it The closest the military has came to an official admission was a press release issued by the US Department of Defense on April 18 1968 It conceded that evidence collected in the month after the incident points to the Armys involvement in the death of the But the statement said sheep too many unanswered questions remained to conclusively place blame f That remains the Armys position today Col John Como comh ' duced by the Edgewood Arsenal found that laboratory sheep fed grass contaminated with VX showed exactly the same symptoms seen in Skull Valley Sheep fed grass contaminated with several common insecticides exhibited different symptoms said the Edgewood report This refuted military suggestions soon after the incident that insecticides might have caused the Utah deaths Although the Army never ac- - 1 - A13 1998 Quintana says The Dugway sheep incident is loaded with symbolic value in Utah It is brought up regularly at public hearings as one of two reasons Utahns distrust the Army to a lesser degree and all other federal agencies The other frequently cited cause of distrust is federal lies about the safety of nuclear weapon testing open-ai- r at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s and 1960s that sent clouds of radioactive fallout drifting into Utah The Stone investigation shows that on March 13 1968 the day before the sheep died Dugway employees conducted three activities with nerve agents One was a test of a single artillery shell filled with a chemical agent and another was the disposal of about 160 gallons of nerve agent in an open burn pit The sheep deaths usually are linked to the third activity a test in which a g jet fighter sprayed nerve agent in a barren target area about 27 miles west of Skull Valley Later reports indicated one of the tanks malfunctioned and some of the nerve agent continued to be sprayed as the jet finished its run and began climbing high mto the f cepted responsibility for the sheep deaths the government lat- er compensated ranchers for their lost animals Worldwide publicity about the incident contributed to Nixons decision to ban all open-ai- r testing of chemical weapons in rr then-Preside- l-- i ' Courtesy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Dead sheep are buried in Utah's Skull Valley in 1968 A newly found report shows Army nerve agent was found at the site 1969 Federal officials four years ago launched a program to find and test the sheep buna sites to determine whether any hazardous substances remain hidden beneath the surface Testing of recently discovered burial pits on the Skull Valley Band of Goshute reservation is scheduled to begin within the next few months Danny Quintana attorney for the Skull Valley Band of Goshute says a detailed of the !: 1968 sheep deaths may shed new environlight on the long-termental and physiological consequences of chemical weapons Tribal leaders note that several older persons living on the reservation died soon after the sheep incident They think it was related to this but we are never going to be able to Drove it says Quintana Careful study of the Dugway incident also could help unravel questions about health problems reported by Gulf War veterans who believe they were exposed to nerve agents adds the attorney and help the nation be better prepared for possible chemical weapon attacks by terrorists The best way to do it is learn what happened with the sheep sky Dugways meteorological reports indicated the wind was blowing out of the northwest at the time of the test but latei shifted to the west as a small storm front passed These west winds could have carried nerve agent directly over the sheep herds There were scattered cumulus clouds in the general area at the time of the test and scattered rain showers developed during the evening said the Defense Departments 1968 press release One of these rain showers could have washed this airborne agent out of the air and deposited it on vegetation and the ground Sheep are believed to have been hit hardest by nerve agent because they were eating contaminated grass and snow Sheep are one of the few domestic animals that can get enough water from snow to survive A few dead birds and rabbits also were found Shepherds and other people in the area were examined by doctors but military experts reported no indication of illness related to nerve agents At least one Skull Valley rancher who ate snow during this period has complained of chronic health problems since the incident low-flyin- mander of Dugway Proving Ground this week issued the COMING SOONl AMERICAN FORK fol- lowing statement The Army did not and still doesnt accept responsibility for the sheep deaths in Skull Valley There has been a lot of conjecture but extensive efforts by Utah State and Department of Agriculture scientists never identified the precise causal chain that led to the deaths of the sheep The Armys own investigation revealed that an open-ai- r test of a lethal chemical agent at Dugway on 13 March 1968 MAY HAVE his emphasis contributed to the deaths of the sheep The Armys investigation as well as the investigations by all the other government bodies involved concluded the Dugway personnel were not negligent in the test in question As a result of this incident a special committee chaired by the Surgeon General of the Umted States reviewed the test procedures at Dugway and the Army adopted subsequently new controls on open air testing wrote 16MB RAM mals however J And a 1972 report also pro- - 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