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Senators Seek More Information After Prof. Claims Army Sprayed St. Louis With ‘Radioactive Particles’

Oct. 2, 2012 7:15am
College Professor Alleges Radioactive Material Was Sprayed on St. Louis Area in Cold War Testing Experiment

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Last week, a sociologist and professor at St. Louis Community College made claims that she had discovered the U.S. Army spraying a radioactive substance over the city more than 50 years ago. Now, two senators from the state have filed requests for more information.

KDSK reported that this revelation is Lisa Martino-Taylor’s “life’s work.” It began, she writes in her dissertation, when a colleague revealed her diagnosis of breast cancer and shared her concern that it could have been a result of the military spraying her school and home area in the 1950s. Martino-Taylor alleges the Army added “radioactive particles” to a chemical it sprayed over the St. Louis area and in Corpus Christi, Texas, and other cities. The Army has not confirmed this, nor does Martino-Taylor have hard proof of a radioactive substance being deposited on the town, but that a substance was sprayed is true.

In the abstract of her report, Martino-Taylor describes the project as an “obscure aerosol study in St. Louis, Missouri, conducted under contract by the U.S. military from 1953–1954, and 1963–1965.” This study she believes was part of the government’s testing to understand how radioactive weapons could effect citizens.

The documents obtained from Freedom of Information Act requests shows what she believes was a Cold War experiment of the material on residents under the guise of it being tests of smoke screens for their protection.

College Professor Alleges Radioactive Material Was Sprayed on St. Louis Area in Cold War Testing Experiment

One of the figures from a now unclassified document from Martino-Taylor's dissertation showing an aerosol sprayer on a car.

The documents, KDSK reports, state that the material was safe and not harmful to health, but Martino-Taylor points out that a fluorescent material was added to zinc cadmium sulfide, which was the main component. This fluorescent material, she believes, could have had radioactive substances included. KDSK explains why:

For the first time, she links the St. Louis testing to a company called US Radium, a company notorious for lawsuits involving radioactive contamination of its workers.

“US radium had this reputation where they had been found legally liable for producing a radioactive powdered paint that killed many young women who painted fluorescent watch tiles,” said Martino-Taylor.

Watch KDSK’s report:

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch points out though that while these claims may seem “shocking,” as Martino-Taylor puts it, the Army admitted after the project was revealed to Congress in 1994 that it was part of biological testing, not a smoke screen test. Here’s what the Post-Dispatch wrote (emphasis added):

If that sounds far-fetched, it was: The Army conceded later that the tests were part of a biological weapons program and that St. Louis was chosen because it roughly matched the population and terrain of Russian cities that the United States might attack.

In 1997, the National Research Council — an arm of the National Academy of Sciences — minimized the health impacts of the chemical tests but concluded that more analysis was needed. The team of scientists did not consider ethical questions but observed that people were “outraged” at being subjected to chemical testing without their consent.

College Professor Alleges Radioactive Material Was Sprayed on St. Louis Area in Cold War Testing Experiment

One of the figures from a now unclassified document from Martino-Taylor's dissertation shows men setting up a sprayer on top of a building in St. Louis.

The Post-Dispatch goes on to report that Martino-Taylor also concedes that even with her research, she has no empirical evidence that residents were actually tested with radioactive material. But she said there is “an awful lot of evidence that there were radiological components to the study.”

Still, the Associated Press reports Democratic Sen.Claire McCaskill and Republican Sen. Roy Blunt each making requests last Thursday to Army Secretary John McHugh for more information. As the National Academy of Sciences said in the 1990s that more research was needed, McCaskill asked if further studies were ever done on the substance sprayed on the area and its influence on residents.

“The idea that thousands of Missourians were unwillingly exposed to harmful materials in order to determine their health effects is absolutely shocking. It should come as no surprise that these individuals and their families are demanding answers of government officials,” Blunt wrote in his letter, according to the Associated Press.

Martino-Taylor writes in her dissertation that she hopes this information will lead to the “[development] of public policies that protect the people’s right to know, and construct checks and methods to minimize the chance of covert projects that are contrary to societal norms.”

Martino-Taylor’s dissertation on her research was presented last week at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Read the dissertation here.

This story has been updated to correct that Lisa Martino-Taylor already has her Ph.D. 

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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Comments (31)

  • Do The Right Thing
    Posted on October 3, 2012 at 12:38am

    Umm, so where are all of these secret aerospace weapon systems that are spreading the toxic vapors being launched from? One individual I once spoke with informed me that the fuel vents on F-4 Phantoms were actually chemtrail dispensing ports. Oh, yeah, right and those external tanks on the belly and wings in photos were the storage tanks. Horsepuckie. Fuel tanks on aircraft vent due to pressure changes involving flight, both due to barometric pressures and fuel utilization by the aircraft powerplants. Aircraft exhaust creates heat, and it cools, up until FL 35.0 or so, and it’s pretty darned cold up there. lots of steam potential. Tankers carry kerosene, not magic potions of silver oxides and other assorted pixie dust. If you think that cancer is caused by chemtrails, substitute the word contrails, and add jet exhaust and water vapor, theres plenty of bad stuff in kerosene, aviation grade.I’m pretty sure the benzene, etc in Jet A-1 doesn’t simply disappear simply because a little fire warmed it up as it went out the tailpipes. Also start looking at whether you or your ancestors are in the downwind plume of trinity site, there you may really find what you’re after. There’s cancer all over my family tree, and I am center downwind of that plume. Not much we can do about it these days. Even horses pollute.

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  • WAKEUPUSA2012
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 7:55pm

    The NWO (us government) wants us all dead. GMO’s, floride, vaccines, all killing us. How all that cancer ameriKa? Idiot neocons.

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    • razhunter100
      Posted on October 3, 2012 at 6:25am

      tuskegee airmen…and the fun times with govt given std’s.

      1960′s…remember the fun aborted pregnancies, and still births and ….thanks to the govt meds.?

      agent orange , flouride . mercury in your childrens vaccines…

      where in the 40 fluckks have you people been?

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 6:03pm

    its not possible – our government never does anything wrong and our leaders in both parties are exceptional

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  • All Pro
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 2:17pm

    Sooooo, it happened under a republican and a democrat president. And people think that the lord god Romney will save them.
    BAH-HAW-HA-HA!

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    All Pro  
    • Den7422
      Posted on October 3, 2012 at 6:07pm

      No,

      It’s just that I’m sure your messiah Obama is NOT the answer.

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  • flatbroke
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:23pm

    This explains a lot about the Lou, and its decline over 50 years.

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  • BidyB
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:21pm

    This reminds me of the stories my mom use to tell me about Times Beach, MO. It was a city just outside St. Louis, MO that the government shut down and relocated all the people in the town because of Dioxin contamination.

    http://56housesleft.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/abandoned-blast-from-the-past-times-beach-missouri/

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  • grayd88
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 1:21pm

    My friends mom and 4 of her roommates lived in a dormitory in Downtown STL in the 50′s that was sprayed w/ this crap. All 5 died of aggressive cancer within years of each other in the mid 70′s. He is beside himself with rage toward a secretive Big Govt.

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  • HuskerDave
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:58pm

    While I share a distrust of official government statements; the idea that there is a widespread health issue that was unknown until some PhD student wrote her dissertation seems silly on it’s face.

    The most likely reason to conduct aerosol spraying is to determine how the structures of a city affect air currents. A flourescent material would be the perfect way to watch the movement of the air through the city. In the 1950s, the U.S. government was experimenting with chemical weapons (as were the Soviets), and it would be important to know how an aerosol spray would move through the city, to analyze the threat and determine the viability of such delivery systems. Apparently the vegetation, buildings, terrain, and river made St. Louis a good test area.

    The ‘radioactive material’ – if any – would be no more dangerous than ordinary background radiation. Of course, that won’t stop some researchers and lawyers from trying to tag a cash cow on the backs of taxpayers.

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  • Secret Squirrel
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 11:28am

    .
    50 yrs ago?
    I guess it didn’t work.
    Ever been to E. St. Louis?

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 9:49am

    Honey they are still spraying……….what? We donot know…….but they are.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 9:18am

    The federal government is a criminal cartel……………….PERIOD.

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  • razhunter100
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 9:01am

    CHEMTRAIL HEALTH EFFECTS ON HUMANS AND ENVIRONMENT
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOdIAAuY9ug&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLCgDi147zPJQ7tis4mn25Ww

    A lecture that goes into detail about chemtrails and how they affect us and our world and why.

    BARIUM ,ALUMINUM OXCIDE, STRONTIUM 90 AND URANIUM 238 ARE BEING SPRAYED ON US VIA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1al8VrXJEQ&feature=related
    BARIUM ,ALUMINUM OXCIDE,STRONTIUM 90 AND URANIUM 238 ARE BEING SPRAYED ON US VIA CHEMTRAILS
    North America is now suffering its seventh year of conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by the U.S. government under the guise of national security. Concerned citizens watch in fear as military tankers discolor the skies with toxic chemicals that morph into synthetic clouds.

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  • Mag26
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:37am

    Probably testing and tweaking whatever the hell it is that they’re currently spraying on all of us in the chemtrails that you now see everywhere

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  • grimmster
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:34am

    Depending on the halflife of the radioactive material used, exposure to these materials might be slight, and therefore inconsequencial in developing cancer.Did the army spray radioactive particals in the air,possibly,especially in the 50′s when we and the russians were testing nukes above ground.For what reason,maybe to test “cures” for radiation poisening, and even cancer.There is not, nor ever has been “transparency” in our gov’t, nor ever will be,which is why most conspiracy theories sound viable…..

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  • HKS
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:22am

    I remember a similar story in Philly a few years ago, but it just died and went away. It involved the spraying of grade schools to see how long it took to kill the kids. If memory serves me, there was a lot of evidence supporting it and that story just dying and going away is mind boggling.

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    HKS  
    • twooley
      Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:38am

      look at the con trails and the cem trails from the jets overhead…

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  • RedManWalking
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:21am

    OMG as a Native American Penobscot Indian I have sat around campfires and listen to the stories of my Elders (an elder is 900 moons about 72 years of age and whose birthday star has advanced exactly 24 hours) and what they said about Army experiments is capital S, capital C, capital A, capital R, capital Y. In the 1950s, a green Army van of Red Berets parked on Indian Island across from the school and Bunny Ranco’s Store and near the Protestant Church. It was there for weeks and collected as much biodata that it could including all bodily fluids they could get. I remember it well but there is community memory loss about it that is unexplained

    From the web … A History Of US Secret Human Experiments:
    1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.
    In one of my1980s UHM Micro Courses, Dr. Adams tried to explain how some of these S. marcescens bacterial proteins could enter the brains of homosexual men through the penis touching the face especially the eyes of men. Females were not affected. Not sure where he got that research from.

    On my resume I list my #1 favorite job as a Civilian Employed Cook at Schofield Barracks. Cooking at A Quad Militrary Intelligence was the most enlightening years of life.

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  • 57states
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:20am

    stop geo-engineering, weather modification stop chemtrails!

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:15am

    “Ethics” and the current admin are mutually exclusive terms, doncha know?

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  • loriann12
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:06am

    I was born in 1963 near St. Louis. My mom had breast cancer, I have breast cancer, and my mom’s mom had pre-cancerous fibroids and we DON’T have the breast cancer gene. My dad had prostate cancer, his dad had skin cancer, dad’ mom had uterian cancer, need I go on?

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  • louise
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 8:01am

    I see chemtrails all the time in the sky.

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    louise  
  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 7:57am

    The Medea wouldn’t cover up government lies ….

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    RepubliCorp  
  • johnpaulkuchtajr
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 7:43am

    Ever since the “official” report came out from the US Army on the massacre at Fort Hood, I wouldn’t give you two cents for the testimony of anyone in the Army chain of command.

    For the Army generals to call that jihad attack a fine example of “workplace violence,” is to betray every American who they are sworn to protect.

    What happens when the Kenyan tells those same generals to act directly against US citizens?

    What do you think?

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  • lordjosh
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 7:23am

    Now everyone go get your flu shots.

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  • WarMunger_Al
    Posted on October 2, 2012 at 7:21am

    “The team of scientists did not consider ethical questions…”
    Isn’t that always the case? There is no ethics in science or our government. This is the kind of stuff that makes conspiracy theories blossom.

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