Senators seek information on St. Louis chemical spraying

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GFP Note: This is a follow-up to a story that we posted on 9/25 -I-Team: The Army's secret Cold War experiments on St. Louisans

Kansas City Star - AP, 9/29/12

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Spray: She has accrued detailed descriptions as well as photographs of the spraying, which took place as part of Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, which was an operation that dispersed zinc cadmium silfide particles over the general population, a compound that was presented as completely safe

ST. LOUIS -- Missouri's senators have asked the U.S. Army for more information about a chemical spraying program that included testing in St. Louis about 50 years ago.
 

Sens. Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt made separate written requests Thursday asking the Army to produce more information about the St. Louis testing in the 1950s and 1960s, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Saturday.

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