About 100,000 military veterans who were exposed to chemicals during
decades of secret weapons experiments by the armed services and the CIA
have won the right to proceed with a class-action suit that seeks to
learn what substances they were given and to obtain any medical care
they need.
The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco in 2009, contends
the veterans' rights were violated by a system under which the
government has denied 97 to 99 percent of their claims for disability
and death benefits.
"The Department of Defense
has taken the position that none of these people have had health
effects, that there are no long-term health effects associated even with
such things as mustard gas," said the veterans' lead attorney, Gordon Erspamer.
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