http://www.va.gov/SHAD

The following is a personal account from Casey Piatt (tigr@earthlink.net), who unknowingly was a participant in the testing of chemical and biological warfare agents by the DoD :

My particular experience was after I returned from 1/9 in Nam, I got lucky (I thought) and pulled a Caribbean cruise going to Panama to train men that had not been to Nam on Jungle Warfare, survival and how to walk point properly, including how to wake another man up when it was his watch or to move out. In the process of this cruise we stopped over in Puerto Rico and did a landing on a small island about 6 miles away called Vieagus (sounds like). It's an island that the Navy uses for live fire ranges with jets etc. This occurred on May 10, 1969.

Little did we know that we were in this Operation SHAD. When we landed we had A4 Skyhawks passing overhead simulating close air support, or so we were told, and many of us assumed. What actually occurred was that we were all sprayed with different chemicals. At this point I do not know what we were actually sprayed with, but there is an indication it was some kind of Stimulant. Even so, the DOD is not allowing us to talk about much of it..as per their letter I recently received. I also found out that there were several agents used during Project 112, including Depleted Uranium, Sarin and several different types of nerve agents...etc.