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Investigation Reveals No Agent Orange at Camp Carroll

Earlier this year, several U.S. veterans reported they were ordered to bury canisters of Agent Orange on a base in South Korea over 30 years ago. A recent investigation, however, uncovered no Agent Orange, according to an article in Stars and Stripes.

The joint U.S.-South Korean investigative team recently announced their findings after an 8-month investigation. That investigation consisted of removing and testing soil and water samples to determine the extent of poisoning the leaking canisters put into the environment, which had apparently been buried in a trench in 1978.

According to the veterans, they were ordered to bury hundreds of canisters of Agent Orange in the grounds of Camp Carroll. They stated they dug a ditch as long as a city block and subsequently buried damaged barrels of Agent Orange.

Not only were the samples devoid of poison, there were no signs of the barrels detected. The investigators interviewed 172 former employees of Camp Carroll and reviewed separate document research done by 32 different organizations. Apparently what was buried in the ditch wasn’t Agent Orange, but other chemicals such as solvents, herbicides, and pesticides.

Further, the barrels that were buried were later removed and shipped to the U.S. Military documentation supports their extraction but what was inside the barrels wasn’t listed and where they were taken wasn’t discovered.

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