Air Force pilots and crews were used as guinea pigs to test experimental anthrax vaccine?

By LEE WILLIAMS and HIRAN RATNAYAKE
The News Journal
10/15/2004

Delaware's congressional delegation officially called for four investigations Thursday into allegations that Dover Air Force Base pilots and crews were used as guinea pigs to test experimental anthrax vaccine.

Sens. Joe Biden and Tom Carper and Rep. Mike Castle jointly sent letters, calling for separate investigations to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the chairs of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and the comptroller general of the Government Accountability Office.

"At a minimum, a great deal of unnecessary confusion and anxiety has been caused by the handling of this issue," the letter to Rumsfeld states. "At a maximum, intentional actions or unintentional incompetence may have created a health hazard for our personnel."

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