January 16, 2005
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I saw this on Yahoo! Ok, this is just downright fucked up. Only the US military.
Pentagon Spurned Plan to Initiate Enemy Homosexuality
1 hour, 24 minutes ago
U.S. National – Reuters
By Jim WolfWASHINGTON (Reuters) –
The U.S. military rejected a 1994
proposal to develop an “aphrodisiac” to spur homosexual
activity among enemy troops but is hard at work on other
less-than-lethal weapons, defense officials said on Sunday.
The idea of fostering homosexuality among the enemy figured
in a declassified six-year, $7.5 million request from a
laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio for
funding of non-lethal chemical weapon research.
The proposal, disclosed in response to a Freedom of
Information request, called for developing chemicals affecting
human behavior “so that discipline and morale in enemy units is
adversely affected.”
“One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be
strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused
homosexual behavior,” said the document, obtained by the
Sunshine Project. The watchdog group posted the partly
blacked-out, three-page document on its Web site.
Lt. Col. Barry Venable of the Army, a Defense Department
spokesman, said: “This suggestion arose essentially from a
brainstorming session, and it was rejected out of hand.”
The Air Force Research Laboratory also suggested using
chemicals that could be sprayed on enemy positions to attract
stinging and biting bugs, rodents and larger animals.
Another idea involved creating “severe and lasting
halitosis” to help sniff out fighters trying to blend with
civilians.
The U.S. military remains committed to developing
less-than-lethal weapons that pass stringent legal reviews and
are consistent with international treaties, said Captain Dan
McSweeny of the Marine Corps, a spokesman for the Pentagon (news – web sites) unit
spearheading their introduction.
“We feel it’s very important to offer our deployed service
members and their commanders a greater range of options in
dealing with increasingly complex operational environments,”
said McSweeny, of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate.
