Charles W. Lewis of the Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Tex.. extensively interviewed many Laotian refugees who claimed that they had escaped from areas which had been sprayed with chemicals from Sovietbacked Vietnamese and Laotian air force planes. In his report which has now been declassified. Dr. Lewis stated that the refugees accurately described the symptoms of nonlethal incapacitants and riot control agents which were dropped on their villages. They also gave medically accurate descriptions of deaths caused by lethal agents. The descriptions included convulsions. massive hemorrhaging. external blistering. and other symptoms which Dr. Lewis called "extreme medical rarities." One refugee testified that he and other survivors of a chemical warfare attack were captured by Communist troops wearing gas masks and protective suits (clothing). Their captors then gave them various injections which they thought to be antidotes. Instead of recovering. one of the captives turned black.
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