It turns out this has been uncovered along with a huge list of other horrifying practices on Okinawa by the USA in Sheldon Harris' book Factories of Death (http

It turns out this has been uncovered along with a huge list of other horrifying practices on Okinawa by the USA in Sheldon Harris' book Factories of Death (http://www.scribd.com/doc/91284707/Factories-of-Death http://www.scribd.com/doc/91284707/Factories-of-Death). It was part of the more wide-ranging chemical and biological weapons program, Project 112 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_112 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_112). There's a huge community of veterans who have served at Okinawa who research this stuff online and on the island in order to help process compensation claims and lawsuits against the US government (e.g. http://vets.yuku.com/forums/74/Agent-Orange-Heart-Disease-Prostate-and-Parkinsons#.UtJpdGRdVCI http://vets.yuku.com/forums/74/Agent-Orange-Heart-Disease-Pr...). So this isn't new, but it is absolutely disgusting.