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Washinton Post
(Staff Writer: G.Lee)
1/10/94

     CALLERS FLOOD RADIATION-TEST HOT LINES
            Veterans, Others Recount
             Secret U.S. Experiments

    When Clinton administration  officials  first
solicited  complaints  from  possible  victims of
federal  radiation  experiments,  they  installed
three  telephone  hot  lines, expecting  each  to
field a few dozen cases daily.  Two  weeks later,
expanded  tenfold, the service  is  besieged with
500 calls an hour.

    Often  anxious   and  breathless, callers are
reaching  deep  in the past to recount charges of
how government  scientists  used  them  as  human
guinea  pigs.   Andrew Frosini,  a  World  War II
veteran,  recalled  a 1945 incident in which Army
doctors  flew  him  across  Florida in a military
plane to insert into his nostrils a needle tipped
with radioactive capsules.

    "For my personal satisfaction, I need to know
whether  my  health  and  well-being  were sacri-
ficed for the sake of some  experiment," Frosini,
now  bedridden  with  numerous  health  problems,
told the hot line operator. "And if they  were, I
deserve to know why."

[From the front page of the Washington Post]

   [including a picture of Mr Frosini]
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