CASE STUDY 2 WEATHER MODIFICATION: THE EVOLUTION OF AN R&D PROGRAM INTO A MILITARY OPERATION Federation of American Scientists "Since about 1,400 people were given access to information about the project over the six-year period, leaks appeared in the press; and in September 1971, Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island as chairman of the Subcommittee on Oceans and the International Environment requested the Department of Defense to provide information with respect to the program. By December DOD had replied that the relevant chairmen of the committees of Congress with primary responsibility for the Defense Department had been informed. (...) Finally, on March 20, 1974, the Defense Department provided Senator Pell's Subcommittee with a top secret briefing on weather modification activities in Southeast Asia .... The story of rainmaking as a weapon of war became public when the top secret hearings were declassified on May 19, 1974. (65)" http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/leitenberg/weather.pdf , page 21
"Gordon F. MacDonald, 'Intentional and Unintentional Modification of the Atmosphere', Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, June 1975, Appendixes, Volume I, pp.6173-6175." http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/leitenberg/weather.pdf , page 47
HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
ON
THE NEED FOR AN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT PROHIBITING THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOPHYSICAL MODIFICATION AS WEAPONS OF WAR
AND
BRIEFING ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WEATHER MODIFIOATION ACTIVITY JANUARY 25 AND MARCH 20, 1974 [Top Secret hearing held on March 20, 1974; made public on May 19, 1974]
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