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Allegations of Biological Experiments in Viet Nam, 1966. Released 2015-10-27. The Black Vault entry: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/allegations-of-biological-experiments-in-viet-nam-1966/. Canonical PDF: https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/biological/F-2014-00280.pdf. This document is a 1999 CIA Inspector General report, partially released in 2015, regarding allegations of biological experiments in Viet Nam in 1966. The report was the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request by The Black Vault's John Greenewald. The report details a claim by an unnamed subsource, a U.S. Army private, who allegedly served in the Republic of Viet Nam in 1966. The subsource claimed to have witnessed an incident at a location called "The Forge" in the Central Highlands of the RVN, where U.S. military forces committed a friendly fire mass murder of U.S. soldiers to conceal evidence of war crimes in which Viet Cong prisoners were used for biological experiments and then murdered. According to the subsource, the incident involved the execution of Oriental Prisoners of War, who were shot by the private upon orders of an unnamed Army Captain. The POWs' bodies were then hoisted by cable and dropped into a concrete vat, where they dissolved upon immersion in the liquid. The complex, "The Forge," was then blown up with explosives, and U.S. aircraft bombed the area, probably killing the remaining U.S. Army soldiers in the process. The subsource claimed to have been rescued, interrogated, and ultimately discharged from the Army. He suggested that President Kennedy ordered the experiments and President Johnson continued them, and that the U.S. Army soldiers were killed to prevent them from revealing what they had learned about the experiments at The Forge. The CIA's Office of the Inspector General conducted an inquiry into the matter, but determined that there was no credible evidence to investigate the allegation. The DoD/OIG reported to Senator Phil Gramm that the results of the inquiry disclosed no basis for further action. This document is a CIA Inspector General report, partially released in 2015, regarding allegations of biological experiments in Viet Nam in 1966. The report details a claim by an unnamed subsource, a U.S. Army private, who allegedly served in the Republic of Viet Nam in 1966. This is what the public record looks like at its most ordinary. storyflo.com. https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/biological/F-2014-00280.pdf.

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This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process.

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Allegations of Biological Experiments in Viet Nam, 1966

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Allegations of Biological Experiments in Viet Nam, 1966. Released 2015-10-27. com/documentarchive/allegations-of-biological-experiments-in-viet-nam-1966/. pdf. This document is a 1999 CIA Inspector General report, partially released in 2015, regarding allegations of biological experiments in Viet Nam in 1966. The report was the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request by The Black Vault's John Greenewald.

Date: JUL 6 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)

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Allegations of Biological Experiments in Viet Nam, 1966. Released 2015-10-27. The Black Vault entry: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/allegations-of-biological-experiments-in-viet-nam-1966/. Canonical PDF: https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/biological/F-2014-00280.pdf. This…

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What was Allegations of Biological Experiments in Viet Nam, 1966 about?: Allegations of Biological Experiments in Viet Nam, 1966. Released 2015-10-27. com/documentarchive/allegations-of-biological-experiments-in-viet-nam-1966/. pdf. This document is a 1999 CIA Inspector General report, partially released in 2015, regarding allegations of biological experiments in Viet Nam in 1966. The report was the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request by The Black Vault's John Greenewald.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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