[Infowarrior] - Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'

[Richard Forno]

CBS5.com
June 8, 2007

Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'

Hank Plante
 Reporting

(CBS 5)  BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military
spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a
hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and
make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had
considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay
Bomb."

Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of
Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force's Wright
Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.

As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal
suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be
strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual
behavior."

The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such
a chemical weapon.

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