In May 1989, at a specially constructed disposal facility at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, 200 workers operating under tight security set to work dismantling BZ canisters and burning their contents. In September that year, the Army announced it had completed destruction of its entire BZ stockpile. In January 1990, it announced that some 721 tons of residual debris had also been destroyed. The plant itself was locked shut, never to be reopened.
Today, plans are in progress to eradicate all chemical weapons in the Army inventory by 2004.
Throughout its coverage of chemical and biological warfare testing, Freedom relentlessly urged that rights of victims be restituted, illegal acts by officials responsible be prosecuted, and that funding for chemical and biological weapons be cut.
Some victims or their survivors have since been compensated. One of those unwittingly tested, James Stanley, was awarded $400,577 in compensation in 1996 after Florida Congressman Harry Johnston sponsored a private bill on his behalf. At the time the award was announced, military spokesman James Allingham reaffirmed that such drug testing had ended and would never be considered today.
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