Reports on BZ (Chemwar Weapon)


the BZ molecule

>>> The chemical BZ is a "superhallucinogen" that violently detaches users from reality for days at a time. The Army studied and developed it for use as a weapon from the early 1960s through the mid 1970s. [read more]

You'll find a list of selected military reports about this chemical weapon here. Below, we'll be posting the full reports as they arrive.

 

BZ Psychochemical War Agents
(PDF format | 14 pages | 620K)

This article originally appeared in the Yugoslavian journal Vojnosani Pregled (no. 6, 1974), and was translated by the US Army Foreign Science and Technology Center. Released to Russ Kick by the US Army Intelligence and Security Command on 30 August 2005 in response to FOIA request 377F-05.

From page 2: "The BZ agents, as chemical weapons, are standardized in the USA Army since 1963 and there is information on their use in the Vietnam war."

From page 10: "BZ agents are intended primarily for use under conditions of limited local warfare and are very suitable for carrying out special war actions, such as disturbing and paralizing [sic] command posts, communications centers, various diversions, and so on."

 

 


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