Editing Project SHAD (section)

==Identification==
Although many of the roughly 5,500 veterans who took part were aware of the tests, some were involved without their knowledge. Certain issues surrounding the test program were not resolved by the passage of the law and the Department of Defense was accused of continuing to withhold documents on Cold War chemical and biological weapons tests that used unsuspecting veterans as "human samplers" after reporting to Congress it had released all medically relevant information.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=July 1, 2003 |title=Secrecy Over Cold War WMD Tests |website=[[CBS News]] |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/secrecy-over-cold-war-wmd-tests/ |access-date=December 19, 2003 }}</ref> A [[Government Accountability Office]] May 2004 report, ''Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs to Continue to Collect and Provide Information on Tests and Potentially Exposed Personnel'' indicates that almost all participants who were identified from Project 112 — 94 percent — were from ship-based tests of Project SHAD that comprised only about one-third of the total number of tests conducted.<ref name=GAOII>{{Cite report |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=May 2004 |title=''Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs to Continue to Collect and Provide Information on Tests and Potentially Exposed Personnel'' |url=http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04410.pdf |publisher=General Accounting Office |page=24 |access-date=December 2, 2013 }}</ref>