Search to continue for Agent Orange in Interior, By DIANA CAMPBELL, Staff Writer
 

Search to continue for Agent Orange in Interior, By DIANA CAMPBELL,
Staff Writer

(EXCERPT) The hunt for Agent Orange in the Interior continues.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans this summer to investigate a
man's claim that 30 years ago he helped bury barrels of Agent Orange
at a former Tok military site.

"We're going to try to locate the barrels and try to dig them up and
take samples," said Suzanne Beauchamp, Alaska Formerly Used Defense
Sites manager for the corps.

Hoonah resident John Erickson told government officials last year that
he helped bury six barrels of what he believed to be Agent Orange when
he worked for an Air Force contractor in Tok. Erickson, in an
interview last fall with the News-Mi...

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