52101Z EB91 907AC//PA// 1/3

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 PAA ZYUW RUCIEHA0318 0562009- --RHDIBFF.
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 P 252101Z EEB 91
 FM 907 TAG RICKENBACKER ANGB OH//PA/AERIAL SPRAY//
 T0 RUCUAAA/HQ MAC SCOTI AFB IL//PA//
 INEO RUEAHQA/HQ USAF WASH DC//REL//
 RUVRAFA/HQ AFRES ROBINS AFB GA//PA//
 RUCEBLA/14AE DOBBINS AEB GA//PA//
 RHDJAAA/459 HAW ANDREWS AFB MD//PA//
 RHDIAAA/USCENTF RAR LANGLEY AFB VA//PA//
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 - SECIION 001 OF 003 -
 SUBJECT: AERIAL APPLICATION OF INSECTICIDES IN THE KTO
 1. INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS MESSAGE IS SUGGESTED FOR USE
 IN THE PREPARATION OF POST-AR RELEASES CONCERNING THE AERIAL APPL
 ICATION OF INSECTICIDES IN THE SOUTHWEST ASIAN AOR. HIS MESSAGE IS
 TO UPDATE AND INFORM THE HIGHEST PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICES OF A POTEN-
TIAL HIGH VISIBILITY SITUATION.
 2. ON 4 FEB AND 24 FEB 1991, AIR FORCE RESERVE 907 TAG PERSON-
 EL WERE NOTIFIED BY A MESSAGE DIG 0423432 AND 241251Z FROM THE
 MILITARY AIRLIFT COMMAND CRISIS ACTION TEAM THAT 907 TAG AERIAL
 
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 SPRAY ASSETS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SHIPMENT TO THE SOUTHWEST ASIAN
 AOR. ADDITIONALLY, VIA SECRET TELEPHONIC CLARIFICATION, 907TH TAG
 ENTOMOLOGISTS WERE ASKED TO BEGIN PREPARATORY PLANS FOR THE POST
 WAR AERIAL SPRAYING OF AREAS IN THE KTO.
 3. THE MISSION WOULD BE TO CONTROL POST-WAR DISEASE TRANSMISS-
 ION BY INSECTS SUCH AS FILTH FLIES, SAND FLIES AND MOSQUITOES IN WAR
 RAVAGED AREAS. IN ADDITION, IF CERTAIN BIOLOGICAL AGENTS ARE USED,
 SPREAD OF TOXINS BY BITING INSECTS ARE A POSSIBILITY AND CONTROL OF
 THESE INSECTS WOULD BE OF THE HIGHEST PRIORITY.
 4. THE MISSION WOULD BE A STOP-GAP MEASURE TO HALT DISEASE
 DURING THE POST-WAR PERIOD UNTIL GROUND PREVENTIVE SANITATION MEAS-
 URES CAN BE IMPLEMENTED.
 5. PRIMARY DISEASE CONCERNS WOULD BE TO PREVENT ENTERIC (DIA-
 RHEA) DISEASE TRANSMISSION BY FILTH FLIES AND FOR VISCERAL AND CUT-
 ANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS, WHICH ARE OPEN SORES CAUSED BY INFECTED BITING
 SAND FLIES. THESE SORES COULD LEAD TO SECONDARY INFECTIONS AND SE-
 VERE HEALTH PROBLEMS. MOSQUITOES CAN SPREAD MALARIA AND MANY TYPES
 OF FEVER. ALSO, SAND FLIES CAN SPREAD SAND FLY FEVER WHICH IS
 TRANSMITTED BY FLIES BITING INFECTED WILD AND DOMESTIC CANINES THEN
 BITING HUMANS.