Former Deputy Chief, Franklin Richards, in the CIA’s Special Activities Division claims the CIA poisoned him. In his 27 page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia he alleges the conditions he was forced to train covert operatives in foreign lands were filthy and had toxic dust from ammunitions. The complaint has numerous redactions from the CIA.
From Courthouse News Service:
He claims the CIA’s station chief in the unidentified foreign country ordered him to conduct the training in a “filthy” and unsafe place contaminated with toxic dust from “millions of rounds of ammunition.” Richards claims the firing range was so toxic the other instructor refused to work there. He claims he was diagnosed with lead poisoning by a U.S. Special Forces squad at the site, who said that the U.S. Army had declared the firing range “off limits to U.S. Army personnel because of the toxic lead levels.” Nonetheless, Richards says, the CIA Chief of Station ordered him back, saying “‘We are the CIA’ and ‘We’ need to get these individuals trained.”
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