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Lucani Explosive Plant
Milan Blagojev / Miloje Blagojevic
Casak, Serbia

The Lucani Explosive Plant, 200 kilometers south of Belgrade, was until the initiation of hostilities thought to have been producing sarin. The VJ produced sarin and made it into a weapon (approximately 50 tons) at the Lucani Facility. The equipment in the Military Technical Institute in Potoci [near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina] was disassembled by Serb troops in February 1992 and moved to the Lucani facility in Serbia. According to Serbian Army manuals, the chemical incapacitant BZ was put into hand grandes. The principal storage facility for these weapons is thought to be in Lucani.

According to reports, within the "Milan Blagojevic" factory for nitrocellulose gunpowder, there is a secret, camouflaged facility for the production of poison gas. The chemical weapons facility was built by the Yugoslav Peoples Army when Yugoslavia was engaged in chemical weapons production. The project was a carefully hidden secret, and there are no known photographs of that facility, which is said to look like an ordinary three-story office building. The facility is said to contain large production equipment some 30 meters tall, allegedly purchased in Germany. Cooperation with Iraq on chemical weapons by personnel at this facility was reportedly particularly intensive in the early 1980s.


CORONA Imagery

Imagery used by Joint Staff Vice Director for Strategic Plans and Policy Maj. Gen. Charles F. Wald, U.S. Air Force, during a press briefing on NATO Operation Allied Force in the Pentagon on April 28, 1999. DoD photo. (Released)

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Post-strike bomb damage assessment photograph of the Lucani explosive plant Milan Blagojev, Serbia
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Post-strike bomb damage assessment photograph of the Lucani explosive plant Milan Blagojev, Serbia

Imagery used by by Joint Staff Director of Intelligence Rear Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, U.S. Navy, during a press briefing on NATO Operation Allied Force in the Pentagon on April 30, 1999. (Released)

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Post-strike bomb damage assessment photograph of the Lucani Explosive Plant Milan Blagojev, Serbia

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