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CIA ADMITS MAJOR ERROR IN GULF WAR
New York Times News Service CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The CIA said Wednesday that its own errors may have led to the demolition of an Iraqi ammunition bunker filled with chemical weapons after the 1991 Persian Gulf war–an event that may have exposed tens of thousands of U.S. troops to nerve gas.
At an unusual televised news conference at its headquarters, the agency apologized to the veterans for failing to notify the Pentagon about the contents of the depot.
A report released by the agency on Wednesday revealed that the CIA had solid intelligence in 1986 that thousands of weapons filled with mustard gas had been stored at the Kamisiyah ammunition depot in southern Iraq.
Despite that evidence, the agency failed to include the depot on a list of suspected chemical-weapons sites provided to the Pentagon before the 1991 gulf war, an intelligence failure that led American troops to assume that it was safe to blow up the depot in the weeks after the war.
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