IIR 6 849 0961 91/ COMMENTS ON POST-DESERT

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IIR 6 849 0961 91/ COMMENTS ON POST-DESERT

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SERIAL: (U) IIR 6 849 0961 91.

BODY PASS: (U) DIA PASS TO AIG 8781.

COUNTRY: (U) IRAQ (IZ).

SUBJECT: IIR 6 849 0961 91/ COMMENTS ON POST-DESERT
STORM CAPABILITIES OF IRAQ'S CHEMICAL WARFARE PROGRAM (U)

WARNING: (U) [  (b)(2)  ]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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DOI: (U) 910400.

REQS: (U) [  (b)(2)  ]

SOURCE: [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ]


SUMMARY: (U) [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ]REGARDING IRAQ'S 
CHEMICAL WARFARE PROGRAM
FOLLOWING OPERATION DESERT STORM.

TEXT: 1.   [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ] IRAQ HAD EVACUATED 
SOME CHEMICAL WARFARE (CW) AGENT PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT FROM THE [  
(b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)  ] BEFORE OPERATION DESERT STORM BEGAN ON 17 
JANUARY 1991. SOURCE ESTIMATED THAT, AT THE OUTSET OF DESERT 
STORM, IRAQ POSSESSED SEVERAL TENS-OF-THOUSANDS OF CHEMICAL 
ARTILLERY ROUNDS,
MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND CHEMICAL AERIAL BOMBS, AND HUNDREDS OF TONS 
OF CW AGENT. FURTHERMORE, SOURCE WAS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT STOPPING 
THE RESUPPLY OF THE IRAQI CW PROGRAM, REGARDLESS OF INTERNATIONAL 
EFFORTS TO HALT THE PROLIFERATION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS. [      
(b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ]

2.  [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ] IRAQI CHEMICAL MUNITIONS 
REMAINED VIABLE AND WOULD NOT DEGRADE SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE NEAR 
FUTURE. SOURCE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IRAQ HAD ENCOUNTERED PROBLEMS 
WITH NERVE AGENT STABILITY IN THE PAST BUT PROBABLY OVERCAME THESE
PROBLEMS MORE THAN THREE YEARS AGO.

3.  [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ]


4.  LOOKING FORWARD, SOURCE WAS CONCERNED THAT KNOWN, BUT 
UNLOCATED, CW PLANTS SUCH AS [  (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)  ] HAD NOT 
BEEN DESTROYED OR DAMAGED, [      (b)(1) sec 1.3(a)(4)    ]

COMMENTS: (U) NONE.

//IPSP: (U) PT 1600; PGW2650//.
//COMSOBJ: (U) [    b.2.    ]
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INSTR: (U) [  (b)(2)  ]
PREP: (U) [   (b)(2)   ]
ACQ: (U) [   (b)(2)   ]
DISSEM: (U) [   (b)(2)   ]
WARNING: (U)[  (b)(2)  ]


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