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...story broadcast June 7, CNN producer April Oliver and correspondent Peter Arnett reported the results of an eight-month investigation into allegations that sarin nerve gas was used by U.S. forces during a secret mission into Laos in 1970. Their report, which aired on NewsStand: CNN & TIME, was accompanied by a piece written by them for this magazine titled "Did the U.S. Drop Nerve...
...been used on enemy troops attempting a counterattack on the U.S. forces. Those reports were confirmed by several high-level military sources. Admiral Thomas Moorer, U.S.N. (ret.), who was then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked on camera in general terms about the military use of sarin. Before the broadcast, the Pentagon said it could find no evidence to support the story. Defense Secretary William Cohen subsequently announced an investigation of the charges...
WASHINGTON: A joint TIME-CNN report that claims the U.S. military dropped sarin nerve gas some 20 times during the Vietnam war has caused something of a stir in the corridors of power. Defense Secretary William Cohen asked his staff to hunt for evidence of sarin deployment Monday, while Rep. David Skaggs (D-Colo.) of the House Intelligence Committee -- himself a Vietnam vet -- said he found the story "absolutely stunning and appalling if it is substantiated." Skaggs launched his own inquiry to attempt just that...
...this case, however, evidence is a little hard to come by. "Black Ops" don't leave paper trails, and that allows for official deniability. Cohen's Vietnam-era predecessor, Melvin Laird, claims the U.S. shipped a "small amount" of sarin to Saigon in 1967, but never used it. "I have no recollection of any operation like that," Laird told reporters Monday. "It doesn't seem logical to me." As for retired admiral Thomas Moorer, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who told CNN reporter Peter Arnett that President Nixon had approved the use of sarin -- well, Moorer...
...metaphysics talked with full-bodied candor, for day after day, about his death, the increasingly public divisions within the Tibetan community and the new pressures of his spotlighted life. Accepting donations from Shoko Asahara, the head of the Aum Shinrikyo group in Japan that later allegedly planted deadly sarin gas in the subways of Tokyo, was, he says frankly, "a mistake. Due to ignorance. So this proves"--a mischievous gleam escapes--"I'm not a living Buddha!" He'd love to delegate some responsibilities to his deputies, he confesses, but "even if some of my Cabinet ministers wanted to give...