Word: t2
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Retrieving messages is easy, just type MAIL, and then type HELP for more info. Two useful commands from within the mail program are H to see the message headers in your mailbox or T to type out a message (the # stands for a message number. I.e.: t2 will type out message number...
...United Nations panel investigating chemical weapons. Five additional samples from Southeast Asia are currently being analyzed, and officials think they will show that the toxins were also used in Laos. Intelligence specialists are seeking evidence to confirm widespread reports that Soviet forces have used the poisons, known as T2 toxins, in Afghanistan...
...Geneva Protocol on chemical and biological weapons and that their production is prohibited by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. Soviet technical journals, however, openly discuss methods for mass-producing mycotoxins. In a new book called Yellow Rain, Journalist Sterling Seagrave cites evidence that the Soviets first used T2 during the Yemen civil war in the early 1960s. Military officials in Egypt, which was then a Soviet client, confirm that biochemical warfare equipment was deployed during that conflict. Seagrave also says that a biochemical weapons depot stocked with T2 poisons has been set up by Soviet advisers in Cuba...
...sent them to the U.S. for analysis. The State Department, in turn, sent the samples to private American laboratories without revealing the source of the evidence or why it was to be examined. The civilian scientists found that the samples contained the chemical agent trichothecene toxin, known as T2. Soviet scientists have published articles on how to mass produce T2, which occurs naturally in grain molds common in the Soviet Union...
...T2 connection was first made by Writer Sterling Seagrave, who presents a persuasive circumstantial case for the Soviet violations in his forthcoming book Yellow Rain. Seagrave interviewed victims of chemical attacks in Southeast Asia, Yemen and Afghanistan, as well as the doctors who treated them. In Afghanistan soldiers fighting the Soviet invaders told him about being attacked by rockets fired from helicopters. The rockets released a "yellowish-brown" cloud that caused victims to "die quickly, vomiting blood and fouling their clothes...